I was experience a lot of lag on my GNex so I tried to enable "Force GPU rendering" under developer options. I can check the box, but when I leave the developer options screen and return, the box is unchecked again. If check the box and turn off the screen, then turn on my phone again, it will still be on the developer options screen but the box will be unchecked again.
The phone is rooted running on 4.0.2 stock.
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I realized that the homescreen has some bugs especially if you disable the lock screen from settings..
It happened a few time in the past few days..
When I click the home button, the device is on, and I do not need to unlock it since the lockscreen is disabled.
Sometimes, after turning the phone screen on, all my homescreen widgets and the bottom shortcut bar(phone,contact,message,menu) would start to flashing like crazy...
The phone is still responsive, e.g. opening menus, change settings, top menu bar still slides down and up fine, everything is fine operationally except for the flashing widgets and bottom shortcuts..
I turned the screen off and back on, same flashing is present..
I have to power off the phone or restart the phone and it will return back to normal..
I believe this is definitely a software bug... Anyone familiar with this bug?
Are you running stock or are you rooted with a custom recovery?
Sent from my SGSIII with the XDA Premium App
All Stock on my GS3
No recovery mod.
Rogers Samsung Galaxy S3 i747m
Stock Samsung ROM: May 23 build Android 4.0.4 (Rogers Wireless)
My screen lock is turn off btw.
UPDATE:
Also I found out exactly what is triggering this issue..
It has to do with the Developers Options under the Do Not Keep Activities and Background Process Limit..
I am experiencing this issue only when I tick Do Not Keep Activities, and set the Background Process Limit to No Background Process...
Also, today another issue showed up with the same 2 settings ticked Do Not Keep Activities, and set the Background Process Limit to No Background Process.
Basically what it happened is that when I turn on my phone, and open windows such as messages and settings, the phone would automatically attempt to close it down after 2-3 seconds... Also due this time, I received a message, my message tone changed back to the bird chirp default message tone rather than the Pure Bell message tone I setup previously.. When I manage to open the sound settings, I took a quick look and it was still set to Pure Bell, and after a second or so, the phone closed the entire settings window down...
I just press hole the power and click on Restart...
Now the phone reboots, and the phone is back to normal...
When I went back to sound settings, all my own settings are still there
BUT
When I went to the Developer Options, the setting for Do Not Keep Activities, and Background Process Limit where back to the default values.. (Do Not Keep Activities is not UNTICKED, and Background Process Limit is set to Standard Limit automatically by my phone after the reboot.)
I thought it was weird how the phone changed my settings after reboot, and the OS acts weird before I rebooted...
After using it through out today with the default settings for Do Not Keep Activities, and the Background Process Limit, my phone is acting fine.....
Pretty sure this is a SW bug, it is not a HW problem..
I think it did exactly what it should do with those developer options enabled. That was a very aggressive setting use used and does not represent normal operation of the software.
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So this is a known issue?
Yes, pretty much Developer Options are pretty unstable...
The only setting I kept for are Mock Location (for those apps that use GPS without my permission) and the Animation options to 0.5x so the animation is faster.
Turning the Mock Location and Changing Animation Settings do not seem to affect the stability of the Stock ROM
Why on earth would anyone with a phone this powerful want to use those two options anyways!? I would say yes u have those problems with those options on... you have plenty of resources so don't do that to your phone and yes those are "developer options" and typically only temporary testing scenarios for "developers" just leave at default and be happy with much better working phone!
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I use those 2 memory clearing options just to extend battery life.
Hi all,
I just installed Android 4.2 on my Yakju GNex.
In the Wi-Fi advanced menu, I saw a new option:
Wi-Fi Optimization
Minimize battery usage when Wi-Fi is on
Do you know what does it do?
Does it affect the speed?
It is quite suspicious ... because if it is for BETTER, why make it as an option? Why not enable it by default? !!! *strange* isn't it?
I don't recall that option before ...
Thanks.
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I just checked it and I have it enabled by default ...
I have mine enabled, not sure if it helps or not yet.
Anyone knows what does this option do? With Android 4.1.2 y had the option selected to Turn Off Wifi when screen goes off. But with 4.2 OTA without wipe, it has been changed to Always ON, with this optimization option checked.
Which option do you recommend? I used to have Turn off when screen off because I never turn off the wifi manually, but with this new option I don´t know which option is the most energy saver
This option reduces the speed of wifi when the screen is off.
I have activated the developer options in settings/more/about device by tapping on "build number" 5 times.
Now under settings/more there is a developer options tab with numerous settings inside.
Can anyone explain what these options do and if any are unsafe to "play with" on the S4 mini GT-I9190.
I am particularly interested in the settings: "simulate secondary displays", Enable 4x MSAA and Force GPU rendering" I am just nervous that if I change any of these, the phone will be unuseable.
stevenwiner said:
I have activated the developer options in settings/more/about device by tapping on "build number" 5 times.
Now under settings/more there is a developer options tab with numerous settings inside.
Can anyone explain what these options do and if any are unsafe to "play with" on the S4 mini GT-I9190.
I am particularly interested in the settings: "simulate secondary displays", Enable 4x MSAA and Force GPU rendering" I am just nervous that if I change any of these, the phone will be unuseable.
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They wouldn't be there if you phone will unuseable. So yes, there safe
I have low needs for my phone and would like to have power saver enabled automatically, however I cannot find a way to do this. Is there any setting, app, tweak, command etc. that will enable power saving mode to start automatically and be the default mode?
I have turned on Powersaver and rebooted my phone. Powersaver stayed active.
I have turned on Extreme Powersaver and rebooted my phone. Extreme Powersaver dit not stay active.
If you require Powersaver only, then it shouldn't turn off once you activate it. If you're referring to Extreme Powersaver, I wasn't able to find anything on that. I will add that I do have a custom ROM. I am not sure if the ROM is why Powersaver stays on or not.
For your use I would do this:
Turn on Powersaver
Turn off Sync
GPS Off (Go to Settings >> Location >> Mode: "Battery Saving")
Turn off scanning for WiFi even while it's off (Go to Settings >> WiFi >> [Click the menu button, 3 dots on top right] >> Advanced >> Uncheck "Scanning always available" There's some other settings you may want to look at as well, like "Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep" and whatnot.
This is all I can think of to help you out a bit more. If you don't use the internet for background syncing, you can turn off data and turn it on when you get ready to check something. In better service areas, you'll usually have data by time you're done toggling the service.
Thx. you are right about power saving staying enabled through a reboot. However, I would like to not to accidentally disable it. Is there a way to keep power saving enabled and have it not show up on the lockscreen? There should be a way to disable lockscreen notifications for power saver but I can't find one.
Hello everyone,
After some time messing around and daily with the Android 13 Rom 'LeaOS', I experienced some issues and wanted to share the solutions with you all to save you some time.
1. No sound thru the headphone jack
-It may work already but the headphone icon is not showing in the status bar. To fix this I recommend using "System UI tuner" to activate it.
-If it doesn't work at all, go to the PHH settings, if available:
Open Settings app -> Open PHH treble settings -> Misc settings -> check "use alternate way to detect headsets" and "disable audio effects". Done. This should fix the problem.
2. No Bluetooth audio
- First method is to go to PHH settings again:
Open Settings app -> Open PHH treble settings -> Misc settings -> Bluetooth workarounds: none, Compability max aspect ratio: default, Force-disable A2DP offload: off. Check if those settings are set the same and reboot the device.
-If this doesn't work, go to the Android developer settings and check if "Bluetooth-A2DP-hardware-offload deactivated" is activated. In my case, it's already activated and grayed out.
-If this also doesn't do anything, messing around with the 'Bluetooth AVRCP-Version" and "Bluetooth MAP-Version" helped me. I've set the AVRCP version to 1.3 and the MAP version to default.
Don't forget to reboot after every change to apply it.
3. No mobile data problem
-If you don't have mobile data (internet with your sim card (no wifi)), I have a simple and fast solution:
Open Settings app -> Open PHH treble settings -> IMS features -> Click "Create IMS APN" and check "request ims network" and reboot after that.
-If it didn't work, go to the IMS settings again and click "Install IMS APK for NOT SUPPORTED".
This should fix it after a reboot.
4. Low graphics
If your phone has low graphics in some apps (e.g. settings app, volume control,...)
-go to phh settings -> misc and select "force fps" and select you're screen fps and resolution and reboot.
-if it doesn't work, go to the developer settings and open "Graphics driver settings". Now select a random app and select "graphics driver for system". Now open the app and it should work. If not reboot or try another app.
I'm not sure why it's like that and only some apps do something, but I think this is a solution. In my case "Aliucord" (A discord app mod) makes my whole system upgrade the graphics.
5. Bad performance
This problem is easy to fix:
If your phone is rooted, install a kernel tweaks magisk Module (I use "Yet another Kernel tweaker") and install the app "Kernel toolkit". In the kernel Toolkit app, go to the CPU tab and select the CPU scaling to "performance". Then tick the highest minimum CPU core speed for both the big and small cores. Then go to the developer settings of Android and select animations to 0.5x. Enabling 4x MSAA forcing may improve the performance, but I haven't seen a difference. Just do NOT disable HW overlays. This will destroy the performance completely. Also I got more performance on video playback (it was laggy sometimes) by disabling "settings for media transcoding" completely in developer settings.
!This drains the battery slightly more on usage!
And for the ram usage, go to each apps info, and open battery usage... Then click restrict. Do this to all apps you don't need to run in background. In the developer settings also go to "apps in standby mode" and restrict apps you don't need to run in background. You can also go to "Background checks" in the developer settings to turn off some Services you don't need too.
!Restricting those services will force stop them; you won't get notifications!
This is my Instruction with solutions for my problems. This is just from my knowledge. The display resolution thing is weird and I'm not sure if this is the right solution, but it works for me.
I hope this helps somehow