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Laggy homescreen and gaming

The homescreen is quite noticeably not a smooth 60fps, it stutters and with the overlay enabled in developer settings, can see the framerate drops alot. Especially in freestyle layout mode. Also a lot of games stutter and don't run at a smooth framerate - for example monument valley. Does anyone else get this? Im on stock rom latest update

andy010101 said:
The homescreen is quite noticeably not a smooth 60fps, it stutters and with the overlay enabled in developer settings, can see the framerate drops alot. Especially in freestyle layout mode. Also a lot of games stutter and don't run at a smooth framerate - for example monument valley. Does anyone else get this? Im on stock rom latest update
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This is completely dependent on your OS, applications, widgets on screen, running apps, cpu state and the speed you're using your device.. If its really congested and you're running a tonne of apps then you'll perhaps have some slow downs, if you're using a custom kernel and you've lowered the up cpu threshold then that will too have an impact, honestly I'd leave it on stock and minimise the amount of widgets (especially lives ones) you have on your desktops, anything with transparency will have an impact too.
Gaming wise, I have to say this phone is rock solid.
The only game that it couldn't run is dolphin which is a gamecube emulator, running zelda the windwaker.
But I think that's down to optimization rather that anything else.
What set up do you have? Custom rom? Stock? Kernel? Lots or not a lot of apps?

my runs smooth on games, emulators, home screens, videos, taking and recording pictures and video, everything. ive been very happy with its performance, completely stock and running custom roms on my Verizon Variant, viper is my favorite now after last few updates.

I'm also satisfied with my HTC 10 performance, runs smooth (everything stock), but I notice that some games are a bit laggy (like Realracing 3, even if I lower the resolution to FullHD in the Boost+ app).
I wonder if I would get better framerates with the CleanSlate kernel that has Adrenoboost feature, but I'm not to keen on rooting my device because then you can't install OTA updates anymore.

Im running on the stock rom straight from the box, no custom rom or everything
, every game I have tried so far runs awful, massive framerate drops with or without boost. I have compared my framerate in asphalt 8 to this video, with an fps counter, and I get much worse framerates, usually around low 20s, dropping to teens. I don't have powersaving enabled
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nks2pE_U_PY

andy010101 said:
Im running on the stock rom straight from the box, no custom rom or everything
, every game I have tried so far runs awful, massive framerate drops with or without boost. I have compared my framerate in asphalt 8 to this video, with an fps counter, and I get much worse framerates, usually around low 20s, dropping to teens. I don't have powersaving enabled
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Anything in HTC's ROM seems to cripple Adrenoboost of the GPU. While on other devices it works perfectly and is reaching up to 60 fps, it doesn't on the HTC 10. It doesn't bother me, as I'm not a heavy gamer, but if you're in need to change it, you could use a custom kernel, as e.g. CleanSlate by @tbalden.
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5m4r7ph0n36uru said:
Anything in HTC's ROM seems to cripple Adrenoboost of the GPU. While on other devices it works perfectly and is reaching up to 60 fps, it doesn't on the HTC 10. It doesn't bother me, as I'm not a heavy gamer, but if you're in need to change it, you could use a custom kernel, as e.g. CleanSlate by @tbalden.
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I hope HTC fixes that with some OTA.
Anyway, would the High performance mode in the developer options help the framerate?

CroCop18 said:
I hope HTC fixes that with some OTA.
Anyway, would the High performance mode in the developer options help the framerate?
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As I'm on Viper10, Stock, pnp thermal tweak, or Viper 10 and CleanSlate Kernel. So I can't tell if it would work. The CleanSlate kernel fixes the problem quite well, so I'll use it until HTC maybe fixed the issue as long as I'm gaming and the other config I'll use as my daily driver.
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Can anyone that has no custom rom test the framerate on the first map of asphalt 8 and report back?

afuller42 said:
my runs smooth on games, emulators, home screens, videos, taking and recording pictures and video, everything. ive been very happy with its performance, completely stock and running custom roms on my Verizon Variant, viper is my favorite now after last few updates.
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Try to running windwaker on dolphin. Would love to play thar

dladz said:
Try to running windwaker on dolphin. Would love to play thar
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I use mupenfs haven't tried it on 10 yet

andy010101 said:
The homescreen is quite noticeably not a smooth 60fps, it stutters and with the overlay enabled in developer settings, can see the framerate drops alot. Especially in freestyle layout mode. Also a lot of games stutter and don't run at a smooth framerate - for example monument valley. Does anyone else get this? Im on stock rom latest update
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Do u use sd card
If yes which class, coz i noticed that it can slow the device

I hope htc support team improve the performance and fix the lag issues by updates.
This is an awful bug .May htc solve this in the android 7 update .

Slow SD card like someone else said.
Try it without one.
Maybe your hardware is faulty in some way.
Also try to set all clocks to a constant maximum. So you see if you have the power or not.
Maybe a fake device?

120Hz support for Chrome

Is there currently a way to have Chrome take advantage of the 120Hz refresh rate? While I have 120Hz selected on my S20+ I noticed Chrome scrolling wasn't as smooth as in other apps.
Going to https://testufo.com/ confirms my observations as it reports 60Hz. It does work properly in the Samsung browser despite giving stutter warnings.

Weird, testufo is reporting 120Hz on Chrome for me.
S20+, ATBM, all current.

corwin_amber said:
Weird, testufo is reporting 120Hz on Chrome for me.
S20+, ATBM, all current.
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Are you using the main version of Chrome or Chrome beta? Main version here
Edit - While I've noticed scrolling smoothness issues in Chrome before, I force closed the browser and re-launched it and it's working. I'll see if it's just an intermittent thing or something

Haven't had it drop down to 60Hz in Chrome, but scrolling is still really bad! Might just stick with the Samsung browser or something at this point (I like the layout of the Edge browser, but there's too many issues with it otherwise)

I have to say that I prefer the Samsung browser anyway: It has a good dark mode and it supports ad blocking plugins. But that is a personal preference.

corwin_amber said:
I have to say that I prefer the Samsung browser anyway: It has a good dark mode and it supports ad blocking plugins. But that is a personal preference.
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I just might try it out - as long as 1Password works with it (I'll check)
Update - yes it does! Now to install the Chrome bookmark sync extension on my desktop. Thanks!
Update 2 - scrolling performance is even worse on the Samsung browser! Guess I'll just have to live with this issue for now.

Sometimes when the phone is too hot, it will change back to 60Hz and may have the significantly lags.
I've also experieced the same problem after I do the wireless charging and the back of the phone got so hot, and the chipset (Exynos) got thermal throttling. The phone became very laggy and when I checked with screen info, it went down to 60Fps.

Unless my eyes are tricking me, Firefox seems to be showing me 120hz smoothness? Tried a few different sites to check. Got a few extensions installed, too.

Question How to Force All the apps to get 120Hz?

Hello sfu,
I alr set my display to 120Hz, but does it mean I am getting 120Hz on all my settings ??
If not, how do I force all the apps to get 120HZ?
Thank You.

Isn't it always 120Hz? Check with the app that display refresh rate. But the last time I checked, everytime it was 118-120Hz.

Nate91 said:
Isn't it always 120Hz? Check with the app that display refresh rate. But the last time I checked, everytime it was 118-120Hz.
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some apps revert it back to 60hz, like youtube, google photos, netflix. Recents apps page is 90hz

You need to delete battery app data.You will have yt and all aps on 120hz but after some time it reverts on 60hz and you need to delete it again.

djuroue1 said:
You need to delete battery app data.You will have yt and all aps on 120hz but after some time it reverts on 60hz and you need to delete it again.
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That's troublesome though, is there any other way to make it permanent to 120Hz ???
Why it keep on reverts to 60hz?

That is the question for Poco.

I believe the idea is to keep battery usage to a minimum... Apps that don't natively make use of the 120Hz are switched back to 60Hz in favor or battery life. In short 120Hz is actually adaptive refresh rate.

I thought it was an adaptative screen freqency rate but actually, we only have the option to set to 60Hz or 120Hz. Only. Or did I miss something ?

Morak75 said:
I thought it was an adaptative screen freqency rate but actually, we only have the option to set to 60Hz or 120Hz. Only. Or did I miss something ?
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According to the GSMarena review, F3 has variable refresh rate, it will automatically change between 60,90 and 120HZ. This guide will lock it on 90hz

robocopvn said:
According to the GSMarena review, F3 has variable refresh rate, it will automatically change between 60,90 and 120HZ. This guide will lock it on 90hz
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So why in settings I only see 60Hz or 120Hz and nothing about 'switching' 'variable' etc ? :s

Morak75 said:
So why in settings I only see 60Hz or 120Hz and nothing about 'switching' 'variable' etc ? :s
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Just put it on high (120hz). It will automatically reduce to 90hz or 60hz depends on what shown on the screen and how you interact with the screen.
For example, when you're watching a website, reading text, it will automatically put back on 60hz. And when you touch the screen (for example, to scroll the website) it push back on 120hz

Question Experiencing stuttering and performance issues

Hello,
I've had this phone for a week and while there are certain things I love about it (the fingerprint scanner and the cameras are amazing as you all know), I've been very disappointed with the phone's performance. In my case, the phone has a lot of hiccups and stuttering while browsing through menus and in particular, the screen has a delay and slows down if you're opening menus while you have youtube or the camera app or any kind of media open. If I had to describe it, it's as if the display slows to less than 60 hz while trying to play animations, with everything becoming slow and jagged and laggy, although I have set it permanently to 120 hz. The smoothness just isn't there and I noticed that if I open a youtube video and hit stop, the phone becomes decently smooth in menus, but as soon as I hit play, it slows down right away.
It's particularly strange since the phone does not overheat as I've read it does for some people, yet it has those performance issues even while playing videos at a lower resolution. Sometimes I get the same delay and lag even in basic apps such as messenger while typing. The scores I get in benchmark apps are the same I see in reviews, yet in real-world use, it's less smooth than a mid-range, not to mention other flagships. Hell, I still have my Oneplus 7 pro and that's way smoother and you don't even notice when you have youtube in the background.
Did anyone else experience that? Returning the phone would be quite a big hassle at this point, so I'm hoping there's something else I could do. I've tried all kinds of things like resetting the phone, allowing full access to battery for most apps and other similar measures, but I'm willing to try more.
Thanks.

Go to Developer settings > Running services
Running services is basically a task manager for Android
You can also terminate tasks in there
First active Developer settings. In case you don't already know.
Go-to Settings
Scroll down to about phone
In about phone go to build number and tap it multiple times until it says "you're now a developer!"
Go to outside of about phone and Developer settings will be below About Phone.

Hey, thanks for the reply.
Everything seems to be fine in terms of resource usage, or at least nothing seems to use a ton of resources.
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"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

valiiii4 said:
Hey, thanks for the reply.
Everything seems to be fine in terms of resource usage, or at least nothing seems to use a ton of resources.
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You can click on the settings (three dots) on the top right corner and click "Show cached Processes", maybe the system is not getting rid of old cache data.

Confused Gamer said:
You can click on the settings (three dots) on the top right corner and click "Show cached Processes", maybe the system is not getting rid of old cache data.
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Okay, so I've discovered the main issue, but nothing that works to fix it yet. Thanks to your tip of using developer options, I activated the show refresh rate option and sure enough, it drops to 60 hz or lower in a lot of apps, despite me having it set at 120 hz permanently.
Now I know youtube and a lot of apps only support 60 hz, but the strange thing is that the entire screen drops to 60hz while using them. For example, if I check my notifcations or do anything else with the dropdown menu, the display just slows down in menus. As a reference, whenever I used youtube on my old One Plus 7 pro, the dropdown menu was always smooth and set at 90hz even while running youtube or other apps.
I've tried some apps like SmartHerz, Setedit and forcing 120 hz through ADB commands on the Vivo X80 pro, but I've had no luck yet. At least I know what to focus on, thank you for the tips.

valiiii4 said:
Okay, so I've discovered the main issue, but nothing that works to fix it yet. Thanks to your tip of using developer options, I activated the show refresh rate option and sure enough, it drops to 60 hz or lower in a lot of apps, despite me having it set at 120 hz permanently.
Now I know youtube and a lot of apps only support 60 hz, but the strange thing is that the entire screen drops to 60hz while using them. For example, if I check my notifcations or do anything else with the dropdown menu, the display just slows down in menus. As a reference, whenever I used youtube on my old One Plus 7 pro, the dropdown menu was always smooth and set at 90hz even while running youtube or other apps.
I've tried some apps like SmartHerz, Setedit and forcing 120 hz through ADB commands on the Vivo X80 pro, but I've had no luck yet. At least I know what to focus on, thank you for the tips.
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Well at least you were able to narrow down the issue, hope it's easily fixable because the X80 Pro isn't a cheap android device, I certainly hoped it would come with good software.

Vivo implantation of LTPO panel seems to be bad and very laggy.
For reference, mine ROG6 is so much faster than the x80 pro it's not funny, and ALL the apps staying at my chosen refresh rate(unless it's hard coded to use a fixed value).
I'm on A13 beta atm, and i hope they'll fix it asap.

Yeah, it's such a shame to see this amazing hardware being held back by its software.

valiiii4 said:
Okay, so I've discovered the main issue, but nothing that works to fix it yet. Thanks to your tip of using developer options, I activated the show refresh rate option and sure enough, it drops to 60 hz or lower in a lot of apps, despite me having it set at 120 hz permanently.
Now I know youtube and a lot of apps only support 60 hz, but the strange thing is that the entire screen drops to 60hz while using them. For example, if I check my notifcations or do anything else with the dropdown menu, the display just slows down in menus. As a reference, whenever I used youtube on my old One Plus 7 pro, the dropdown menu was always smooth and set at 90hz even while running youtube or other apps.
I've tried some apps like SmartHerz, Setedit and forcing 120 hz through ADB commands on the Vivo X80 pro, but I've had no luck yet. At least I know what to focus on, thank you for the tips.
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Any luck forcing refresh rate to 120 Hz ? I tried different options too but none of them work. Due to LTPO , the refresh rate keeps dropping to 24 Hz when there is no touch which is expected IF smart switch is selected. However since they have given an option to CHOOSE 120 Hz in settings then it should be forced even if it means more battery consumption. Currently that setting has little meaning.

Narendra_B said:
Any luck forcing refresh rate to 120 Hz ? I tried different options too but none of them work. Due to LTPO , the refresh rate keeps dropping to 24 Hz when there is no touch which is expected IF smart switch is selected. However since they have given an option to CHOOSE 120 Hz in settings then it should be forced even if it means more battery consumption. Currently that setting has little meaning.
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No luck here, the option really is pointless and none of the tools that work to force the screen refresh rate for other phones work for Vivo at least from what I've tried. It's even stranger that the entire screen drops to 60 Hz throughout the menus as well, my One Plus 7 Pro kept the scrolling and the drop-down menu smooth at 90 Hz even while running apps like YouTube, but the X80 Pro just slows everything down.

valiiii4 said:
No luck here, the option really is pointless and none of the tools that work to force the screen refresh rate for other phones work for Vivo at least from what I've tried. It's even stranger that the entire screen drops to 60 Hz throughout the menus as well, my One Plus 7 Pro kept the scrolling and the drop-down menu smooth at 90 Hz even while running apps like YouTube, but the X80 Pro just slows everything down.
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Yes , if a Youtube video is playing then the Menu (Settings) screen drops 60 Hz. Otherwise its at 120 Hz if you are scrolling etc.

What's strange is that people are able to force OnePlus 10 Pro displays to 120 Hz refresh rate from what I've seen using apps like Setedit or ADB commands and that phone has an LTPO 2 screen. Not sure whether it's the LTPO 3 that makes those not work for X80 Pro or whether it's something from Vivo themselves.

valiiii4 said:
What's strange is that people are able to force OnePlus 10 Pro displays to 120 Hz refresh rate from what I've seen using apps like Setedit or ADB commands and that phone has an LTPO 2 screen. Not sure whether it's the LTPO 3 that makes those not work for X80 Pro or whether it's something from Vivo themselves.
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It is likely Vivo's implementation. Afterall Its a variable refresh rate and Vivo can force it to 120 Hz if a setting is provided.

Hey guys I found a solution, kind of. Use brightness below a certain level, ltpo won't activate
I'm using around 30 percent, I checked using show refresh rate from dev options. If it's around 30 it stays 120 no matter which app you open. Also setting peak refresh rate to 1 in setedit helps. Good luck. I'll update once I find an option to stop ltpo from working using setedit or something. Plz reply if you know any better solution. Cheerio!

Question [HELP] Youtube video distortion

Hello, Im currently using Xiaomi 13 Pro with Global version and running MIUI14. I am having a problem while watching in youtube about distortion or large pixels randomly appear in the video. Anyone experiencing it and possible solution? it is kinda annoying and its just in youtube, other streaming have no problems like primevideo, netflix and disney+. you may check my attached screenshot for reference

Have you tried to turn off MEMC and other boost image quality features that Xiaomi enabled by default?

zSyntex said:
Have you tried to turn off MEMC and other boost image quality features that Xiaomi enabled by default?
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Hi, can you guide me what to turn off?

diaven said:
Hi, can you guide me what to turn off?
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Just disable them from Display Settings

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Just disable them from Display Settings
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I did played the settings under display, but none of it fix the pixelation on my video. any other work around?

diaven said:
I did played the settings under display, but none of it fix the pixelation on my video. any other work around?
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Me too have the same issue. Haven't find any solution yet

Can you share the link YouTube you have it? So I can compare with a different device.

Hello, I have a xiaomi poco f3 and experienced something similar but worse (youtube videos showing weird pixels and colors or noise like display at parts of the video, like a broken tv signal). I tried moving from miui 14 to a custom pixel OS but it did not solve the issue. Another thing I experienced is that 240p and below it was working flawlessly, anything above and I'd get the glitches. Likewise, other platforms like twitch.tv worked perfectly. Trying revanced youtube, root version or not, did not work for me. I pinpointed the problem to the vp9 codec, which is used by youtube videos when setting resolution above 240p. The following things worked for me:
a) Whats your refresh rate? Try setting it at 120hz at all times (other options like setting it automatically or per app won't do, for my pixelOS, it was "force peak refresh rate" in Display settings). This solution worked for me globally, including the youtube app, but increases battery consumption.
b) Browser only solution, that works without forcing max refresh rate at all times (and thus saving battery): use the enhanced-h264ify extension, available for android only for kiwi browser, afaik. There, in the addon options, block vp8, vp9 and av1 (iirc they all came pre checked)