Hey, when using LCD resolution on my S2 the homescreen does not seem to scale to the new resolution and basically just stays as a small block where as everything else like the menus work fine. Is there anyway to solve this? thanks
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I have a Dell Streak 5, but I bought a Galaxy S II last night. I realize the screen is a bit smaller, but I find the resolution or density extremely poor...I like a lot more on my screen, and it seems everything is too large. It's a show stopper for me. Is there anything I can do to change this before I return back to the Streak?
There isn't really a viable software fix for this, so just return the phone and get a Galaxy Note (1280 x 720 at 280 something PPI, 5.3inch screen).
1. Get your device rooted
2. Download "LCD Resolution" from Market.
The lower the number, the higher the resolution.
NOTE: Apps may not be fully optimized for this kind of resolution such as Phone, where the keypad is smaller than the screen. Market works with this DPI modification.
Also click on "Always Set On Boot" in the app so that it would automatically adjust your desired Density at boot.
Hi guys -
I just upgraded from the Cappy to the Galaxy S2 on AT&T. The phone looks and feels great, but I noticed the colors on the screen are not realistic in some apps. The wallpaper on the homescreen & lock screen looks amazing, but the pictures I take with the camera, and the colors in some of the game apps (i.e. Hanging with Friends) look very different. The colors are over-saturated and dark. I've never had this issue on the Cappy, and was wondering if anyone else had similar problems? I searched online and found the international version has a display mode option setting, which is non-existent on the i777. I tried using the Screen Adjuster app, but it didn't help an awful lot.
Took a screen capture with the phone, but the colors look normal there. Would need to borrow another phone or camera to take a picture...and then will post pics as a side by side comparison on what the screen captures.
Anyone else have this problem and/or know how to fix it?
yuy104 said:
Hi guys -
I just upgraded from the Cappy to the Galaxy S2 on AT&T. The phone looks and feels great, but I noticed the colors on the screen are not realistic in some apps. The wallpaper on the homescreen & lock screen looks amazing, but the pictures I take with the camera, and the colors in some of the game apps (i.e. Hanging with Friends) look very different. The colors are over-saturated and dark. I've never had this issue on the Cappy, and was wondering if anyone else had similar problems? I searched online and found the international version has a display mode option setting, which is non-existent on the i777. I tried using the Screen Adjuster app, but it didn't help an awful lot.
Took a screen capture with the phone, but the colors look normal there. Would need to borrow another phone or camera to take a picture...and then will post pics as a side by side comparison on what the screen captures.
Anyone else have this problem and/or know how to fix it?
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I assume you are running a stock ROM - if so, I believe Samsung defaults the screen mode to "dynamic" and got rid of the option to select other modes (normal and movie) in their ROMs. Most (possibly all) of the custom ROMs on this forum add that selection option back. menu>display>screen mode.
dandrumheller said:
I assume you are running a stock ROM - if so, I believe Samsung defaults the screen mode to "dynamic" and got rid of the option to select other modes (normal and movie) in their ROMs. Most (possibly all) of the custom ROMs on this forum add that selection option back. menu>display>screen mode.
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Thanks for the quick response! Yea, I'm still on stock ROM...was thinking of rooting and flashing to a custom one soon. Will report back results of the display after. Thanks again!
Im making a tablet rom for the ray and i have faced one problem, if i lower the screen density in the build.prop to 160(like a tablet) when i call someone or get a call the phone says the process com.android.phone has stopped.
i thought maybe i can change the phone.apk to a tablets one and then which one?
Thank you for the help.
Why not use screen density 240?
When you lower the pixel density more things fit in screen with the modding i did to the framework-res in 240 not everything fits the screen for example the lock screen.
The Ray has a small screen, why do you want to make it smaller?
I doubt that what you are doing has any practical usage.
Hi,
I'm trying to screen cast from a Nexus 4 to a large screen TV (using a PTV3000). I want to put the TV in portrait mode and have the screen case occupy the entire screen, however I don't seem to find a way to accomplish this. When the phone's orientation is vertical (portrait) it assumes the TV is in landscape orientation and the phone screen is displayed small in the middle of the TV with black space on the sides.
After doing some searching it seems that this behavior can only be changed with a custom ROM, however I haven't been able to pinpoint where in the AOSP tree this behavior can be changed. Any suggestions are much appreciated.
Thanks!
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mariusmuja said:
Hi,
I'm trying to screen cast from a Nexus 4 to a large screen TV (using a PTV3000). I want to put the TV in portrait mode and have the screen case occupy the entire screen, however I don't seem to find a way to accomplish this. When the phone's orientation is vertical (portrait) it assumes the TV is in landscape orientation and the phone screen is displayed small in the middle of the TV with black space on the sides.
After doing some searching it seems that this behavior can only be changed with a custom ROM, however I haven't been able to pinpoint where in the AOSP tree this behavior can be changed. Any suggestions are much appreciated.
Thanks!
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Did you ever get the full screen to work?
I changed the digitizer and display in my phone. The digitizer seems to think its resolution is larger (1080x1920) than the real display resolution (720x1280), so my touch is misplaced. I know how to change the display (physical) resolution using wm size, but that scales the digitizer resolution proportionally.
How do I change the digitizer resolution?
Output of dumpsys SurfaceFlinger: pastebin.com/gXnfxJKv
Output of dumpsys display: pastebin.com/bwkjXHxH
(The phone is Lenovo A7000, but that shouldn't matter. The error persists after upgrading firmware, rebooting etc. I haven't flashed/rooted - yet.)
After using adb shell wm size ----x---, did you try adb shell wm density ---? Density is basically the dpi of which the device will utilise
Good luck.
ramiabouzahra said:
After using adb shell wm size ----x---, did you try adb shell wm density ---? Density is basically the dpi of which the device will utilise
Good luck.
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Thanks, but yeah, I tried and it doesn't affect the digitizer resolution either, none of the wm options do anything worthwhile.
It seems I need something like a way to change sizes of SurfaceFlinger layers.
Xellos0 said:
Thanks, but yeah, I tried and it doesn't affect the digitizer resolution either, none of the wm options do anything worthwhile.
It seems I need something like a way to change sizes of SurfaceFlinger layers.
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SurfaceFlinger is integrated into the GPU if I am correct, so good luck with changed that
Other than that, at the time of writing, I can't come up with a solution.
Wish you best of luck
Just going to add that I have a similar yet different problem to you.
The similar part is I too also need means to change digitizer resolution but instead of going from 1080p(FHD) down to 720p(HD). My scenario needs to go from 1080p(HD) up to 2160p(UHD)
So I'm just adding more traffic in hopes people know of commands specific to the digitizer or a method to locate & modify files which report the device as only 1080p to most apps
See I've tried Shell/ABD commands but unlike most phones giving my phone a command to report itself as 4K to apps is creating an issue because seemingly even though the device knows it's 4K it reports to itself/apps as 1080p so my the digitizer is running itself as 1080p even though the hardware is sending a 4K signal to light the screen even if most times what's displayed is simply 400% 1080p
If anyone knows what files to get to (as well as how) I as well as OP can manually add the appropriate values to use the correct amount of our screens whilst utilizing the correct resolution, because like he said the PDI stuff isn't related to digitizer only display scale, we need digitizer scaling
OJKLLC said:
Just going to add that I have a similar yet different problem to you.
The similar part is I too also need means to change digitizer resolution but instead of going from 1080p(FHD) down to 720p(HD). My scenario needs to go from 1080p(HD) up to 2160p(UHD)
So I'm just adding more traffic in hopes people know of commands specific to the digitizer or a method to locate & modify files which report the device as only 1080p to most apps
See I've tried Shell/ABD commands but unlike most phones giving my phone a command to report itself as 4K to apps is creating an issue because seemingly even though the device knows it's 4K it reports to itself/apps as 1080p so my the digitizer is running itself as 1080p even though the hardware is sending a 4K signal to light the screen even if most times what's displayed is simply 400% 1080p
If anyone knows what files to get to (as well as how) I as well as OP can manually add the appropriate values to use the correct amount of our screens whilst utilizing the correct resolution, because like he said the PDI stuff isn't related to digitizer only display scale, we need digitizer scaling
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& to clarify when in 4K all the time mode with the ABD/Shell command it's not like I can use the whole screen to touch but it'll scale that touch to 1960 by 1080, not the touch for my case is 100% accurate to where I place my finger, issue is that its only sampling 1960 by 1080 of the pixels aka just 1 corner so only useable quarter of the touchscreen with the other 75% completely dead