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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Xylograph:
Actually, the nova launcher in the 1st post works great for me @128 dpi as long you follow the additional information that molesarecoming is giving..

Great news,

About the ugly buttons close to each other..

Try the following :

- Hold your phone in landscape.

- Go into Rom Control > Navigation bar

- Navigation button quantity > change it to 1

- Navigation button quantity > change it to desired value and the distance will be 'normal' in both landscape and portrait.

Great news about the Nova Launcher btw.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] slick_rick:
You deserve the donation, this mod looks awesome even on the slightly smaller screen of the e4gt. I will most definetly post back links here so you can get your respective thanks and maybe even a couple more donations :) Also, should I just wait then for a hacked nova launcher that works and looks good at our dpi or stick it out for the official version thats said to play nicely? Thanks either way man.

Edit: the button spacing trick does work nicely!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
nice, i'll try later! :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
if you cant wait, i made a scheme for hacking it. its not so hard with the right kind of tools. its a couple of smali changes and the rest clean xml edits in texteditor. i was hoping that maybe it would work but yeah i guess it makes sense that it doesn't because i laid it out for 192. :( so if you wanna try or know someone who will just say so and i pack you all you need into a zip.

and if you want to wait, i betatested 1.1 recently, it looks good. i dont think the kinks i saw will persist for too long. actually the only thing that was missing was icon size - it had a dock though and a full app drawer.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
really? thats awesome! could you post a snapshot of it?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] slick_rick:
That kinda stuff is beyond my ability lol but I'm I think I might be able to find someone who could do it so could you still post the zip please. And how much longer you think til 1.1 drops?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Xylograph:
Thanks man, Maybe that is a nice idea for the 'legacy device' users among us..

I will keep the rootzwiki thread updated.. I think that is the right place for it..

Isn't the Nova Launcher in 1st post working for you ? If I follow the 'margin' trick it looks fine here..

Also about the (play) market and ever lasting density problems..

I always use an old 2.3.6 hacked market which obviously doesn't look as fancy as the latest market, but at least I never have compatibilty/density/apps not showing problems with it.. also it won't update to the latest market because that is taken out ;)

So for people who want to try it and can live without the latest greatest play market.. give it a try.

Flash via recovery and always make a nand backup just in case ;)

Hacked_2.3.6_Market.zip - mirror

---------- Post added at 11:48 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:34 AM ----------

Couple of screenshots..obviously on landscape the dock dissapears, but that is a known issue I think..

Also some apps show a small icon in the app drawer, but that is probably app related..
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] slick_rick:
OK I got it working good but the dock seems rather large compared to everything else or is it just me?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Xylograph:
[MOD] TabletUI_AOKP_b33 is up

Ok guys, TabletUI_AOKP_b33.zip is up on rootzwiki for the folks using AOKP build 33.

Isn't that what suppose to happen with the hacked Nova Launcher ?

Otherwise everything is so small on 128 dpi.. I guess ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] slick_rick:
Yea you're probably right lol but I like the very small zoomed out look lower dpi gives so the dock sticks out to me but nothing I can't live with lol
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
on a nexus its the same as stock, dont know if on your device stock icons in the dock are really that big though. but for now live with it and cross your fingers the new nova launcher will end our troubles soon.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Hyorinmaru:
A few days ago I installed this with b32. Noticed the bugs but read here that b33 was allready in developement so I figured I wait for it. And since I've seed reports on b33 not working as it should either I Installed the flashable rom that now excist.

I keep getting the error "Ice cream sandwich keyboard free have stopped".

Anyone else got this problem or is it just me?

Just pushed swiftkey beta apk to phone and deactivated the build-in keyboard. I was not gonna use the build-in anyway so nvm this post.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Ajj915:
I can't wait until all the kinks get worked out. Can somebody tell me why my nav buttons are so close together? Running build 33.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Xylograph:
one page back..
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Ajj915:
Ahh...I missed a step in there working good now.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
ive put the aokp hints on the op and linked xylo's thread on rootz.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dakota123456789:
wallpapers

do you have the wallpapers you had in the screenshots
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
its androidify's live wallpaper.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] T-Loop:
Sounds like a top tip but didn't work for me :( Is this during the tablet mode, or during phone mode and after this I change it to tablet mode? Thanks for your great work for this great mod.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
just finished installing aokp b33, roasted my nexus first, had to flash stock and try again clean. now it finally boots up and i can't even change the dpi to a custom value. :confused: rom control crashes, what the heck...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Xylograph:
This should be done during tablet mode holding your phone in landscape..

If the trick doesn't work try resetting your systemUI by going into Rom Control > General > Statusbar Font Size (change it to whatever) and try the trick again.

EDIT : Also make sure to set your Navigation Bar Width to 42 dp (default) !
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Ajj915:
Everything running great for me on 33. That trick to turn to landscape works every time. Thanks everyone.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Xylograph:
Sound like things got messed up with the install.. What is logcat saying ?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
hm doesnt work for me ... buttons are crammed together :(
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
it trashed my cwm too - the entire phone was whacked so i dont know. weirdest thing that ever happened to me. well aokp is running now but still i can't get these damned buttons to look good again.

also can it be that "huge" in aokp 33 is actually quite small? i dont remeber it like this ...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] T-Loop:
I tried all the possible scenarios, changed width and height and everything but I can't get it work. Rebooted multiple times and restarted SystemUI. I'm coming from clean install, no dirty. Bummer, I wonder whats the magic in this.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Xylograph:
:( That's strange.. could you try messing around with all settings regarding the statusbar/systemUI to see if you can get it changed someway..

Disable menubutton (remove) etc.

I don't think my mod has anything to do with it...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
no chance, its whacked. it has more issues than that - i just notice that now the menubutton is gone for good. it won't appear unless i define it as a fourth button. well, it sucks, back to b31. :(
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] alex980:
possible to port this mod to sgs2?

some users told that it doesn't work actually on sgs2
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Tyrany:
go to my thread on sgs2 forum aswer is there hehehe =) and give thanks to xylograph for its hard work
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Night Galaxy:
I'm on AOKP 33 and I can't make any in-app purchases... I don't think this is an AOKP 33 issue... can anybody else in Tablet Mode just go into an app and try to pull up an in app purchase and see if they get an error message?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
you might wanna try another marked. a few pages ago xylograph posted one for example.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Xylograph:
Here 4 examples of font size @ 128 dpi

small

normal

large

huge

Hmm it is strange these AOKP builds differ so much from each other don't you think ?

Here everything seems 'fine' on build 33

What build/rom are you on ? Check first post..

molesarecoming also posted additional links in the first post..

Please link this thread in your topic Tyrany and do not only the copy/paste the mod in your own thread.. so we can keep it a bit together and more users/devs can get involved..

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] slick_rick:
I updated using the aokp build 33 for tablet ui. Works fine except a couple fc's upon bootup and the hacked nova launcher messed up on me. Plus the market wont open but its fine, ill use the hacked one you posted a couple posts back. Thanks xylograph
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Xylograph:
moles, just out of interest..

Is your aokp33 systemUI.apk using drawable-hdpi or drawable-xhdpi folders (use 7-zip for example to check) ?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
aw craps, too late, im sorry. :o i have enough of this, i switched to cm9. now where IMM76I is out fixing the signal bug in 4.0.4 i dont wanna sit on aokp 31 for ages. i dont care about the rom, tab mode is more important to me. the real funny thing is, many things work right out of the box:

- phone works right away, no hack needed

- it has real auto-fullscreen mode for tablets (!) you can switch it on in the settings. you go into youtube and the navbar will disappear, finally

- no tablet related fc's or quirks until now

so yeah. goodbye aokp, hello cm9. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] slick_rick:
Market will not work at all for me on the build 33 zip so I think I might go back to build 32. Also, I get random rom controll, system FC's.

edit: nevermind, i started from scratch and its working great.

Are you saying this mod works with CM9? Even for the legacy devices?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Xylograph:
Hmm interesting.. Must check it out :)

EDIT: What rom is that exactly (there are so many cm9 builds flying around) ?

They don't need a mod in the first place ;)

And did you do a clean install of that build 33 ? sounds like 'update problems' to me...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
more observations under cm9

- trebuchet does not crash

- changing wallpaper does not crash

- installing an app does not crash

all three crash in aokp (in tabmode of course). :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] slick_rick:
No I did a dirty install, but then did a fresh one and it worked. thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
xylo's right, we're all super lucky, all you have to do on a nexus is add a line in build.prop and change another.

don't know though what you mean with build 33 zip. and if you revert go to 31. 32 is even worse than 33 for tabmode. 31 works fine. again, for nexus - no idea what you're running there. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] slick_rick:
Well first off I'm using the mod on an SGS2, the sprint epic 4g touch (long name lol) so I was using the zip Xylo made for the legacy devices and he posted one for aokp build 33 so thats what I meant lol. Its working great now after a fresh install.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
did you try it with paradoxxx hydrogenics rom on the s2? my gf's running that and she's already asked me if she can have tabmode on her phone. is it even usable on dpi 128? i imagine things must be crazy small.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] slick_rick:
Um no, im guessing thats a rom for the int'l gs2 lol but yea I'd say its very usable. I've been using the mod for about a day now and I love it lol. The nav buttons are easy to push still.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] angelossssss:
Can i install this on official IMM76I ROM?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jamaljmys:
iam little confused

iam now in build 33 and want to get the tablet mode, what i should do:

- follow the procedures in OP only ?

- have to do any option in ROM control settings? if yes, where?

may help please
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] columbo:
I'm using AOKP build 32 and tablet mode seems to work okay for me as long as I

don't

disable the navbar.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bill12690:
curious of the same, im ready to switch
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jamaljmys:
i did it and got everything working well except PHONE crash although i used the modded file in OP.

i changed the Phone.apk permissions to be RW,R,R and moved to system/app then rebooted into recovery wiped cach and dalvik cach then restart.

is it ok?

any help?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
just change dpi and hide navigation bar, then reboot and switch phone, market and launcher. first two steps can be done in rom control, or you change build.prop by hand.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
go to settings/apps/all and search for everything that has a phone as an icon. go in it and delete cache and data. then maybe push phone.apk again.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
until now im pretty much amazed. i always thought cm9 on nexus is just a bunch of empty stubs but it came a long way. the only queer thing i have noticed until now is that when the cam goes into fullscreen (which it should) its kind of an headscratch how to get out again - until i figured that longpressing the powerbutton brings back the buttonbar. i like it, i guess i'll stay.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
why not. if youre rooted all you need to do is change your build.prop and exchange two or three apk's.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] aiinjylls:
Yup :D. I'm using the 4/22 CM9 nightly. All I did was the build.prop tweaks and EVERYTHING works. I just needed the modded nova launcher to get rid of all the unused space on the desktop and app drawer!! Phone and PlayStore working fine.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] aiinjylls:
Edit: sorry, wrong thread
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jamaljmys:
great

its working well now, after move the original phone.apk from system/app folder.

first time i renamed only.

great work man

thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jonnyg1097:
This is probably one of the cooler mods I have seen done to a phone. It makes me very tempted to flash a rom so I can do this to my phone.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
no ned to flash anything. all you need is root. if you have that then just follow the instructions, takes you 5min maximum, if you don't go into the development section, download "Gnex Toolkit," start it and press "7" and then follow the instructions, takes you 10min maximum. ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] slick_rick:
Hey Xylo, if I wanted to try and flash this on a CM9 rom, would you suggest I use the legacy device zip for aokp build 32 or 33?

edit: Nevermind, it doesnt work. tried the build 32 and 33 zip. Once it boots i just get stuck at a screen saying settings>manage applications>clear defaults kinda thing. Tried clean and dirty install. Guess ill stick with aokp for now.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mikey:
This can be done to an odexed ROM like factory 4.0.4?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Xylograph:
I will have to make a different mod for CM9, but first I need to find out if the CM9 framework is just as 'universal' across different phones/platforms as AOKP is..
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] slick_rick:
Ok thanks. Take as much time as you need. In other news, somebody is writing an article on your mod for the tablet ui for xda portal. im talking to him in the irc channel so hopefully itll spread for you.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
the two build.prop edits, why not. dropping the apk's - i have not much knowledge about odex and deodex because im fairly new to android. if you can normally install apps and drop system apps then yes you can.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
make sure it is not just about tablet mode. its great news if more devices get unlocked and im certain many of them will be able to drop into tab mode soon, all new phones that come out now and adhere to the aosp specs can even be unlocked in a matter of seconds by hand. but then what, this ain't the end of it, it's only the beginning ... you're still sitting on a pile of minuscule apps that do not function properly.

i have seen a couple of tablet mode related articles on the front page recently and i find it sad that it never ever touches what matters: making tablet mode usefull for all of us. we'd like rom builders to wake up and consider this, and app devs aswell. nova's devs did after all and will give us 1.1 soon. this is the kind of stuff that should be put on the frontpage.

i think in that aspect informations are greatly lacking right now. many devs seem to think that simply dropping into tabmode is all there is to it, changing dpi in rom-control and that's that. but everyone who's actually tried knows there are many issues that need to be resolved and there's much potential in it.

so that's our front, please make the writers of that article aware of it aswell. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] TjPhysicist:
NICE. Although I really hope they dont do they big icons, i hate the regular sized icons.

What bugs? as far as I know, zaphod has worked really hard and done a good job of satisfying the few tablet mode people who hang around in #teamkang. It works perfectly. I have my dpi set to 160, uploaded a MDPI friendly phone.apk (not the one from this thread but another one). And wallah.

There is a bug with the menu button, this is a known bug that affects ALL tablets, as such, including people with phones who use their device as a tablet obviously. It's an easy fix...put the menu button as one of the permanent buttons. with b32/33 you can now customize the buttons as you want and with b33 i can even hide the navbar at will.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] T-Loop:
Can anyone else confirm this, on AOKP #b33. It needs a tablet-mode so I write this down here. Thanks.

If you go to Settings -> ROM Control -> Navigation Bar, then change the icon for Back-button to whatever you like. Then open an app where you can write something and keyboard pops up. You can see the back button has been replaced with small arrow-down image. When you press the arrow-down, does your phone reset the image setting to default or does it stick?

For me it always resets to default ICS back-button :( When restarting SystemUI it works again, until next time I open the keyboard. I'd love to know if it's an actual bug, and maybe write it down to bug tracker.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] TjPhysicist:
I consider tablet mode to be identical to HAVING AN ACTUAL TABLET. Something I feel we should push for, is not distinguishing between the two. As far as apps go, any app dev'd for tablets (unless it specifically reads screen physical size) works well. There are some apps that will quit on purpose if it sees the screen is physiucally less than 7 inches, but they work fine otherwise (Go Launcher HD for instance). What we need to do, is get rid of the mentality that tablet android is only for large screen devices.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
exactly, and in this i think you're wrong. the sole trouble is that google did not consider the gap between tiny phones and huge tablets, theres something missing in between and all our phones fall into it. but a phone is not a tablet and neither is a tablet a phone, both have their merits and do not need to be separated because they are not one and the same. if you want a tablet buy one, or drop into tablet mode and thats that, you have no problems at all. but for those who bought a phone and want to retain its aesthetics yet benefit from the tabmode goodies there's much that has to be resolved. especially on smaller devices that have to go as low as dpi 128. i mean for real, have you tried facebook? don't tell me you like that. well, now try it on an s2 with dpi 128, good luck with that. :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
theres a whole bunch of bugs in it that came with b32. im not blaming them, thats what betas are for. if you research our topic and the topics on rootz you'll see that many people got into trouble, even those with real tablets. it's not what you'd call flawless right now.

so, there were crazy sizing issues in 32, incomming calls crash, adding a wallpaper crashes, installing an app crashes, youtube couldn't go into HD/true fullscreen, 33 crashes when you try setting a custom dpi (!) you're on 160, go and try setting it to 192 and watch it crash, it has still spacing trouble and theres something fishy with that menu button. most if not all of these troubles do not exist in aosp and you certainly do not need to stuff an obsolete button down there to make something work. the warning exists for the purpose of lifting some weight from this topic, because its tiring to answer the same questions over and over again. so if someone's on aokp and has tablet related issues right now, then that's probably because of the rom.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
but thats the correct behavior, no? you get the arrow pointing down to drop out of keyboard mode and once its gone you'll get back the standard back-button. or maybe i didn't understand whats your trouble. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] T-Loop:
Yes exactly, but it should return the back-button image I originally assigned from ROM Control. The custom image I mean, not the standard one :) It looks funny when all the other images are themed, different sizes etc, and back-button looks stock.

I've been thinking if I should try CM9 and flash zipthemer files for navigation images. Those will apply forever.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
aokp has a bugtracker on rootz. i didn't theme my buttons, the only things i noticed: the glow is different and the transparancy does not match. now its too late though, can't try it with theming because i switched. :o
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Xylograph:
Hi there, I've made a CM9 mod for 240 dpi (legacy) devices..

TabletUI_MOD_CM9 (flash via recovery) - mirror

For more information about what this TabletUI mod is all about check my aokp mod

I have no problems with AOKP b33 and don't feel like switching to CM9 so please test and report if it's working for you..

Important note : Please be aware that unlike AOKP builds there are many different CM9 builds

of different nightlies across different phones/platforms..

Because of that this MOD will probably be less 'universal' so always make a nand backup before flashing..
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] aiinjylls:
What does this mod contain? You only need the build.prop edits and the modded launcher for CM9 to enter tablet mode
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Xylograph:
Sorry I have modified the post :)

It's for 240 dpi devices that need 128 dpi to 'enable' tablet mode without the systemUI force closing..
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Ajj915:
So

I need to add my 2¢ here. I have come across many of these bugs on 33. Do i wish they weren't there? Of course. But find away around it until they are fixed. Can you imagine how much feedback Roman and his crew probably get? I'm sure these issues will get ironed out at some point. Now...yes the menu button has issues. So set one as a dedicated menu button. I have also had the back button not stay themed. Yes its annoying. So I used zipthemer and made them all the way I wanted. The buttons do get tiny if you cause the system UI to reset at any point. But it's been laid out here a few times and it works. Remember these are phones are not tablets. I for one love this phone, especially in tablet mode. And I know with all the smart people out there who own one these things will get fixed. Patience is a virtue remember. Thanks for everyone who put in the work to get us where we are. And I would like to say that all the discussion in here for phones other than the Nexus can get confusing.