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[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] kendonsh:
I just downloaded it and tried myself with no luck. it looks fine to me but i dont remember the last time i used standard dpi and what it would look like lol.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] mliou:
Thanks for the write-up.

Just a small update, if you have the s-view cover, even if you change com.sec.android.sviewcover back to 640, there's going to be a black bar on the bottom of the cover.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] kendonsh:
so its the same as the note 3 then.. bummer
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] SleemLDJ:
Is there anyway to rectify that?
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] mliou:
Unfortunately, no.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] RoshanDoon:
I just changed DPI and I didn't change Swiftkey back to stock, what I did was change the actual size of Swiftkey keyboard in Swiftkey's settings. Worked great for me! :)
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] HAVOK83:
Great info. Thanks
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] blnwp:
Where to change this in Swiftkey? I don't see any option in Theme or Layout sections. Thanks.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] ssinn:
Any way to do this on Lolipop? I mean per app DPI
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] SamuelBegui:
Yes I believe app settings is lollipop compatible. You need Xposed for this though. Go ahead and check it out yourself! :)
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] RoshanDoon:
When you open the keyboard to type, the settings button on the bottom left has a keyboard size option.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] TodWulff:
That may be true for some (many?) devices.

However for us Samsung (Note 4, here) users on a TW-based Lollipop ROM, Xposed framework is borked and causes bootloops. As such, be careful and make sure that you aren't running a Samsung Touchwiz Lollipop ROM when installing Xposed (for AppSettings, or any other reason).

There are a $hiteton of us Samsung users w/ Touchwiz Lollipop waiting on this to be resolved. I am anxious for it as I ran 8-10 mods therein, including AppSettings, before upgrading from KitKat.

The Xposed Lollipop community thread is here (some 5300+ posts, currently): http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3030118

The dev thread for Xposed Lollipop is here (locked by OP (Xposed Dev) and mods): http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3034811

Just a respectful heads-up, to try to keep peeps from fragging their device... L8R.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] SamuelBegui:
Yes of course and I loved lollipop on my galaxy note 4 (T-Mobile) but downgraded because of the above reasons haha;)
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] ShrekOpher:
over in the [PORT] thread of the stock Lollipop firmware from Canada that is compatible with our device, a dude posts a link to a flahable zip that fixes the apps that are not compatible with a different DPI. If you go over there and search for it you will find it.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] TodWulff:
Going to have to look into that. Thanks.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] Larkstarr:
Thanks for this list - I'm loving my phone with a much more reasonable DPI, and having everything work as intended! You've saved me a lot of time and stress.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] TodWulff:
I am sorry for being thick-skulled. Would you be so kind as to link to the thread you referenced? I've dug through a number of them and have come away empty handed. Thank you in advance.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] meccanikal:
Did the same, searched in that thread ([Port] Unmodified port of SM-N910W8 Lollipop firmware) and found a few references to the DPI but no flashable zips
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] kendonsh:
I haven't forgotten but I am not liking lollipop right now and who knows when we'll get 5.1.

they say we get official lollipop next week
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] pringled:
This probably isn't much help, but I failed at finding them there too and ended up finding them elsewhere on xda. Seccontacts was still kinda off center but they fixed everything else. I can't remember where I found them now but will keep on lookin, aand in the meantime if someone wants I can re-upload them and link it. It's weird that someone basically fixed the issue of not being able to change dpi without paying the price on stock lollipop roms and it just slipped into the ether. Talk about an unsung hero.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] TodWulff:
Agreed, kinda sad.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] pringled:
[YOUTUBE][/YOUTUBE]

It was the same thing with the lollipop data/ signal fix. I'm hoping there's more now, but even a few days after buddy posted the flashable fix only like three people had thanked him. Not as much of a culture of gratitude as I assumed would befit a message board that exists because of things that take a lot of work and have no financial reward. I think unfortunately as a result things that aren't posted in their own dedicated thread get buried and lost super quickly a lot of the time regardless of their importance.

Sorry for the tangent, I came here to say a good workaround for the multidpi issue is to substitute the affected Samsung priv-app/app system apks (I think the camera is the only one that is swapped out under the app folder as opposed to the priv-app folder) with the equivalent files from another rom . I'm pretty sure that would work for personal use so long as the rom the files are cannibalized from is multidpi and also based on the stock TW lollipop rom as well . I tried this method before and the only aspect of it that wouldn't work for me turned out to be user error on my part and now I'm using the rom I want with the dpi I want as well. These are the files you'll want to swap:

SamsungCamera3.apk (goes under System/apps)

And the following three go in their namesake folders in the priv-app /system folder

SecContacts_Note.apk

SecContacts provider.apk

TouchWizHome.apk

I moved most of them in recovery but you can use Mixplorer or another file manager and the changes will take effect when you reboot so long as you've changed the permissions accordingly.

If you have an S-view cover it'll be all wonky still unfortunately, but even with xposed on kitkat I couldn't change dpi without it going on me so I think that's unavoidable. I guess everything else is contingent on the rom that you source the files from. Anyway, hope this helps someone/ isn't super poorly worded on my part.

Edit: I just realized that unbeknownst to me this might have been common knowledge, so if that's the case sorry to those of you who wasted a portion of their life reading those exceedinglymmeandering instructions.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] hakansuca:
When i changed my dpi settings from 400 or something different from 640 my touchwizard screen and keypad screen and being such in pics as you see. i checked the answers in topic but cant find any solution. Anyone wanna help ?

Using Note 4 kitkat and custom rom.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] kendonsh:
Your custom ROM probably has a custom version of TouchWiz

Also your dailer looks like you didn't change the right settings back to stock
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] _-..zKiLLA..-_:
Unfortunately that is normal for all Touchwiz roms. Thats why we use xposed plugin "app settings" to set the default DPI for the samsung apps then it looks normal but this only works on kitkat right now.

This explains what to do. http://xdaforums.com/note-4-tmobile/general/changing-note-4-dpi-settings-to-change-t2923408

Has anyone found a solution for DPI changing on lollipop? Would really love to be running lolli but can not stand the stock DPI >.<
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] Omel:
Camera

Hi,

To get the camera right, what Else to chance beside the dpi set to 640

Plz help
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] lazer9:
It is all correctly written in the OP (Post #1). Please read it closely and you should not have issue. :good:
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] kendonsh:
actually touchwiz home breaks when you change the dpi, i've only seen custom touchwiz homes not break and change like that.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] SavanTorian:
WHERE I can change back dpi in the apps?

thx.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] _-..zKiLLA..-_:
You have to go and install xposed framework and then grab an xposed plugin called "app settings" and then follow this tutorial. Not sure if that answers your question :confused:
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] TodWulff:
Unless one is on a Touchwiz Lollipop ROM, for which Xposed is (forever?) borked hard, currently, sadly...
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] rclar144:
Try 595 with 110 font size:D

---------- Post added at 01:51 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:50 PM ----------

Sorry 100 font
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] ShrekOpher:
I have heard there is a thread over in the international note 4 section where they are building the TW apps to support multi dpi. It would be nice to link to those in this thread. Just an FYI.

[MENTION=5039686]mgbotoe[/MENTION] saw something I think.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] _-..zKiLLA..-_:
What do you mean 100? Is that in the stock samsung settings? Cause only font size settings i can change too are; tiny, extra small, small, medium, etc. :confused:
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] TodWulff:
I think he is referencing the size of the elements in percentage. In Nova Launcher in the appearances section of settings, one can adjust the scaling of icons from 70% thru some value above 100%. I don't use other launchers, so I have no frame of reference to recommend against.

EDIT: On the ROM I'm on, it is running a DPI of 560 vs the standard 640 (as on a stock TW that is what its shipped with from the carriers (at least on a SM-N910P from Sprint)). This allows a higher density of ui elements per physical dimensions, when contrasted with a stock build. To get an even higher density icon set on the home screen, I set font to condensed, grid is made higher in row and column count, and the icons are scaled down to 70%, vs charging the DPI to 480 and risk borking resolution restricted apps...
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] shutin:
Just wanted to say thanks to the OP for this great tutorial. I never realized how easy it was to change your resolution. I feel like someone who just discovered the resolution settings on winXP and changed from 800x600 to something usable! It's a shame that so many people cluttered up the thread by posting questions that were answered in the OP.

If you haven't tried it yet, here's a couple tips I learned:

* Don't click "OK" every time you save the DPI in App Settings to restart the app. Hit cancel and finish making all the changes and then reboot. It will save time

* Use Nova Launcher so you won't have TouchWiz home issues and to allow much better icon placement flexibility. Nova rocks anyway and you should try it.

* OP uses 320, which is pretty extreme .You might want to start with 480 first. 320, while cool, gave me a headache!

What other DPI numbers can I use besides 320, 480, 640? And what do the DP resolutions mean? If you have 640DPI and 320DP, what would that do?

Thanks again!
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] _-..zKiLLA..-_:
Not sure where you've seen DP, I've only ever seen it referenced as DPI or Dots Per Inch. Ive seen some custom roms have weird DPI increments that weren't even increments at all so I believe you can use any number :good:

I usually stick with 480
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] kendonsh:
Thanks. 320 is not that extreme lol. Touchwiz home has been given me issues since my note 2 when it came to changing my DPI unless it was a multi DPI version.

You don't necessarily have to use those numbers you could use 523 if you wanted too, like I had it on 280 and that was extreme lol.

I only change the DP when an app can't handle the DPI that I changed and you would need to change the resolution to fit the DPI or when I want to adjust the way the tablet mode looks when I change the dpi.

Pandora for example just by changing the DP you can change it into tablet mode but it would look extremely huge and ugly unless you decrease the DPI.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] Amd4life:
Appreciate the help to the OP works great
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] nautica2450:
Are there any workarounds for Lollipop yet or are we still SOL for now?
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] kendonsh:
Yep Sol, unless someone made Multi dpi Samsung Apps for a lollipop for the note 4

Oh and did I mention bootloops
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] ShrekOpher:
I am testing Xposed on TW lollipop right now. I will report back on if the Per App Settings module works. If so its open season on DPI again. Will let everyone know by the end of the day.

Confirmed!!! Per App Settings is running great. Back to my 448 DPI with all samsung apps running just great...
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] Zer0_:
Awesome guide, especially since Xposed has been released for Lollipop!

Thanks buddy!
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] matt.b.powell:
S-View

Looks like I can't find the com.android.sviewcover in lollipop... anyone else having this issue? Also Play Store crashes at 420dpi, and the pictures connected to contacts is pretty crazy. its like they live in a wormhole. Any help would be MUCH appreciated :) this is my first time modifying DPI.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] holywhitebread:
Did you get the dialer DPI adjusted with App Settings? I changed it back to stock 640 and it's still at my 480 overall DPI.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] ShrekOpher:
Yes just reboot your phone. It's not working in real time but my dialer is good. You need to do all of the below to get the phone wiring right. Then reboot.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] holywhitebread:
Cool, I'm pretty sure I changed all of those, but I'll double check and reboot. Thanks.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] HAVOK83:
Can't get swiftkey to change to correct alignment and size even after putting to stock dpi 640 and reboot it stays jumbo size and aligned to the right cutting off keyboard
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] nano303:
+1 contact pictures do look all distorted as you mentioned.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] kendonsh:
Day off not until tomorrow, so sitting at work sad until I get home tonight. Gonna update my phone and guide if lollipop changed anything

I addressed Swiftkey in the first post. Changing the DPI won't really help, SwiftKey has a built-in resizer
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] SiNJiN76:
Great guide! But, do you know what to change for Photo Preview? For when sending a picture either through MMS or Hangouts. You take a picture and the preview of that picture is skewed to the right. That's the only thing. It saves and sends fine just like you took the photo...but the preview screen is just a little off. OCD...yes. :D Changed everything on your list...
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] holywhitebread:
I have all of those set to 640 and my dialer still looks like this.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] ShrekOpher:
You might need to do these too. See below.

My dialer looks good.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] holywhitebread:
That must've fixed it. Thanks a million!
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] Larkstarr:
I have another thing to add to the list, a bit specific though.

I actually enjoy the stock file exploring app 'my files' given it's simplistic nature, its' nice and easy to manage things quickly.

However if one drops the overall DPI to below 530, as quoted elsewhere, the font turns white, instead of black. The app has a white background. As you can imagine, this doesn't work very well.

Using app settings to adjust the DPI of 'my files' to anything above 530 (I used the default 640) works like a charm to restore the black font on white background.

Hope this helps someone!
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] TodWulff:
The guidance herein works well on a Note 4 with Alliance ROM (a TW ROM based on OB7 (Android v5.0.1)), once I got Xposed installed & working. It took a while, but am glad I got my 480 dpi back on here, with everything working as advertised. ?
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] Cerv3r:
Just did this on my note 4 :)
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] kendonsh:
Just gonna upload a zip this time. It's an export for the settings at a 320dpi, so all you have to do is change android system and systemui to the dpi you want if you don't like 320. Let me know if I missed anything

On a side note I should probably say this, no its not flashable you must unzip and paste the file on the root of your internal SD where app settings should see it.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] kendonsh:
You don't need to change contact storage
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] kendonsh:
I have changed every apk associated with the camera and still can't get that one specific thing and s-view covers to work properly.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] Jostian:
can you show a pic of the photo preview that is not right, I have my dpi at 540 and don't seem to have any issues, thats why I wanna see a pic of the issue to make sure I'm looking at the right thing, thanks
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] SiNJiN76:
So, wanted to know if this is also on your phone. Lollipop...not sure if it happened on KK. Contact photos are weird...how would I describe it....heres a pic.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] SiNJiN76:
I'm at 480
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] kendonsh:
Just noticed that too lol. It looks fine when they call though. Dang touchwiz making it difficult to get my phone the way I like.

Looks like I might go on the hurt for a multi dpi contacts app and see if it makes a difference

I wish mine looked like that, I'm at 320. I took a selfie and the preview show 1/4 of my face lol.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] SamuelBegui:
So what's the lock screen package name because it isn't Keygaurd anymore, for lollipop
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] kendonsh:
Not an option anymore unless I am blind. However the only reason you changed it in KK was because the fingerprint indicator didn't line up correctly but isn't a problem in LP.

I see what you mean with the lock icon but that's the only thing off on the lockscreen. I never used the stock dpi (it hurts my eyes) so I never noticed
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] hello00:
yeha there is no fix for this
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] Larkstarr:
Hey guys,

I just moved to lollipop (still debating if this was a mistake or not..) and I wanted my lovely DPI settings down. I did it a little different - I changed the DPI to 480 via build.prop and I removed the android ui/dpi settings in the zip file provided by kendosh (320's) - the contacts still look weird, the square 'outer' image isn't being positioned properly, obviously, but as far as I can tell doesn't actually eliminate any of the picture, it just provides some stretching to he bottom and to the right. There must be some image service on the device that rounds off the corners of the contact images that's not being reset back to 640 along with the contacts. Did anyone make any progress on this?

However I'm happy to report the camera works perfectly. No edge oddities or preview issues, everything is the perfect size. Really actually as far as I can tell the only thing is the contact images in the dialer!

Mucho gracias again!
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] Piscean1989:
DPI Settings for Note 4 Lollipop

Just letting you guys know that I can confirm that the same settings can be used in lollipop as well. I'm using xposed on lollipop and have flashed unofficial xposed framework v3 arm in recovery and it works like a charm haven't had any problems so far. However the "com.sec.android.sviewcover" doesn't show up so idk if its a lollipop thing or the roms i'm using just doesn't have it. Also when changing the "phone" app back to stock DPI, in the App Settings module, you'll notice 3 separate "Phone" apps listed only change the one that has "com.android.phone" underneath.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] diamantericos:
Maybe I can find help here. Does anyone know how to change the dpi for s-view cover ? I've tried app setting but it's no where to be found all added com.sec.android.sviewcover to build prop. Still nothing .
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] MysteryIII:
I am also looking for S-View Cover and Lock Screen APKs to change to Stock dpi. Any new information about it? I really don't have a clue.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] dragon91:
change dpi does not work with app setting , i am on note 4 kitkat4.4.4.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] MysteryIII:
Do you know another way? Such a big Screen is wasted with just bigger Buttons, it's more useful to see more stuff. So I edited build.prop and set Stock apps to Stock dpi with App Settings except Lockscreen and S-View Cover. But especially S-View Cover is necessary to be on Stock dpi.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] kendonsh:
I am on lollipop and can't really help anymore, but the S view cover has never been able to change back to stock even since I had my note 3 and was the same on my note 4

Also the lockscreen is mentioned in the first post.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] kendonsh:
Sorry I have not been able to update this thread I have been busy with a lot of work and I'm somewhat lost interest in my note 4. The same setting for KitKat should work on lollipop. I can make another zip that does not including the android ui and dpi change for the system if needed but I don't think the steps are hard to follow.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] kendonsh:
A little more details please
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] dragon91:
it is good now.

note 4 have low refresh rate or slow memory or not enough power or too big screen, cause i got too much stuttering in game, save game are slow that make micro freeze so i dicede to lower screen and dpi to see if i got improvement but nothing. that maybe mean refrech rate of the screeen is too low 24 hertz like movie .

i did 800x600 266 dpi i got smaller screen and game still stuttering not fluide so i comeback to stock resolution.

i have try s6 edge+ and it is very fluid no stuttering so why note 4 not good

i have flash my note 4 to 5.1.1 and root it yesterday.....
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] MysteryIII:
I'm also on Lollipop, to be exactly on S5 Lollipop, but I didn't find a proper thread there and as the "S" and "Note" ROMs were always close to each other I'm trying to get here information. So I have to live with S-View Cover not fitting the screen.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] kendonsh:
Unfortunately yeah, I stopped buying one after my note 3 and I tired my buddies on my note 4 with no luck. Try the tmo note 5 forum I saw a multi dpi rom if I'm not mistaken and he was trying to work on it.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] kendonsh:
Speaking of Note 5s I just jumped to the Note 5 to get the free tablet and charging pad and I gotta mail my note 4 back, so this might be the end for me. Didn't think the note 4 was worth keeping, kept my note 3 though lol. But I'm only keeping the note 5 for two weeks since I just saw the LG v10.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] kendonsh:
Do you have xposed and is app settings turned on in xposed?
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] MysteryIII:
Thanks for the hint will look into it. I just bought the phone together with the S Cover. I would also say it's not really worth the money but still a nice to have.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] kendonsh:
Before I mail in my note 4 I'll make a new zip and add it to my first post
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] dragon91:
it s ok now , just need to reboot to get it work.

what i am intersted in is to change temperature and frequency.

i mean higher temperature before frequency clockdown .

i can stay 2600 mhz on all core (performance gouvernor) but after a few minute it clock down to 1900 mhz because of temperature i supposed , but it still smooth enough in gaming but i want 100% performance.

note 4 can be more hotter without probleme i think.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] fivezan:
seeking help

bro , is there any way to change the dpi of only the notification shade ?
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 General] AlexanderBlaQ:
Quick question maybe you can help so I used your list and another for changing my items back to stock everything is good except for the contacts picture within messages is there any way to fix this?

photo added