cacoe Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Smart-S1-Android-Tablet-RK3066-performance/dp/B009JT0KOE Quoted resolution is 800*480 But everything on the screen seems stretched. It's as though it isn't running the native resolution. Circles become ovals, squares become rectangles and text is quite clearly taller than it's supposed to be. Any ideas how to fix this? Even if it means rooting it and editing some files? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airedwin Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 "cheap" "android tablet" <- there's your problem Tews, SMELTN, siah1214 and 4 others 7 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleNeutrino Veteran Posted December 27, 2012 Veteran Share Posted December 27, 2012 can you provide a screen shot? Just press and hold the Volume Down and Power buttons at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cacoe Posted December 27, 2012 Author Share Posted December 27, 2012 can you provide a screen shot? Just press and hold the Volume Down and Power buttons at the same time. The screenshot will most likely look correct because it will be displayed at your display's native resolution, therefor looking correct :| AJerman 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arachno 1D Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 Modify it to look like a Nexus 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cacoe Posted December 27, 2012 Author Share Posted December 27, 2012 Oh and it seems that the problem is more pronounced in portrait mode Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cacoe Posted December 27, 2012 Author Share Posted December 27, 2012 Looks fine on other screens see! So the display is either: Higher resolution than they state and it scales the UI down, or the opposite... Hmmm.... Modify it to look like a Nexus 7 Already did this btw, I didn't intend to make mine look like a nexus 7 but with that launcher, I thought it sort of did :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RatherLargeBear Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 Take a photo of it with a digital camera or phone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detection Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 Factory reset ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cacoe Posted December 27, 2012 Author Share Posted December 27, 2012 Take a photo of it with a digital camera or phone? Perspective correction applied to photo, next to screenshot: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Montage Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 And you've not messed with DPI settings or such? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cacoe Posted December 27, 2012 Author Share Posted December 27, 2012 And you've not messed with DPI settings or such? No, but I have just looked into it, not sure if it would fix anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grabageek Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 Maybe your tablet exists in a different space and time and things appear different there to the human eye................... "Come on guys work with me here I am making this S#!T up as I go along" :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arachno 1D Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 Did you have a look through the settings menu for a stretch image or similar option? EDIT or in the viewer software that your using. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Montage Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 ^ Raises a good question: Is it just in this app, or throughout? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cacoe Posted December 27, 2012 Author Share Posted December 27, 2012 Did you have a look through the settings menu for a stretch image or similar option? EDIT or in the viewer software that your using. It's apparent when using the device that everything is stretched, I just opened firefox with that circle image to make it easier to see. It's even clear that the circle you drag to unlock is elongated too. The only thing I can see with display options that are relevant are for HDMI and they dont seem to affect the actual devices screen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giannisgx89 Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 I think you may got a bad screen tablet cause it look fine in the video here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cacoe Posted December 27, 2012 Author Share Posted December 27, 2012 I think you may got a bad screen tablet cause it look fine in the video here Yours does look right :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cacoe Posted December 29, 2012 Author Share Posted December 29, 2012 I think the best way to describe the problem is as though it's trying to display everything at 4:3 and then stretching it to 16:9, that's why the stretching is more pronounced in portrait mode... :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detection Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 I think the best way to describe the problem is as though it's trying to display everything at 4:3 and then stretching it to 16:9, that's why the stretching is more pronounced in portrait mode... :/ Did you try a factory reset in the end? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cacoe Posted December 30, 2012 Author Share Posted December 30, 2012 Did you try a factory reset in the end? No but I found another forum where someone described the exact same issue. They put it down to the fact that jelly bean doesn't expect such a low resolution to begin with so the maker of the device must have done some weird scaling/stretching trick for it to work at all :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detection Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 No but I found another forum where someone described the exact same issue. They put it down to the fact that jelly bean doesn't expect such a low resolution to begin with so the maker of the device must have done some weird scaling/stretching trick for it to work at all :/ Seems strange, I've never seen any hacks that allow resolution change for Android, only LCD Density modding from /system/build.prop EDIT - Probably the same forum you found but explains the issue http://androidforums...80-tablets.html Someone managed to find some settings you can change but so far has not fixed it http://stackoverflow...ok-like-ellipsi lcd_dclk_freq = 33 lcd_if = 0 lcd_hbp = 46 lcd_ht = 1055 lcd_vbp = 23 lcd_vt = 1050 At a guess I would say V=Vertical and H=Horizontal You'd need root to edit those files though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cacoe Posted December 30, 2012 Author Share Posted December 30, 2012 Seems strange, I've never seen any hacks that allow resolution change for Android, only LCD Density modding from /system/build.prop EDIT - Probably the same forum you found but explains the issue http://androidforums...80-tablets.html Someone managed to find some settings you can change but so far has not fixed it http://stackoverflow...ok-like-ellipsi lcd_dclk_freq = 33 lcd_if = 0 lcd_hbp = 46 lcd_ht = 1055 lcd_vbp = 23 lcd_vt = 1050 At a guess I would say V=Vertical and H=Horizontal You'd need root to edit those files though Oh well, at least it's my girlfriends and not mine :) Still annoying but I'll be getting a tablet with 1280x800 :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detection Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 Oh well, at least it's my girlfriends and not mine :) Still annoying but I'll be getting a tablet with 1280x800 :D Yea, mine is 1280x800, I tried looking for that file on mine but seems its not there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellowcream Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 maybe you need update it with a software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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