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hey guys it's Brandon him in from pocketnow.com every screen that you see has a resolution meaning the number of pixels down by the number of pixels across it determines how things look on the screen the clarity of icons the size of icons the general use of screen space if you have a rooted android phone you can actually change the resolution of your phone to get better use out of every pixel on your screen and in this video we're going to show you how to use LCD resolution to change the pixel density of your phone let's get to it now your Android phone has to be rooted in order to force the DPI to be something different than it ships with so if your phone is not rooted go over to xda-developers or another android development community and root your phone so you get super user permission now this also works a lot better if you're doing it on a phone that has a high resolution display for example this is the Samsung Galaxy Note it's got 1280 down by eight hundred across you've got a lot of pixels to work with so when you make things smaller by changing the pixel density you can still see the icons other great phones to do this with would include now the Samsung Galaxy Nexus the LG nitro HD the HTC Rezound anything that goes beyond that WVGA 800 by 480 screen will really you'll be able to do some cool stuff with so let's change the screen resolution we're using an app here called LCD resolution it's free in the Android Market and literally it's a slider that lets you change the resolution by default we've got a 320 dpi pixel density on the galaxy note let's change this a little bit let's go down to 290 and we're going to reboot you're going to see how everything is going to get smaller and more space efficient ok here we are and what you'll notice immediately is everything smaller on the screen you can fit more on the screen at one time even the Android notification bar up here has become more skinny there's more space between the icons and thus we could add more if we wanted to and you can see more things on the screen at one time a better use of the display in my opinion when you go into your other applications for example the settings you get to see more settings on the screen at one time it goes all the way down to privacy now let's bump the dpi up even higher let's go all the way down to 240 things start to break when you go much below that especially on the galaxy note here the Android Market may not work the phone dialer doesn't work so there's a balance that you have to strike to get the right dpi that works for you and your device ok here we are at 240 dpi the icons are even smaller more stuff is on the screen the Android notification bar up here is much smaller it takes up a very small portion of the screen if we go into settings we can see down to language and keyboard even a little bit into voice and input so you really get to maximize my screen space but if you go into the dialer for example it's kind of broken and if you go into the Android Market certain apps won't work on your device because your device is telling the market that it has a screen resolution that is not a phone it's not a tablet it just doesn't work with anything so the sweet spot on this particular device I think would be an LCD resolution of around 300 but you'll you have to mess around on your device to see what works for you and let's see what happens when we change the resolution of the Samsung Galaxy s2 we've got a lower res 800 by 480 display we're running a third-party launcher here ADW launcher e^x because TouchWiz doesn't like when you change the DPI unless you apply a patch to it so by default we're at 240 let's go down to 180 and you'll see what happens okay here we are we're back we've got more space on our home screen again the Android notification shit-shit takes up less of the screen so really you're you're getting to see more screen contents here and ADW launcher works very well with the higher ppi let's go much higher than that and see what we can do with a really really really tiny a very very small density 198 let's go back and see what it looks like ok and now things are kind of unusable you can barely read the notification tray up there everything's super small but of course this means that you could fit probably 40 icons on your homescreen if you wanted to but everything else works pretty well if we go into settings you get to see almost every setting in one view that's kind of the beauty of changing your pixels pixel density setting you can take advantage of the screen space to a higher degree than it comes with from the factory so again the program's called LCD resolution you must be rooted to use this and it's a lot of fun especially if you have an Android phone with a higher resolution screen check it out and let us know what you think let us know what is a perfect dpi setting is for your particular device and give this video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it thanks for watching that's it for now