yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] tadjx2:
Tablet mode so cool, but you can't use the NFL mobile app to stream live unfortunately.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] iMissLayups:
Would either of you mind posting screenshots of tablet mode? Thanks! Also, other than the white on white text, are there any issues aside from Samsung apps scaling poorly?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Clienterror:
Thinking of trying this on my edge lol I'm curious what will happen to the side screen.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] vwpiper:
I'm not sure if it is the latest NJ5 Verizon update, but Adguard will no longer work. Also fc of some apps and a reboot while on a call this morning.??? [emoji35]

Update: I cleared cache (in storage) and restarted the phone. It is working now. [emoji2]
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] blkghost22:
Did anyone try this on the edge?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] scarygood536:
someone try my script? Must have adb installed.... DPI

---------- Post added at 10:29 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:47 PM ----------

Correct me if I'm wrong but you would need to be able to modify the build prop and change ro.sf.lcd_density to get the dpi change on all apps, which inevitably requires root :(
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] xtrandrix:
Guess your wrong cause I do not have root. Have already gone back to stock because of the stock camera app f'ing up

Verizon N4 : Thank me if I helped ya
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] scarygood536:
you don't get what i was saying. Due to the app not scaling correctly. I'm not sure vm density change will give you the same results as buildprop density change. Because all your are doing is emulating density change not actually changing it? Either that or you would specifically have to per app change the density of the camera app back to stock which needs root.

you may also try changing the resolution and dpi to see if you can get a better scale

also stock can be reset with adb shell wm density reset
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] brittoking:
I'm sorry I looked but didn't see...What's the script do?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] scarygood536:
Automatically sets DPI instead of having to write all the adb code for

Sent from my bandaid smelling s-pen
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] cj00ta:
So, thank you this... it's awesome.

Has anyone come up with a fix for the camera app? I can live with all the other 'crap'... but the camera is a pita for me.

Mostly because every camera app won't save to the external sd. (ATT, can't root)

I'd use FV-5 otherwise.

-----

Sent with my Galaxy Note 4
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Johnmcl7:
I can't believe Samsung waste so much of that lovely big screen with such a badly sized interface, I'm finding it unusable coming from a Sony Z Ultra. The only reason I'm changing is because of the terrible camera on the Sony and the superb camera on the Note 4, reading through this thread it sounds like a good solution - just to check a few things:

- if I make this change, can I simply undo it by changing the DPI back or are there are any other consequences to trying this?

- I assume this isn't specific to Verizon Note 4's? (I have a European unlocked Snapdragon Note 4)

- what setting would people recommend, there's a few mentioned in the thread

- I see I need a new dialler, launcher etc. which is fine but the stock camera sounds best still. I see it's the wrong size in the screenshot earlier but is it still usable at a reduced size or are the buttons not aligned properly?

- anything else to be aware of?

Thanks,

John
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] conradcbrown:
It can be undone. Just use the same adb command with the stock DPI (640)

This one I can't answer, but I assume yes.

I liked 540 the best. It doesn't take long at all to change the settings and play around with it to see how it fits you.

So the dialer is still useable; in fact, I find it a little easier to use with one hand. There are no button misallignments for me at 540. Switching to Nova Launcher made 540 even better. Much more real estate for smaller icons. The camera is the only sticking point for me. At 540, you have to hit the mode button to take a picture, the picture button starts a video, and somewhere off to the side of the mode button will get you into mode. Same thing with all of the settings buttons. I changed my settings so that the volume up or down button would take a picture, and that has helped a lot, but would still prefer to be able to scale the camera and keep alignment on the buttons as well.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Johnmcl7:
Thanks for the detailed reply, I was assuming most of that but thought it worth checking before going ahead. I've given it a go and the instructions worked perfectly, the phone is so much better now I can't believe the difference - I just don't understand why Samsung don't do it this way by default. The camera application seems a bit of an annoyance but I think I can work around it as it's worth it for the all round improvement. Nova Launcher seems pretty good, am I understanding the prime version correctly in that I'll get unread message counts back? Seems worth a couple of quid to support them anyway as I now have a set up which matches my Z Ultra (seven icons in the dock, 6x6 in the main section) which looks great.

The only issue I'm having is that the S Planner widget to have a month view as a widget seems to be completely gone, for the other widgets I was offered the option to tap and add them back but there was nothing where S planner was and it's not in the list of widgets. I assume it doesn't work which I can live with as well.

Thanks very much to the OP as I was really regretting the Note 4 purchase and wasn't sure what I was going to do, now I can enjoy the superb camera and screen.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] conradcbrown:
Yup, Nova Prime and the Tesla unread messages plug in will give you the unread message counts back. I don't use the S Planner, so I don't have experience with losing that particular widget.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] crossfades:
Just gave this a go at 380 dpi, just out of curiosity for tablet mode, and wow... Really makes you appreciate the UHD display. Awesome. Now if only I could find a good source of wallpapers in the right resolution, besides my camera.

Can't attach anything/link bc I haven't reached ten posts yet but I posted a screenshot of the google now launcher on imgur, /neSfZ4Y

I being a total noob found the sdk thing somewhat confusing so I used that ADB installer tool that was linked earlier, thanks you guys
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] webleeper:
How are the Camera and dialer layout at the 380 DPI?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] cj00ta:
Has anyone figured out how to fix the font in the mail app? (Not Gmail - exchange).

When I reply to an email the font is eleventy-billion in size and I can't pinch to zoom.

Font is fine everywhere else in mail.

-----

Sent with my Galaxy Note 4
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] daffie:
Just tried this. A real positive difference with DPI 540! Bummer the Camera and Dialer are screwed up. The latter can be ignored, but the camera is very awkward to use on 540. Too bad...back to stock DPI 640 it is.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] david3800:
Recent Apps?

Does anyone notice any change when pressing the recent apps button? It seems to work faster for me after doing this. Or maybe it is my imagination...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] WyoSi:
I downloaded the Google Camera and it works perfectly at 540

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.GoogleCamera
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] extide:
I tried and it said I need the save secure settings permission. :(
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Piercing Heavens:
How's the photo quality compared to stock camera?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] WyoSi:
Sends to be as good as the stock camera. Miss a few features, but gain a couple others.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] aclays:
Anybody use this to get hearthstone working on their N4 by chance?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] madhatr75:
Internal change

Has anyone figured out a way of making this change without having to hook it up to a computer. If this could somehow be changed through shell on the phone you could write a script to change it and another to change it back and then have Tasker run that script everyone you launch the camera or dialer app. This way you could have basically any doing you want set for every app.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] kentedman:
Holy Crap !! why am I just seeing this? Can't believe it was this easy. Easily one of the main features I've been missing without root.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] vdub2pt0:
For those of you that are using a different camera, what are you using? I cannot find one that even compares to the Sammy camera. I took pictures side by side with google camera, camera zoom fx, and stock; stock quality is way better every time.

Sent from my SM-N910V using Xparent Blue Tapatalk 2
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] cj00ta:
I did the same camera tests... ended up with FV-5 as the closest to stock as possible in terms of not looking ****ty.

-----

Sent with my Galaxy Note 4
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] rawkusx:
ART runs slow imo, I switched back to dalvik...has anyone else experienced this?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] kentedman:
I also found this. "adb shell wm density reset" will reset back to default. "adb shell wm size" will display current resolution and "adb shell wm size 3200x1800" (or other values) will simulate other resolutions. I'm currently playing around with combinations of resolution and density to trigger tablet layout in programs without having the resolution so small. The "reset" command on either will reset back to default.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] hilokilo:
Is there a way to change the resolution on this device without root?

I want to change the resolution to 1080p so I can get better gpu performance..
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] daffie:
In general ART runs just a bit smoother on my N910C but only Flipboard has a real smoothness issue on dalvik. On ART it flies but on dalvik scrolling through flipboard is very choppy. Tried all combos within flipboard settings (internal, external, amount of cache ) but still performs atrocious on dalvik. Very strange... never had this issue before with flipboard. Anyone else has this with flipboard?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] vdub2pt0:
My phone must not like the third party apps. Every single one I've tried including the one fv 5 come out looking like I took the picture from an iphone. Haha

Sent from my SM-N910V using Xparent Blue Tapatalk 2
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] masterchif92:
But if i will change DPI....i can occour in a bootloop or something ? It is safe?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Shroomgoo:
Anyone know of a fix for the issue above? I can live with the dialer and camera but would love a fix for this.

---------- Post added at 10:17 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:08 AM ----------

Yes this is safe to do.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] mikesnav:
My video recorder is broken. I can take pics no problem, but when hitting record it goes black and nothing happens. Anyone else experiencing this?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Cauterized:
Any modified APKs that allow svoice or stock browser to function while in tablet mode?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] greekunit690:
Any directions on how to get this working on a Mac?

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] bgymn2000:
Does anyone know if this will still work once we get lollipop... If it doesn't I don't know if I want to update.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] HAMO23:
Just like the N3 totally livable! Thanks!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] edwardjiang7:
I would like to know this too. Thanks,
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] xanthos84:
works exactly the same like in kitkat...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] joeb690:
Firstly thank you very for the great mod. Has anyone found a way to use stock camera in full screen? TIA.

Lollipop 5.0.1, N910f
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] joeb690:
Is there anyway to perform this on the device its self, Terminal Emulator or so??

TIA
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] mali85:
this is awesome, but is there a way to fix dialer?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Zues532:
Not that I've found. It's ADB or bust.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] kill.i.an:
This is terrific. I've found the 580 DPI to be best. It's not as extreme as 540, which means the dialer and camera issue isn't so bad, but it's still a huge improvement over stock. Also, the buttons in the camera app aren't quiet as offset as they are at 540.

I've been thinking about rooting to change my DPI, but I think I'll stick with this for a couple of weeks and see how I get on first. Really don't want to have to trip my Knox counter for this (that's all I require root for) if I don't have to.

Thanks for this!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] HazqmHD:
help

it say that

wm : not working

plz help
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] metost:
So if you root your device and change the DPI setting in build.prop the "dialer" and the "camera" apps won't brake up? Is that correct?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] TurkXtreme:
perfect.

thank you.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] metost:
Also If you are using S-View cover, here is how it's going to like when you change the DPI. :(

P.S. anyone with more knowledge or someone that has root-ed his Note 4 to try and tell me if I change the DPI in build.prop file, the dialer and camera apps still going to look broken?

Thank you!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Chris Hansen:
Most likely, the stock Samsung apps will still look 'broken'. The reason being is that Samsung develops them for a specific device while the 3rd party apps are designed to work with multiple devices which allows for proper scaling.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] metost:
Sad to hear. I can leave with the diler but not without the stock camera app. Is there any chance in 5.0 those apps to be made to scale properly in different DPI?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] aclays:
Edit: I asked a question, turned out I am tired and was spelling something wrong. Instructions were great, thanks!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Johnmcl7:
If it's any consolation I missed that in your screenshot as well and was looking to see if there was a permissions issue.

John

---------- Post added at 01:46 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:38 PM ----------

I haven't used the software before but my understanding is if you root the phone you can used the Xposed framework which allows you to set individual DPI settings for each application so for those that don't work with the different DPI setting you can keep the stock one.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Bicknasty:
I forget if this has already been noted (I checked a couple weeks back and it hadn't been mentioned, so I'll just go off of that), but when fiddling with your system-wide DPI, you should be sure to avoid setting the value unnecessarily low, or you could cause keyguard to perpetually crash, rendering your device unusable until you perform a factory reset.

...In hindsight I shouldn't have been playing with the numbers. :p
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] hcdav:
Search Google for 'adb tools for mac'. Extract the files to the root of your Mac ( ./ ).

Now open terminal, and type the following:

./adb shell wm density XXX

That's how I have it set up.

I can also confirm that in some apps such as the 'My Files app' the text is all the colour of the background, making it illegible.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] SysCrasher13:
has anyone spend some time on UHD? I changed the Size to 3840x2160 and it seems to be pretty stable... Im wondering if anyone has kept this resolution for a while with no issues?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] knldge:
What was the corresponding dpi value?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] TheHassan909:
Per App

Is there anyway to do this by changing for a particular app,say just for chrome browser for the tabular view
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] MoussePad:
Stock Camera

Hello all,

Just got my N4, SM-N910W8 (Canadian/Mexico variant), running Lollipop 5.0.1 stock, using Google Now Launcher, stock dialer, DPI set at 480. The DPI is the only modification I made.

Everything looks great, aside from the dialer that has all digits squished, but frankly I like it.

Stock camera app is also squished, but my buttons work perfectly. I don't have to guess where the buttons should be if the app displayed full screen, but I simply press on the icons where they are.

I don't know if anybody else has had the same experience, but this solves the stock camera app for me. I don't care if the finder is smaller, as long as I can take photos easily.

Hope this helps.

Y

EDIT: Just fond out this is true for landscape mode. Buttons are not working properly in portrait mode.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Chad_Petree:
Does changing the DPi affect in any way the sharpness of the screen? I'm a bit confused , for example I know that things on the macbook pro retina are displayed quite big because apple uses 4 times the number of pixels to display a 720p screen state, and that's why the display looks so sharp, is this true? Does it apply to the note 4 too? :confused:
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Yousef_Muslih:
I'm wondering with this dpi change my icons don't really lineup on screen correctly anymore there's a border all the way around. I set it to 530 dpi if I choose a lower dpi would I be able to add more icons to the screen or is it limited to a certain number regardless of dpi?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Johnmcl7:
Are you using the stock launcher? If so, you'll need to use a different launcher as the stock one won't work with a different DPI as with most of the Samsung applications. I use Nova launcher, the standard version is free and mostly functional missing gestures and unread notification counts plus the full version is not expensive. I didn't realise you could change interface so much without root, even aside the DPI issue with the stock launcher I really like how much you can customise Nova launcher - much prefer being able to have a six by six main grid and seven app dock at the bottom.

John
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Yousef_Muslih:
I'm using stock everything except for camera app I don't really mind things not lining up properly: is there anything else I should know that does not function properly? Is it just me or does the quality of the screen seem a little off I can't tell if it's effected it just seems different clarity can't tell if it's better or worse...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Johnmcl7:
I haven't noticed any difference in the screen quality, the only other app I'm aware of that doesn't work properly is the dialler app which is smaller than it should be although unlike the camera app the buttons are all correctly aligned when you press them so I haven't looked into a replacement.

John
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Johnmcl7:
The quadrupling of the pixels is a stop gap measure until the applications are adapted to handle high resolution displays, once the system and the applications can handle high resolution displays you don't need the exact multiplication of pixels. Android devices have a variety of resolutions so the system and its apps are flexible enough to handle the different scaling aside from the Samsung applications which screw up.

I've wiped by Note 4 as batterylife has always been atrocious under Lollipop, I've applied the DPI change to 540 but items still look quite big. I thought it was due to the change not working but the camera and dialler are misaligned so that's not the case. What would be the next recommended step down from 540?

Oh and thanks again for this fix, I still cannot understand how Samsung seem to have got away with such an atrocious setup - I assume they did it to avoid recoding their apps to handle the larger screen on the Note but it's such a colossal waste, I can't recall any reviewers mentioning it either.

John
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] HDxDaniel:
I am using 600 DPI, it's awesome!! When I open the camera app there is a black border, but is relatively small, so no problem at all. I just changed the dialer, now I use exDialer.

If you don't like the default camera app with your new DPI you can use Snap Camera, choose the "Samsung Camera mode" (or something like that) and change the quality to maximum. Photos look the same as with the default app.

srry4myEnglish
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] havoc479:
Bummer I'm in the same boat. Not sure if I was doing it wrong but I kept lowering the dpi and checking apps to see if they've gone to tablet mode. They never seemed to change, specifically the Youtube and Chrome browser. I went from 460, 320, 240, and seems I overdid it at 160 DPI!! LMAO! Now that Keyguard keeps crashing and I can't even connect with ADB! :( Is there really no alternative than wiping completely?

Please help,

Thanks
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] a88277:
Hi Please assit me with this as I have tried the command "Adb shell wm density 540" but keeps on getting "wm: permission denied"

I have a HTC Flyer that is unlocked, but NOT rooted. My PC sees the tablet as I get the serial no from the cmd if prompted for it and USB debugging is on.

What else can I try?

Thanx
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] spocko:
According to this article:

http://www.xda-developers.com/the-z5-premiums-resolution-is-not-always-4k-and-thats-a-good-thing/

the Note 5 uses a default of 560 DPI. I wonder if it would be possible to load the Note 5 Samsung apps onto a (non rooted) Note 4, then set the DPI to 560?

Also, that article explains how you can set the resolution to 1920x1080 instead of QHD. Supposedly that can help performance. Has anyone tried this and determined if there are any negative side effects?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] kentedman:
Warning. It appears that setting the DPI and resolution to anything other than"stock" is preventing Android Pay from working. I am on a stock (non rooted) Verizon Note 4 and kept getting the "Android pay cannot be used" error that the rooted users are reporting, as I tryed to add a card. After I reset back to stock resolution and dpi, I was able to successfully add a card. I then changed the DPI again and rebooted. Android Pay appears to be ready, but it would not let me add another card (same error again). I have not tried to use it at a store yet though.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] DreamMetal:
Does anyone knows if it works with Android 6?

Thanks!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] david3800:
Same thing happened to me. My eyes are going nuts with the default DPI now haha

I was able to add another card though.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] spocko:
This thread has a script that makes it easy to change the DPI and/or resolution.

http://xdaforums.com/note-4-verizon/general/dpi-resolution-changer-program-root-t3217199
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] VandersonRL:
great thank topic.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] usmnrd:
If you have modified DPI in Build.prop and your phone launcher is not working, then try the method below

Open CMD as Administrator,

Here you have to go to adb toolkit or whatever you use for adb,

Run the command in adb "adb shell dumpsys display"

It will tell you what's inside the build.prop, Here you have to find Density 480. [480=any DPI of your device]

Now you know, what is the current DPI. Now run the below command, just chnage DPI with your desired 240,300,480

adb shell wm density DPI && adb reboot
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] _A 7 I F F:
Galaxy Note II

Can this apply to Samsung Galaxy Note II ?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] iSlaker:
I know this thread is quite old and apparently dead, but I'd be mostly grateful if anyone knows a solution to this problem. I changed the DPI to 520 via terminal and it's all fine except for the fact that I am losing a lot of screen real estate on the home screen and the app drawer. any ideas?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] jvtrigo:
Just use another launcher. I use nova launcher.

Enviado de meu SM-N910C usando Tapatalk