I have a Chinese mtk6592 based dual-sim phablet known as the tronsmart ps7 and many other names, ulefone u7/u69 and about 7 other brands, the ROMs seem to be compatible across the board with all the rebranded units.
It has jellybean and KitKat ROMs, cwm and a pretty simple flashing tool.
The device has physical capacitive buttons that do not light up and are impossible to find in the dark (I stuck glow in the dark stickers to them) I can use ultimate dynamic navbar and a few xposed modules to get me most of what I want but all of the add-on navbars overlap the keyboard and don't resize the desktop which is meh.
Build.prop edits do not work as the ROM itself does not contain a navbar to turn on.
Its a 7 inch 1920x1200 screen so I have plenty of real estate.
So can anyone point me in the right direction, is it even possible?
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Well I got myself an Epic 4G (OG) with AOKP/CM7/CM9 and a Chinese ICS tablet (I am a Chinese high school student myself...) so I'm easily fascinated by the tablet UI of ICS. Apart from that, once I testdrived CM7 on my tablet and the Honeycomb-style softkey really enlightened me...
So today I was wandering the net and came up with this:
rootzw i ki. com/topi c/20451-mod -9-roms-table t-mode/ [REMOVE SPACES - THE FORUM WON'T LET ME PUT LINKS...]
Well, there's support for tablet UI mod for 9 different ICS roms inside for Galaxy Nexus...
But then look at the version required - it seems that the packs are not just modded for a specific phone, a specific ROM but also for a specific version... So it's kinda useless to me... Tried more search and returned no more results except that someone mentioned that some mods could be done in /res/values/bools.xml of framework-res.apk (I'm no total noob and I know how)...
So question is, is there really a way as detailed as modding DPIs and framework-res.apk to enable tablet mode on ICS? To make it further, is it available for Gingerbread?(i.e. putting FULL CM7 Tablet Tweaks on ALL phones without compiling a new ROM) And for tablets, any way to disable tablet UI as well? (My tablet HAS capacitive keys designed for portrait use like a Galaxy Tab P1000 so I would like to disable Tablet UI for it)
EDIT: Modding DPI only doesn't seem to do it at least on my tablet - DPI from 120 to 240 but results are only bigger nav bar and buttons...
Bump... sinks so fast
Hello everyone
I've been looking around and i can't find anything related to on screen navbars on omega.
I need it for use with my glove proof stylus (AKA AAA battery), because it doesn't work with soft buttons.
A few threads mention some flashable zips but none say anything about TW Omega.
For many lesser-known devices, especially Chinese ones (Huawei etc.) Chinese developers like ShenduOS and MIUI create ROMs that work better or are more up-to-date than community builds of Cyanogenmod and other more vanilla/stock custom ROMs.
However, it seems to be quite difficult to remove the customised interface, which is developed primarily for native Chinese users, and is still unpleasant to use even after the system language is changed, from these ROMs.
Using ShenduOS on the Huawei Honour (U8860) as an example, the following elements are significantly different from stock Android:
-Keyboard (this can be fixed by installing an available stock Android keyboard apk from the appropriate Android version)
-Home/Launcher (easily fixed with either a stock launcher or something like ADW)
-Colour scheme of menus (is black-on-white by default, even in Android versions where a black menu background was the default. I imagine this is caused by the Shendu Theme app, but I would rather find a way to remove the Shendu themes completely than simply install a theme which looks stock)
-Settings app (Perhaps the most annoying part of the interface. When the language is changed, titles of sections in the app become poorly-translated English words that mean very little. Attempts to flash a Settings.apk from a CM10 dev build for the same device broke the OS)
-Notification bar and pulldown tray
I think that most of these differences are caused by Shendu's versions of the apk's included in system/app, however I have no idea how to go about replacing some of these apks or which ones are causing which interface problem.
This is probably similar to removing HTC Sense/Samsung Touchwiz from Android builds, so if anyone has experience in creating ROMs with stock Android interfaces from those with customised interfaces, your help would be appreciated
I've got a Chinese phablet - THL T200. It has a 1920x1080 screen with 480 dpi resolution. Its CPU is 8-core MTK6592 and has 2GB of RAM. It runs almost stock Android 4.2.2.
However Themer says that the device is incompatible. What exactly is the reason of this and is there any way to override? I'm certain that Themer would run perfectly well on my device.
Thank you.
Root it and put a real 4. 2.2 instead of an almost
It's a real stock 4.2.2 with minor framework adjustments for the dual sim module. TouchWiz Samsung devices are much more modified, yet they are completely supported.
Don't forget that Themer is just a launcher, not a framework replacement. Any device with a standard resolution should be compatible, however it appears that there is a whitelist of allowed devices, not a blacklist of disallowed.
LOL, this is retarded. I managed to get it working.
The only thing I had to do was to enable Expanded Desktop that was configured to hide both status bar and navigation bar, and the homescreens appeared.
The thread now changes from Question to Bug report.
Hello,
Recently I bought Xperia Z Ultra to carry one device instead of two (Nexus 7 and Samsung S III Mini). Unfortunately I didn't know about different layouts and I didn't check before in which mode Z Ultra works. I though that application check resolution and shows its best. Now I know that it works in phone layout. I read also that after rooting I can switch to tablet layout. So my questions are:
1. Is it make a sense to root my Xperia and switch layout? If yes should I choose tablet or phablet layout? Is there any phablet layout for Z Ultra?
2. What's the difference between Phone, phablet and Tablet layout?
3. How many applications are written in double (triple) layouts?
4. Is it any difference in these layout for e.g. Angry Birds (all games), Amazon Kindle, Chrome, Flipboard, Google Maps, Pocket? Could anyone send me some pictures if there are differences? (I already sold Nexus 7 so I can't compare)
best regards,
1. If you want to, sure. It's nice to have tablet layout.
2. You already know how the phone layout looks like. It's dense so the UI elements fit properly on small screens. Phablet layout is what you see on the Nexus 7 and newer tablets that run KitKat. Google removed the tablet system UI layout in KitKat, but apps still run like they've always done. So there are two official layouts. Phone (Nexus 5) and "Phablet" (Nexus 7). The Z Ultra actually runs a strange mix of that. Pocket runs in tablet mode out of the box on the Ultra.
3. I don't know what this means.
4. Games won't have a different layout. Chrome, Flipboard, Maps and Pocket will. Note that it's the devs responsibility to support tablet layout, so don't really expect every app out there to support it.
I could take some screenshots of some apps in tablet mode, but I'm currently running the GPe ROM (KitKat) and I'm running it at 400 DPI, i.e phone UI.
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Thank you for so good answer. Thanks
Unfortunately, Kikat does not support layouts anymore. Even if you lower the density to 100 it does not switch to tablet layout like it used to.
Leechoonhwee said:
Unfortunately, Kikat does not support layouts anymore. Even if you lower the density to 100 it does not switch to tablet layout like it used to.
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Correct, but you will at one point get the "phablet" statusbar (split notification/quick settings) and the split Settings and other minor changes when you lower the DPI to a certain point (192 I think, but I don't really remember). But yeah, the old tablet UI is gone in KitKat.
Note that the 192 DPI detail above is something that I have only tested on AOSP ROMs and not on Sony ROMs, so I don't know if or how a stock ROM will react to a change like this.
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Correct, but you will at one point get the "phablet" statusbar (split notification/quick settings) and the split Settings and other minor changes when you lower the DPI to a certain point (192 I think, but I don't really remember). But yeah, the old tablet UI is gone in KitKat.
Note that the 192 DPI detail above is something that I have only tested on AOSP ROMs and not on Sony ROMs, so I don't know if or how a stock ROM will react to a change like this.
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Doesn't work. I've tested few months ago.
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