[Android] alteredlikeness:
Thanks for the reply!

Well, I know it rings at least, and can make and receive phone calls - haven't had a chance to check the audio in any other way yet because of the over-sized layout issue - in fact I haven't looked too deeply into any of the other issues yet.. do we need a telephony-common in 4.1.2?

When I say it thinks it's a tablet, I mean that the entire UI is huge and I can only see a corner of it - I can manage to touch the parts of the screen to skip sign-in, then use the status bar to enter settings and enable rotation - then I can see all corners of the UI when I rotate, but it's still a pain to navigate with no back button or home key.. Lol.. so.. one thing at a time..

btw, touch works, it's just waay off and seems to line up better towards the top and bottom of the screen (I turned on the touch dot in dev options to see where I was touching) - and I have all of the legacy stuff in InputReader and the Android.mk.. so I think it might clear up with the screen size issue.

Maybe it's a PA specific issue and I should be bumping my post there, but the PA Preferences work fine - I can change to tablet or phablet and the display is clear - but I can still only see and access one corner at a time in any mode. I double checked all of my vendor/pa files, dug into the framework and system, and I came across the DisplayMetrics and Configuration java in frameworks/base.. I am not fluent in java whatsoever, but looks like PA has hooks in there - and SystemUI and Settings as well.. maybe something got botched.. maybe I'm digging way too deep into this...

Is it worth mentioning that I'm on a locked bootloader and using a pre-built kernel to compile?

Thanks again for the tips.. sorry for my wordy reply..

EDIT: A few lines I just found in logcat... (looks like I can hopefully find my other issues through logcat as well - should have done that right away..)

11-27 23:25:02.125: I/SurfaceFlinger(658): GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE = 2048
11-27 23:25:02.125: I/SurfaceFlinger(658): GL_MAX_VIEWPORT_DIMS = 2048 x 2048
11-27 23:25:02.125: I/SurfaceFlinger(658): flags = 00000000
11-27 23:25:02.164: I/ti_hwc(658): [COLOR="Blue"]clone region is set to (0,0) to (768,1366)[/COLOR]
11-27 23:25:02.164: I/ti_hwc(658): external display changed (state=0, mirror={disabled tform=0deg}, dock={disabled tform=0deg}, tv=0
11-27 23:25:02.164: I/ti_hwc(658): omap4_hwc_device_open(rgb_order=1 nv12_only=0)
11-27 23:25:02.164: I/ti_hwc(658): Unable to open gc-core device (2), blits disabled
11-27 23:25:02.171: I/SurfaceFlinger(658): EventThread ready to run.

and

11-27 23:25:27.796: I/InputReader(908): Device added: id=-1, name='Virtual', sources=0x00000301
11-27 23:25:27.796: I/InputReader(908): Device added: id=0, name='omap4-keypad', sources=0x00000101
11-27 23:25:27.796: I/InputReader(908): Device added: id=3, name='cpcap-key', sources=0x00000101
11-27 23:25:27.796: I/InputReader(908): Touch device 'atmxt-i2c' could not query the properties of its associated display 0. The device will be inoperable until the display size becomes available.
11-27 23:25:27.796: I/InputReader(908): Device added: id=2, name='atmxt-i2c', sources=0x00001103
11-27 23:25:27.796: E/Trace(908): error opening trace file: No such file or directory (2)
11-27 23:25:27.812: I/SystemServer(908): Accessibility Manager
11-27 23:25:27.820: I/InputReader(908): Reconfiguring input devices. changes=0x00000004
11-27 23:25:27.820: I/InputReader(908): Device reconfigured: id=2, name='atmxt-i2c', [COLOR="Blue"]surface size is now 768x1366[/COLOR], mode is 1
11-27 23:25:27.820: I/ActivityManager(908): Config changed: {1.0 0mcc0mnc en_US sw512dp w512dp h885dp lrg long port ?uimode ?night finger -keyb/v/h -nav/h s.2 themeResource=null}

one more

11-28 00:49:21.710: I/SurfaceFlinger(663): SurfaceFlinger's main thread ready to run. Initializing graphics H/W...
11-28 00:49:21.718: D/(751): MOTO_SN_TRACK: No Factory Track Info exists
11-28 00:49:21.773: E/LBS(683): [LBS-DRV] : ERROR: Cannot connect to host via port
11-28 00:49:21.773: D/LBS(683): [LBS-DRV] : modem/common/location/platform/ipc/IpcSocket.cpp:2 610: Can't connect to remote host /data/location/GpsIpcSpEeSocket:0. Retrying 9 more times.
11-28 00:49:21.781: E/IMGSRV(663): :0: framebuffer_device_open: [COLOR="Blue"]FBDEV driver is buggy and returned xres=540, yres=960, pixclock=0. Falling back to apphint[/COLOR].
11-28 00:49:21.835: D/(684): START OF: my_init
11-28 00:49:21.835: D/(684): END OF: my_init

...full log...