Anyone know why font sizes are messed up in the TW JB Roms?
System fonts, and fonts within system apps are huge (in Settings or Messaging for example) so I set them to Tiny to make them a more reasonable size - however this leaves me with extremely small fonts within other apps?
From what I can tell even the Tiny Setting is roughly the same as Large on ICS.
Is there a fix?
[Apologies I mean TW JB Roms in the title]
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Does anyone know how (if it's possible) to have certain apps default to their Honeycomb layout on the Note? Gmail, Google Music, and Pulse are my biggest wants when comes to having the Honeycomb layout on my Note.
I think I may have figured out the answer to my own question. If I remember correctly, I doubt that the API of 2.3.x supports the "tablet" features of apps designed with Honeycomb in mind.
Maybe this will change once we get ICS though!
Well.. Netflix App is layed out like a tablet...
Some apps use two parameters to determine if to layout as tablet o as phone..
One is the resolution.. Like, I believe, Netflix. A WXGA resolution is almost always a tablet resolution. So the app will layout out as it..
The other parameter is screen pixel density... The Note comes predefined at a 320 dpi, which is a High Pixel Density (hpdi) as seen in apps. The galaxy Tab 10.1, for example has listed a 149 dpi which is either low (lpdi) or medium (mpdi).
So the apps which have a lpdi or mdpi layout defined in code (for Tablets) can show like that.
You can actually change the dpi value that apps "read" from the device by rooting it and with some apps like LCD Resolution (or changing the required file in /system)..
So while the Note has ~300dpi, apps (and Home, and app drawer, and all) will show as ~200 or whatever number you want..
I changed mine to 240dpi to take advantage of the High Resolution and read more onscreen (instead of just view a higher pixel density for icons).. and apps like Opera Mini show as a tablet...
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Of course there are just a few apps running on gingerbread and with tablet layouts.. This will all change a lot with the ICS update in March; and we will be able to view Tablet layouts for a lot more apps..
I agree the Note doesn't use the whole potential of such huge screen software wise. All apps work in phone mode not in tablet mode. Changing screen resolution helps a lot with certain apps but then it gets really hard to use the UI which gets also smaller. I wish there was a way to change screen resolution for specific apps while leaving the rest at default resolution but i already know this is technically not possible at all. I hope our Notes could reach their full potential with next official ICS update ... I'm already looking forward to flash it !
Personally I'm just hoping that ICS will bring the best of both worlds really. Just waiting for a stable release of CM9 baby!
I know most of you with think why would i want to increase the DPI of Galaxy note.. Lets just say a special person needs to use it and requires REALLY REALY LARGE fonts.. The largest possible hopefully.. is it possible to increase the DPI higher than 320? if so how?.. Most apps i found only limit to 320 DPI.. what is a safe DPI can i use higher than 320?.. Thanks alot..
if you need large font, just go to settings, accessibility, and change the font size from 'normal' to 'huge'. that should help with some apps. but i think what you want is lower dpi. fonts occupy a set number of pixels on screen. higher dpi makes the pixels smaller and hence font smaller, lower dpi makes the pixels larger, hence font larger.
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if you need large font, just go to settings, accessibility, and change the font size from 'normal' to 'huge'. that should help with some apps. but i think what you want is lower dpi. fonts occupy a set number of pixels on screen. higher dpi makes the pixels smaller and hence font smaller, lower dpi makes the pixels larger, hence font larger.
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Its already in Huge but, the its still to small for him to read.. If i decrease the DPI, The resolution of the phone increases and the fonts become smaller.. I tried it.. So far, i got the screen to go up to 400 DPI and the fonts get larger, however if i go beyond the default 320 DPI, the settings application FC.. Anyone have an advice?
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Its already in Huge but, the its still to small for him to read.. If i decrease the DPI, The resolution of the phone increases and the fonts become smaller.. I tried it.. So far, i got the screen to go up to 400 DPI and the fonts get larger, however if i go beyond the default 320 DPI, the settings application FC.. Anyone have an advice?
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Not sure if and how it'll work for you, but there's a "Font changer" app on the market, which can resplace default Droids Sans font on rooted device with any .ttf font of your choosing.
What you could try - if DPI attempts fail - is finding some readable font which will be bigger on the screen. What I mean is that when I tried replacing default device font with e.g. Segoe UI or Tahoma or Calibri (copied from my Windows), some of those fonts were visibly smaller or bigger than Droid Sans - maybe there is sth that's much much bigger than the rest - Arial Black or Impact perhaps?
also - CyanogenMod builds for other devices had small app called Spare Parts, which enabled changing the deafualt font size for all apps. There is similar Spare Parts app on the market, did not try it, but maybe it also has the same ability
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Its already in Huge but, the its still to small for him to read.. If i decrease the DPI, The resolution of the phone increases and the fonts become smaller.. I tried it.. So far, i got the screen to go up to 400 DPI and the fonts get larger, however if i go beyond the default 320 DPI, the settings application FC.. Anyone have an advice?
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The higher the DPI the smaller the fonts will get. Best try to get some large fonts installed. If you are able to change DPI then it means you are rooted so try Absolute System Root Tools or Jrummy Root Toolbox and both have a lot of fonts ranging from small to large and they change the fonts of every text on the phone !!!
I also thought higher DPI, smaller font size. But indeed, higher DPI, bigger font size (like in PC Display)
on ICS, Changing DPI causes bootloop
Has anyone noticed that making these changes on ICS causes the phone to fail to boot? Quite annoying, as I'd like to make better use of the screen estate.
Actually if you use romtoolbox it wont fail at boot. At least with fpi bigger then 219
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Hi guys, I am currently on ICS Stunner and in settings>display there is an option to change font size, which i set to small and is perfect for the note screen.
I can't find a similar option on any of the Samsung ICS roms i have tried, meaning fonts are HUGE and does no justice to the note's screen size or resolution.
Is there any way to manually change the font size without changing overall screen density?
I really want my s-pen features back and this is the only thing that's keeping me on AOSP.
Spare parts doesn't change overall font size, best thing i've found is https://play.google.com/store/apps/...51bGwsMSwxLDIxMiwib3JnLnBieGVzLmZvbnRzaXplIl0
My problem with this app is that it doesn't support custom fonts (or so the comments seem to suggest) and i think i read somewhere that this app just installs the default font at varying sizes, something which i could do myself in a few minutes without spending money on a useless app.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
EDIT: I have also seen this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.a0soft.gphone.bfont&hl=en but it seems to have odd bugs on the Note.
does anyone know how to change the font face for an individual app. not system or all apps? I am currently using Nokia Pure font but unfortunately it is incompatible for my apps that are in Vietnamese, I'd like to make those apps use Helvetica font.
any help is appreciated
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With Custom Android Font Switcher download here : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lee.android.switcher , you can install, 150 fonts that the application proposes, in addition to install fonts in our external storage device, The application consists of three tabs: Local Fonts, and Font Server Settings. In Local Fonts is possible, of course, browse through folders in search of the internal memory of the character set, while in the Font Server are the famous 150 characters, you can set. Obviously you must be connected to the Internet to view all the fonts in Font Server. In Settings, however, find all the settings of the app. If you have problems with the font size, or, if they are too big or too small compared to the ideal size, you should download the application Big Font, download here : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.a0soft.gphone.bfont
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With Custom Android Font Switcher download here : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lee.android.switcher , you can install, 150 fonts that the application proposes, in addition to install fonts in our external storage device, The application consists of three tabs: Local Fonts, and Font Server Settings. In Local Fonts is possible, of course, browse through folders in search of the internal memory of the character set, while in the Font Server are the famous 150 characters, you can set. Obviously you must be connected to the Internet to view all the fonts in Font Server. In Settings, however, find all the settings of the app. If you have problems with the font size, or, if they are too big or too small compared to the ideal size, you should download the application Big Font, download here : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.a0soft.gphone.bfont
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I tried this app and it left my phone in a bootloop had to reflash my ROM.
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me too looking for something similar help appreciated
anyone??
seems to be difficult to change the font of ONE app, most font apps in the Playstore changes font for everything on phone
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same issue here, the JED dictionary is displaying Chinese fonts instead of Japanese.
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? I can't believe this, the most popular mobile OS, can't even display Japanese in a Japanese dictionary. What a joke Android is.
Does anyone change their DPI's for something much lower?
I tend to find the one thing that bugs me about Sense is the overly enormous size of the fonts in system, contacts, the dialer etc. The font sizes throughout Sense don't seem very consistent compared to stock aosp.
Just curious to know what kind of DPIs folks have set for their best system sizes/layouts etc.
Only problem changing DPI is it tends to mess up the sense launcher, or least that's what I have found.