Hey Guys
Due to the Honeycomb Architecture, is it possible to change the fonts on the Xoom, I’ve searched the forums and haven’t found anything for the xoom in flashing fonts etc,
Obviously to play with key android files, you need to be rooted, in which I am I might add. But where is the key file?
fkofilee said:
Hey Guys
Due to the Honeycomb Architecture, is it possible to change the fonts on the Xoom, I’ve searched the forums and haven’t found anything for the xoom in flashing fonts etc,
Obviously to play with key android files, you need to be rooted, in which I am I might add. But where is the key file?
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Try an App from the Market...Custom Android Font Switcher. Lousy name, but very accurate. The app works even if it is a bit "no frills", and comes with an impressive set of "Creative Commons" fonts. Many are a bit too decorative for everyday use, but there are several which are good replacements for the stock font on the Xoom.
rschenck said:
Try an App from the Market...Custom Android Font Switcher. Lousy name, but very accurate. The app works even if it is a bit "no frills", and comes with an impressive set of "Creative Commons" fonts. Many are a bit too decorative for everyday use, but there are several which are good replacements for the stock font on the Xoom.
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Another one I like-Absolute System Tools-has a whole suite of useful apps but that's the one I use for selecting fonts.
this is pretty cool (I JUST CHANGED ALL MY FONTS THE STYLE FROM THE HITMAN MOVIE). I AM JUST WONDERING IF ITS possible to also change font size or bold/italics. Etc.
Although I think this font looks cool, I am gonna have to change again because it appears to only be in all caps
edit: interesting. i just checked this post from my computer and see that some of the text i wrote while on my xoom came uot in all caps and some didnt. On the xoom everything is caps. hmmm
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I'm not entirely sure if someone has already said this or if anyone knows how to do it, but I have and its really useful !
Basically you can drop the Density of the screen and give it a larger appearance. Best way to do this in my opinion, is to grab yourself a copy of Droid Explorer, browse into the system folder in your root, save a copy of Build.prop to the desktop, open it with notepad, find LCD DENSITY=240 or whatever it is and change the value to 180, replace the build.prop in Droid explorer with the one from your desktop and reboot your device
If you don't like it you can always go back in and change it back ^^
Sorry for the noobish question. But I am not quite sure I understand what this does. Could you explain just a wee bit? Even better if you could post before and after screenshots.
Cheers....
Uhm, Nothing new I'm afraid. There are already some apps in the market that let you do just this.
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I'm not entirely sure if someone has already said this or if anyone knows how to do it, but I have and its really useful !
Basically you can drop the Density of the screen and give it a larger appearance. Best way to do this in my opinion, is to grab yourself a copy of Droid Explorer, browse into the system folder in your root, save a copy of Build.prop to the desktop, open it with notepad, find LCD DENSITY=240 or whatever it is and change the value to 180, replace the build.prop in Droid explorer with the one from your desktop and reboot your device
If you don't like it you can always go back in and change it back ^^
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Its Changing the resolution of the screen so that everything is slightly bigger (or smaller) by editing the value.
Thank you for the info!
EDIT - Sorry I posted this too late! A mod can remove it if you want...
Oooooooh. Got it.
But IMHO I dont see why I (or anyone else for that matter) would personally want to do something like that. Unless, it just for kicks.
It's not changing the resolution. It's changing the dpi settings.
Why is this in the dev forum?
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Why is this in the dev forum?
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For the same reason Samsung went with Rfs : unknown
There is an app on the market. LCDDensity it is.
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Is this still being applied after restarting your phone?
The point of it is to have a larger viewing area, which is great for things like viewing webpages or documents but it can break games and certain designed UI's (like touchwiz)
Having ADW + Density change looks good though.
Pff. Changing this value kills too much apps (like LauncherPro, Simi Clock and others).
So, changing this value renders most of your apps unusable.
Not working for me anyhow.
ps. I do not like the changed settings either, the screen feels like having a blur on it. (tried 100 and 180 as values).
jbrugger said:
Pff. Changing this value kills too much apps (like LauncherPro, Simi Clock and others).
So, changing this value renders most of your apps unusable.
Not working for me anyhow.
ps. I do not like the changed settings either, the screen feels like having a blur on it. (tried 100 and 180 as values).
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Thanks for all the feedback sorry i was un-aware that there was an app for this ^^ also if you go to the Android Market and grab "Spare Parts" and turn off Compatibility mode, 99% of apps will scale fine to the change
Seems not to be a good idea on my galaxy s. Everything resizes and loks cool except the build-in apps:agenda, calculator, dailer, mp3player cdmode. Those apps did not change resolution ;(
But still i have to admit: density of 200 looks much better than 240
Cool app, stupid samsung apps!
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Dear all,
I am having problem with the font size of message thread view since updating to Gingerbread, the font size is now quite big.
Is there any way to decrease it?
PS: I search the forum and try to find settings in the phone, but could not get one solutions.
Thanks you in advance.
Fantisto
I was also looking for some settings on this but with no luck, maybe just install Handcent and be done with it eh XD
I think the font size is standard among their current devices, for better visibility
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It can only be done by decompiling the apk and changing some xml values.
If anyone is interested, I can do it pretty easily.
Just send me the apk.
If u've got root you can make everything on ur phone smaller.
Edit /system/build.prop
Change ro.sf.lcd_density=240 to
ro.sf.lcd_density=200
It may cause some graphical glighes in badly programmed apps that expect the same screen size including some of the android pop up boxes and some stock SE apps. For example gaps may appear or not all the screen is used but most apps work fine and its def worth it for me at least.
Everything (font) seems to be fine besides message threadview... It cannot fit many message in one screen...
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Hi,
I like StreakDroid GingerStreak 2.4.4 very much. I would like to have bigger icon size. Is there any option to set within StreakDroid GingerStreak 2.4.4 ROM?
It is amazing that there is hundred of similar question of how to increas the font size and icon size within the android world, however there is no such universal solution. People then have to tie back to specific ROM on their specific phone. some ROM has font size control, some don't.
As far as I know there is no ROM has icon size setting available for the user.
Few app on the market offer font size or icon size management, however those only work for specific application (SMS for example) or for icons for home screen only ( BIG ICON app for example but it only work for a specific launcher)
I am not looking for universal way to adjust the font size or icon size for android OS ROM in general because I know it is unrealistic, even thought these functions suppose to be really trivial for MS Windows or MAC.
Since I am using StreakDroid GingerStreak 2.4.4 ROM, my question is just about looking a way to increas the icon size for this ROM.
Thanks
You can edit your /system/build.prop to achieve what you are looking for. Look for a line that starts with so.rf.lcd_density and adjust that to what you want. If there is no such line, put one in there. The default is 160. I have mine at 240 and like it, seems more phone-like rather than tablet-like.. There have been some reports of incompatibilities with some apps and such if you change it to anything but 160 or 240. Make a backup of your current build.prop first.
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It is that simple
If you use streakdroid then read whole OP of it
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You can edit your /system/build.prop to achieve what you are looking for. Look for a line that starts with so.rf.lcd_density and adjust that to what you want. If there is no such line, put one in there. The default is 160. I have mine at 240 and like it, seems more phone-like rather than tablet-like.. There have been some reports of incompatibilities with some apps and such if you change it to anything but 160 or 240. Make a backup of your current build.prop first.
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Yay! Thanks for much for the info. I got what I want. Below is what has been done:
Download File Manager (free app) from Market
Set permission R/W for /system folder as well as write permission for /system/build.prop file for owner and all other parties
Open the prop file and add this line: ro.sf.lcd_density=240
Save the file and reboot
It works...
Thanks again.
Kolteabhiman said:
As @lord said
It is that simple
If you use streakdroid then read whole OP of it
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Dear, what stand for OP? Can you give me info where to find OP to read more?
I like to digg into system files and properties...
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Original Post. He is referring to the original post for streakdroid. Glad you got it working.
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This is an issue that I have had since I got the phone.
As I have gotten older, my eyes have gotten worse, so I need glasses to read small print. I can read my text messages just fine, but I have trouble reading many of my emails. The font is just too small. This stinks, since I don't carry reading glasses around. I contacted Samsung customer service about how to increase the size of the font, and they said that it cannot be done. The size of the font is set in stone. I do not believe this is a problem on other Samsung Galaxy S phones, and from I can tell the new Froyo update did not provided a fix.
Anyone else find this annoying? Anyone know of a way to get around this problem. Too bad you can't tap the screen to enlarge the font.
cfpct said:
This is an issue that I have had since I got the phone.
As I have gotten older, my eyes have gotten worse, so I need glasses to read small print. I can read my text messages just fine, but I have trouble reading many of my emails. The font is just too small. This stinks, since I don't carry reading glasses around. I contacted Samsung customer service about how to increase the size of the font, and they said that it cannot be done. The size of the font is set in stone. I do not believe this is a problem on other Samsung Galaxy S phones, and from I can tell the new Froyo update did not provided a fix.
Anyone else find this annoying? Anyone know of a way to get around this problem. Too bad you can't tap the screen to enlarge the font.
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All i can think of is changing the screen density, but...will also make parts of the screen not visible, so if you do go this route, only do increments of 10, i am not sure if our phone supports font swap but i will look into it asap.
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All i can think of is changing the screen density, but...will also make parts of the screen not visible, so if you do go this route, only do increments of 10, i am not sure if our phone supports font swap but i will look into it asap.
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Pat tried to change the screen density, in Miunia and it had all sorts of wierd consequences. Not to mention, you'd have to be rooted, and edit build prop to do it. It might be easier (If you are rooted) to get into the apk and change the font sizes in drawable. How large do you want it? And are you rooted? If so, I'll see about decompiling and tweaking it. Also, which e'mail app are you referring to? stock e'mail, or Gmail or what?
Email font
Yes, I am rooted.
I an using the email client provided by Verizon. It connects to my pop3 accounts As far as font size 10 would be good 12 would be better. Getting a new email app might work. Are you using one that allows enlarging of the font. Can you recommend an email app that enlarges the font?
I guess it's more system problem than hardware, but I dunno where I should put this. So, I don't know why, but I discovered that all the fonts on my phone looks the same. I wanted to change font in my snap, and there's this "font picker", where Old English is. But for me, it was still the default font(Roboto, I assume). I thought it was Snapchat's fault, so I reinstalled it, but problem remained. Then I downloaded some fonts and tried to change font by FontFix, but I looked at font viewer and I noticed all the fonts look the same. I mean, every one of them looks like Roboto. Even not downloaded yet fonts look like default one. As my phone is rooted, I checked if everything is ok in /system/fonts, and seems like it. Is there any solution for me?