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[Q][Rooted w/ EaglesBlood] Square in place of special character (é)

Hey everybody, I hope you're doing great!
First of all, I'd like to say that I just recently rooted my phone with the latest version of EaglesBlood and I must say that I am friggin' impressed with the speed. And on top of that, the rooting process itself was a definite walk in the park. For those interested, I used this guide.
Now, unfortunately, I ran into a very minor issue with how this new ROM deals with special characters ("é" in this case)
In fact, the issue is that when I unroll the status bar, my network's operator name is shown as "Vid□otron" and not as "Vidéotron" .
I was hoping there was a fix to this minor, yet recurring annoyance!
Thanks a lot for the help, and have an awesome day
P.S. I have searched the forums and have found no issues like this one. I might however be totally wrong!!!

Whatever font that is being used doesn't support that character.
To resolve the problem, consider using a different font that supports that character.
http://www.dafont.com

jamadio said:
Whatever font that is being used doesn't support that character.
To resolve the problem, consider using a different font that supports that character.
http://www.dafont.com
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Thanks a lot for your answer, I didn't even know we could change fonts like that haha!
I've looked inside /system/fonts and I found out that the font being used is "DroidSans" which is the default font used on Android Phones, no?
I "tested" the font here with special characters and it works perfectly. On top of that, when I type special characters in text messages for instance, characters like é, è, à, ô look perfect.
Or is the font used in the status bar completely apart from the others?

Alright so I went ahead and modified the fonts like you suggested, but to no avail. It still shows as Vid□otron.
I have used the Coolvetica font.
Thanks for the help!!

Bump! Could use any help!

Bump the bump! Thanks!
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k0nfident said:
Or is the font used in the status bar completely apart from the others?
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Sorry it took me so long to respond.
So you tested it, didn't give you problems in the test, but in the phone your service provider Vidéotron still doesn't show up correct, right?
It's most likely that it doesn't use the DroidSans font, but perhaps another. Maybe the DroidSans-Bold font might be the next place to look.

jamadio said:
Sorry it took me so long to respond.
So you tested it, didn't give you problems in the test, but in the phone your service provider Vidéotron still doesn't show up correct, right?
It's most likely that it doesn't use the DroidSans font, but perhaps another. Maybe the DroidSans-Bold font might be the next place to look.
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Thanks a lot for your reply jamadio, but unfortunately even after changing all the default fonts to the one suggested earlier ("Coolvetica"), the issue still persists and the carrier name still has a symbol/square inside of it!
I am really confused, as it worked properly on the stock ROM, and I fail to understand how and why it's not working anymore! Thanks a lot for any further help!!
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k0nfident said:
Thanks a lot for your reply jamadio, but unfortunately even after changing all the default fonts to the one suggested earlier ("Coolvetica"), the issue still persists and the carrier name still has a symbol/square inside of it!
I am really confused, as it worked properly on the stock ROM, and I fail to understand how and why it's not working anymore! Thanks a lot for any further help!!
Sent from my LG-P999 using XDA App
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One more idea. What if the EaglesBlood ROM didn't have the original DroidSans.ttf and was using another font named DroidSans.ttf? Maybe downloading the actual DroidSans font and using it might be your fix.

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Hi there,
Any development on this? Have you been able to change to font so that you can see "Vidéotron" correctly? I'm having the same issue here. With the Eaglesblood's CM9 ROM, it shows Vide[]otron (a square), and on Eaglesblood's AOSP ICS ROM, it shows Vid otron (a blank instead of the "é" character). Very strange... I used other custom roms and some work and some don't. I'd be curious to know if you managed to solved this problem.
Thanks

[Q] Gingerbread style on Honeycomb

http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/20/...n-gingerbread-interface-enabled-by-h/?m=false
This is old news but I was wondering if anyone got this to work. I really hate the taskbar on honeycomb and usually go without it by using HoneyBar but the obvious drawback is that I have to guess at notifications or bring it back up. I tried it but it would not work for me.
The taskbar wasn't as annoying on the 10.1 but now it just feels downright intrusive to the screen. I tried StatusBar+ but that was even worse than the stock taskbar.
Maybe I'm alone on this...
US Wifi version 16gb stock, no kernals, rooted
Edit: I know I can use ADW or Go Launcher and already do. I just want that 2.x style notification bar back.

yes i believe this works on all honeycomb. just change your lcd denisty. there are apps that can do it or you can manually edit build.prop.

I guessed as much but the video was far too fuzzy to make out which file LCD density is changed from in Root Explorer.
I tried Blade Buddy and LCDDensity from Market to get around that but no dice when set to 170 as in the video. I might have been doing it wrong however. Do you know what value is necessary to switch to the 2.x style?
And thank you for confirming that bit of information. Weird as it sounds I would rather be wrong and dumb than have the option of 2.x style left unopen to me.
Edit: Sorry my bad. Can't read. I'll try editing build.prop immediately. Although I still am unsure as to the optimal value but I will give 170 a twirl again.
Edit: I can't seem to change it. I tried editing build.prop in /system but it told me it was a read only file. So I tried opening it in text editor inside Root Explorer but when I checked afterwards it was still set to 160.

I used LCD density and changed it to 171 (using killall), and it worked for me. I'm using adw ex as my launcher.
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theundeadelvis said:
I used LCD density and changed it to 171 (using killall), and it worked for me. I'm using adw ex as my launcher.
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I just got it to work but the oddest thing was that I had no notification bar at the top. Talk about a mixture of joy and rage...
Edit: The reason for no notification bar on top was my usage of Go Launcher EX as my default. I will miss using it but it appears stock and ADW EX do have the notification bar enabled so I have no choice but to switch. Thank you both for your help. I really appreciate it.
Edit: Thank you again for all your help but does your notification bar work properly? I can't seem to get Google Talk/Gmail/Email alerts through it. I also cannot open anything in Settings.

Just tested email and i the notification worked.
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Browser, gmail and notifications all force close on me.It's really disheartening. Did you change anything afterwards? Market also force closes

Strange, all i did was set it to 171 dpi. Nothing else, stock kernel, using adw ex.
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theundeadelvis said:
Strange, all i did was set it to 171 dpi. Nothing else, stock kernel, using adw ex.
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I guess my usual amount of divine favor just made sure my situation was in accordance with the alignment of the stars.
Thank you for all your help on this. I guess I'll just have to deal with it or try a factory reset and then try again. That might be the best option.
Edit: Everything now works except Settings and Gmail

[Q] Tying to change fonts in CM10.2 -- boot loop

Ok, so I just got the new Nexus 7 and had to go CM 10.2 of course. However, it seems font changing procedures are different or something. Font Changer just refuses to work so I googled around. I see suggestions of iFont and tried it. Boot loop. I had to reflash. So what it the new procedure to change fonts? Must I do it manually? I don't even remember exactly how. (The last time I tried manually replacing them, it went BADLY...)
EDIT: Ok, I manually changed Roboto-Regular.ttf via a file manager. Are there any others of the main fonts I should change?

Nazo said:
Ok, so I just got the new Nexus 7 and had to go CM 10.2 of course. However, it seems font changing procedures are different or something. Font Changer just refuses to work so I googled around. I see suggestions of iFont and tried it. Boot loop. I had to reflash. So what it the new procedure to change fonts? Must I do it manually? I don't even remember exactly how. (The last time I tried manually replacing them, it went BADLY...)
EDIT: Ok, I manually changed Roboto-Regular.ttf via a file manager. Are there any others of the main fonts I should change?
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Did this work for you in the end?
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Nazo said:
Ok, so I just got the new Nexus 7 and had to go CM 10.2 of course. However, it seems font changing procedures are different or something. Font Changer just refuses to work so I googled around. I see suggestions of iFont and tried it. Boot loop. I had to reflash. So what it the new procedure to change fonts? Must I do it manually? I don't even remember exactly how. (The last time I tried manually replacing them, it went BADLY...)
EDIT: Ok, I manually changed Roboto-Regular.ttf via a file manager. Are there any others of the main fonts I should change?
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Roboto-Regular is the most used font in your Android system.
So by replacing that, the biggest part of Android will display your custom font.
But to make the whole system in your desired font, replace the whole font folder with your custom font, but I don't encourage that, because it can look weird on some places.
Hope this helped you

Nazo said:
EDIT: Ok, I manually changed Roboto-Regular.ttf via a file manager. Are there any others of the main fonts I should change?
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Well, that's the main one. Only thing to be wary about is when .TTF fonts have a typeface parameter in them. When I was moving regular to light, I thought moving bold to regular would look better with it. It bootlooped. Don't mix bold, italics, and normals.
TL;\DR bold fonts must be replaced with bold if you fancy changing it.
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It's kind of annoying that I have to manually replace each individual part, but yeah, I've replaced each of the Roboto fonts. I've actually gone so far as to also replace Light and Thin as well. Unfortunately, I don't have a working bold replacement at the moment, but only a few things really use that, so it's not really bad.
Replacing the ENTIRE font folder is a bad idea though. I'm not going to do that. It would mess some things up. I've done that before and ended up with boot loops -- and I'm pretty sure that was still with bold only font replacing bold only fonts, italic only replacing italic only, and etc at the time (I was using a different font at the time compared to what I'm using now.) My general impression is that certain fonts may have to have something specific or not be larger than some maximum (very small) size.
Brava27 said:
Did this work for you in the end?
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Yeah, except for some odd reason ES File Manager is having troubles (I think it's not automatically remounting /system as read-write instead of the read-only default.) I just do it all in a terminal now. Usually I get lazy about it and do it via PuTTY (Servers Ultimate Pro can run a SSH/SFTP server, so I can do basically everything the adb server can do, only through a much nicer and more reliable interface than that horrible adb is that actually works over the network -- somehow adb over the network always gives me troubles...)
BTW, if anyone is curious, I'm using TitiliumText22L Light. It's a serif font, so not for everyone, but it's a very clean, thin font that's easy to read even in small sizes and to my eyes just looks amazing on a tablet or phone (oddly enough, I don't like it nearly as much on the PC... I'm guessing it's because they are such high DPIs that it's actually a much larger size on the tablets/phones and has a lot more detail since most PC monitors are around 96-ish.)

need help with ifont

I have ifont donate version and I have always used it to change my fonts. I've always stuck to the preloaded fonts within the app but I've started playing g around with the custom ones by just searching them on google and downloading them to my phone, saving to custom folder in ifont, and then applying the custom font. Well I've used a few without any issues, until the other day when I applied one and ended up bricking my phone. So my question is can someone give me kind of a walk through on what the best settings to use are, and what to do and what not to do kind of thing. Under settings you can change the font mode (which is on auto automatically) to different things like Samsung, miui, recovery, and system mode (requires root). Would it be better to leave it on auto or change it to system mode? Also, when you go into the custom screen to add a custom font directly from your storage instead of adding it to the custom folder and applying it that way, there's a little button on the top right where you can change it to a ttf. What does that do and should I do it? How does a font brick a phone and how can you avoid it, or is it just sort of a gamble with every font? I am just trying to learn as much as I can so I know how to avoid getting bricked again. I am terrified to change it now but I miss my custom font =[ thank you in advance for the advice.
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Galaxy_S_ said:
I have ifont donate version and I have always used it to change my fonts. I've always stuck to the preloaded fonts within the app but I've started playing g around with the custom ones by just searching them on google and downloading them to my phone, saving to custom folder in ifont, and then applying the custom font. Well I've used a few without any issues, until the other day when I applied one and ended up bricking my phone. So my question is can someone give me kind of a walk through on what the best settings to use are, and what to do and what not to do kind of thing. Under settings you can change the font mode (which is on auto automatically) to different things like Samsung, miui, recovery, and system mode (requires root). Would it be better to leave it on auto or change it to system mode? Also, when you go into the custom screen to add a custom font directly from your storage instead of adding it to the custom folder and applying it that way, there's a little button on the top right where you can change it to a ttf. What does that do and should I do it? How does a font brick a phone and how can you avoid it, or is it just sort of a gamble with every font? I am just trying to learn as much as I can so I know how to avoid getting bricked again. I am terrified to change it now but I miss my custom font =[ thank you in advance for the advice.
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Sorry the button says "ttf to apk" could someone break that down? Would that be something I would want to do? And also I just realized I have another problem. For some reason my ifont folder doesn't contain a "custom" folder this time around..
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not familiar with the app but I'll give you a couple tidbits. ttf = true type font, these are the kinds of fonts windows uses, and I'm sure most anything these days. FontName.ttf
there are other kinds and so that button would change it to ttf format, which is likely what the phone needs.
as for the system mode, since it requires root, I assume what it's going to do is copy the fonts to the /system/fonts folder for you, which sounds like the best idea to me assuming you have root. I don't see how a font program could brick your phone, the only thing it should be doing is copying files to and from the /system/fonts folder, which shouldn't harm anything.
So, make sure you are using .ttf fonts, and if not use the tool to convert them, and I would tell it to use the system(root) mode if you have root.

screwyluie said:
not familiar with the app but I'll give you a couple tidbits. ttf = true type font, these are the kinds of fonts windows uses, and I'm sure most anything these days. FontName.ttf
there are other kinds and so that button would change it to ttf format, which is likely what the phone needs.
as for the system mode, since it requires root, I assume what it's going to do is copy the fonts to the /system/fonts folder for you, which sounds like the best idea to me assuming you have root. I don't see how a font program could brick your phone, the only thing it should be doing is copying files to and from the /system/fonts folder, which shouldn't harm anything.
So, make sure you are using .ttf fonts, and if not use the tool to convert them, and I would tell it to use the system(root) mode if you have root.
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Oh ok, that clears it up a little bit about the ttf. So if I download a font from my browser and it is already a. Ttf then there's no reason to have to change it in the ifont app. Unless it is a different format then. Ttf.
However, I know that the font program is capable of bricking phones because it happened to me just last week. I wasn't aware that could happen either until it happened. Haha. And in my findings trying to research it, it's actually pretty common and happens a lot. I guess that when you change a font to anything that isn't a system font that comes stock on the phone there is a potential for something to go wrong because it changes around some of the system files so if the tiniest thing is wrong or it isn't compatible in some way it can happen. I don't know what happened with mine, I know the one I installed was a .ttf and it wasn't anything big or bulky or anything too crazy so I have no idea what went wrong. I'm just staying away from that font now.
What I'm really just trying to figure out is whether there is really any way to avoid it happening or to tell whether it would be compatible or not, or if it's really just a gamble and a chance of luck.
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Custom fonts not working for KWGT/Zooper

Hello all,
I am unable to use custom fonts with my KWGT/Zooper Widgets. In fact, I can't even use the built in fonts that come with both of those apps. They simply show up as the default font.
Example, attachment #1 is how it should look. Attachment #2 is how it does look after choosing.
I haven't had this issue on any other phones, figuring its a Honor/Huawei thing. I'm hoping somebody has a work around for this.
Thanks!

I figured out that it just defaults back to the default font. How do I keep it from doing this with widgets?

iamtimmah said:
I figured out that it just defaults back to the default font. How do I keep it from doing this with widgets?
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yes, you have to keep defaults to have zooper custom fonts

I have it on the default and it's not working.

Even apps like Over won't show the custom fonts.

iamtimmah said:
Even apps like Over won't show the custom fonts.
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are you ure, you are on stock theme with stock font??

thilak devraj said:
are you ure, you are on stock theme with stock font??
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I switched back to the stock Halo theme and it wouldn't fix the font issue. I had to reset my settings before custom fonts would start working again.

iamtimmah said:
I switched back to the stock Halo theme and it wouldn't fix the font issue. I had to reset my settings before custom fonts would start working again.
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it worked at last?? thats great..

iamtimmah said:
I switched back to the stock Halo theme and it wouldn't fix the font issue. I had to reset my settings before custom fonts would start working again.
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Which settings did u reset?

default works for me , i am pretty dissapointed that i can t use other fonts, I've used product sans till now and it's strange to go back to default

Does somebody know hot to fix this? After Oreo update, I can finally change the font on my Honor 8 even if I'm not using English as system language; but every time I change the system font, the fonts of all my widgets stop working. It's a really strange behavior for a customization app, I'm forced to choose between keeping my widgets and the custom font! How could this be possible? Using these widgets for customization prevents me from doing a 100% customization of the phone!!!

Madden91 said:
Does somebody know hot to fix this? After Oreo update, I can finally change the font on my Honor 8 even if I'm not using English as system language; but every time I change the system font, the fonts of all my widgets stop working. It's a really strange behavior for a customization app, I'm forced to choose between keeping my widgets and the custom font! How could this be possible? Using these widgets for customization prevents me from doing a 100% customization of the phone!!!
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Yup that's a known issue for a very long time now. I'm sorry but there's absolutely nothing you can do about it.

ayush rao said:
Yup that's a known issue for a very long time now. I'm sorry but there's absolutely nothing you can do about it.
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Unfortunately I'm aware of this, I've had a brief conversation with the developer of the app, who had told me that this a bug caused by Huawei this is so annoying!!