G4 stock DPI is 640, I've managed to put this down to 540 without any issues, but it's still way too high for me. I would really love 440 but loads of stuff, including stock camera and more importantly settings, force closes. I really didn't want to have to unlock the bootloader but it looks like I might have to as soon as a new ROM is available.
How did you change the DPI without unlocking the bootloader and gaining root?
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How did you change the DPI without unlocking the bootloader and gaining root?
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http://android.wonderhowto.com/how-...creen-resolution-without-root-access-0160439/
I tried changing to 560, but the stock launcher doesn't like DPI being changed as it causes graphical glitches.
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http://android.wonderhowto.com/how-...creen-resolution-without-root-access-0160439/
I tried changing to 560, but the stock launcher doesn't like DPI being changed as it causes graphical glitches.
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Yeah you have to use like Nova or Apex if you change the stock DPI
Yep, confirmed it works with Nova. But found another issue. When it was set to 560, with the camera app in manual mode, you are unable to change the focus to full "zoomed out" or the camera app crashes.
I'm going to leave DPI for now...don;t want the camera to be affected.
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Yep, confirmed it works with Nova. But found another issue. When it was set to 560, with the camera app in manual mode, you are unable to change the focus to full "zoomed out" or the camera app crashes.
I'm going to leave DPI for now...don;t want the camera to be affected.
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I don't have that problem on 540, manual focus works fine. Why all OEMs have to be so limiting on DPI really is beyond me. It can't be that hard to make apps work on lower DPIs.
nashant said:
I don't have that problem on 540, manual focus works fine. Why all OEMs have to be so limiting on DPI really is beyond me. It can't be that hard to make apps work on lower DPIs.
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Its not its lazy coding , but samsung the worst when it comes to lowering the DPI
the problem with nova launcher is that the stock messaging app wont open with it. very weird
shawnten said:
the problem with nova launcher is that the stock messaging app wont open with it. very weird
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Mine works fine did you do a restore with Nova?
LancerV said:
Its not its lazy coding , but samsung the worst when it comes to lowering the DPI
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That's what I thought. Why work in absolutes?? Just using %ages would solve this problem. It's hardly rocket surgery!
nashant said:
G4 stock DPI is 640, I've managed to put this down to 540 without any issues, but it's still way too high for me. I would really love 440 but loads of stuff, including stock camera and more importantly settings, force closes. I really didn't want to have to unlock the bootloader but it looks like I might have to as soon as a new ROM is available.
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I thought it was too low! lol I'd like to see the status bar text a little bigger, like for the time, signal, LTE, etc. But without a kdz to restore from, I'm too afraid to try anything on this G4 in case anything goes wrong!
MicroMod777 said:
I thought it was too low! lol I'd like to see the status bar text a little bigger, like for the time, signal, LTE, etc. But without a kdz to restore from, I'm too afraid to try anything on this G4 in case anything goes wrong!
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Well all I can say is bring on root so we can get Xposed going. And Viper4Android. That's the one I'm really missing more than anything. OEMs need to talk to that guy about paying him to include it in their roms.
nashant said:
G4 stock DPI is 640, I've managed to put this down to 540 without any issues, but it's still way too high for me. I would really love 440 but loads of stuff, including stock camera and more importantly settings, force closes. I really didn't want to have to unlock the bootloader but it looks like I might have to as soon as a new ROM is available.
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When you changed the DPI did your app drawer button resize? I've changed my DPI down a little and no matter what value I use the drawer button doesn't resize and just looks like a big blurry blob.
I saw people mention in another thread that there were graphical issues with the stock launcher at non-stock dpi. That might be what you're seeing.
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jesamyn said:
I saw people mention in another thread that there were graphical issues with the stock launcher at non-stock dpi. That might be what you're seeing.
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I suspect that's what it is as well but from what I can tell everything else is working well without any glitches, wishful thinking lol
the_scotsman said:
Yep, confirmed it works with Nova. But found another issue. When it was set to 560, with the camera app in manual mode, you are unable to change the focus to full "zoomed out" or the camera app crashes.
I'm going to leave DPI for now...don;t want the camera to be affected.
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Can anyone else try this for me please? Modify your DPI and reboot. Then open the camera app, go to manual mode and select manual focus [MF] then scroll the wheel all the way up (toward the mountain icon). Let me know if the camera app force closes when you do this. it does for me. it's the only thing stopping me running a custom DPI. Thanks.
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Can anyone else try this for me please? Modify your DPI and reboot. Then open the camera app, go to manual mode and select manual focus [MF] then scroll the wheel all the way up (toward the mountain icon). Let me know if the camera app force closes when you do this. it does for me. it's the only thing stopping me running a custom DPI. Thanks.
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I just tried it at 540 dpi, and didn't get a FC. I feel like I should add an obligatory YMMV.
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jesamyn said:
I just tried it at 540 dpi, and didn't get a FC. I feel like I should add an obligatory YMMV.
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Strange - I can replicate it everytime. Oh well I'll put up with it for now.
Another issue I have is that while Nova works great with custom DPI, the lockscreen shortcut icons are all blank white icons. I assume because this is still using the stock lockscreen which doesn't like the 560 DPI. Are you seeing this?
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Strange - I can replicate it everytime. Oh well I'll put up with it for now.
Another issue I have is that while Nova works great with custom DPI, the lockscreen shortcut icons are all blank white icons. I assume because this is still using the stock lockscreen which doesn't like the 560 DPI. Are you seeing this?
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I can also confirm this, with 560 DPI, the camera FC when i zoom all the way out but 540 DPI works fine.
I use nova, the stock launcher has a number of glitches at anything but standard DPI. And the lockscreen is LG's stuff so yeah white icons. I have a quick circle case and when I close it the analog clocks are to small and off center. The digital clocks with weather work fine (?!), funny thing is the white "ring effect" when closing the cover is way of center, even though I use the digital clock that fits. Weirdness....
When I had samsung devices in the past developers sooner or later released modified stock apps that worked with most DPIs. It's probably going to happen here to ...
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Strange - I can replicate it everytime. Oh well I'll put up with it for now.
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No such issue at 540dpi. Manual slider can be moved all the way up/down without FC'ing.
Another issue I have is that while Nova works great with custom DPI, the lockscreen shortcut icons are all blank white icons. I assume because this is still using the stock lockscreen which doesn't like the 560 DPI. Are you seeing this?
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This is my lockscreen at the mentioned 540dpi. All works fine :good:
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tmobile g2...
sometimes when i open the keyboard and it changes to landscape, it shows everything on the screen except for the app icons...then a couple seconds later, the app icons appear
this delay seems to happen more often when the phone is rooted...
also when i am waiting for the app icons to appear, i go to the "app menu" square in the bottom middle, and it shows all the app icons there, but its frozen...then unfreezes as soon as the icons on the main desktop appear.
anyone else having this issue?
I did have about a 1 - 1.5 second delay up until yesterday,.... Now I'm back on the OC,... nearly instant now.
ya and thats what i thought was weird...if i rooted and overclocked..it would do everything faster...but this orientation change seemed to lag even more...
You misunderstand me,... I was running at 806mhz yesterday, now I have up'd it to 1.2 it is instant.
just installed launcherPro...works 10x better...could it be that the default launcher doesnt have a homescreen cache?
also is there a way to edit the default cache? registry edit or something...
Ooo, I wouldn't know about any of that I'm sorry.
Yea I was about to say you should have launcherpro installed. I don't any delay at all.
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also is there a way to edit the default cache? registry edit or something...
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Registry? GOD NO!!! We don't need or want any crippling DEATH like that.
What launcher are you using? What you are describing is characteristic of the way YOUR SPECIFIC LAUNCHER is written, nothing to do with root. If you installed CM for example, it comes with ADW launcher, which I don't find particularly wonderful for this hardware.... it was good on DREAM, but the stock 3D launcher blows it away.
I have exactly the same issue and I posted to another thread where OP had exact same issue.
Not sure what it is.
Noticed it about a week after I first started using it. Rooted unlocked etc. right away using gfree method.
When I open the keyboard or close the keyboard (change orientation while in an app) and then click the home button ("close the app"), it goes to BLANK home screen for a few seconds. Annoying.
Stock froyo and stock launcher.
hi, i hate my screen at 480 and i'm looking for stock app with touch wiz, like camera, phone, calc, gallerie and the launcher itself. can anybody help me Thanks
You can use this Xposed mod to change DPI on a per-app basis.
It requires a rooted phone.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2291826
Or if you like AOSP then there are options there also.
CZ Eddie said:
You can use this Xposed mod to change DPI on a per-app basis.
It requires a rooted phone.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2291826
Or if you like AOSP then there are options there also.
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i love this app, but i think it will screw up ur dial pad to change the dpi on ur phone.
Bradl79 said:
i love this app, but i think it will screw up ur dial pad to change the dpi on ur phone.
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The app is used to change DPI of individual apps. Not the entire phone.
My dial pad looks fine? I have not used the app to change the dial pad though. I only used it to change one app on my phone.
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The app is used to change DPI of individual apps. Not the entire phone.
My dial pad looks fine? I have not used the app to change the dial pad though. I only used it to change one app on my phone.
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yeah but if u change the dpi on the phone app, it will change ur dial pad.
Bradl79 said:
yeah but if u change the dpi on the phone app, it will change ur dial pad.
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Then stop doing that! :laugh:
lol i am not doing that, i was just letting the OP know if he changes the DPi on his phone app it will change the dial pad.
i already know that, i need modified dpi app, cause i want my phone at 320dpi with every app...i think i gonna have to mod it by myself.
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i already know that, i need modified dpi app, cause i want my phone at 320dpi with every app...i think i gonna have to mod it by myself.
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or u can edit ur build.prop to 320 dpi, make sure u do a nandbackup 1st.
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on Per App DPi change the Android System to 320 but 320 is pretty small on the S4, i'd go with 380
What's the dire urgency to have 320dpi?
I wonder if there is a way to resize the navbar. I am not talking about hiding it, only resize the original one. I already tried auto hide soft keys app and couple of others but the problem is they designed to be hidden since they overlap the page content.
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I wonder if there is a way to resize the navbar. I am not talking about hiding it, only resize the original one. I already tried auto hide soft keys app and couple of others but the problem is they designed to be hidden since they overlap the page content.
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IS this what your looking for??
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2457634
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IS this what your looking for??
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2457634
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That exactly what i am looking for thank you.
Only problem with resizing the navbar is,that you will need to do that every time a new rom is available.The navbars are only working with the given rom they are supposed to launch.I have found that a nice way to resize it without doing anything is to change the DPI with a program.Its will make the navbar small and you can make the icons bigger to have a similar outcome as before.
and...
...it does not work with our international version either.
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Only problem with resizing the navbar is,that you will need to do that every time a new rom is available.The navbars are only working with the given rom they are supposed to launch.I have found that a nice way to resize it without doing anything is to change the DPI with a program.Its will make the navbar small and you can make the icons bigger to have a similar outcome as before.
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Would you share?
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Would you share?
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The bigger icons you can make from the phone itself from what i remember,the DPI program is texDroider,only problem i saw its that the camera doesnt adjust on the new DPI while everything else i tried so far is normal.But it can be solved too with xposed framework and a mod (app settings 1.5) that can put the camera or everything else you choose in 480 DPI mode.
please some one know the way , please make it work with D802 model
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The bigger icons you can make from the phone itself from what i remember,the DPI program is texDroider,only problem i saw its that the camera doesnt adjust on the new DPI while everything else i tried so far is normal.But it can be solved too with xposed framework and a mod (app settings 1.5) that can put the camera or everything else you choose in 480 DPI mode.
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would you mind sharing a screenshot ? and maybe some more details ?
you change the dpi of the navbar only ?
What's wrong the qa section?
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would you mind sharing a screenshot ? and maybe some more details ?
you change the dpi of the navbar only ?
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I cant provide any photo,cause that was what i did before,now im with another setup.I didnt change the DPI of the navbar,(i dont know where/what to look for to do so,might be possible tho if someone knows what to look for..) i changed the DPI of the whole phone,so the navbar became small.And the icons became bigger from the Ui itself,it does have an option to do so.
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I cant provide any photo,cause that was what i did before,now im with another setup.I didnt change the DPI of the navbar,(i dont know where/what to look for to do so,might be possible tho if someone knows what to look for..) i changed the DPI of the whole phone,so the navbar became small.And the icons became bigger from the Ui itself,it does have an option to do so.
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I dont think that you can just change the DPI of the frameworkres.apk,from the program,and it will work just like that..I saw they got it modded in order for it to work.Not sure tho since im not familiar with these things.
Long time lurker here, love XDA and just actually got up and running with my new Note 4. The same thought went through my head with the stock Note 3... "Why the hell do they make a phone so large and just blow the icons up, it does me no good, I'm not a blind man..." So, naturally, one of my first steps after getting root was changing the DPI.
Like with the Note 3, I quickly realized that the Samsung Applications don't play nice with the custom DPI.
I realize this may be a completely stupid question, but my Google-fu has failed me so far. I've tried using Xposed to change the DPI (just on the Camera so far) back to defaults, but nothing seems to change the camera. Is there an alternate method to tell these applications to use the default DPI, are there modded version of these apps released yet, or is there a guide I could use to assist with modding these apps to make them friendly to DPI changes?
did you enable (tick) the (app settings) at module page of xposed? I am using note 4 too, and set default dpi = 480, and notice camera app is not support custom dpi, so i use app setting to assign it back, wish this can help.
Oh samsung, you still haven't made the camera app multi dpi, that's poor
xoo88 said:
did you enable (tick) the (app settings) at module page of xposed? I am using note 4 too, and set default dpi = 480, and notice camera app is not support custom dpi, so i use app setting to assign it back, wish this can help.
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Yeh I set build prop to 450 and used app settings to change camera to 640 dpi but how to change the lock screen dpi?
Huntyz said:
Yeh I set build prop to 450 and used app settings to change camera to 640 dpi but how to change the lock screen dpi?
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did you reboot for take xposed take effect? and for the lock screen did you use app ? or default one?
if default one, use build prop set , lock screen will be apply too.
Disregard
Huntyz said:
Yeh I set build prop to 450 and used app settings to change camera to 640 dpi but how to change the lock screen dpi?
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App settings in xposed then change keyguard to 640 dpi click apply res to widgets.
Works, thanks
Hey thanks for this info, but I don't seem to be able to change dpi of dialer/phone with app settings (camera and lockscreen worked). Am I changing the wrong app? (changed com.sec.phone and com.android.phone back to default 640)
Anyone know how to change recent apps dpi back to normal?
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Hey thanks for this info, but I don't seem to be able to change dpi of dialer/phone with app settings (camera and lockscreen worked). Am I changing the wrong app? (changed com.sec.phone and com.android.phone back to default 640)
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Nevermind, I forgot it was to change contacts apk. Also, with the new DPI, minimizing apps by drawing in from the corner no longer works. It will show as if it is shrinking the app to pop-up window then it will vanish. However, the window is still active as I tried multiple apps and then it prevented me because it said there is already 5 popups active (which is the maximum). Thanks for any help in advance!
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Nevermind, I forgot it was to change contacts apk. Also, with the new DPI, minimizing apps by drawing in from the corner no longer works. It will show as if it is shrinking the app to pop-up window then it will vanish. However, the window is still active as I tried multiple apps and then it prevented me because it said there is already 5 popups active (which is the maximum). Thanks for any help in advance!
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I am not a developer, but I like all the work developers done for Android phones. I also had the same problem. Camera problem has been solved using "App Setting" application thru Xposed framework. However, Dialer and Keyboard didn't work.
Then I finally download Google Keyboard , which is the best one to use instead of Samsung Stock Keyboard. So, I am looking for another alternative for Dialer. lets see, I will post here if find anything. Thanks!
After I updated to Oreo I noticed that most of my apps were missing from the app scaling list, and the scaling button on the nav bar is not there when I open the app.
Whereas on Nougat I could force any app to go fullscreen from this menu, I seem to be stuck with black bars now on some apps, e.g. fruit ninja.
Does anyone have any solutions? Thanks.
Do u have games option like on v30? If yes try from there
gabytzubc said:
Do u have games option like on v30? If yes try from there
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Not sure, screenshot?
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Not sure, screenshot?
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There's this in settings, but tapping one of the games just takes you to the standard "app info" screen...
MDW 100 said:
There's this in settings, but tapping one of the games just takes you to the standard "app info" screen...
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Forgot to attach...
Mine is like this
I think the force long display mode option in the hidden menu doesn't work on oreo anymore either...
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Mine is like this
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Can't find that in settings on my G6.
When I'll receive Oreo on my h870ds g6 I will check and post after..this is from my v30
Hello. Today I updated LG G6 via LG Bridge to Android 8.0. Well, 1 app (Angry Birds Epic) has wrong aspect ratio. The edges are cut off. I check option "app scalling", but there is option for that game. I use Home and app drawer launcher. What else can I do ?
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Hello. Today I updated LG G6 via LG Bridge to Android 8.0. Well, 1 app (Angry Birds Epic) has wrong aspect ratio. The edges are cut off. I check option "app scalling", but there is option for that game. I use Home and app drawer launcher. What else can I do ?
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My problem exactly... Probably no solution until LG rolls out 8.1 or 9.0.
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My problem exactly... Probably no solution until LG rolls out 8.1 or 9.0.
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Haha. Faster I will change my phone than Android 8.1 or 9.0 will arrive
I can't put Nova Launcher on full screeen
aledex said:
I can't put Nova Launcher on full screeen
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That's a problem, let me test this
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That's a problem, let me test this
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Just set nova launcher up as new (had been using ruthless launcher), no problems with scaling.
MDW 100 said:
Just set nova launcher up as new (had been using ruthless launcher), no problems with scaling.
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Yes, I solved too changing the background of the drawer. That was the problem. Thank you!
aledex said:
Yes, I solved too changing the background of the drawer. That was the problem. Thank you!
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? Wonder how the drawer background could cause the app not to scale properly
I am using evie launcher, I have tried to force all app scaling to 18:9 and still cant get the launcher to have the home group buttons transparent. It used to work but not with oreo. Any help?
I think we're helpless unless LG releases an update or some dev makes a workaround.
Just in case anyone else likes using evie launcher but has been annoyed by it not scaling properly. (Or anyone that just likes the search feature of evie) I found an app called Fast Finder that I bound to a swipe gesture in Nova Launcher. It's a pretty good app, could use more customization but I'm hopeful that the dev will improve it.
Basically, I gave up on trying to get it scaled properly.