Originally Posted by molesarecoming

i guess it can be modified, why not. trick it into believing the dpi of your device is 192. if you want you can have my apktool project (it took me days to figure out how to compile/decompile ics apk's without getting a crapload of error messages). with apktool you should be able to do this quickly. but as i wrote in the first post, if someone would invent a root-app that could individually set dpi for apps, it would do so much for us.

Can youtube,gmail,email apps etc. be tricked the same way? I mean for people that dont want minature fonts everywhere.

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well, you have the apk so you can pretty much do to it whatever you want - but it's some effort and each update would trash it i guess. 192 is still readable and in the settings you can try the huge fonts settings. for now i see no other way at least.

edit:
i tried it and it works fine, settings / display / font size = large/huge
it works for all apps. apps that didn't handle the new dpi so well like skype are perfectly readable.
unfortunately the apex-hack doesnt like it too much.

Originally Posted by molesarecoming

every launcher "works," well, except trebuchet. but nova wastes space, shrinks your icons and hides the dock. if you can live with that, yes then it works.

No dock on a ICS tablet is normal. I just searched to see what ICS looked like on the Xoom and it does not have a dock either. So it is not like something doesn't work right with the launchers, tablets for ICS just don't use a dock like the phones.

Originally Posted by eman3316@optonline.net

No dock on a ICS tablet is normal. I just searched to see what ICS looked like on the Xoom and it does not have a dock either. So it is not like something doesn't work right with the launchers, tablets for ICS just don't use a dock like the phones.

didn't say it's a bug. but the galaxy nexus is not a tablet, it's a phone, and it should be usable as such. now in my opinion some changes really work well, and some others don't, like the launcher that goes full throttle into tablet mode, disregarding the phones aesthetics.

i hope this thing here works out in such a way that we can actually cherrypick the good and exclude the bad stuff, make phone/tablet hybrid into something stable and useful. i just felt it needed some attention and care as it is not perfect by lengths.

Now running this at 182 dpi. Anything lower and phone.apk craps out. I'm running it that low because I find the texts below each icon in the app draw display better, this is with font set to large. At 192 some of the texts were cut off... this looks better imo.

Originally Posted by vapotrini

Now running this at 182 dpi. Anything lower and phone.apk craps out. I'm running it that low because I find the texts below each icon in the app draw display better, this is with font set to large. At 192 some of the texts were cut off... this looks better imo.

i noticed it aswell, it sucks. it can be fixed though, maybe this evening i'll do it, maybe i can get landscape to work, too. do you know how to use apktool? maybe we could swap changes, like what XanSama did. nicest solution would be to fork trebuchet though, and if someone has the knowledge to pull it off, man that would be great.

Now running this at 182 dpi. Anything lower and phone.apk craps out. I'm running it that low because I find the texts below each icon in the app draw display better, this is with font set to large. At 192 some of the texts were cut off... this looks slightly better imo.

See attached.

Too bad this doesnt work on CM9 for devices that dont have ICS available.

works well, for the most part. GTalk is pretty much unusable in portrait at 192. Anyway to trick it to using the normal phone density ux?

FYI, the Apex launcher in the market works fine

I can't get my nav bar to be displayed... I'm running Axi0m from RootzWiki which is AOKP. It has majority of the options discussed here with changing the DPI, clearing market cache, and all sorts of tweaks... One step I'm stuck at is "hiding the nav bar" which in the OP says it's under Power Settings, which is false. That option enables the navigational controls in the Power Menu (which saved me when trying this).

Basically when I change my DPI, I don't have a status bar (normal) nor a navigation bar and I think it's throwing everything off.