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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] twistedumbrella:
It's a good intention, but I will admit the first post is a bit misleading. It lists three applications to replace existing ones and the necessary settings to get it running. It is easy to misunderstand that as "this is what you do" without having things like source code links or explanations of the edits.

I will admit I never thought to look at the actual equation before, I always just guestimated using a rough understanding of what would be "uncorrupted" values. Ironically one of the devices I set to 128 happens to be the one whose value calculated to 128. Go figure. Anywho, just my 2 cents.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hxdrummerxc:
I don't know if this has already been posted......

But I have seen a few others ask about the wallpaper size.

I too noticed that what used to be the perfect sized wallpaper (1440x1280), was no longer the perfect size with this new dpi.

Wallpapers didn't look as crisp. Like they were being blown up to a different resolution.

So I took the time to figure out a good size for the wallpaper.

Its not the actual resolution of the image that is our problem, its the aspect ratio of THAT resolution.

1440x1280 was perfect before. But now in 160dpi, if you notice in tablet mode..... when you set a wallpaper that has an image size of 1440x1280, the maximum crop will let you use the full width of the image (1440) but not the full height.

Like This example:

That is why the wallpapers look fuzzy, or stretched out in 160 dpi tablet mode.

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So I took a really large image, and went to see how far it will let me crop for a wallpaper. Then I used photoshop with the same large image to determine the new ratio of the correct crop at 160 dpi.

I found that 2000 x 1288 works great. Anything higher will work too, as long as it follows those same proportions when scaling larger.

After taking the same original image and cropping it to 2000 x 1288 instead of the original 1440 x 1280. It finally let me crop in the full image as my wallpaper:

The wallpapers look more like they used to in 320dpi with this new ratio.

Not exactly the same, but they don't look as fuzzy and stretched out this way.

Final Comparison:

Hopefully this helps some people when making/download/setting wallpapers. Maybe there will be a way for future dev's to fix this wallpaper scaling issue. Because It makes it hard for people to go to a wallpaper thread and download a pre-sized wallpaper (sized at 1440x1280). I mean you still could, but it doesn't look the same.

Maybe this didn't bother people as much as it bothered me. But Im an amateur photographer, and I love setting my photos as my wallpaper. And when they look fuzzy and stretched, it bothers the s*** out of me. lol. So that is why I HAD to figure this out.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] twistedumbrella:
All that is needed is to modify the gallery app, much like third party apps can remove the setting for three panel and reduce it to portrait, so it would be possible to add a dynamic configuration for stretching the set layout to work with "abnormal" tablet modes.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hxdrummerxc:
Nice,

So hopefully somebody can get that worked out.

It was like the first thing that I noticed when I tried this tablet mod. I was like "heeeey my wallpaper looks different"
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
Nice finding. on 192 i didnt notice it though, just tried it out - seems sharp to me and the gallery was able to crop the entire picture, stadard ratio. : S
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] GR36:
I really don't know how some people are using the phone at 169dpi. And 192 its a little too small for me!

I was thinking earlier about the tablets made. And was wondering if the status bar could be made bigger. Aokp gave the option of making the nav bar smaller. So is it buried in the system UI somewhere
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
with fonts set to huge it's actually quite nice, assumed you're on 192. many dialogs grow a bit bigger because of this. 160, i cant understand it neither, maybe they have exceptionally good eyes. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
yeah youre right, i guess i'll rewrite some parts of it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] modstorm:
Can anyone please tell me what desktop grid size is used in the OP as on mine the icons either look too spaced out or too crammed together. I can also not set any dock icons (Using the Nova Launcher in the OP)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
5x4, small margins, persistent searchbar (all in novas settings). if you dont see the dock something muste be wrong. i'd suggest you wipe the old nova completely. push the new one into /system/app and wipe cache & data in settings/apps/all/nova.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Alekxxx:
This modded Nova launcher hasn't got the dock settings, so it has only a standard 5 icon dock. I restored my previous settings in which I had a 7 icon dock and it worked.

I thought it might be useful if someone wants a bigger dock.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] aiinjylls:
I can't get the phone to work without being cut off. I'm running CM9. Is it the ROM? What mods were made to the phone.apk? Maybe I could make my own edits to the phone.apk?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] T-Loop:
I use Quickpic for wallpapers. Crops them nicely and with great quality.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pedro.coba:
hi all

if anything be pleased to give me a home screen as wallpaper on one page? thanks before :o
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
try it with this one then: https://rapidshare.com/files/3779600573/Phone.apk

thats the old phone coming from aokp droid incredible - i have yet to understand why all these phones are so different, its really weird-
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pedro.coba:
if anything be pleased to give me a home screen as wallpaper on one page? thanks before :o
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
um, im trying my best to interpret what you just wrote but i guess you mean this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.androidify its no wallpaper, its a live wallpaper. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] aiinjylls:
Thanks. I tried that one - it looks better but the same. Could it be CM? Is anyone running the official nightlies with the phone not cut off? What phone.apk are you using?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
need your help,

this is highly experimental, but with the latest hack i made i could finally find and download IMDB, gplus and other apps which wouldn't show up before, pls try: https://rapidshare.com/files/3445204089/Vending.apk

what seems to be still missing are the damn country and carrier restrictions, but maybe that goes too far. i can already download more with the hack than i ever could on stock.i just cross my fingers it works for you guys, too. please make sure you kill cache & data in settings/apps/all/play after you push it!

yes, it must be CM somehow. im running AOKP and they had a merge recently that would render the old phone useless because of that awful cut-off, the new one works though. i suggest you just try a bunch and report back if you find one that fits. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pedro.coba:
Thank you friends

if this method works on galaxy s2? deviated from the thread sorry nexus :rolleyes:

very good if all the work on my s2 and all users will be pleased
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
my gf owns the s2, but i haven't been able to pull it off there. that device is crippled with a big fat homebutton so they had to adapt the ics framework to make it work there. our mod is related to the software-buttonbar and i guess thats the reason why its not working properly. anyway, you'd have to set your dpi to 128 anyway, which is madness for that poor little sucker.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pedro.coba:
so you do not find a way out for it in s2? still possible to make it work in S2? I sincerely hope :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] twistedumbrella:
The layouts were recently changed for the 4.0.4 merge. Instead of using fill_parent they all changed over to match_parent and a lot of stuff got cleaned up with layout structure.

As for market it has a check for the density that tries to block apps when you aren't running the expected value. There is a quick edit to void that check and it will completely unlock the market.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] itsjusttim:
That would be very nice!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] LxRAYRAYXL:
phone.apk

so every thing works fine with me but i need help with the phone.apk.i tried installing it and it wont let me install. i even put it in system/app and it still wont install
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
thanks for clarification, that makes sense!

and the market,

i can only say i downloaded a crapload of hacks on xda and nothing really worked well, not even the marked hack from lcd density modder which we used here before. they all circumvented the restrictions but then you end up either with error 940 or you'll simply not find what you're looking for. i do not believe it is the density alone, something else prevents it from functioning and the solutions out there seem to disregard it. my guess is that tablet mode itself affects the marked in unforseen places. the hack i made allows me to find and download g+ or imdb for the first time ever - so im hoping this will maybe fix the problems for others aswell. :)

the funny thing is, if i navigate my pc desktop browser to imdb, it will still tell me this:

"incompatible with your galaxy nexus" and yet i can download it now. market is a mystery to me. :D

did you push it into /system/app? you simply drop these apk's, you do not install them. when the apk got transferred without errors, caches are cleaned and the permissions (RW-, R--, R--) are in order it will work.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] LxRAYRAYXL:
thnx alot ill give it a try after my phone finishes backing up.

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nope still not working :(

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how did you get it working?!?!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
what goes wrong? explain what you did and how you did it and whats lacking, it would be easier to help out. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] LxRAYRAYXL:
neztati shopkeeper

okay so i did the step exactly the way i was suppose to. i put the phone.apk in system/app then i even wiped cache and dalvic cache. and i still get the forceclose when i get a phone call. that was on stock 4.0.4 franco kernal.im gonna try it again on cm9 and report back. hopefully it works because i really like this mod.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] FC1032:
Really liking this mod :)

Makes it feel like a super phone! Only gripe would be the small nav bar at the bottom, quite hard to hit the nav buttons right now. Small text is acceptable for now.

EDIT: Is it just me or is this Nova launcher a bit more laggy than other ICS launchers? Also, black exodus theming doesn't seem to cover all the icons in the notification area (wifi and reception bars are blue, not white)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] LxRAYRAYXL:
okay so now after i placed phone.apk in its place i tried calling my phone. . . and nothing happened.literally nothing happened.no ringtone no force close, nothing. im mad right now >:/
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] hxdrummerxc:
How do you get it set to 192 dpi?

Im using 160 because Aokp build 31 only lets me change to 160, 240, 320.

I can't change mine to 192. Am I missing something..... ??

The only reason that I was using 160 is because I love the tablet mode. But it IS a little too small at 160, but I was willing to live with it.

But hell, now I gotta know how to change to 192.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] {ROn1N}:
In ROM Control > General UI, in the DPI settings menu there are 5 steps you have to follow to change DPI...

First set DPI to stock value

reboot and go back to the DPI settings menu

Clear play market cache

Open play market and click accept

Return to DPI settings and select DPI from the 5th item in the menu (the dropdown list suggests common values but if you scroll all the way down you can select a custom value and set it to whatever you want.)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] alex980:
is this still woking with the galaxy s2 9100?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
until now no one has produced it i think. i have tried aswell but got fc's. my wild guess is that the hardware buttons have something to do with it.

have you tried clearing the caches in app manager? its hard to say whats wrong, i only know i had some trouble with that thing aswell. without phone this whole mod is useless so im hoping you can solve it somehow. i suggest you do it with adb from now on, maybe try a bunch of phones from cm9 batches. the mounting command with adb is "adb remount" the pushing command is "adb push ****.apk /system/app" - good luck! in the very worst case, drop cm9 and install aokp. for me personally hybrid mode is more important than the rom, i'd run stock if it existed there only.

ROn1N already answered, but you do not need to do all of these steps, the last one is enough. change your dpi to a custom value and use the latest marked hack from the op - the steps indicated by aokp won't heal google play, the hack will.

i like the buttons, after some time you get used to them and hitting them is no problem. but to be honest i absolutely hate the notification center and wish i had the old curtain back, but oh well, not until a great rom rewrites ics i guess. nova is indeed a little on the laggy side, apex ran always faster for me. but then again, nova runs better under tablet mode so that's why i took it. if you want though i can upload you a hacked version of apex 1.0.2b, its old, has some bugs, cannot handle grids & stacks and the layout is not so refined, but it works. --- as for the theming, i have no idea how it works, maybe tabletmode introduces new icons that he didn't see or mind. you should ask him, perhaps he can fix it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
don't wanna bug you, but needs more votes to climb up in the rating poll:

http://feedback.novalauncher.com/fo...tting-for-tablet-mode-on-high-density-phones-

im thinking, a native feature would lift this thing out of obscurity, more people will notice, real devs might jump in. if you haven't yet, please vote. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] FC1032:
Oh no, it's fine, I'd rather have a slightly more funtional nova than a fast "broken" apex. Just wanted to see if I was alone. Theming isn't a big issue, i just thought they were shared (they look the same to me :p)

I extracted the ROM settings from a galaxy tab 7 for kicks. It's on build 28 though (I haven't installed the new build 31), The extra "tablet tweaks" section shows (without crashing :))

Unfortunately, nothings actually works :( even when the system UI restarts, nothing changes (I wanted to see if the larger thumbnails option worked; it doesn't...).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bill12690:
Just noticed even with the latest vending.apk i cant find YouTube, if I find it through the browser and try to download it through play store, i get a 940 error
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] TjPhysicist:
Phone.apk

Just letting people know. All i did was change dpi to 160 and inset "tablet" right after "nosdcard" in build.prop. And it works wonderfully. The only thing is, I miss docks, since there are no tablet launchers that have docks yet for some reason (and Go Launcher HD, as i mentioned before refuses to work in sub7" devices). Attached is the phone.apk i found somewhere that works under 160DPI (the one from OP does not work below 182 or so). I can;t remember where I found it, and it's obviously not my work, it was taken from some or other ics rom.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] TjPhysicist:
ty, will see if i can do that, really do miss the docks sometimes, but then again, tablets dont usually have docks for some unknown reason...

I do `miss' the buttons sometimes, yea. Like i want to press the home button but i press the back button instead and so on, happens once in a while, and the settings button on my calender widget is just plain impossible to press altogether, but imo, its worth it, I find if i make it any bigger i start loosing market comptability and/or it all seems too big. I even have the font at normal, no UI changes in terms of icons etc.

<-- Screenie
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
looks like a caching error. try this

1. dpi 320, show navbar, reboot

2. clear market data & cache

3. open market & accept

4. dpi 192, navbar hide, reboot

5. search for youtube, he doesnt find it but click youtube remote instead

6. go to "more from google", click youtube

7. install

worked for me. i have no idea though why he doesn't list it right away.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
what you own is a phone. its not a tablet. you unlocked it, but that doesn't make your phone a better device unless you shape and mold it into something that makes sense on such a small device. i'd need a magnifying glass to read whats on your display and the patience of a zen-master to press these tiny buttons. : P

what you did there might work for you, but it won't for a wider mass of people, mostly those who do not want to exchange the aesthetics of matias duartes ICS just to have a tabled stuffed into their mickey-mouse displays.

as for incompatibility issues, try the marked hack - it has kinks alright but that marked's had always kinks. im telling you i can now download stuff i could never ever find or dl under 4.0.2 OTA stock. if theres an app or two i can't dl right now, well - i couldn't download hundreds of apps on stock so what. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nick w:
Issue found!

Can someone fix the issue with YouTube and the fact full screen doesnt work?

can someone else test to see if they have the issue too?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] LxRAYRAYXL:
damn ive tried everything! i even changed from stock 4.0.4 to cm9 to aokp. and still i get nothing. i think the phone.apk is messed up :/
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nick w:
Its all all video. Flixster which isnt alowing full screen!

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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
have you tried the one I uploaded some pages back, from droid incredible?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ronmo32992:
I have some questions to ask.

The main problem that im using nova launcher is inside my drawer the icons are ver y small. seems it doesnt fit the screen. The new youtube function is perfect. Also where's my dock?? and THE MAIN PROBLEM IS MY KEYBOARD BECOMES SO SMALL AND I CANT TYPE.

THANKS
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
download hacked nova, download Swype. look at the screenshots on the opening page, see if you can get all the functions presented there by following the instructions
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] eman3316@optonline.net:
Entering tablet into build prop should not be necessary, at least on AOKP it isn't.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bill12690:
I can't get swype to work for the life of me, tried different apks, everything. Anyone know of another keyboard I can try?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] eman3316@optonline.net:
Install it first at the regular phone 320 density and then switch back to tablet. That should at least work for you.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MagicMan3:
This is awesome, I can't wait to get home from work to try this. I've wanted to do this ever since I got my Galaxy Tab 8.9
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mr_Migiu:
Hi guys. You also have the problem that does not make you call?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] player911:
The ADW launcher isn't a "mess", I have the dock hidden. So my "dock" shown is just a row of icons... which is how I always setup ADW. Basically I have a full screen (minus the top bar) to play with. I recently increased the number of rows to better suit the extra vertical space too (now shown in the screen shot) but works much better.

I'm just not having any luck with the hacked Apex Launcher. The Apex dock is totally whacked and all jumbled up, plus the homescreens are tiny:

[UPDATE]

NM I figured it out. Even though the default layout is 5x4... you still have to go into the settings and select 5x4 and press OK. I manually changed it to 6x4, then back to 5x4 and now it displays as it should. FYI to others.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] elol:
just to know,,this toturial for gigerbread?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
hihi, i was referring to the mushy icons. :D yeah you needed to explicitly set a grid, i have no idea why "auto" smashes the layout. glad to hear that it now works. i've put it into the instructions, didn't know that you still need to hit ok, even if it defaults to 5x4. could be it needs the refresh somehow. (::
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
no man, gingerbread cannot do it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] player911:
no this is an ICS Launcher... that is designed for ICS Tablet mode at high resolutions. No gingerbread device can even do this because of the lower resolution.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] eman3316@optonline.net:
Um, the HTC Rezound is a Gingerbread device with a 720p screen : )
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Nebucatnetzer:
I like the lock of the UI when it is in tablet mode but everything is so tiny that I can't use it on a daily base. Too bad though.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
try HUGE in settings, display, font size. it helps. you're right though, it sucks. let's hope a rom cook sees the potential in this and circumvents the troublesome aspects of it somehow.

but ...

what - the - heck, my phone crashes again. i was dead sure it doesnt and i tried it and could receive calls. maybe i flashed a rom in between and forgot i did?!! this is bugging me out right now. :o
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ChongoDroid:
The phone.apk in the op downloads as a 68k file with a parsing problem. Snatch the phone.apk from the aokp m4 for the Droid Inc as previously mentioned and it works flawlessly. This is a really cool mod when everything works
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
strange strange strange, i just reflashed the phone.apk from post#1 and now it works again. i know i switched back to the old dpi for a moment yesterday, maybe that did something to it. perhaps that's why the original apk doesn't work, some cache problem or whatever.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] vapotrini:
Would love to help but I've never used apktool. Wouldn't know what to do lol...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kbrian:
system ui crashing?

did i skip a step? the system ui is crashing every couple of seconds
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
you probably did not hide your navigation bar. it must be completely gone before you boot, no buttons down there whatsoever, or you'l encounter system.UI crashes.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] prking07:
Can anybody post the phone.apk frim the m4 rom of the droid that works in tablet mode? Ops phone.apk diesnt give me signal and crashes. Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] player911:
I got everything set up but I'm having market woes. I've cleared cache and booted CWM and cleared davlik cache and regular cache.

I can download stuff except xda, red box, and wifi explorer. They seem to just get ignored in limbo.

Any suggestions or solutions. I think tablet mode is cool but I'm half tempted to go back to phone mode. Gmail and Email are cool but not worth everything driving me crazy.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kbrian:
yeah i did everything over again and made sure i had everything right and it's still crashing..
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] P4rtyboy:
is it me, or is the res for the wallpapers tad different for the tablet ui vs. normal galaxy nexus? can anyone confirm this?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dakoop:
Looks good except my icons and Widgets don't use up hardly any of the screen. Is that how its supposed to be?

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] danwguy:
Installed this last night and it was absolutely beautiful. Only problem is it killed my radio. When I woke up this morning (Ididn't check it the night before) I had zero bars, I left it for a while and went to work, still no radio. Tried to send a text and it just sat there in "sending" mode. Finally I had to revert to my nandroid backup. It might be because I am running AOKP milestone 4, not sure if the "patched" phone.apk is compatible or if it's from another version or something, but this killed my radio. Other than that it looks amazing. Any chance you could say what you did to the phone.apk so I can just edit my existing one and have tablet mode and a working phone?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Anthonok:
Love this so much. Somebody really needs to make a rom based on this.