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Android screen resolution?
1manonthebog
10-04-2016
I will try and explain this the best I can, it may also sound a bit stupid. I am coming from an iPhone 6, on the iPhone you have 2 displaying settings, normal and zoomed, zoomed is what it says it makes everything zoomed in and I never liked it much.

Now the issue I face is this, my Moto X seems to be zoomed, zoomed makes everything bigger but you are getting less information on the screen, I would rather icons text etc smaller and being able to fit more on the screen, you can do this on an iPhone with PPI of 326 so it should be possible on a display with of 403ppi. I went into Facebook for example, for a big display like this phone has it only managed to display 1 post on timeline, it should be able to display 2-3, its just zoomed in to far. Granted it would be great if you're half blind as it makes everything easier to read but I want it smaller. If you take an iPhone 6+ vs say the iPhone 5, you get 2 extra rows of icons. On this phone you get nothing more on screen than you would with say the original moto g with 4.5" screen.

Anyone know what I'm on about?
aldoH82
10-04-2016
You can change the font size in display settings but this will not effect the number of icons on the screen. For that you will need to download an alternative launcher from the play store such as Nova which allows you to change icon size and the number of icons on the screen. I believe display scaling is coming in the next version of android
1manonthebog
10-04-2016
Originally Posted by aldoH82:
“You can change the font size in display settings but this will not effect the number of icons on the screen. For that you will need to download an alternative launcher from the play store such as Nova which allows you to change icon size and the number of icons on the screen. I believe display scaling is coming in the next version of android”

Yes display scaling was the term I was looking for.
biggyt
10-04-2016
Lower your dpi. It can be done via adb or if you have a rooted phone there are a few apps to do it
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