Your Honeycomb Tablet Has a Gingerbread UI
Honeycomb on its own not enough for you?
Google plans to eventually have both Android tablets and smartphones running Ice Cream Sandwich. However, until then, Google tablets are running the company’s tablet-optimized version of Android, Honeycomb, while phones are based on Gingerbread, aka Android 2.3.
However, those with tablet rocking Honeycomb needn’t feel left out of the Gingerbread fun. Pocketables reports modder Graffix0214 has discovered that bumping the pixel density (ppi) from 160 to higher than 170 will transform your rooted Honeycomb tablet into a Gingerbread tablet. You can use ‘LCDDensity for Root’ to tweak the dpi and toggle back and forth between Honeycomb and Gingerbread as much as you like.
Check the video to see this hack in action:
(via ElectricPig)
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Didn't everyone know this? We found out on the modaco blade forums as soon as someone got a bootable honeycomb working.Reply
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rohitbaran Can they just mention the OS version and do away with the junk food titles? It is really not very enlightening.Reply -
dark_lord69 Honeycomb, Gingerbread and now Ice Cream Sandwiches? I'm confused, are talking food or tablets?Reply -
I also noticed that NOTHING worked well while it was in "gingerbread UI" mode. Btw I don't think it was really gingerbread, just amping the pixel density forces the os to think its running on a small high density screen...therefore the UI changes.Reply
Nothing is actually stopping honeycomb from running on a smartphone, it COULD run right now if you wanted it to.
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