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Running at 200 dpi on CM9 changes the keyboard to go tablet mode. I love the phone mode keyboard but the button layout in tablet mode, everything feels off. Is there a way to always force the phone mode keyboard regardless of dpi?
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jjc5891 said:
Running at 200 dpi on CM9 changes the keyboard to go tablet mode. I love the phone mode keyboard but the button layout in tablet mode, everything feels off. Is there a way to always force the phone mode keyboard regardless of dpi?
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Using PAD build(Paranoid android) you can force it to use phone ui with tablet dpi, you could also try Da's hybrid build. Short of those two unless you set over 214 its will be tablet keyboard layout.
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Like so. That is phone ui at 160dpi.
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bailey1 said:
Like so. That is phone ui at 160dpi.
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Not quite, I still want the tablet UI, just the phone UI for the keyboard only
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Not quite, I still want the tablet UI, just the phone UI for the keyboard only
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Good luck then, hybrid is one thing, trying to force an app to render two different ui styles is another.
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Not quite, I still want the tablet UI, just the phone UI for the keyboard only
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Using PAD, set messages to tablet ui 160 dpi, then set android keyboard to 320 dpi with phone ui. Might work.
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Use Hacker's Keyboard. Phone or tablet mode it allows you to use 4 or 5 row layout and adds more keys. In landscape it has a number row which is great on the large Note screen. It's worth a try at least, it's free and open source (based on the stock GB keyboard but now has ICS theme).
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Use Hacker's Keyboard. Phone or tablet mode it allows you to use 4 or 5 row layout and adds more keys. In landscape it has a number row which is great on the large Note screen. It's worth a try at least, it's free and open source (based on the stock GB keyboard but now has ICS theme).
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Thanks, actually found hackers keyboard last night. Been playing with the settings but for now its a keeper
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First post and new android user so please bear with me...
Scrolling wallpaper seems to work with Nova launcher if I choose from 'wallpaper' but if I choose an image from'gallery' I get forced to crop it. I was looking for some thoughts from experienced users on this...
I can't seem to find an answer on where to put an image so the device sees it as 'wallpaper' to see if that works or if I am just being a thick newbie and am missing something else. Ideas?
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Samsung won't let you do it through gallery or anything of that sort. I've found when i use the app that I download the wallpaper with that you can set it as a background with that and it works fine and takes up the whole screen including the other windows. I use zedge.
Thanks, I will give that a try. I have a whack of pics that would be great if I could get them to scroll, I figured if I put them with the stock wallpapers then I might be able to trick it that way!
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I did get the Zedge ones to scroll, thanks again. One step closer to manually setting it
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Several apps in the market willl allow you to set a full image for your wallpaper. I use Wallpaper Setter.
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Exactly what I needed, thanks!
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Is there a way to send Emoji's with the stock messaging app? Maybe I am just totally looking over something but I don't see it anywhere. I know I can see them when other people send them to me. Well they have a "Android-like" skin to them but they are still there. In stock Android I know you can use them for 4.0 and above.
My wife did some research, could not find a way to use those on Android.
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cowisland said:
My wife did some research, could not find a way to use those on Android.
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Oh you can definitely use them on Android. If you run stock Android and it's 4.0 and above, it is built into the native messaging app. If you don't have stock or 4.0 and above, you can download a messaging app like Handcent and you can use them that way. They are definitely ways to use them. I just want to know if there is a way to use them in the native messaging app in Sense
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Are these different than the built in smiley set that you can access by long pressing the 12# button on the lower left of the keyboard?
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tehknics said:
Are these different than the built in smiley set that you can access by long pressing the 12# button on the lower left of the keyboard?
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Oh I didn't even see those. I've been using swiftkey. They aren't exactly like regular emoji's but they are I guess. The real set of emoji's has a lot more of them too. I guess that's better than nothing though
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One of the first things I thought of when I got my phone was "wow, EVERYTHING is way too big". I tried shrinking icons and text, but still want happy with things like the system ui.
Once I had my phone rooted I dove into the build.prop file and changed from 480 to 320, and couldn't be happier! Naturally the launcher was jacked up, but Nova launcher fixed that. The only remaining annoyances are a few Samsung apps that don't scale properly, the phone, camera, calculator and I'm sure a few more I haven't noticed. I know there are multi-DPI apps available for the unlocked S4, but I didn't want to be the first to test them on Verizon.
If you've changed your DPI, what did you go with? Any problems? Have you tried the multi-DPI Samsung apps?
Dan
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Use the xposed mod, should work just fine as it isn't phone dependent.
Just did this, amazing. My first thought too, this phone is for visually impaired! What are some other good values, if any, between 320 & 480?
I've tried exposed in the past on my GN (Toro) running AOKP and came away mostly disappointed. Fact is, I want EVERYTHING to be smaller, not just select apps. I really don't get Google's insistence on making the GUI elements so big, it's not like we're dealing with resistive screens any more. I wish they would just take advantage of the fact that android scales so well and allow anyone to change their DPI either device wide or per app, then they could make everything default to smaller with big only for old and/or blind people.
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I've tried exposed in the past on my GN (Toro) running AOKP and came away mostly disappointed. Fact is, I want EVERYTHING to be smaller, not just select apps. I really don't get Google's insistence on making the GUI elements so big, it's not like we're dealing with resistive screens any more. I wish they would just take advantage of the fact that android scales so well and allow anyone to change their DPI either device wide or per app, then they could make everything default to smaller with big only for old and/or blind people.
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Change your dpi in build.prop and then use xposed to set the dpi to stock on apps that don't work/look right. Should only be a few.
Can I ask what the xposed mod is?
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Can I ask what the xposed mod is?
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Xposed app settings
Allows you to change dpi for any app without reboot
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Did you notice if changing the build.prop DPI screws up the play store? In the past some apps would become unavailable in the play store if you changed the default DPI.
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Where are the instructions for xposed
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km8j said:
Where are the instructions for xposed
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In your brain. Install both. Enable the module. Open it. Play with it.
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In your brain. Install both. Enable the module. Open it. Play with it.
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Where do you get the module?
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Where do you get the module?
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Google something like xposed app settings ask. You'll find it I'm sure.
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Google something like xposed app settings ask. You'll find it I'm sure.
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So I actually have the framework installed from the Wallet fix, but where do I download the mod pack/apk to change the DPI? There is a reference thread with a .co.uk site but it is down.
Xposed app settings apk. Sorry. Google that. Dumb auto correct.
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I have changed mine to 420 but i cant decide if i like it or not. Sometimes its cool making everything smaller and using that screen space but other times I am missing seeing larger icons and text, showing off that resolution in the more visible graphics. Hmmm... I also tried 320 before that and everything was very very small lol.
Plus I can't use the Xposed app to fix the now cut off Gallery/Phone app because I use 3Minit Framework and app instead..
Now that the OTA is finally rolling out and people are updating, I think it's a good time for a thread about the differences aside from what's mentioned in the changelog. It'll give a little insight as to what's changed/added.
So feel free to start listing out what's changed!
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I feel like my phone is so much faster i dont see any lag like with opening apps etc..
Is it just me ?
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Disable wifi notification in top bar... Thank god. Wifi settings. Advanced...
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Yeah it does feel a lot smoother. Another thing I noticed is that there is native emoji support finally! :thumbup::thumbup:
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Yeah it does feel a lot smoother. Another thing I noticed is that there is native emoji support finally! :thumbup::thumbup:
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So can you put emojis with the keyboard or they just show up when someone texts you?
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So can you put emojis with the keyboard or they just show up when someone texts you?
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I'm not sure about input but I know they show up like they should be instead of having blank squares. Here's an example from Instagram
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Disable wifi notification in top bar... Thank god. Wifi settings. Advanced...
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+1 on that! It's about time
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I'd know if the update didn't fail repeatedly. on MI1 Stock rooted (rooted before MI1 and used OTA root keeper)
How's the camera
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How's the camera
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Don't notice anything new right off the bat with the camera. It did take a while to update the firmware though. Still have to dig around
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Here is a summary of changes I noticed:
UI is smoother than before with no hiccups yet, but that may be a placebo effect.
Notification panel toggles look shorter and waste less vertical space. They cannot be turned off anymore. Now you can only select which ones can be scrolled through horizontally before you have to open the full toggles drawer.
Default font seems to have been updated, though I am not sure whether I was on Samsung Sans beforehand and it simply reset the font.
Upon further inspection, it seems as if my font choice has been reset to default from Samsung Sans.
Camera firmware update, but I don't immediately see any changes.
When viewing photos in gallery or camera app, the date taken is shown briefly on the bottom left.
GPS location and Verizon location services have been merged into one option, it is no longer possible to disable Verizon location services if you want to use GPS.
Blocking mode, reading mode added.
Wifi notification can be disabled.
Play store updated to new sliding drawer, version 4.4.2.1 (this may have just been a coincidentally simultaneous update on my part).
There is a link in the app drawer to install KNOX, which looks like some sort of secure VM based on the text in the app.
NFL Mobile added (may have been in MI1 and I just didn't notice, but it is in my app drawer).
Contacts list is more compact (white space removed), you can now see approx. 9 contacts at a time. There is no scroll bar anymore, and the letters to quickly jump through the list are permanently visible.
Wifi location polling when wifi is off (as per Android 4.3).
Calculator is fullscreen (no status bar) with no way to change it, pretty sure this didn't happen before.
The stock music player can now play the mp3 files I have saved on the device. It always said that the files were unsupported beforehand, and I did not change them at all.
The dialer doesn't seem to lag as much when looking up contacts as you type (666 for "MOM"), but this might have come with the overall UI. It also doesn't lock up the phone for half a second when initiating a call anymore.
With Air View on, a few of the options in Developer Options are highlighted when hovering over them (not sure where this came from or why it is there, maybe testing for their 4.4 build, but I noticed it when going through the settings).
Clock app UI updated.
"Disable" in application manager is renamed to "Turn off."
That is all I can see immediately. I do not use stock launcher, keyboard, browser, or email so I did not check these.
Just quick question for those that got it, one of you said your font got reset did ajuthing else reset or get wiped?
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Just quick question for those that got it, one of you said your font got reset did ajuthing else reset or get wiped?
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My toggles got reset so they are out of position.
Auto correct for the stock keyboard and no ugly e911 location sign!
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I keep getting this when I try to update. Anyone else?
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confused as to what to do..currently running hypderdrive, but want full gear functionality....any ideas on what I should do?
What about Root? someone has to know, can we keep root w/ voodoo root keeepr
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confused as to what to do..currently running hypderdrive, but want full gear functionality....any ideas on what I should do?
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I'm sure sbreen will add it eventually, possibly with version 11?
Developer Option Reset
There is a bug with the new camera. I have all the animation and transitions set to off in developer options. Transition animation scale gets set to 1x every time the camera is launched. Super annoying.
Thanks for such a complete changelog!
Google Play updated on my VzwGS4 4.2.2 ME7 and now has sliding drawer.
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