Here's what I've noticed and actually checked into the last couple of days. Some fonts look amazing or shall I say look normal. Some font's however don't look as normal and actually show the jagged edges that some complain of. A specific font choice with a smaller font size will yield a kinda jagged appearance and obviously some will see it and some won't depending on the apps they use.
It may be worth it to experiment and determine which fonts we would eventually like to incorporate into roms and mods.
For example, if you enable the 4x1 beautiful weather in Beautiful Widgets you'll see the temp fonts look rather jagged. If you happen to use Audio Manager you will notice the font is even smaller than the BW fonts but look much better. Mobile Signal Widget has the worst example of what's on my device. The signal strength font looks horrible.
The screen in amazing, the colors are superb and for the most part it's super sharp. We should help it along as much as we can.
Someone on another forum pointed out the red text in the Youtube app, that looks bad.
For the most part, for what I use on a daily basis, I have no complaints.
Ya, 98% is perfect, its only those certain situations, that's why I think they could be easily avoided.
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I'm using the Robo-ICS font for a while now and also applied it to the Razr right after rooting it. I'm pretty much satisfied with it. It will however not solve the issue with red graphics/letters, because especially with red, the typical pentile effects are more visible than in any other situation.
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I'm using the Robo-ICS font for a while now and also applied it to the Razr right after rooting it. I'm pretty much satisfied with it. It will however not solve the issue with red graphics/letters, because especially with red, the typical pen tile effects are more visible than in any other situation.
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Your right. Roboto looks fantastic.
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Are you guys using Font Installer? It sure threw my phone into a bogged down mess. Had to reboot twice after the font install to get it back to normal. Sent the battery temp up to 37c very quickly.
It may not be for everyone but the Droid font looks really sharp as well. Especially the smaller text.
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Are you guys using Font Installer? It sure threw my phone into a bogged down mess. Had to reboot twice after the font install to get it back to normal. Sent the battery temp up to 37c very quickly.
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I used ROM Toolbox to install roboto and it worked perfectly.
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where cacn i get the roboto font?
ya that's the same app by the same dev with more features added. Trying it anyway though, thanks.
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where cacn i get the roboto font?
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Make sure you're rooted and install Font Installer or ROM Toolbox, or whatever else. They have it pre-installed.
I just installed it. It did reboot on me 1 time. Now it seems OK. Thanks for the heads up on this. Very nice and clean look.
Just installed the roboto font and it does look slightly better. I'm just glad to have at least a little bit of ability to customize. I really miss my X for that reason. But, on the up side, my wife loves it! I Gabe it to her
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Hey anyone know the exact name of the stock font?
Does anyone know what the name of the font for the clock on the lock screen of the droid razr is called? I've searched every droid forum I could and I can't for the life of me figure it out, any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Does anyone know what the name of the font for the clock on the lock screen of the droid razr is called? I've searched every droid forum I could and I can't for the life of me figure it out, any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Bump... Need this too... I need t to create a duplicate lockscreen for MIUI. Need help and it will be greatly appreciated.
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I really want to use them because they are so cool, but I tried a lightning one and it just seemed to move a little laggy. Swiping, opening things, you could tell slightly it was a little slower. Not sure how drastic battery life is cut short though.
Anyone use them, or just use their own custom wallpapers? Or any other thoughts on Live Wallpapers in general?
I use them every now n then. I experience no lag at all with them on. it might just be that particular wallpaper not optimized for tablet or ICS. plus not too many out there that's HD. I rather use a highbdefinition wallpaper that showcases the Primes great display and colors. There are some really good live wallpapers out there though. They don't really drain the battery like people like to assume. Some are made better than others.
Some great ones are; Digital Hive(free), SunRise(free), Bubbles, Christmas HD, Season Zen(free), and Touch Ripples(free). Those all work n look great on the Prime with no lag. All this live wallpaper talk makes me wanna apply one now..lol
I've been using black hole that came with ICS. It works great. I use the ones that came with the system because their made for ICS. Doesnt effect the speed or scrolling.
I have been using the water/whale paper pre loaded. Works fine while indicating the battery level. Haven't noticed any lag or other issues.
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I try them on occasion too, and then switch away when bored to something like Windows Vista Wallpapers (and Win7, the dramatic Landscape stuff) They are all out there, modified for the Primes resolution
I just tried Black hole because of the other post, and I like it much more than I thought I would. We will see, by end of day I will be looking for something else, LOL!
Anyone try the "semi-live" Asus "Day Scene"? Changes with time of day, so it's really just 4-5 static WP's. Nice, but the "dusk " one s horrible. Looks like someone peed on the landscape, LOL!
Installed the Skyrim live wallpaper, looks and feels pretty smooth.
Guess you have to like the game though.
Digital Hive is awesome...When you're not doing anything on the desktop, it's pretty passive, but during touch actions, it's cool as hell.
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Digital Hive is awesome...When you're not doing anything on the desktop, it's pretty passive, but during touch actions, it's cool as hell.
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is yours working on ICS? it doesn't seem to move anymore on the preview screen. Before I had it animating the whole time.
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is yours working on ICS? it doesn't seem to move anymore on the preview screen. Before I had it animating the whole time.
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I have never had it animated without a touch action...it wigs out when you first apply the wallpaper; every hex spins until you touch each of them.
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I have never had it animated without a touch action...it wigs out when you first apply the wallpaper; every hex spins until you touch each of them.
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nah, the whole wallpaper animated without even touching it once applied. you are talking about the blue honeycomb digital hive, right?
Not me.
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nah, the whole wallpaper animated without even touching it once applied. you are talking about the blue honeycomb digital hive, right?
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That's what I'm saying above. When first applied, it animated, but if you touch each hex, they won't animate again unless you're touching them.
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That's what I'm saying above. When first applied, it animated, but if you touch each hex, they won't animate again unless you're touching them.
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Well, it doesn't seem to animate at all in ICS. Just a static image.
That's how the free one works for me. The paid version worked ok but not enough for me to keep it so I got a refund
so, i was running a rom on my now-defunct droid bionic that allowed me to adjust the dpi of my screen. i love high resolution, so i immediatly fell in love with it. now that im back to my POS thunderbolt, i have tried to emulate that. i have tried multiple apps to adjust my resolution, and most of them worked! but all of them had one minor flaw...
my notification bar would not get rid of old sprits, as new ones came up. there would be like, residue left from what ever was there before. ill post a screenshot, if i cant describe it well enough. but, my point it...is there any way to fix this...?
thanks, guise.
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Which ROM are you currently running on you Bolt?
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Does anyone else feel like the ICS OTA was just kind of thrown together and not built very well? To me, nothing seems to be themed consistently and I feel as though ICS/Sense doesn't fit very well together. In some cases, I'll get menus with the black and blue ICS theme and then other times I'll get the Sense white and green menus. Other than having ICS (which is awesome) I don't think HTC put much time into this update. What do you guys think?
I blame Verizon...
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I see what you mean but what can we do?
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I blame Verizon...
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Blame verizon all you want for the bad timing of the update, but the performance of ICS is 100% HTC's fault. No doubt about it
Problem is that HTC is mostly green and they want to stay green except Android is turning blue. I guess HTC needs to learn how to theme? Oh and I blame Verizon for everything as well, what a bunch of blowers..
It's kinda sh*tty but it doesn't bother most of us since we're on custom roms that are themed. Source is the only thing I care about.
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ICS OTA
I waited for the OTA to drop before I unlocked the bootloader, rooted, and installed custom roms. I don't know why, because the OTA was underwhelming for sure.
It's better than gb for sure
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I don't care much for the looks but that is not the problem. It is much slower the gb. The browser does not work well for flash videos. It also does not work when searching pictures with Google. Hancent no longer see's Facebook photos. I have several programs that don't work properly. I wish i could go back to GB!
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I was annoyed to find out on a trip this weekend that the navigation voice does not have its own volume and if you play music at the same time, you can barely hear the voice. I had to mute my music when there was a lot of directions coming up.
It is an improvement for me
I am completely stock. I don't like to root until Verizon wont cover the phone any longer.But I was getting close though because of the data drop issues. ICS is not the solution to everything, but it made my phone able to work like I expect. I don't know if I blame HTC, Verizon or the tooth fairy. I know that they all should have been bothered by the number of people running stock that were dealing with not being able to us the internet as a general rule that is a core function of a smart phone, imho.
For those of you who are developing roms, thank you. I will root this phone, probably around Christmas. Thanks for keeping a variety around. :good:
Dated version of sense when 4.0 is the norm for newer HTC phones. Custom roms ftw.
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Dated version of sense when 4.0 is the norm for newer HTC phones. Custom roms ftw.
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Honestly I am ok with most stuff on it. The only major issue I am having is battery drain. I am hoping after I reset it will be fixed. But it did fix the 4g issues I was having. The browser hasn't been slower for me but I haven't tried videos on it yet. I am annoyed handsent isn't syncing the pics but since the address book is it sounds like a handcent problem. Overall I am happy with it. It's nice I can disable the bloatware and I like how ICS is. I like the sense its not much difference then GB, 4.0 would be nice but at least my phone is working now.
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Honestly I am ok with most stuff on it. The only major issue I am having is battery drain. I am hoping after I reset it will be fixed. But it did fix the 4g issues I was having. The browser hasn't been slower for me but I haven't tried videos on it yet. I am annoyed handsent isn't syncing the pics but since the address book is it sounds like a handcent problem. Overall I am happy with it. It's nice I can disable the bloatware and I like how ICS is. I like the sense its not much difference then GB, 4.0 would be nice but at least my phone is working now.
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Nice! Glad to hear that you're happy with your phone and the update :good:. If you're having battery issues, try reducing the frequency of data synchs etc. Lower screen brightness for general use etc. Could also try a battery calibration. Good luck!
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Nice! Glad to hear that you're happy with your phone and the update :good:. If you're having battery issues, try reducing the frequency of data synchs etc. Lower screen brightness for general use etc. Could also try a battery calibration. Good luck!
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I kept my sync frequencies, and screen brightness the same so I could compare battery efficiency between GB and ICS. ICS is about 50% worse, in my experience. My extended battery lasts 1 day 9 hours to 0% battery, where it used to last a full 2. It's horrendous. If I reduced sync times and brightness, etc. on GB I would be approaching or exceeding the 3 day mark. Users shouldn't have to do all that just to hit 2 days on ICS. I know some users do not experience these battery issues (my wife and coworker do not), so I have to assume it's an actual defect in my handset.
I agree with OP. Nothing seemed themes consistently at all. I couldn't stand bouncing back and force between ICS and Sense themes, which were entirely different (and arguably clashing).
I spent plenty of time waiting for the OTA, and when it finally came and flashed a new ROM that night.
Screen brightness messes up after using camera (mine stays at full brightness until I lock and unlock again), landscape keyboard is severely ****ed (not so much the keyboard but the displayed content above it where my cursor is), and the themes a little but they don't bother me at all. Anyone else have those problems?
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Screen brightness messes up after using camera (mine stays at full brightness until I lock and unlock again), landscape keyboard is severely ****ed (not so much the keyboard but the displayed content above it where my cursor is), and the themes a little but they don't bother me at all. Anyone else have those problems?
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Ive always had that auto brightness problem with the camera even on the droid incredible so its not new to me but i did notice that if you try a new theme some parts of HTC's green theme turn into your color of theme. But not always.
I agree with everything said pretty much accept battery life. Mines still good even on these stock kernals.
Moral of the story... Nexus only from now on lol. The themeing issues and old sense and old version of ICS when we finally get the update is annoying to me. Why didn't they just release the source and not push an outdated update lol.
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Ive always had that auto brightness problem with the camera even on the droid incredible so its not new to me but i did notice that if you try a new theme some parts of HTC's green theme turn into your color of theme. But not always.
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Yeah I turned on the blue skin theme and it comes up with some blue and some green. Both look fine so I don't complain but the landscape keyboard thing is super annoying. Anyone have that problem or am I the minority?
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Just had a good old internet search but couldn't find a definitive answer so I thought I'd ask the lovely people at xda. Hopefully someone will give me an answer before everyone gets pissy and this thread gets locked.
Anyway, slightly deceptive title as I'm using a ROM based on stock, so, not entirely stock (Chameleon 1.2). Just made a switch away from Cyanogenmod due to the fairly awful battery life I was getting, hopeful this fixes that somewhat. However, I'm already really missing being able to make the font smaller, to a point where I can't use this at all.
Is there a good AIO solution to this? Or am I gonna have to suck it up?
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Just had a good old internet search but couldn't find a definitive answer so I thought I'd ask the lovely people at xda. Hopefully someone will give me an answer before everyone gets pissy and this thread gets locked.
Anyway, slightly deceptive title as I'm using a ROM based on stock, so, not entirely stock (Chameleon 1.2). Just made a switch away from Cyanogenmod due to the fairly awful battery life I was getting, hopeful this fixes that somewhat. However, I'm already really missing being able to make the font smaller, to a point where I can't use this at all.
Is there a good AIO solution to this? Or am I gonna have to suck it up?
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You can just reduce the DPI
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You can just reduce the DPI
Swyped from my Samsung Galaxy SII
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Hadn't though of this for some reason. Works quite well but I'm pretty happy with a dpi of 240 so if anyone else knows of a way I'd love to hear it
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Hadn't though of this for some reason. Works quite well but I'm pretty happy with a dpi of 240 so if anyone else knows of a way I'd love to hear it
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Then change the font size under display settings
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Then change the font size under display settings
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Dude, come on. That's the first thing I looked for. There isn't one on this rom. Hence the thread.
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Dude, come on. That's the first thing I looked for. There isn't one on this rom. Hence the thread.
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have u tried 'Rom Toolbox' app , it may not increase ur exsisting font size, but u can change ur font to a diff one which is bigger in size, and also u can have a preview of 'Fonts' befor applying them in Rom Toolbox
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have u tried 'Rom Toolbox' app , it may not increase ur exsisting font size, but u can change ur font to a diff one which is bigger in size, and also u can have a preview of 'Fonts' befor applying them in Rom Toolbox
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Cheers, I'll have a peek to see if I can find a smaller sized Roboto font and apply that :good:
I use font manager. It works at least to my liking.
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just use Big Font (change font size) easy
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I use font manager. It works at least to my liking.
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Good stuff. The persistent notification is rather annoying though, but the font size seems to persist after killing the app, so I'll live.
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just use Big Font (change font size) easy
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I'll try it. Saw it before I posted this thread though, and the reviews put me off, figured I'd find a better solution at xda :good:
=benwalker;315397request Il try it. Saw it before I posted this thread though, and the reviews put me off, figured I'd find a better solution at xda :good:
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Well when is sow those reviews I fell same, but I guess those are totally noobs just install that app and set font size to 84% for best results
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Well when is sow those reviews I fell same, but I guess those are totally noobs just install that app and set font size to 84% for best results
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Done and done. Very nice, and you can turn the notification icon off. We have a winner! Cheers bud.
I'm not all that impressed by the stock resolution, need smaller icons and more room! ANyone else?
I've noticed a few screen issues. I think once more apps are converted to being able to make use of this resolution, things will get better over time.
you don't like the stock 5x5 grid?
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you don't like the stock 5x5 grid?
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No, I want t take advantage of the 2k screen, Honestly I cant even really tell the difference between stock form g3 and my S5.. the icons are huge and lots of space is wasted on the page indicator.
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No, I want t take advantage of the 2k screen, Honestly I cant even really tell the difference between stock form g3 and my S5.. the icons are huge and lots of space is wasted on the page indicator.
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Easy enough to fix with Nova launcher...
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Easy enough to fix with Nova launcher...
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Totally. You can make eye charts with Nova's grid. I'm enjoying the size of the icons for now, but I figure I'll tighten things up eventually.
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I'm not all that impressed by the stock resolution, need smaller icons and more room! ANyone else?
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if you root you can change ro.sf.lcd_density in /system/build.prop to a lower number like 480 looks very nice. However the LG custom apps will not work.
You could change the LCD density, if you're root. That's what I did with my S4 to make things look smaller.
changed my DPI to 530 no issues and everything fits better. wanted to try going to 1080p to see if its a real diffrence, when why i tried everything looked too big and not as smooth
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changed my DPI to 530 no issues and everything fits better. wanted to try going to 1080p to see if its a real diffrence, when why i tried everything looked too big and not as smooth
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How'd you change it?
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How'd you change it?
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edit build prop. or use a dpi changer.. you need to root tho
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Be careful on the DPI settings. Gotta be root, and I used a DPI changer. It worked fine. Until I couldn't get my actual phone app or contacts to work. I got around this by getting an app, but I was still having issues. I thought it was because I went thru the system and deleted a bunch of apps, accidentally deleting something important. So I did a reset. And doing a reset doesn't fix the DPI settings back. After being an idiot for a few minutes, I learned it was because of the DPI settings. Changed them back and it fixed the issue. So I've just left it alone and went with Nova. I contribute some of that ignorance to alcohol.
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How'd you change it?
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I edited the build prop and rebooted and for some reason that didn't work for me so I grabbed Texdroider_DPI from the play store and set it to 530 and it worked.
Looks much better!
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I edited the build prop and rebooted and for some reason that didn't work for me so I grabbed Texdroider_DPI from the play store and set it to 530 and it worked.
Looks much better!
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I did the same.. super happy with the phone now.
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I did the same.. super happy with the phone now.
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Did it not make your lock screen wallpapers look all screwy though? It zooms in on the wallpaper and makes a dark shadow on the top part for me. I couldn't find a way around it when lowering the dpi.
Interesting... as I'm reading these, I'm thinking... some of the lettering is somewhat blurry, or has a weird look to it... is that just the IPS or the fact that no one has adapted to 2k reso?
530 is great for me. No issues so far
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Interesting... as I'm reading these, I'm thinking... some of the lettering is somewhat blurry, or has a weird look to it... is that just the IPS or the fact that no one has adapted to 2k reso?
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Yeah, the wallpaper does zoom in, and the smart notice widget gets messed up. Could probably fix it if you could resize it.
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How'd you change it?
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I would use Nova anyway, so hopefully no issues with a resolution change.