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Daft Punk · Aug 29, 2010

LCD Density Changer for Android

LCD Density Changer Application v3.0 Released | xda-developers

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[APP] LCD Density Changer 3.0 - create HighRes screen effect - xda-developers

I set my EVO to 200.

made things way way better! Some text on the MENU in LauncherPro are cut off, but nothing i cant deal with.

OH AND YOU MUST BE ROOTED.

t0ast3d · Aug 29, 2010

Effect on battery?

Daft Punk · Aug 30, 2010

i'll let you know.

Im running Fresh rom with netarchy kernal and juice defender. Charging phone now.

t0ast3d · Aug 30, 2010

Cool, thanks.

Daft Punk · Aug 30, 2010

Fully Charged, unplugging, try and keep use to min.

Daft Punk · Aug 30, 2010

since last post, texting my wife a few texts and showing the coworker how LCD density worked im at 95%.

t0ast3d · Aug 30, 2010

So about 5% an hour?

Not bad, might test this out.

How bad ass is it?

Daft Punk · Aug 30, 2010

it tightens things up while giving more room, which makes it a bit more enjoyable.

t0ast3d · Aug 30, 2010

Nice.

I've been wanting to try to start to dev a 5 column Springboard, maybe this can help

Daft Punk · Aug 30, 2010

maybe so. keep us upto date.

t0ast3d · Aug 30, 2010

Will do

355spider · Aug 30, 2010

Looks like 200 us the sweet spot. Love the way it looks though.

355spider · Aug 30, 2010

I didn't notice any changes in how movies looked but it does fit more info on the screen which is cool. I looked at my Evo next to my wife's stock Evo and I like mine better now with it set at 200.

novox77 · Aug 30, 2010

Seems like the dev took down the links to the free download. Anyhow, this is just a properties setting that you can change yourself if you're rooted and know a bit of adb shell and unix.

The file you need to edit is build.prop located in /system

The relevant part of the file looks like this:

# density in DPI of the LCD of this board. This is used to scale the UI
# appropriately. If this property is not defined, the default value is 160 dpi.
ro.sf.lcd_density = 240

Change that number and reboot. Course, you'll need to know how to use adb shell and the vi text editor

hawt · Aug 30, 2010

Found this download link: LCD Density Changer 3.0.apk

Just did a nandroid backup and installed the apk.

Lowered it to 200. Not sure how I feel about it, there is so much empty space and it's not like I can put anything there. I'll try it out for a day or two and see how I feel about it then.

The default is 240 right?

Jack Daniels · Aug 31, 2010

yeah 240 is stock i am running fresh 3.1.0.2 and set to 200 there is alot of empty space also the 3 buttons on the bottom now have gaps it doesn't look good at all

novox77 · Aug 31, 2010

Jack Daniels said:
yeah 240 is stock i am running fresh 3.1.0.2 and set to 200 there is alot of empty space also the 3 buttons on the bottom now have gaps it doesn't look good at all

Yeah, I found that the resulting display can either look good or look really wrong. It really depends on if the app/widget was developed with absolute or relative display sizes specified.

Some apps clearly have some sizes hardcoded absolutely while other elements are relative. Looks really ugly; text not lining up with the graphical part underneath, etc. I decided to go back to stock 240.

woofermazing · Aug 31, 2010

Pics?

Daft Punk · Aug 31, 2010

as you can see, Beautiful widgets is scaled to the left some, LauncherPro icons are smaller. This is set to 200.

MagnusRagnarok · Aug 31, 2010

Jack Daniels said:
yeah 240 is stock i am running fresh 3.1.0.2 and set to 200 there is alot of empty space also the 3 buttons on the bottom now have gaps it doesn't look good at all

this app is intended for aosp not sense roms. sense is meant for a diff type of system res.

Daft Punk · Aug 31, 2010

MagnusRagnarok said:
this app is intended for aosp not sense roms. sense is meant for a diff type of system res.

so what your saying is this will work best with CYANOGENMOD?

exBBuser · Aug 31, 2010

Daft Punk said:
so what your saying is this will work best with CYANOGENMOD?

Is working fine for me,I was able to download the app for free.

Daft Punk · Aug 31, 2010

im on Fresh and it works great.

Jack Daniels · Aug 31, 2010

Daft Punk said:
im on Fresh and it works great.

doesn't those 3 buttons look ugly to you separated like that? also i use multicon and after the size change it leave huge gaps

hawt · Aug 31, 2010

I used this for about an hour before I realized it was really messing up the display of some apps and games.

Some games have poor support for the Evo's screen as it is, and this just made things worse.

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