Using exposed and app settings does anybody know what process or application I modify the DPI of in order to affect the size of the notification pull down?
SystemUI. However, it leaves a little bar at the top that apps don't draw on. It's like Samsung hard coded the number of pixels to use. If someone has a fix for that, I'd love it.
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SystemUI. However, it leaves a little bar at the top that apps don't draw on. It's like Samsung hard coded the number of pixels to use. If someone has a fix for that, I'd love it.
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I got around it by changing dpi via build.prop. I needed the status bar and notification space. Without root and dpi changes there isn't near enough room for all my note is doing.
HughesNet said:
I got around it by changing dpi via build.prop. I needed the status bar and notification space. Without root and dpi changes there isn't near enough room for all my note is doing.
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I'll have to try that. I've been avoiding it as some of the Samsung apps didn't handle it well on the note 2.
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I'll have to try that. I've been avoiding it as some of the Samsung apps didn't handle it well on the note 2.
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They still don't. You have to use xposed to set those back to 480.
HughesNet said:
I got around it by changing dpi via build.prop. I needed the status bar and notification space. Without root and dpi changes there isn't near enough room for all my note is doing.
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What is a good dpi setting for n3? On my now wifes n2 I had it set at 220. Thanks
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slice2011 said:
What is a good dpi setting for n3? On my now wifes n2 I had it set at 220. Thanks
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The Note 2 is a 720 screen and the Note 3 is a 1080 so the DPI settings will be very different. I personally have been using 340 and like it. I would use 340 as a base line and go up or down from there to fine tune the size to your liking.
Thanks. That is perfect. Looks a lot better with that dpi, comparable to how I had my n2 in terms of real estate.
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Is there a setting that can edited to make the status bar to go to the bottom? I'm missing that from my note 2 with the phablet view.
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I set my dpi on this phone to 240 and I LOVE it and the market still works fine so far! Just wondering how i can mod the dialer/camera to fit the 240 dpi. And also the stock keyboard dosent work but i dont care much about that i use swiftkey 3.
Shame the standard keyboard doesn't work, I really like it.
As to the dialer? hmm, probably need to get a replacement for that too, shame it doesn't scale either. Someone can probably hack the .apk to allow different dpi's perhaps?
What app did you use to change your density it would be cool to do that with this ginormous screen
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srgcrespo1 said:
What app did you use to change your density it would be cool to do that with this ginormous screen
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Change the value for ro.sf.lcd_density in the build.prop. You can do this with apps like ROM Toolbox Pro.
I was running 240 as well, and loved it but the camera, dialer and Samsung keyboard issues bugged me enough to go back to 320.
I have mine set at 270 and everything, including dialer and camera works great.
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Android-hotness said:
I have mine set at 270 and everything, including dialer and camera works great.
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That's the magic number? Excellent.
I love the 270 dpi but how do I or am I able to get the launcher to not be so high into the middle of the screen... Like the dots to show what page ur on is raised to the middle of the screen
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ezsoulja said:
I love the 270 dpi but how do I or am I able to get the launcher to not be so high into the middle of the screen... Like the dots to show what page ur on is raised to the middle of the screen
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use a different launcher. I use nova
So no suggestions for dialers or camera mods that fix the scaling issues. They are better at 270 but not perfect.
Check this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2001143
it's on the Sprint Note II forum but I flashed them and they all work well.
soapbox23, what rom are you using? I am on Jexi-X4 and it doesnt work...
Found this rom:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2002960
Works very well at 240 dpi, it has most of the system apps fixed that dont scale well. Need to flash keyboard zip in the QA page though for 240 dpi.
I miss my old galaxy note as i can change it to a tablet mode by changing the dpi. Is there anything we can do now toincrease the dpi so we can use it on tablet mode?
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I miss my old galaxy note as i can change it to a tablet mode by changing the dpi. Is there anything we can do now toincrease the dpi so we can use it on tablet mode?
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No not till cm lands!
You won't have the tablet notification bar but you still can change the DPI to fit more on the screen
I personally use ROM Toolbox to do this, pretty simple
lmike6453 said:
You won't have the tablet notification bar but you still can change the DPI to fit more on the screen
I personally use ROM Toolbox to do this, pretty simple
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Love the signature lol
Looks like there's no way to do it unless you have a rooted device.
Wrong topic
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Any way to change the dpi on tw roms these days? Love tw but what a waste of a large screen!
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Search xposed installer/apk.
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Or you could use a custom launcher and set more rows and columns. I use Nova now and have a 8 rows x 6 columns screen.
stevehkim said:
Search xposed installer/apk.
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I am looking into this but no luck yet.
diablo009 said:
Or you could use a custom launcher and set more rows and columns. I use Nova now and have a 8 rows x 6 columns screen.
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That is not my concern. I would like to see more of webpages, and generally everything... it's like 480p vs 1080p in the TV world. DPI changes the 'density' of the screen across the whole OS.
jets76 said:
DPI changes the 'density' of the screen across the whole OS.
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And prevents you from installing most apps once changed from default.
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And prevents you from installing most apps once changed from default.
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Balls.
Normally true but when not on tw roms I've used the following app consistently with no issues. It provides an in-app process that mods the play store apk. Besides, you can always change dpi to stock and get whatever apps you want and revert your dpi. But hey, let's keep giving people half the story.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.birdapi.android.dpipro
stevehkim said:
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Thank you for pointing me in the right direction I appreciate it. I found this to be a better solution that I counted on.
In case anyone is interested in getting more out of their S3's TW display check out this post and download the zip with 2 apks and install them. Learn more about how this mod works here. The neat thing about this is approach is that it works similarly to how PA roms work. Basically, each app can be individually set with whatever DPI you want on the fly with no need to reboot in order to see changes. I tweaked DPI settings for Nova launcher, Gmail, Web browsers to start and it works on 747z rom for me ATM. I even set the SytemUI.apk to 280. This has a bug that that causes a thin bar under the notification bar to appear; it doesn't bother me though as the tradeoff for more notifications in the pull down is a plus for me. What's nice is you can tailor each apps display however you wish instead of picking one value for the whole OS!
To top it all off, you can leave Play store alone and download apps till tomorrow morning
Does anyone know how or where we could find smaller Nav bars for stock rooted Roms? I like the stock buttons..just, IMO the nav bar is huge
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http://www.android-hilfe.de/modding...ation-bar-softkeys-hoehe-groesse-aendern.html
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I was happy to see the link u sent. Every time I try to dpqwnload one of the zips I get a download unsuccessful message :/
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You can also just use a rom that support changing of the nav bar size. I currently use AOKP and in the settings I'm able to adjust how tall/wide my nav bar is.
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You can also just use a rom that support changing of the nav bar size. I currently use AOKP and in the settings I'm able to adjust how tall/wide my nav bar is.
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Yup...As much as I'd like to use CM 10.1 I won't just because that option isn't there.
I mean isn't anyone bothered by how big and a space waster the default navbar size is (goes foe stock, ofc) ?
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Yup...As much as I'd like to use CM 10.1 I won't just because that option isn't there.
I mean isn't anyone bothered by how big and a space waster the default navbar size is (goes foe stock, ofc) ?
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No not if you're 6'2 and have big fingers. I guess its better for people with smaller fingers if you want a smaller Nav bar
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No not if you're 6'2 and have big fingers. I guess its better for people with smaller fingers if you want a smaller Nav bar
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Could be... And didn't think of that!
I set it to 30 of the value offered (dpi?), or PA's tablet mode in 192 dpi which is of course too small. But I really can't accept the wasted room in my case, but good point you are making.
You can simply hide the whole bar using a one line build.prop edit, and use LMT (similar as The Pie) to emulate the hidden buttons (and much more). I did.
See?
Hey if anyones curious you can run from 380 dpi on up. There arent any ill effects and it makes the ui real sharp looking.
If you drop to 320 it will FC home but will give ya the aosp lockscreen, i didnt mess with it or drop 320-380 but if you have luck or care to elaborate heres the place!
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Bladerunner1825us said:
Hey if anyones curious you can run from 380 dpi on up. There arent any ill effects and it makes the ui real sharp looking.
If you drop to 320 it will FC home but will give ya the aosp lockscreen, i didnt mess with it or drop 320-380 but if you have luck or care to elaborate heres the place!
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Did you edit the build prop to drop it to 380? how's the camera working at 380 dpi?
Erik
The cams a little off centered but all the options are there. Yea i used rom toolbox to edit the prop
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Bladerunner1825us said:
The cams a little off centered but all the options are there. Yea i used rom toolbox to edit the prop
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Take a look at this thread in order to fix the camera issues with xposed framework. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2396282
Erik
ricco333 said:
Take a look at this thread in order to fix the camera issues with xposed framework. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2396282
Erik
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I tried that tutorial to the word, but it didn't seem to make the icons in the other launchers look any better, so I put it all back to stock.
You guys know what the deal is with multiple DPI related build.prop values on the device whats the purpose, and what is this devices actual DPI?
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I tried that tutorial to the word, but it didn't seem to make the icons in the other launchers look any better, so I put it all back to stock.
You guys know what the deal is with multiple DPI related build.prop values on the device whats the purpose, and what is this devices actual DPI?
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You have to reboot every time for the changes to take effect, after changing the line ro.sf.lcd.density from 480 to the value you desire you have to reboot if after you reboot if it still looks the same then I don't think build.prop was not mounted as writable. The default density value for the Optimus G pro is 480, I have mine set at 400 and this is how it looks like.
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I tried that tutorial to the word, but it didn't seem to make the icons in the other launchers look any better, so I put it all back to stock.
You guys know what the deal is with multiple DPI related build.prop values on the device whats the purpose, and what is this devices actual DPI?
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I know that at least with apex launcher, you can set the size of the icons within the settings. Maybe nova or other launchrs are the sameb
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You have to reboot every time for the changes to take effect, after changing the line ro.sf.lcd.density from 480 to the value you desire you have to reboot if after you reboot if it still looks the same then I don't think build.prop was not mounted as writable. The default density value for the Optimus G pro is 480, I have mine set at 400 and this is how it looks like.
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yes mine too, i used dpi 400 since rooted
dpi 400's fit to my eyes nicely better than 480 that too huge