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Changing amount of notification icons visible?

It annoys me to only have one notification icon visible in portrait mode, especially since I'm running the 7p in 140DPI mode and have plenty of space there for more icons. Does anyone know how to increase the amount of icons on the status bar?

I run mine at 130 and it seemed to be able to accommodate 4 icons (including that stupid zoom/stretch icon).

rendler said:
I run mine at 130 and it seemed to be able to accommodate 4 icons (including that stupid zoom/stretch icon).
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Is that in portrait mode? And they actually display, not just that there seems to be room enough?
EDIT: set mine to that too and now I get multiple...weird

What do you use to set the dpi?
ALso, wouldnt this make everything else looks weird? I.e. Go Launcher, widgets, etc.

DPI changer or what it's called. Doesnt make anything look weird, just makes icons and such smaller. Gives you more room for "content".
Tried 130DPI, but changed back to 140. Don't like the added stuff ADW displays at that DPI,

What is the stock dpi? Just rooted and changed the dpi but can't remember what the default was. 160?
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yup... its 160

edan1979 said:
yup... its 160
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Thanks.
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Hmm, downloaded DPI Changer and when run, it said it "...unable to read configuration file..."
I am rooted and SU show it allows DPI Changer.

wait a minute there...
won't a lower dpi than the default 160 display stuff bigger on the screen and thus have less room for icons and stuff. so, how did u get more notification icons with lower dpi?

fasacosta said:
won't a lower dpi than the default 160 display stuff bigger on the screen and thus have less room for icons and stuff. so, how did u get more notification icons with lower dpi?
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No, but I understand why you would think that. Android decides interface element sizes based on screen size, not resolution, since a finger needs the same physically sized button no matter what resolution it's displayed at. The OS is unaware of the screen size, but is aware of its own resolution and DPI. The screen size is then given by those two numbers. If you lower the DPI the OS then thinks it has a bigger screen on its hands because the same resolution with a lower DPI than before must imply a larger screen, so it changes the layout based on that

Nexus 5 huge icons

Hi, is there any way to change icon size's in new kitkat launcher ? Icons are waay to big and I dont want to switch to nova or anything else.

It'd require a mod to the launcher itself, that'll take a while. This was an intentional move and it looks a lot better.

Well, that is the matter of personal preference, for me it looks a waay to huge

Apex launcher has the option.
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I hated the general size of everything too so first thing I did was to unlock the bootloader, root and edit the build.prop to make everything smaller.
The default density is 480 but move it down to 300 or so and everything looks alright.
The launcher automatically adds more columns and rows as well which is useful.

tristancook said:
I hated the general size of everything too so first thing I did was to unlock the bootloader, root and edit the build.prop to make everything smaller.
The default density is 480 but move it down to 300 or so and everything looks alright.
The launcher automatically adds more columns and rows as well which is useful.
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"or so"?

tristancook said:
I hated the general size of everything too so first thing I did was to unlock the bootloader, root and edit the build.prop to make everything smaller.
The default density is 480 but move it down to 300 or so and everything looks alright.
The launcher automatically adds more columns and rows as well which is useful.
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This is a great suggestion (but I'd look into doing 380 or 400). The problem with this is that everything (even the apps) uses that density. What would be ideal is to only have the launcher use the lower density and the rest of the apps be normal. Not sure if that's possible by editing files. Any help would be appreciated.

I used texdroider_dpi to set mine at 420DPI. Looks way better now. I couldn't stand how huge the icons and everything looked. Try that out.

I'll end up using Nova prime to resize and change the icon pack.

Question: Why is 480ppi set?
Hi,
probably a stupid question, but I hope somebody can explain that to me:
- Nexus 4 build.prob setting is 320 and datasheet says 320 ppi
- Nexus 7 2013 build.prob setting is 320 and datasheet says 323 ppi
and now what the hack:
- Nexus 5 build.prob setting is 480 and datasheet says 445 ppi
Has anybody an idea what this is all about? I am confused.

Thanks for this. I think 420 is great.
I have another issue with the app drawer though. Is there a way to do vertical scrolling on the stock launch thru the build.prop file or another file that's not crazy difficult or impossible? I know nova launcher can do it, but it just isn't as nice as the experience launcher quite yet. If I can get vertical scroller i might be able to completely part with nova launcher.

Screen dpi vs. resolution

I feel that everything in the stock rom is unnecessarily big. I tried changing the resolution but it made my hardware navigation keys useless.
changing the dpi solved that problem.
i wanted to know know the difference between the two. And also suggestion on which one should i prefer changing.
p.s. isn't dpi a hardware thing? how can an app change that?
thanks in advance.

just change your dpi
ab014 said:
I feel that everything in the stock rom is unnecessarily big. I tried changing the resolution but it madyo hardware navigation keys useless.
changing the dpi solved that problem.
i wanted to know know the difference between the two. And also suggestion on which one should i prefer changing.
p.s. isn't dpi a hardware thing? how can an app change that?
thanks in advance.
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Use this app called Dpi changer that's available in the playstore.. Change it to 180 or 190 and reboot your phone.. The higher the value the bigger your icons will be.. Easy! :good:

Widgets

Anyone know what I can do with this? As you see on pic widgets are moved from left side more then from right,and that is maximum size because I was trying resize more but that's is max what I can set.

marcinsi15 said:
Anyone know what I can do with this? As you see on pic widgets are moved from left side more then from right,and that is maximum size because I was trying resize more but that's is max what I can set.
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You need another launcher. Nova for example allows you to set widgets and shortcuts in between grids

Ok but there is no idea why I have this issue and maybe some other solutions ?I prefer to use stock luncher but this problem it's little annoying.

marcinsi15 said:
Ok but there is no idea why I have this issue and maybe some other solutions ?I prefer to use stock luncher but this problem it's little annoying.
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Not to start a discussion what the best launcher is, but why do you prefer stock? Nova do the same + a whole lot more. But no one forces you to use it's features, besides the grid thing so you can do what you want.

You are right about Nova Luncher but my question is about stock luncher and do anyone have some solutions for this.

marcinsi15 said:
You are right about Nova Luncher but my question is about stock luncher and do anyone have some solutions for this.
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No, that's why we suggest another launcher. Stock doesn't have the ability to do what you're looking for

Changing DPI

You can change the dpi on the stock ROM without ROOT by chaging the "smallest width" setting in developer settings. I have mine set to 550 it's looks amazing!

Here is a screenshot of setting menu at 550.

You could also just change the setting in Settings > Display > Advanced > Display Size > Small

411 is default. 434 is the smallest you can go to get an extra icon of space on the status bar (meaning you can fit another icon before you get the overflow dot). 453 is the magic number for the notification side. "Small" per the post above is 484.
Worth it, you can barely notice a difference otherwise. Now if only we had an option to do ONLY the status bar... then we'd be cookin. But this will do for now.

Pure+ said:
You could also just change the setting in Settings > Display > Advanced > Display Size > Small
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Nope it's not the same. Putting that setting on small does not work on everything. And this way you can go even smaller then the "small" setting.

Celeras said:
411 is default. 434 is the smallest you can go to get an extra icon of space on the status bar (meaning you can fit another icon before you get the overflow dot). 453 is the magic number for the notification side. "Small" per the post above is 484.
Worth it, you can barely notice a difference otherwise. Now if only we had an option to do ONLY the status bar... then we'd be cookin. But this will do for now.
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I have the setting pure+ posted on normal and put the setting I posted on 551 I feel like that's the perfect mix for me ATM. I will keep playing with it to see if I can find a better combo.

vwgti18 said:
Nope it's not the same. Putting that setting on small does not work on everything. And this way you can go even smaller then the "small" setting.
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It actually is. If you change the setting and go into dev options it shows the dpi changed. Only difference is it's defaulting to a predetermined dpi

Pure+ said:
It actually is. If you change the setting and go into dev options it shows the dpi changed. Only difference is it's defaulting to a predetermined dpi
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Ah yes you are right. Thanks for the heads up.
The small setting only changes it to 484 too big for me still! I like it around 550

vwgti18 said:
Ah yes you are right. Thanks for the heads up.
The small setting only changes it to 484 too big for me still! I like it around 550
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Full disclosure I didn't check to verify this, although I already suspected it, until you said something lol

Pure+ said:
Full disclosure I didn't check to verify this, although I already suspected it, until you said something lol
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Yeah the olny problem doing it that way is that the change is not enough to really notice a difference.

unfortunately doing it this way compared to doing it via build.prop makes Swiftkey tiny as well

Any one have a suggestion for something in between stock 411 and small 484? Small is just a bit too much for my taste so looking for a happy medium

can we change the DPI through build.prop yet now that we have root?
I added ro.sf.lcd.density=550 and it doesnt seem to be doing anything
doing it through the developer options makes the keyboard unusable.

pr0adam said:
can we change the DPI through build.prop yet now that we have root?
I added ro.sf.lcd.density=550 and it doesnt seem to be doing anything
doing it through the developer options makes the keyboard unusable.
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Which keyboard are you using?
I am using Gboard with dpi set to 551 and its fine.

vwgti18 said:
Which keyboard are you using?
I am using Gboard with dpi set to 551 and its fine.
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SwiftKey but 550 was a bad example. I want to make everything smaller, so I went down to something like 450 and the keyboard was very hard to use. Same with the default Gboard

pr0adam said:
SwiftKey but 550 was a bad example. I want to make everything smaller, so I went down to something like 450 and the keyboard was very hard to use. Same with the default Gboard
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Are you rooted? If so I can tell you how to make gboard bigger but I am not sure about Swiftkey

vwgti18 said:
Which keyboard are you using?
I am using Gboard with dpi set to 551 and its fine.
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vwgti18 said:
Are you rooted? If so I can tell you how to make gboard bigger but I am not sure about Swiftkey
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I am rooted yes so I would love to know besides the Gboard setting that increases the size.

pr0adam said:
I am rooted yes so I would love to know besides the Gboard setting that increases the size.
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Here check if this will work for you! This is the method I was using on my pixel 2 xl it worked great, just one issue is sometimes I could not get the txt edit to save and had to edit the line then got to setting and force stop gboard then go back and save the text file.
https://www.xda-developers.com/gboard-tweaks-height-sensitivity/

vwgti18 said:
Here check if this will work for you! This is the method I was using on my pixel 2 xl it worked great, just one issue is sometimes I could not get the txt edit to save and had to edit the line then got to setting and force stop gboard then go back and save the text file.
https://www.xda-developers.com/gboard-tweaks-height-sensitivity/
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Thanks for that link, worked for me on Gboard. Hopefully there will be a solution that I can still use Swiftkey but if not I will be going this route once I get home and adjust the DPI further

pr0adam said:
Thanks for that link, worked for me on Gboard. Hopefully there will be a solution that I can still use Swiftkey but if not I will be going this route once I get home and adjust the DPI further
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I don't have the Pixel yet & I've never tried changing DPI, so forgive me if this doesn't help or if you've already tried this, but Swiftkey has a setting built in to resize the keyboard. I believe it's normally set at "medium", then there is a "large" & "largest" setting to make the keyboard bigger. Go to Swiftkey Settings>Typing>Resize.