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[Q] Stupid Question: ICS Layout vs non-ICS Layout

Hi all,
previously I used MIRACLEV4 rom and during install I directly flashed also the ICS Layout for this ROM (following the install instructions with flashing->undo->reflashing).
Now I switched to APOCALYPSE and did not flash the corresponding ICS layout.
From 'layout point of view' both look similar to me. What exactly will change if I now apply the ICS layout for the APOCALYPSE ROM? Are there any screenshots for normal and ICS Layout ?

MarioGirotti said:
Hi all,
previously I used MIRACLEV4 rom and during install I directly flashed also the ICS Layout for this ROM (following the install instructions with flashing->undo->reflashing).
Now I switched to APOCALYPSE and did not flash the corresponding ICS layout.
From 'layout point of view' both look similar to me. What exactly will change if I now apply the ICS layout for the APOCALYPSE ROM? Are there any screenshots for normal and ICS Layout ?
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Its in the notifications. When you have layouts, notifications has boxes in the left side with ther icons on the middle of the box. For example when you have installed an app from the market. I prefer ICS layouts cause its much more uniform.
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Shadow xD said:
Its in the notifications. When you have layouts, notifications has boxes in the left side with ther icons on the middle of the box. For example when you have installed an app from the market. I prefer ICS layouts cause its much more uniform.
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Layouts will also change the volume bar if you're pressing the volume keys
They will change to ics like if you apply layout patch

NutellaBanane said:
Layouts will also change the volume bar if you're pressing the volume keys
They will change to ics like if you apply layout patch
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Oh! Just noticed it now. Lol thanks!
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NutellaBanane said:
Layouts will also change the volume bar if you're pressing the volume keys
They will change to ics like if you apply layout patch
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I just reinstalled the Apocalypse Rom (had the 1st version still) and the corresponding ICS theme. Got to say I like what I see and the default apps selection is much improved (quickpic, file explorer).

The USB mass storage window layout is also changed.
Clock layout changed, and it will turn blue if you long press on it.
Clear notification button changed to "X" button and placed on top.
Carrier label in notification is placed to bottom.
and some other that i didn't noticed.

MicroLizard said:
Clock layout changed, and it will turn blue if you long press on it.
and some other that i didn't noticed.
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The new clock layout is very nice indeed, had not noticed it yet. All in all some simple and subtle improvements that really make Apocalypse shine!

Full screen notification bar with 213 dpi

Hi all,
I've just changed my dpi to 213, all ok but notification bar isn;t full screen with this dpi config, is there any hack/script/app to "fix" this? or there is any source code in AOSP that we can change to make it full screen ?
Cheers,
h4ck3dm1nd

h4ck3dm1nd said:
Hi all,
I've just changed my dpi to 213, all ok but notification bar isn;t full screen with this dpi config, is there any hack/script/app to "fix" this? or there is any source code in AOSP that we can change to make it full screen ?
Cheers,
h4ck3dm1nd
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Which rom are you on, a lot of the new AOSP roms are set to tablet mode at 160 not 213.
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I guess what you are talking about is called the phablet UI it is functioning as designed... I mean the notification drawer still needs to be pulled down but it dosent cover the whole screen till bottom right?
I hope i understood you correctly...
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[Q] [Questions/Troubleshooting][ROM] Slim Paranoid Android

Hi, I hope this thread is ok, I have been searching for an hour and cannot find anything about the Paranoid Android ROM in the General forum, only in the Dev forum.
I think the features of this rom are very good but the text on the status bar is so small when on the Salsa screen, The screen size is set to 'Phone' in the ParanoidAndroid settings (360px), is there any way to make the status bar bigger ?
Thanks,
Mike

limikey said:
Hi, I hope this thread is ok, I have been searching for an hour and cannot find anything about the Paranoid Android ROM in the General forum, only in the Dev forum.
I think the features of this rom are very good but the text on the status bar is so small when on the Salsa screen, The screen size is set to 'Phone' in the ParanoidAndroid settings (360px), is there any way to make the status bar bigger ?
Thanks,
Mike
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It is OK in phone mode. The problem is when someone loads into phablet mode..... Then text gets really small. And that problem is with the screen size..... Because when I use phablet mode on my 7 inch tab then things work well...... I actually find the size to be as big as cm10. However in settings/system/status bar I have set my clock to big size..... So things run well on my phone.....
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limikey said:
Hi, I hope this thread is ok, I have been searching for an hour and cannot find anything about the Paranoid Android ROM in the General forum, only in the Dev forum.
I think the features of this rom are very good but the text on the status bar is so small when on the Salsa screen, The screen size is set to 'Phone' in the ParanoidAndroid settings (360px), is there any way to make the status bar bigger ?
Thanks,
Mike
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it's not easy! because you have to decompile systemUI and change the size of png file in the folder res also need to modify an existing xml file in smali folder, after that you can recompile in order to obtain apk file as you wish

vigoos said:
It is OK in phone mode. The problem is when someone loads into phablet mode..... Then text gets really small. And that problem is with the screen size..... Because when I use phablet mode on my 7 inch tab then things work well...... I actually find the size to be as big as cm10. However in settings/system/status bar I have set my clock to big size..... So things run well on my phone.....
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I think it must have defaulted to Phablet mode.
Although settings/paranoid settings/interface/ is all set to phone mode, when i went to settings/paranoid settings/launch/ and selected Stock UI it fixed the problem.
Thanks for the reply.
/Mike

I used the ROM for a day, installed the proposed sd-script and it got very slow. Has it something to do with the used SD card? I use a Class 10 16GB SD-Card with a 500MB ext3 partition.

theschneidi said:
I used the ROM for a day, installed the proposed sd-script and it got very slow. Has it something to do with the used SD card? I use a Class 10 16GB SD-Card with a 500MB ext3 partition.
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I changed from CM7 to this ROM, using the same 2GB SD card with the same 500MB ext3 partition, this ROM does lag a little but I assumed that was because it is Android 4.1 rather Android 2.3.
There are some ideas to increase performance in this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2290110&page=3

cm10 roms are slow any way you try. You can try and speed it up by reducing animations and such but it will only increase it slightly.

Am I being lame, there is no button on the Slim Paranoid status bar dropdown to clear the notifications.
There is one on the stock rom and on CM7, is there a way to enable it in this rom ?

Don't know to he honest. I just swipe them away normally, unless I have to many but that's not normal for me lol.
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DPI Settings

Bought a Galaxy Tab S 8.4 LTE 2 days ago. Beautiful device with great screen, but:
First thing you realize is the small font size in several apps, such as Facebook. Barely readable.
Tried to use larger font size in settings. That did some effect on some fonts, but no consistent result.
Same with the Big Font app - font sizes and overall appearance becomes inconsistent.
So the only way seemed to change DPI Settings. Which required rooting.
I did the CF autoroot thing. And fiddled with DPI settings using Texdroider app. Originally was 220 DPI. I tried 420 DPI.
Unfortunately after reboot, I was stuck at "systemui angehalten" error message, and touch screen did not respond to input.
Unfortunately I could not switch off the device (to reboot), pressing power button for ever gave no effect.
Since you cannot remove the battery on this device I had to let it run down completely over night. Then booting into Recovery (or Download Mode) was possible again.
Tried a full wipe in Recovery an rebooted. But endless systemui crash loop remained.
Will try to re-flash via Odin to get it back working.
So this thread is firstly a warning if anybody wants to change DPI settings on the Tab S.
Then some questions:
* Did anybody overcome the small fonts problem by changing DPI and which DPI setting is advisable?
* any way to force reboot in such case?

Just use xposed module appsetting to set the dpi for apps individually.
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edan1979 said:
Just use xposed module appsetting to set the dpi for apps individually.
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AppSettings works well.. I changed the overall DPI to 240 because all the fonts were way too big for me.. I then reset certain apps back because some of the stock apps don't work right at different DPIs (camera, etc).

Reflashing revovered the systemui loop crash.
Tried App Settings, but no succes so far.
What do you guys set up, e.g. for facebook messenger?
Thanks!

Appsettings works great!
pibach said:
Reflashing revovered the systemui loop crash.
Tried App Settings, but no succes so far.
What do you guys set up, e.g. for facebook messenger?
Thanks!
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I have rooted my galaxy for using exposed framework just to be able to use app settings! It then works great. You can set the font size (or dpi I guess) individually for any app. I use different settings ie for Gmail, Facebook messenger, Chrome, Tapatalk... You have to try a bit to find the perfect setting but it's a must.
Without you have tiny fonts!

ok, I installed xposed framework via its installer and then added the app settings module. For those willing to follow this route: you find instructions here: http://www.xda-developers.com/andro...tom-stock-roms-and-hello-to-xposed-framework/
Then it is possible to set DPI (or change font size) for each app individually. Text size and rendering was fine for me with 400DPI for Facebook, Tapatalk, or Nova Launcher. Tried with some other apps as well. Seemingly all look better and are more touch friendly with DPI >= 400. For comparison: stock DPI is set to 320 while real DPI is some 500+.
However it is rather inconvenient to set up each and every app individually via app settings module.
Tried to change the global DPI settings with build prob editor, but that somehow did not succeed, 320 DPI remained unchanged.
Tried with DPI changer to no effect. DPI cannot be changed via these apps. Very strange, have to investigate further.
Then tried again with textdroider, just to check - and device hangs again
No chance of rebooting or anything...but...yeah, found a trick: insert a SIM-card into the slot and then get asked to restart! Works. You can boot into recovery or download mode. Will try with adb to restore the build.prop backup...
Meanwhile - has anyone been able to set global DPI to something like 400-500 successfully? How?

If you look carefully I n the build.prop there usiually got 2 same dpi line... change both or disable one of it.
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Appsettings module is the best option,going in to build.prop is for overall and sends you in to a boot loop .be sure to have a backup
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@edan1979, I found only one line in build.prop indicating DPI settings. build.prop editor and DPI changer strangely cannot change that.
I did another test, changing DPI by editing build.prop with Root Explorer. It does change - and goes into UI crash loop
@jball, any idea, why it crashes?

pibach said:
@edan1979, I found only one line in build.prop indicating DPI settings. build.prop editor and DPI changer strangely cannot change that.
I did another test, changing DPI by editing build.prop with Root Explorer. It does change - and goes into UI crash loop
@jball, any idea, why it crashes?
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Unfortunately I don't, I just know what happened the first time I did it.
Appsettings is the best option though
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pibach said:
@edan1979, I found only one line in build.prop indicating DPI settings. build.prop editor and DPI changer strangely cannot change that.
I did another test, changing DPI by editing build.prop with Root Explorer. It does change - and goes into UI crash loop
@jball, any idea, why it crashes?
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the UI will crash since it was build for the original dpi and the ui setting as well... just install another launcher first and clear the Touchwiz data. It wont crash any longer but if you use touchwiz it wont be good looking... and some other touchwiz related apps will crash as well... that one can be settle using app setting to original dpi.

pibach said:
@edan1979, I found only one line in build.prop indicating DPI settings. build.prop editor and DPI changer strangely cannot change that.
I did another test, changing DPI by editing build.prop with Root Explorer. It does change - and goes into UI crash loop
@jball, any idea, why it crashes?
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Samsung is too lazy to support multidpi for their apps that's made for specific DPI values.

I did not use Touchwiz. It is SystemUI that crashes...

pibach said:
I did not use Touchwiz. It is SystemUI that crashes...
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Unless you are running CM, everything is part of Touchwiz, including SystemUI.

kenkiller said:
Unless you are running CM, everything is part of Touchwiz, including SystemUI.
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Is it?
CM?
The DPI problem and crashes do occur as well on non Samsung devices. Don't they?

pibach said:
Is it?
CM?
The DPI problem and crashes do occur as well on non Samsung devices. Don't they?
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Not really. I change DPI systemwide on my Nexus devices, they don't crash so easily - they are pretty much unified in terms of software.
Samsung really doesn't like to make a one size fits all firmware for the dozens of devices they release, so you get "problems" like this - to be fair, they don't really anticipate the average user to go around fooling with the DPI values.

Probably Samsung has set 320 DPI on all their devices?

pibach said:
Probably Samsung has set 320 DPI on all their devices?
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Who knows...who cares? Their assets probably isn't made for all the existing DPIs.
Anyway, xposed app settings works fine for most apps, just gotta live with the systemUI being stuck in that.

If systemUI belongs to TouchWiz, couldn't it be replaced? How?

pibach said:
If systemUI belongs to TouchWiz, couldn't it be replaced? How?
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Sure....Flash Cyanogenmod for it, if it exists and you don't mind losing all of Samsung's features.

DPI Change and SView Cover

Hope someone can help.
I have changed my lcd density through my build prop.
I'm using app settings in xposed and changed the sview Cover app to 480 but there is a black bar at the bottom.
Anyone know how to fix this?

jdubya45 said:
Hope someone can help.
I have changed my lcd density through my build prop.
I'm using app settings in xposed and changed the sview Cover app to 480 but there is a black bar at the bottom.
Anyone know how to fix this?
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there is a semi solution for this
usually people use rom toolbox to change the entire dpi.
first you must return the dpi to the normal 640 in rom toolbox
then in app settings Xposed change com.android.systemui dpi to 480
and then go to Android System (Android) and change the dpi back to 640
don't forget each time you must turn on the app setting and save after the change
this might effect some of the apps and show it in normal size but it will fix your problem
plus you can change any app's dpi to 480 from app settings later and make it small again.

omid_freesky said:
there is a semi solution for this
usually people use rom toolbox to change the entire dpi.
first you must return the dpi to the normal 640 in rom toolbox
then in app settings Xposed change com.android.systemui dpi to 480
and then go to Android System (Android) and change the dpi back to 640
don't forget each time you must turn on the app setting and save after the change
this might effect some of the apps and show it in normal size but it will fix your problem
plus you can change any app's dpi to 480 from app settings later and make it small again.
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Thought id note as far as I know the stock DPI is 480.
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I used xposed setting to change my dpi and I used it to specify original dpi of 640 for the sviewcover app but the black bar still persists.

Rakuu said:
Thought id note as far as I know the stock DPI is 480.
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you're right, I have a galaxy note 4, I'm sorry
I'm not sure about your original dpi though, but the method should work