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So, since the Samsung Galaxy Note has an almost ludicrously large sized screen at 5.3 inches diagonally in size, it is only natural that I want to make the most of this high-resolution screen. From what I have presently read, changing the DPI seems to be the way to fit more items onto my screen, but how will this effect general usage of the device? Firstly, will it ruin any particular apps that come pre-installed on the phone such as the S-Memo, S-Note or S-Planner apps and do the Contacts, Phone, plus Messaging applications for actual phone usage all work regardless of DPI? Also, if I were to change to a lower DPI, would this allow me to access a tablet mode within either Touchwiz or any different launchers? Unfortunately, I have yet to root my device for fear of screwing it up, as this is my first true Android device (minus an old second-hand HTC Desire which had no storage and didn't perform too well) and I am only 14 so far from the most experienced with technology. So, what would rooting involve? I am running a stock Samsung ICS ROM, which is affected by the brick bug, and should hopefully receive my Sandisk UHS-1 Micro-SD soon with a lovely 32GB of storage should rooting require external storage.
EDIT 1: I read somewhere that setting the DPI to 213 brings out a full tablet mode, whilst keeping everything readable. Is this true and, if not, what DPI settings do people recommend that still keep the screen readable but with the most information possible on it?
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I read somewhere that setting the DPI to 213 brings out a full tablet mode, whilst keeping everything readable. Is this true and, if not, what DPI settings do people recommend that still keep the screen readable but with the most information possible on it?
Any help would be appreciated.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.innodroid.dpichanger&hl=en
Brad387 said:
So, since the Samsung Galaxy Note has an almost ludicrously large sized screen at 5.3 inches diagonally in size, it is only natural that I want to make the most of this high-resolution screen. From what I have presently read, changing the DPI seems to be the way to fit more items onto my screen, but how will this effect general usage of the device? Firstly, will it ruin any particular apps that come pre-installed on the phone such as the S-Memo, S-Note or S-Planner apps and do the Contacts, Phone, plus Messaging applications for actual phone usage all work regardless of DPI? Also, if I were to change to a lower DPI, would this allow me to access a tablet mode within either Touchwiz or any different launchers? Unfortunately, I have yet to root my device for fear of screwing it up, as this is my first true Android device (minus an old second-hand HTC Desire which had no storage and didn't perform too well) and I am only 14 so far from the most experienced with technology. So, what would rooting involve? I am running a stock Samsung ICS ROM, which is affected by the brick bug, and should hopefully receive my Sandisk UHS-1 Micro-SD soon with a lovely 32GB of storage should rooting require external storage.
EDIT 1: I read somewhere that setting the DPI to 213 brings out a full tablet mode, whilst keeping everything readable. Is this true and, if not, what DPI settings do people recommend that still keep the screen readable but with the most information possible on it?
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Hi there , you can change the Display Pixel Intensity(DPI) with many apps , you can find them on play store . DPI changer is one such app. Now coming to the other half of your querry. reducing your DPI to 213 or lower makes things look pretty small on your phone , its readable only if you have sharp eyes . And if you are on rooted stock ics or gingerbread rom or any rom which is based on stock rom from samsung then it wont change your phone UI( User Interface ) to tablet mode .
Cheer up, there are few roms with which you can change the UI to tablet mode by reducing the DPI , to be particular AOKP rom . You will get one in the development section . If you dont want all such complication , download Paranoid android latest version and quench your thirst . With a single tick of check box you can switch between phone and tablet yi
Well, thanks.
DPI can also be considered as Dots Per Inch Stock . DPI for galaxy note is 320 , lower the dpi, smaller the icons and text , tablets generally have DPI somewhere around 172 to 190 or even upto 200+, but it depends on the screen size and the display resolution too . Well if you think 320 is too much for you and if you cant take it , then reduce it to 285 which is the actual (Physical) DPI of the screen on your phone .
Here is how you calculate DPI of your screen :
The resolution of Galaxy note is 1280 *800. i.e there are 1280 pixels from top to bottom of your screen and 800 pixels from left to right
Screen diagonal length = 5.3 inch
DPI = [sqrt of ( sq of(1280) + sq of (800) ) ] / 5.3
= 285 (approximately)
Hope you can understand all this and figure out yourself what is best suited for your screen :angel:
Hi Guys,
If you wanna be normaly screen size (not original screen size of Htc Desire 510) than download this apk to your phone:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nomone.resolution_changer&hl=hu
NOMone Resolution Changer (its free)
Open the app and you see
"Width" "Height" "DPI"
Change Width to 720
Change Height to 1280
Change DPI to 312
and click on apply
Or second way:
Open the app
Click on "Select device template"
and choose Motorola Moto X or Htc One X
Click on apply and you done
If you dont like this sizes,dont worry,apk will restore stock sizes after 10 sec and after 1 minutes too.
I hope its helped to some people.
Good Luck to all.
Use this all the time (different app, same effect) but it can seriously eat ram depending how far up you go. While it makes stuff look prettier, it can slow down your device.
Also our aspect ratio is weird. 720x1280 causes a border effect. Use 768x1366 at 300dpi. Looks great and uses the same amount of ram.
I don't know if it's just me or not but everything seems tiny on my screen, including the HTC home,back, and recent apps button.
this does not work on my 510.
any idea why?
do i have to be rooted?
hlebleh said:
this does not work on my 510.
any idea why?
do i have to be rooted?
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Yes.
I've done this with a different app, but now my widgets & some other stuff seem rather disproportional.
Any way to fix this?
Other than this, however. The 720P looks much better on this phone. Thanks for the tip.
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UPDATE: The biggest problem so far that I'm experiencing is that I cannot use my favorite keyboard. The buttons are out of place. Too big, can't fit the space allocated. SwiftKey & TouchPal are both out.
All the resolutions dont suit it they are all too big
After changing resolution, reboot your phone. The resolution will stick but everything else will resize to normal. If it doesn't, lower your DPI. All issues regarding "stuff size" should be resolved by lower DPI. Experiment, you'll find what works for you.
But again, RAM is an issue. I've asked pattyboi to adapt Swap into his kernel so I can test out RamExpander. With Swap enabled we should see a bit of a performance boost, but it can be risky if you don't know what your doing. Until we have a Swap capable kernel (and it actually works) were stcuk with what we got. From what I've read up on it, Swap seems like a viable solution to many performance issues with the 510
Okay so I'm really puzzled about how you can just change the resolution, how does it work??? Does the screen have a resolution more than the stock 480-800? I dont understand
So, that changing resolution? Is that works at all?
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.
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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
Hi guys,
I used to use this method with mostly all of my devices in the past: LG G3, Galaxy S5, Amazon Kindle Fire tablets (including 8'' and 10''). All of them work just fine. But not this Pixel5!
Using the "adb shell wm size" command. I changes the screen resolution of my devices down a notch, for example from 1440p to 1080p, or 1080p to 800p and so on. Then I adjust the density accordingly. They all turn out the Ok-ish screen resolution and have a much better GPU performance for gaming.
My current S10 has the native changing resolution from Samsung, So I don't use it for my S10.
But with the Pixel 5, there is a problem. The camera cut - out on the screen become so weird and placed on the off center position, and the Pixel 5 is unusable
I really love to use my pixel 5 at 720p or 900p, and I believe the Adreno 620 (snapdragon 765G) on the Pixel 5 will handle game at the lower resolution much much better.
Does anyone have a fix for this? please help!
Thank you for your reading!
P.S: OMG, this was my bad for posting the thread into the wrong sub-forum. It was on the other tab of my web-browser. Thank you very much for moving it to the right place, Moderator!!
Why are you not changing the resolution in the settings like you do on the Samsung? A quick search suggest the Pixel 5 has such an option. You're best doing it the official way to guarantee everything will work correctly.
Because you're changing the resolution and DPI through what is basically a developer option, I think whatever is handling the camera cutout (An app? The WM? Android?) is not updating its position and that causes it to be misplaced. Therefore, I dont think you find a simple fix for this. Sorry.
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Why are you not changing the resolution in the settings like you do on the Samsung? A quick search suggest the Pixel 5 has such an option. You're best doing it the official way to guarantee everything will work correctly.
Because you're changing the resolution and DPI through what is basically a developer option, I think whatever is handling the camera cutout (An app? The WM? Android?) is not updating its position and that causes it to be misplaced. Therefore, I dont think you find a simple fix for this. Sorry.
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You must be mistaken the Pixel 5 with other phones, since we don't have the option for such a changing the resolution in the settings.
If you mean the display size? It's just a density change, not the resolution.
Thank you for your contribution anyway!
Hi, have you sovled the problem? I encountered a similar condition.
I downloaded 31.1010.0411.132 firmware from official website on which includes October security patch.
but now the firmware is not showing anymore on list.
did asus pull back that firmware?
I just received it OTA.
DerSteppo said:
I just received it OTA.
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Me too, seems to work just fine.
The latest firmware is 138 and can be downloaded from ASUS site.
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Since I've opted in for A13 beta, I just got 33.0210.0210.100 a few minutes ago.
This is my first device running Android 13, so I don't have too much personal experience about it, but so far so good!
5tormChild said:
Since I've opted in for A13 beta, I just got 33.0210.0210.100 a few minutes ago.
This is my first device running Android 13, so I don't have too much personal experience about it, but so far so good!
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I tried to sign up since I received the recent update, but servers where down since. I will try again later.
5tormChild said:
Since I've opted in for A13 beta, I just got 33.0210.0210.100 a few minutes ago.
This is my first device running Android 13, so I don't have too much personal experience about it, but so far so good!
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How long do you wait? from you sign up to become beta tester until you get android 13 beta ota update?
damarwardoyo said:
How long do you wait? from you sign up to become beta tester until you get android 13 beta ota update?
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I've applied a few months ago, so I got a notification about a week before that A13 beta will be available soon, so I can upgrade my ZF8 to it.
Everything's fine, but I found a few bugs and/or issues:
- no matter what the brightness setting is, when the phone's screen awakes (with a double tap in my case), for a fraction of a second it's on full brightness, but then goes back to the set value,
- I had an issue with the touchscreen one time, but after a lock-unlock everything went back to normal,
- I had a custom system mode setting, which is now completely missing, only the 4 factory defaults are present (High performance, Dynamic, Durable and Ultra durable); I was able to set lower CPU / RAM speeds, but now these settings are gone,
- there's a power menu besides the settings gear when I pull down the notification bar, which is unnecessary IMO, it's right where the settings was.
Other than that I find it more usable than the A12, and the battery life seems to be a bit better in my case.
5tormChild said:
I've applied a few months ago, so I got a notification about a week before that A13 beta will be available soon, so I can upgrade my ZF8 to it.
Everything's fine, but I found a few bugs and/or issues:
- no matter what the brightness setting is, when the phone's screen awakes (with a double tap in my case), for a fraction of a second it's on full brightness, but then goes back to the set value,
- I had an issue with the touchscreen one time, but after a lock-unlock everything went back to normal,
- I had a custom system mode setting, which is now completely missing, only the 4 factory defaults are present (High performance, Dynamic, Durable and Ultra durable); I was able to set lower CPU / RAM speeds, but now these settings are gone,
- there's a power menu besides the settings gear when I pull down the notification bar, which is unnecessary IMO, it's right where the settings was.
Other than that I find it more usable than the A12, and the battery life seems to be a bit better in my case.
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What about Monet? Is it integrated?
ibolito said:
What about Monet? Is it integrated?
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I'm using a plain black background because of the AMOLED screen (it consumes less power this way), but I'll check it for you.
Does it have a separate menu item in Settings? I haven't found anything related in Display.
Google’s dynamic color engine, codenamed monet, grabs a single source color from the user’s wallpaper and generates 5 tonal palettes that are each comprised of 13 tonal colors of various luminances. These 65 colors make up the R.color attributes that apps can use to dynamically adjust their themes.
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I'm using a plain black background because of the AMOLED screen (it consumes less power this way), but I'll check it for you.
Does it have a separate menu item in Settings? I haven't found anything related in Display.
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5tormChild said:
I'm using a plain black background because of the AMOLED screen (it consumes less power this way), but I'll check it for you.
Does it have a separate menu item in Settings? I haven't found anything related in Display.
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Monet is Android's theme engine that changes the color of the UI to match the wallpaper, if nothing changes when you apply a new wallpaper then sadly it might be not implemented with this update too.