[VGA Phone] => Force VGA aware app to display in QVGA ?

[Lord.Nibbler]

Hi, I have a VGA phone ... which is very nice for web browsing indeed :)

Yet for some apps like GPS navigation software it is very unpleasant :mad:
-> The icons are really small
-> the app is slower as it has to display 4 times more data.

So is there a way to force a "VGA aware" app to "think" that my phone is QVGA ?

Thanks !

[nir36]

i'll give you the short version.

no :)

[Lord.Nibbler]

Thank you nir36 ... but I'd rather prefer the long version :D

I can't believe that ! I don't want to believe it :eek:
Some solution/hack must exist to do it ! :confused:

I haven't found anything functional yet, but I really hope that some of the following parameters / tools should allow to do it ?

- HI_RES_AWARE resource : It seems that developers must add this resource in their app to make it VGA aware ... maybe there is a way to remove it from the program with a resource hacker ?

- .mui files : I don't have further details, but it seems that .mui files also allow to modify the vga awareness of the programs ?

- TrueVGA / ozVGA / WVGAFix3 : there are some programs that seems to fool WM or the installed apps and allow to use different resolutions ... so if it is possible to fool WM / apps about the real resolution, it should be possible to do what I am asking for ?


Please correct me if I'm wrong :(

[nir36]

The thing is, that you can't just throw in a magical script that would resize all images to QVGA.. your app reads the images and presents them on the screen. if they're VGA.. there's really nothing you can do about it.

There are many many projects in XDA-devs which are based around resizing interfaces of applications from QVGA to VGA and vice versa.. I trust that if it was possible to just write a script to do that automatically.. someone would've already done that.

[Klael]

But some programs already have both image pack VGA and QVGA. Because there is no different version of iGo for QVGA and VGA devices. It uses VGA images it device support it. So there must be a way to make iGo render in QVGA mode.

And, as you may know, Asus P750 has a VGA screen but it works like QVGA.

[Lord.Nibbler]

I confirm what Klael said... the GPS app is the same executable in VGA or QVGA ! So the only issue is to force it to believe that the app is running on a QVGA screen instead of VGA :rolleyes:

Unfortunately, I tried to delete the HI_RES_AWARE resource with ResourceHacker but the app refuses to start after that :(

I also tried to change the value "HI_RES_AWARE CEUX {1}" to "HI_RES_AWARE CEUX {0}" but it doesn't work neither.

Can someone with programming/hacking experience answer to this topic please ? :cool:

I'm convinced that there is a way to do it !

[Lord.Nibbler]

UP :D

I'm pretty sure there is a way to do it ! I just hope that someone with some experience in developing/hacking could read the post :rolleyes::cool:

[tonev]

Witch version of IGO are you using? Because in mine all the images for the themes are located in archives and all the values etc can be edited via notepad so you just need to do all the stuff yourself . unfortunately i have QVGA device so I can't help you :(