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Did a quick search and didnt see it posted.
Changing it from 240 to 200 looks good on these like it did on the captivates. This is a sweet spot I feel for looks and without causing issues.
gotfolk said:
Did a quick search and didnt see it posted.
Changing it from 240 to 200 looks good on these like it did on the captivates. This is a sweet spot I feel for looks and without causing issues.
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did you have any problems with the dialer? people reported it crashing when changing the density (but most were changing it to be HIGHER)
shiiiiit didnt try that...
ok yeah thats not cool.. damnit it looks soo good like this too.
looks like Ill be playing around and researching other moto phones to see if theres a sweet spot that works maybe something weird like a 203 or some crap
and yes everyone if you go back to stock all is well
dialer2 from market (free) works well when changing density
Thanks for the feedback. Im going to add it to the list of root apps found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1099846
How do I change the LCD density, im willing to try this (rooted)
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How do I change the LCD density, im willing to try this (rooted)
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Smaller number means higher resolution. Make sure to use small increment changes when testing. its mostly a personal preference type thing. I think the Atrix screen looks great, much better overall than the Cap. Hold any two screens next to eachother and look at different images and you will see how different screens look better or worse depending on what your viewing. Me and my buddy had fun pitting my Atrix against his G2x just surfing though google images. Warmness softness sharpness density Screen type, many thing influence the image quality. In the end its up to your eye to decide what looks best to you.
LCD density does not work on my atrix it just reboots and stays the same
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the droid x2 apk works well to with lcd density
edit: sorry guys wrong apk use this one
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LCD density does not work on my atrix it just reboots and stays the same
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I changed it to the settings the op had said worked for him
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i used the buildprop to get it working here, i changed to 260 and icons was bigger
were you guys able to get the droid x2 apk working? wouldn't install and copying into my app folder kept it there but then i couldnt get a signal or change the call settings.
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were you guys able to get the droid x2 apk working? wouldn't install and copying into my app folder kept it there but then i couldnt get a signal or change the call settings.
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sorry bud was wrong one, update the apk, you need a fix or you sorted it?
Sorry but i was asking how to change the lcd density, not what it is
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Sorry but i was asking how to change the lcd density, not what it is
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https://market.android.com/details?id=lv.n3o.lcddensity&feature=search_result
I figured it out
the phone looks much better imo
still didn't get the new apk to work. wouldn't install and it won't launch if it put it in the system/app folder
As you know, the DPI on the Nexus 7 is 213, which is somewhat non-standard. This makes all the icons appear a bit blurry, especially noticeable on the phablet notification bar. I run mine on 240, which looks much better.
Have you ever noticed this, and does it bother you at all?
Paranoid Android @ 160dpi.
I honestly never noticed that as something odd, I just thought it was designed like that. App icons are a bit blurry, I have noticed that, but not all of them. Stock apps and some other too have very nice, crisp icons (Firefox for example, I won't check all of them)
I'm running stock ROM with stock DPI and I like it a lot. I don't care for tablet modes or anything, nexus 7 feels like a bigger version of phone android, which suits me a lot, since I use it in portrait mostly.
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Yes thats why I run tablet mode 180 dpi
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But 180 is also non-standard. The only standard DPIs are 160 and 240.
frobthebuilder said:
As you know, the DPI on the Nexus 7 is 213, which is somewhat non-standard. This makes all the icons appear a bit blurry, especially noticeable on the phablet notification bar. I run mine on 240, which looks much better.
Have you ever noticed this, and does it bother you at all?
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Within android on certain devices the different ui modes were triggered by the DPI changes. 320= phone 213= phablet and 160 was full tablet mode. Since Google has changed to the one mode to rule them all mentality I don't think it matters for much other then possible play store incompatibilities for the off standard DPI settings.
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Within android on certain devices the different ui modes were triggered by the DPI changes. 320= phone 213= phablet and 160 was full tablet mode. Since Google has changed to the one mode to rule them all mentality I don't think it matters for much other then possible play store incompatibilities for the off standard DPI settings.
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Well, the main thing is the icons. They were made with the standard DPIs in mind, and they just scale to match the others, which makes them look worse.
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Well, the main thing is the icons. They were made with the standard DPIs in mind, and they just scale to match the others, which makes them look worse.
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Yea that's true. I generally stick with 160 for everything. Even on my s3 I had it. It was a Lil small but manageable for me. I don't even see why some devices use 320 at all haha that should probably be an accessibility setting.
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Yea that's true. I generally stick with 160 for everything. Even on my s3 I had it. It was a Lil small but manageable for me. I don't even see why some devices use 320 at all haha that should probably be an accessibility setting.
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Well, newer devices have extremely dense displays, so they have to up the dpi just to keep everything the same size.
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But 180 is also non-standard. The only standard DPIs are 160 and 240.
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I use 180 as well, i just like the size of everything at 180, and my icons aren't blurry or anything..
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davisac said:
Paranoid Android @ 160dpi.
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Amen brother. Me too. PA is the canines clusters.
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damagedgoods said:
Amen brother. Me too. PA is the canines clusters.
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I'd totally still be on Paranoid Android, but the hybrid settings no longer let me change the DPI higher than 213.
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And 120 and 320. But yes, I find the DPI number odd. But I find no actual problem with it.
No. 10 cahrs
Paranoid Android 2.54 and i have no worry about that..in fact all my apps i have set to diffent dpi.
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I'd totally still be on Paranoid Android, but the hybrid settings no longer let me change the DPI higher than 213.
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I am still on 2.54 which i found the best and toyaly bug free and every app can be set from 160-360 dpi
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Mmmmm ..... I will try that 240 DPI value
Mine always runs at 160, I feel the default looks like a vision impaired mode. Galaxy Nexus is always set at 240.
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I'd totally still be on Paranoid Android, but the hybrid settings no longer let me change the DPI higher than 213.
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I wish paranoid stuck with the cyanogenmod base instead of vanilla aosp as well. The ROM was much better in 4.1.2 with cm. The 4.2 aosp version just feels clunky and less stable. CM fixed a lot of this Google broke in 4.2 and there settings organization is much better than paranoids at the moment. Paranoid is missing a lot of settings as well too.
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213 is actually tvdpi...lol.
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213 seems to be the magic number for nexus 7 flavour android, not tablet mode, but not phone mode either. 240 is phone DPI so the notification drawer fills the screen and there's no settings pull son on the right, it has then icon in the notification drawer or you can do the two finger pull down. Also on 240 you can't have multi-user as it thinks it is a phone and displays the appropriate lockscreen without the ability to change user.
I like 240 but the multi-user problem is a deal breaker.
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Don't get me wrong, I love stock. Just lately I want something a little different. Just to try. Maybe I would miss stock after that but is there anything out there that I could try?
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Paranoid android.
I'm the same, I love stock but I'm not sure if I should try something else, whats the difference in paranoid android?
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Avatar.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38397655
I started to get bored too, I'm waiting for the official miui v5 release.
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Avatar.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38397655
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I agree. I've used avatar before. If you want a different look this should fit your needs. Add this plus the newest miui launcher, which you can also theme (lock screen included) and you will have a completely different look. I liked it myself but find myself always going back to stock.
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I hopped onto paranoid android yesterday. The only thing bothering me so far is that the stock browser text size seems small??? What's going on? Any work around?
shadehh said:
I hopped onto paranoid android yesterday. The only thing bothering me so far is that the stock browser text size seems small??? What's going on? Any work around?
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change the dpi in hybrid settings.
You don't need to change rom's to completely change the way your phone looks. If you want to change rom's that's great and all, but I'd say that everything cool that you see on mycolorscreen.com can be achieved with the factory rom. You just have to use your imagination and think for yourself.
Lot of options!
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Don't get me wrong, I love stock. Just lately I want something a little different. Just to try. Maybe I would miss stock after that but is there anything out there that I could try?
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If you look at the development you can find some Xperia (sony), Touchwiz (samsung), Blur (motorola) and even LG alike UI's themes on roms, just look at them at development thread. If you want something closer to stock I would recommend Asylum rom, its a darker version of CM10.1 with some improvements and daily updates
Try them and find the one you like the most! Then come and tell us your experience!
Yeah I have PA. There's really no launcher that I like since Nova and Apex change the dock size a little (too spaced out). I'll take a look at avatar ROM.
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Hey everyone,
Was wondering if anyone had tested various DPI settings and have a list of working ones?
Gui on this phone is way to large.
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Drachnem said:
Hey everyone,
Was wondering if anyone had tested various DPI settings and have a list of working ones?
Gui on this phone is way to large.
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I've tried several: 280, 300, 320, 360, 400 & 420...all worked fine but you'd see issues in certain apps, and certain apps would jump into tablet mode (pretty sure that was on the lower ones, of course).
I stuck on 420 since it still shrinks things considerably down from the stock 480 but most apps don't have overlapping or other issues. The only app I've noticed an issue is the dialer, but not the phone on inbound or ongoing calls, just when you are dialing the number. You can still see the numbers and hit each with no problem, it's just shrunk up a little strangely. Other than that I'm loving 420 (no pun intended ). :good:
Awesome. What are you using to change dpi? On my note 2 with exposed you were able to choose dpi per application, anyone know if the module is working for that?
Can't remember the name of the mod.
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Found it.
In downloads, app settings. If you use this you can modify only apps you want so you don't have to worry about compatibility or force closing system gui.
I set Novo launcher lower and a few other apps.
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I changed the system ui to 420, along with Novo(remove shadow from desktop), and messaging and it looks perfect.
Fyi this doesn't break or distort the phone app.
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I've tried several: 280, 300, 320, 360, 400 & 420...all worked fine but you'd see issues in certain apps, and certain apps would jump into tablet mode (pretty sure that was on the lower ones, of course).
I stuck on 420 since it still shrinks things considerably down from the stock 480 but most apps don't have overlapping or other issues. The only app I've noticed an issue is the dialer, but not the phone on inbound or ongoing calls, just when you are dialing the number. You can still see the numbers and hit each with no problem, it's just shrunk up a little strangely. Other than that I'm loving 420 (no pun intended ). :good:
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If you use the method above with exposed and app settings mod your phone app will be perfect.
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Drachnem said:
If you use the method above with exposed and app settings mod your phone app will be perfect.
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Thanks for mentioning that module. I hadn't taken the time to look through all the options as I downloaded and set up a ton through Wanam's module and was pretty satisfied. Really glad you mentioned it so I can get the one wrinkle ironed out. Appreciate it bro!
If anyone plays around with SystemUI DPI and sees it kick into tablet mode with the bottom navigation bar please do tell which DPI setting!
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If anyone plays around with SystemUI DPI and sees it kick into tablet mode with the bottom navigation bar please do tell which DPI setting!
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I read in other threads that you were really interested in getting the bottom bar style tab mode going, and I know I mentioned tablet mode above in my response but that was only in apps, the System UI never changed...and I believe the person who responded to you in the other thread is correct - 4.3 android doesn't have that built in to the system UI as an option.
For example, before my Note 3 I had an Nexus 4 and was running Paranoid Android - the developers had to basically make tablet mode from scratch to keep the traditional bottom bar style going after 4.3. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but I thought you should know. Of course somebody could endeavor to build it like PA did or we could get PA at some point but without that I doubt you'll find your holy grail anytime soon.
Also guys you'll want the play store fix. Play store by default will his apps based on your dpi, This mood will fix that.
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lmike6453 said:
If anyone plays around with SystemUI DPI and sees it kick into tablet mode with the bottom navigation bar please do tell which DPI setting!
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With exposed I have everything I need I tried the tablet ui it was OK. Prefer this.
Personally I'm waiting for that our cyanogen.
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Thanks for mentioning that module. I hadn't taken the time to look through all the options as I downloaded and set up a ton through Wanam's module and was pretty satisfied. Really glad you mentioned it so I can get the one wrinkle ironed out. Appreciate it bro!
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There's a mod for it in exposed. Tabletui trigger. Try that out.
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Drachnem said:
Hey everyone,
Was wondering if anyone had tested various DPI settings and have a list of working ones?
Gui on this phone is way to large.
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Yeah, I use either 320 or 360 mostly when I want to change an app. 320 can be a little bit too small sometimes, but right around that zone I think is ideal. Though I really haven't changed a ton of apps, mostly System, Chrome, reddit, Facebook, XDA, Go SMS that I can think of off the top of my head.
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I changed the system ui to 420, along with Novo(remove shadow from desktop), and messaging and it looks perfect.
Fyi this doesn't break or distort the phone app.
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Agreed, though I went as low as 360 for System, just because I wanted notifications to be shorter in the pull down so I can see more. I usually have several persistent ones in there now, so I want to be able to see all of my actual notifications as well.
See attached for notification size @ 360 dpi.
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Well said, my friend.
Here is my mod to make your Nexus 5 DPI different than stock! I have only done it for 445 DPI currently, if you would like you can modify your own or request for me to do so.
I will upload a zip every DPI requested.
UPDATE:I have just added a 370 DPI zip.
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Here is my mod to make your Nexus 5 DPI different than stock! I have only done it for 445 DPI currently, if you would like you can modify your own or request for me to do so.
I will upload a zip every DPI requested.
UPDATE:I have just added a revert to stock zip.
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What is the difference between this zip file verse the textdroid DPI app in the play store?Does your zip only do 1 size setting?
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What is the difference between this zip file verse the textdroid DPI app in the play store?Does your zip only do 1 size setting?
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Each zip will only do one size, but it's more for automation purposes. I made it for myself since I use omni and like a different DPI than stock, I just include it in the flash after folder so it autoflashes the DPI change and I don't have to do anything else.
I decided to upload and make specific size based ones for users that would like something different to make their flashing desires less painful.
This is awesome of you to do but wouldn't it be easier to just edit the build.prop directly inside the zip before flashing?
Kudos for using a script though instead of using a generic build.prop.
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This is awesome of you to do but wouldn't it be easier to just edit the build.prop directly inside the zip before flashing?
Kudos for using a script though instead of using a generic build.prop.
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Uhhh, it's easier if you want to open the zip and edit it, this you just flash after your rom
BTW, didn't mean to sound sarcastic
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Each zip will only do one size, but it's more for automation purposes. I made it for myself since I use omni and like a different DPI than stock, I just include it in the flash after folder so it autoflashes the DPI change and I don't have to do anything else.
I decided to upload and make specific size based ones for users that would like something different to make their flashing desires less painful.
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Thanks for the clarification.
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Thanks for the clarification.
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No problem
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Be a lot easier to use exposed and a module which gives lots of choice and is instantly reversed.
People keep reinventing the wheel at the moment You can save a lot of effort checking it's not been made first. Most things have
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Thanks, 445 is the best DPI to run the Nexus 5 at IMO.
no 350 DPi is the optimal value. haha
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Thanks, 445 is the best DPI to run the Nexus 5 at IMO.
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No problem, I made this for myself and just wanted to share in case others wanted to use something like it
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no 350 DPi is the optimal value. haha
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This is according to you, other users will like different values more.
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Be a lot easier to use exposed and a module which gives lots of choice and is instantly reversed.
People keep reinventing the wheel at the moment You can save a lot of effort checking it's not been made first. Most things have
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xposed does not always run the smoothest on devices and if you are using ART it wouldn't work.
Just because one person figures out how to do something one way does not mean others will want to do it that way, all users have different purposes for doing the things they do and are more comfortable with doing things different ways.
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Be a lot easier to use exposed and a module which gives lots of choice and is instantly reversed.
People keep reinventing the wheel at the moment You can save a lot of effort checking it's not been made first. Most things have
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This is still useful for OP's scenario though. Put it into the flashafterupdate folder and it'll be automatically flashed when he flashes an omnirom OTA update. Just because one way of doing something exists doesn't mean it's the best way to do something.
Slightly different to how I do it with my Slim zip...
#!/sbin/sh
sed -i 's/density=370/density=440/g' /system/build.prop;
The zips are good because you just add it to your flash routine when you flash a new rom.
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howard bamber said:
Be a lot easier to use exposed and a module which gives lots of choice and is instantly reversed.
People keep reinventing the wheel at the moment You can save a lot of effort checking it's not been made first. Most things have
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In really surprised at how done xda members conduct themselves...
The OP made a contribution, I see no room for negativity. Your solution does not account for ART issues, and it also insists that it is better to install a total framework modification system to do what a simple zip can easily accomplish.
Occam's razor my friend.
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I am overly surprised with how little requests there are for other DPIs. If anyone has any requests for other flashable mods let me know and I will try to see what I can do
Also, can we please keep the fighting and negative atmosphere to a minimum?
Nice work, seems like the perfect thing to slot into Omni's flash after update folder. Any chance of getting one @370?
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Nice work, seems like the perfect thing to slot into Omni's flash after update folder. Any chance of getting one @370?
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Check OP, it's added
Jebus, that was fast! Thanks very much. I don't suppose you'd know a way of writing a similar script that change values of mixerpaths.XML? I've been looking into it but can't seem to figure out how to start.
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Jebus, that was fast! Thanks very much. I don't suppose you'd know a way of writing a similar script that change values of mixerpaths.XML? I've been looking into it but can't seem to figure out how to start.
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