My question is simple...
I have been using QVGA screen devices for a long time and I have invested a good ammount on softwares that display well on QVGA screens.
Now I'm thinking of doing an upgrade and I have pinpointed the HD as my next device, but since I have invested a lot money on softwares, I don't want to upgrade to a new phone and find all these softwares unusable on a WVGA screen.
Will the programs designed for QVGA display properly on a WVGA screen?
My common sense tells me that no, it won't but I have read that it will display without problems.
Any thoughts anyone?
where did you read that it will display with no problems?
Very few apps are made for WVGA and I cannot image that HTC lets this be a show stopper, since it will take years and years before WVGA is as standard as QVGA is.
The same goes for VGA though, which is also just catching on in mainstream, yet my VGA Diamond has no problems running anything whatsoever. Some QVGA apps just get blown up to fit the screen and run just like on a QVGA screen, yet I wonder how this would work when the aspect ratio is no longer 4:3 (as with QVGA, HVGA and VGA) but instead 16:9 (WVGA). Stretching is ugly so with apps that need to maintain the aspect ratio (anything other than apps that can resize infinitely like Operah, Windows Mobile etc) we would likely see black boxes on top of and below the app.
Copy pasted one of my own old posts from another topic, which had the same question but for VGA on the Raphael.
WM has a so-called compatibility mode. If an app is not specifically compiled to tell WM it knows about resolution and DPI settings, WM presents your device to the program as 240x320 QVGA. This way, most QVGA apps simply run on VGA. (And I can verify that at least on the Diamond, most apps just work). WM then simply scales the application to fill the screen. (One way to notice if this is happening with an app is that you can see the text is smooth and looks high-res, except on the menu bar at the bottom)
Actually that was quite a nice move of MS. However, there is a bug with compatibility mode and 320x320 devices (like the Treo800w) that prevents some apps from running. Luckily, the Raphael is not one of those devices.
However, of course, some apps do tell WM they know about resolution and DPI, but aren't made to support 480x640 devices like the Axim v51, Diamond and Raphael, those apps may look weird (though they don't seem to be numerous), but generally still work.
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If I recall correctly, however, non-resolution/dpi-aware applications ran on odd resolutions like WVGA for the Touch HD are still represented as 320x240, and will be stretched to use the entire screen (in other words: fugly). I know this is the case for 320x320, and I think it would be a safe bet to assume the same for 480x800.
For applications that are resolution/dpi-aware, it all depends on how the developers did it. Black border at the bottom and top, correctly scaled, etc, it's all possible and completely up to how the developer handled this in their code.
Chainfire
Thanks for the answer.
That was very well explained.
What I read that it won't have problems was perhaps with the fact that WM will stretch the program to fit the screen, but it wasn't as well explained as your post.
So now I know that it's possible that half of my programs will be stretched on the screen and it will look crappy, the other half will have black borders around...
WVGA Themes
I just wonder if all the (beautiful) themes created for Diamond will be correctly displayed with the Touch HD ?
As I'm creating my own (for Diamond) and first one, I hope I can use it with the HD WVGA screen.
Thanx for informations.
WVGA has the same aspect ratio of the WQVGA
WVGA 480x800 (Touch HD, Sony XPERIA)
WQVGA 240x400 (Samsung Omnia)
Being an owner of a Samsung Omnia I found out that there are very few software that wont run on non a standard QVGA resolution.
Good thing about it is that most important and recently updated software do take into consideration the modern variable display sizes and aspect ratios.
This is a promising trend, software companies tend to release fixes/upgrades for their software for these new resolutions
So I wouldnt worry so much!
ydg said:
I just wonder if all the (beautiful) themes created for Diamond will be correctly displayed with the Touch HD ?
As I'm creating my own (for Diamond) and first one, I hope I can use it with the HD WVGA screen.
Thanx for informations.
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I recently installed Manilla2d on the omnia, the themes have to be modified for the omnias resolution 240x400 images, backgrounds, icon possitions etc, therefore no theme for diamond will be directly usable with the touch hd, there will have to be modifications on them to work
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I recently installed Manilla2d on the omnia, the themes have to be modified for the omnias resolution 240x400 images, backgrounds, icon possitions etc, therefore no theme for diamond will be directly usable with the touch hd, there will have to be modifications on them to work
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With this Forum and community and the other WVGA topphone Xperia, these forums will be soon filled with people working on these modifications....
I am not worried at all about this
You can try Force high resolution. You can find it at pocketpcfreeware.com.
I would like to try program G-profile but I dont know which file I need to download...
QVGA, WGVGA, VGA, WVGA....?
Thanks
http://www.ageye.de/index.php?s=download#gprofile
If you have an HD2, you need WVGA (that would be the resolution of your screen)
WVGA (480x800)
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Hello,
I want to buy a WM6.1 device with a resolution 640x480 (with 192dpi).
I'm wondering if it's possible to use the Real VGA tool to switch from 192dpi to 128 dpi. (or does Real VGA only works on 320x320 devices like Samsung
i780.
Please help, thanks
dpi settings 640x480
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Hello,
I want to buy a WM6.1 device with a resolution 640x480 (with 192dpi).
I'm wondering if it's possible to use the Real VGA tool to switch from 192dpi to 128 dpi. (or does Real VGA only works on 320x320 devices like Samsung
i780.
Please help, thanks
Hi is it possible to change the resolution of Mega to VGA , i treid Ndyitot Display but no use ....please help !
the screen is limited to QVGA. It doesnt physically support VGA.
if it did support the vga resolution via software method it'd look hideously downscaled.
It's like this my friend, if you have 1/4 of a sandwich, you cannot ever stretch it out into a full slice of bread, it will always be 1/4 of a sandwich because...it physically cannot be anything else.
I hope the metaphor (or is this an analogy?) explains it clearly
Hi!
sorry for the ignorance
but can someone explain me the differences between VGA / WQVGA / HVGA / QVGA ???
i got my HD mini yesterday, and trying to install keyboard (WQVGA & VGA) and always getting skin Error:
resolution for screen size not found!
tnx!
Check this image
WQVGA is the wide version of QVGA, that means, 240 pixels high and more than 320 wide (between 384 and 482 usually)
The HD Mini is HVGA
The only 3rd party keyboard that currently works in HVGA is SPB Keyboard, as far as I can tell.
Resco Keyboard, TouchPal and SlideIt don't work on the HD Mini at present.