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[TIP] How To Enhance Screen Quality For Xoom [Updated: 9/5]

The Instructions:
Short, sweet, and straight to the point: So, here's what you do... you will want to download the app called Screen Filter with the market link provided below. After you do that, within the Screen Filter app you will want to drag that brightness bar to say 85.1% and then hit enable. This won't lower your current screen brightness very much so no worries there. You should hopefully notice a difference for the better all around, especially viewing from an odd angle. It helps to reduce that white backlight look you get from a side view. I will typically set the in app brightness to either 85.1%, 75.5%, or 72.5%, and my actual system brightness to 50%. It works quite well without being too bright or too dark. And it goes without draining much, if any battery life. Feel free to try other brightness settings to fit your personal needs.
Try it on other Android devices as well, it works great! The best way to test it out is to use the widget. You can turn it off and on while changing your viewing angle to compare and see the difference for yourself on your homescreens. Forget about a complicated method and get yourself a better screen today with Screen Filter!
Screen Filter Can Be Found Here:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.haxor&feature=search_result
Showing Off Side Angle View:
You will be able to notice that in the after screenshot the green bar across the top of the market app is quite a bit more vibrant and has more of a green color than the before screenshot. And you will also notice that the white back light color will be enhanced as well, giving a better appearance from the side viewing angles. A nifty little quick fix, if you will.
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After:
Screen Filter Known Issues Reported By Users:
*Being completely stock and using the stock system apps seems to be causing some major lag issues (Xoom)
*Cannot seem to click install when you are manually installing an apk without disabling (Xoom)
*Cannot compose emails without disabling (Nexus S)
You can add to this list. If you find anymore issues please post them here and I will add them to my list above. After we gather most/all issues that we are having I will let the dev know what we have found and we can make some positive results for all! Maybe we can even have some new features added in a new release. Once the Honeycomb source gets released and we start getting custom ROMs, expect user interface tweaks such as what you find in Cyanogenmod. Until then, use this. It's the easiest and best tool we have for now.
Note For Screen Filter:
This method may only be effective on the 3G version of the Xoom. It appears that it may not be noticeable as much, if at all on the Wifi model.
Make That High Def Screen Even Higher:
For this you will need to be a root user, and always be sure to have a current Nandroid backup handy just in case.
You will want to download the free app called LCD Resolution (Root). You can find it on the market here. Open the app, and then you will see your current density setting as well a list of density options for you to choose from. The default density value for the Xoom is 160. I do not recommend that you go below 140, as certain screen elements may become misaligned. Just dropping the value down by 10 to 150 makes a nice noticeable difference.
Basically: The default density value for the Xoom is 160. I recommend using either 150, or 140 as your density value and nothing less. I think 150 seems to be right where most people would want their screen to be if they wanted to go just a bit higher def. It makes the resolution a little nicer without going too overboard. After you choose your density setting, don't forget to check the "Always Set on Boot" box. This makes it so much easier so that you will not have to worry about setting this up with every single time you boot. Then hit apply, reboot your Xoom, and then make sure that the settings stick. Done!
Apply one of the density settings I have listed with one of the Screen Filter settings also listed for a nice effect. It's almost as if you have a whole new tablet when you combine the two!
Currently: I am using the 140 density value on my Xoom, and I couldn't be happier!
Default Density Value 160:
Density Value 150:
Density Value 140:
If these tips have helped you out toss me a thanks. If I get more positive feedback I will be adding some more great helpful tips for us Xoomers. Thanks for stopping by!

Thank you for a great tip. My Xoom screen look better now. This is why I love to visit XDA everyday.

Will check with Acer A500.

im not really seeing a difference.

patass said:
im not really seeing a difference.
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The difference is there. Try viewing from different angles instead of straight on and compare. I added my own screenshots of my Xoom just now and you should be able to see a nice difference from the before and after. This method really helps the side viewing angles a lot by reducing the white backlight that causes the screen to distort when not looking directly down on it. But it looks really great all around, not just from the side.

so what do i put the system brightness at? and what do I put the screen filter percentage at?

incrediblenotinstock said:
so what do i put the system brightness at? and what do I put the screen filter percentage at?
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You can customize and set it to whatever you like. Me, for normal usage I like to use 50% for the system brightness and 85.1% for the Screen Filter brightness. I think it works quite well this way without being too dark or too bright. I use this setting on both my Xoom and my OG Droid.

I see what your saying, the viewing angle is alot better now, thanks OP

wow, makes a huge difference for me, thanks
How does it impact battery usage at the 50/85?

Brolloks said:
wow, makes a huge difference for me, thanks
How does it impact battery usage at the 50/85?
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It really does not impact the battery life very much if at all. In fact it possibly might save a little bit of battery life if anything. I've been using this setup for months and it has been working great.

my home screen n browser seems laggy when using it. Anyone has the same issue with me?

omnia1994 said:
my home screen n browser seems laggy when using it. Anyone has the same issue with me?
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Yep...real laggy. Uninstalled

omnia1994 said:
my home screen n browser seems laggy when using it. Anyone has the same issue with me?
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Hmm.. interesting. I use it all the time without any kind of problem. What launcher and browser are you using? And are you stock or rooted?
I'm using both Adw Launcher and Launcher Pro depending on my mood and they both work great with Screen Filter enabled.. no lag of any kind. And my browser of choice is always Dolphin HD and it also works without any lag. I'm on a rooted 3.1 Xoom with the latest tiamat kernel. Maybe I can help solve the problem?

i am curious why one would jack their screen brightness up to 85% in the first place, 33% gets a perfectly view able screen indoors. Not to mention the savings wrt battery life.

Kokanee483 said:
i am curious why one would jack their screen brightness up to 85% in the first place, 33% gets a perfectly view able screen indoors. Not to mention the savings wrt battery life.
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The 85% is for filter not brightness.
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omnia1994 said:
my home screen n browser seems laggy when using it. Anyone has the same issue with me?
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Yep, nice for off angles but for sure adds all types of lag. Bonse stock 3.1 no root. Factory launcher... isn't their a color control like what's available for the Nexus S? You would think with the screen wash out complaints someone would have come up with an answer by now.

Just tested another app. Really liked the effect on off angles so I'm searching the market for other stuff. There is another app called back light filter. It alowsyou to adjust the Alpha levels along with individual colors. Have to tinker to find the best fit but no home screen lag.

lstrike said:
Just tested another app. Really liked the effect on off angles so I'm searching the market for other stuff. There is another app called back light filter. It alowsyou to adjust the Alpha levels along with individual colors. Have to tinker to find the best fit but no home screen lag.
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I've tested this app before and it's so so. Most users will want something easy to use without much tinkering or setup. It works pretty well through, but it could use some more features, it lacks a widget, and there is no notification bar icon for fast access. Good comment though. Maybe the people who are completly stock everything should give this a go since they are reporting lag issues.

I don't see any difference.
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diablo2224 said:
I've tested this app before and it's so so. Most users will want something easy to use without much tinkering or setup. It works pretty well through, but it could use some more features, it lacks a widget, and there is no notification bar icon for fast access. Good comment though. Maybe the people who are completly stock everything should give this a go since they are reporting lag issues.
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I agree with you on the simplicity of the app in the original post. If the developer can dial out the lag it is definately the best tool for screen filtering on the xoom. I just wish the OEMs would provide simple calibration tools for screens.

Is there any chance for lg v20 to reduce resolution from 2k to 1080p or 720p?

Hello everyone
Because i have found some phones used s820 (ZF3D/Pixel/mate 9 pro) playing game(whitecat project) without lag
some of the phones can set certain app to low resoltuion like htc 10 & mate 9 pro and it improves the performance.
so i want to ask is there any chance for v20 to reduce resolution from 2k to 1080p or 720p
thx

Have you tried the Game Batter Saver? One of the options within that Reduces the resolution for either all games or you can customize which game(s) get this battery saving feature.
Go to Settings>Battery and Power Saving>Game Battery Saver (Hit the 3 Dots . . . right next to the toggle to get all the options)
Otherwise I believe you can ADB push some commands to reduce the Density...I do not know the command though from memory.

As stated above, enable Game Battery Saver will let you play games in 1080P or 720P ( not sure which )
If you wanna change the whole phone to 1080P, you'll need SU access, and as a matter of fact I don't suggest you do that at all, LG stock ROM crashes when running 1080P.
Anyway, here's the command, run it in a terminal
su
wm size 1080x1920
wm density 480

G1Master said:
Have you tried the Game Batter Saver? One of the options within that Reduces the resolution for either all games or you can customize which game(s) get this battery saving feature.
Go to Settings>Battery and Power Saving>Game Battery Saver (Hit the 3 Dots . . . right next to the toggle to get all the options)
Otherwise I believe you can ADB push some commands to reduce the Density...I do not know the command though from memory.
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i had tried the game battery saver mode and it fixed the problem.
thanks for your help.

valest said:
As stated above, enable Game Battery Saver will let you play games in 1080P or 720P ( not sure which )
If you wanna change the whole phone to 1080P, you'll need SU access, and as a matter of fact I don't suggest you do that at all, LG stock ROM crashes when running 1080P.
Anyway, here's the command, run it in a terminal
su
wm size 1080x1920
wm density 480
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i had tried the game battery saver mode and it fixed the problem.
thanks for your help.

Glad it worked out for ya!

I'm messing around with the wm size and wm density commands because when I dock my v20 on a huge monitor the space is useless if I don't at least change the dpi. I came upon this thread because I was looking for a list of v20 resolutions that include the second screen, since if you do not include it in the resolution you get useless black boxes at the sides of your screen, since you need to account for extra space of the second screen. I realize the person who originally asked the question doesn't care about changing the resolution anymore, but for anyone else who does I wanted to explain this and say to try 1080x 2080 if you're looking for 1080x1920, due to the extra screen area. This accounts for 160 extra pixels and it all fits perfectly on my monitor. I actually can't wait to get to work to try this on one of our picky office monitors that will always reject my HDMI out because of it's odd resolution.
So in summary, V20 main screen resolution = Hx(W+160) = wm size 1080x2080 or adb shell wm size 1080x2080 if you're remote controlling the phone via adb rather than typing the command directly on the phone, which I like to do.

Keyosuke said:
I'm messing around with the wm size and wm density commands because when I dock my v20 on a huge monitor the space is useless if I don't at least change the dpi. I came upon this thread because I was looking for a list of v20 resolutions that include the second screen, since if you do not include it in the resolution you get useless black boxes at the sides of your screen, since you need to account for extra space of the second screen. I realize the person who originally asked the question doesn't care about changing the resolution anymore, but for anyone else who does I wanted to explain this and say to try 1080x 2080 if you're looking for 1080x1920, due to the extra screen area. This accounts for 160 extra pixels and it all fits perfectly on my monitor. I actually can't wait to get to work to try this on one of our picky office monitors that will always reject my HDMI out because of it's odd resolution.
So in summary, V20 main screen resolution = Hx(W+160) = wm size 1080x1920 or adb shell wm size 1080x1920 if you're remote controlling the phone via adb rather than typing the command directly on the phone, which I like to do.
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Thanks for your information.
If I want to rever to the original resolution, which command I should run.
I've tried with wm size 1440×2560 and wm density 513 but there is still a black space in the screen.
Thank you!
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Nevermind I found the information here.
$ adb shell wm
usage: wm [subcommand] [options]
wm size [reset|WxH]
wm density [reset|DENSITY]
wm overscan [reset|LEFT,TOP,RIGHT,BOTTOM

how do i add my games to the list apps. i open Settings>Battery and Power Saving>Game Battery Saver and only found one game. i've tried to refresh but cant find any other game

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how do i add my games to the list apps. i open Settings>Battery and Power Saving>Game Battery Saver and only found one game. i've tried to refresh but cant find any other game
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I can't even find one game after refresh. How can I add pubg. It lags a lot

alldine345 said:
how do i add my games to the list apps. i open Settings>Battery and Power Saving>Game Battery Saver and only found one game. i've tried to refresh but cant find any other game
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So you want to add the applications to the list, in order to improve the battery life, or you want to improve the performance of the application?
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I can't even find one game after refresh. How can I add pubg. It lags a lot
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If you want pubg to perform well, than you need to exclude the application from battery save list.
In Setting - General - Gaming, you can have some options there.

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So you want to add the applications to the list, in order to improve the battery life, or you want to improve the performance of the application?
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i want to improve the performance, since modern gaming like pubg lags a lot after several minutes playing. my cousins s7e with same sd820 have better performance because he had option for 1080p/720p on display setting
If you want pubg to perform well, than you need to exclude the application from battery save list.
In Setting - General - Gaming, you can have some options there.[/QUOTE]
why would we need to exclude. from what i read battery saver give us choice to reduce the resolution, that should boost the performance right?

If you want to change the resolution to FHD you can try at 1080x2080 so there is no blank screen at the bottom then change DPI.
But the secondary screen will be funny.

That's odd that PUBG is lagging for you, I can try to download it and test on my v20....me and a friend played together fine before both using cheap budget honor 6x phones with way less strong specs than the v20 has, you'd figure the flagship specced v20 could pretty much play any game flawless

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That's odd that PUBG is lagging for you, I can try to download it and test on my v20....me and a friend played together fine before both using cheap budget honor 6x phones with way less strong specs than the v20 has, you'd figure the flagship specced v20 could pretty much play any game flawless
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Yes. A flagship like v20 should perform well. Unfortunately it doesn't on pubg. Even at the lowest setting it lags.
I tried asphalt 9, it worked flawlessly.
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dvckbiz said:
So you want to add the applications to the list, in order to improve the battery life, or you want to improve the performance of the application?
If you want pubg to perform well, than you need to exclude the application from battery save list.
In Setting - General - Gaming, you can have some options there.
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From what I understood from the posts on this thread and what is mentioned in settings, By adding PUBG to the list it will run at a lower resolution(and lower FPS if you want). It won't throttle performance of the game. So game should be able to run smoother if resolution of the display is decreased for a particular game.
As for decreasing the resolution, I found this setting available on lg V30 plus on Oreo. You could change resolution in the stock rom easily. Let's hope we get it in some future update.

alldine345 said:
i want to improve the performance, since modern gaming like pubg lags a lot after several minutes playing. my cousins s7e with same sd820 have better performance because he had option for 1080p/720p on display setting
If you want pubg to perform well, than you need to exclude the application from battery save list.
In Setting - General - Gaming, you can have some options there.
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why would we need to exclude. from what i read battery saver give us choice to reduce the resolution, that should boost the performance right?[/QUOTE]
aakashverma0007 said:
Yes. A flagship like v20 should perform well. Unfortunately it doesn't on pubg. Even at the lowest setting it lags.
I tried asphalt 9, it worked flawlessly.
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From what I understood from the posts on this thread and what is mentioned in settings, By adding PUBG to the list it will run at a lower resolution(and lower FPS if you want). It won't throttle performance of the game. So game should be able to run smoother if resolution of the display is decreased for a particular game.
As for decreasing the resolution, I found this setting available on lg V30 plus on Oreo. You could change resolution in the stock rom easily. Let's hope we get it in some future update.
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To be honest I tried with/without the battery saver for game and issue is still the same.
I thought the issue would be resolved with Oreo updated but unfortunately not.
So I tried to change the screen resolution by wm size 720x1280 / wm size 1080x1920 and all of this doesn't work for PUBG Mobile

dvckbiz said:
why would we need to exclude. from what i read battery saver give us choice to reduce the resolution, that should boost the performance right?
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To be honest I tried with/without the battery saver for game and issue is still the same.
I thought the issue would be resolved with Oreo updated but unfortunately not.
So I tried to change the screen resolution by wm size 720x1280 / wm size 1080x1920 and all of this doesn't work for PUBG Mobile [/QUOTE]
Lol that's sad. I was also waiting for Oreo update, hoping for the same. Maybe it will get fixed with some future PUBG update. No matter how much thermal throttling happens. LG v20 should be able to pubg without lag at least on the lowest settings, if it can run Ashphalt 9 without lag

I remember reading thermal throttling is an issue with the v20, supposedly only switching to a custom kernal will help. I've never personally done the whole custom rom thing so I couldn't help on that lol.
I'm honestly biding time until next month when oreo will supposedly come to the att/verizon version v20's...it's already out on the sprint variant iirc, some claim it made the v20 into a whole new phone and very smooth, others reported problems. I have noticed some major lag and hitching when waking the phone up from sleep or taking it off the charger first thing in the morning when I go to check notifications. I have a bit of soul searching to do on what my next phone shall be, people always swore the Pixels were good, I just don't know if the cheaper 32gb model would be enough for me...I suppose pics would be a non issue storage wise thx to google photos so maybe the 32gb and no sd card slot is possible to work out in the end.
I just know basically with the specs the v20 has being a slightly older flagship not even 2 years old yet, that it should perform better than it does, battery life has always been a bit blah too. I was busy yesterday so I didn't get a chance to DL PUBG but I'll do it now to test it. I've noticed little hitches and glitches/lag in daily uses here and there even with the animations and stuff set to 0.5x in the dev options. After a little reading online, many claimed doze is the source of lag on the v20, they claimed they got no better battery life using doze vs an old galaxy note 4 that didn't even have doze on its older OS.
is there a stable custom rom/kernal combo that's similar to vanilla android that would be easy to flash for a first time beginner? I'm willing to try that...I know you have to root the phone, unlock the bootloader, get the custom recovery, then DL and install the rom, I think that's it right...? I've watched a youtube vid before but I've never even had a flagship android previously, only budget/mid range phones, so...I never had one that could even be rooted/bootloader unlocked....
I heard all those 1 click cloud chinese based root apps will instantly compromise all the info on the phone so I'd never wanna use those

If you guys are having performance issues have you tried changing the thermal paste inside the phone? I changed mine out and the stock stuff was horrible. It was basically a dry crusted block. It's made a noticeable difference playing games. I haven't tried PUBG yet but I play Honkai impact 3rd and it runs flawlessly at low and mid resolution. If I out it on high it runs decent enough but it stutters more often especially with lot of action going on.
Also I'm running MK2000 BTTF custom kernel and it's made a big difference compared to stock kernel game wise.
Has anyone figured out why the LG game battery saver thing doesn't detect all games yet? It's very random. I've had plenty of games installed and it only detects my PPSSPP emulator app as a game lol nothing else. Ive tried clearing data on the battery saver apk and reinstalling stuff and it's very random. Think the last time I remember it detecting every single game I had properly was back on 10J arb0 firmware for my H918. Now I'm on 10u arb1 so I can't go back.
{{{EDIT}}}} for PUBG there is also this GFX app tool that let's you tweak PUBG setting a little more not sure if anyone has seen it: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.tsoml.graphicssettings

@aakashverma0007
Just downloaded the game to try it out and the game ran fine on mine at these settings. It actually recommended medium but i bumped it up to high to see. It was perfectly playable. Played one game took like 10-15 minutes or so and then frame rate stayed a pretty stable 45-60. It only dipped below 30 in the pre game area when everyone was loading in to the game. In fact this runs better than my Xbox one does lol. The game saver thing was turned to base optimization as I couldn't get the custom setting to read any of my games.
By the way, it might have been just matchmaking issues idk but this game is ridiculously easy on mobile lol. I literally killed 15 people and won just sniping with the Tommy gun. I only played a few games but it seems people have an issue moving while aiming on mobile and I have never won a game on the Xbox lol

Frame Drops like hell

Can anyone please report if they are seeing lots of crazy frame drops on this phone? I'm running rooted Xxx No Limits, but have observed the same on Elemental OS too. When you turn on 'Profile GPU Rendering' in the Developer Settings to 'On screen bars', I see a crazy amount of frame drops every where. I bought this phone because it is suppose to offer the best smoothness and performance rivaling only the Pixel, specially after the fantastic 3T. Attached are some images showing the frame drops on even mundane tasks like scrolling Settings menu. Is anyone else seeing this behavior?
I use Action Launcher, but can anyone report if they see this on their stock launcher or other launchers?
PS: The phone 'seems' smooth and fast when doing these tasks. It doesn't seem to slow down and drop frames like crazy like an S8 or G6, which can be seen with the naked eye. It's only when I turn on GPU profiling that I can detect these frame drops. Is the GPU profiling reporting 'broken' and incorrectly reporting lots of frame drops? I'm confused.

Hey, I just checked and I got the exact same results, maybe even a bit more drops than you do. I'm using the stock launcher. Phone is absolutely smooth aside from that. I'm not sure, but this may be in correspondence with the jelly-scrolling issue? I'm not sure if I'm affected though, if yes, the jelly effect is minimal.
Are you affected by the jelly scrolling?

Chaphasilor said:
Hey, I just checked and I got the exact same results, maybe even a bit more drops than you do. I'm using the stock launcher. Phone is absolutely smooth aside from that. I'm not sure, but this may be in correspondence with the jelly-scrolling issue? I'm not sure if I'm affected though, if yes, the jelly effect is minimal.
Are you affected by the jelly scrolling?
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I don't see the jelly scrolling effect on my phone. I'm not sure if this frame drop issue and the jelly scrolling effect are related. Its interesting to know that you see a lot more frame drops in the rendering.

i agreed with you, for this phone having the latest 835 which is suppose to give a straight line of performance (no frame drops) yet i see a lot of those

what the hell is going on with this phone ...

i dont know if its the phone or the softwere but im so returning, the only reason i bought was because of the 835 and because its was the latest and will give you continues performance, its all a lie

Probably because the screen is upside down!

B3501 said:
Probably because the screen is upside down!
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ha! True!
Its a cheap chinese knock off phone

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ha! True!
Its a cheap chinese knock off phone
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100%

Just tested on a Galaxy S8 and that graph looks even worst!!!!
What's happening?!?! Snap 835 is the culprit?
But I've seen a review with the HTC U11 and it doesn't do this.

Yeah mine is far from smooth as well, dunno,it just does not scroll smooth, my Nexus 5 on MIUI is soooo much smoother, way less frame drops.. I suppose theissue will vanish with the right ROM / Optmization, perhaps changing to a different CPU governor could help already..

Is this really a big deal if you can't see it until you run this log that shows you its happening?

atistang said:
Is this really a big deal if you can't see it until you run this log that shows you its happening?
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People are like: "I didn't know I had a problem until I ran this app now I'm like O..M..G!". These people can't be for real. They should try standing on there heads, looking in a mirror, with the phone upside down.. see how it scores.

zone23 said:
People are like: "I didn't know I had a problem until I ran this app now I'm like O..M..G!". These people can't be for real. They should try standing on there heads, looking in a mirror, with the phone upside down.. see how it scores.
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Its like the Jelly scrolling thing. I bet 85% of the people *****ing about it haven't even held a OP5. I watched those videos and then paid close attention to my 6P, guess what? It does the same damn thing!
About the only real issues I have seen are the WiFi and autobrightness issues, and camera performance. The WiFi seems to have been fixed and the camera could and most likely will be improved... I hope.
And from what I have seen out of the camera isn't bad, but it is very average for a phone bought 2 years ago. I just believe the hardware is much more capable of better results.

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Its like the Jelly scrolling thing. I bet 85% of the people *****ing about it haven't even held a OP5. I watched those videos and then paid close attention to my 6P, guess what? It does the same damn thing!
About the only real issues I have seen are the WiFi and autobrightness issues, and camera performance. The WiFi seems to have been fixed and the camera could and most likely will be improved... I hope.
And from what I have seen out of the camera isn't bad, but it is very average for a phone bought 2 years ago. I just believe the hardware is much more capable of better results.
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I'm right there with you brother.. The auto brightness has been a "real" issue for me. I have not had the jelly thing but then again I didn't go looking for it. The camera? Well I took what I though were some really nice looking photos over the 4th.

atistang said:
Is this really a big deal if you can't see it until you run this log that shows you its happening?
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zone23 said:
People are like: "I didn't know I had a problem until I ran this app now I'm like O..M..G!". These people can't be for real. They should try standing on there heads, looking in a mirror, with the phone upside down.. see how it scores.
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Thank god I am not the only one, reading through some of the threads I am starting to feel like I am the crazy here. People are like "The phone is smooth but this tool is showing frame drops, **** Oneplus, I am returning this phone."

So they will return a 500€ flagship which runs smooth and they dont notice lags without a tool? They expect that the CPU is the cause of frame drops?
Seriously, this must be a joke. Its just looking for a problem when you dont have one.
I do notice the jelly scrolling, but its minimal, so its kinda cool, like a subtle animation.
Camera could be better but nobody can say its bad, they just overhyped it and didn't meet expectation.
Battery life is like out of this world, I got 8h of SoT, good luck on other phones with that.
No other issues were encountered in the meantime. Perfect phone.

I get drops with the launcher, inc app drawer but it's not significant. I'm currently using a custom kernel as well.
Here's Chrome:

stebsgb1 said:
I get drops with the launcher, inc app drawer but it's not significant. I'm currently using a custom kernel as well.
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The screenshot you have posted doesn't show any frame drops. Can you let e know what kernel you are using?

Here are my rom and kernel details. No governor settings changes etc, I'm just using the kernel out-the-box.

Screen resolution change ?

I see that samsungs and v30 got the option to change screen resolution to save battery. Is that option in the G6? (I currently got an LG G2 and want to upgrade)

No all we got is the option to change the acpect ratios for the apps
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I wouls like to know if its possible to do so somehow.....for gaming my phone overheats and starts throttling.... If i would run 1080p it should run smooter..
I am not rooted

Hunteres said:
I wouls like to know if its possible to do so somehow.....for gaming my phone overheats and starts throttling.... If i would run 1080p it should run smooter..
I am not rooted
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That's exactly why Im asking. Its a shame if you cant tune down the resolution and loose performance. Perhaps a custom rom may steal that function from the v30 now that is released.
My LG G2 never get hot. I wonder why new cellphones got this problem.

Yeh my phone geta hot after 15 min and loose fps....almost to unplayable state.... I need underclock cpu or lower resolution.... To keep it little more cool

shagratt said:
That's exactly why Im asking. Its a shame if you cant tune down the resolution and loose performance. Perhaps a custom rom may steal that function from the v30 now that is released.
My LG G2 never get hot. I wonder why new cellphones got this problem.
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Just tried the otpion from battery settings...game battery saver..custom. And for the game i play (mobile legends) i lovered resolution to minimum and i lovered the fps as well.. Its much much better.... But will test it more... It says resolution lovered .... So i asume it must be doing something... As i am sure we cant notice 2k and 1080p drop on such a small screen....but cpu should stay cooler... Test it as well and let me know how you get on...please
Note i launch the game from the menu itself...by choosing option play....

Hunteres said:
Just tried the otpion from battery settings...game battery saver..custom. And for the game i play (mobile legends) i lovered resolution to minimum and i lovered the fps as well.. Its much much better.... But will test it more... It says resolution lovered .... So i asume it must be doing something... As i am sure we cant notice 2k and 1080p drop on such a small screen....but cpu should stay cooler... Test it as well and let me know how you get on...please
Note i launch the game from the menu itself...by choosing option play....
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I think that only works with 3d applications but not affect daily use in wich the cpu/gpu need to move full screen resolution.

shagratt said:
That's exactly why Im asking. Its a shame if you cant tune down the resolution and loose performance. Perhaps a custom rom may steal that function from the v30 now that is released.
My LG G2 never get hot. I wonder why new cellphones got this problem.
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I think that only works with 3d applications but not affect daily use in wich the cpu/gpu need to move full screen resolution.
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Doesnt say anything about 3d
..did you test it mate?
It seems that it defo makes a difference

Hunteres said:
Doesnt say anything about 3d
..did you test it mate?
It seems that it defo makes a difference
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I still dont own the phone so cant test it but see a few videos/reviews about it and it render games at lower resolution. But only that, games, so all other drawing functions from normal aplications are not afected. It works as intended and indeed it help a lot in fast demanding games (like racing, shooters ,etc)

Yes like you said...did today hevay gaming over 1 hour.... No heat like before....warm yes...but no even close to it.... The resolution is noticeably lower..but i went to max fps and min res....
Defo a good feature...better then lower all res....
Cheers

I havent had any heating issues with g6. But resolution change would a thing nice to see with oreo update.

shagratt said:
I see that samsungs and v30 got the option to change screen resolution to save battery. Is that option in the G6? (I currently got an LG G2 and want to upgrade)
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I bet we gonna get this in oreo update

https://goo.gl/UKaif3 This will help for the resolution but you have to be rooted

Oreo should bring resolution change option.

Non-rooted option: search Google for adb shell wm size and adb shell wm density commands. I haven't tried the size command but density gave me little bit nicer look and feel.

Bit of an old thread, but right now I'm running this res for better game performance:
adb shell
wm size 1080x2160
wm density 480
Notice that this causes the viewfinder in the stock camera app to be zoomed in and you won't be able to see the full image being captured. But I use the ported Google Camera which doesn't suffer from the problem.

https://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g6/how-to/guide-best-battery-life-t3735720
here it is step by step with example for our loved G6... I didn't try it tho, and if you do, do it at your own risk!
can't wait to see if any of you isn't such coward, tries it, and tell us that it makes wonders for battery and heating....
edit: found the post here on XDA with the step-by-step guide!! give it a try someone!

Force any app to run at 120hz and 60hz when youre using apps you dont desire this opt

Import this little profile here to tasker
PLEASE TRY IT WITH QHD
Follow the steps within profile
Beta 2 will theorically will let you run strictly on 60hz and will run you back to 120 whenever you open an app that you desire to be refreshing at 120
Needed
Tasker
Patient
Knowledge on how to run adb commands until there's root.
If it isn't being force on let's say Gmaps but it is set to 120hz most likely it will drop down to 60 to save battery. And this can happen with other apps as well.
Please enjoy and report back.
Update Beta V2
https://taskernet.com/shares/?user=...WrgmW2Mlw=&id=Profile:Selective+120hz+Per+App

gmaps is garbage, especially the navigation it doesnt even run at 20fps, i am still using old maps pre big update where the navigation was separate

suffeks said:
gmaps is garbage, especially the navigation it doesnt even run at 20fps, i am still using old maps pre big update where the navigation was separate
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Does it even run smoothly on pixels? It never ran smoothly on any of my phones, especially when zooming out during navigation, pathetic.

Has anyone successfully used this yet? I'm more interested in tying it to the power mode like high performance or optimized. Is that possible?

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Does it even run smoothly on pixels? It never ran smoothly on any of my phones, especially when zooming out during navigation, pathetic.
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Yes it runs smoothly on pixel 4

I'm using this and working very well. Running all apps besides video playback apps and gmaps at 120hz.
Takes a second or 2 for refresh rate to change but I think this is a great idea in general, app controllable refresh rate

jasons1004 said:
Running all apps besides video playback apps
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Damn this is what I wanted... I've never had tasker and don't know how to use it and don't want to buy it just to test something to find out it doesn't work at the end. Can you please test if the video app kodi can be run at 120hz please?

chieco said:
Damn this is what I wanted... I've never had tasker and don't know how to use it and don't want to buy it just to test something to find out it doesn't work at the end. Can you please test if the video app kodi can be run at 120hz please?
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It should
Download the profile and import to tasker
Pick which apps you want to run in each and you're good to go.
That being said I installed kodi and it seems like 120hz.
Easy to tell 120 from 60.
I don't think worth running video playback apps in 120 as video won't run in 120 anyway.

I don't understand how to import this into Tasker. When I click on the link from my phone, it doesn't give me the option to open it with Tasker. Is there any way you can post the actual file here?

steelersmb said:
I don't understand how to import this into Tasker. When I click on the link from my phone, it doesn't give me the option to open it with Tasker. Is there any way you can post the actual file here?
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When you click link in thread, click import and then click yes, this should open in tasker. Then you click on choose apps and pick which apps to run in 120 and rest go to 60.
You have installed tasker right?

I don't think this is working at all for me. There's a noticeable difference when I enable/disable the setting manually regardless of whether the Tasker profile is applying (which it says it is).

peachpuff said:
Does [google maps] even run smoothly on pixels? It never ran smoothly on any of my phones, especially when zooming out during navigation, pathetic.
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Someone said it does and they're wrong. It seems to run at about 15-30fps, just verified on my Pixel 4XL.
Places where this is evident are any in-app animations, for example if you tap on your blue location dot, it will animate to fill the screen with blue. Or if you search a location and tap its card, it will animate to pull the card up. Or you can just fling the map around. There's no way anybody with decent vision can confuse this with 60fps let along 120fps.

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Please enjoy and report back.
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Hi Kev,
first of all thank you for the thread's and tasker profile regarding the 120Hz tingz!
The 120Hz experience on the S20 line imho is ULTRA disappointing!
Not the Display itself but more the way stupid Sammy implemented it Software wise.
First disappointment, the limitation of only FHD+
but this was known even before the S20 line was officially announced so I actively decided to look pass that. Even though most people say FHD+ is enough and you don't see any pixels or whatever, I have to say coming from a S10 with a smaller display and and higher dpi, I do notice how much softer the image quality on the S20+ is! It's noticeably less sharp.
The Second disappointment no one warned me about is the fact that half of the apps revert back to 60Hz!!!
No one told me this! and I ****ing hate this. Maybe I was naive, maybe it's the fact that I had no experience with a phone that has a high refresh rate display, but to my understanding if I set my phones display to 120Hz, everything, the UI and all apps would be displayed @*120Hz! But no! this already is like on the leaked Firmware Screenshot wich shows the "Dynamic" option in the middle! it's not locked.
Just shows again how important root is. The ability to take control of the device you own and not giving control to stupid Sammy dev's...
Your method with tasker works fine, but I had no experience with tasker prior and I only using it during it's trial period. After the trial ends, I'm not going to buy the full version.
Is there maybe a adb command that can globally set the phone to a fixed 120Hz refresh rate? Since I don't need a per app selection.
again thank you for this tasker profile so far.

Thanks for the profile! But there is one issue: it's works only once for my S20, then after launching few apps refresh rate drops to 60Hz ((( Even rebooting my phone doesn't help (