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Running update-encore-20120417.zip and performance-wise it's been the best I've seen...it just "feels" right when moving around in the system, if that makes any sense.

Only, for some reason about a quarter of my apps (including Opera and a few others I can't think of since I'm back on CM7 again) are convinced they're on 240 dpi and changing the dpi does nothing to improve things at all.

Any ideas?

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bornagainpenguin said:
Running update-encore-20120417.zip and performance-wise it's been the best I've seen...it just "feels" right when moving around in the system, if that makes any sense.

Only, for some reason about a quarter of my apps (including Opera and a few others I can't think of since I'm back on CM7 again) are convinced they're on 240 dpi and changing the dpi does nothing to improve things at all.

Any ideas?

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What do you mean 'convinced they're on 240 dpi'? You mean they are in their phone gui? The phone gui will show for all apps if you are above 160 dpi. If you are at 160 or lower, the device goes into tablet gui, but some apps stay in phone gui either because they have no tablet gui built in or they are getting bad information from the system. That was true for Evernote. It displayed the phone gui even though the nook was in tablet gui.
 
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bornagainpenguin said:
Running update-encore-20120417.zip and performance-wise it's been the best I've seen...it just "feels" right when moving around in the system, if that makes any sense.

Only, for some reason about a quarter of my apps (including Opera and a few others I can't think of since I'm back on CM7 again) are convinced they're on 240 dpi and changing the dpi does nothing to improve things at all.

Any ideas?

--bornagainpenguin
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Opera Mobile scales correctly for me for the first time with the new kernel addition. It is not blown up and does not think the nook is a phone. I did a build yesterday and the kernel had been merged. Does Sams 4-17 build have the new .59 kernel? If so, you may try uninstalling and reinstalling those apps. Don't know otherwise.
 
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leapinlar said:
What do you mean 'convinced they're on 240 dpi'? You mean they are in their phone gui? The phone gui will show for all apps if you are above 160 dpi. If you are at 160 or lower, the device goes into tablet gui, but some apps stay in phone gui either because they have no tablet gui built in or they are getting bad information from the system. That was true for Evernote. It displayed the phone gui even though the nook was in tablet gui.
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I mean when I change DPI it has no effect whatsoever and that I think DPI is being misreported somehow.

Here's two screenshots that might help explain things.

This is what is being reported as 160 dpi:
screenshot2012041900053.png


This is what 160 dpi actually looks like:
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When I reboot to complete the changes it goes back to the faux 160dpi (which is clearly higher than being reported.)
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bornagainpenguin said:
I mean when I change DPI it has no effect whatsoever and that I think DPI is being misreported somehow.

Here's two screenshots that might help explain things.

This is what is being reported as 160 dpi:

This is what 160 dpi actually looks like:

When I reboot to complete the changes it goes back to the faux 160dpi (which is clearly higher than being reported.)
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You are talking about the lettering size? That's the only difference I can see in your screenshots.

Go to the Dev Tools app and look at configuration. It tells you the real screen density.

That screen density changing app may not be accurate.

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
 
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leapinlar said:
You are talking about the lettering size? That's the only difference I can see in your screenshots.

Go to the Dev Tools app and look at configuration. It tells you the real screen density.

That screen density changing app may not be accurate.

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
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None of the them seem to be accurate at this time. Usually I use nook odds and ends, but since it didn't work earlier I tried this one. I can do some more screenshots tomorrow, I'm tired now, sorry.

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That slider for the new dpi may just be set there with an app database, waiting for you to click apply. Have you been clicking the set at boot option? It's not on in your screenshots, and I can't see why you'd unset it just to take the picture.

That would explain the return upon reboot, if that is the only problem you're having.
 
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I don't know what to think now, I reflashed this morning and have been unable to make the issue happen again. I did notice that Opera was using the phone GUI, but my icons were fine.

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On a friend's Nook, DoggCatcher, Kaiten mail, Amazon Kindle, IMDB, all phone UIs. But all the Google and Android apps are tablet modes, and Nova Launcher, Super user are. The system is in tablet mode. Default dpi.

Seems to depend on how they decide if something's a tablet or a phone.
 
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On a friend's Nook, DoggCatcher, Kaiten mail, Amazon Kindle, IMDB, all phone UIs. But all the Google and Android apps are tablet modes, and Nova Launcher, Super user are. The system is in tablet mode. Default dpi.

Seems to depend on how they decide if something's a tablet or a phone.
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Yes, there is certainly that too. If a developer doesn't think their "tablet" layout will display well enough on a 7" screen they can choose to stick to their "phone" layout.

Also, when the first real Android tablets came out with Honeycomb they were all 10" devices so many apps are probably still coded to only think of that size as qualifying as a tablet

I don't think it has to be between just two choices either. My Nook with these latest CM9 builds displays IMDB, for example, in a tablet layout of some form but it doesn't appear to be the same layout I've seen on larger 10" tablets. I need to double-check that at some point though
 
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I must have missed something. How do you tell if it a phone or tablet UI?
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Phone GUIs are generally just single panes that get larger as the screen gets larger. Usually the tablet gui's have multiple panes. Like a window on the left and a scrollable pane on the right. They take advantage of the capabilities of ics that gingerbread does not have.

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Yes, there is certainly that too. If a developer doesn't think their "tablet" layout will display well enough on a 7" screen they can choose to stick to their "phone" layout.

Also, when the first real Android tablets came out with Honeycomb they were all 10" devices so many apps are probably still coded to only think of that size as qualifying as a tablet

I don't think it has to be between just two choices either. My Nook with these latest CM9 builds displays IMDB, for example, in a tablet layout of some form but it doesn't appear to be the same layout I've seen on larger 10" tablets. I need to double-check that at some point though
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I did some experimenting with imdb. My Galaxy Tab 7", which is running gingerbread at 240 dpi, shows imdb in tablet gui. It has multiple panes in landscape. One pane is stationary and the other is scrollable.

However, my Nook Color, running either CM7 or CM9, displays imdb in phone gui. It has single panes. It has a scrolling section at the top, but when you scroll the whole window, that scrolling section moves up off the screen. And it makes no difference what dpi I set in CM9, it still is in phone gui. (Edit: I ordinarily run CM7 at 240dpi, so I temporarily changed it to 160 and imdb displayed in tablet gui.)

And both devices are running the same version (2.6). So that tells me the software itself decides how to display based on what it thinks the device will support.

As an aside to this, I could not get imdb to show up in market in CM9 (running non-openGL 4/21 eyeballer), but it showed up in CM7. I downloaded with CM7, then used the apk to install on CM9.

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
 
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leapinlar said:
I did some experimenting with imdb. My Galaxy Tab 7", which is running gingerbread at 240 dpi, shows imdb in tablet gui. It has multiple panes in landscape. One pane is stationary and the other is scrollable.

However, my Nook Color, running either CM7 or CM9, displays imdb in phone gui. It has single panes. But it has a scrolling section at the top, but when you scroll the whole window, that scrolling section moves up off the screen. And it makes no difference what dpi I set in CM9, it still is in phone gui. (Edit: I ordinarily run CM7 at 240dpi, so I temporarily changed it to 160 and imdb displayed in tablet gui.)

And both devices are running the same version (2.6). So that tells me the software itself decides how to display based on what it thinks the device will support.

As an aside to this, I could not get imdb to show up in market in CM9 (running non-openGL 4/21 eyeballer), but it showed up in CM7. I downloaded with CM7, then used the apk to install on CM9.

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
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I was just starting to type when I saw your edit. I had double-checked my Nook because you made me doubt my memory for a second! With standard 160dpi mine shows a tablet layout like you said and it appears in the market too. Screenshot in case anyone's curious
 
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I was just starting to type when I saw your edit. I had double-checked my Nook because you made me doubt my memory for a second! With standard 160dpi mine shows a tablet layout like you said and it appears in the market too. Screenshot in case anyone's curious
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That screenshot is of CM9, and imdb is showing in tablet gui. Mine still shows phone gui at 160. Are you running opengl? Mine is non. And at 160 still no market.

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leapinlar said:
That screenshot is of CM9, and imdb is showing in tablet gui. Mine still shows phone gui at 160. Are you running opengl? Mine is non. And at 160 still no market.

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Sorry, I should have clarified further: it's a recent non-opengl build from eyeballer (4/17 think) with no changes or mods. I'm really just assuming the dpi is 160 because I haven't changed anything over stock
 
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Sorry, I should have clarified further: it's a recent non-opengl build from eyeballer (4/17 think) with no changes or mods. I'm really just assuming the dpi is 160 because I haven't changed anything over stock
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Ok, I found out why my system is not showing IMDb in tablet GUI in CM9. I am using my patched framework-res.apk which sets the 'showNavigationBar' value to true. And even though I can set the dpi to 160 and CM9 displays in tablet GUI, IMDb sees the framework-res setting and displays in phone GUI at all dpi settings.

But it still does not show in Market. Of course I have frozen my system to always run an old version of Market, so that might be making a difference too.

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In the recent versions of the Play Store you can set it to no filters in the settings. I am pretty sure that all the apps show up: IMDB, call blockers, camera effects and stuff like that are there for me..
If that even helps.
 
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In the recent versions of the Play Store you can set it to no filters in the settings. I am pretty sure that all the apps show up: IMDB, call blockers, camera effects and stuff like that are there for me..
If that even helps.
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I'd been meaning to reply to your assertion here: its wrong. The filters setting has to do with maturity content only. It won't do a thing for any other kind of filter in place, device-specific or otherwise.
 
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