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[Q] Various Issues (WLAN, Touchpad, custom ROMs)

This is my first post to this awesome forum. I own a Xperia Arc S since Christmas. While I like this phone a lot, I still have some issues. I unlocked the bootloader and rooted the device for trying different custom roms.
While I am an experienced linux user, I have yet only little experience in android.
I tried the obvious roms, cm 7, miui, doom, even the cm9 alpha. While I like the ui much, I got this very annoying touchscreen issue, where you can't use the lower section (around 3-5 mm) when the device is rotated by 270 degree. Is there a fix for this or a miui kernel that resolves this issue? What exactly is causing the problem, kernel or system files?
With all roms I tested, I got a WLAN bug, when downloading large files (e.g. Gameloft content) the connection breaks and it takes a moment until the WLAN connection is etablished again. My WLAN works flawlessy with my other devices. I tried different baseband versions but this does not seem to make any difference. What is causing this and how can I solve it?
I am mainly looking for a stable ROM, is there anything you can recommend? Is there a comparison of the custom ROMs?

touchwiz micro stutters

Hi guys I got my Rogers Galaxy S3 2 days ago (i747M). For the most part it is buttery smooth. But I notice that sometimes touchwiz has some micro stutters when moving between home screens. I also notice that while switching between home screens, before entering the home screen that has the Gmail widget, theres a quick minor stutter. Can anyone replicate this?
The way I did it was, first use the internet browser for a bit then go back to the home screen. After start moving between home screens and see if you have and stuttering before entering the home screen with the Gmail widget.
Is this a problem with the widget?
Extra information: I am on stock, un-rooted.

This is normal. I also experienced this with stock ROMs. Something that will help mitigate this issue is if you flash a custom ROM that has the scrolling cache disabled (such as Kyan ROM. There are others, but I know this one off the top of my head because I have personally used it). Though they do not go away fully even with the new ROM, the fluidity of the interface if greatly increased.
The only way that I know of to make this go totally away is to flash AOKP or CM10 as they have implemented project butter with great success.

caveman999 said:
This is normal. I also experienced this with stock ROMs. Something that will help mitigate this issue is if you flash a custom ROM that has the scrolling cache disabled (such as Kyan ROM. There are others, but I know this one off the top of my head because I have personally used it). Though they do not go away fully even with the new ROM, the fluidity of the interface if greatly increased.
The only way that I know of to make this go totally away is to flash AOKP or CM10 as they have implemented project butter with great success.
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This may be a bit off topic but, I know nightlies for CM10 are out.. But do you think we will get the stable version of it? I notice for CM9 we didn't get the stable version.. That kinda worries me a bit because I like cyanogenmod and the progress they made with CM10.

big_doubleT said:
This may be a bit off topic but, I know nightlies for CM10 are out.. But do you think we will get the stable version of it? I notice for CM9 we didn't get the stable version.. That kinda worries me a bit because I like cyanogenmod and the progress they made with CM10.
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I wouldn't worry about it. We haven't gotten a stable version of CM9 yet because the Galaxy S3 came out after CM was well into its development cycle. Also, with the release of Jellybean source code, there isn't a huge incentive for the CM team to continue working on getting a "stable" build released (stable is in quotes because a lot of their nightlies are actually pretty stable). I have been running task and ktoonsez's AOKP for a while now and I have to say that their 8/20 version is quite superb. It offers much more customization that CM10 currently has and I would highly recommend it.

Yes I have this issue as well, I also am flashed on KyanRom, there isn't as much stutters, but they still happen here and there, even when I close an application, sometimes my widgets on the page it goes to look as though they've disappeared, but come back. I also experienced this while being unrooted. So far, don't know anything that can fix the issue to the fullest. I think lowering down on the amount of widgets on the home screen can help. But who doesn't love widgets?

Papaniz said:
Yes I have this issue as well, I also am flashed on KyanRom, there isn't as much stutters, but they still happen here and there, even when I close an application, sometimes my widgets on the page it goes to look as though they've disappeared, but come back. I also experienced this while being unrooted. So far, don't know anything that can fix the issue to the fullest. I think lowering down on the amount of widgets on the home screen can help. But who doesn't love widgets?
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Guess will have to wait till Jelly bean comes out. I'm sure project butter will get rid of 99% of lag and stuttering.

Help Finding Daily Driver

I know that I should "try them myself", but there are a billion ROMs here and I haven't been following any outside of CM/AOKP. It doesn't help that a few of the ROM threads here that seem promising are kind of messy and difficult to sift through and the forum is too saturated to search properly for simple terms. Instead of posting questions in ROM threads and risking getting flamed, I decided to create a thread here. I'm looking for a new daily driver based on TouchWiz JellyBean (no AOSP/CM/AOKP/etc.), and I'm willing to try out ROMs based on your suggestions
Primarily looking for:
-Stability and lack of bugs (all hardware/software works as intended)
-Speed and smoothness
-Battery life
-Screen Modes (dynamic, standard, natural and movie modes from international version/Note 2)*
-one-handed operation mode (for keyboard, dialer, etc. from Note 2)*
-pop-up browser and/or multi-window/multi-view
Not crucial, but preferred:
-AOSP/multi-target/circle lock screen
-GNote 2 SMS app or inverted/dark background AOSP SMS app
-4.2 keyboard (I can add this myself if anything)
-camera on call and enable camera on low battery
Don't want:
-4.2 camera (unless I can remove it and use the TouchWiz camera)
-AOSP/AOKP themed MMS with quickreply (unless the bugs with image display, sending and rotation have been fixed)
-Bravia engine/acid audio/beats audio/etc. (it's fine if I can remove it myself without breaking anything)
-heavy/over-the-top theming
*not sure if any ROMs here have this feature
If you're running, developing or familiar with a ROM that you think is close to what I'm looking for, please direct me to the thread and I'll give it a try. Thanks in advance for the help

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check out youtube for video reviews man

Well, I spent many hours online researching and reading about ROM's, made a nandroid and clean-flashed a few ROM's from AT&T and Rogers bases. So far...I'm really disappointed in TouchWiz. While my friends with the S3 or Note 2 on other carriers have shown me a fast, fluid and flawless out-of-the-box experience (albeit with some bloatware), every TouchWiz ROM I tried was noticeably laggy to the point that some of my apps and games were unusable (same apps are just fine on my friend's devices and on my device running AOKP). On top of that, TouchWiz seems to introduce black clipping in video playback using any hardware player (not present on my friend's Note 2 and not present on my S3 with AOKP). This is a dealbreaker for me.
I guess I really do have to settle with AT&T's devices: either certain important features don't work or I have to deal with a bunch of minor bugs and the device lags more than my Captivate in some common scenarios

GGXtreme said:
Well, I spent many hours online researching and reading about ROM's, made a nandroid and clean-flashed a few. So far...I'm really disappointed in TouchWiz. While my friends with the S3 or Note 2 on other carriers have shown me a fast, fluid and flawless out-of-the-box experience (albeit with some bloatware), every TouchWiz ROM I tried was noticeably laggy to the point that some of my apps and games were unusable (same apps are just fine on my friend's devices and on my device running AOKP). On top of that, TouchWiz seems to introduce black clipping in video playback using any hardware player (not present on my friend's Note 2 and not present on my S3 with AOKP). This is a dealbreaker for me.
I guess I really do have to settle with AT&T's devices: either certain important features don't work or the device lags more than my Captivate in some common scenarios
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try my rom man, you will like it
check the sig

Danvdh said:
try my rom man, you will like it
check the sig
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Does your ROM include an MMS app besides the AOSP one with quick-reply? I know everyone says it 'works 100%', but I always have problems with MMS images not displaying properly/at all after a week or two of using it. Not to pester you with questions, but do you also happen to know if the mDNIE mode can be changed in TouchWiz ROM's (ie. via build.prop)? I suspect this is what's causing the black clipping issue, as I always disabled mDNIE in AOKP.
Edit: Nvm, I just noticed the option to flash another MMS app. Still curious about mDNIE modes though, as I can't stand the dark scenes in my videos being invisible on TouchWiz ROM's.

GGXtreme said:
Does your ROM include an MMS app besides the AOSP one with quick-reply? I know everyone says it 'works 100%', but I always have problems with MMS images not displaying properly/at all after a week or two of using it. Not to pester you with questions, but do you also happen to know if the mDNIE mode can be changed in TouchWiz ROM's (ie. via build.prop)? I suspect this is what's causing the black clipping issue, as I always disabled mDNIE in AOKP.
Edit: Nvm, I just noticed the option to flash another MMS app. Still curious about mDNIE modes though, as I can't stand the dark scenes in my videos being invisible on TouchWiz ROM's.
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Not sure about the mdnie in videos, but this is the latest build from Samsung. Newer then 99 percent of touchwiz roms, give it a try and report back

Danvdh said:
Not sure about the mdnie in videos, but this is the latest build from Samsung. Newer then 99 percent of touchwiz roms, give it a try and report back
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I just started downloading it, I'll definitely report back tomorrow when I get a chance to flash it. Not sure how I overlooked it in my search :silly:
From what I remember from a post by supercurio, the mDNIE tuning is part of the drivers and would require a custom kernel to fix, as the black clipping issue is present on almost all TouchWiz devices except the original Galaxy S and devices with screen modes that can be changed to something like 'Cinema' or 'Movie' (Exynos devices).

Try loserskaters rom "LoserRom" I flashed it a while ago and its doing great, no FC's, no random reboots etc etc
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using xda app-developers app

I was recently running Drew Garen Serenity 1.2. It's a port of the Jelly Bean ROM from the Note 2. It has all of the working features of the Note 2 except Multi Windows. It does include the 1 hand operation mode you were wanting. It also includes the Note 2 Gallery, which I really liked.
Galaxy Mod Rls14 is really good too and features working Multi Window. I can't remember if it has 1 hand operation.

Danvdh said:
Not sure about the mdnie in videos, but this is the latest build from Samsung. Newer then 99 percent of touchwiz roms, give it a try and report back
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Definitely an improvement. Seems similar to the previous ROM's I tried, but now my apps and games no longer lag horribly. I like how light and AOSP-like it is from the initial flash. Unfortunately, the black crush issue is still present and I think that'll have to be a kernel fix similar to Voodoo color on the original Galaxy S. I might keep this for now though.
ajayghotra said:
Try loserskaters rom "LoserRom" I flashed it a while ago and its doing great, no FC's, no random reboots etc etc
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using xda app-developers app
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I'll give it a try now that I'm in the mood to flash everything
Opie Knievel said:
I was recently running Drew Garen Serenity 1.2. It's a port of the Jelly Bean ROM from the Note 2. It has all of the working features of the Note 2 except Multi Windows. It does include the 1 hand operation mode you were wanting. It also includes the Note 2 Gallery, which I really liked.
Galaxy Mod Rls14 is really good too and features working Multi Window. I can't remember if it has 1 hand operation.
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How stable do you find those? The main reason I was avoiding Note 2 based ROM's is that there seemed to be a lot of bugginess reported in the threads and after a while I just want something I can flash once and forget.
Thanks for all the replies, these suggestions are all in the direction I'm looking for
Edit: I gave Serenity 1.2 a try, and while it gives me the one-handed operation I'm looking for, but the Screen Mode option in the settings doesn't seem to do anything, so videos still have black crush. I was able to poorly get around this on my Infuse by using a screen filter app, but this doesn't seem to have an effect on the S3. I'm positive this is a kernel/driver issue at this point.

I found Serenity 1.2 and Galaxy Mod Rls14.1 very stable. Actually I can't remember encountering a single problem. I personally love TouchWiz. That's one of the main deciding factors for me when choosing a ROM. I guess I've just got used to it over the years. My first smartphone was a Galaxy S Fascinate on Verizon. I tried Galaxy Mod 15 but had some other issues with my phone that had to be addressed before I could really get to test it out. I'm thinking about trying it again. Which ever ROM you decide to try my best advice is to do a lot of research before you do any flashing and for goodness sakes MAKE A QCN BACKUP! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801997 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1308546 I didn't and lost my IMEI and had to order a replacement phone because I never could get it completely straightened out.

Jovy23 Darthstalker #9 TW and Ziggy kernel is my DD themed with Morphology. Very, very fast excellent battery life and VERY stable. I've had Serenity, CM10, Triune, Liquid Smooth, PacMan, parakangandriod and many, many others.
I highly recommend Darthstalker its, in my humble opinion, one of the best.
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[Q] Android 4.2 and multi-touch gaming issues

Hey everyone, I just had a question, with most Jellybean 4.2 roms I've tried multi-touch has been kind of non-responsive with gaming. I've tried multiple games (Dead Space, Sandbox, Pinball, various SNES Emulators) where whenever I would put more than on finger on it and remove it, both touch points would still act as if I had my fingers on it. It seems as if it doesn't register the two touches as seperate. For example, I was playing Chrono Trigger using an emulator (Snes9ex+ and Snesoid) and in order to run you have to hold down a button and navigate with the directional pad. Whenever I would do this and remove my fingers the chracter would keep moving.
This only seems to happen on 4.2 roms (Evervolv, Mazwoz, Xenon) with any kernel (I used stock, mazwoz, and blackdome). However, Jellybean 4.1 roms seem to work just fine for the most part (Solar Flare, Dirty Unicorn/Diablo) where multi-touch was just fine no issues. There is an app to check multi-touch on the market and when I used that it registered up to 5 points for 4.2 roms and anything else such as pinch-to-zoom in the browser was alright, just seemed to be gaming.
So I was wondering, is this due to the roms or the kernels? Also, is this merely just a downside with porting 4.2 roms to the EVO or just something that hasn't been reported yet?
Thanks everyone, I really appreciate all the work you developers have done.

ohen2494 said:
Hey everyone, I just had a question, with most Jellybean 4.2 roms I've tried multi-touch has been kind of non-responsive with gaming. I've tried multiple games (Dead Space, Sandbox, Pinball, various SNES Emulators) where whenever I would put more than on finger on it and remove it, both touch points would still act as if I had my fingers on it. It seems as if it doesn't register the two touches as seperate. For example, I was playing Chrono Trigger using an emulator (Snes9ex+ and Snesoid) and in order to run you have to hold down a button and navigate with the directional pad. Whenever I would do this and remove my fingers the chracter would keep moving.
This only seems to happen on 4.2 roms (Evervolv, Mazwoz, Xenon) with any kernel (I used stock, mazwoz, and blackdome). However, Jellybean 4.1 roms seem to work just fine for the most part (Solar Flare, Dirty Unicorn/Diablo) where multi-touch was just fine no issues. There is an app to check multi-touch on the market and when I used that it registered up to 5 points for 4.2 roms and anything else such as pinch-to-zoom in the browser was alright, just seemed to be gaming.
So I was wondering, is this due to the roms or the kernels? Also, is this merely just a downside with porting 4.2 roms to the EVO or just something that hasn't been reported yet?
Thanks everyone, I really appreciate all the work you developers have done.
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Well this is a question that is probably asked about twice a week,but the reason for the lag is JB is not and i stress,is not made for the EVO,just not enough memory,also ICS,so you are lucky enough to get good devs that know what their doing with touch response tweaks and such,with ICS,unfortuneately we havent had such luck with JB yet,there are a few tweaks that might help with your lag since you are a gammer.... 4cyl Turbo engine v0.2.2 w/ 150 shot NOS / RTMixManager™2

Diablo67 said:
Well this is a question that is probably asked about twice a week,but the reason for the lag is JB is not and i stress,is not made for the EVO,just not enough memory,also ICS,so you are lucky enough to get good devs that know what their doing with touch response tweaks and such,with ICS,unfortuneately we havent had such luck with JB yet,there are a few tweaks that might help with your lag since you are a gammer.... 4cyl Turbo engine v0.2.2 w/ 150 shot NOS / RTMixManager™2
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Thanks a lot for this, honestly I didn't account it to lag, I just thought it was a bug since everything else was so smooth. Also sorry if this is a common question, I searched around but didn't find anything, thanks a lot for answering though!
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[Q] CM9 WiFi/GPU problem

Hi
I'm using AOKP Milestone[Stable] it's an awesome rom but after I play a game or watch a video (when the GPU is triggered i suppose) the rom goes crazy some parts of the system and apps become transparent respond to my touches but not displayed so i thought it's a kernel related problem so i flashed LuPuS kernel my favourite kernel but WiFi won't work even after flashing multiple modules
If anyone has a soloution for any of the two problems please provide it
Thanx
Lt18i-BB77

OppyNooby said:
Hi
I'm using AOKP Milestone[Stable] it's an awesome rom but after I play a game or watch a video (when the GPU is triggered i suppose) the rom goes crazy some parts of the system and apps become transparent respond to my touches but not displayed so i thought it's a kernel related problem so i flashed LuPuS kernel my favourite kernel but WiFi won't work even after flashing multiple modules
If anyone has a soloution for any of the two problems please provide it
Thanx
Lt18i-BB77
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hey bro, may i advice you to change to LX CM11. CM9 is stone age & CM11 runs far more better. battery is like on stock or even better. its also fully stable. you will love it
thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2545354

Thnx for the advice
But the reason why im still using ICS/CM9 ROMS is that the sound of 4.1+ roms is not as good and loud as ICS ROMS if there is a solution for that problem it would be awesome
I tried AC!D MOD PimpUpMyRom Tweaks but i didn't feel a change (Maybe i didn't use them right)