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How do I increase the font size in Android

I often do not have my glasses and cannot read the screen without them. On WinMo there was a setting to change the default text size. Does such a setting exist in Android?

anyone? 10chars

There is a new app today in the market for *rooted* phones only, called Font Size.
It is still in beta and you'll need to have a good backup first in case of problems. I am running a rooted Nexus one and although it rebooted twice in a row after installation, it now works perfectly.

If you are running a rom with spares parts you can change it with that.
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Mdawg112 said:
If you are running a rom with spares parts you can change it with that.
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Or... You can download spare parts from the market. LOL.

Or you can just pinch and zoom ...

peadarog said:
There is a new app today in the market for *rooted* phones only, called Font Size.
It is still in beta and you'll need to have a good backup first in case of problems. I am running a rooted Nexus one and although it rebooted twice in a row after installation, it now works perfectly.
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I was searching for something like rhis and worked fine.
Cheers.

sms text size works pretty good, its free and in the market

Or if your rooted and feel comfortable changing things. You can go into the build file ( which is a text file you can view through ES File Explorer and give the App super user abilities ( which you HAVE to change in the settings of the app as when the app boots it's already given those permissions. You need to give it permission to overwrite files ) Go to the System Folder which is located on the phone not the SD Card. Once viewing the build file.. in the middle of the text file you'll see 160 DPI is the default value, just under that are two values ( both stock at 160 ) and you change those. If you go to 180 everything on the phone becomes bigger or 140 and things become smaller ( Apps, text, everything ) then follows the instructions after which is to reboot the phone...all settings will take place.
Just do NOT change anything else in the build file.

font size
How do i get to the build file? is it in an app or in my 4G.

font size
Hi,
Found the build file and changed from 160 DPI to 180 DPI but when I reboot it does not overwrite the change. How do I get the change to stick.

jmascia said:
Hi,
Found the build file and changed from 160 DPI to 180 DPI but when I reboot it does not overwrite the change. How do I get the change to stick.
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Attach your build.prop here and I'll take a look at it.
You might need to rename it to .txt or put it in a .zip

jmascia said:
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Found the build file and changed from 160 DPI to 180 DPI but when I reboot it does not overwrite the change. How do I get the change to stick.
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How are you editing build.prop?
Also your rom must support DPI changes, not all of them do, which rom is this?
Once you change that number it should NOT get overwritten.
Spare parts will change menu font size, but won't stick after your screen rotates. If you have rotation off you should be fine. Otherwise the CM community is trying to get that option in spare parts to work, but it's not cooperating. Editing build.prop is probably the best bet.

ROM??? this is way out of my league. I tried spare parts but was unclear how to increase fonts. it seemed to only increase font in one menu screen.
not sure how to attach build prop.

DPI changes not just the font, but everything, like if your font gets bigger, so do your icons, menus, etc. That does work if you want that result. If you want to change ONLY your system font size and nothing else, you can go read this info, and change it this way:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=990853

I need to change the size of the font in my contacts for EVO 4G

jmascia said:
I need to change the size of the font in my contacts for EVO 4G
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If you're running CM7 there should be an option for changing contact text size. I've never used it, but I know it's there.
You should also be asking this in their forum btw
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Doesn't anybody else think it's pretty bad this option isn't available by default on Android? Not everybody wants to root their phones. Not everybody knows a 3rd party app for this exists (and it doesn't even seem to work globally for all text to begin with).
Definite downside, in my opinion.

JaSauders said:
Doesn't anybody else think it's pretty bad this option isn't available by default on Android? Not everybody wants to root their phones. Not everybody knows a 3rd party app for this exists (and it doesn't even seem to work globally for all text to begin with).
Definite downside, in my opinion.
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Talk to or email google about it. Actually, I believe there's a request for it somewhere on the aosp features page (something like that) you can star the issue and try to get more people to join it. Maybe google will look into it...
At least that's a better option than wishing constantly and not taking action
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Use Spare Parts named app from market. It can directly make bigger your all fonts + no root.

Skyrocket screen density??

ok so i had the INFUSE, where i would just edit the build prop and change the DPI of the screen....and it worked great. but it does not seem to have the same effect on the skyrocket...i notice alot of dead space on the screen when doing this that was NOT on the infuse. it made things smaller in proper proportion to the screen, on the skyrocket it seems to make the Screen windows smaller and odd looking.
any ideas?

nope doesn't seem like anyone figured this out outside of using a different launcher & dialer.
I switched to go launcher, even though touch wiz seemed to work pretty well. kept the dialer for now.

y2whisper said:
nope doesn't seem like anyone figured this out outside of using a different launcher & dialer.
I switched to go launcher, even though touch wiz seemed to work pretty well. kept the dialer for now.
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so if i pic another launcher it will eliminate the dead space at the bottom of the screen?

yes. the dead space is just due to touchwiz being setup just for the one resolution. other launchers are set up to do more as they aren't device specific.
The dialer will still have dead space, you can get go contacts/go dialer if you choose.

Does changing the density this way cause the same problem as using the density changer app on the market? If you change the density with the app it makes most apps on the market imcompatible and will not allow you to download them.

silver03wrx said:
Does changing the density this way cause the same problem as using the density changer app on the market? If you change the density with the app it makes most apps on the market imcompatible and will not allow you to download them.
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yes it still causes the apps not show up in the market....in which case i switch it back then download and switch back again once it is on my phone.

Can someone tell me the screen density on the stock AT&T ROM?? I changed mine and want to change back for apps, but I can't remember. I've tried like 5 levels and still have apps showing as not compatible.
TIA!

Charles: said:
Can someone tell me the screen density on the stock AT&T ROM?? I changed mine and want to change back for apps, but I can't remember. I've tried like 5 levels and still have apps showing as not compatible.
TIA!
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I believe it's 240.

Thanks...!

No prob. I usually have to clear my market cache after I switch back to stock density for the incompatible message to go away.
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If the market and apps didnt break when using this, it would be amazing.
what is the logic behind the market not working?

Your fix: http://www.traemcneely.com/2011/12/...patible-with-this-item-in-android-app-market/

trae4nato said:
Your fix: http://www.traemcneely.com/2011/12/...patible-with-this-item-in-android-app-market/
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thanks, are any of those permanent though, instead of having to switch back to 240 every time?

[Q] LCD Density on ICS

Anyone had any luck changing the LCD density on the ICS leak? I tried it using LCD Modder Pro and it resulted in a soft brick.

SolsticeZero said:
Anyone had any luck changing the LCD density on the ICS leak? I tried it using LCD Modder Pro and it resulted in a soft brick.
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I'm trying LCD Resolution, it says it needs busybox installed.
I go to the market and try to get an installer for busybox, and apparently market is broken for me - I can't download anything from it. Updates work fine, but can't get anything new.

I've been unsuccessful in getting the LCD resolution to change. I tried LCD Resolution with no change (no soft brick though). Also tried modifying the build.prop directly, that resulted in a soft brick.

I resolved my market broken issue (just reinstalled ICS through odin).
Going to try it after my nandroid backup is done. Fingers crossed!
EDIT:
On further thought and some googling, a lot of the LCD density changing apps on the market have disclaimers about it not working on certain devices, or ICS. So I would actually be surprised if the ways of doing it on 2.3.5 will work on 4.0+
EDIT:
Alright, gave it a shot. It won't work. In fact, some of the icons appear larger. Didn't break my phone at all though, just a quick reboot and it was back to normal. I'm going to keep trying different ways.

anyone have any luck with changing ICS density yet? cannot stand how big everything is!!!

dac1227 said:
anyone have any luck with changing ICS density yet? cannot stand how big everything is!!!
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I haven't been able to get it yet..
I'm hoping that once the custom ROMs start rolling out I'll be able to figure it out. I'm good at getting into those and changing things, but I'm bad at manipulating just my phone.
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Yeah editing the build file just gave me a soft brick as well.. bummer.
EDIT:
I tried adding a new line to the build.prop - My phone appeared to soft brick, and when I was trying to boot it into CWM it somehow booted up. But nothing had changed. Weird..
Also the apps on the market that claim to work with ICS don't for me.
Also, I heard that the Galaxy S II folks had this weird issue of there being TWO LINES that you needed to change... but from what I could tell (I looked over the file very carefully) there is only that one line.

i got the lcd density to change, use rom toolbox pro and changed it to 200 in the build tweaks section

mjwhirly said:
i got the lcd density to change, use rom toolbox pro and changed it to 200 in the build tweaks section
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WORKED. Going to check it with 160 (what I used). Excellent find man, thanks!!
EDIT: Ah my phone is so beautiful now. Works perfectly, now if I can only figure out how the app is getting the job done.. haha

That worked perfectly. I was trying to change it for hours. Thanks! I am using 160 too. Looks great, better than with Gingerbread!

What exactly does changing this do?

This changes the resolution of your screen.
ROM Toolbox did the trick, thanks.
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mjwhirly said:
i got the lcd density to change, use rom toolbox pro and changed it to 200 in the build tweaks section
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Ahh, thank you. Saved me! I did not want to revert back to GB, but do not enjoy a senior friendly UI either!

Ok, I tried this and not sure what is going on.
When I do, the icons get smaller, but instead of using all the screen realestate, I have a large section of unused space that I can't do anything with.
What am I missing or what am I doing wrong?

After you've changed the density, you'll want to change the number of columns/rows of your launcher to make use of the extra space.

Awesome! Rooted up my skyrocket on ICS! First root for me on my first android! And just got my skyrocket yesterday!
I changed mine to 200, it's way better this way. I did it through the rom toolbox as suggested.
There is a small lag though going back to the home screen, are you guys experience this as well?
Any suggestions on fixing the dial pad? I've done some searching and it seems most of the fixes aren't for us.. yet.

Ripclaw25 said:
After you've changed the density, you'll want to change the number of columns/rows of your launcher to make use of the extra space.
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Where do I make that change? I'm looking through Rom Manager and can't find that option.

nest75068 said:
Where do I make that change? I'm looking through Rom Manager and can't find that option.
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You change it in your launcher settings. I'd highly recommend Nova launcher. It acts like the AOSP ICS launcher (with the widgets section integrated into the app drawer). By default the desktop space is 4 rows by 4 columns, but you can change this. I'm experimenting with what works for me with a 160 density.

Horvaticus said:
You change it in your launcher settings. I'd highly recommend Nova launcher. It acts like the AOSP ICS launcher (with the widgets section integrated into the app drawer). By default the desktop space is 4 rows by 4 columns, but you can change this. I'm experimenting with what works for me with a 160 density.
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Thanks, that helped, now how do I create folders in Nova launcher? Can't figure this out for the life of me.
EDIT:
Nevermind, figured it out, it's like the iOS way of creating folders. Just drag and drop 1 app onto another.

Hmm, noticed that the disagree didn't resize either. Can anyone recommend a good dialer?

Exdialer is great.
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[Q] Games too wide for screen

Ok So All Of A Sudden, My Games (Injustice, Uno & Worms 2) Are Too Wide For My Nexus 5 Screen. I'm Rooted Running Cataclysm + Franco. Things Were Working Just Fine. Then I Installed Xposed Installer With 3 Modules (Swipeback, XUI Mod And XBlast) I Played Worms (After Installing Those Modules And Modifying A Bit) And Things Were Still Fine. A Few Hours Later, I Tried To Play Worms And It Was Way Too Wide For The Screen. Same Thing With Injustice And Uno. My Spades Game Isn't Too Wide Though. I Tried Looking In Cataclysm ROM Settings, Then In The Settings Of Each Module For Something I Might've Changed Relating To Screen Size But I Found Nothing. Then I Uninstalled Those 3 Games And Reinstalled Just Worms To See If It Would Work But It Still Was Too Wide. Idk What Else To Do. Help Please.

Geecho said:
Ok So All Of A Sudden, My Games (Injustice, Uno & Worms 2) Are Too Wide For My Nexus 5 Screen. I'm Rooted Running Cataclysm + Franco. Things Were Working Just Fine. Then I Installed Xposed Installer With 3 Modules (Swipeback, XUI Mod And XBlast) I Played Worms (After Installing Those Modules And Modifying A Bit) And Things Were Still Fine. A Few Hours Later, I Tried To Play Worms And It Was Way Too Wide For The Screen. Same Thing With Injustice And Uno. My Spades Game Isn't Too Wide Though. I Tried Looking In Cataclysm ROM Settings, Then In The Settings Of Each Module For Something I Might've Changed Relating To Screen Size But I Found Nothing. Then I Uninstalled Those 3 Games And Reinstalled Just Worms To See If It Would Work But It Still Was Too Wide. Idk What Else To Do. Help Please.
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What`s with the capital letters bro? Did you have this issue on stock rom and kernel too?

gee2012 said:
What`s with the capital letters bro? Did you have this issue on stock rom and kernel too?
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That's Just How I Write. (Shrugs) But Nah, Never Had This Problem On Stock ROM And Kernel.

Geecho said:
That's Just How I Write. (Shrugs) But Nah, Never Had This Problem On Stock ROM And Kernel.
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Did you change DPI?

gee2012 said:
Did you change DPI?
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I Didn't. Don't Even Know How To. Lol.

Geecho said:
I Didn't. Don't Even Know How To. Lol.
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Oke, but somehow the resolution may have been changed, so check in your mods settiings if somethig has changed.

gee2012 said:
Oke, but somehow the resolution may have been changed, so check in your mods settiings if somethig has changed.
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I Checked Again, There Isn't Anything In The Mods That Say Anything About The DPI Settings But I Give Up, I'm Just Gonna Restore My Backup And Start Over. Hopefully, If It Happens Again, I'll Catch What Happened/What I Did. Thanks Though.

Go easy on that shift key, friend. It's hard to tell where your sentences begin and end when you type like this and defeats the purpose of having capitalization in our written language.

I got a headache reading this. Where do people write like that? I'm curious. And you probably changed the DPI to something that the game doesn't support.
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DPI Changer S5

Thought you all might like a little more room. This app is amazing! I tested it on 360!!! If you go lower I cant tell you what happens. I tested from 480 all the way to 360 and I have to say 360 works the best!
Please Thank me if you like this find!
DPI Changer

Did this not change your dialpad? I change dpi manually and anything under stock made the dialer wrong.

Just checked. Ya same here. I don't mind I just have more room on the home screen. I just know this was the best setting for Gallery. If I remember right it did the same to the Dial pad too on my Note 3. That was the only bad thing.
PS Camera is a little smaller too.

WhiteReign said:
Just checked. Ya same here. I don't mind I just have more room on the home screen. I just know this was the best setting for Gallery. If I remember right it did the same to the Dial pad too on my Note 3. That was the only bad thing.
PS Camera is a little smaller too.
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Ya seems that AOSP was never struck with this issue, only Touchwiz based roms. I use Nova to get around the homescreen sizing.

Thanks for the share. I will have to give it a try.
I have been using the xposed module app settings. Nice module for anyone who is not familiar. Allows settings for dpi, force full screen, etc on a per app basis which is good I think as some apps I have a different dpi than others.
I agree with your thoughts on 360 for this device.
//Lance

Sir-Lancelot said:
Thanks for the share. I will have to give it a try.
I have been using the xposed module app settings. Nice module for anyone who is not familiar. Allows settings for dpi, force full screen, etc on a per app basis which is good I think as some apps I have a different dpi than others.
I agree with your thoughts on 360 for this device.
//Lance
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I tried it down to ~150, things got really small.
~120, and systemUI FC'd so badly I had to ODIN back to stock.

Has anyone figured out a way to force the dialer and the camera back to the right 480 dpi? I cant seem to figure out how to do it even in the xposed module App Settings, I can set it to 480 in there, and it still opens fullscreen, but not sized properly.
Thanks.

computercarl said:
Has anyone figured out a way to force the dialer and the camera back to the right 480 dpi? I cant seem to figure out how to do it even in the xposed module App Settings, I can set it to 480 in there, and it still opens fullscreen, but not sized properly.
Thanks.
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Keep trying app settings?? It's working great for me. Has been since root. I do use a different DPI changer but that shouldn't have anything to do with it. Good luck.
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Haven't had much luck using any of the dpi changer apps. Also when I try to change it manually the ro.so.lcd_density line in my build.prop isn't there, dont know if thats how its supposed to be but adding the line doesnt change anything. Anyone else having this issue or know how to fix it?

Crooke356 said:
Keep trying app settings?? It's working great for me. Has been since root. I do use a different DPI changer but that shouldn't have anything to do with it. Good luck.
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Seems you have to enable the xposed module as well. *IM A DERP*

computercarl said:
Seems you have to enable the xposed module as well. *IM A DERP*
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Lol, for me, it's ALWAYS the little things I miss. Glad you got it working.
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Rakuu said:
Haven't had much luck using any of the dpi changer apps. Also when I try to change it manually the ro.so.lcd_density line in my build.prop isn't there, dont know if thats how its supposed to be but adding the line doesnt change anything. Anyone else having this issue or know how to fix it?
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The new line for the S5 is ro.sf.lcd_density=480. It is already in the build prop file if you haven't found it yet. Just change the 480 to whatever size your after as usual.

cjsteier said:
The new line for the S5 is ro.sf.lcd_density=480. It is already in the build prop file if you haven't found it yet. Just change the 480 to whatever size your after as usual.
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Yea, that was a mistype, meant to say ro.sf not ro.so. Same story, the line isnt in my build.prop, adding it changes nothing.

Rakuu said:
Yea, that was a mistype, meant to say ro.sf not ro.so. Same story, the line isnt in my build.prop, adding it changes nothing.
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Hmm that's strange. I will say that the line in my build prop is earlier in, than in the past with other devices. As soon as I start scrolling I'll go though some # signs than it is the second line past them.

cjsteier said:
Hmm that's strange. I will say that the line in my build prop is earlier in, than in the past with other devices. As soon as I start scrolling I'll go though some # signs than it is the second line past them.
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did a manual adb pull of the build.prop and did a find in a text editor and couldnt find it, also manually looked through it many times, its not there.

Rakuu said:
did a manual adb pull of the build.prop and did a find in a text editor and couldnt find it, also manually looked through it many times, its not there.
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Well damn lol. Verizon S5? I really don't know what else to think of that.

cjsteier said:
Well damn lol. Verizon S5? I really don't know what else to think of that.
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No actually at&t s5, maybe thats the issue. Ill try asking around in the att forum.

Hmm wouldn't think that the build props would differ as far as basic device info, but maybe. Defiantly keep info posted here if you figure something out just for our future reference.

Well, just for kicks tried to add the line again and lo and behold it worked lol. So for future reference, if you are missing the lcd density line in your build.prop, adding it to the bottom works.

WhiteReign said:
Just checked. Ya same here. I don't mind I just have more room on the home screen. I just know this was the best setting for Gallery. If I remember right it did the same to the Dial pad too on my Note 3. That was the only bad thing.
PS Camera is a little smaller too.
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Messes up the lockscreen too especially if you're using fingerprint for security.
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