Is their anyway to make the font bigger on this? It seems awkwardly small to me. My nexus s has the sane screen size and the font and icons are much larger.
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jthornton71707 said:
Is their anyway to make the font bigger on this? It seems awkwardly small to me. My nexus s has the sane screen size and the font and icons are much larger.
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that's because the nexus s has a lower resolution.
So its not possible? There is no hack or market app or anything? ??
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Unfortunately, this is an example of Android fragmentation.
When iPhone 4 jumped from HVGA to Retina, it was easy- you just make icons twice as big.
On Android, you have HVGA, WVGA, QVGA, qHD....etc. Icons won't re-size to look bigger on a qHD screen.
You can use Desktop Visualizer to make the buttons look bigger. Basically change then into small widgets.
can try change density in system\build.prop
If you are rooted you can try changing the system font to a custom font that is easier to read. The easiest way to do this is to look for an app on the market called font installer.
jthornton71707 said:
Is their anyway to make the font bigger on this? It seems awkwardly small to me. My nexus s has the sane screen size and the font and icons are much larger.
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I bought ADW Launcer EX - it lets me make the icons and fonts as big as I want. Gives it more of a Captivate Touchwiz look, but fills the spaces better - and a lot more options then the stock launcher.
The free version doesn't have this - but the paid version is worth the $3
moneyrain said:
can try change density in system\build.prop
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or lcddensity on the market
What does DPI mean and what does it do? I've seen it thrown around quite a bit and would like to now what it is all about. Also, what's a good DPI number for a tablet UI instead of the phone UI? Someone said 160 but that makes the display all weird...
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Amalehumanbeing said:
What does DPI mean and what does it do? I've seen it thrown around quite a bit and would like to now what it is all about. Also, what's a good DPI number for a tablet UI instead of the phone UI? Someone said 160 but that makes the display all weird...
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DPI stands for dots per inch. Changing the DPI in android doesn't change anything physically with the screen nor does it output at any different resolution. By telling android that your screen has a lower DPI, you are actually just making it think your screen size is bigger and 'tablet sized'. Therefore it will display the tablet interface. The DPI to get tablet interface will differ on each device but 160 on the Nexus 7 should do it.
Hope that helps!
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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IAmNice said:
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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cjsspape said:
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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cjsspape said:
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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But 180 is also non-standard. The only standard DPIs are 160 and 240.
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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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frobthebuilder said:
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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I'd really like to change all of the colours on my AOKP ROM. I can change a few things like the nav bar and the lock screen text, but the remaining 'holo' coloured items really stick out. It would be great if there was some way to change everything to just the one colour.
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Hallo guys i need a tool to change the DPI on my S7ede G935F official nugat firmware fully rooted
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You can do that in Developer options - Minimum width.
Hid3rs said:
You can do that in Developer options - Minimum width.
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Thank you, my tiny setting in display suddenly not working. Kept using adb shell wm density since then. I got big font changing from performance on/off.
What is the best dpi you advise me with i like the screen icon to b small and font too
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Zeekone said:
What is the best dpi you advise me with i like the screen icon to b small and font too
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I find the preset one to be good enough for me (i like everything small too)
Go to settings > display > screen zoom and font
pull down the sliders on both screen zoom and font size to the bottom and press apply