Make the Icons Larger on Your Rooted Nook Color

The stock Android screen on your rooted Nook Color is set to the density of 169.33333. Since this is not related to screen resolution which is hardware based - it is something that you can easily modify to make the screen icons and menus bigger - to look more like the Galaxy Tab.

This fix requires Root Explorer. It is not a free app - but worth every penny. When you open Root Explorer, you'll need to make the file writable by clicking on the Mount R/W button at the top of the page.
To do this mod open Root Explorer, Click on System. From there, click on the button at the top of the page to change Mount R/O to Mount R/W. From there long hold on the build.prop file. You should now see a menu - click on Open in Text Editor. The keyboard will also pop up when you open this file. Scroll down to two lines: ro.sf.lcd_density.xdpi=169.33333 and under it ro.sf.lcd_density.ypdi=169.3333. Place a # sign at the beginning of each of these lines. The # sign in front of the line of text deactivates the line. Three lines up from there should see a line with ro.sf.lcd_density=250 or something close to this number. Remove the # sign from the beginning of this line. You can try different numbers and choose what works best for you. Then click the menus key and then click on Save and Exit. Press the home key to get back to your home screen. After that all you need to do is reboot your Nook.

The Nook screen icons will be much bigger now as well as the Nook menu bar at the bottom of the screen. Some parts of it will be cut off such as notifications and the clock. My solution is to use the Zeam theme and run it in full screen. I've also remapped the volume keys - volume up is now menu and volume down is the back key. I installed volumer++ to control volume and the hello status bar app and placed icons for both on the home screen. Hello status bar allows you to see your notifications.

This mod is totally reversible. Just remove the # signs from the ro.sf.lcd_density.xdpi=169.33333 and ro.sf.lcd_density.ypdi=169.3333 and ADD the # sign back in front of the ro.sf.lcd_density=250 line. Save and reboot.

Good Luck and Enjoy! But use at your own risk.

This and many other work-arounds can be found at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=889951. A big thanks to wvcachi for posting this.

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[justmuah000]

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