I would really like the application icons to be larger on the app page. I know I need glasses but they are kinda small. Is there a way to do this?
I would like to increase the size of my icons as well but not via changing screen density which if I reading what it does correctly is lowers screen resolution which make the icon appear to be larger. I want to maintain screen density but have larger icon.
change the lcd density. there's an app on the development forum that lets you change it to 200 or 250. i chose 200, everything looks good.
Have I gone "insane" when using Insanity CM9...
When using the supplied Nitrality tool to set the display DPI value the slider shows "lower and higher".
Choose lower and you get 240 dpi, choose higher and you get 182 dpi, this makes no sense at all especially as the result is lower resolution (bigger icons) when selecting lower. I get the feeling the numbers are inverted.
Have I gone nuts?
I just want bigger icons like all the other roms!!
tazzydemon said:
Have I gone "insane" when using Insanity CM9...
When using the supplied Nitrality tool to set the display DPI value the slider shows "lower and higher".
Choose lower and you get 240 dpi, choose higher and you get 182 dpi, this makes no sense at all especially as the result is lower resolution (bigger icons) when selecting lower. I get the feeling the numbers are inverted.
Have I gone nuts?
I just want bigger icons like all the other roms!!
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Since Insanity turned GINGERBREAD rezolution ploblems had appeared I had the same problem...Best instanity is the one who''s running froyo
I keep reading about 240 dpi or 320 dpi... whats up with that? and how do I check it/ change it?
It means Pixel Density of your screen.. Dots per inch
The lower it gets from your standard screen DPI value, the smaller the icons and things become in the UI..
Its like increasing the resolution of the screen like you do in your PC/Laptop Monitor Display..
320 is mostly the HD displays 1280x720
240 is i guess for a qhd res 540x960
and as far as I knw 160 is the DPI most tablets has..
You can alter it by an app like LCD denity changer/modder..
Hope It Helped, Hit thanks if it did
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.
Souai said:
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
xyzsor said:
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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Can any body please help me figure out a solution for this
I changed the dpi in buld.prop from 480 to 420 in miui 8 but still the lock screen dpi remains the same there is no change to anything the 420 dpi in our devices really look a lot cooler and gives more content on the screen