Just a heads up but the sense launcher, if you haven't noticed gives you a much lower resolution on your home screen. The home screen is much more crisp to the eye and stands out a lot more. Try Adw out for yourself
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I know it has been asked but i don't see any good answers.
I want to make icons and text a big bigger.... the screen density is nice, but if i want just 4 rows, then i would like my icons a bit bigger.
It seems SweeterHome 2 is the only option, but it doesn't have a Dock and the learning curve is steep.
Any ideas?
ADW Launcher EX - the paid version lets you increase font size and icon size. I find it just looks better on the higher density screen and i still get to use the Moto widgets.
Check your stock icons on the HOMESCREEN I bet they don't look very clear. The icons look low res
However when in the app drawyer the same icons look more crisp and clear.
Fail much lol?
Grab ADW and change them to your own super mega HD high rez flavor nasty icons son!
Wait...use adw to convert the icons then use sense or permanently use adw?
In almost all custom launchers, dock icons are smaller than normal icons, which makes them harder to press, especially on smaller screens.
Other than ADW EX, I don't know any other launcher that allows us to change the dock icon size or hide the dock all together and put normal icons in that space. For this reason, ADW is the only launcher that I can use. I can't use LauncherPro, Go Launcher EX, Zeam, etc. etc.
This is a horrible idea that doesn't make sense at all to me. I mean, what is the reason behind the dock icons being smaller? What purpose does it serve? Is there any logical explaination that I'm missing?
Anyway, if you know of any other launcher that allows normal size dock icons (other than Touchwiz, please) please post here.
yes you're right
dock apps must be larger than the other because they're used almost more than desktop apps
unfortunintly I don't know any other launcher with big icons
My last phone was a HTC Desire, now I use the Galaxy S3.
It's a great phone, but what a king size icons and a loss of screen space. On the home screen I have 4x4 space for icons, a large slider 4x1 and a dock for 4x1. When you use some widgets that are 4x2 the half of the screen is filled.
Starting the contact app shows me a few rows of contacts. But with a font size that can be read from outer space.....(font size in settings set to tiny)
Do you agree with this ?
Are there any opportunities (custom roms) to improve this ?
Maybe Apex launcher can solve some of these things...
Change your dpi
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
Nice to have such a choice!
Good to know that the dpi can be changed. But these middle aged eyes of mine will be thrilled that stuff is bigger on the screen. Awesome!
Download Apex Launcher or Nova Launcher. Both are smooth, free and have customizable desktop grids. I really loved the smoothness of the stock GS3 launcher but the lack of space was a dealbreaker for me.
I really like having a larger phone but doesn't it seem like it's larger. I would expect more app icons or widgets to fit on a screen but it doesn't. I get some large gaps between my HD widgets and calendars and icons. Also it would be nice to maybe have 1x1 more column and rows for the screen. It seems that there is a lot of wasted space.
Is there any fix?
Thought the same thing so tried both nova and apex launchers (typically the same app) stuck with apex and you can increase the apps to what you want.