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Anyone can help me?
Few days ago my screen started to have problems. The light of the screen will randomly blink when swiping on launcher or status bar. Then I will need to restart and everything will be alright but then it comes again. I reinstall stock rom but still no use.
Please advice. D:

jeff7424 said:
Anyone can help me?
Few days ago my screen started to have problems. The light of the screen will randomly blink when swiping on launcher or status bar. Then I will need to restart and everything will be alright but then it comes again. I reinstall stock rom but still no use.
Please advice. D:
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it might be because of:
1. you have auto brightness on. autobrightness on gingerbread is not that great.
2. you're using Cyanogenmod7 and have that slide status bar to adjust brightness.

AudioCreaper said:
it might be because of:
1. you have auto brightness on. autobrightness on gingerbread is not that great.
2. you're using Cyanogenmod7 and have that slide status bar to adjust brightness.
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Nope, auto brightness is off. Not using CM7 also. I don't know why. I think it's because of the cable is loose, I'm not really sure.

jeff7424 said:
Nope, auto brightness is off. Not using CM7 also. I don't know why. I think it's because of the cable is loose, I'm not really sure.
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Could be the cable
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MrHaPpY66 said:
Could be the cable
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I thought of that. Gonna get back to stock and send to Sony centre.

Sony centre said it was my software problem. Could it be kernel problem?
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jeff7424 said:
Sony centre said it was my software problem. Could it be kernel problem?
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Sony tried telling someone else the same thing! They keep trying to blame it on software, even though the slider cable is a faulty design and should be recalled. Revert to absolute stock, and tell them after restoring it the problem persists and you know for a fact it's hardware.
It's really starting to piss me off that they're trying to blame a bad design on the users!
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Help please!

Every time I accidentally add a widget to my home screen like picture frame or flip board medium, it highly lags my fps. From 60 to 3 even after removing it, restarting my phone, and clearing ram and ending all active apps. Someone help me? I've already factory reset 3 times because of this very annoying bug

Half of you are developers and don't know how to fix this one thing? =(
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ReapersDeath said:
Half of you are developers and don't know how to fix this one thing? =(
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what u might wanna do is download voltage control and see if it isnt effecting ure speeds performance, alot has to do with overclocking and upscaling and downscaling when u do roms specially if uve installed kernels with OC on it. make sure that settings are corect, like governor section is to this category
500000 SA
90-95 for UP
10 DD
4 SDF
0 for both INL and PB
1 to IIB thats normal upscaling to governor
also make sure that ure settings arent set to low other then ondemand, or powersave, best once that seem to help are ondemand and msm-dcvs if voltage supports it. second section should be at cfq.
, if that doesnt fix it, u might wanna try a different rom if that doesnt fixes the problem, other whize u gonna have to odin back to stock do a factory reset from ure phone not the CWM do it 2 or 3 times, and re-try again and see if that fixs it.
Im not a dev so im not a pure expert at this but i go by how my phone functions with every rom i flash and the performance it gives, ive found both Phantom blaze and paranoid android roms seem to be the best for me. i switch back and forth to each other because i like the phablet mode on paranoid, and smooth and impressive battery life saver on phantoms. No kernels, other then what already comes with, except for the 2100mhz load krnel that supports for paranoid android,. seriously battery killer thought if u OC it to 2100.

I'm stock non rooted.
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ReapersDeath said:
I'm stock non rooted.
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either u might have a faulty GS3 or ure software installation went utterly wrong while updating and messed up somewhere in the middle of the installation. did u get it updated already or did u get it when it was using lg2 modem?
if u got it with the LG8 modem, try odin it back to LG2 or lower, and update from there, see if that helps.
u dont need to worry bout ure flash count going up because samsung software doesnt count on ure flash count no matter how many times u flash the Stock modem.

Um idk what that means. All I know is I have everything updated via updates and every S3 does this if it's stock. This is my second and it does it to. Set the picture frame widget or flip board widget medium to your home screen then do a nenamark
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ReapersDeath said:
Um idk what that means. All I know is I have everything updated via updates and every S3 does this if it's stock. This is my second and it does it to. Set the picture frame widget or flip board widget medium to your home screen then do a nenamark
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humm,...couldnt tell yah, if uve never rooted ure phone and are using stock software u might have a faulty gs3 with faulty software, ive never had my gs3 mess up on me on stock rom before i rooted. Ive had my GS3 non-rooted for about 3 weeks updated and all and no issues, no slow downs, only issues ive had was 1: my friend breaking my phone, 2 battery life, and not being able to store ure apps to ure sd card, all which was an easy fix with rooting and making my buddy get me a new phone.

ReapersDeath said:
Um idk what that means. All I know is I have everything updated via updates and every S3 does this if it's stock. This is my second and it does it to. Set the picture frame widget or flip board widget medium to your home screen then do a nenamark
I'm stock non rooted.
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So get non-stock rooted and fix it yourself. Dont like tw? Get something else
ReapersDeath said:
Half of you are developers and don't know how to fix this one thing? =(
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You are stock unrooted. Not much the devs can suggest here
ReapersDeath said:
Every time I accidentally add a widget to my home screen like picture frame or flip board medium, it highly lags my fps. From 60 to 3 even after removing it, restarting my phone, and clearing ram and ending all active apps. Someone help me? I've already factory reset 3 times because of this very annoying bug
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Be more careful. Dont accidently add widgets

ReapersDeath said:
Half of you are developers and don't know how to fix this one thing? =(
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Seriously? You are really asking this? Wow, unbelievable

Well I would personally think there's someone who knows how to fix this.. visually there's no difference. But after nenamark once I remove the widget I drop to 30 fps. And it stays that way. My thought is that it is locked into some sort of cache that I have to manually delete or clear for it to be like it never was added to home screen
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ReapersDeath said:
Well I would personally think there's someone who knows how to fix this.. visually there's no difference. But after nenamark once I remove the widget I drop to 30 fps. And it stays that way. My thought is that it is locked into some sort of cache that I have to manually delete or clear for it to be like it never was added to home screen
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Its like it was mention above, there really isnt anything any of the devs can do, if ure not rooted, and ure arent operating under a custom rom, ure pretty much using stock base software which only has to do with normal built development done by samsung, they should be ones u should be contacting not the devs here.......they only deal with phones with root and custom roms to make the phone better. Now u could try rooting ure phone and installig a custom rom to see if that does fix the problem, in most cases like ures, only thing to do is take it in to a sprint store and have it inspect or do it ureself odin it with a earlier version of modem, best 1 would be LG2 modem and update from there and see if that changes anything, i can garante u if u do take it to sprint they might charge u to inspect it again, and all they gonna do is odin ure phone from an earlier versions.

ReapersDeath said:
Half of you are developers and don't know how to fix this one thing? =(
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I'll have to add this to my list of rude things that shouldn't be said in a developers forum. We're not Samsung or Sprint customer service. We are people with lives, families, jobs, and other responsibilities. If you want help, this isn't the way to get it.
ReapersDeath said:
I'm stock non rooted.
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If you're stock non-rooted, then after a factory reset, there's nothing you could have done to mess this up.
If you go to a sprint store, they can reflash your stock software and see if that fixes the issue. It takes about 3 minutes, and in my experience, they've been very courtesy and helpful.
ReapersDeath said:
Well I would personally think there's someone who knows how to fix this.. visually there's no difference. But after nenamark once I remove the widget I drop to 30 fps. And it stays that way. My thought is that it is locked into some sort of cache that I have to manually delete or clear for it to be like it never was added to home screen
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Try opening the settings>apps>launcher and clearing the cache and deleting the launchers data.
Widgets are stored in the launcher apps data, so clearing these values should put you back to default settings.

Disadvantages of jb for XS

No Bravia engine 2
No stamina mode like Xperia p
Poor camera quality and lags in 1080p video recording
No white balanced settings even every Xperia s display is yellowish white balanced make our Xperia s display realy improved and yellowish screen vanished
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hamad335500 said:
No Bravia engine 2
No stamina mode like Xperia p
Poor camera quality and lags in 1080p video recording
No white balanced settings even every Xperia s display is yellowish white balanced make our Xperia s display realy improved and yellowish screen vanished
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First two points are not disadvantages. They are just features not added by Sony.

Disadvantage is only 1080p recording for me.
Battery life is amazing so no need for stamina: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=42046505&postcount=1646

Only disadvantage is 1080p video recording, and shutdown time which is a bit slower than before. Everything else is improved compared to ICS.
The camera has always been like this. Learn to use the advanced options to take better pics.

No Encryption Support
ICS did not have encryption at all. With JB, my corporate email required phone to be encrypted confused not sure why. But the damn thing does not work. No progress.

stamina mode it's there on my xperia s,it's called extendended standby mode

On my Acro S same, 1080p is WAYYY too laggy
Backup and restore app didn't restore SOME OF my games' progress, like Temple Run 2... anybody here with the same issue?

dorinrockeru said:
stamina mode it's there on my xperia s,it's called extendended standby mode
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That's not Stamina mode, that's Extendended Standby Mode. [You'd think this was obvious.]
As the names would suggest, they're different things

FenrirMX said:
That's not Stamina mode, that's Extendended Standby Mode. [You'd think this was obvious.]
As the names would suggest, they're different things
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Nope. The fundamentals are the same. Extended Standby Mode blocks all data to your apps after 10 minutes while Stamina Mode let you choose which apps to block or not block. Other than that, there's no differences.

unease said:
ICS did not have encryption at all. With JB, my corporate email required phone to be encrypted confused not sure why. But the damn thing does not work. No progress.
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Same issue. Went back to ICS. Theres a possibility to patch the email.apk. Investigating.
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Performance wise the firmware is great, but they did not fix the bugs that we found on the first leaked version.
For e.g. Default keyboard settings does not hold up after reboot, i have to set up SwiftKey everysingle time i restart, also, admin privileges for a specific app are also not being saved, my kaspersky antitheft simply does not work because of this.
I do not understand why myXperia was not added.
When the leaked version came up i really thought sony did a nice job, but the more i use, the more it seems that they released it just to shut our pie holes
Do you guys think these are fixable on a custom rom?
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ItBankRock said:
On my Acro S same, 1080p is WAYYY too laggy
Backup and restore app didn't restore SOME OF my games' progress, like Temple Run 2... anybody here with the same issue?
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Try to use backup and restore app from ICS. It's better than JB one

Louder on speaker, but too quiet in headphones. Waiting for root.
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I have too much homescreen redraw. Its fast, yet irritating and that too with tons of free Ram..:/

hugorafael said:
For e.g. Default keyboard settings does not hold up after reboot, i have to set up SwiftKey everysingle time i restart
I do not understand why myXperia was not added.
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That's strange, my SwiftKey is working great no need to setup or anything and MyExperia is present and activated.
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You dont have to setup swiftkey as the default keyboard after you reboot? Seriously? Are you on the official jb from PCC?
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WIFI Problem In Iran
Beside all of the mentioned bugs, there are two regional bug for Iranian users!
1- Wifi does not work except you switch to Airplane mode (or remove your simcard)
2- Mobile data netwrok does not work at all!!

Disable image stabilization in video recording, this might get rid of lag

@hugorafael Yes, JB updated through PCC.
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rawimage said:
@hugorafael Yes, JB updated through PCC.
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Hmm, wow thats really strange and i also had these problems on the leaked version, anyone has any idea what it might be and how i could fix it?
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Is this happening to you?

So, i love my note 3, so far. I rooted and installed Ds rom and l love it. Everything works perfectly, except for one thing my display is auto brightness itself!! I have auto brightness off, I have dynamic mode checked, and smart screen setting turn off.
Every time I start to play need of speed most wanted, it starts to auto bright itself!! :banghead:
Check out download the game and see if it happens to you!
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It happens on mine too. It's a Touchwiz thing because it also happened on my S4. But once I installed CM10 on it that issue went away. I know it's annoying.
Nexus ONE

Did u go to display, screen mode and change it off of adapt display
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gonnapushthru06 said:
Did u go to display, screen mode and change it off of adapt display
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Theres nothing you can do about it , its a feature in the kernel called brite and it happened on the S4 also. A dev is gonna have to make a kernel with it disabled. Its there so when the phone gets warm or hot it dims the screen automatically until phone cools back down and then full brightness comes back. There have been a couple threads on this already and i even took my first Note back and exchanged it and the second one does it too. Its software related hopefully samsung will release an update to take this feature out

breezy09 said:
Theres nothing you can do about it , its a feature in the kernel called brite and it happened on the S4 also. A dev is gonna have to make a kernel with it disabled. Its there so when the phone gets warm or hot it dims the screen automatically until phone cools back down and then full brightness comes back. There have been a couple threads on this already and i even took my first Note back and exchanged it and the second one does it too. Its software related hopefully samsung will release an update to take this feature out
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O yea I know that but it happens a lot less to the point where it isn't noticeable attached all after about a day of use
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gonnapushthru06 said:
O yea I know that but it happens a lot less to the point where it isn't noticeable attached all after about a day of use
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Yeah i unchecked everything and anything that had to do with auto-brightness and it seems to happen less now. Its just annoying i think its also in there to help preserve battery life but i bought this phone for the big bright screen hopefully a DEV will fix it with a custom stock kernel

breezy09 said:
Theres nothing you can do about it , its a feature in the kernel called brite and it happened on the S4 also. A dev is gonna have to make a kernel with it disabled. Its there so when the phone gets warm or hot it dims the screen automatically until phone cools back down and then full brightness comes back. There have been a couple threads on this already and i even took my first Note back and exchanged it and the second one does it too. Its software related hopefully samsung will release an update to take this feature out
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I think that's good news about my phone. I thought my was defective or something like that...
I did try lux and a brighter note apps, to see if that would fix the issue, but it didn't.
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Yep it's normal. Nothing you can do except keep the temp under 90F. LOL I went crazy trying to figure it out myself. Once the temp gets over 90 for me, it starts auto dimming even with everything disabled for auto-screen brightness.

Wtf is wrong with my battery life

I keep it at 60% screen brightness, could that be it?
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What do you have enabled? Maybe try shutting down Google now and location, might help some, granted shouldn't have to do that in order to get good battery life.
Might have some wake locks as well.

i dont see anything wrong with it? i keep mine at 23 and my screen time is the same as urs

No Google now or location, only settings I have on are Bluetooth, sound,sync, WiFi and rotation.
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hello00 said:
i dont see anything wrong with it? i keep mine at 23 and my screen time is the same as urs
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Look at how much battery life I have compared to yours.
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That's horrible

you cant do anything about it as long as you are using stock kernel

F4M0U569 said:
you cant do anything about it as long as you are using stock kernel
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Maybe you can

F4M0U569 said:
you cant do anything about it as long as you are using stock kernel
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What you do recommend I do? Root then what else,
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knives89 said:
Look at how much battery life I have compared to yours.
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true..nvm didnt see it..my time on is 5hrs

navlem said:
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you wont see much or any power savings from switching to a lower resolution..no matter what the resolution is your display is still having to drive all X amount of pixels that your display physically contains. get a lower power screen usually lower res ones will be lower power and thats about the only way. dimming helps too. just a few notches dimmed from full/half can make a world of difference. all the pixels will still be lit regardless of resolution used
knives89 said:
What you do recommend I do? Root then what else,
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root and wait till someone comes up with a custom kernel. that way you could control the wakelocks, cpu, voltage, gpu control etc.

knives89 said:
What you do recommend I do? Root then what else,
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After rooting, Greenify seems to make a difference.

knives89 said:
What you do recommend I do? Root then what else,
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Root and then install better battery stats and post your kernel wakelocks/partial wakelocks.
Is your phone getting good deep sleep?
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you wont see much or any power savings from switching to a lower resolution..no matter what the resolution is your display is still having to drive all X amount of pixels that your display physically contains. get a lower power screen usually lower res ones will be lower power and thats about the only way. dimming helps too. just a few notches dimmed from full/half can make a world of difference. all the pixels will still be lit regardless of resolution used
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Assuming you are right, there is still much battery savings from lowering the resolution because the processor doesn't need to push as hard to drive the lower resolution.
I've lowered mine and definitely saw a difference.

navlem said:
Assuming you are right, there is still much battery savings from lowering the resolution because the processor doesn't need to push as hard to drive the lower resolution.
I've lowered mine and definitely saw a difference.
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I though LG default apps stopped working once you lower the resolution?

4ndroid99 said:
I though LG default apps stopped working once you lower the resolution?
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Yes it does, so you have to use third party apps to replace it.

Data Enabled, LTE.
32GB Germany
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What runtime are you using? If you are on ART then I'd suggest going to Dalvik. Significant boost in battery life. My battery is quite solid.
huge picture...sorry.
Anyways, on 83% battery life, been using it today streaming music and browsing while at the office.

Im getting 2.5 to 3 hours screen time from 100%to 50% with auto brightness.

tehpud said:
What runtime are you using? If you are on ART then I'd suggest going to Dalvik. Significant boost in battery life. My battery is quite solid.
huge picture...sorry.
Anyways, on 83% battery life, been using it today streaming music and browsing while at the office.
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Dalvik has better battery life compared to ART???
Everyone says the opposite...
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