Just wanted to inform everyone that a netflix update just went out. It improved the UI choppiness a little bit... but it's still pretty choppy in comparison to other tablets.
I'm not experiencing choppiness that's worse than my original Transformer or my wife's Galaxy Tab 10.1. In fact, Netflix on my Prime is far better than both...
Enabling the "Force GPU rendering" option under developer options helps a lot regarding the Netflix UI.
Oh thank God. My netflix app is damn near unusable due to the choppyness.
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monkeydog said:
Just wanted to inform everyone that a netflix update just went out. It improved the UI choppiness a little bit... but it's still pretty choppy in comparison to other tablets.
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I have never has smooth Netflix browsing, regardless of the Android device I was using the app on. Basically the Netflix app just sucks. At least playback is (relatively) smooth. The Xbox 360 app also sucks (for different reasons). I believe Netflix just doesn't know how to make a decent app.
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Enabling the "Force GPU rendering" option under developer options helps a lot regarding the Netflix UI.
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Wow, that completely fixed it! After turning that on there's absolutely no choppiness/lag in the netflix UI.
monkeydog said:
Wow, that completely fixed it! After turning that on there's absolutely no choppiness/lag in the netflix UI.
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I think theres always gonna be choppiness and lag even with force gpu on Netflix. It may help a lot but it will never be smooth like when your browsing or swiping through home screens.
Update still leaves my ui really choppy and laggy, but force gpu rendering did help alot. Are there any cons with leaving that setting applied?
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mrokeefe said:
Update still leaves my ui really choppy and laggy, but force gpu rendering did help alot. Are there any cons with leaving that setting applied?
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The only con I encountered was it broke the game Meltdown from Mars. I just get a black acreen. So if I wanna play it I have to uncheck gpu rendering. Not a big deal. That's all so far for me.
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For the most part I love ICS but found several of my games and apps no longer work. Can you guys post yours apps, games, or anything else that no longer works. Here's mine.
Gun bros - FC
Dead Space - goes into portrait mode
Immortals - FC
Key ring - FC
Ninjump - blank screen
Soulcraft th's - blank screen
Texas Holden gameloft - FC
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??
Did you try a re-install ?
Have they updated their app for ICS?
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Have they updated their app for ICS?
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^ This. Contact the devs.
Only 1 so far I have found that does not work is SPD Shell 3D. Says it has ICS support but no go on my prime. Already e-mailed the dev.
App support will require some ICS loving to be applied to the apps, and even though ICS is consistent throughout both phones and tablets they may still have to make tegra 3 and tablet customizations to their ICS variant. Since that was only released 8 hours ago give it a little time.
Has anyone had problems charging after update? Mine doesn't seem to charge ...
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Tapatalk HD is broken.
ics problems
tablet locks when panning in maps, then reboots itself.
google earth just closes randomly (it seems), sending you back to home screen. I am using both with holux m-1200 bt gps and bluegps.
antutu won't run 2d or 3d benchmarks
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Dunno if this worked before or not but netflix doesn't seem to stream hd feeds, everything resorts to sd
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y2kcamaross said:
Dunno if this worked before or not but netflix doesn't seem to stream hd feeds, everything resorts to sd
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For me it takes a minute or two to get to HD res, but it gets there eventually.
And quadrant always force closes, but it did that on honeycomb as well
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No restart option when holding down the power button. Very annoying.
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No restart option when holding down the power button. Very annoying.
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That is not, and has never been, a native feature of Android. It's only available in custom roms.
GPS button getting removed from the quick settings menu is a bork... IMHO
has anyone been experiencing charging problems?
Getting Swype error on screen size now, any one else?
I don't have a tablet yet but try to clear application Data from management it helped me when I upgrade my phone to 2.3
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Getting Swype error on screen size now, any one else?
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I believe that is an ICS problem with the way ICS reports screen res or something. It is a known issue with Swype and hopefully a beta will be available by the end of the month to address it..
http://androidcommunity.com/swype-o...andwich-support-coming-end-of-month-20120105/
http://forum.swype.com/showthread.php?4798-Ice-Cream-Sandwich-and-or-720p-ETA
I love this thing, I really do but this flickering when either watching a movie or surfing the web is getting really annoying.
Is this what the DIDIM is supposed to do?
I really don't see any post talking about this issue. Am I the only one noticing it?
Sorry if this doesn't belong here. I am new to posting on these forums.
Lots of good info in here though.
Hi, I am totally with you. But maybe it was fixed with ICS? I dont know, I cant upgrade becouse unknows SN bug. If you can, please let me know wheather it is any better now. Thanks.
My screen does a lot of weird flickering / diagonal tearing. Showed up in ICS...
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chris61292 said:
My screen does a lot of weird flickering / diagonal tearing. Showed up in ICS...
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Perhaps you use poweramp? Got the same. Deinstalled poweramp, issue was gone.
To fix the screen glitch:
-root
-download setcpu
-set scaling to performance and then check set on boot.
Supposably this issue will be fixed by next ota according to Asus.
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acafaca333 said:
To fix the screen glitch:
-root
-download setcpu
-set scaling to performance and then check set on boot.
Supposably this issue will be fixed by next ota according to Asus.
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Got any source about this ota fix?
i have had the screen flicker too
Are you guys by any chance running on powersave mode most of the time?
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Are you guys by any chance running on powersave mode most of the time?
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Why? I run sometimes in power save, but I noticed that also in normal mode or perf. mode.
I never noticed this before .21
Has anyone else found their twitter app laggy and slow to respond to touch especially when scrolling? Its really bad for me so much so as I'm using another app for now. I'd prefer to use the official version. Does anyone know what the problem might be.
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It is gingerbread. There's a video on YouTube called something like "android is now as smooth as iOS" the video shows the difference when the GPU is allowed to regulate use in ICS.
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Actually, it's laggy on both my Galaxy Nexus and my Note ...it's not really related to Gingerbread or ICS because the official Twitter app sucks on both and I've noticed it for a while now. Hopefully they fix it.
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Yeah, it has to do with Gingerbread, not the phone itself. I saw the same YouTube video, where the user forced 3D GPU rendering on ICS and the twitter app was smooth as butter. It has to do with Android not defaulting/forcing the full use of the GPU for rendering, probably has something to do with battery life. I think if you are on ICS, and have Developer Tools in the settings menu (probably some custom rom has this enabled) then you can force gpu rendering.
Read here. They recently updated, and the article was nice enough to mention the Note specifically!
I just updated it. It's not 100% smooth, but it is probably 100% better than it was 2 days ago. It was almost unusable before...
I update and found it to be better also
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Is Twitter serious. to post comments smaller then a text message I have to ramp my GPU up to waste power??
I activated "developer settings" in Nexus 10.
After this I checked option force gpu acceleration.
Now adobe reader and other applications are much faster with screen scroll.
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Rom Toolbox should also be faster (for anyone who uses it); given that they didn't add hardware acceleration yet anyway
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Rom Toolbox should also be faster (for anyone who uses it); given that they didn't add hardware acceleration yet anyway
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Thanks this has made some of the slow games run a bit better :good:
Google really should enable this by default now. Pretty much every app works fine with it on.
Does this increase battery drain ?
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Google really should enable this by default now. Pretty much every app works fine with it on.
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That's because pretty much every app is already using GPU acceleration. So for those apps, checking the box does nothing.
But for apps that do not use GPU acceleration (because the developer is too lazy to code properly) it can help. Some apps are written so badly, that they will actually break when forcing GPU rendering. Which is why it isn't checked by default.
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Does this increase battery drain ?
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Technically it should reduce battery drain, as the GPU would consume less power to do the same graphical task than the CPU (since the GPU is actually made for it).
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That's because pretty much every app is already using GPU acceleration. So for those apps, checking the box does nothing.
But for apps that do not use GPU acceleration (because the developer is too lazy to code properly) it can help. Some apps are written so badly, that they will actually break when forcing GPU rendering. Which is why it isn't checked by default.
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Technically it should reduce battery drain, as the GPU would consume less power to do the same graphical task than the CPU (since the GPU is actually made for it).
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Most still don't. They work fine with it but they still don't use it by default.
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Maybe a stupid question, but how does one activate developer settings?
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Maybe a stupid question, but how does one activate developer settings?
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Settings, About Tablet, then keep tapping the build number
Appreciate it
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I don't see a Force GPU acceleration in my developers settings
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Adobe Reader and evernote are the applications where forcing GPU acceleration made a huge difference for me.
Without it, big PDFs were extremely choppy, scrolling pages and zoom was a pain, after that, everything ran extremely fluid.
I kinda suspect it's because some changes must have been made in the way android used to force GPU acceleration form 4.0, and now, in those applications forced is not as default.
You know you guys now have to run some sort of benchmark tests or post a short video showing GPU-on and GPU-off performance! :laugh:
Is there any kind of negative effect of doing this?
I've noticed it a few times and thought of doing it, but figured if it was the best option then it would be on by default.
There must be a reason it is disabled? Battery? Compatibility? Kittens dying?
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Is there any kind of negative effect of doing this?
I've noticed it a few times and thought of doing it, but figured if it was the best option then it would be on by default.
There must be a reason it is disabled? Battery? Compatibility? Kittens dying?
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Yes it creates random reboots that people are talking about.
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As far as ive tested and after 48 hours with it enabled i got 0 reboots. I had those the first two days, since ive stopped using chrome, not a single freeze.
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I don't see a Force GPU acceleration in my developers settings
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I think it's called "Force GPU Rendering" in dev settings. I enabled it and tested on an app that usually scrolls choppy and slow. I noticed smooth and fast scrolling after enabling.
It is not enabled by default because Google cannot guarantee compatibility with all apps. Apps that make heavy use of custom widgets *may* have rendering issues. It is something that app developers should opt-in for but often the developers do not, despite there being no issues. 98% of apps work great with it forced on.
It shouldn't cause reboots or the like unless a particular app that isn't compatible somehow crashes the kernel(not likely). *If* it causes an issue with an app then usually it will not render 100% correctly or at worst it will force close.
Not sure if you guys aware of this but apparently enabling 4xAA in Developer Options smoother the games. I tried Stick Tennis game with 2D GPU rendering enabled but it doesn't do anything but once I enabled 4xAA, it boost up instantly.
Will test in different game as well:angel:
That isn't the purpose of antialiasing
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Not sure it was bugs of CM or not.
New version of CM without need to tick 4xAA which suppose given better quality but drop the performance. It run smooth now without enable it.
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Not sure if you guys aware of this but apparently enabling 4xAA in Developer Options smoother the games. I tried Stick Tennis game with 2D GPU rendering enabled but it doesn't do anything but once I enabled 4xAA, it boost up instantly.
Will test in different game as well:angel:
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I can confirm this behavior.
On my stock N10 4.2.1 (no root / no custom ROM), enabling 4xAA boosts some games.
For example, running Machinarium without the option enabled is totally unplayable (3-5FPS). When enabled, the game runs as smooth as hell.
I can also confirm this... Need for speed's frame rate was poor on my nexus 10 compared to my note 2 (first thought this was due the much higher resolution on the nexus 10 and just played it on the note), until I enabled anti aliasing in dev options on the nexus after reading the tip on a nexus 10 guide site. Now it plays smooth as butter and looks better for AA being applied.
Could anyone else confirm on other games? Possibly explain the frame rate improvement?
Happy days!
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Machinarium was very very jerky and almost non responsive before I enabled 4xAA. Its running super smooth now.
Whats the default AA when this option is not ticked? Is it higher or zero?
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Machinarium was very very jerky and almost non responsive before I enabled 4xAA. Its running super smooth now.
Whats the default AA when this option is not ticked? Is it higher or zero?
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Okay, I might be an idiot, but I'm not finding the developer options on my N10 (or my N4, for that matter). I remember playing with them on previous tablets, including (I'm pretty sure) the N7.
What am I missing?
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Okay, I might be an idiot, but I'm not finding the developer options on my N10 (or my N4, for that matter). I remember playing with them on previous tablets, including (I'm pretty sure) the N7.
What am I missing?
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Go to the settings menu, and scroll down to "About tablet." Tap it.
Scroll down to the bottom again, where you see "Build number." (Your build number may vary from ours here.)
Tap it seven (7) times. After the third tap, you'll see a playful dialog that says you're four taps away from being a developer. (If only it were that simple, eh?) Keep on tapping, and *poof*, you've got the developer settings back.
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Is there an app that will display frame rates in games?
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stonebear said:
Is there an app that will display frame rates in games?
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Try fps counter
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Im not saying you guys are wrong with this option helping performance in games but technically shouldn't enabling AA decrease performance not gain? I know that when enabling AA in PC game graphics options without a doubt will lower performance.
I just confirmed this with Slotomania.
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Try fps counter
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Found fps meter.
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Im not saying you guys are wrong with this option helping performance in games but technically shouldn't enabling AA decrease performance not gain? I know that when enabling AA in PC game graphics options without a doubt will lower performance.
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This is what I'm wondering also, one would think that enabling this option would require more resources...
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You mean 4xMSAA? I can't find 4xAA option in developer options.
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akhil7j said:
You mean 4xMSAA? I can't find 4xAA option in developer options.
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