Hi,
so I got a dell streak yesterday and I love alot of things about it, but there are some things that are just really getting on my nerves...it is with rogers wireless and on a three year contract...so as soon as I got it, I did the over the air update push from android 1.6 to 2.2.1 and its alot faster abv and all that...but Ive noticed some odd things here they are:
1. Touchscreen seems over sensitive and almost jittery and sometimes it clicks the wrong thing, and yes I did calibrate the touchscreen several times through the bootloader...im a little more used to it now, but its still unacceptable..
2. The most annoying issue is around 50% of the time when I turn the device on it will not recognize the MicroSD as being plugged in and so I turn it off and simply reboot without taking ondd the cover or anything...and it works...so how just that make sense eh?
3. Im surprised that the graphics performance seems pretty bad actually...I know this device is running the Adreno 200 Graphics Chip unlike the 205 on some other smartphones..and it run the decent snapdragon processor, its odd I noticed it lagging on fruit ninja even...which is silly since its not even fully 3d
4. I had this issue with playing videos which seems to be gone for now...where if I played a video through any player (youtube, cnn, media players...etc)
it would stop on the first frame and keep playing the audio and if I forced it to fastforward it would get one more frame and the weirdest part was that it was playing with the color all messed up not negative more like the hue was different...it made peoples heads blue and stuff and it seemed to only apply to 60% of the frame...its working normally now...any ideas on these issues?
thx in advance!
Im Running:
Dell Streak 5 with Android 2.2.1 (rooted)
Has anyone experienced any momentary freezes and/or stuttering when playing games on the Maxx? I'm not sure what is going on with my Maxx because Angry Birds runs OK on it, but Fruit Ninja frequently stutters or freezes very briely when I swipe my finger blade across the screen. Maybe it's a code problem with the game but it ran flawlessly on my HTC Incredible, a much less capable device cpu/clock speed wise.
Most of the games ive played dont run that well on my maxx,but I think its the games not being compatible with the razr and there is nothing wrong with the phone.
Mine does it and I think it'll freeze when the screen/ phone gets hot, at least I noticed that on my Razr. Hard reboot fixes it all the time by holding power and down volume for at least 10 seconds
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Hi, I'm trying to connect my phone with the HDMI cable i've got in box with my full hd tv.
Everything seems to work great - except it seems that my phone slows down noticably - in games, ui responsiveness, everything - i take it may be because outputs 1080p signal to the tv and tries to upscale it?
Did anyone notice that ui responsiveness is not that smooth when the phone is connected to their tv? I was thinking there might be a way to output 720p signal to the tv instead ?
Anyone else experienced this?
It connects at 720p by default.
Ive had it connected to my Monitor at 1080 and 720 and the phone still runs great at either resolution
Can you configure how it connects ? my tv reports 1080 resolution when i plug it in.
And i have like 1/3rd of performance - especially if i try to run any game like cut the rope.
yaeh , just tested again, connects as 1080p and when its connected even scrolling of options or bringing up top dropdown bar is not fluid anymore.
What verson of firmware do you use ? Mine is 6.0.A.3.62.
Ive tried to change the "output quality" setting, but it doesnt seem to do anything in my case. I can only set scaling of phone screen on tb 80%-100% regulation.
Ok, so i've found a "scientific" measurable way to test.
In quadrant (free test in market) i get following results:
Without tv plugged in: ~3100, flyby in room with stairs 30-50 fps
With TV plugged in: ~2700, flyby in room with stairs 20-25 fps so only 50% of what i get normally and it has visible frame skip
Can someone check that on your phone and post your results?
I will give it a try as well when I am done with battery test.
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Ok, so i've found a "scientific" measurable way to test.
In quadrant (free test in market) i get following results:
Without tv plugged in: ~3100, flyby in room with stairs 30-50 fps
With TV plugged in: ~2700, flyby in room with stairs 20-25 fps so only 50% of what i get normally and it has visible frame skip
Can someone check that on your phone and post your results?
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Mine was:
Without tv plugged in: 32-42fps score: 3183
With tv plugged in: 23-26fps score: 2876
Hmmm...
ok so we do have a problem then, since your results confirm mine ....
Now i only hope this is some kind of firmware/driver issue,
Games are completly unplayable (at least for me) when phone is plugged to tv, even simple ones like Canabalt from humblebundle ....
Would be good if someone with firmware different than .62 could post their results.
Quick test with Angry Birds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auksuKwrGsE
Still on .67
Yup, I can easly see 0.5s delayed response to your finger on the movie.
Ok, any ideas what now? I'm trying to contact Sony support but so far no luck.
This is completly unacceptable for such expensive phone.
So this 0.5sec delay is what's bothering you?
Bothering? this renders this phone useless for any other gaming except things like angry birds where you dont have to react on time - besides some other games like canabalt (where you have constantly scrolling fast screen) lag and drop frames like crazy - totaly unusable. Even "cut the rope" where you need to be precise is non-playable.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czrSoosZsMg
Check out this video on Xperia Arc S - in the end they run Angry Birds Rio and there is no problem like this present.
I also think that running "ubuntu for android" and using is would be a very bad experience with this kind of issues
So yeah... im pretty bothered overall with delay and 50% framedrop.
Got response from sony support that they got notified about an issue and there will be be a firmware update in next 10 days that i hope might correct the issue.
Dziękujemy za kontakt z pomocą techniczną Sony Ericsson.
W odpowiedzi na zapytanie pragniemy Pana poinformować, iż Pańskie uwagi zostaną przekazane do odpowiedniej komórki operacyjnej i uwzględnione w najbliższej aktualizacji, która pojawi się na przełomie marca i kwietnia.
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In my case ! Since i also see this problem, I solve the problem buy not using "TV launcher" I use task manger and i kill this app and i can say that fair improve
but every phone have diffrent app installed other app my influence that as well
I got only 4 screen of apps so not alot!!!
So dont blame me if does not help
BTW
i got hdmi control setting unticked as well
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Bothering? this renders this phone useless for any other gaming except things like angry birds where you dont have to react on time
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I have to admit, that's a good point. I haven't looked at this from this point of view. Now we have to wait for fix, or maybe there is a way to make it work properly.
Yeah, its interesting to me, that the video of Xperia Arc S i've posted above seems to indicate that the phone doesnt have any issues when connected to tv. So im hoping its something easly fixable with software.
I have uploaded new, longer version now, icluding Angry Birds, Quadrant and video playback:
Sony Xperia S - HDMI TV-out delay - Angry Birds + Quadrant + Playback
Found another one as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m97iy8XEXc4
Awesome work, now it would be great if we could get attention of someone who made custom roms for Xperias - Maybe they would have a better idea whats going on. On posted videos the problem is more visible.
Im not sure if its really "input lag", i would rather blame some kind of rendering problem - input lag is probably a side effect of this.
I don't have mine yet but could it be because the phone's having to render to 2 screens (one at 720 and one at 720/1080)?. Doing this on a pc increases the load on the system even if the screens are cloned - it would be the same on the phones/tablets as well.
From the little testing I did with my Archos 70 before giving up on trying to get it doing HDMI out reliably (wonky £1 adapter at fault maybe) I found that turns the internal screen off and just uses the touch area as a trackpad so as to give maximum performance to the output.
Now the specs of the Archos 70's are a bit poor at best but it does what I want it for - playing music and video while having a nice big 250gb drive. The specs on the latest round of phones should certainly have the power to run 2 screens without issue. However, any resource intensive work (games for example) would degrade performance in such situations.
Are there any similar problems when playing back video?
Maybe try some less intensive games like Robotek or Frozen Bubble?
I would rather say, there is a delay only. When watching above videos, what comes to your mind first? Delay or lag? I would say there is a delay, because picture is rather smooth. So in that case, it would be a matter of changing some settings, rather than phone can't perform running two screens. Arc s can do it, so Xperia S should be even better.
Not having used either handset and with what you've said, I'd say it's more than likely to be a software issue somewhere. Going by Sony's recent behaviour with updates and support little problems like this should be resolved sooner rather than later.
This is what is drawing me to the Xperia for my next handset as HTC seem to just abandon things once something new is out.
Once I get mine I'll hopefully be able to help out a bit more with stock rom problems.
I've noticed this mainly when playing Max Payne and GTAIII. Of course, these are both Rockstar games. I can not reproduce the crackling under any other circumstances so far. Playing youtube, angry birds, and Skype are all fine. It's just those more intensive games that crackle.
mine is fine on GTAIII.. I just wish I could get the volume louder..
I get no volume on GTA and can't even run most hd or new games. Sucks.!
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Ladicx said:
I get no volume on GTA and can't even run most hd or new games. Sucks.!
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Delete the game cache and re download the game. It worked for me...
But I do get some crackling even when using the speaker during calls.
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I've noticed this mainly when playing Max Payne and GTAIII. Of course, these are both Rockstar games. I can not reproduce the crackling under any other circumstances so far. Playing youtube, angry birds, and Skype are all fine. It's just those more intensive games that crackle.
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It crackles for me too when I play GTAIII but I only installed it to see how well it ran
Both games crackle for me as well. Those are the only ones that do so far. Shadowgun sounds perfect, all the birds games, cut the rope, wheres my water, drag racing, to name a few that dnt have sound issues.
Experience crackling here too with Max Payne.
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So I'm trying out some games to test out this nice new GPU we've got. Nova 3 starts out running great, but over multiple tests I noticed that once the tablet heats up, the game will continue run smoothly but not register inputs for sometimes a few seconds at a time. Any similar experiences? Not sure if it's the app or the tablet. Stock rooted.
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My N9 gets REALLY hot when playing games. Upwards of 180 with Dead Trigger 2 and I've never had it freeze on me. I'll test Nova 3 when I get home and let you know what happens.
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I'm not a gamer and yet freezes on me multiple times. I'm going to try reflashing the system image and see if that helps any.
harshad.kale said:
I'm not a gamer and yet freezes on me multiple times. I'm going to try reflashing the system image and see if that helps any.
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I notice it sometimes playing Sky Force for an extended period of time. It's not so much the touch that's freezing but the whole game. It starts to lag and then freeze up for seconds at a time before resuming smoothly only to lag and freeze again at another time within the same game session.
It plays smooth as butter for at least the first 15 mins or so of gameplay, so im guessing this might have something to do with cpu throttling or whatever is controlling it.