I flashed Novena ROM and attempted to change DPI to smaller. I tried a couple with buildprop editor and I got successful with 268 without constant soft rebooting (the phone hangs and basically the UI restart, button lights up and go to home screen). Any one successfully running Novena stock with small DPI without hangs?
Thanks great ROM BTW! I just like to run it with smaller icons and look overall.
I just changed mine to 240 and back. I do it manually with root explorer, I posted instructions on how in the novena thread actually....
Just know, that different dpis pull images from different folders within the framework, going to 240 pulls from the drawabke-hdpi folder, whereas stock is xhdpi, so the theme will not be the same because it is a lot of work to just theme stock tw DPI, not to mention all others as well.
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Unfortunately the search option seems to be missing and Google isnt being too helpful.
I'm curious if first its possible to change the DPI on the i9300 and if so if there are any recommended settings.
Main reason I want to do this is I find everything is too small. I know this is due to the HD screen but playing angry birds and other stuff is hard on the eyes.
I figure changing the DPI will make it bigger and easier on the eyes
This is the first thread I read where someone wants to increase the dpi. Usually people want to lower it. Lol
If you are rooted try the app LCD density from the market. It allows you to play with the dpi and if you don't have it checked to stay after a reboot it will go back to stock dpi after a reboot. This is good for if you are trying different dpis.
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This is the first thread I read where someone wants to increase the dpi. Usually people want to lower it. Lol
If you are rooted try the app LCD density from the market. It allows you to play with the dpi and if you don't have it checked to stay after a reboot it will go back to stock dpi after a reboot. This is good for if you are trying different dpis.
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Thanks the app works but multiple apps start crashing when I up any amount. I started at 400 (fro default 320) and went down to 330 and same thing
You could try the Paranoidandroid Rom in the development section. It's fabulous in it's versatility, specially on this device because of it's size. It allows you to independently set the dpi and ui framework for the entire device including a per app list. So for example you could have all system apps set to display in tablet mode and all user downloaded apps set to their default phone ui & dpi or any combination in between.
You can also set framework and system DPI (statusbar, toast messages, etc.) the DPI on the stock rom is way to big in my opinion and I have old eyes. Most of the native Google Apps have a tablet display and the render dual pane and great on the S3.
Give it a try, I've messed around with the 3rd party apps and it's a pain compared to using Paranoid. Zero dpi related issues and makes the phone more functional in my opinion with the option of utilizing more screen real estate with tablet UI and DPI tweaking to your liking.
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kchino said:
You could try the Paranoidandroid Rom in the development section. It's fabulous in it's versatility, specially on this device because of it's size. It allows you to independently set the dpi and ui framework for the entire device including a per app list. So for example you could have all system apps set to display in tablet mode and all user downloaded apps set to their default phone ui & dpi or any combination in between.
You can also set framework and system DPI (statusbar, toast messages, etc.) the DPI on the stock rom is way to big in my opinion and I have old eyes. Most of the native Google Apps have a tablet display and the render dual pane and great on the S3.
Give it a try, I've messed around with the 3rd party apps and it's a pain compared to using Paranoid. Zero dpi related issues and makes the phone more functional in my opinion with the option of utilizing more screen real estate with tablet UI and DPI tweaking to your liking.
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Thanks ill give it a try
Hi all!
Quick question... say I'm running my phone at a DPI of 190, using something like LCD Density Modder for example.
But then, instead of running a stock AOSP launcher, I want to run something like LG's custom UI.
Problem is, everything is scaled incorrectly and all the borders are off... as I assume the launcher is trying to run at a stock 240 DPI.
How would I go about pushing changes to the launchers framework to scale to a 190 DPI?
Thanks!!!
I found that the stock setting of 240 DPI made everything a little too large for my preferences. I tried 180 DPI first and that made everything a little bit too small. At 200 DPI everything seems just right, except that the stock launcher does not take advantage of the additional area. I installed the Google Now Launcher and that does make use of the additional area, and other launchers such as Nova likely do as well. I haven't installed anything other than the launcher from the Play Store yet, so I don't know if this will give me any issues with installing apps, but I know there are fixes available for this. Also, it is obviously very easy to change DPI by editing build.prop if you have root access, but there is also a method posted in the forums on how to change it without root.
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Just wondering what everyone has tried to use for their DPI now that we have root. What are you set at and are you seeing any issues? I'm currently at 600, and the only thing I see is the weather animations don't fit right, which is to be expected.
I haven't messed around with it, really. Too worried about bootlooping, since there's no recovery for the ls990 yet ..
I've tried changing it a few times and got boot looped. I'm just gonna wait for recovery before trying again.
I changed my DPI down to 560 and it seems pretty good, I guess I got lucky idk. I used texdroider to change it.
I've got mine set at 530 dpi, which is the lowest the phone can handle before it starts acting up. No issues at all with any stock apps or the stock launcher, it's perfect for this screen size and resolution. Now, one thing I don't know for sure is how the stock LG keyboard likes 530 dpi, because I've been using Swiftkey since day one. The LG keyboard is horrible, IMHO.
I used texdroider to change the dpi setting, it was very simple to do. It's definitely the safest way to do this, and I've never had a problem using it on any phone I've had over the last few years.
After changing the dpi to what it should have been out of the box, I used G3 Tweaksbox to set my navigation bar height down to 36 pixels. Now I really have maximized the screen without sacrificing any usability.
If I couldn't root the G3 and make all these various tweaks and changes, I honestly wouldn't even want to use the phone in its stock format, I'd have to choose something else.
I'm no fan of stock, but the phone itself is good enough to make up for the crazy stock settings. Shouldn't be long before we have either an unlocked bootloader from LG or the private sector, or we have a recovery similar to Loki based stuff. Patience is a virtue
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Also, I'm using the Xposed module "app settings" to manually select a DPI on a per app basis, so I can leave the stock apps at the standard 640 nightmare and not get any trouble from them. It also works wonderfully for testing DPI on those same stock apps without making a system wide change resulting in a force close loop on boot. If it doesn't work, you just set it back to default 640 and no harm done. I use action launcher, so I test on the default launcher or the phone.apk
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I also used textdroid dpi with success. Before I changed it I cleared play store data as suggested by another great app I use "pimp my rom". I ended up going back to 640.
I recently changed my DPI ('Smallest width' in Developer Options) to the recommended setting. The reason I modified the DPI is because the default DPI for the phone doesn't look right (the display looks too big and makes the phone look like a toy), so I went on a DPI calculator and gave me the recommended number so I followed it.
Everything is fine, but some apps are buggy. Like this app called Periscope, has a green line at the side when broadcasting. And when switching to split screen mode, the camera in Facebook Messenger has these jittery stuff going on like when a television has no signal. (All these issues don't happen on the default DPI of the device)
I TRIED REINSTALLING THE APPS & REBOOTING PHONE BUT NOTHING GOT FIXED.
My question is, why doesn't this happen on other devices such as Nexus 5x, Nexus 6P, and Google Pixel? All the mentioned phones have the normal DPI that aren't overly huge. Those DPIs are the recommended DPIs for the phones. That means they're normal, unlike my device's. I changed mine to the proper DPI, and it all went to sh*t.
WHY?