I usually use my phone to browse 9gag for past time,
I've noticed that on some videos the screen tends to flicker (on both 60 and 120)
For example this one
It was just a joke back then - WTF
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I've tried it on a couple of browsers, eg kiwi/bromite
Not sure if it's something that I face/ is common, it's not for all videos just on some, found it a bit odd, running stock rom
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Hi, I tried to search but couldn't find anything about this problem.
The other day I was trying to record video at a kid's birthday party, and the video was somewhat long, around 6-7 minutes. Without any warning, the video stopped recording and went straight to the home screen. I tried to play the video file, but it shows up as a gray box on the phone and doesn't play on either my phone or my computer. I tried various video players.
This happened to me again, I went up to wine country and was taking a video from my car mount of the scenery as I drove down the windy roads. I stopped one video at around 5-6 minutes, the second one I didn't stop it that soon and the phone went to home screen again. Video was unplayable, same as last time.
I tried to replicate the issue recording videos, tried to push the home screen or any other buttons to replicate the issue - all times the video saved if you stopped the recording one way or another. I even tried to send myself an email to see if notifications could stop the video, didn't do anything. I recorded till around 7 minutes, and the phone went to home screen around 6:52. Same result as before.
All the files that were unplayable weren't unusually large, around 300-355 megs I believe. I'm running the stock 8gb card, and I'm rooted with baked snack 9.6. Free space on card was around 3-4 gigs each time, free space on phone roughly 80 mb. I'm using mpeg-4, all other videos I record are fine.
So is there anyways to fix this problem? It's kind of hard to always stop the phone at the right time to avoid this, and I'm wondering what's causing it in the first place. Could it be that the phone's ram is reaching capacity?
I received a DHD today and am terribly excited as this is my first smart phone!! I do have one problem though:
When playing videos on say, the BBC iPlayer website, the right part of the video has about half a centimetre of artifacts down the side. Like that part of the video is covered by smoked glass (best way I can describe it). Every video on that site is the same.
Youtube is picture perfect however. Additionally, when I use the iPlayer app or view 4OD videos on the website (in HQ) there is no artifacting on the right of the video, but instead, on the bottom (about 2mm wide).
It's consistent and happens with all the videos on those sites. No where else have I seen this problem mentioned online, which is really frustrating because I feel like the phone is perfect in every other way! I have updated to Flash 10.2 and tried different web browsers, the problem is the same in each.
I'd just like to get the video on iPlayer et al working as well as the videos on YouTube. I hope that's reasonable.
Thank you for taking the time to read this!
i'd have to double check, but im 99% sure i've had the same.
I guess it's flash, but who knows
It's really quite weird, as though it occurs in Flash 10.1 and 10.2, it seems to happen on the stock DHD browser and also the Dolphin browser. And it happens in slightly different ways whether the item is differing quality. But Youtube Flash video is absolutely perfect in all viewing options.
My DHD has come from Vodafone if that means anything!
It's a little disappointing as one would expect them to have worked out the obvious visual kinks before releasing the software! Especially as the DHD has such a cinematic display and the BBC iPlayer/Flash video is such an attractive selling point. The DHD is otherwise great to consume media on.
I'd hate to send the phone back and have the same problem with a new handset. Especially as I'm really attached to this little phone now! =)
A minor update to my saga of finickyness!
Both Dolphin and Miren browsers have the same rendering issue on BBC iPlayer (I suppose because they use the stock browser to render thingies).
Skyfire also seems to play the iPlayer videos with the minor artifact at the bottom, when in default mode and the artifacts on the right when in 'android' mode. Further research is commencing. I suppose it must be a Flash problem, but if it is, I'm surprised that no one else seems to have noticed this issue.
If any artifacts appear, your DHD most likely has a hardware issue.
I'm popping to Vodafone (later) today to see if any of the Vodafone handsets have a similar issue. Luckily I am within the 7 day period, so I can get a replacement if it's faulty.
It's a shame if it's a hardware issue. I can't fix that. =(
I solved the problem! Am posting for lawrence750 and any future users who happen upon this thread. It seems that installing Flash 10.2 and then uninstalling it fixed the issue entirely. Reinstalling Flash 10.2 causes the issue to return. I'm sticking with 10.1 until Adobe can get their act together!
Its strange that I actually originally upgraded to 10.2 on order to fix the problem in the first place, but since downgrading the videos are now picture perfect. =D
thnx for the info.will help many.
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?
I just got the Nexus 5X some 2-3 weeks ago. First week or two was smooth sailing after setting up the phone as a brand new phone in the initial setup process. I did not restore a backup from a previous phone.
Since then, I've had occasional freezing of apps like the homescreen freezes momentarily and becomes black and unresponsive only to be back to normal shortly thereafter. Likewise I had freezes with Google Music and Chrome. Today however has been my worst attack of freezing. I am reading some articles on Chrome and the bloody thing freezes like crazy. Scrolling is unresponsive and very rough, the interface becomes unresponsive. Home/Back/Recents buttons become unresponsive. I am not sure if the websites are at fault, they are salon.com and huffingtonpost.com that I am reading. And this issue seems very pronounced and doesn't go away in a short while like before. I still have the problem after like 10-15 minutes. Looks like other apps like Facebook are mostly okay, although I see a occasional slow down there.
I note that I am charging my phone while doing this browsing and I am wondering if the heating up of the phone due to charging is causing issues. Is this what people refer to as lag on this phone? Is there a solution?
EDIT: I used an app called "CPU temp" and saw the temperature to be around 39-40C. Also, I read elsewhere on XDA that the CPU is throttled at around 37C in the default kernel. So could this be why I saw all that lag? Now I don't seem to have any issues with Chrome anymore and I can navigate any page including on Salon.com fairly well although Salon is still a bit laggy on not just this but other phones I have, so their website may also have some issues.
I've noticed that, especially in Twitter and Facebook, when I try to watch a video on my 5T, it takes the phone 18-22 seconds to switch to HD. The first 20 or so seconds, the videos play in pixelated Standard Def. This happens on wifi as well as 4G, whereas my old LG G3 plays the same videos in HD right from the start. Anyone have an idea why the 5T can't do that or what I can do about it?
The problem seems to be gone in YouTube or when playing embedded video in the browser.
Thanks!
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I've been having this issue since OP3. Hasn't figured out how to fix it.