Is it just me or is really annoying how small the font is in mediascape/music? Is there some sort of setting I am missing out on or am I out of luck? This is by far one of the most important things Sony needs to improve upon in any forthcoming updates. Im on 020 btw.
I don't understand what you mean... I find the font used in the Now Playing interface far too large... and especially when browsing by Album. I'm not blind...
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Is there a way to increase font size when in VGA mode via a registry hack?
Its too small for me at the moment.
Sorry not really...
Please DO read my native VGA-related articles (they have been made sticky in many Pocket PC fora because it does have every info you will need), I have explained all these questions in there.
See for example http://www.aximsite.com/boards/showthread.php?t=98163 and use Ctrl-F to search for "font"
Yeah Menneisyys, I have in fact read that article as well as others, but there is no way, at least to my knowledge to increase font size of the top and bottom bars (where "Start" and soft keys are).
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Yeah Menneisyys, I have in fact read that article as well as others, but there is no way, at least to my knowledge to increase font size of the top and bottom bars (where "Start" and soft keys are).
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Yup, they can't be enlarged; there're a lot of other font types, however, that can be.
What is the effect of Calibri font... try it
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Yup, they can't be enlarged; there're a lot of other font types, however, that can be.
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Well I've had Universal on 96dpi since April and gone through 4 official ROM upgrades. I have played around a lot and truth of the matter is, yeah you can change the font sizes but the actual benefit is marginal. The stuff that really needs to increase is hardcoded (thanx Bill!). Only thing that made a difference for me was increasing font size through the UI settings.
Most ppl who see my Universal squint so I'd say that despite guides and directions, TruVGA does require 20/20 eyesight.
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Well I've had Universal on 96dpi since April and gone through 4 official ROM upgrades. I have played around a lot and truth of the matter is, yeah you can change the font sizes but the actual benefit is marginal. The stuff that really needs to increase is hardcoded (thanx Bill!). Only thing that made a difference for me was increasing font size through the UI settings.
Most ppl who see my Universal squint so I'd say that despite guides and directions, TruVGA does require 20/20 eyesight.
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Agreed - there're a lot of individual apps where you can't increase the font size (for example, Messenger).
I'll bring up this question with the internal MS developers. Hope we/they'll be able to come up with something similar to, for example, the solution of the Sharp Zaurus, where zooming (font size changing) is hardware-based and has effect on all fonts.
Or you could explain to them Application Developement 101: How not to hardcode everything.
BTW, I've given up on PMSN. Switched to Live Beta which does allow SOME font resizing only still not large enough even at xtra large setting. Agile works fine. Anyway, point is WM still needs a lot of work, and I mean ALOT.
Here's the video
Looks pretty neat. Does anybody happen to know what it's called? Searched the forums and google but couldn't find anything.
Personally I think this looks way better than all the attempts to copy the iphone stuff. I mean, where's the problem in having a scrollbar like that?
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... I mean, where's the problem in having a scrollbar like that?
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the problem is, that for example my hermes has a much smaller display, and with such a fat scrollbar i do not see very much of the real content.
regards chief
my phone's a prophet. i could live with that
my problem with all the finger scrolling is that when I stop a scrolling list as in pocketcm I unintendetly hit a contact. it opens up and i have to go back. I believe that is the case with the iphone, too, so no offence pocketcm creator
Hi there,
As my eyes are pretty poor and have fat fingers, I'm looking for an app that will allow me to change the Font and icon size of my desire... I thought that option would be under accessibility settings but that's greyed out.. Email is fine as the client will increase the font, but that's no use for the rest of the phone...
Thanks for any help.
Dmont
Hi all,
I have that problem too. Anyone can tell us how to enlarge the Fonts? (I mean, not only some Apps, but the hole system)
Thank you!
There's an app named Font Size in the Market. It never worked for me, though...
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You can use "Spare Parts" appl. Search it in the market
I never manage to change the font size with SpareParts. If you can do it with this software please share .
But i doubt you could do that since Desire is not fully rooted (no rw /system, etc....).
And if my memory is ok i remenber of bug report about Android concerning the font size..
...2 mintutes later...
Well i found the thread concerning this bug report it is here. I don't want to discourage you but the thread started on Nov 06, 2009 and the last message was...yesterday ....and still no solution
Another way to change size of font (not really the size of the font) is playing with "build.prop" in /system and changing the "ro.sf.lcd_density" (by defaylt 240 on WVGA..210 is good value but fonts are more little. Maybe increasing the value may let you have bigger fonts).
Hope this help a little
at last I found a solution that works (for me anyway)
I downloaded an app called font changer and picked a font called chinese cat, it's a little bit cartoonish but it's a fair trade off as all the system fonts are just that little bit bigger and easy for me to read now
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=744363
But you need a rooted device for font changer as well..
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Hello all, first off my name is Steve. I'm a graphics designer ranging from 2D graphics design for windowblinds and so forth, to 3D modeling and so forth.
To make it short and sweet basically my HTC Dash 3G is currently on official WinMo 6.1 and for some odd reason I can't seem to change the HTCSlidingPanel320x240.cpr file's read only attribute. It allows me to copy from phone to PC no probs but for the phone will not allow me to paste the edited .cpr to the phone.
Since it's a read only file I can't delete it or overwrite it at all. Essentially all I really want to do is edit the size of the time font on the home panel to something smaller.
I think I've managed to find the tag responsible for the font size but I can't save the edit I've made. My question is, is there some sort of reg hack I need to do to remove the read only file attribute, or is this a rom issue that requires an unofficial rom?
Or is there even an easier way to achieve the goal I'm working towards? Any help will be greatly appreciated, especially since this doesn't seem to be a frequent issue as I've searched the entire 27 page HTC forums and didn't see anything.
Thank you. Regards, Neo.
well, after some quick realizations I went into the SlidingPanelHome.cpr and edited that one. My time text has a different font, tucked into the right corner, and much smaller! Granted I can't have the "My Fave Five" in the panels list but notta biggie. This may seem rather odd but I'm a graphics whore so I like to see my wallpapers and keep things slightly minimal onscreen...lol. Especially since I spent three days modeling a Decepticon logo wallpaper in 3D. Yeah, I'm not well in the head!...lol =S
I had this original Desire Z bought a week ago in Hong Kong Broadway. Everything works fine except the fonts are a bit small to me (I am a 50 years old man and the small fonts on DZ got me reading problem sometimes).
I have downloaded a software called "Spare Parts" which it has a function to change the system fonts to various sizes (from extreme small to extreme large) but I tried so many time and the change only applies on the software font size itself but not the system. And when you get out from the application and return to it, the font size that you chose will back to normal again! Other than that, all other functions on this application work OK.
Any guy in the forum can offer me help so that I can change the font size. It can be an application, an instruction......or whatever, except, if possible, no need to flash the ROM.
Thousand thanks in advance!
manleyfu said:
I had this original Desire Z bought a week ago in Hong Kong Broadway. Everything works fine except the fonts are a bit small to me (I am a 50 years old man and the small fonts on DZ got me reading problem sometimes).
I have downloaded a software called "Spare Parts" which it has a function to change the system fonts to various sizes (from extreme small to extreme large) but I tried so many time and the change only applies on the software font size itself but not the system. And when you get out from the application and return to it, the font size that you chose will back to normal again! Other than that, all other functions on this application work OK.
Any guy in the forum can offer me help so that I can change the font size. It can be an application, an instruction......or whatever, except, if possible, no need to flash the ROM.
Thousand thanks in advance!
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Are you rooted? Try the app LCDensity.
Turn the number up. But not too much.
Yes, my DZ is rooted and I tried the LCDDensity. This can change but not much as the fonts will overlapped if I make it too large (I pushed to 280). So, the max it can increase is 260, just a little bigger than the original size.
I have also I9000 in hand. Wondering why the I9000 screen is only 0.3" bigger than DesireZ, but the font size on I9000 is much much larger and very visible.
Thanks anyway
This was easily changeable in WinMo, and seems something of an oversight in Android that there isn't a system setting for this. Looks like you're not alone :
http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2270405/android-font-size-causing
Wow....I really thought that I was the only one suffering this font size problem....
I went to several mobile phone shop or some smartphone repairing shop today and asked if they have any good solution for that....but they all turned me down, which means this could be a permanent problem for the Desire-Z. Extremely disappointed as all the other functions on this phone are real well.
Then I also tried on one of the phone shop to see if Desire HD can be better because HC has a 4.3" screen..... but sorry again, larger screen don't mean larger font size. Yes, it looks a bit bigger, but just a bit! Why a 4.3" screen has the same font size as a 3.7" screen? Then, why need a 4.3" screen?
I9000 only has 4" but the font size is very very visible. I was trying to trade-in my new Desire-Z to get another I9000 (I already have one but I have 2 sim cards) but all I9000 are sold out.
So, I have to bring my glasses with me all the time in order to read the phone content....
By the way. I saw from the link (v3.co.uk) that we can flash a Cyanogen ROM, the font could be bigger. Is that true? Anyone flashed that ROM before? Will this ROM conflict with my HK Chinese HTC version?
Really need help on this!
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This was easily changeable in WinMo, and seems something of an oversight in Android that there isn't a system setting for this. Looks like you're not alone :
http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2270405/android-font-size-causing
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Can you suggest me which Cyanogen ROM can change the system font size? I am quite desperate on that.....
Thanks.