Lumia 635/630 - any way to fake the display resolution?

[shifuimam]

As anyone with a 630 or 635 (or other low-resolution phone) has discovered, the hacks to enable five action buttons and smaller text don't work. I found this information that explains why:

http://sysdev.microsoft.com/en-us/H..._apps_experience_for_medium_and_large_screens

Unless there's a way to trick the OS into thinking the phone has a higher resolution screen (at least 720 px wide), there's no way to use the UserPreferenceWidth or AllowedQuickSettingsElements keys to enable smaller text and an extra quick action toggle.

Anyone have any ideas on tricking WP 8.1 into believing the phone has a higher res than what's reported by the display's EDID?

 

[mybabysexy]

once I read all the registry keys I found the key which contains the resolution of the display. Mine the value is 480x800.
I want that 5 buttons too but i don't think it will work if I fake it. I think that when I change it, the resolution will change to and my screen will have trouble displaying contents.

 

[surya467]

I can help you change it, but i can promise you that it will work, worth a try, or should i mess up my 525 first and see if it works??

 

[rustybob]

I know this is an old thread, but I think I can say that this is 100% possible, I recently bought the Win Blu Jr LTE phone for my sister, and the resolution of the screen is 854x480. I did notice when looking in the "About" section, it did say that the screen resolution was 854x480, but there was a line below it that said it was rendering things as if the screen was actually 960x540.

I bought this phone for her as a replacement for the Lumia 635, and while updating the phone to Update 2 of 8.1, the way the OS looked was clearly different. And while both phones are 4.5", 854x480 resolution screens, the difference in clarity of the Win Blu Jr LTE was stunning.

Now that we have WPInternals and registry editing tools available, perhaps someone can figure out how to get other 854x480 phones to do this as well. Is it possible to get a registry editor on a phone like the Win Blu Jr LTE that can't be rooted or bootloader unlocked? If so, and someone had a rough idea of where in the registry the line with the resolution is, I could probably borrow the phone and take a look at it. I wouldn't be surprised if there was just a second registry key after the resolution one that enabled this upscaling.