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Bad/Poor Screen Images

I am having a problem with my screen, this has been a ongoing thing for a while now. I am running cm6 extremely blue from the 19th of Oct, no kernel mod. When I do a clean install my screen displays all images just fine. After a few days some images start looking really bad, instead of the colors blending they become bands of different colors. Its really hard to explain so I attached a screenie of the XDA app, the brown looks horrible. I know thats not the way it is as I have seen the colors blend together, no thick color lines. I ant figure it out for the life of me, is this happening on everyones phones? I dont recall it runnng Fresh rom, and like I said it takes a couple days for it to start happening on cm6. I found a few things in awd launcher that I can disable to help the situation, like wallpaper hack, scrolling widget support, turning these off and or on will help it look better on desktop, but on apps I found nothing to help improve. Could something need editing in the XML files? Or are we all seeing these lines and just dealing with them? Any feedback is appreciated
Oh, and once it starts this even a nandroid back to when it was fine doesnt help. Only a clean install does.
and happens with both apps2sd and internal storage.
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Nobody?
This is not occurring on my pictures, gallery. My home screen is fine, as well as calendar widget. Thoroughly in handcent the gray bar up top has the color lines, slacker also has it toward the bottom where it get brighter. Could it be something in framework, maybe I can edit some sort if default setting to use 16 bit, because it looks like 8 bit graphics
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cordell12 said:
Nobody?
This is not occurring on my pictures, gallery. My home screen is fine, as well as calendar widget. Thoroughly in handcent the gray bar up top has the color lines, slacker also has it toward the bottom where it get brighter. Could it be something in framework, maybe I can edit some sort if default setting to use 16 bit, because it looks like 8 bit graphics
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I sound like your talking about dithering, like instead of something that should be a gradient it is instead broken up and where you would normally see a smooth transition from a color to color its broken with lines.
Heres some suggestions
cm settings > performance settings : enable surface dithering (which improves image quality but slows the phone some what).
reboot you phone at least once a day.
your screen density might be to high (or low) in your build.prop file.

Updated to extremely blue Oct 25 and problem is gone. Chances are in 2 or 3 days it will be back though
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I had set build prop to 150 on all three, the 3rd being default. This has been a issue for some time now. I will leave build prop alone and see what happens. You are exactly right about what I am trying to explain the issue is. Can I set to 150, and what else can or can not be changed? Changing the default density to 150 was something I had never done before, screen would do this at the default 160 as well.
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cordell12 said:
I had set build prop to 150 on all three, the 3rd being default. This has been a issue for some time now. I will leave build prop alone and see what happens. You are exactly right about what I am trying to explain the issue is. Can I set to 150, and what else can or can not be changed? Changing the default density to 150 was something I had never done before, screen would do this at the default 160 as well.
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Are you saying your phone is running for a couple of days and then it does it, cause I daily reboot is highly recommended. The phone just doesn't have the internal memory to render the graphics on images with alot of colors.
I would try a 140 on the density.

ASimmons said:
Are you saying your phone is running for a couple of days and then it does it, cause I daily reboot is highly recommended. The phone just doesn't have the internal memory to render the graphics on images with alot of colors.
I would try a 140 on the density.
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Well yes and no, it will happen after a few days but I do reboot daily, sometimes a few reboots per day. When I edit build prop I am using Root Explorer, it saves the old file. Should I delete this file, maybe it us confusing the system? Also can I edit the default setting to 140? Thank you for your help and concern
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Build prop it is! I tried 140 and still messed up so I tried changing the default to 140 also. That did not help I took all three settings back to 160 and my screen went back to clean and clear. Why can others change the dpi, am I needing to changes something else along with the 2 numbers?
Thank You!
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Change screen density (icon/text sizes)

For anyone who doesn't know, this is a neat and simple trick to make the items on your screen bigger or smaller:
EASY WAY (it will keep the setting until you do a hard reset-- holding the power down for 10 or so seconds until it powers off):
1. Download LCDDensity for Root (free) from Market
2. Change density based on your preferences (higher # = bigger items, lower resolution; lower # = smaller items, higher res)
MORE ADVANCED WAY (if you want the change to survive a hard reboot):
1. In root explorer, navigate to system/ and backup your build.prop file.
2. Set system to r/w
3. Hold down on the original file, and select open in text editor
4. Find the two entries where it says:
ro.sf.lcd_density.xdpi=169.33333
ro.sf.lcd_density.ydpi=169.33333
If you wanted your density to be 250, you'd change them to the following single line:
ro.sf.lcd_density=250
5. Save, reboot, and enjoy your NC's new look.
Here are a couple of my homescreens set at 250:
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Now, jacking up your LCD density much above 200 will make your status bar look wonky and cut-off. One solution for this is to set it to 250, like above (by changing build. prop - I think the app I mentioned only allow multiples of 20), which will make it look clean (as long as wifi is on). The only problem there is that you'll lose your status bar clock and Notifications in portrait mode ...
... the solution for THIS is to get two apps: hellostatusbar, and quick launch. Set quick launch to open hellostatusbar on a home-button double press, and it will display your Notifications.
FYI the Galaxy Tab's default is 240

Can this be done w/LCD Density Changer (from market)?

docfreed said:
Can this be done w/LCD Density Changer (from market)?
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Yeah, I didn't mention it because it costs a buck. It is an easy, automated way to do it though.

wvcachi said:
Yeah, I didn't mention it because it costs a buck. It is an easy, automated way to do it though.
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There is also a free one.

mob87 said:
There is also a free one.
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The free one, LCDDensity for Root, doesn't keep the change after doing a full (battery pull) reboot. To me, this is less than ideal, but if you don't mind changing it again, knock yourself out.

A battery pull reboot on a NOOKcolor? Don't you need a screwdriver for that?

RoboRay said:
A battery pull rebooth on a NOOKcolor? Don't you need a screwdriver for that?
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I believe he is using the phone example for reference. In the case of the NC, the free option should be a good alternative for those not wanting to modify scripts.

Anyway, thanks for providing the entries to change manually. It's a good tip.

RoboRay said:
A battery pull reboot on a NOOKcolor? Don't you need a screwdriver for that?
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Yeah, good point - not sure if a power-button-long-hold hard reset would be the equivalent on a Nook or not. If it is only a battery pull that would do it, then you would indeed need a screwdriver and a little bit of masochism for that to be a problem.
EDIT: the long power button hold reset DOES make the free app lose the setting

If anyone's interested in getting the density more like the Galaxy Tab's without having an ugly, cut-off looking status bar in portrait mode (with a couple sacrifices), here's a little work-around I came up with (if you're using softkeys mapped to double-tap of home button, this isn't for you):
1. Set density to 250 using the build.prop editing method. Reboot.
2. Get a market app called HelloStatusBar.
3. Get a market app called QuickLaunch. Open it and set home button double-tap to open HelloStatusBar.
You'll lose your status bar clock, and it'll look ugly with wifi off, but with wifi on, it'll be nice and clean like the pic below:
Your Notifications will be gone, but now you can double-tap home to bring them up:

Very useful and thanks for sharing!

I bought the paid version and it does not survive a reboot. Unless I am doing it wrong. Which is highly likely.
Now for the hijack....to the OP Where did you score the sexy rosie mod...ME WANTS!!!
JDP
HTC INC & B&N CN never out of arms reach...

jdposhkus said:
I bought the paid version and it does not survive a reboot. Unless I am doing it wrong. Which is highly likely.
Now for the hijack....to the OP Where did you score the sexy rosie mod...ME WANTS!!!
JDP
HTC INC & B&N CN never out of arms reach...
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I'm not familiar with the paid version, so I can't really comment on that.
That's ADW EX launcher, with the browser, email, and app drawer icons from the Galaxy Tab. Not sure if Samsung's launcher icons are open source, so I won't post them (PM'd). . .

So wait the galaxy tab comes stock with the screen virtualized to be a different resolution than it actually is?

adwlauncher ex has adjustable icon sizes. You can adjust so icons are a nice size and not interfere with the dock. As if you needed another reason for ex!
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I am using LCD Density Changer at 190. Works great.

I manually changed mine to 141, an opposite reaction to many. By doing this I can get 4-5 items in the notification area on the right and things are not too small on the screen.

Where is the root explorer program located?

TC93 said:
Where is the root explorer program located?
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In the Market.

FYI, the free app works fine with CM7, with none of the problems described by OP, so you can use whatever looks right to you.
I am liking 200, because it makes the back arrow easier to press !

[Q] Androidian Theme with normal gingerbread green signal, wireless and data

Hi guys, this is my first tread here...
I would like to know if anyone knows were to find the original Androidian Theme with normal gingerbread green signal, wireless and data found on the first times that cm7 started to use the T-Mobile theme engine.
And sorry for my english...

Like these?
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whats the above theme?ROM? whatever it is?

mafu6 said:
whats the above theme?ROM? whatever it is?
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That's SPB shell 3d launcher
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i downloaded the spb 3d shell....installed it...but everytime i choose it, it defaults back to stock launcher....im using oxegen 2.2.2.... what am i.doing wrong?
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i downloaded the spb 3d shell....installed it...but everytime i choose it, it defaults back to stock launcher....im using oxegen 2.2.2.... what am i.doing wrong?
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You don't need the SPB launcher to get that theme. The 3D stuff in the middle is just that certain launcher. What you want is the notification bar theme right? I don't have it myself, as I don't use those themes, but I would suggest using the UOT kitchen and you can cook it yourself. It's pretty easy to figure out and get your own themes up and running.
http://uot.dakra.lt/

I took some time and threw together what I THINK you're looking for... it was actually quite a bit more work than I thought it would be, but I just tested this out on my Nexus S (i9020a) on the latest CM7.1 Nightly (b. 180) and it worked fine.
I'd recommend backing up your Androidian.apk just in case something goes wrong, or even a full nand backup. You'll need to push this apk to /system/app and make sure permissions are set properly.
Here's what I did to set it:
1 - Use Root Explorer (or another file manager with root access) and go to /system/app
2 - Make sure the directory is mounted as RW
3 - Rename Androidian.apk to Androidian.apk.bak
4 - Browse to where you saved the modified APK on your SDCard and Copy/Move the modified apk to /system/app
5 - Set permissions (rw-r--r--)
6 - Reboot phone.
7 - Once phone is back up, go to Theme Manager and select Androidian.apk and apply.
8 - Hope it works for you like it did for me

I really like this a LOT. I've been thinking about requesting for it too. Can I add to the request please?
@tehgeekguy - Can you modify it further to remove the horizontal dividers in lists? Especially in sms and the menu lists. Pretty much like Minimalbread and Lucid. Please?

dgrouch said:
I really like this a LOT. I've been thinking about requesting for it too. Can I add to the request please?
@tehgeekguy - Can you modify it further to remove the horizontal dividers in lists? Especially in sms and the menu lists. Pretty much like Minimalbread and Lucid. Please?
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You mind taking a screenshot of what you mean? To be honest, I don't use themes at all, but I could tweak it how you'd like if you can show me what it is you're wanting changed.

Hello, Im hoping to remove all those white lines. Especially in messaging. That horizontal divider in message list or menu items. Please see attached image.

dgrouch said:
Hello, Im hoping to remove all those white lines. Especially in messaging. That horizontal divider in message list or menu items. Please see attached image.
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I THINK I got what you're wanting. I attached two screenshots with what I've managed so far. This will basically remove those bars from anywhere they'd normally show up (Settings menus, Messaging app, pop up menus, etc...). The screenshots show the Settings menu and the Power menu (I clear my messages daily so nothing in Messages to show but a black window).
Unfortunately, I haven't gotten it to work in a theme yet, but I can get it working with a morph, or you can yank the files and merge them manually if you know how, it's not too difficult. I'll keep poking around the theme files and see if I can get this put into the one I uploaded earlier. The morph is NoDividers.zip (attached).

WOW! This $hi+$ AMAZING! I can't THANK YOU enough! Best thing about this morph is that I can use ANY theme without those pesky dividers! Really NEAT man!
I really recommend this to anyone who love David's MinimalBread and Sonny Sekhon's Lucid.

Android Market Update comes with Tablet Tweaks

[Update: Screenshots below]
I just installed the latest update for Android Market (was v3.0.27 now v3.1.3).
First things I checked out were the Announced +1 buttons and PIN lock for Purchases features but I've noticed something else interesting.
First thing I noticed was that everything is slightly bigger (My PixelDensity is the same as before the update). Next thing I noticed is when I went to the Apps section, is that the Categories now Pull out into a Side-Pane instead of their own screen. But the most interesting thing I noticed is that instead of getting the "Staff Picks" screen, I get "Staff Picks for Tablets". To me it seems the App Market now detects your screen size and adjusts some things accordingly.
This can be a Good thing and a Bad thing. Good because tablet designed Apps(including the Market UI tweaks) do look better on the Nook's screen but also Bad because it could alow Google to adjust things depending on Device even more, ie: certain phone apps might only show up on "Phone sized" screens.
What do you guys think of the new Market Update(v3.1.3)?
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Does it fix the missing My Apps problem?

FletchF said:
Does it fix the missing My Apps problem?
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Nope...
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FletchF said:
Does it fix the missing My Apps problem?
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Here's the Fix.
If you don't see "Movies" category or the "Videos" app in the New Market here's a Fix.
NOTE: DO NOT USE IF USING OLD MARKET!!
If you have issues return it back to 161!
Root Explorer Method
1. Clear Market data in Application Info
2. Navigate to System folder in Root Explorer and "Mount R/W"
3. Long-press build.prop and "Open in Text Editor"
4. Find "qemu.sf.lcd_density=161" or "ro.sf.lcd_density=161" and change it to 160
5. Reboot
6. Run Market
File Expert Method
1. Clear Market data in Application Info
2. Navigate to /System folder in File Expert
3. Menu-->More-->Mount-->Mount as ReadWrite
4. Copy build.prop to sdcard
5. Press build.prop, Open as Text, Select a Text Editor
6. Find "qemu.sf.lcd_density=161" or "ro.sf.lcd_density=161" and change it to 160, now Save
7. Copy build.prop back to /System, Overwrite when asked
8. Reboot
9. Run Market
If it doesn't work try Clearing the Market data again.
This should allow you to see most missing Apps and Access the Movies category.
If you lose Movies in the Future just Clear the Market data and it'll work again.
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Does this "fix" also deal with the issue that some of your installed apps don't show up in the Market's Update queue when they have updates available?

DiDGR8 said:
Does this "fix" also deal with the issue that some of your installed apps don't show up in the Market's Update queue when they have updates available?
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Yes
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japzone said:
Here's the Fix.
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...to a different problem. The issue with My Apps is the reason CM7 defaults to 161 in the first place, and only applies to those who have already applied the 160 dpi fix. In a CM7 NC set to 160 dpi, My Apps will eventually display only a white space, requiring us go to the Market's App Info and hit Clear Data again.
AFAIK, we're more likely to see a fix for the limited market than for the My Apps issue.
One thing many people seem to miss: any app's individual App Manager page is accessible by longpressing the app shortcut and choosing App Info.

Japzone, you're doing people a disservice by failing to mention that the fix does not persist once the market app does its data update, which occurs at least once a day.
Edit: damn, once again, ninja'ed by the lizard...

Taosaur said:
...to a different problem. The issue with My Apps is the reason CM7 defaults to 161 in the first place, and only applies to those who have already applied the 160 dpi fix. In a CM7 NC set to 160 dpi, My Apps will eventually display only a white space, requiring us go to the Market's App Info and hit Clear Data again.
AFAIK, we're more likely to see a fix for the limited market than for the My Apps issue.
One thing many people seem to miss: any app's individual App Manager page is accessible by longpressing the app shortcut and choosing App Info.
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I know about the Icon long-press shortcut but the app screen sits on scanning for awhile, instead I pull-up Titanium Backup as it's usually quicker.
Now concerning the Market My App issues with 160dpi, personally I'd rather deal with the occasional data wipe then the Oversized UI of 240dpi but that's me. Sorry if I seemed misleading.
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DPI Issues- Help

I am stock not rooted. I changed my DPI to 493 using ADB. Now I have three dots in the keyboard and there is a black bar that covers half my app when I rotate the screen.
Any advice? Changing back to stock DPI doesn't fix the issue...

this won't help but i've flashed many roms so far, and am back on stock atm. I've just used root explorer every time and edited. the build.prop and i'm at 480 without issues? Hope you don't have to wipe.

crashercarlton said:
this won't help but i've flashed many roms so far, and am back on stock atm. I've just used root explorer every time and edited. the build.prop and i'm at 480 without issues? Hope you don't have to wipe.
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If you go into chrome, try rotating both clockwise and counter clockwise. No black bar? Do you have dots on the keyboard near where the predictive text is? Maybe changing via ADB messed it up (as opposed to editing the build.prop) and I am going to have to flash the factory image. I don't think a FDR will do it correct?

I'm on stock rooted. I used Root Explorer to change my DPI to 493. I have absolutely no issues. I just tried using Chrome in both portrait and landscape mode and neither had any "black bar" like you are reporting.

sn0warmy said:
I'm on stock rooted. I used Root Explorer to change my DPI to 493. I have absolutely no issues. I just tried using Chrome in both portrait and landscape mode and neither had any "black bar" like you are reporting.
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You tried rotating both ways?
I guess a flash is in my future. Want to avoid rooting for the time being until I see what OTAs google has in mind.

mdandashly said:
You tried rotating both ways?
I guess a flash is in my future. Want to avoid rooting for the time being until I see what OTAs google has in mind.
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Nope. You're right. If i rotate it to the right i get a black bar. But, why would you ever rotate this way? It is essentially the same as using the phone upside down...

sn0warmy said:
Nope. You're right. If i rotate it to the right i get a black bar. But, why would you ever rotate this way? It is essentially the same as using the phone upside down...
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You wouldn't ever naturally rotate this way, but we are an OCD bunch. Now that I know it exists it drives me crazy.
Do you have three dots while typing, for example, in hangouts.

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If you go into chrome, try rotating both clockwise and counter clockwise. No black bar? Do you have dots on the keyboard near where the predictive text is? Maybe changing via ADB messed it up (as opposed to editing the build.prop) and I am going to have to flash the factory image. I don't think a FDR will do it correct?
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From what i've seen i didn'thave any problems, but keep in mind i remove the navbar and use PIE controls.

mdandashly said:
You wouldn't ever naturally rotate this way, but we are an OCD bunch. Now that I know it exists it drives me crazy.
Do you have three dots while typing, for example, in hangouts.
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Ha! Really? I'm definitely OCD about my phone functioning exactly as it should, but the black bar appearing when doing something I've literally never done before, doesn't bother me at all.
I'm seeing 3 dots directly underneath whatever the current selected word is in the predictive text. If this is what you are talking about I'd consider this more of a wanted feature than a bug, though.
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On mine the dots are huge and eclipse the word. Also seems like the keyboard is still at stovk dpi. Its huge.

See attachment for dots

Maybe it has to do with changing (or trying to) change a system file/setting without root(system) privileges. You could always unlock, root, make your change, and then unroot and lock back up. That should still get you OTAs since you have stock recovery and all that still at that point.

http://www.reddit.com/r/nexus6/comments/2nvax8/psa_for_those_who_have_changed_the_dpi_and_are/
I was getting annoyed by the three dots bug in the Google Keyboard as well as the top developer icon bug in the Play Store. So I tried wiping dalvik cache and cache and then tried rebooting. It fixed!
I'm not sure if this will work on the stock recovery for an unrooted device.
Shoutout to /u/einbierbitte
Edit: According to /u/chirisu you can just wipe the cache from System Settings => Storage => tap Cache and then clear it.
Don't even have to reboot, the three huge dots go away on the google keyboard.

If you rotate thephone clockwise to landscape, you get the black bar not only on Chrome, but hangouts and maps as well. Using 493 DPI.

Yep. I can confirm this. And I was about to flash factory images......

Zer0_cool:
I was wondering about the dalvik format since Lollipop land uses ART, which precompiles each app at install rather than at first run.
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I cleared the cache but I'm still getting the dots, but they are a little smaller. I'm at 440 DPI and do not have the black bars, but I was getting them at 480 and 500 DPI.