Hi!
I've run into a problem regarding some of the system fonts on my device.
It looks like some system font has been replaced by some sort of digital looking font since all of a sudden some numbers in settings dialogs are now displayed as 7-seg numbers.
I guees it related to some app i've installed but since i've installed a huge amount of apps over the past days i not too eager to start backtracking and uninstalling.
Also i've installed Esmertec Jbed since the built in Sun Java is just crap. But in all java apps i run like opera mini the font is really bad. Looks like some thin upscaled low res font. I'ts readable but it looks like crap.
I'm not a win mo newbe but i haven't dealt with fonts on a smartphone before
Any suggestions on how to proceed with fixing these problems?
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Hi, I'd like to make my fonts look like the ones that they advertise with the crossbow. I mean i'd like to have my whole system with those fonts but i don't know how. I've done tons of searching but i could not find anything that would help me change the fonts of my whole system (unless i build my own rom with those fonts but that's too complicated for me). Is there another way? i've found some threads that's suppose to change the fonts but it messed up my fone, others do not change the whole system but just some fonts. All WM6 roms that i've used do not have those fonts that I'm talking about. I'd like to make it like the fonts on this picture. Can someone help me please?
Is there anyone out there who can help/suggest something/make me read another thread/tell me it's not possible/whatever...?anyone?
joecruz said:
Is there anyone out there who can help/suggest something/make me read another thread/tell me it's not possible/whatever...?anyone?
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I don´t think it is so easy - but what about cleartype. The font doesn´t look so different for me. Just cleartype?? Don´t know.
Start - settings - screen - enable cleartype.
And there are registry hacks to enable it also in landscape mode. (Registrywizard or HTweakC)
thanks, but i already have cleartype on. not quite the same but i really appreciate ur reply. With over 240+ views, i finally received a reply. At least i can say ur one of the few people out there who genuinely lend a helping hand to others. I really appreciate it thanks again
Looking at the screengrabs I think they're from a VGA device (a HTC Universal for example), which is why the fonts looks slightly smoother and more rounded. The font on the XDA Exec I borrowed looked a lot nicer than my XDA Mini-S just because it was higher res, despite the actual screen real-estate being used in the same way (IE. although the screen was higher res, everything was larger to compensate). The effect I saw looked just like in some of your screenshots - particularly the first portrait one.
thanks paulmdx!i guess that explains it. it probably looks different because of the vga screen.Thanks, i guess i'll just have to give up on wishing that my fonts be like that
Sorry for my late response...I was suppose to reply back to you after you reminded me that the fonts could be changed...I managed to change the fonts by adding the files to the font folder in the \windows\fonts directory...the extention you are looking for is .ttf...I tried to use a font with a different extention and it didn't work...also if you are looking for fonts then your best bet is http://dafont.com ...they have the best looking fonts, and they have popular fonts used in movies, video games, etc...the one that I am running is aiight, and the one that i put on my girl's is the Walt Disney font...one more thing, after you put the fonts on your ppc you will need to have a program to change the font for you, or you'll need to either change some registry key to enable it (I don't know the keys), or use a program like Tweaks2k2.net to change it...it's not a free program, but you'll be able to use the program 3 times before you have to register it...I don't if you were looking for the font used in WM6 or you were looking for a way to change fonts on the ppc, but anyways here's some info for those who wanted to do this...
Btw this only changes some fonts, but not all of them...it's better this way just in case you put a font that is blurry, too small, etc...while I was trying out fonts for my girl's phone, this happened to me...if all the fonts on the ppc were changed, I wouldn't have been able to find the options easily to change the font...looks awesome though...even my keyboard font changed...my cousin said I'm ghetto because my font looks like tagging lol...
Missing font!
While we are on this topic.....Some of my fonts are messed up!
I installed the 10 button Comm Manager and couldn't get the WLAN to activate. I then went back to the 8 button Comm Manager. Later I found a fix for the 10 and uninstalled the 8. When I did it messed up my fonts. Does anyone have the stock fonts they can send me?
Shep
Hi !
I noticed a while ago that the small fonts in Opera Mini (latest 3 version - non beta, and all the 4 betas) have a rectangle around them which doesn't match the background... It's like the letter background is not completely transparent (it darkens the area around a letter). If you can't see this, try looking at the screen at an angle. Note: This only happens with SMALL fonts.
Is this an Opera Mini prolem or a JVM problem (i'm not sure who draws the font...) ?
Actually i could have sent this as PM to Menneisyys, but i thought maybe i start some talk...
The reason i'm asking this is because it's the last issue i have with Opera Mini, and maybe i should look for another JVM (useless if Opera draws the fonts and not the JVM)...
Thanks!
See section "6.3 Still no non-Western fonts in smallest charsize" at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=340322 :
"In order to keep the size of the JAR file down, the developers of Opera Mini have chosen NOT to include any non-Western character in their custom, (in most MIDlet manager) edge-smoothed Small font set. Only a rectangle will be displayed upon encountering characters like this. This is pretty much similar to how Thunderhawk, the famous (IMHO, Opera Mini is far more recommended), albeit, for long not updated Windows Mobile Web browser did: it also uses a custom fontset and it also refuses to render anything non-Western.
This means you MUST use at least the Medium font size on your handset (because it uses the native charset of the device and not that of Opera Mini), should you want to read pages using the non-Western alphabet."
The OM folks have announced they will NOT implement non-Western chars to keep the JAR size down.
Oh, maybe i wasn't clear enough: i can see the letter, but the area around it (it's bounding rectangle) is not transparent, i attached a picture of what i mean (it's not from the device, when i try to take a photo the problem is not visible in the picture)
I noticed that i had that problem with the Esmertec Jbed manager, Tao Intent shows small fonts just fine without gray boxes.
Tao font is also much more clear to read.
Damn ! I don't like Tao 'cause it doesn't support fullscreen, and doesn't exit after i exit opera mini called from command line...
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I noticed that i had that problem with the Esmertec Jbed manager, Tao Intent shows small fonts just fine without gray boxes.
Tao font is also much more clear to read.
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Strange, no such problems with me (Jbed).
Also, I downloaded an original verson of Opera Mini recently as I lost my Russian copy.
Oddly, my Russian version allows me to open and switch between two windows or three.
I know this is an old thread, but i want to bring closure: The latest Opera Mini 4.1 beta doesn't have this problem. So i was right, there was something wrong. Now the small fonts look GREAT !
First off, I want to say a big thanks to all the wm6 developers, you are all doing a great job!
I recently upgraded from the stock T-mobile SDA wm5 ROM to vjgrace’s v3.4 wm6 ROM. The one thing I notice is that the fonts in the contact list (well, when editing the ‘notes’ field for a contact) are way bigger. And in the settings, you can only select ‘Normal’ and ‘Large’ for the system font size. On my old SDA rom, I'm pretty sure that you could select ‘Small’ as the font size from the list. Anyways, I usually fill the ‘notes’ field of each contact in my contact list with lots of crap, so it is important for me to have a smaller font size there.
I've searched the Internet for a few days looking for registry hacks or whatever I can find to fix this issue, but the only lead I have found is a program called “Tweaks2K2 .Net for Pocket PC.” It has a hack to change the system font size. However when I installing the demo of the program, it would always crash on boot.
When I e-mailed the author about it, he replied “Wm6 from XDA-developers? If that's the case, it's nothing that I can do about it.” :lol:
There is also a version called ““Tweaks2K2 .Net for Smartphone,” which is probably the one I should've downloaded, but unfortunately this one does not have a hack to change system font size.
So if anyone does have any information on changing the system font size through the registry, or knows of a wm6 ROM that has ‘Small’ fonts as an option for system font size, or any other useful tidbit of information, please let me know!
Thanks,
Ian
Hi, I bought for my mom this phone, because it`s simple and easy to use. Screen is big enough, but I never thought that will be a problem with font size, especially in messages where font is tiny.
I just found old threads without solution and new about WP 8 where is menu Easy of access to change font size.
Please give me any advice what should I do, otherwise i will be force to change this phone.
P.S.
Almost in all old phone models is something to change font size where screen is small and one word is on whole screen.
Microsoft is the biggest IT company with windows mobile system history and just forget something like this? Ridiculous
This is even discrimination for people with disabilities like for people with poor but usable vision
Please, someone tell me that i`ve been wrong about this and i just can`t find where font size is changing and just I`m blind...
I just got CyanogenMod working on my Moto G (cm-12-20150213-NIGHTLY-falcon.zip). However, I suspect that this question is not specific to the Moto G.
I like that there is a native text file editor app. Who needs a Notes app when there is a text file editor? I can use unix tools like diff and vimdiff to manually sync it with text files on my laptop (running cygwin). It's a bit of a pain that cygwin can't see the device as a unix path, but I think I can work around that.
However, the font is too small. It is much smaller than the font used by the OS for everything else. How can I increase the font size? I would like to minimize apps installation, so a native solution is best.
I have the same problem, using CM12 Nightly on Sony Xperia M. The text file editor font is too small, but I couldn't find a way to make it bigger. Have you found a solution for this issue?
Unfortunately, no. From what I vaguely recall from surfing the web, a potential solution might be installing a new data entry GUI, but I didn't really look too deeply because I'm still getting to know the security implications of installing various apps. I just put up with the small font. Very odd that this would be the default size, eh?