I’ll caveat this with the usual - this is not an official answer to the problem and this solution does allow a greater deal of access to the system than usual so you have to be your own judge as to whether to install the below. It’s not particularly risky, but anyone of a nervous disposition may want to think twice.
1) Install the Xposed Framework:
- Click on this link from your phone to download the Xposed Installer
APK, then click on the download to start the installer:
http://dl.xposed.info/latest.apk - Launch the “Xposed Installer” from the Apps menu
- Go to the “Framework” section and click on “Install/Update”
- Once the update has finished, click the “Reboot” button
2) Install the App Settings Module
- After rebooting from the above, Launch “Xposed Installer”
- Click on the “Download” section
- Scroll in the list to find “App Settings” and
click on it - Click on “Download”, then click on “Install” when you get a
pop-up. Then click on “Done” - Once installed, you’ll get a notification message on your status
bar saying that the module is not active. Click this message (or go
back to the main menu on the Xposed Installer and go into the
"Modules" section) - Click on the tick box next to “App Settings” to enable it
- Reboot
3) Configure the App Settings Module for Fairphone Launcher
- After rebooting go to All Apps and launch “App Settings”
- Scroll or Search for “Fairphone OS v2” and click on it
- Click on the On/Off button at the top to activate first
- Change the “DPI” to “225” (you can also play with other figures, the bigger you make it the bigger the icons will be. I think 240 is the default setting. If you play around with this, change it in small increments)
- Change the “Font Scale” to “95” (you can leave at 100 or change to a different figure depending upon your preference)
- I have also ticked “Apply res to widgets” so that it applies to widgets, but you don’t necessarily need to do this
- Click the “Save” button at the top right
- Click “OK” to Kill the app so that it relaunches with the new settings
- Now exit the App and the launcher should refresh and the new settings should be active
If you don’t like the results, you can play around with the DPI and Font Scale settings until it fits how you want it. If you really really don’t like it, simply disable the settings by clicking the On/Off button within the app again to disable.
Happy fiddling 