Cracked phone, looking for an app to resize the screen

[Hitesh Mantrala]

My screen fell on a hard concrete floor and cracked, but i felt lucky because i thought its just the bottom 1/10th part of the phone broke.. Its a Nexus 4
I cant press the Back, Home, and the switch app soft buttons and also i cant press probably a few other pixels (I cant type SMS because i cant click on the bottom row and so keyboard wont appear).
I think there should be some setting somewhere to fool around android to say that my screen size = 9/10th of the current screen size (the bottom 1/10th of the screen should be blank.)
If there is any such app or any setting in any custom ROM, it will help me greatly. Tried google, cant seem to find the proper keywords.

Mods, please move this to proper forum if this is in the wrong place.

PS. I dont want to buy a LCD+ screen digitizer now. It costs around $200. And it looks like i cant just buy a digitizer and getaway with it. LCD and Digitizer are sandwiched in nexus 4 and cant be seperated.

 

[Kavan Sidhu]

Not sure but the google is selling the nexus 5 for 350 (100 off retail) so maybe nows a good time to upgrade. And resell the old one for 100 or 150. Not a bad deal.

 

[patruns]

Not sure but the google is selling the nexus 5 for 350 (100 off retail) so maybe nows a good time to upgrade. And resell the old one for 100 or 150. Not a bad deal.

Who would pay $100 - $150 for a discontinued model with a semi functional cracked screen?

 

[Dwayne Richardson]

The best I can think of is an xposed module called "app settings". You mentioned custom roms so I'm assuming you're rooted. If u download and install xposed installer, which you can find in the xda forums, there is a module you can download called "app setttings" that allows you to change screen size, dpi, permissions, etc.

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