Can any dev explain the phenomena that I experience with Navigon when altering the Interface DPI with Paranoid Android? Not that they have to, I'm just curious.
If I set the DPI lower than 320, Navigon blows the interface up to freakish levels. Setting Navigon's per-app DPI back to 320 only makes it worse.
To get Navigon to display properly (and like stock 320 DPI), I have to set it to 160 DPI. With the XPosed framework, I can set the DPI back to 320 to remove the graphical glitch and set the app to view as it was before I changed the UI's DPI.
If I want the interface shrunk to match the rest of my UI, which I have at 190 DPI, I have to manually edit to properties.conf file to set the DPI to 100.
If no one can answer, hopefully this will help others who might have experienced this with other apps.
Hello
Can i change dpi stock 240. Someone have tested?
kvadde said:
Hello
Can i change dpi stock 240. Someone have tested?
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A solid-state screen's DPI is a physical attribute, you cannot change it.
I believe OP is referring to the soft DPI settings in build.prop. You must root, then edit the ro.sf.lcd_density setting in build.prop. It's already 240 on CM, not sure about stock though.
Cat McGowan said:
A solid-state screen's DPI is a physical attribute, you cannot change it.
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You are talking about PPI, not DPI
Stock DPI is also 240.
But why would you want to change that??
If some app is not displaying to your satisfaction, it's better not to modify build.prop, because it could lead to unexpected weird behaviors.
Better is to use the "Xposed Framework" with the module "App Settings"; there you can specify individual DPI settings for each app. The safer and more flexible solution! I use it without problems on all my devices.
Felimenta97 said:
You are talking about PPI, not DPI
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You have it backwards.
kvadde said:
Hello
Can i change dpi stock 240. Someone have tested?
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As you didn't specify whether you want this on stock firmware or an AOSP ROM, I'd suggest to try the PACman port to the XTZ, as it includes per-app DPI modifier. It's currently in nightlies and no fully stable release as of yet, but it's worth to try if you really need that feature.
DPI = Dots Per Inch
PPI = Pixels Per Inch
The reason we've started to use PPI instead of DPI is because of PenTile, since that technology yields more pixels than dots per inch (dots are shared between adjacent pixels). Both are properties of the hardware but by telling Android you have a different DPI you can scale the UI. This procedure will make graphical elements that makes use of their physical size on the display (rulers, printing tools, etc.) show up at incorrect sizes.
For example, if you have a virtual measurement tape, you'll need to multiply all values with the original DPI divided by the new DPI. So if you choose to change your tablets DPI to 120, making every UI element scale to half of the original size, you'd need to multiply every value by 240/120=2 for it to match up with the real world.
I hope this clears things up.
Shanliang- said:
As you didn't specify whether you want this on stock firmware or an AOSP ROM, I'd suggest to try the PACman port to the XTZ, as it includes per-app DPI modifier. It's currently in nightlies and no fully stable release as of yet, but it's worth to try if you really need that feature.
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As I already said: No need to change firmware. Just install Xposed framework with App Settings module on rooted device, and you can freely modify DPI per app.
Now that we have root and kernel adiutor, we might be able to change the dpi to the screen dpi with it.
Has already someone changed this?
According to the dpi calculator:
https://www.sven.de/dpi/
We should have ~197 dpi, but there is 280 in the build.prop
Actually how many dpi does our watch have?
I set the calculator above to 2.3 so the result reads 1,63x1,63 display.
But other calculators are different...
Change it for whole android is not perfect. Try instead the Xposed module app settings to change dpi for specific apps.
Hello,
I would like to change my DPI which is at 320 right now.
I'm about to do it by changing the value in build.prop.
My question is, what are safe ranges where i can stay in between, does anyone know?
Or is anyone using a custom DPI and can you then tell me what DPI you are on?
Thanks
how can i change dpi or screen resolution of android
Root + DPI changer app. This can break some things. On some phones it can cause bootloops.