As those who have mirrored their Transformer's screen before over HDMI, you all know the bottom 80 pixels of the 1280x800 resolution screen are cut off. In landscape, this is as ideal as it gets to display 720p video and avoid the software buttons.
In portrait mode it's a different story though. You're now cutting off 80 pixels of game/app on the left side and displaying your buttons/status bar. Is there a way I can change the screens resolution (not LCD density) so applications that only run in portrait will respect the 80 missing pixels? Or make my tablet output 1280x800 so I'm not missing anything on screen?
Alternatively, is there a way to force these apps to be landscape? The majority of these apps in question actually play in Landscape, but set the screen to portrait for some reason. Thanks for any suggestions.
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I have just tried a Xoom in a shop. At the bottom and the top of the screen there were status bars. Is it possible to move these bars to the side of the screen or hide them fully? They take a lot of screen area mainly in landscape position. Web browsing does not look comfortable with this screen setup.
No, you cannot hide the status bar in Honeycomb (and neither in ICS iirc) per default: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=15408
There are apps for that though: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.hanhuy.android.hsbm
This app will not work on ICS
BTW what are the benefits of Honeycomb and ICS over older Android releases? Effective usage of widescreen is not...
The Xoom does run completely in widescreen - it has a 16:10 display, like most laptops, that bottom portion is "extra" space for the status bar, just like on a "Windows" laptop, that bottom space is used to display on-screen controls when watching a movie, etc., so that the actual movies and such are displayed in true 16:9 without any distortion. All "real" Android tablets are like this.
brandogg said:
The Xoom does run completely in widescreen - it has a 16:10 display, like most laptops, that bottom portion is "extra" space for the status bar, just like on a "Windows" laptop, that bottom space is used to display on-screen controls when watching a movie, etc., so that the actual movies and such are displayed in true 16:9 without any distortion. All "real" Android tablets are like this.
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My problem is with web browsing and/or text reading. The status bars leave only a narrow but unnecceassary long bar for reading. Ipad has 4:3 screen without bottom status bar. Much more natural.
Why can not be moved the status bar to the left or right side of the screen like taskbar in windows?
Why not run in portrait mode if needing to scroll much
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I'm in the process of installing a Android-stick in my car by HDMI to display on the original 7" screen and controlled with a touch-plate overlay.
That part is done and its working, but with such a low res screen (800x480 native) with stick running 720p the menus and text become unreadable even in "huge" mode. This i was able to more or less fix by using an app "Resolution Changer" which allows for changing resolution and DPI.
Problem is that icons will start to overlap/cut eachother if tweaked too muuch and app names disappear, also the standard android menu and statusbar remains tiny.
My biggest problem now, after trying a different launcher, this one with a "windows 8" kind of layout, all icons are on top of eachother and I cant switch launcher back or find the icon for settings or Resolution Changer.
Hope anyone have tips on how to solve it other than reflashing, well, Its not a biggie, but would prefer not to.
When navbar is enabled while watching a youtube
I zoom to make the video fit the screen but when i click on the 3 dots to change quality it changes back to normal aspect ratio i don't like that
Any help?
As you can see the black bar to the left. But there is no black bar to the right. Does anyone know how to remove it. It does it anytime i watch a movie.
The image you posted doesn't load for me. Does the black bar go over the front camera area? If so, it may be by design.
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The image you posted doesn't load for me. Does the black bar go over the front camera area? If so, it may be by design.
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The image didn't upload properly for some reason, and yes the bar does go over the camera. I just wish there was a way to fix it, because movies are basically cropped instead of being shown in either i guess you can say either 16:9 or fill screen, they are squared 4:3
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The image didn't upload properly for some reason, and yes the bar does go over the camera. I just wish there was a way to fix it, because movies are basically cropped instead of being shown in either i guess you can say either 16:9 or fill screen, they are squared 4:3
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The display is 1080x2300 so there's plenty of room for the bar on a 16:9 video (16:9 @ 1080p = 1080x1920). I suspect the cropping you're seeing is a function of whatever software you're using for playback. If I view this test video, full screen in Firefox, the bottom edge is cut off. If I view it in VLC the entire frame is displayed, with black bars on both sides. Removing the bar & allowing a 16:9 video to fill the screen completely would cut off more of the content from the top and/or bottom. Personally, I prefer to see the full frame in its original aspect ratio vs. having a portion cropped.
A thin vertical flickering bar appears in the middle of the screen when 60Hz is enabled and the screen resolution is 1080p. This can be seen against this background and at maximum brightness. do you have problems with this background? The band is barely visible if you turn on 120 Hz and 1440p. On a yellow background, a white stripe is barely visible. It does not exist on other backgrounds.
Video of flickering stripe