Since I've had my GN I've noticed some weird lag between the button push and the screen transition, most notably on my Settings app. It seems like the phone waits for the button "glow" animation to finish before initiating the transition into the next screen.
For example, say I'm in settings and want to check out the battery page. I push the battery button and for about a half second, maybe more, it plays out the glow animation (glow light blue and fade back to the original darker blue) and then makes the transition. What makes me curious is that the glow animation doesn't seem do be as smooth as it should and the choppy framerate might be the culprit from allowing it to go to the next screen.
I ran into a similar issue when I was playing around with the Developer Options and set the Transition Animation Scale to 5x and all of a sudden my lock screen and menu animations slowed down considerably.
Has anyone else seen this issue? I know it seems small, but every detail counts!
jumpinghooligans said:
I ran into a similar issue when I was playing around with the Developer Options and set the Transition Animation Scale to 5x and all of a sudden my lock screen and menu animations slowed down considerably.
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What did you expect to happen? That's what the scaling DOES. That's not an issue, that's expected behavior.
copkay said:
What did you expect to happen? That's what the scaling DOES. That's not an issue, that's expected behavior.
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I understand this, I was just using it as an example to best convey the behavior I'm getting with the buttons. Like I said before it seems like the animation has slowed down very similar to when I slowed down the scaling animations. That puzzled me until I set it back to 1x but there is no such setting with button animations which is why I'm asking to see if I'm the only one.
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I just took if the animation option off in display settings off. I notice it makes the phone run alot smoother in the home screen. What features am I missing out in due to this?
ariel123 said:
I just took if the animation option off in display settings off. What features am I missing out in due to this?
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You're missing the screen animations features. obvious question is obvious.
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just eye candies... which i prefer to see in this beauty of a phone T989
in my Nexus S i had to disable them all, as it slows down the phoen
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You're missing the screen animations features. obvious question is obvious.
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What animation I haven't seen any besides when you hold the number row and you can slide across the screens
He means your missing the photon/ crt animation. Its the graphic that looks like an old tube tv turning off.
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nooo... there's more
there's the page to page transition
the animated pop up and fade off
and many more effects that is not launcher related
because depending on the launcher you use, itself also provides other types of animation, so it's hard to figure out which one belongs to the system, and which to the launcher
Well why does it make things laggy at times when loading apps and going through the hone screen
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Well why does it make things laggy at times when loading apps and going through the hone screen
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did not detect any lag from stock rom, or customized rom
perhaps you have too much stuff running?
how much FREE RAM is left in your phone in average?
remember to exit out completely out of apps/games you don't use for the next few hours
OK I was playing around with it and now I see the animation how it looks different when you go in messaging and contacts. Then when its off. But It at times it does go into a black screen for like 2 seconds compared to no animations that it just loads it instantly. I cleared my ram and closed out all the apps running which were quiet a few but it goes back to using 586 out of 784 ram with no apps running
that is alot of stuff running, that might explain why your phone might be lagging a bit
i only have aprox 260 MB in use and 480 MB free of 782 MB total, the rest are cached apps that are in standby
Any time you turn animations off on your PC or your phone, you are going to get better performance. It's the first thing I turned off when I got this phone. Just for fun, I read this thread and turned them back on for a few minutes. It's back off already...can't stand how laggy it makes the phone and mine is stock with only about 20 apps.
I find the dimmest screen toggle still too bright. I find it embarrassing to use in dark public spaces.
Is there a way to dim the screen even more?
Download the screen filter app from the play store. Literally puts a filter effect on the screen to make it appear darker making it much easier to use in the dark.
Yes its possible to take the screen much lower, but we have to edit the framework. Nobody had done this mod yet for some reason.
CM9 has the ability to change the screen lowest settings built in
B97 said:
Download the screen filter app from the play store. Literally puts a filter effect on the screen to make it appear darker making it much easier to use in the dark.
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+1. I use Screen Filter also, it's uber handy for reading at night when the light seems too bright. If you've got hardkeys like I had on my Desire, you can even turn them off.
i wrote a tutorial on how you can mod the frameworks apk. it's very easy and you can change the brightness levels to anything you want. here's the thread
screen filter only puts a transparent layer on the screen and messes with the colors. modding the frameworks will lower default brightness to any level you want. you can raise it too if you like.
Thanks for all the ideas. I went with the easiest one, Screen Filter.
AOKP also has an option to reduce screen brightness...
dynamicpda said:
Thanks for all the ideas. I went with the easiest one, Screen Filter.
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Good man!
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neotekz said:
i wrote a tutorial on how you can mod the frameworks apk. it's very easy and you can change the brightness levels to anything you want. here's the thread
screen filter only puts a transparent layer on the screen and messes with the colors. modding the frameworks will lower default brightness to any level you want. you can raise it too if you like.
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Great work, I've been wondering why nobody did this mod yet for the nexus. I made that same mod on my atrix, using the sgs2 thread as well. But I've been too lazy to do it for nexus.
The above mod is the best option. Screen filter doesn't achieve the same results. The above mod reduces power draw as well when on the lower brightness setting of 5 or so. Screen filter just hides the higher brightness but has same power draw.
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Great work, I've been wondering why nobody did this mod yet for the nexus. I made that same mod on my atrix, using the sgs2 thread as well. But I've been too lazy to do it for nexus.
The above mod is the best option. Screen filter doesn't achieve the same results. The above mod reduces power draw as well when on the lower brightness setting of 5 or so. Screen filter just hides the higher brightness but has same power draw.
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That would be correct for back-lit screens. For the Galaxy Nexus screen, though, Screen Filter does help reducing power draw as a darker screen content = lower brightness.
I used to use SF for quite a while until I got fed up of it causing stutters to most animations. After thorough examination I concluded that the Nexus's GPU is the culprit. For some reason it just doesn't like multiple graphics being updated at once. Modding the overlay XML allows it to run at full speed.
Can anyone confirm the same reduced framerate issue?. It's also the reason why some ROMs include a setting to remove the navigation buttons glow. I tested with CM9 on the SGS2 and experienced none of the stutters in cases where the GN would. Another example: sliding between sections (comments, ralated, etc.) in YouTube is laggy iff the video is playing.
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That would be correct for back-lit screens. For the Galaxy Nexus screen, though, Screen Filter does help reducing power draw as a darker screen content = lower brightness.
I used to use SF for quite a while until I got fed up of it causing stutters to most animations. After thorough examination I concluded that the Nexus's GPU is the culprit. For some reason it just doesn't like multiple graphics being updated at once. Modding the overlay XML allows it to run at full speed.
Can anyone confirm the same reduced framerate issue?. It's also the reason why some ROMs include a setting to remove the navigation buttons glow. I tested with CM9 on the SGS2 and experienced none of the stutters in cases where the GN would. Another example: sliding between sections (comments, ralated, etc.) in YouTube is laggy iff the video is playing.
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Agreed, GPU just isn't good enough. I hate the lag with the button glow animations on!
I use an app called root dim, it's really useful. Let's you use a brightness level of 1, which is really quite dim. Free, too.
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Remoteconcern said:
Agreed, GPU just isn't good enough. I hate the lag with the button glow animations on!
I use an app called root dim, it's really useful. Let's you use a brightness level of 1, which is really quite dim. Free, too.
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Thanks for the tip, on the Galaxy Nexus it's possible to set the brightness to 0 by writing to /sys/class/backlight/*/brightness but the brightness is checked and reset to the minimum (default 10) every time the screen is turned on. I guess Root Dim works to the same effect so it runs as a system service. Still, it'd be an awesome addition for people who haven't bothered to mod.
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That would be correct for back-lit screens. For the Galaxy Nexus screen, though, Screen Filter does help reducing power draw as a darker screen content = lower brightness.
I used to use SF for quite a while until I got fed up of it causing stutters to most animations. After thorough examination I concluded that the Nexus's GPU is the culprit. For some reason it just doesn't like multiple graphics being updated at once. Modding the overlay XML allows it to run at full speed.
Can anyone confirm the same reduced framerate issue?. It's also the reason why some ROMs include a setting to remove the navigation buttons glow. I tested with CM9 on the SGS2 and experienced none of the stutters in cases where the GN would. Another example: sliding between sections (comments, ralated, etc.) in YouTube is laggy iff the video is playing.
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Screen filter may reduce power. But amoled screens save power with lower brightness. There is no difference between lcd vs led on this issue. And modifying the framework to bring min brightness down to 5 rather than 15 saves much more power than screen filter. Its no contest. This isn't different from lcd in this case.
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Thanks for the tip, on the Galaxy Nexus it's possible to set the brightness to 0 by writing to /sys/class/backlight/*/brightness but the brightness is checked and reset to the minimum (default 10) every time the screen is turned on. I guess Root Dim works to the same effect so it runs as a system service. Still, it'd be an awesome addition for people who haven't bothered to mod.
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Yes we can write to that sysfs file, but it gets reset. The mod to the frameworks incorporates that backlight file so its now able to go down to 1, 2, 5, or whatever you want. It makes it now stock, so you are no longer capped at 10 (actually I think 15 is the cap I see). But that mod is just removing this cap and making it lower to whatever you want. Stock.
So no extra app is needed. No additional tweak. It now makes the stock brightness able to go down to 1 by itself whenever it needs.
I don't know if it's an Android M thing or Nexus 5X issue but anyone notice the scrolling looks "weird?"
Meaning when you scroll through a page in Chrome, the text letters on the page kind of fade out for a sec. Once the scrolling stops, the text fades in.
I've been playing around with it some more and the text definitely fades out when scrolling. It's also unclear.
Only when the scrolling stops do the text fade in and the words became clear.
Do you by chance have magnification gesture enabled in accessibility settings? That will cause weird scrolling
No, it's not on.
I swear I'm not going crazy.
Text will fade out/fuzz out when scrolling. Once the scrolling stops, the text fades in and becomes legible.
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No, it's not on.
I swear I'm not going crazy.
Text will fade out/fuzz out when scrolling. Once the scrolling stops, the text fades in and becomes legible.
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Very odd. It does this exact same thing with the zoom/magnification gesture on. Have you tweaked anything and forgot about it in dev options maybe? Any apps that could affect this? Just reaching for straws I am
It's brand new out of the box. I haven't touched any of the settings.
Beginning to wonder if this unit is defective.
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It's brand new out of the box. I haven't touched any of the settings.
Beginning to wonder if this unit is defective.
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Could be. Did you get the ~43MB update and install it? Have you rebooted?
Its more seen if the brightness is low right? Yea. Its because of samsung amoled panel. The downside is .. That. Its because the screen controller latency is too high because it need to power on and power off EVERY SINGLE PIXEL. Lol. K
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Its more seen if the brightness is low right? Yea. Its because of samsung amoled panel. The downside is .. That. Its because the screen controller latency is too high because it need to power on and power off EVERY SINGLE PIXEL. Lol. K
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The Nexus 5X has an LCD panel. Although I do know what you're talking about with some AMOLED panels
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Could be. Did you get the ~43MB update and install it? Have you rebooted?
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Yeah, got the update when I first turned it on.
Rebooted after the update. Same thing.
swy05 said:
Yeah, got the update when I first turned it on.
Rebooted after the update. Same thing.
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Try factory reset?
jbdan said:
Try factory reset?
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I'll give it a shot. It that doesn't work, I guess this needs to go back.
Maybe its the hardware?
Hi
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I'll give it a shot. It that doesn't work, I guess this needs to go back.
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It does it on mine as well, but I hadn't noticed until I looked for it, but I see what you mean, it doesn't do it on the older Nexus 5, but the scrolling seems smoother on the 5X almost as if it is a deliberate thing they have done to help our eyes follow rapidly moving text, but it may just be the way they have decided to drive the panel pixels.
It isn't a fault.
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I have the exact same issue.
I noticed that in static mode the font is looking good, but when I start scrolling, the font looks thinner and less clear.
I have this issue in all apps (Facebook, Chrome, Whatsapp etc). It looks a bit cheap.
If this is setting, I'd love to know how to fix this.
hey,
is there a fix for this issue?
thanks
It seems that it is an LCD panel feature. I've also this behavior on my nexus 5x (511, Mint).
I've also can clearly see pixels on a white background
Didn't notice anything like that on a Nexus 5 though.
It's the LCD panel. All LCD panels are lazy. Especially when it's cold. Try to use it below 5 or 0 celsius. This lazyness effect is more visible then. It's winter now. You won't see it as much in summer.
so the question is, if i will replace the device this thing will apear again?
I've seen that happen on LCD screens too. I believe the problem might be FPS(frames per second). You aren't achieving 30 FPS or more when scrolling thus making the screen look blurry/ faded text when scrolling. Most likely cause of this is either the GPU not able to push 30> fps or LCD latency(highly doubt).
Try different websites and report back.(some sites are resource hog and might slow down your phone) ex. try sites that you know doesn't have ton of ads
Try different browser. (some browsers like opera mini are less resource hungry and might improve rendering on screen)
Try other apps as a last resort.
if the blurry text is from LCD then LG made a poor decision on picking a low frequency screen. maybe 60hz (LCD screen refreshes 60 times)
Coming from an M7, this is really annoying, especially when scrolling through Twitter.
I recently reset my LG G3. Since it rebooted, the display seems to be too clever for it's own good with its effects. The display fades out or shoots up from the bottom; when I enter a lock code, each letter seems to appear from underneath like a bubble etc etc.
I don't like it, but I can't find anywhere to turn all the effects. Anyone got a clue to help me?
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Alan
alan sh said:
I recently reset my LG G3. Since it rebooted, the display seems to be too clever for it's own good with its effects. The display fades out or shoots up from the bottom; when I enter a lock code, each letter seems to appear from underneath like a bubble etc etc.
I don't like it, but I can't find anywhere to turn all the effects. Anyone got a clue to help me?
cheers
Alan
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You can turn off (or change speed of) animations in Settings - Developer options: Window animation scale, Transition animation scale and Animation duration scale.
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You can turn off (or change speed of) animations in Settings - Developer options: Window animation scale, Transition animation scale and Animation duration scale.
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AGGHH _ Developer option - of course. Silly me.
Many thanks and Happy Christmas
Alan
It now looks like a checkerboard pattern and also the glow around the fingerprint reader seems to move around more rather than just glow around your finger. Am I the only one seeing this or is this part of the update. It's cool looking, just want to be sure it's not a glitch
Here's a screen recording. I used a non saved finger the 2nd time to show more of the animation around the finger but you can also see the checkerboard unlock animation.
Mine doesn't do that but I have animations turned off. Just turned on animator duration scale to 1.5x and checked and it does similar to what's in your screen video. I just got the Play System update today after seeing mention of the update over on Android Central forums.
Same here, I don't have that effect but I have animation speeds set to zero.
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It now looks like a checkerboard pattern and also the glow around the fingerprint reader seems to move around more rather than just glow around your finger. Am I the only one seeing this or is this part of the update. It's cool looking, just want to be sure it's not a glitch
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Ι dont have this
I just checked my dev settings and settings are at 1.0x for window animation, transition animation and animator duration. I haven't changed anything.
Welp, I just did a force restart and now the unlock animation is back to what it was originally. Hopefully Google is going to let us customize the lock screen in a future update bc the clock is horrendous but changing animations may be cool too. We'll see in time I guess.
I've got the Play System update (dated Nov1), and my unlock screen looks nothing like that.
I don't have the animations disabled or the speed changed. My fingerprint icon is different (solid lines instead of the dotted in your video). there's no weird "aura" animation around the fingerprint reader, and there's no checkerboard pattern either.
Are you sure you don't have a custom theme installed that would interfere?