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I've seen only scant mention of it in the general posts about reboots with ICS, but has anyone else experienced graphical anomalies/FCs while attempting to play games post-ICS? GTAIII, Dungeon Defenders, Glowball, Riptide--generally all 3D based games--will graphically glitch and FC shortly after launching or immediately upon attempting to render a 3D scene. Log outputs an error stating "page allocation failure. order:4 mode:0xd0" for the offending apps. Also, if anyone else has experienced it, is there any known remedy for this errant application behavior? My TFP is stock and unrooted.
From what I see, most of the games that have problems need to be updated. I know ics Has its bugs as well though. I can play GTAIII but havent tried dungeon defenders since update.
To be fair I didnt play GTA to much. More like just let it load to see if it works.
all i had to do in order to fix all my games was go to Options->Developer Tools and check the box for "Force GPU rendering" and it all started working for me.
GTA 3 works like a charm. As said make sure you force GPU Rendering, Run Performance Mode and close other apps. (Works great with 360 Pad)
Tip: In Developer options, Don't turn on show screen updates and scroll down or prepare for a nasty head ache. Warning not advised for people with epilepsy..
My name is Optimus Prime and I send this message..
Tried all of the suggestions. In fact, what I had done as a matter of troubleshooting was to disable "Force 2D GPU Rendering" because it's known to cause issues with applications, particularly games. I already had it enabled because without it, browsing the Netflix application is a laggy mess. The only workaround I've found so far was to completely turn the tablet off, then immediately after it's booted up again games will work until some undetermined length of time. It may be occurring because none of the applications were intended for ICS, but I'm not entirely sure since at first boot, they run better than they did on HC. I'm awaiting an official response from Asus, hopefully they've got something in the pipeline to fix this.
Interesting info. Keep us updated on what ASUS say. May have to send your baby away for a unplanned vacation :-(
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hello all, like some of you I have suffered from this issue. The browser randomly freezes during page load and then a popup appears whether you want to wait or close the app. Hitting wait makes the page load continue correctly. This is can be very annoying.
However these simple steps fixed it for me for good. This may or may not work for you, but worth a try.
1. Go to Settings > Developer Options. Make sure "Force GPU rendering" is NOT ticked. If it was ticked, untick it and then please do a cold boot. (shutdown the tablet, and then turn it on by holding Volume down and Power button together)
(if you are curious about this, check this post)
2. After the reboot, goto Settings > Apps > All. Scroll down to Browser and Force Stop it if it is running. Then hit CLEAR CACHE and then hit CLEAR DATA.
Warning: You will lose your browser history.
3. Now Launch the browser and enjoy a smoother experience.
If you are experiencing the same issue in other apps, feel free to try this approach for that app.
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hello all, like some of you I have suffered from this issue. The browser randomly freezes during page load and then a popup appears whether you want to wait or close the app. Hitting wait makes the page load continue correctly. This is can be very annoying.
However these simple steps fixed it for me for good. This may or may not work for you, but worth a try.
1. Go to Settings > Developer Options. Make sure "Force GPU rendering" is NOT ticked. If it was ticked, untick it and then please do a cold boot. (shutdown the tablet, and then turn it on by holding Volume down and Power button together)
(if you are curious about this, check this post)
2. After the reboot, goto Settings > Apps > All. Scroll down to Browser and Force Stop it if it is running. Then hit CLEAR CACHE and then hit CLEAR DATA.
3. Now Launch the browser and enjoy a smoother experience.
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I've noticed the freeze also sometimes in browser. Usually on a heavy duty site or one with alot of graphics LR whatever.
But isn't the force gpu rendering off by default. I never touched mines n checked and its off/not checked. I've still gotten same result. It happens only sometimes and I just press wait n it immediately starts working again.
a Mandroid said:
hello all, like some of you I have suffered from this issue. The browser randomly freezes during page load and then a popup appears whether you want to wait or close the app. Hitting wait makes the page load continue correctly. This is can be very annoying.
However these simple steps fixed it for me for good. This may or may not work for you, but worth a try.
1. Go to Settings > Developer Options. Make sure "Force GPU rendering" is NOT ticked. If it was ticked, untick it and then please do a cold boot. (shutdown the tablet, and then turn it on by holding Volume down and Power button together)
(if you are curious about this, check this post)
2. After the reboot, goto Settings > Apps > All. Scroll down to Browser and Force Stop it if it is running. Then hit CLEAR CACHE and then hit CLEAR DATA.
Warning: You will lose your browser history.
3. Now Launch the browser and enjoy a smoother experience.
If you are experiencing the same issue in other apps, feel free to try this approach for that app.
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***CAUTION***
Not only do you lose your browser history, you lose all bookmarks, and passwords. Basically it resets the browser to day one. Just a FYI....
demandarin said:
I've noticed the freeze also sometimes in browser. Usually on a heavy duty site or one with alot of graphics LR whatever.
But isn't the force gpu rendering off by default. I never touched mines n checked and its off/not checked. I've still gotten same result. It happens only sometimes and I just press wait n it immediately starts working again.
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Yeah, same here. Never enabled force gpu rendering, but I get the freezes.
I get better browser performance when gpu rendering is on, but I'm using Skyfire. I gave up on ICS browser due to getting occasional lockup/reboots. Perhaps 2 to 3 per day. Not as bad as many people are reporting but still annoying. Haven't had this issue since switching to Skyfire.
I get much better performance in stock browser after checking force GPU rendering to ON. Strange how all these things vary so much from Prime to Prime.
...or root your tablet and get ATP Tweak, then set the CFQ scheduler. I haven't seen a wait since.
Doktaphex said:
I get much better performance in stock browser after checking force GPU rendering to ON. Strange how all these things vary so much from Prime to Prime.
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I have noticed this also.......
soulctcher said:
...or root your tablet and get ATP Tweak, then set the CFQ scheduler. I haven't seen a wait since.
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I'm currently testing this out now. We will See.
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I'm currently testing this out now. We will See.
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It seems CFQ is also not free from issues - its causing random crashes in Shadowgun and riptide according to this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1473520&page=6
It worked for me thanks
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It worked for me thanks
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Excellent - thats good news that the approach worked - lets hope we can all resolve these subtle issues to get the max out of this amazing tablet...
cheers
Thread started to hopefully draw Asus' attention to one of the most annoying issues on the Prime, the "Browser not responding" error that seems to occur on almost any browser. I have turned flash to "on demand" which has helped a bit, but honestly, getting this message every 5-10 minutes is really annoying.
Sign on if you have this issue on your $500 Asus transformer prime too.
OMG this issue is sooo ANNOYING. I love my prime, but the constant pauses make me embarrased to show it to anyone. It looks a lot like hardware fault though, my galaxy s had the same issue and it was due to very slow flash writes(internal hardware, not adobe flash). It had an sd card soldered to the board for its internal memory and bascially any write would block the whole system for a second or two. It was fixed by some internal kernel changes and moving to ext4.
As noted in several other threads...there is a workaround.
In the browser, from the menu -> Settings -> Advanced -> Enable Plug-ins
Make sure it's set to "On demand"
Since changing this setting things for me have been pretty smooth.
I didn't have to do the On demand for the Galaxy S2 as it was perfectly find with it plugs ins on all the time.
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thread started to hopefully draw asus' attention to one of the most annoying issues on the prime, the "browser not responding" error that seems to occur on almost any browser. I have turned flash to "on demand" which has helped a bit, but honestly, getting this message every 5-10 minutes is really annoying.
Sign on if you have this issue on your $500 asus transformer prime too.
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this is annoying..i try not to be whiner being nothing is perfect..but damn the browswer...workaround doesnt do anything either...i've tried all the other browsers and they're no better...hoping it gets fixed
It's sad that my HTC Thunderbolt, single core @ 1.4 ghz, can browse full desktop websites with flash enabled without slow down compared to TFP.
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Thread started to hopefully draw Asus' attention to one of the most annoying issues on the Prime, the "Browser not responding" error that seems to occur on almost any browser. I have turned flash to "on demand" which has helped a bit, but honestly, getting this message every 5-10 minutes is really annoying.
Sign on if you have this issue on your $500 Asus transformer prime too.
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kdn102 said:
As noted in several other threads...there is a workaround.
In the browser, from the menu -> Settings -> Advanced -> Enable Plug-ins
Make sure it's set to "On demand"
Since changing this setting things for me have been pretty smooth.
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I have tried the 'workaround' and can confirm that is not a true workaround. While it does seem to slightly reduce the number of occurrences it does not eliminate the annoying popup altogether. The OP also stated that he has tried this. Who knows, maybe this is something that varies from one device to the next.
Sometimes I wonder if its the bad i/o in combination with the Plus-1 of Nvidia's 4-Plus-1 that makes the browser tank. The slow i/o causes the Plus-1 to come into effect and the transfers slow even more due to reduce cpu speeds.
Factory reset solved this issue for me....Browser would hang and get popup...after reset stock browser loads pages with no hangs. Use Titanium Backup data only!
This happens in a couple applications for me. The browser (doesn't matter which one I use) and Pulse both have this problem. Both constantly give me the "not responding - wait or close" message. This is either a wifi related issue or an overworked ninja core, I don't know which.
I have faith that Asus will fix this with software eventually - along with the "process.android.media has stopped." I just wish they'd get to it a bit faster.
kdn102 said:
As noted in several other threads...there is a workaround.
In the browser, from the menu -> Settings -> Advanced -> Enable Plug-ins
Make sure it's set to "On demand"
Since changing this setting things for me have been pretty smooth.
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...this is most definitely not a workaround.
agzela said:
Factory reset solved this issue for me....Browser would hang and get popup...after reset stock browser loads pages with no hangs. Use Titanium Backup data only!
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This is good info. I was trying to hold out on rooting mine but if its gonna fix this browser issue I'm just about willing. I didnt get the part about using TB "only"..what does that mean ??
ShamelessMT said:
This happens in a couple applications for me. The browser (doesn't matter which one I use) and Pulse both have this problem. Both constantly give me the "not responding - wait or close" message. This is either a wifi related issue or an overworked ninja core, I don't know which.
I have faith that Asus will fix this with software eventually - along with the "process.android.media has stopped." I just wish they'd get to it a bit faster.
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A lot of the evidence shows that it's not a wifi or processor issue -- more likely a memory I/O issue with the writes/reads to memory.
It can happen on my apps without any internet use or wifi and it happens even when I overclock the CPU.
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Lyvewire said:
This is good info. I was trying to hold out on rooting mine but if its gonna fix this browser issue I'm just about willing. I didnt get the part about using TB "only"..what does that mean ??
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It means when restoring stuff after a hard reset, don't restore the entire app... reinstall the app as normal and then only restore data... the thinking is that a unclean install will reintroduce problems into the OS.
Chiming in just to say
1. I get this error message, often
2. it has gotten worse with the last update
3. there is also a lot of lag in typing as well. Sometimes I can type a word before it shows up and then all of the sudden the browser catches up
I always did a factory reset after a firmware upgrade and manually redownloaded my apps from the play store. The unit was set not to restore any settings stored on google's servers.
Its as clean as it could be but the browser is what it is.
I am thinking of taking a big loss on the unit and switching to the Galaxy note 10.1 if those Exynos 4412 rumors come true.
hmmm, this must be device specific, after resetting mine, wiping, and installing
I very rarely get browser lag with a good wifi connection
"Browser not responding" is not my only issue with the browser. It's laggy when scrolling, and it also use very long time to load websites. Anyone else who has the same issues?
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Factory reset cut it down for me but only after i changed plug in to "on demand" that it got rid of it. Maybe the combination of both did the trick.
Edit: placebo. Just happened again. Replicated by going to www.engadget.com full site and as its loading i tried scrolling a few times and the browser locked up. Got the wait pop up afterwards. This is plugin set to on demand.
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Never ever once ever had any lag or browser not responding messages. You guys must be doing something wrong.
I'm on stock but rooted 9.4.2.21
btw try quick ics browser off the market. It's like stock on steroids.
Have never had this issue with browser. Plenty of times with other apps though
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Hey guys. I believe that the os21 update has a bad memory leak/background processing management(besides a kernal issue). When playing heavy 3d games like Nova 3 or Sonic, the framerates are really slow or stutter a lot until the games force-close. Well, for the past 2 days, I have not had this issue, both Nova 3 and Sonic play with no stuttering at all, and I have not experienced any more game crashes. My browser also seems much smoother. Please try the two fix options listed below, while noting that the 2nd option seems to work best with mass Efeect, and less "strict" on runnig processes than the first option:
Fix #1- What I did was push the soft reset button on the Prime (using a small paperclip), then waited for the Prime to reboot. Once it rebooted, DO NOT let the Prime load up anything, just immediately go into settings, developer options, select the kill all activities option, then for background processes, select "at most 1 process only" Delete all of your running task managers/task widgets an that's it. Now all of my games run, no crashes, and the framerates for Nova 3 and Sonic is MUCH better.
Fix# 2 - For those still having issues with Mass Effect, this alternate setting will definitely fix the problem. After soft rebooting, go into development settings, and then for background processes, select "at most 1 process only" and DO NOT select kill all processes after leaving them. This setting has been confirmed to fix the Mass Effect issue, as well as all other games while still keeping the Prime running a lot smoother.
Please try using the exact instructions that I have posted, and let me know if this works for you guys. If so, then it proves that the os21 has a memory management issue which is causing all the current issues we are having.
Also, I would like to share this post from Jaycustom, whom has also been using this method for a few days now and enjoying it more than myself lol. He ran a CPU test to test the differences before and after my fix. See his results below:
Default settings said I had about 19 user/ 29 system processes running.
Dev settings gave me 14 user/ 11 system processes running.
Default settings for system memory 600+mb used/300+ free
Dev settings for system memory 300+ used/600+ free
The memory usage was pretty much exactly reversed! So I assume this is where most, but not all, of the performance boost comes from. CPU usage was also lower, not by much though.
See the video that I made (link below)showing me using the default browser, which is now really fast and stable using this method. I also ran Mass Effect 3 and Nova 3 to show that I have no issues playing these games anymore. I used a Samsung Galaxy tab to record, so please re-frame from laughing at the quality of the vid lol! If you guys would like me to try more games/apps, please let me know.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iperCmEH4t4&feature=youtu.be
Thanks guys
Nova 3 is still freezing and crashing, frame rate is still same.... I think tehere is no solution untill FailLoft will update the app for tegra 3.
mibo666 said:
Nova 3 is still freezing and crashing, frame rate is still same.... I think tehere is no solution untill FailLoft will update the app for tegra 3.
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Sorry to hear that it didnt work for you, but it seems to have resolved the issue for me entirely. I am not exeriencing any more gam crashes or white flashing screens. Are you sure that you followed the stes listed? Waiting for others to rely, but either my Prime just decided to play all my games correctly, or this is "fix" is working for me.
This is not an acceptable fix, it is only a workaround.
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This is not an acceptable fix, it is only a workaround.
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Yes I agree 100%, but it works. At least we can play some of our games/browse without issue until the fix comes out. Did you try it, and did it work for you?
MRCANNADY said:
Yes I agree 100%, but it works. At least we can play some of our games/browse without issue until the fix comes out. Did you try it, and did it work for you?
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I'll have to try this out tonight. To clarify, when you say "do not let it load up anything", do you just mean go into the settings as soon as possible and kill things? It must start running services as soon as it boots, no? I guess this just minimizes the "damage"?
Hi, I've just tried this and it doesn't seem to have had much of an effect I'm afraid.
In the last 10 mins I've still had two spontaneous browser shutdowns, plus crappy streaming video playback from sites such as bbc iplayer.
The pages seem to load a little faster and scrolling may be a touch smoother but thats about it the best I can say.
This solution works well for me. I have been doing this for some time, except I have limited the processes to three. Limiting it to one seems to improve it even better. Widgets seem also to be a drain on the resources and limiting those works well for me. Much thanks for the post.
You might also try this solution from here post #118 :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1681469&page=12
It seems to have worked for me, I've only had one reboot since. It's at least worth a try. Good luck.
seeknom said:
I'll have to try this out tonight. To clarify, when you say "do not let it load up anything", do you just mean go into the settings as soon as possible and kill things? It must start running services as soon as it boots, no? I guess this just minimizes the "damage"?
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yes exactly.. this is the way it worked for me. Just immediately go into setting, and select the options that i listed. This will only allow the essential programs to run. Please let me know if this works for you. Also, switch the prime to performance for graphic heavy games. Still testing this, but so far I have not have any crashes since applying.
ksharp4444 said:
This solution works well for me. I have been doing this for some time, except I have limited the processes to three. Limiting it to one seems to improve it even better. Widgets seem also to be a drain on the resources and limiting those works well for me. Much thanks for the post.
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Thanks for confirm this. Yes, my Prime is no longer lagging when browsing or crashing during gameplay..the difference is honestly night and day. Just confirms for me that .21 is not handling the background processes, or closing them correctly.
jemberton said:
Hi, I've just tried this and it doesn't seem to have had much of an effect I'm afraid.
In the last 10 mins I've still had two spontaneous browser shutdowns, plus crappy streaming video playback from sites such as bbc iplayer.
The pages seem to load a little faster and scrolling may be a touch smoother but thats about it the best I can say.
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Hey, do you happen to have the sticky player app installed by any chance?
No I've never used sticky player app.
I've been toying with the idea of factory resetting and trying this. I'll see how it goes tonight
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No I've never used sticky player app.
I've been toying with the idea of factory resetting and trying this. I'll see how it goes tonight
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you shouldn't have to factory reset, that would suck
Can you try the soft reset option again? Once it's done, update the setting as listed and try the Prime on performance mode. If that doesn't help, then you may have a bad app which is hogging on your resources and causing the slowdown/crashes.
This procedure also seems to improve on the strength of the Wi-Fi signal. At least on mine it does.
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This procedure also seems to improve on the strength of the Wi-Fi signal. At least on mine it does.
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Maybe it's just because the Prime is loading pages a lot faster because there aren't so many things running in the background now. it would be cool though if this also fixed wifi, maybe someone should do a speed test for before and after the fix?
I just tried the default browser again. It does not lag/stutter when scrolling through the pages anywhere near like it used to. it's not as smooth as opera mini, but it's a LOT better than before. Still no game crashes at all since doing this. I can post vids for anyone who would like to see proof after work.
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you shouldn't have to factory reset, that would suck
Can you try the soft reset option again? Once it's done, update the setting as listed and try the Prime on performance mode. If that doesn't help, then you may have a bad app which is hogging on your resources and causing the slowdown/crashes.
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I was gonna do one anyway, just to start from scratch with a blank slate and get it set up how I want it!
After resetting, and before any apps are downloaded the browser is working much much better once the settings you recommend are applied. Loading and scrolling is faster and there have been no force closes or video hangups.
Cheers, I look forward to this .28 update but thats helped me out a lot in the meantime!
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I was gonna do one anyway, just to start from scratch with a blank slate and get it set up how I want it!
After resetting, and before any apps are downloaded the browser is working much much better once the settings you recommend are applied. Loading and scrolling is faster and there have been no force closes or video hangups.
Cheers, I look forward to this .28 update but thats helped me out a lot in the meantime!
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Great to hear! yes, my Prime seems much quicker with touch inputs, scrolling, gaming and web browsing. Must of been a bad memory issue along with the kernel for .21.
just did this ans seems to work very well. i was getting around 12-15mbs and now im getting 32mbs in the garage with only 1 bar. im very happy with that. thanks for sharing.
Okay, so as of yesterday, march 27, I have been having severe issues with my display becoming an extremely low resolution and pixelated to the point where nothing is legible or recognizable.
I've included a link to two two screenshots and their descriptions are as follows...
Picture 1, final Fantasy brave exvius main loading screen
Picture 2, Vainglory mode select screen
Picture 3, clash of clans loading screen.
I've done a factory reset, wiped all data under the sun from my phone. Installed and reinstalled games repeatedly but no fix. Can't seem to find a solution anywhere.
I've tried optimizing graphics apps but no bueno. Even tried battery optimization off for all apps. No fix. Only on game apps. Everything else runs as it should.
Please assist if a solution has been found for an issue as this.
Edit okay so I can't post links so message me if interested and I can send you the photos.
My post here helped me.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/an...y-graphics-t3769995/post76046555#post76046555
I tried Game Tuner just for the sake of it, but it blurs me again somehow. So no, I won't use Game Tuner (I never did, anyway.)
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My post here helped me.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/an...y-graphics-t3769995/post76046555#post76046555
I tried Game Tuner just for the sake of it, but it blurs me again somehow. So no, I won't use Game Tuner (I never did, anyway.)
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I tried reverting the game optimization back to its original version by uninstalling updates, clearing the factory default gameservice cache. It causes occasional flashing on game restarts and I have to repatriation the process, but resolves the the lower resolution issue.
I very much appreciate the call out on the other thread!
However I run into the slight annoyance of having to do this several times during a normal day of usage. It never actually saves the setting. I do not have root access as this is the factory Verizon build for marshmallow. (I wouldn't be able to do that on this worn thing).
Caveat: along with the "ghost" reapplying the game optimization services update and causing it all to happen again, what would be a good recommendate on for keeping the service at a factory setting?
Edit: skipped that infernal game Tuner altogether. It proved trivial to what the issue actually is...and was useless in the entire process.
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I tried reverting the game optimization back to its original version by uninstalling updates, clearing the factory default gameservice cache. It causes occasional flashing on game restarts and I have to repatriation the process, but resolves the the lower resolution issue.
I very much appreciate the call out on the other thread!
However I run into the slight annoyance of having to do this several times during a normal day of usage. It never actually saves the setting. I do not have root access as this is the factory Verizon build for marshmallow. (I wouldn't be able to do that on this worn thing).
Caveat: along with the "ghost" reapplying the game optimization services update and causing it all to happen again, what would be a good recommendate on for keeping the service at a factory setting?
Edit: skipped that infernal game Tuner altogether. It proved trivial to what the issue actually is...and was useless in the entire process.
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Hmm, someone have another solution. You can test it here https://forum.xda-developers.com/an...y-graphics-t3769995/post76046555#post76046555