Hello folks,
Please let me know if this post is in wrong place. I am in Toronto area in Canada with Rogers. Currently I am running on Slim ICS. I have tried other roms like liquid, aokp, eagle's blood etc and I've faecd one common problem with every rom apart from slim.
After a few installs, google play stops displaying proper results. For example, searching for maps will not show google maps...searching for dolphin will not yield dolphin HD but will show dolphin mini....searching for adobe does not yield flash and air....quadrant doesnot even show up.
All the roms except slim have this problem. I have not tried changing kernels...and this only happens after a few installs from market. I have tried erasing market cache and data, but that does not help.
Is anyone else facing this issue...any help is welcome.
By any chance are you changing your DPI?
miketoasty said:
By any chance are you changing your DPI?
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Yes, I am changing to 280. In slim rom default dpi is 240 and I change it to 280. After changing , it needs to erase market data and reaccept the market conditions and it works fine. I follow the same process in other roms, and it fails. Subsequently, switching back to stock 320 does not work either.
Sorry if this is in the wrong place - I'm a new member so can't ask questions in the Rom's thread.
This ROM is really great, and works for everything but one aspect. When running the music application Deezer, the application seems to think its running on a tablet, with a really high resolution, (making everything like buttons etc really small) on my HTC One X.
Does anyone know a way to change the dpi of a installed app (and not the OS) as every other app seems to work fine? I've tried changing the dpi setting in the build.prop, but that does nothing to the application, even after a reinstall.
This seems to be only effecting this application when running this rom, and works find on other roms like insertacoin.
Any ideas?
Check the DPI is correct* in build.prop for a start (although i suspect it is).
No way to change individual app DPI though, that I know of.
*320 is stock
Thanks for the reply, I did check, and it is set to that. Its very strange, its almost as if this one app is getting its dpi info from elsewhere, and getting it wrong. All other app seem unaffected.
Rusty! said:
Check the DPI is correct* in build.prop for a start (although i suspect it is).
No way to change individual app DPI though, that I know of.
*320 is stock
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Do any of you guys change your DPI? Does this still affect the play store by changing it? I know in past device history it did, but I havnt touched DPI's since on new devices I've owned.
I was considering upping it to like 240 on my new N7. Just wondering about ramifications..or even if xposed framework could do it...although I didnt see a module. Thx!!
chugger93 said:
Do any of you guys change your DPI? Does this still affect the play store by changing it? I know in past device history it did, but I havnt touched DPI's since on new devices I've owned.
I was considering upping it to like 240 on my new N7. Just wondering about ramifications..or even if xposed framework could do it...although I didnt see a module. Thx!!
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Yeah use exposed and the module app settings. Change the launcher DPI and it shouldn't affect the play store.
This is for the D850 AT&T G3. I used Nomone to set resolution to 1080x1920 @ 480 dpi and observe two weird things:
1) Everything but the dock rescales correctly. This persists even after reboot and only happens in the stock launcher, Nova is OK
2) Several of the stock apps no loger work, and their icons change to generic Androids: calculator, calendar, clockemail, file manager, gallery, messaging, quick remote, tasks, voice command. Any attempt to launch these apps results in a FC. This happens both in the stock launcher and Nova, so I am guessing that they do not rescale correctly at the lower res.
Not a great loss, I would not be using most of these anyway, just curious if there is a workaround. I do not plan on running the monitor at more than 1080x1920. The only thing I will probably miss is the stock email app, I was planning on using that to access office mail via Exchange.
EDIT: Unfortunately it appears that I cannot set up an Exchange account with the lower res, on account of the stock app crashing instantly. This is a complete deal breaker for me, I absolutely need exchange and will need to run at full rez. Bummer, with the bootloader locked I probably can't downfreq the phone either to extend battery life.
EDIT2: You can work around every non-functioning LG app by sideloading the corresponding Kitkat stock app. Unfortunately the one exception to this is Email + Exchange, which is badly broken on stock Kitkat and Google has not bothered to fix it for many months now. For those of us that need Exchange for work this tends to be a deal-breaker issue
EDIT3: As others have noted, Swiftkey does not seem to play well with Nomone either
EDIT4: Nova is also exhbiting some minor issues, with our without Nomone. It does not break too many things, and the things it does break are mostly cosmetic - the icons of the above-mentioned apps turn generic, and the first group of Google apps in the drawer disappeears.
I changed the resolution, rebooted and got an android systemui fc loop that I couldn't get out of. had to factory reset
I then tried it again on a fresh device but wihtout rebooting this time. and like you said, a lot of things are not right...
so I'd say this is generally not recommendable
best bet might be paranoid android or something whenever that becomes possible
I agree, the display is draining the batt too quickly and I doubt underclocking the cpu is going to be of much help
Did you try changing the dpi from 480 to 530? Anything less than 500 dpi seems to force close most apps.. Change it to 530 dpi and hopefully most things should run ok
adrian_nene16 said:
Did you try changing the dpi from 480 to 530? Anything less than 500 dpi seems to force close most apps.. Change it to 530 dpi and hopefully most things should run ok
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will try that, thanks
With the changed resolution I'll assume that you're rooted. You could use XPosed with the "App Settings" Module to change the DPI for the crashing system apps back to 640. I did this, and it works nicely. It is a bit of try and error in the beginning, but once you caught all apps you use it looks great.
This will probably not solve the icons issue, which is caused by LG not including the icons for other resolutions than what they recommend for the G3. They are available for xxxhdpi (640), but not for xxhdpi (480).
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With the changed resolution I'll assume that you're rooted. You could use XPosed with the "App Settings" Module to change the DPI for the crashing system apps back to 640. I did this, and it works nicely. It is a bit of try and error in the beginning, but once you caught all apps you use it looks great.
This will probably not solve the icons issue, which is caused by LG not including the icons for other resolutions than what they recommend for the G3. They are available for xxxhdpi (640), but not for xxhdpi (480).
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I'm running 530 without issues sofar. Would love to be able to go a bit lower though.
Does the Lockscreen works to you on lower then 640dpi?
latino147 said:
I'm running 530 without issues sofar. Would love to be able to go a bit lower though.
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How's your battery life so far, do you notice anything?
Thanks for the tips and replies, many of them quite useful. Running 530dpi with 1080x1920 is, IMO, kinda pointless, as it negates the benefits if the large screen., If we need to stick about 530 dpi (which seems to work nicely) the lowest settings that make sense are 1224x2176 with 544 dpi setting. This scales everything down by 25% from full resolution. With these settings I don't see the screen get notably warm and the icon and text proportions still make sense. With 1080x1920 @ 530 dpi things don't make any sense, it feels like you are using a 3" screen with high magnification.
So far there are only three things I have been unable to get working
1) Nova launcher to correctly display the custom icons for the above apps. Apex works fine so I have switched from Nova to Apex.
2) Swiftkey - it just gets mangled badly. I will try the "per app" setting in xPosed, but I can't see how it will help.
3) Kitkat stock email.apk with Exchange. This is a long-standing KitKat issue that Google has not bothered to fix. The LG mail works fine with Exchange but does not thread. Any good alternatives?
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How's your battery life so far, do you notice anything?
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don't know, went back to the default resolution as too much stuff was off, like Swiftkey
My mother got a Tab S 8inch wifi model T700.
The tablet is great all around except one area. The resolution is messed up in certain apps that the layout and fonts appear even smaller than the one on her phone. I tried changing fonts from the tab setting and the app as well but it did not make much difference.
Then I tried using resolution or dpi changer after rooting and it looked so much better but then samsung keyboard did not work and crashed whenever resolution was changed.
Do you know any mod, app or even a custom ROM that can manage changing resolution on this tablet efficiently?
My time with the tablet is limited so any suggestions or tips are welcome and appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
Any cm12 based ROM like blisspop etc etc download flash change the DPI to how many you want works great