Screen Tearing After Video Playback - Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A

After extended (30+ minutes) of video playback (I typically use MX Player, but the results are identical with other players) my Nexus 7 will appear to still run fine, but during scrolling in chrome, settings, etc the screen will lag and tear (about 1/3 of the screen lags behind the other 2/3 with tearing around the intersection).
The video playback is always fine, you only see the problem after closing the app and using other programs such as the browser.
The only fix I have found so far is a reboot of the Nexus 7. I first started experiencing this after upgrading to 5.0. I have tried multiple ROMs including stock factory images as well as stock and several other kernels. Has anyone else experimenting anything like this? Any suggestions for finding a root cause?

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Seemingly Bluetooth related full lock ups

I've had my Wind Galaxy Nexus (4.0.1 - Samsung updated) for about a week.
I've had 4 complete battery pull needed lock ups, and 3 reboots.
The lock ups all happened viewing a 720p MKV in MX Player - and one of the reboots. The other two reboots happened in Google Music (just playing local files).
All times I've had a bluetooth headset connected.
Without bluetooth connected the phone has never locked up or crashed.
Is this a known issue or do I have a lemon?
I can't swear it's only bluetooth but so far that's been the issue.
I've updated ROMs on Android before, so I don't really mind doing that (and there's many nice guides here) but I didn't really see the need.
Does anyone know if going to 4.0.2 or .3 will fix this?
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[Q] Full-Screen Video Freezing

Hey guys,
Quick question on the stock video player. I have found that every once in a while, while playing a video in full-screen, that the video freezes while the audio keeps playing. Whenever this happens, the screen and buttons are both locked up, and the only way to get control of my phone back is to do a hard reset (hold down power for a few seconds). This has only happened to me when I'm in full-screen mode. A cursory search through the forums brings up similar issues on other devices (not all Samsung devices), with no answers to the questions.
I've checked to see if the videos themselves were corrupted, but it has never frozen in the same place twice (and now that I think about it, it has never frozen in the same video twice). Most of the videos I'm watching were downloaded from youtube using Tubemate v1.05.45.
I am currently running Clark's FreeGS3 v3.0.0 with stock kernal, but this same error has occurred with other Roms, and with other kernals (one being The People's Rom GS3.08).
If anyone has any information on what this might be, please let me know!
UPDATE:
The same screen-freezing just happened again, but this time when the video was not in full-screen. Just a heads up for any and all trouble-shooters that this is most-likely not limited to full-screen video playback.

Problem with youtube on Nexus 7

Hello! I am having a really annoying problem with youtube (the website m.youtube.com not the app) on my Nexus 7 2013. Basically, the problem is that it takes FOREVER to load a video. Now, I may not have the fastest internet connection in the world (far from it actually), but I can easily load a 720p video on my laptop in 5 - 7 seconds. Now on my nexus 7, the EXACT same video at 720p takes 23 - 24 seconds to load! I could turn off hd and cut about half off of that time, but then it looks like a mosaic of pixels -_- I really don't get this, as mobile youtube was always way faster than on the desktop for me. However, ever since they updated the UI (to look more like the desktop) it is so slow. I love youtube and watch it every day, so this is a big problem for me. If someone could help me, I would be really grateful! Thanks!
JakeReis said:
Hello! I am having a really annoying problem with youtube (the website m.youtube.com not the app) on my Nexus 7 2013. Basically, the problem is that it takes FOREVER to load a video. Now, I may not have the fastest internet connection in the world (far from it actually), but I can easily load a 720p video on my laptop in 5 - 7 seconds. Now on my nexus 7, the EXACT same video at 720p takes 23 - 24 seconds to load! I could turn off hd and cut about half off of that time, but then it looks like a mosaic of pixels -_- I really don't get this, as mobile youtube was always way faster than on the desktop for me. However, ever since they updated the UI (to look more like the desktop) it is so slow. I love youtube and watch it every day, so this is a big problem for me. If someone could help me, I would be really grateful! Thanks!
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Same, happens on my Nexus 7 but not on my Note 3 even though they run on the same WiFi network.
I am not sure what is causing this
I'm lucky if I can watch a video that doesn't 1: stutter or buffer 2: lockup part way through the video and 3: lockup my N7.
Sometimes clearing the cache in the app helps but most of the time it doesn't.
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fasthair said:
I'm lucky if I can watch a video that doesn't 1: stutter or buffer 2: lockup part way through the video and 3: lockup my N7.
Sometimes clearing the cache in the app helps but most of the time it doesn't.
fasthair
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I know right? Don't even get me started on trying to rewind or fast forward...it sometimes crashes my tablet so bad I have to hard reset. I wonder if it has something to do with flash? On my old kindle fire with a custom ROM and flash I have no problems. N7 doesn't have flash. Wonder if there is a relationship.
Just use the Viral app instead if YouTube! It loads real 720p faster than the sub par HD option in the original app. It also has allot of other improvements like background playback and popup play.
It never crashes for me, but buffers a lot. None of the other devices (Asus tablet, laptop, mobile) have this problem.

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I would imagine this kind of quirk (as well as the audio routing problem I've discussed in another thread) would be more likely to occur while using a non-stock ROM. Unless I am experiencing some sort of defective hardware issue, I am rather amazed that these issues would happen with the stock FireOS install. I haven't even used the phone all that much for audio and video. At some point I may be tempted to proceed to install CM11, despite it's quirks just to see if these issues would be remedied, as much as I had not wanted to.
Anyone else experience this type of problem?

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