Some games that I play look like they're been squeezed so I assume it's cause the game doesn't support 4:3 ratio. Is there a way to make certain apps change aspect ratio so it doesn't look like it's been squeezed?
Ruriko said:
Some games that I play look like they're been squeezed so I assume it's cause the game doesn't support 4:3 ratio. Is there a way to make certain apps change aspect ratio so it doesn't look like it's been squeezed?
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The only way I know requires rooting your tablet and installing xPosed framework. Look for the App Settings module which lets you fine tune almost all aspects of an apps' display, including the DPI, on a per app basis.
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I've used a few different across my android devices (different meaning other than the stock value) but I still don't quite understand...
Higher Density = Higher or Lower quality?
Lower than Stock density = Lower quality at all?
I'm liking 400 but I'm not sure if it lowers quality or not.
If you can't see any quality degradation, then what's the problem?
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Well I meant in home/settings apps really, i would hate to later play a higher end game or a movie and see the quality is poor
Movies or games should still be rendering at the resolution of the screen. The DPI doesn't change that. What it could (and most likely will) is adjust the size of UI elements (such as camera controls, video player controls, etc.). Depending on what firmware you're running, the different elements and apps may be able to adjust themselves based on the DPI by utilizing different images within the APKs (mdpi, hdpi, xhdpi, etc.).
Take a look at this link. It might help you out a little.
http://www.androidtablets.net/forum/android-tablet-usage-tips-tricks/9444-lcd-density-explained.html
Also, there are ROMs/MODs that allow for different apps to implement different DPIs on the device. Great examples of this are ParanoidAndroid ROMs and Xposed framework mods. These can give you the ability to adjust dpi by application, that way if there are any incompatibilities at a certain DPI, you can work around the issues.
After sideloading lots of apps onto the gear and comparing to the motoactiv, I have discovered the second most crippling thing about the gear after the lack of wifi is the square aspect ratio screen. It breaks 75% of the apps I try because they're designed for a 4:3 or wider screen and all the interface elements either overlap or are drawn off screen. It has excellent hardware, and with a normal aspect ratio like on other smartwatches it would run most apps and games perfectly.
The landscape/widescreen apps that do work tend to scale the image down so it fits within the width of the screen. Does anyone know if it might be possible to force apps to do this, or to fool them into thinking its a 320x240 screen? Like how paranoidandroid allows you to set the DPI for individual apps. It wouldn't be perfect not filling the screen, but it would at least allow the majority of apps to function.
If only it were 480x320 instead of 320x320...
ivant said:
After sideloading lots of apps onto the gear and comparing to the motoactiv, I have discovered the second most crippling thing about the gear after the lack of wifi is the square aspect ratio screen. It breaks 75% of the apps I try because they're designed for a 4:3 or wider screen and all the interface elements either overlap or are drawn off screen. It has excellent hardware, and with a normal aspect ratio like on other smartwatches it would run most apps and games perfectly.
The landscape/widescreen apps that do work tend to scale the image down so it fits within the width of the screen. Does anyone know if it might be possible to force apps to do this, or to fool them into thinking its a 320x240 screen? Like how paranoidandroid allows you to set the DPI for individual apps. It wouldn't be perfect not filling the screen, but it would at least allow the majority of apps to function.
If only it were 480x320 instead of 320x320...
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What your asking from my knowledge is not possible..
One thing you can do tho is set the independent DPI's of apps like Paranoid Adnroid using xposed framework & app settings module.
You can also application titles, which breaks some apps although does free up some screen real estate.
I purchased the Nexus 4, 5, and 6 as each has come out. I love the devices, as well as the toolkit.
My issue is this, all of the roms available operate in 'Phone mode' which is useless to me, as the games and apps I use need to run in TABLET mode. I didn't even know there was a difference until I tried numerous other ROMS and had no luck.
Only Slimkat and SlimLP (to my knowledge) run applications in tablet mode, allowing for a much, much better viewing experience.
Without going through all of the methods described in previous threads about the 'XPosed Framework', is there a custom ROM that offers tablet mode functionality like the SlimRoms?
I would prefer to just stick to SlimLP, but it is extremely buggy, and causes me many problems on a daily basis, especially with phone calls, and this is the phone i use for work, and I cannot afford to keep having issues such as the ones with SlimLP until the bugs are worked out.
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!
flash any rom then change the dpi to set it into "tablet" mode. thats how slim did it, its not a special mode. by default, the n6 dpi is 560, lower it to below 400, like 390 or something. and you have a nexus, it doesnt need a toolkit, as it easier to do things the right way. learn the right way to do things.
simms22 said:
flash any rom then change the dpi to set it into "tablet" mode. thats how slim did it, its not a special mode. by default, the n6 dpi is 560, lower it to below 400, like 390 or something. and you have a nexus, it doesnt need a toolkit, as it easier to do things the right way. learn the right way to do things.
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OK, so learn the right way to do things. Again, I Googled this already, and was driven to installing something called the XPosed Framework, which I do not want to deal with. So the 'right way' according to some pretty exhaustive Googling comes up with nothing about DPI or it's built in functionality, which is what I am asking for.
Is there any simple way to do what I need to do. If not then that is fine, but changing DPI is not available in any of the ROMs I am aware of, and if it is, please let me know which ones there may be.
I am not an android developer or debugger, I am simply an end user looking to enjoy my phone. I don't know what 'it doesn't need a toolkit' means, but I do know I had to root using Wugfresh's toolkit.
Doesn't changing the DPI affect the amount of pixels I am able to see? Or does it only affect applications?
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OK, so learn the right way to do things. Again, I Googled this already, and was driven to installing something called the XPosed Framework, which I do not want to deal with. So the 'right way' according to some pretty exhaustive Googling comes up with nothing about DPI or it's built in functionality, which is what I am asking for.
Is there any simple way to do what I need to do. If not then that is fine, but changing DPI is not available in any of the ROMs I am aware of, and if it is, please let me know which ones there may be.
I am not an android developer or debugger, I am simply an end user looking to enjoy my phone. I don't know what 'it doesn't need a toolkit' means, but I do know I had to root using Wugfresh's toolkit.
Doesn't changing the DPI affect the amount of pixels I am able to see? Or does it only affect applications?
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many, if not most custom roms, have an option to change the dpi in that roms settings. im using terminus, and it has an option to change the dpi. also, you can change the dpi in your build.prop(then reboot to have it take affect). there are also apps that you can use to change your dpi.
simms22 said:
many, if not most custom roms, have an option to change the dpi in that roms settings. im using terminus, and it has an option to change the dpi. also, you can change the dpi in your build.prop(then reboot to have it take affect). there are also apps that you can use to change your dpi.
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Thanks, I'll do a full backup, and I will mess around. I honestly wish I had asked sooner, as SlimLP has been disastrous.
Thank you again.
SidedX said:
OK, so learn the right way to do things. Again, I Googled this already, and was driven to installing something called the XPosed Framework, which I do not want to deal with. So the 'right way' according to some pretty exhaustive Googling comes up with nothing about DPI or it's built in functionality, which is what I am asking for.
Is there any simple way to do what I need to do. If not then that is fine, but changing DPI is not available in any of the ROMs I am aware of, and if it is, please let me know which ones there may be.
I am not an android developer or debugger, I am simply an end user looking to enjoy my phone. I don't know what 'it doesn't need a toolkit' means, but I do know I had to root using Wugfresh's toolkit.
Doesn't changing the DPI affect the amount of pixels I am able to see? Or does it only affect applications?
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OK so although some ROMs add "DPI" options in settings, it is not needed. DPI as always is changed in /system/build.prop under LCD density.
As for pixels, that's PPI not DPI. DPI is not related to pixels in any way. DPI is a scaling method.
Think of it this way, if you have a 5".display with 1080 pixels by 1920 pixels, you have a HD display with a very specific amount of pixels. If you have a 10" tablet with the same amount of pixels, each pixel would be bigger. Therefore, everything on a screen would be bigger. This means a tablet would have everything too big and you wouldn't take advantage of a bigger screen. So android use something called DPI to scale objects on the screen. Smaller DPI makes everything smaller on screen. This way, you take advantage of more screen real estate. Apps etc can use lower DPI to identify a phone from a tablet and they will act differently if those apps have a tablet "mode".
There are no real links between pixels. Just the bigger the screen and lower resolution, the lower the DPI needs to be and the smaller the screen with a higher resolution, the higher the DPI should be.
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As for pixels, that's PPI not DPI. DPI is not related to pixels in any way. DPI is a scaling method.
Think of it this way, if you have a 5".display with 1080 pixels by 1920 pixels, you have a HD display with a very specific amount of pixels. If you have a 10" tablet with the same amount of pixels, each pixel would be bigger. Therefore, everything on a screen would be bigger. This means a tablet would have everything too big and you wouldn't take advantage of a bigger screen. So android use something called DPI to scale objects on the screen. Smaller DPI makes everything smaller on screen. This way, you take advantage of more screen real estate. Apps etc can use lower DPI to identify a phone from a tablet and they will act differently if those apps have a tablet "mode".
There are no real links between pixels. Just the bigger the screen and lower resolution, the lower the DPI needs to be and the smaller the screen with a higher resolution, the higher the DPI should be.
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Wow, OK. I always thought I would be turning my 1440p QHD display into a 1080p. Never knew there was a difference.
Thank you. This forum has been the most helpful, and I honestly should have come here first instead of spending over a month on my own fighting with this device.
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Wow, OK. I always thought I would be turning my 1440p QHD display into a 1080p. Never knew there was a difference.
Thank you. This forum has been the most helpful, and I honestly should have come here first instead of spending over a month on my own fighting with this device.
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Yeah completely different. You don't lose any resolution or image quality by lowering the DPI. I set mine at 400. Not for "tablet" or anything. I just like the look of everything at that size instead of the giant size of 563 or whatever it is by default.
But yeah, you're welcome
before i buy this tablet, i need to know if it is possible to change the screen format from the stock 4:3 to the more useful 16:9 in a custom rom or kernel or whatever? i didn't see this asked anywhere, and it is black friday, so i need to find out quickly as i need to make a buying decision. thanks for any help!
stevae said:
before i buy this tablet, i need to know if it is possible to change the screen format from the stock 4:3 to the more useful 16:9 in a custom rom or kernel or whatever? i didn't see this asked anywhere, and it is black friday, so i need to find out quickly as i need to make a buying decision. thanks for any help!
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What do you mean change it? It's physically and natively a 4:3 tablet.
However you can use the tablet in which ever orientation you please.
If you turn it 90 degrees to landscape mode it becomes a 16:9 tablet, but you can t physically move the buttons.
You're better off buying the tab S if you want native 16:9.
ashyx said:
What do you mean change it? It's physically and natively a 4:3 tablet.
However you can use the tablet in which ever orientation you please.
If you turn it 90 degrees to landscape mode it becomes a 16:9 tablet, but you can t physically move the buttons.
You're better off buying the tab S if you want native 16:9.
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what i mean, is like on a computer, you can change formats of videos or games or what not, from 4:3 to 16:9, so you don't have the large black bars on the screen while viewing one of them.
Er?? Then you either have a totally distorted picture (all things are too high in relation to their width), or you must crop the left and right sides to fit the picture into the 4:3 screen.
If that is what you want... but it is not very reasonable to want it...
stevae said:
what i mean, is like on a computer, you can change formats of videos or games or what not, from 4:3 to 16:9, so you don't have the large black bars on the screen while viewing one of them.
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What you ask doesn't make sense, you can't physically alter the ratio of something without distorting the image or cutting part of it off.. If a video is 16:9 it must be played back at 16:9 regardless of the physical dimensions of the device.
If you don't like black bars then you would have to use a player such as mx player that allows the image to be stretched to full screen.
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what i mean, is like on a computer, you can change formats of videos or games or what not, from 4:3 to 16:9, so you don't have the large black bars on the screen while viewing one of them.
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You can't not even a computer in proper look. From 4:3 ratio resolution to 16:9 ratio resolution will make everything look stretching and distorted.
I really don't like sending tall 19:9 aspect ratio photos to my friend that has 16:9 phone. I already disabled the notch and enabled the navigation bar so that reduced the screen a bit, so that's now maybe a 18:9, but my friend still sees black bars on to the sides of her phone. Any more tricks like this, any way to open an app with a different resolution? I don't have root and I heard it's a complicated process to get it, so I would prefer not to do that.
Giancarlo said:
I really don't like sending tall 19:9 aspect ratio photos to my friend that has 16:9 phone. I already disabled the notch and enabled the navigation bar so that reduced the screen a bit, so that's now maybe a 18:9, but my friend still sees black bars on to the sides of her phone. Any more tricks like this, any way to open an app with a different resolution? I don't have root and I heard it's a complicated process to get it, so I would prefer not to do that.
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Try changing your resolution to 1080p (not 1080pi) with adb
Chocolatetrain said:
Try changing your resolution to 1080p (not 1080pi) with adb
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But that would change the resolution for the whole device, right?
Giancarlo said:
But that would change the resolution for the whole device, right?
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Yeah, maybe try using Tasker? I'm not sure if it allows you to use commands like that if it's not rooted. If it does, you could just run that command when the app's open and the revert it once you close
hey OP, how did you enable the navigation bar to stay in snapchat?? i'm looking for a way to do this?