I am coming from the Galaxy tab to the Flyer and find that most/some programs including the Market have really tiny fonts and the buttons are smaller than on the G-Tab. I'm guessing it's a Gingerbread issue, but any help would be appreciated.
I can't seem to find a way to increase the system font size.
Mighty Mike said:
I am coming from the Galaxy tab to the Flyer and find that most/some programs including the Market have really tiny fonts and the buttons are smaller than on the G-Tab. I'm guessing it's a Gingerbread issue, but any help would be appreciated.
I can't seem to find a way to increase the system font size.
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I tried spare parts from the market but, no luck. It has the.option to change font size but I guess it only for the app. But if you don't have spare parts you should...... At least to turn off compatibility mode.
Mighty Mike said:
I am coming from the Galaxy tab to the Flyer and find that most/some programs including the Market have really tiny fonts and the buttons are smaller than on the G-Tab. I'm guessing it's a Gingerbread issue, but any help would be appreciated.
I can't seem to find a way to increase the system font size.
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+1 of this concern.
I am holding back my eagerness to buy Flyer because of this small font issue as I know HTC sense always use small font and restrict user to change it.
Hopefully this issue can be changed with LauncherPro UI, else I will have to wait for Samsung 8.9” tablet….
From what I can tell, Spare Parts is for root users only. So most options will not work until we get a root for the Flyer/Evo View 4g
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Just upgrade to HC using Globatron's method. Still exploring the new features. Found the widgets on HC are all awkwardly sized. Anyway to resize them? The only one I was able to resize to fit the screen is the Gmail widget. Ideas?
Thanks!
how are they awkwardly sized? i didn't have any widget issues going from GB to HC
what are you trying to achieve?
One more question. Did not want to start a new thread for a question
Honeycomb sense UI - How to add pages or screens? We have only 5
I don't think that you can either resize widgets or add/subtract the number of home screens.
I am happy with the widgets that I have for the most part but I would like to get rid of some home screens.
You can't make folders either.
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One more question. Did not want to start a new thread for a question
Honeycomb sense UI - How to add pages or screens? We have only 5
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You can't add screens but what I noticed (in my case) is that I can have the same amount of info using less screens because all the HTC widgets are that awkward narrow size instead of having a full screen option (so I have 2 per screen instead of just one). It seems like the official Google widgets are resizable (somebody mentioned the Gmail one - the Voice one also does this). Unfortunately HTC didn't seem to get that memo.
lawguy said:
You can't make folders either.
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https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.code.appsorganizer
Hi,
"Days Left" widget,EndNote and "Astrid" are intermittently re-sizing themselves GB HTC Flyer. They had the same behavior before and after root. Cleared and reloaded and still they resize themselves. They return to normal after restart then resize after a while. All the other widgets are stable.
How can I get them to stay one size?
Thanks for any suggestions!
*Attached are pics of the normal larger size and the smaller size they will re-size to after a few hours.
Logic says, it's the widgets having fault coding that causes the issue. I suggest you contact their developers for an answer and that in the meantime, you make use of other widgets with similar functionality.
Work around...
N_ine said:
Logic says, it's the widgets having fault coding that causes the issue. I suggest you contact their developers for an answer and that in the meantime, you make use of other widgets with similar functionality.
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Thanks, I never heard back from the devs for those apps so I tried running Honeycomb instead of GB and the problem has not come back.
Hey guys, im needing some advice on aosp for the thunderbolt. first off i love aosp the only problem i have is mainly some of the sizing on the screen. for example, i use smart keyboard because it just works best for me but when i go to use voice to text feature and it gives me the list of 3-6 things i said, It usually only shows a few words because its so big. ive tried changing font size which eventually creates problems elsewhere. Ive tried using different keyboards but i just cant find one I like other than smart keyboard. I never seems to have this problem on any of my other phones using an AOSP rom. any advice or help? Thanks everyone!
Try changing your DPI setting.
This belong in the Q&A section, not Development.
I've tried it. Just make display offset. The screen resolution itself looks fine. It just basically the size that text/menu items are that to big to show everything needed just like it does in a sense rom.
If any of you have used the Nook app on the Galaxy Note, you probably already know what I'm going to ask.
Problem: at stock 320 dpi, the text in eBooks is ridiculously large in the Nook Reader, even at its smallest setting. You have to go down to 260 dpi before text becomes small enough to read comfortably--but 260 dpi leads to force closes for me. 240 dpi solves the force close problem but for some reason ICS Objection is very sluggish at 240 dpi.
280 dpi is a good happy medium for me for all my aps but the Nook. Thing is, most of my eBooks to date have been purchased through the Nook store... ugh.
So! I started mucking about with font changing apps in the store and found one called "Font Size Setter" that actually works pretty well in ICS. Unfortunately, while it does scale fonts all over the OS itself, it has no effect whatsoever in whatever calculations the Nook app uses to display fonts in an eBook.
So what I'm wondering is, does the Nook app have a settings file of some kind that I can manually edit to scale down the font display? Does anyone know? I don't know enough about how Android is laid out even begin looking...
Thanks for any help you can provide...
EDITED: I just realized it may be as simple as finding smaller versions of the fonts the Nook uses for display purposes and overwriting the default ones. Are android fonts .otf files? And does anyone know if there's a way to find smaller ones?
Just out of curiosity I flashed Saurom and the Nook app doesn't display this problem at all. Does Gingerbread handle screen DPI differently than ICS?
re: Any way to fix the Nook app on the Note?
I'm dying to know this myself. The Nook app is probably the biggest reason I bought the thing to begin with - it was really great back on the older version of Android, but this new thing just looks ridiculous. I called Barnes & Noble about the problem and they seemed genuinely concerned - I was on the phone with them for about 30 minutes. They said they'd get back to me within a week but that was like 3 weeks ago.
Between this and Next Issue not working (and all of the other problems listed at the Geekitarian blog), I'm considering dropping the Note altogether and going with something new.
If you figure out a solution, please do come back and share it, as this phone was AWESOME before the Android 4.0 update.
ubersoft said:
If any of you have used the Nook app on the Galaxy Note, you probably already know what I'm going to ask.
Problem: at stock 320 dpi, the text in eBooks is ridiculously large in the Nook Reader, even at its smallest setting. You have to go down to 260 dpi before text becomes small enough to read comfortably--but 260 dpi leads to force closes for me. 240 dpi solves the force close problem but for some reason ICS Objection is very sluggish at 240 dpi.
280 dpi is a good happy medium for me for all my aps but the Nook. Thing is, most of my eBooks to date have been purchased through the Nook store... ugh.
So! I started mucking about with font changing apps in the store and found one called "Font Size Setter" that actually works pretty well in ICS. Unfortunately, while it does scale fonts all over the OS itself, it has no effect whatsoever in whatever calculations the Nook app uses to display fonts in an eBook.
So what I'm wondering is, does the Nook app have a settings file of some kind that I can manually edit to scale down the font display? Does anyone know? I don't know enough about how Android is laid out even begin looking...
Thanks for any help you can provide...
EDITED: I just realized it may be as simple as finding smaller versions of the fonts the Nook uses for display purposes and overwriting the default ones. Are android fonts .otf files? And does anyone know if there's a way to find smaller ones?
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Ditto trying to find solution to this as well. Anyone?
Emailed B&N Support; no reply yet
ubersoft said:
If any of you have used the Nook app on the Galaxy Note, you probably already know what I'm going to ask.
Problem: at stock 320 dpi, the text in eBooks is ridiculously large in the Nook Reader, even at its smallest setting. You have to go down to 260 dpi before text becomes small enough to read comfortably--but 260 dpi leads to force closes for me. 240 dpi solves the force close problem but for some reason ICS Objection is very sluggish at 240 dpi.
280 dpi is a good happy medium for me for all my aps but the Nook. Thing is, most of my eBooks to date have been purchased through the Nook store... ugh.
So! I started mucking about with font changing apps in the store and found one called "Font Size Setter" that actually works pretty well in ICS. Unfortunately, while it does scale fonts all over the OS itself, it has no effect whatsoever in whatever calculations the Nook app uses to display fonts in an eBook.
So what I'm wondering is, does the Nook app have a settings file of some kind that I can manually edit to scale down the font display? Does anyone know? I don't know enough about how Android is laid out even begin looking...
Thanks for any help you can provide...
EDITED: I just realized it may be as simple as finding smaller versions of the fonts the Nook uses for display purposes and overwriting the default ones. Are android fonts .otf files? And does anyone know if there's a way to find smaller ones?
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I emailed B&N to bring this issue to their attention - how the Nook for Android app that worked fine with Gingerbread no longer works correctly after updating to ICS 4.0.4 (SGH-i717 AT&T model, in my case).
Fingers crossed they reply, as the issue makes reading Nook books on the Galaxy Note practically unreadable due to ridiculously oversized fonts, the inability to hide the status bar, etc. - all of which worked fine on 2.3 Gingerbread Note before I ran the update to ICS (which seems to have changed the dpi/ppi resolution reporting between the device and the Nook app).
flash back to GB.....It sounds like our only hope...unless B&N pulls their head out, and supports ICS with their apps...g
Nook Updated 3.2.0.81 - better Galaxy Note & Tablet support & built-in dictionary
Good news: Nook 3.2.0.81 updated yesterday and there's some better support for the Galaxy Note, including ability to hide status bar, and (for all devices) a built-in dictionary option to download the dictionary of your choice so you no longer need to launch out of the product to look up definitions. (Interesting note: The iOS version update also offers downloadable dictionary even though that version of the app has had dictionary lookup using the iOS's own dictionary feature since earliest versions.)
To me the updated version helps make using Nook on the Galaxy Note more comfortable, though the font sizing still seems off, because even the smallest font still looks too big to me.
That said, I'm pleased this app has finally gotten a reasonably helpful update after so many months of gargantuan fonts and unhidden status bar and whatnot.
I just long-pressed the left button (back button) to bring up the settings and fix the text size. Now it reads just like it did on my Samsung Galaxy S4.
OK, so I've been using Android for a while with HTC Sense, what user interface differences am I likely to notice when I move to Touchwiz on a Galaxy S3? (I would have gone for the HTX One X - but no removable battery, no SD card?! C'mon!)
I also have a nice physical qwerty keyboard at the moment, so having to use a touch-only keyboard will be a wrench, how bad is it? (I can't really use the on-screen keyboard on my HTC Desire Z at all, I'm just hoping that the slightly larger screen will make a touch keyboard least bearable).
Andre
Touching "Weather" on home screen leads to "Weather app" only - no Clock, no Alarm...
Weather then needs three steps (and browser) to show ""Hourly". No animation in Weather app, also.
Ended up removing that widget completely and putting normal clock instead.
Dialer has no AI. Needs a lot of patience. Ended up adding "Direct Dial Widget" for some people I call a lot - can't use dialer at all, it's annoying.
I found no way of copying contacts to Phone all at once, like in Sense. Contact pictures are small and pixelated due to this (used to change Google to Phone contacts on Sense, and reapplying the pics so they stay in full res).
TouchWizz will link contacts properly but will miss their Skype pictures. Further (manual) linking is possible, but a bit more complicated then in Sense 4.
Adding widgets and apps in Sense 4 (I used before) is a lot more straight forward. This is a bit... well, one can get used to it, but it's different. "Hold and drag" instead of simply "Tap". Go figure.
If I remember anything else, I'll add it. Can't help with your keyboard issue, I use screen for it for a while.
So basically Sense is mostly better, but it's fixable with third-party apps. Kinda what I expected; I do like Sense, but HTC have dropped the ball a bit with the rest of the One-X vs. the Galaxy 3S.
The one thing I know I'll miss (stupid I know!) will be the animated weather graphics when you open the home page.
Andre
You can get all that from beautiful widgets and the free animation app at play store. go to getjar for the apk.
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I too moved from HTC (previously Desire, Desire HD, SensationXE) to S3.
Missed the most is the HTC signature home page, lots of custom mods and libary of widgets provided by Sense. But nothing can trump replacable battery and uSD card. Take me few hours to get use to Touchwiz and Samsung apps. Now a very happy user of S3.
andrewilley said:
So basically Sense is mostly better, but it's fixable with third-party apps. Kinda what I expected; I do like Sense, but HTC have dropped the ball a bit with the rest of the One-X vs. the Galaxy 3S.
The one thing I know I'll miss (stupid I know!) will be the animated weather graphics when you open the home page.
Andre
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What you won't miss is the lag with Sense.
As for the keyboard, you just have to go cold turkey. I could suggest trying other keyboards. One or two features I find missing on the keyboard are directional arrows, because it's hard to pin point going back to a word to correct it, and the mic icon for voice to text input... I had a keyboard on my Note that took care of those two and was a bit easier to type on.. Now I forget which one it was and miss it.. lol
Thanks. I use HD Widgets on my tablet, which allows installs onto multiple devices, so I'll try that first - or maybe try Beautiful Widgets for the animations.
Andre
Swype changed my opinion of touch screen keyboards forever. It's almost as fast as having a full sized qwerty keyboard once you know how to use it.
I like sense as well but I'm not buying a phone without a removable battery either. I'm also tired of the sub standard speakers HTC keep using. I'd at least like to hear my phone ring in my pocket.
Think most of the points of difference have been covered already. Touch wiz now also has features of its own lacking in sense. Example is smart stay and some of the other motion control options.
All in all, having used a sensation up until April and a desire hd before that, I'm finding touch wiz to be quite pleasant. It's not nearly as crap as the HTC fan boys like to make out on those forums.
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