I know most of you with think why would i want to increase the DPI of Galaxy note.. Lets just say a special person needs to use it and requires REALLY REALY LARGE fonts.. The largest possible hopefully.. is it possible to increase the DPI higher than 320? if so how?.. Most apps i found only limit to 320 DPI.. what is a safe DPI can i use higher than 320?.. Thanks alot..
if you need large font, just go to settings, accessibility, and change the font size from 'normal' to 'huge'. that should help with some apps. but i think what you want is lower dpi. fonts occupy a set number of pixels on screen. higher dpi makes the pixels smaller and hence font smaller, lower dpi makes the pixels larger, hence font larger.
Souai said:
if you need large font, just go to settings, accessibility, and change the font size from 'normal' to 'huge'. that should help with some apps. but i think what you want is lower dpi. fonts occupy a set number of pixels on screen. higher dpi makes the pixels smaller and hence font smaller, lower dpi makes the pixels larger, hence font larger.
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Its already in Huge but, the its still to small for him to read.. If i decrease the DPI, The resolution of the phone increases and the fonts become smaller.. I tried it.. So far, i got the screen to go up to 400 DPI and the fonts get larger, however if i go beyond the default 320 DPI, the settings application FC.. Anyone have an advice?
xyzsor said:
Its already in Huge but, the its still to small for him to read.. If i decrease the DPI, The resolution of the phone increases and the fonts become smaller.. I tried it.. So far, i got the screen to go up to 400 DPI and the fonts get larger, however if i go beyond the default 320 DPI, the settings application FC.. Anyone have an advice?
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Not sure if and how it'll work for you, but there's a "Font changer" app on the market, which can resplace default Droids Sans font on rooted device with any .ttf font of your choosing.
What you could try - if DPI attempts fail - is finding some readable font which will be bigger on the screen. What I mean is that when I tried replacing default device font with e.g. Segoe UI or Tahoma or Calibri (copied from my Windows), some of those fonts were visibly smaller or bigger than Droid Sans - maybe there is sth that's much much bigger than the rest - Arial Black or Impact perhaps?
also - CyanogenMod builds for other devices had small app called Spare Parts, which enabled changing the deafualt font size for all apps. There is similar Spare Parts app on the market, did not try it, but maybe it also has the same ability
xyzsor said:
Its already in Huge but, the its still to small for him to read.. If i decrease the DPI, The resolution of the phone increases and the fonts become smaller.. I tried it.. So far, i got the screen to go up to 400 DPI and the fonts get larger, however if i go beyond the default 320 DPI, the settings application FC.. Anyone have an advice?
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The higher the DPI the smaller the fonts will get. Best try to get some large fonts installed. If you are able to change DPI then it means you are rooted so try Absolute System Root Tools or Jrummy Root Toolbox and both have a lot of fonts ranging from small to large and they change the fonts of every text on the phone !!!
I also thought higher DPI, smaller font size. But indeed, higher DPI, bigger font size (like in PC Display)
on ICS, Changing DPI causes bootloop
Has anyone noticed that making these changes on ICS causes the phone to fail to boot? Quite annoying, as I'd like to make better use of the screen estate.
Actually if you use romtoolbox it wont fail at boot. At least with fpi bigger then 219
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I would really like the application icons to be larger on the app page. I know I need glasses but they are kinda small. Is there a way to do this?
I would like to increase the size of my icons as well but not via changing screen density which if I reading what it does correctly is lowers screen resolution which make the icon appear to be larger. I want to maintain screen density but have larger icon.
change the lcd density. there's an app on the development forum that lets you change it to 200 or 250. i chose 200, everything looks good.
I hope someone knows the answer to this...
The DPI of the nook color is rated for 169dpi, yet the build.prop has it set to 161.
Changing it to the hardware correct value even solves some little graphics bugs. Like the "line on notification bar"
So why does it not match HW
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As explained by dal:
dalingrin said:
Note that lcd_density is an integer value only. Additionally, when using mdpi, 160 is the default lcd density. Any other lcd density with mdpi involves interpolation. If you compare 160 and 169.x you can see that the images used for icons are significantly more blurry at 169.
The reason I chose 161 instead of 160 was to workaround a Market bug that caused the my apps list to fail to load. In my limited testing it seems Market 2.3.4 may have fixed the issue. If so, I plan to switch back to 160 which has the best image quality and best app compatiblity with the exception of Google Maps. However, 160 will need more testing with the latest Market to make sure the "my apps" list is completely fixed.
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dalingrin said:
The problem with densities greater than 160 is the interpolation that must happen. I just checked for good measure and the icons are definitely not as sharp. Additionally, you will see artifacts from the interpolation such as gradients on the Gingerbread keyboard and the notification drop down.
In my testing I saw no difference in font rendering.
Keep in mind that another motivation for moving to 160 is that afaik, all apps scale properly to full screen. Any deviation from the mdpi standard 160 causes some apps not to scale to full screen. An example is Google Reader. If you click on an article to read, it will give you a libwebcoreview but it does not scale to full screen at >160.
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fmkaiba said:
I hope someone knows the answer to this...
The DPI of the nook color is rated for 169dpi, yet the build.prop has it set to 161.
Changing it to the hardware correct value even solves some little graphics bugs. Like the "line on notification bar"
So why does it not match HW
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You can use 169. Despite what people think, 160 is the best value to use for the Nook. Anything other than 160 means extrapolation or interpolation must take place. This is why nearly every HDPI phone uses 240, not 231 or 248, despite their real world DPI. However, there is a bug in the Android Market @ 160 on tablet size screens. For now I have it set to 161 to get around that bug. I don't use 169 because icons and such are more blurry due to the extra extrapolation needed. Until Google fixes the market there isn't a good DPI for us to use. Each has its own problems, 161 has a line in the notification bar but sharp icons, 169 doesn't have a line in the notification bar but has blurry icons....etc
Dalingrin, are you aware of any ill effects from running lower DPIs, such as 140?
That's where I've had mine for months, and I love it. Then again, I'm also running at 1920x1080 on my 15" laptop.
I love this forum!
Thankyou for a clear and logical answer I couldn't get anywhere else!
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Sorry for necrothreading, just wanted to point out that Market 2.3.6 (from gapps 0613) still has a problem with My Apps @160dpi. :/
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I have an app called spare parts in CM7 on Nook Color, in which I can go and change font size, but the font size reset after I reboot again. Is there a way to make the font size permanent and persistent across reboot sessions?
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Sorry for bump, but it would be great for me and others eyes, if someone knows to permanently increase font size.
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I know two ways to do this. One is LCD Density for Root, free in the Android Market.
https://market.android.com/details?id=lv.n3o.lcddensity
This isn't truly permanent, but is a good place to start.
Once you figure out what resolution works best for you, then you can make permanent change to the resolution in the build.prop file. 200 works well for me.
Note that changing the resolution changes a lot more than just the font size.
Well this is not what in my mind, lcd density will just scale everything including icons, status bar, etc. I just want to increase the font size permanently like spare parts application.
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Hi guys, I am currently on ICS Stunner and in settings>display there is an option to change font size, which i set to small and is perfect for the note screen.
I can't find a similar option on any of the Samsung ICS roms i have tried, meaning fonts are HUGE and does no justice to the note's screen size or resolution.
Is there any way to manually change the font size without changing overall screen density?
I really want my s-pen features back and this is the only thing that's keeping me on AOSP.
Spare parts doesn't change overall font size, best thing i've found is https://play.google.com/store/apps/...51bGwsMSwxLDIxMiwib3JnLnBieGVzLmZvbnRzaXplIl0
My problem with this app is that it doesn't support custom fonts (or so the comments seem to suggest) and i think i read somewhere that this app just installs the default font at varying sizes, something which i could do myself in a few minutes without spending money on a useless app.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
EDIT: I have also seen this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.a0soft.gphone.bfont&hl=en but it seems to have odd bugs on the Note.
Hello
i ve got a note 3 with x transformer installed, this app changes the whole dpi of the screen so its displayed way smaller.
i like to have that app on my z1 too but i think that application is for note 3 only.
textdroider dpi app from the play store also changes the settings and it worked allthough it doesnt set new borders so the smaller content can fit the whole screen, its like the screen has the same size but zoomed out , so i cannot put apps on the whole destop and the menu and apps are displayed "small" and dont fit all the screen.
is there another possiblity to change dpi settings?
i found a guide tho where one can change a system file for density but i think that would do the same to the screen as the app did.
ty for your help
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Hello
i ve got a note 3 with x transformer installed, this app changes the whole dpi of the screen so its displayed way smaller.
i like to have that app on my z1 too but i think that application is for note 3 only.
textdroider dpi app from the play store also changes the settings and it worked allthough it doesnt set new borders so the smaller content can fit the whole screen, its like the screen has the same size but zoomed out , so i cannot put apps on the whole destop and the menu and apps are displayed "small" and dont fit all the screen.
is there another possiblity to change dpi settings?
i found a guide tho where one can change a system file for density but i think that would do the same to the screen as the app did.
ty for your help
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In every phone with android you should be able to change dpi in build.prop
download rom toolbox and you can change the dpi in build.prop section