Develop Bugs

[Q] Button push animation lag

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.

Lockscreen Wallpaper Known Issue.

The blurry/discolored wallpaper on the lockscreen is really irritating and I cannot figure out a way to fix this. I understand the ripple effect is whats causing the issue and disabling it will fix it but I don't like the standard unlock, to big and weird looking. I am actually a fan of the ripple but every wallpaper that I use looks terrible with ripple enabled.
Any roms or other Ideas on how to clear this up? Does this lockscreen wallpaper glitch affect everyone or just some of us?

this one works perfectly on mine
u have to set it to really see it

I noticed this too and it was really bothering me.
The only solution I found was to:
1) Disable the ripple effect in Settings->Lock Screen->Lock Screen Options
2) Go back to the home screen and set your lock screen wallpaper
3) Go back to the Lock Screen Options and re-enable the ripple effect.
Then you should have a nice clear photo in your lock screen with the ripple effect fully functioning. Let us know if it works for you too.

dstech said:
I noticed this too and it was really bothering me.
The only solution I found was to:
1) Disable the ripple effect in Settings->Lock Screen->Lock Screen Options
2) Go back to the home screen and set your lock screen wallpaper
3) Go back to the Lock Screen Options and re-enable the ripple effect.
Then you should have a nice clear photo in your lock screen with the ripple effect fully functioning. Let us know if it works for you too.
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Not working, can you go more in-depth in the step by step or is it not guaranteed to work?

Dim Lockscreen

Anyone know how to remove the dark overlay on the lockscreen so I can view the full brightness of my wallpaper?
Thanks

jpzsports said:
Anyone know how to remove the dark overlay on the lockscreen so I can view the full brightness of my wallpaper?
Thanks
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As far as I know, you cannot.
There is 1 way to make it less dim, set a wallpaper for the Lock screen:
Settings > Personalize > Edit current theme > Lock screen wallpaper.
If you select the same wallpaper as that for the home screen, you'll notice the diming is less.

Same issue, it piss me off. Better is enemy of good, why htc didn't leave it as it is?

omar302 said:
As far as I know, you cannot.
There is 1 way to make it less dim, set a wallpaper for the Lock screen:
Settings > Personalize > Edit current theme > Lock screen wallpaper.
If you select the same wallpaper as that for the home screen, you'll notice the diming is less.
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Thanks for tip. Unfortunately, it looks like I cannot select my live wallpaper as my Lock screen wallpaper if I try to do it that way. I use 500 Firepaper and it shows beautiful images and it's unfortunate that the lockscreen image is so dark.
nathasnajperowa said:
Same issue, it piss me off. Better is enemy of good, why htc didn't leave it as it is?
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Agreed. Or at least add in a setting that allows us to toggle it off-on.

Tablet Mode?

Is there any way to make all the apps act like the tablet version counterpart when opening the Fold? For instance, YouTube. On my S4, you can scroll through comments on the right side while watching video on the left. Also Flipboard. You can flip through screens in a Tablet, but the Fold only lets you scroll vertically when open.

You can change dpi/minimal width, if it's high enough apps get into tablet mode or even big tablet more

gman901 said:
Is there any way to make all the apps act like the tablet version counterpart when opening the Fold? For instance, YouTube. On my S4, you can scroll through comments on the right side while watching video on the left. Also Flipboard. You can flip through screens in a Tablet, but the Fold only lets you scroll vertically when open.
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yes.
even if you change the text/scaling to the Smallest in the Display Settings, its not QUITE there as a setting for "Tablet Mode". you end up at like 742 DP or something if i recall correctly.
Step #1: enabling Developer Options. -> Settings -> About Phone -> Software Information -> Tap the Build Number multiple times, until it says "You are now a Developer"
Step #2: back to Settings front page -> now, at the bottom under About Phone, you should see Developer Options -> In the Drawing portion -> Minimum Width: it should be around 742 DP like i mentioned earlier. -> now change this number to 800
changing it to 800 DP will ensure that your device will be in Tablet Mode all the time.
and since you're there in the Drawing portion: change the Window Animation Scale, Transition Animation Scale, and Animator Animation Scale to: .5x
this will cut all your animation and transition times in half.
it is the only way to use this device if you ask me.
good luck!

Thanks for the great tips!

_sC said:
yes.
even if you change the text/scaling to the Smallest in the Display Settings, its not QUITE there as a setting for "Tablet Mode". you end up at like 742 DP or something if i recall correctly.
Step #1: enabling Developer Options. -> Settings -> About Phone -> Software Information -> Tap the Build Number multiple times, until it says "You are now a Developer"
Step #2: back to Settings front page -> now, at the bottom under About Phone, you should see Developer Options -> In the Drawing portion -> Minimum Width: it should be around 742 DP like i mentioned earlier. -> now change this number to 800
changing it to 800 DP will ensure that your device will be in Tablet Mode all the time.
and since you're there in the Drawing portion: change the Window Animation Scale, Transition Animation Scale, and Animator Animation Scale to: .5x
this will cut all your animation and transition times in half.
it is the only way to use this device if you ask me.
good luck!
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I've set it to 850 and it's amazing :3

Any idea what it's set to on the front screen? I adjusted mine and I can't get it back

Tablet mode
You can simply try to change DPI for apps

colts187 said:
Any idea what it's set to on the front screen? I adjusted mine and I can't get it back
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you can try the simple way (which doesn't seem to work anymore on newer androids): turn OFF Developer Options, and Restart your Phone.
if not,
Settings -> Apps -> All -> Settings -> Storage -> Clear Data
that should do it for you. a restart after clearing might not hurt too.
good luck!

colts187 said:
Any idea what it's set to on the front screen? I adjusted mine and I can't get it back
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It is 327

Is there any way to set the front screen dp separate from the main screen? When I set the min width to 800, the front screen's app title becomes way to small to read... Or is there any way to set font size for the front screen app icons?

Question Unlock animation changed after Play System update. Anyone else see that?

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.

jrg67 said:
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?