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Resolution tweak?

Has anybody messed with the lcd density in their build.prop folder? I saw this thread, http://androidforums.com/eris-all-things-root/164880-froyo-resolution-tweak.html, over at androidforums and was wondering if anybody else has tried this?

ill try it out right now sec
EDIT: yeah it does work, it increases the resolution size thereby making things smaller on your screen proportionally. our screens are rather tiny anyway though.
i tried it out at a ridiculous 130 which made things super small i may try out 140 for giggles. it does make things harder to use (and read) considering the size of screen objects is responsible for more than legibility like a desktop (a caveat of touch screens -- ease of use and interaction is based on ability to easily touch objects in the ui. make them too small and you lose a bit of your ease of use).
either way, its a neat little thing to mess with if you'd like to see what other res may look like on your eris' screen.
RE-edit: 140 is fine w/ launcher pro and icon drawing but it makes certain things super blurry or misaligned so you're not really getting the proper res up/down effect. google reader @ 140 renders horribly so the problem goes a bit beyond color banding like the original post over there says. going the other way to 165 also blurs stuff up. It's probably because our ui elements aren't necessarily vector or anything like that. mostly they are pngs which this density setting appears to resize on the fly causing some nasty image quality degradation. im sure someone else could chime in on this w/ a bit more knowledge. purely conjecture

Eh, dirty hack. I use more icons widget so I have tons of free space. It makes widgets weird too.

However I am really interested in that game he posted a screeny of.
Anyone?

Hungry Man said:
However I am really interested in that game he posted a screeny of.
Anyone?
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That game is Galcon... I'm addicted to it. Been playing the flash version on the web for a year or more now. It was only on iphone until about last month.

Thanks for the great tip. Perfect for internet browsing.
by the way, if you use this in sense the buttons at the bottom become unaligned and text under widgets and icons move. From what I've seen it works perfect in launcherpro.

homewmt said:
Thanks for the great tip. Perfect for internet browsing.
by the way, if you use this in sense the buttons at the bottom become unaligned and text under widgets and icons move. From what I've seen it works perfect in launcherpro.
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yes, it works great in launcher pro, expect if you use folders. When you try to open a folder it crashes. ADW doesn't have this issue with its folders.. but not a big deal otherwise.

Lcd density

Hello to all, someone can change as the density to 180 or 200 and that does not make you FC with the calls, thank´s.

"LCD density " from market

Hi, I've changed to 180 but from time to time I have FC, especially during the long calls (more than 30 minutes)
edit: my streak runs the official dell froyo

Jules Winnfield said:
Hi, I've changed to 180 but from time to time I have FC, especially during the long calls (more than 30 minutes)
edit: my streak runs the official dell froyo
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I run mine at 240 and it seems fine. I did have some FC with stock dialer at 180 though but I switched to Incoming Call Plus and it seemed to fix the problem.

Krisbo said:
I run mine at 240 and it seems fine. I did have some FC with stock dialer at 180 though but I switched to Incoming Call Plus and it seemed to fix the problem.
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Then that you recommend 180 or 240

Krisbo said:
I run mine at 240 and it seems fine. I did have some FC with stock dialer at 180 though but I switched to Incoming Call Plus and it seemed to fix the problem.
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Sounds good if incoming call plus solves this issue, because due to these fc I was afraid to use a 200 or 240 density...and to be honest for my old eyes 160 is too small.

tonime said:
Then that you recommend 180 or 240
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I run mine at 240 and have had no drop outs since using Incoming Call Plus.
Jules Winnfield said:
Sounds good if incoming call plus solves this issue, because due to these fc I was afraid to use a 200 or 240 density...and to be honest for my old eyes 160 is too small.
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I'm only 26, I have pefect vision and I found 160 too small. The best thing about running at 240 is widgets are now the correct size. No more tiny Pure Grid Calendar in the middle of my screen

Krisbo said:
I run mine at 240 and have had no drop outs since using Incoming Call Plus.
I'm only 26, I have pefect vision and I found 160 too small. The best thing about running at 240 is widgets are now the correct size. No more tiny Pure Grid Calendar in the middle of my screen
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I just installed Incoming Calls Plus and so far like it. My density is 180, but it makes the title of the ICP buttons cut off. What is it like at 240?

krazman325 said:
I just installed Incoming Calls Plus and so far like it. My density is 180, but it makes the title of the ICP buttons cut off. What is it like at 240?
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I put 180 and 240 I like it

krazman325 said:
I just installed Incoming Calls Plus and so far like it. My density is 180, but it makes the title of the ICP buttons cut off. What is it like at 240?
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Better as it was written for around that density.

cannot rotate screen
thanks everyone for the lcd density info . I changed mine to 240 and everything looks much bigger . just one problem is after reeboting the orientation will not change from portrait to landscape .
I am running 02 froyo build 319 . if someone has any tips to help me fix this . thank you in advance .

Krisbo said:
I run mine at 240 and it seems fine. I did have some FC with stock dialer at 180 though but I switched to Incoming Call Plus and it seemed to fix the problem.
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I have position 240 and it me works well with the next calls with plus, nevertheless it does me fc with that I do, they know some solution?

Hello to all, after doing several tests to know because towards FC with the calls with 240, I have put the configuration of networks in GSM and it me works very well, at the moment I go the whole morning speaking and it works perfectly.

@tonime does it mean that you have to modify network configuration each time you use 3g network?
Regarding fc, it looks like the only possibility to avoid it during phone conversation is to use the classical 160 density.

i use 140, 180 and others make things looks bigger and i feel like wasting the big screen

After much experimenting I have decided 240 is my preference. I find the "feature" of Dells Stage not rotating to landscape at 240 LCD density really useful, because Stage is really poor in landscape at high densities due to the bad positioning and scaling of the dock bar (for some reason its thicker in landscape).

Solution to all the problems with lcd density, we install Dj Steve's rom to ourselves 1.7.0 it works quite of marvel.
I have 240 not fc and one sees of marvel.

(Q)Problem when charge LCD density.

Hello, I am using sense version, I edited build.prop to change LCD to 180. i using spare parts then everything ok but when i receive a call my lock screen is not normal, its become smaller here is the attach picture. How can i fix it?? thanks.

No any idea about this ??

mylove299 said:
Hello, I am using sense version, I edited build.prop to change LCD to 180. i using spare parts then everything ok but when i receive a call my lock screen is not normal, its become smaller here is the attach picture. How can i fix it?? thanks.
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try changing your density from 170,180,190.....240 and check which fits the screen best

You shouldn't really change the density on Sense builds as the graphics aren't built with multiple resolutions. You can't actually fix the issue you have unfortunately as the image is just not meant for that resolution.

change the drag style to the default.... currently u r on the rotatory one .. im running cm7 american android with 140 lcd density... works awsm..on hd2

Lcd density

Anyone messed around with lcd density yet? I used to have my old galaxy on around 215
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Since many of us dont have the phone yet, you could imagine that would be tough
Why dont you give it a shot though. btw i think 200 will be amazing, since the screen 4.3, but i dont know how the ui will hold up. I remember on the sgs1, some of the apps, ie music, etc, looked odd since it didnt fit properly.

I realised we need root first but its not far off lol
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Using 200 at the moment, text quite small though.

Im using 225 now, the auto rotation button on the pull down was misaligned and it annoyed me lol
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Big thing for me this. I like 190dpi.
I presume 'LCDDensity for Root' by Elviss Kustans, can change the screen density until you reboot. But without root 'LCD Density Changer' by Beansoft won't be able to change it permanently.
I'm looking forward to full CF root (I'm looking forward to getting my phone first )

Works with LCD Density Changer mate, the root is fine.
dont you find text a bit small on 190? lol

and how does it look on a smaller density? are all icons etc ok? because on my ex-dhd with sense 2.1 it looked pretty strange

Guitarfreak26 said:
Works with LCD Density Changer mate, the root is fine.
dont you find text a bit small on 190? lol
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I use 167 on my hd2, and it is perfect, more is too big.

Shame it messes up the samsung widget bar on the notification screen the ones with two words have the line through them

Yeah, thats the problem with lower density's on manufacturer skins. on a stock build like nexus s, lower densities look crazy good. some apps have problems though. I think maybe in the future once custom roms start getting made, maybe the chefs can change the framework so things dont look misaligned.

Ibasket still looks awful on 225... i got round the dialer by using go dialer...

Just rooted and installed LCD Density Changer and when I set it to anything other than the default my wifi won't connect unless I forget it and re-add the password.
Has anyone else experienced this?

after rooting, action (1) installed ADW, action (2)dropped my res to 200 with LCD changer, if I wanted my phone to look like an IPHONE I would have bought one

Disrespective said:
Just rooted and installed LCD Density Changer and when I set it to anything other than the default my wifi won't connect unless I forget it and re-add the password.
Has anyone else experienced this?
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Figured this one out. When the phone does a soft reset (I think that's what it's called, one where it reboots from the screen animation only) it won't reconnect the wifi until it's toggled on and off. Setting the screen density as the default so the device fully restarts with this density set each time seems to fix this issue.

Rooted and now running at 196dpi. Its so much better than 240dpi.
I was thinking to myself that I was getting used to the stock dpi, then I rooted and realised how wrong I was lol!
Only problems are the drop down toggle menu and the dialer, which have already been, mentioned.
Guitarfreak26 said:
i got round the dialer by using go dialer...
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Do you mean Go Contacts?

I can confirm Go Dialler (download Go Contacts from Market) works a treat

Has any one tried LCDdensity

Just wondering if any owners tried changing the density manually or with lcddensity. Wondering if touchwiz recognize any change in the density. Would love to change this to 200

Will definitely be playing around with the density when I receive mine.

I'm just curious as to what changing the density actually does. Since obviously you can't physically change the screen density, what is the advantage of tricking the phone into thinking it's different via software?

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I'm just curious as to what changing the density actually does. Since obviously you can't physically change the screen density, what is the advantage of tricking the phone into thinking it's different via software?
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check this video out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yrOAJJK-GY
Usually changing the density makes the screen look more high res by making everything smaller and fitting more information on the screen. If your still using your galaxy s try out lcddensity and change to 200. Touchwiz on 1st galaxy s didnt adjust well to changing the density. default is using 240

Was the first thing i did. Set mine to 202 out if habbit, as most devices get issues with wonky UIs at 200 or below.
Device looks great on 202. The only thing that distorts slight is the quick access tools ( sound and screen rotation only) in the notification bar.
The posituve outweighs the nefative for me.
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risq said:
Was the first thing i did. Set mine to 202 out if habbit, as most devices get issues with wonky UIs at 200 or below.
Device looks great on 202. The only thing that distorts slight is the quick access tools ( sound and screen rotation only) in the notification bar.
The posituve outweighs the nefative for me.
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can you take a screen shot? im wondering what the app menu looks like.

+1 for screenshot. I run my DHD at 190. I use LCD Density Changer which has a compatibility mode to make problem apps run full screen, but it needs root