[Q] Help: Font size and UI issues
Hello everybody,
I own a Desay TS518 (a Chinese brand) phone which runs Android 2.3. I liked its physical keypad, so I bought it. However, the phone was designed especially for the old, so the fonts and UI elements were extremely big. This made me very uncomfortable and caused some applications to misbehave.
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I have googled and tried two ways to change them to the right size, but (partly) failed.
Here is a datasheet of the phone:
Network mode: TD-SCDMA/GSM
Screen: 2.8 inch, 240x320
Camera： 0.3MP
OS： Android 2.3
CPU: 1.0GHz
RAM: 256MB
Battery： 1300mAh
Picture:
First, I tried the app ‘Spare Parts’.
It can adjust the font size, but the UI were still ugly. For example the BIG title bar……
And when the phone reboots, the fonts will become big again.
Then, I tried to modify the font file with a software called ‘Font Creator Program’, but the results were same. Only fonts became smaller.
I have also tried to increase the LCD density using some apps, but none of them works.
Additionally, I think maybe the manufacturer have modified things in /system/framework/ …… I know how to use tools such as baksmali and apktool, but don’t know what to modify……
Hope you'll help me. Sorry for my poor English…
Thank You.
There is a simple way. you can port a ROM from another device.
alien_hjy said:
There is a simple way. you can port a ROM from another device.
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It's too difficult for me to do that...
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Hi, new member here.
After reading about the custom roms for quite a while I finally decided to move on from the official ICS 4.0.4 to try the latest. I successfully installed this one: [ROM] [JB 4.3.1] CM10.2/SGT7 for P4WIFI and P4 [20131116]
While it feels overall much more quick and better than ICS and has lots of more advanced settings that are pretty useful, there's one thing I was missing in the settings and I'm simply wondering if it's there and I just couldn't find it.
You see, I often use the tablet to view photos and videos/movies and all my other displays in my home are calibrated to the reference, and when using Samsung's version of ICS 4.0.4 there was a color setting in display settings looking like this:
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By default it was set to standard which gave the whole image an uncomfortable blue tint, but when set to movie it resembled my other displays enough for me to not go for some more advanced calibration method. In the custom rom the display is set to what would've been standard in the old settings.
So is this a feature only available in Samsung's UI or can I find it somewhere buried in the menus of the custom rom?
If it's not there, are there any advanced color settings apps that can't be found on google play that maybe works even better?
I'm off to try some of the settings apps until I get a reply. Thanks in advance!
EDIT:
I've tried lots of apps and stuff now and nothing can correct the picture like the old setting did.
If there's no way to implement this into the rom I guess I'm rolling back to ICS.
Hello! I'd like to ask the community about something I've been interested doing as a project for a phone I plan on buying, I've looked around and I see lots of tutorials, but they don't quite meet the very specific criteria.
My problem is that I want to buy the "Umi C1" (click click for more info o: ) and the UI on the Stock ROM is awful.
I've looked around and there's apparently a way to modify ROMs using another phone's ROM files.
I was thinking of using the "HDC ONE M8's"(fake HTC one m8) ROM files and transferring them over to the C1's ROM file. (Both phones run the MTK6582 SOC, both have 1GB of RAM, Both have 16GB of storage, both run 1280x720P panels...)
Is this in anyway possible? Both roms are Odexed. (new to this, looked around on how to deodex roms and found a tutorial but I'm not sure how things will go first.)
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-Mike
Hello!
You can't move the whole content of a ROM made for a specific model, to another ROM made specific for a different model.
The reason for this is because the ROM also contains native libraries (drivers) that are specific to the hardware of the phone, and are not specific to the Android base code.
In other words, you would need to port the UI and framework only, not simply move all the files and even this is not very straightforward unfortunately. If you only want some minor (or major) changes of the home screen and application menu, then there are plenty of third party launchers on the market that should do the trick for you.
I hope this helped you.
Regards, Christopher
Hello!
I am using SlimSaber - SlimLP which is a 5.1.1 ROM and I'm facing a single issue with it, I'm posting it here since the ROM's thread seems pretty dead, but it's still a great ROM.
I want to remove the 3-dot menu also called overflow buttons because I don't use the navigation bar. As you may know, we have physical buttons in our Galaxy S2s and those are more than enough for me.
Look at how much space it takes, it cuts almost everyone's names on my device when using the stock DPI (lcd density)
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The ROM looks like it has a built-in function to disable them but it doesn't work.
I have also tried adding qemu.hw.mainkeys=1 to the build.prop file but it didn't work.
You could say "well just make the LCD density lower by changing the DPI to 200 or something" Yeah but if you do that, games will lag because it thinks you have another screen size, I had that issue and it got solved by going back to the original DPI size. (in addition to all the problems changing DPI could entail).
And also, yeah, it's possible with nowadays' apps to remove them because if you install Samsung's official JB 4.1.2, you can use the actual whatsapp and everything without these 3 dots. Even with CM11 KitKat you can still use your device without those. What does lollipop need in order to get rid of them...
Any other ideas on how to remove that unnecessary button? Thanks in advance.
So I recently acquired an LG K51s, because my old Sony broke due to water penetration.
One annoying thing I really dislike about the phone (apart from the rubbish skin LG uses), is the simple fact when I go into horizontal mode the phone cuts off part of the top screen to make it look seamless (because it has a hole-punch camera cutout).
Now I really don't mind the camera, provided I can use the 6.55" 20x9 720p screen. So I'd like to know, if there a way I can permanently disable it? I know Nova launcher and YouTube can somehow bypass it and use the whole screen.
Thanks in advance!
-Z
So this is kinda useless. But I'll keep trying nonetheless!
I suspect the problem is with com.android.systemui. I have managed to extract the APK and will be looking around to see if I can somehow disable a custom setting in System UI Tuner. If that doesn't work I may have to edit it manually and see if I can overwrite it, somehow...
Nova Launcher making use of all the screen space (horizontal)
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Settings app giving me the stupid black bar (horizontal)
Same issue in Chrone as in the Settings app (horizontal)
But any app that plays videos (in my case it's YouTube) has the option to remove the black bars (horizontal)
Why is no one giving me ANY useful input?
I can even upload the 90mb systemui apk if, anyone has the knowledge and experience to go through it.
Mods, what the on earth is going on???
Hi,
Needing dark theme because of eyesight I've discovered theme park and found it very helpfull with one caveat at least, I can't change folder background color. I'm also using nova launcher but none of the 2 seems to do a thing.
Any idea ?
Thanks.
charlene17 said:
Hi,
Needing dark theme because of eyesight I've discovered theme park and found it very helpfull with one caveat at least, I can't change folder background color. I'm also using nova launcher but none of the 2 seems to do a thing.
Any idea ?
Thanks.
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What model and OS version?
It's a S10+ android 12 one UI 4.1
charlene17 said:
It's a S10+ android 12 one UI 4.1
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By folders you talking about these?
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I'm still running Android 9, One UI 1.5 I think there was another color individual folder option but it won't run on my version. Lol, I refuse to upgrade as Pie runs too good.
The Good Lock app updates tend to lag the OS OS upgrade releases. A quaint Samsung tradition If that's the case Samsung will... eventually... fix it.