Might be me missing something, but is there a way to just re-size the small screen keyboard? Would like it to be taller but with out making the fold screen any bigger
What keyboard do you use? I use SwiftKey and haven't seen a way to resize it for the outer screen only, but it sure would be helpful since I use a split keyboard for the inner screen, which makes it hard to use on the outer screen. rarely use the outer screen, though.
I use gboard but have tried the Samsung keyboard as well.
I used GoodLock/KeysCafe and make my own Keyboard. With Arrows up. The Size ist changeable.
ButterflyFlutterflyMyOhMy said:
What keyboard do you use? I use SwiftKey and haven't seen a way to resize it for the outer screen only, but it sure would be helpful since I use a split keyboard for the inner screen, which makes it hard to use on the outer screen. rarely use the outer screen, though.
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I was able to resize the keyboard size on the outer screen with Swiftkey...
HermesHidayat said:
I was able to resize the keyboard size on the outer screen with Swiftkey...
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You can resize it/choose different style (ex. split), but those changes will also apply to the inner screen, unless they finally changed it recently.
ButterflyFlutterflyMyOhMy said:
You can resize it/choose different style (ex. split), but those changes will also apply to the inner screen, unless they finally changed it recently.
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It looks like they must have changed it as rhey both resize independently.
frogdr1ver said:
It looks like they must have changed it as rhey both resize independently.
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Nice! I'll have to try that now.
ETA: Nope, it didn't work. I didn't try the Resize, since that's not what I need, but the Modes, and changing the front screen to full also changed the inner screen to full instead of thumb (split). Boo.
ButterflyFlutterflyMyOhMy said:
Nice! I'll have to try that now.
ETA: Nope, it didn't work. I didn't try the Resize, since that's not what I need, but the Modes, and changing the front screen to full also changed the inner screen to full instead of thumb (split). Boo.
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Yeah I have to say I was a wee bit disappointed with that as well. I'd like a different option on each as well.
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I realize this will sound like sacrilege to many here, but I'm looking for an app that can be used to shrink the viewable portion of the screen.
Why?
There are certain times when I'm using the phone and don't need the full screen for the task at hand. Additionally, since the touchscreen extends so far to the edge of the device, there are times when I accidentally "press" the outer edges of the screen with the meaty portion of my thumb (i.e. holding the phone in my right hand, trying to tap something in the upper-left corner, my palm might hit the lower-right corner)
My further hope is that battery drain could be reduced while using this.
So does any app like this exist?
If not, would the creation of such an app be possible?
Is it possible to shrink what is being viewed to a smaller portion of the screen?
Is it possible to "turn off" touch functionality for certain areas (i.e. the outer edge) of the touchscreen, or is it all-or-none?
byrong said:
I realize this will sound like sacrilege to many here, but I'm looking for an app that can be used to shrink the viewable portion of the screen.
Why?
There are certain times when I'm using the phone and don't need the full screen for the task at hand. Additionally, since the touchscreen extends so far to the edge of the device, there are times when I accidentally "press" the outer edges of the screen with the meaty portion of my thumb (i.e. holding the phone in my right hand, trying to tap something in the upper-left corner, my palm might hit the lower-right corner)
My further hope is that battery drain could be reduced while using this.
So does any app like this exist?
If not, would the creation of such an app be possible?
Is it possible to shrink what is being viewed to a smaller portion of the screen?
Is it possible to "turn off" touch functionality for certain areas (i.e. the outer edge) of the touchscreen, or is it all-or-none?
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I know its possible to turn off the touch around the bezel, there is an app for it. Off top I cant remember what the name of it is, but I will check for you and get back.
EDIT: I believe this is the app I was thinking of. There may be another different one or two. I know there is one to do exactly what you are asking.. you set a screen area around the bezel to prevent accidental touches. Let me know if this app works for you.
Thanks for the heads up, WiredPirate. That thread also led me to find "Invisible Grip" and as you said, it blocks touches around the edges of the screen, and does work on my device. At some point I'll probably plunk down the $0.99 to get the Pro version, which allows setting the size of each border, etc.
I wonder if a resizing app already exists as well.
byrong said:
Thanks for the heads up, WiredPirate. That thread also led me to find "Invisible Grip" and as you said, it blocks touches around the edges of the screen, and does work on my device. At some point I'll probably plunk down the $0.99 to get the Pro version, which allows setting the size of each border, etc.
I wonder if a resizing app already exists as well.
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I dont know that a resizing app exists, I haven't seen one but that doesn't make it nonexistent. If I do stumble upon one in the future I will let you know. I know there is a resizable app for playing video, but that's much different than shrinking the screen.
I'm trying to get this shot of the headphones to be shown entirely on the home screen of my Nexus 7 but I can't seem to format it properly. What I did first was shrink the width to 720 (with the height changing proportionally) and then I pasted it into a black background of a 720x1280. I loaded it onto my tablet and I only get the headphone partially. I then took the original image and increased the canvas width and filled in with black. I pretty much get the same cropped portion of the headphone. Can anyone help me in what I'm doing wrong?
http://wall.alphacoders.com/wallpaper.php?i=73967
Thanks!
Tweaked the image a little as it looked very crooked and "wrong" to my eyes, but I attacked two versions, one that is full width and one that is single screen width. Also I use a free app called "Wallpaper Set Save" to set the wallpaper, as it makes it fit and means you dont have to do that "crop" shenanigans.
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Tweaked the image a little as it looked very crooked and "wrong" to my eyes, but I attacked two versions, one that is full width and one that is single screen width. Also I use a free app called "Wallpaper Set Save" to set the wallpaper, as it makes it fit and means you dont have to do that "crop" shenanigans.
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Thanks - but those images still didn't quite do what I was hoping for. I'm looking to have the headphones only on the main home screen. I thought adding black bars to the side would take care of that, but didn't seem to make much of a difference. I'll fool around with the app.
I tried using the adb command and while it does adjust the DPI, the keyboard will shrink to a point where its impossible to actually type, but the size of the screen elements are to my liking.
I didnt see ro.sf.lcd.density in my build.prop so I added it in but it doesn't seem to be doing anything on a reboot. On my 6P I was able to adjust the DPI with this line and the keyboard wouldnt shrink so it was still usable for my thumbs.
Has anyone found a way to adjust the DPI outside of the adb command that would give more screen real estate without compromising keyboard usability? Maybe some values you guys are liking that you can suggest to me.
Thank you
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I tried using the adb command and while it does adjust the DPI, the keyboard will shrink to a point where its impossible to actually type, but the size of the screen elements are to my liking.
I didnt see ro.sf.lcd.density in my build.prop so I added it in but it doesn't seem to be doing anything on a reboot. On my 6P I was able to adjust the DPI with this line and the keyboard wouldnt shrink so it was still usable for my thumbs.
Has anyone found a way to adjust the DPI outside of the adb command that would give more screen real estate without compromising keyboard usability? Maybe some values you guys are liking that you can suggest to me.
Thank you
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Developer options > smallest width.
mitchdickson said:
Developer options > smallest width.
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Oh i should have mentioned that as well. Shrinks the keyboard like crazy. Ideally I want a way that shrinks everything BUT Swiftkey. Today in a different thread I found you can shrink everything and scale up GBoard which may be what I end up doing but Im a bit stubborn since on the 6P I was able to shrink everything but swiftkey.
Are you talking about Swiftkey specifically? I changed the display size in Display settings, and the default Gboard keyboard stayed the same size when the display size was both Default, and then when I went up a size. It stayed the same. I expected it to get bigger, but it didn't. Unless it did, and I didn't notice, but when I put the display size back to default the keyboard stayed the same size cause it looked almost too big compared to the rest of the display. Does your default Gboard keyboard get bigger/smaller when changing the display size?
Curious if there's a way to have different screen zoom and text sizes per screen. On the front.. obviously like it a little bigger. Opened, I like the screen zoom to small with a slightly smaller text size. Also the screen zoom changes some apps to tablet mode, not ideal for the small screen. Any ideas?
Wondering about this as well. I've yet to find anyway of doing this. At the moment, 'Medium' Zoom looks better for the outside screen but too big for the Inner. I've just set it to 'Small' as the best you can get for now. Any change in developer setting (to make even smaller) makes the outside screen practically unusable due to its tiny size.
yeah from what i understand, the text size setting is completely global which is unfortunate.
with their expensive team of "experts", you would wonder why this was such an oversight.
Iv noticed on small screen you can pinch to zoom which iv used a lot
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Am I missing something? I want a bigger font on outside and smaller on inside. I see no option for this. Wtf? Seems dumb.
I agree. I also want the font on the front keyboard to be bigger on the front screen. I haven't found a workaround.
Try using Bixby routines.
mezdroid said:
Try using Bixby routines.
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Yep. Or Tasker.
Yeah I'm with you on this one front fonts are way to small
I played around with the minimum width numbers in developer options and adjusted the numbers to where i like them from with in the inner screen. I've noticed that when you go in the minimum width settings from the front screen the numbers are different then when u go in from the inside screen and if you try and adjust them from the front outer screen they won't stick they just default to there original numbers ?
Just tested with Bixby Routine but if doesn't work well. It often doesn't change as it is actually configured which is annoying.
Samsung will probably get around to enabling it latter...