Best DPI setting?

[Guest listentochaos]

If you're rooted what DPI setting do you find the best?

[Guest iain26]

i find 260 to be a good size

[Guest]

I've set mine to 240 as this is one of the "generalized" DPI settings as documented here https://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html and https://www.captechconsulting.com/blog/steven-byle/understanding-density-independence-android

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Edited December 14, 2014 by Guest

[Guest seanspotatobusiness]

Does the improve performance/battery life? I'd imagine it can't look quite right.

[Guest Rusty!]

It's just the equivalent of bumping up the screen resolution on your PC.

 

Also, you don't need to root to change you DPI

 

adb shell wm density xxx

Edited December 15, 2014 by Rusty!

[Guest seanspotatobusiness]

 

It's just the equivalent of bumping up the screen resolution on your PC.

 

Also, you don't need to root to change you DPI

adb shell wm density xxx

 

I guess most people keep their flatscreen monitors running at their native resolutions though.

[Guest]

It's more suttle than that - you always have the same screen resolution, but the relative size of the icons / text etc are either increased or reduced.

 

Reducing the DPI setting enables smaller icons etc i.e. more can be seen on the screen. With a high resolution 'small' screen you can slightly reduce icon detail etc (based on your perception / preference) but generate increased useable screen area.

 

Hence a reduction in the default DPI down to a very usable 240 has increased my effective useable screen size - although the overall screen resolution has never changed.

 

Similar results (for on-screen icons) can also be gained by customisable launchers like Apex Launcher - where you can 'scale' on-screen icon sizes - but this won't adjust text and menu sizes etc. :ninja: