Love my Galaxy Note, but wish I could fit more onto my massive screen at times. On other devices such as the Nexus 7, changing the DPI will enable a tablet UI? Is this the same on the Note, so if I were to root and change to a lower DPI will tablet apps run?
Is it safe to do this, or will it ruin pre-built in apps such as S-Memo and the dialer/other phone apps?
Brad387 said:
Love my Galaxy Note, but wish I could fit more onto my massive screen at times. On other devices such as the Nexus 7, changing the DPI will enable a tablet UI? Is this the same on the Note, so if I were to root and change to a lower DPI will tablet apps run?
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Check out Paranoid Android in the development section.
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I don't want to change ROMs, as I need the Samsung S-Pen apps. I like their functionality and use them to map out homework and my day-to-day schedule. Can't lose them. Nope, just wondering if changing the DPI would enable tablet UI and have it work properly. If not, then I won't bother. Not too worried, just would be a nice thing to have if possible to do!
Changing dpi won't turn your phone into a tablet it will just simply make things smaller so you can fit more on the screen
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Brad387 said:
I don't want to change ROMs, as I need the Samsung S-Pen apps. I like their functionality and use them to map out homework and my day-to-day schedule. Can't lose them. Nope, just wondering if changing the DPI would enable tablet UI and have it work properly. If not, then I won't bother. Not too worried, just would be a nice thing to have if possible to do!
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You can change your phone to tablet mode with any kernel/ROM. Can't remember the details but a quick search in Q&A and DEV should throw up the hack.
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Tablet mode is 213 dpi and lower. It will work on stock gb roms, but has been disabled on stock ics.
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Brad387 said:
Love my Galaxy Note, but wish I could fit more onto my massive screen at times. On other devices such as the Nexus 7, changing the DPI will enable a tablet UI? Is this the same on the Note, so if I were to root and change to a lower DPI will tablet apps run?
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U hv to flash a rom tht supports tablet mode. Such as paranoid android. Or AOKP. Set DPI TO 213 OR LOWER AND TABLET APPLICATIONS WILL RUN SMOOTHLY..
u ll lose s-pen but u can install papyrus for the same functionality as s-pen have..
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I wasnt satisfied with 1024x600p resolution the icons were huge so i rooted my tab with z4 and ive installed LCD Density .. and im keeping my tab at 200dpi (not to big but not to low either).
I have a question .. will this drain my battery faster cause ive noticed my battery lasts less in the last 2 days.. or is it just my 3G connection (im on Froyo 2.2 XWJJ3 default stock rom).
Changing your lcd density will not effect your battery
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I like mine at 175, but my question is- will lowering LCD density have an affect on how the android market detects app compatibility? There seems to be yes answers and no answers I'm very confused...
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This is my second tablet device that I have changed the density for and it doesnt seem to affect any app compatibility.
Whenever I set 200 density, market doesnt show me many apps that I have downloaded for free and paid in "My Apps". It also doesnt let me update the apps that are not shown.
For a little while now I've had my density set back to 240. I also had some app update issues when the density was changed. Appbrain would often show apps that had updates available that didn't show up as updateable when I looked in the market. And although appbrain said there were updates the apps wouldn't update.
Haven't had any such problems with my density set back to 240.
biffroy said:
I like mine at 175, but my question is- will lowering LCD density have an affect on how the android market detects app compatibility? There seems to be yes answers and no answers I'm very confused...
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Changing your density will only affect apps and games that are not compatible with the density that you change to. When I change my density to 200, which is my ideal resolution, I have 5 games that do not run and their icons show up as a green and while box with the android logo in the middle of the box, they also do not show up in the my apps list in the market. When I change back to the original density of 240 everything works as normal, all 5 apps run and their icons come back as they should and they also show back up in the my apps list in the market.
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Hmm. I run 180 and I have never seen any of that behavior.
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I envy all you people running at < 240 dpi. My eyes' lenses got EDoF like a fu**n' cheap phone optics
Ernesto de Bernardis
N900 - Galaxy Tab 7"
Githrog said:
Changing your density will only affect apps and games that are not compatible with the density that you change to. When I change my density to 200, which is my ideal resolution, I have 5 games that do not run and their icons show up as a green and while box with the android logo in the middle of the box, they also do not show up in the my apps list in the market. When I change back to the original density of 240 everything works as normal, all 5 apps run and their icons come back as they should and they also show back up in the my apps list in the market.
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Funny how this doesn't affect everyone. But it affects a lot of us, thank you very much for a bit of clarity!
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rustyshack3 said:
Hmm. I run 180 and I have never seen any of that behavior.
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Does the camera work when set at 180? Mine doesn't work on anything below 200
182 was the lowest I could get and have the camera work.
I just tried 182 and it works now on mine.
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Is there a way to change the density but keep the font size unchanged?Thanks
goughymachine said:
182 was the lowest I could get and have the camera work.
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Oh, that's probably why my camera stopped. Thanks.
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trungbeo said:
Is there a way to change the density but keep the font size unchanged?Thanks
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No, changing the density is changing the resolution. Everything gets smaller or larger at the same rate.
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Is this possible? Not stock based ROM with some themes and tweaks but a full out port of a tab2 7".
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spitfire2425 said:
Is this possible? Not stock based ROM with some themes and tweaks but a full out port of a tab2 7".
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sure, if youre willing to work at it. but chances are it wont run perfectly. why would you want to downgrade your nexus 7 anyways?
Is there something about the Tab's version of Android that makes you want it over Google's? If it is something specific to the Tab from Samsung and not just an app the likelihood is it won't run right on the Nexus.
I had the chance to get a tab and I wanna see what the tab was like.
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Might try a touchwiz rom, I think that the tabs are over rated.
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I know of the ROM with the launcher but it doesn't have all the features the tab has to offer. (Not trying to say the tab is better than the nexus because the nexus 7 is amazing)
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Part of what makes the N7 so much better than the Tab is that it has much better hardware and specs. Running the Tab's version of Android on the N7 (assuming you could) wouldn't tell you much about the Tab in terms of performance. It would be a useless comparison in that regard.
The only thing I would want to see from the tab 2 7inch is the tab ui launcher from its ics Rom, I always see the other launcher from jb ported but never the one that has tab ui
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I see threads like this in the forums of every device I've owned (and that's a few).
People want HTC sense on their Samsung's, Touchwiz on their HTC, or some other combination.
The only device I've ever seen it pulled off successfully was HTC sense on the nexus one and only because the HTC desire had identical internal hardware.
It's just way too much work as overlays like Sense, Touchwiz, and Motoblur are closed source. It's possible to reverse engineer them and get them working on different hardware but it's a huge amount of labour and the results would be poorly optimized and not very much fun to use if someone even did manage it.
Some people with tabs go to great effort to run pure Google on them and you have that out of the box so be grateful for what you have. The grass is always greener on the other side.
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I got my son a tab2 for Christmas and your not missing much. Sure its a nice tablet but I like my n7 better.
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Hi, i would like to know if there is a app that can be used to change the DPI,
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vijay.alapati said:
Hi, i would like to know if there is a app that can be used to change the DPI,
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The DPI of the display is how many physical pixels there are in one inch square of the phones screen, software cannot change this.
There may be software that could possibly force the phone to use a lower resolution, but i'm not sure why you would want that.
yacoboy said:
The DPI of the display is how many physical pixels there are in one inch square of the phones screen, software cannot change this.
There may be software that could possibly force the phone to use a lower resolution, but i'm not sure why you would want that.
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Hi, Thx for the reply, there are few apps in the plays store that can change the DPI, But many will brick the phone, I had seen few people chaining the DPI of Xperia Z to make sure there will be extra info displayed on the screen that u dont need to scroll, Also that i want this is be same as my previous phone's DPI
vijay.alapati said:
Hi, Thx for the reply, there are few apps in the plays store that can change the DPI, But many will brick the phone, I had seen few people chaining the DPI of Xperia Z to make sure there will be extra info displayed on the screen that u dont need to scroll, Also that i want this is be same as my previous phone's DPI
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I got bricked after using an app.
If you're rooted you can edit the build.prop yourself, or use Xposed to control each app separately.
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Kallb123 said:
I got bricked after using an app.
If you're rooted you can edit the build.prop yourself, or use Xposed to control each app separately.
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thx, shall try
This is an odd problem for me. I really love the Lux Auto-Brightness app and use it all the time but I've been having this issue that's now preventing Lux from doing it's job. Third-party app control of Screen Brightness doesn't work. If I go into the Android settings and change the brightness from there it works fine but every single Third-party app I try can't control my brightness. I can't even control the Screen Brightness from within MXPlayer anymore and that was working fine as well. I've thought maybe something is wrong with Lux but uninstalling and rebooting didn't fix anything. Does anybody have any ideas what's causing this?
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Anybody?
What kernel/ROM are you using?
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elfrosto said:
What kernel/ROM are you using?
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I'm running rooted Stock 4.1.2 with only mod being the change of dpi to 160. I've made no other mods.
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japzone said:
I'm running rooted Stock 4.1.2 with only mod being the change of dpi to 160. I've made no other mods.
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Stupid question but did you try changing the dpi back to the original setting? If so and it didn't change anything I would just do a dirty flash of stock rom. Changing dpi can screw up a lot of things.
kieso said:
Stupid question but did you try changing the dpi back to the original setting? If so and it didn't change anything I would just do a dirty flash of stock rom. Changing dpi can screw up a lot of things.
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Changing the dpi didn't help. Doing a dirty flash is an idea but I'd prefer trying something less extreme before doing that. It'd be a pain to re-setup root and things just to get brightness control fixed. At that point I'd probably just move on to a Custom ROM.
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Anyone know of an app or module to change dpi for individual apps? I'm on Marshmallow with Xposed. I'd like to use tablet mode for some games.
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ffchampmt said:
Anyone know of an app or module to change dpi for individual apps? I'm on Marshmallow with Xposed. I'd like to use tablet mode for some games.
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Changing settings in build.prop needs a reboot to become active. There is a build.prop editor in the PS. My dpi is set to 384. Font size huge.
I don't want to change dpi of the whole phone, just a few apps.
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ffchampmt said:
I don't want to change dpi of the whole phone, just a few apps.
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There's an app floating around somewhere called Screen Shift I think it does something like you're wanting.
Need good old p.a back!
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=63835421&postcount=2040