Mine was purchased a little over a week ago at a local AT&T store in the USA. It is the SGH-I717 and is mfg. in Korea.
When I play Netflix or You Tube (HQ streams) of B&W movies with dark scenes and/or fade ins/outs, the picture becomes pixelated and blocky. As if there was no gray scale, just blotchy blobs. My older Captivate plays these scenes perfectly.
I made a video showing this problem. It shows a comparison of my Samsung Captivate, and my new Galaxy Note. Here is the You Tube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a8aIGeLERg
I have tried to post about this issue to the AT&T reviews forum several times, but they will not accept the post. I wonder why?..... [NOT!]
There is a test pattern in this forum in another thread. Here is the link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1559800
It has a 22 rectangular block grid of different gray scale gradations, from white to black. Does your Note reproduce this test correctly (a gradual darkening of all the blocks until the numbers from 7 to 0 are difficult to see), or does it look like mine (all the numbers from 21 to 1 are visible, and 0 is completely black?
I LOVE this phone but for this one irritating problem. I truly hope that a fix is forthcoming from Samsung.
There was a huge thread dedicated to this with sample patterns, pics, etc, that just got deleted. Seems some members are requesting mods revive it, so just wait and see if that comes back.
Nice try. New member?
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clearly he is..
No, this person already posted these videos and mentioned that their posts are getting revoked on the AT&T site. And in the old thread, so they knew it existed. Why the new account??
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No, this person already posted these videos and mentioned that their posts are getting revoked on the AT&T site. And in the old thread, so they knew it existed. Why the new account??
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It's not a new account. I remember him having 9 posts in my black clipping thread. But since it got deleted, so did all of his posts. That's why he's showing 1 post.
Edit: Since no one has helped him post a link yet, here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a8aIGeLERg
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It's not a new account. I remember him having 9 posts in my black clipping thread. But since it got deleted, so did all of his posts. That's why he's showing 1 post.
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Ahhhhh, thanks. My tin foil hat has been on since that thread was deleted
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Ahhhhh, thanks. My tin foil hat has been on since that thread was deleted
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Has the clipping problem improved on the Seraphim ROM? I haven't had time to flash yet, but someone posted a photo last night right before the thread got deleted, and it showed improvement.
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Has the clipping problem improved on the Seraphim ROM? I haven't had time to flash yet, but someone posted a photo last night right before the thread got deleted, and it showed improvement.
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Exact same as ICS leak for me, major clip between 6 and 7.
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Exact same as ICS leak for me, major clip between 6 and 7.
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Hmm, okay - thanks. schrochem posted a picture, supposedly from the Seraphim ROM last night that showed all numbers visible, but substantial improvement in terms of clipping. He posted another picture originally from April 3rd (before the ICS leak) that showed major clipping between 0 and 1.
It's weird that one user would show substantially improved clipping with 1 visible, while another still has major clipping between 6 and 7 on the same ROM. Clipping point is clearly a software setting, so I'm a bit confused. Same ROM = same software, right?
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Hmm, okay - thanks. schrochem posted a picture, supposedly from the Seraphim ROM last night that showed all numbers visible, but substantial improvement in terms of clipping. He posted another picture originally from April 3rd (before the ICS leak) that showed major clipping between 0 and 1.
It's weird that one user would show substantially improved clipping with 1 visible, while another still has major clipping between 6 and 7 on the same ROM. Clipping point is clearly a software setting, so I'm a bit confused. Same ROM = same software, right?
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Well to be fair, if he posted last night, he had a pre-release of seraphim, whereas I flashed the official one this morning. Though it is hard to imagine there would be any difference. schrochem could tells us for sure though.
why was the original post deleted? was there even a fix yet before it got the boot?
Yep that was me.
It's taken even a more bizarre twist.
Left - stock GB
Middle - Seraphim ICS pre release
Right - Seraphim ICS official
Weird huh?
Holy crap this damn image thing is busted...
Well I can't get the third one to show up, even after trying four times...
Here is the official seraphim from this morning.
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Yep that was me.
It's taken even a more bizarre twist.
Left - stock GB
Middle - Seraphim ICS pre release
Right - Seraphim ICS official
Weird huh?
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Ugh...so it looks like whatever they unintentionally fixed in the pre release got unfixed in the official release. Is the pre-release the ROM found on post 501 of the Unofficial ROM thread? If not, let me know where I can get it, because I want to try it to see if it makes a difference. Thanks!
It was on post 501 but they took it down because the server traffic was too much. You might contact them and see if they could put it back up.
That would be very interesting to see.
I have the zip...its 500Mb but my upload speeds are slooooooow
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Yep that was me.
It's taken even a more bizarre twist.
Left - stock GB
Middle - Seraphim ICS pre release
Right - Seraphim ICS official
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I am on official seraphim and it doesn't clip at 6 anymore I can see all the way up to 1 then black. Just like gingerbread.
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It was on post 501 but they took it down because the server traffic was too much. You might contact them and see if they could put it back up.
That would be very interesting to see.
I have the zip...its 500Mb but my upload speeds are slooooooow
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I think it was said that the 501 post was technically still gingerbread faked to look like ICS.. unless I misunderstood what they said.
Either way there's the same clipping in each of those photos.
There was a pre-release of Seraphim up for about 20 minutes yesterday in post 501. It was for sure an ICS build. Those guys are swamped, so I won't bug them now, but I would like to get a copy of this to see if it has any effect. It is very curious the variety of results.
OK the weirdness continues. Now my official release looks like the one in the middle. That's the one from the pre release.
I can say that flashing the pre release went without error and the other did have a hiccup. Yesterday I had cleared caches to see if that was the reason but the third pic stayed the same.
Today I cleared them again and also cleared Google play data cache. Now it looks like the pre release photo above. I can't think of anything else I altered today or last night.
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First of all, I wanted to say my CRT off animation is weird on my SII. It seems to flash white before starting. It was much smoother and sexier on my Captivate and even looks better on the DROID 3. It looks weird on mine. I've tried it on both UnNamed and Cog X2, both have that weird thing. Is it just KH7, or is it just something unfixable?
My CRT off animation looks like that too. it looks bad. it started when I flashed cog b4(had it on stock and it looked fine).
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My CRT off animation looks like that too. it looks bad. it started when I flashed cog b4(had it on stock and it looked fine).
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Yeah it does look bad. It looks fine on stock? I'll have to look into that. I guess it's something with custom ROMs. It's really sad...
when I say stock I don't mean pure stock. I had it after I flashed the 12 toggle mod and it included it and it looked fine then but after flashing cog I noticed it. If I can help in anyway let me know. Your work with the captivate was great btw
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when I say stock I don't mean pure stock. I had it after I flashed the 12 toggle mod and it included it and it looked fine then but after flashing cog I noticed it. If I can help in anyway let me know. Your work with the captivate was great btw
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I'm talking to GTG right now. I mentioned this, hopefully I'll get to the bottom of it. Personally I'm not sure what exactly to do...
On another note, he fixed my animation issues (present in his UnNamed ROM and Cog X2) by disabling slowBlur. Ever noticed pressing Menu on the home screen and opening popups like in settings with brightness and volume, that the popups open with an animation that seems to be half missing? He fixed that for me. So I'm hoping he will find this too. The guy really knows his stuff.
Thanks for the compliment! I hope to soon start some projects for the SII!
Some news coming from GTG
However, the CRT animation on dg's rom and on my rom (with the addon) is as good as it's going to get. It just isn't rendered right on the Galaxy S II and no one has figured out why definitively. Whoever told you it works fine on stock just doesn't have a very discerning eye. Read that whole thread I linked you to. The international GSII owners already went through this long ago and accepted that the CRT animation will never be quite right on the SGS2 with Samsung based ROMs. CRT is fine on CM7 though apparently.
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Here is the referenced thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1177746
This is so weird. Up to this point, my CRT worked wonderfully. So well that it looked native. I saw this thread, so I looked at it again and now mine has the white screen issue (for the first time) .
EDIT - Upon reboot, my CRT returned to normal. One of the lucky ones I guess.
Thought it was my just my phone. It was fine until yesterday...well at least I first noticed it yesterday...all static-barcode looking. But I can say honestly at one point it was definitely smooth because I played with it continuously when I first enabled it because it looked so sweet on my screen.
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And Halo...waiting on some themes bro!!!
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I had this too. Rebooted and its gone now.
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Apparently it has a lot to do with the music player and screen shot app. But no matter what I still get a weird flash in the middle of it, ruining it. On KH7 anyway, with slowBlur off.
Rebooted, still funky.
jgotti107 said:
And Halo...waiting on some themes bro!!!
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Haha I'll get to it soon I hope! International Baccalaureate high school system senior year is major anal dilation. Measured in meters, a standard unit.
I read through the linked thread and found an interesting temporary workaround.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16260894&postcount=111
I tried it an it indeed works.
LamboDroid19 said:
I read through the linked thread and found an interesting temporary workaround.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16260894&postcount=111
I tried it an it indeed works.
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It isn't a fix, nor does it actually work. It looks better, and that's it. Notice how when you press the power button, the screen turns white then shrinks towards the middle. That's not how the animation should work. It should take the screen, and shrink that towards the center, I assume with a white outline. The problem is the last screenshot taken I guess, or just the buffer/cache somewhere.
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It isn't a fix, nor does it actually work. It looks better, and that's it. Notice how when you press the power button, the screen turns white then shrinks towards the middle. That's not how the animation should work. It should take the screen, and shrink that towards the center, I assume with a white outline. The problem is the last screenshot taken I guess, or just the buffer/cache somewhere.
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I've confirmed that taking a screenshot is what causes mine to malfunction. A reboot fixes it.
EDIT: I've gone back to using ShootMe for my screenshot taking.
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Haha I'll get to it soon I hope! International Baccalaureate high school system senior year is major anal dilation. Measured in meters, a standard unit.
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Bet you can't say that five times fast!!!
Well...er...can confirm that reboot worked for me too!!!
On UnNamed with slowBlur off, a reboot makes it look almost acceptable. Still wrong compared to my Captivate.
Restoring a backup of stock that came with my phone, gonna enable it there and see if that works. Just in case...
On stock firmware which came with the phone, I manually enabled CRT off. It works, but still not correctly. It does not shrink the screen, but a while screen. And has a weird flash in it. Guess that's a nope. It's USABLE but nowhere near perfect.
So I need someones help. I deleted the screen capture apk, and now pressing the key combo just makes the phone vibrate. So somewhere there is a link between that apk and the button combo. Can someone help me find that?
I would help but I have almost no android ( or Linux for that matter) experience. I would love to learn so I can finally start giving back to the community.
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So the CRT should be on here completely bone stock? After reading this, I tried and do not get the CRT animation. I checked and all animations is selected. WTF?
Source : Rootzwiki
This is more than awsome. So happy to see that the team is still working on CM9, and bringing us the updates..! A BIG thanks to the CM team!
erm... whats the point of this thread? I mean thanks for the heads up but at the very least you could actually have given a link to the rootzwiki page
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erm... whats the point of this thread? I mean thanks for the heads up but at the very least you could actually have given a link to the rootzwiki page
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Unfortunately a lot of people on rootzwiki do not like there work being linked he was just giving a heads up, without pissing of the dev who made the update.
thanks for the update man.
they dont mind being link to the thread just not direct download links
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Unfortunately a lot of people on rootzwiki do not like there work being linked he was just giving a heads up, without pissing of the dev who made the update.
thanks for the update man.
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ok. well in either case, since the thread involves no development I guess it belongs in the general section. not a big deal, just thought i'd mention it.
Yowza. Just Sunday I was thinking, "Man, it's been awhile since they released any updates from 0.6". Now Alpha 1 hits yesterday, and I only flash it around 9PM or so. Come to work this morning and we've already got Alpha 2.
Awesome!
But now that we've got Netflix, what's left there to fix, other than the camera? Should we be hitting a full-blown "Beta" soon?
hipstan fronds
They still have camera (for pix and video), mic and fix for FC's for quite a few apps.
The camera kinda worries me since it never fully worked on CM7
We still need flash support
johny101010 said:
They still have camera (for pix and video), mic and fix for FC's for quite a few apps.
The camera kinda worries me since it never fully worked on CM7
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Considering the TP only has a low-quality, front-facing camera to begin with, I'm not sure what we're losing out other than the ability to make video calls with Skype. I never really used that anyway, so it's not a huge deal for me--you could always boot to webOS for that purpose, I suppose.
Do you guys get a lot of random force closes with alpha 1/2? Market, settings and even Google search sometimes force close for me. I don't have any point of reference since I got my tp a few days ago and alpha 1 was the first build I flashed.
Installed A2 last night... no issues works great! but after I was done playing around last night my batt was around 23% so I put it on the Touchstone and went to bed, woke up... battery was at 60% and the back of the touchpad was HOT HOT HOT!! could barely touch the back!...I booted into WebOS and put it back on to the touchstone and it charged just fine with no heating issues... anyone else have that problem with android?? and what would cause that to happen?? :S
Fabulous
I am very grateful for your work, dudes.
This has transformed my touchpad from a nice tablet to a very useful and quick work tablet. Big improvement. Many thanks.
Installed A2 as well... and no FC's so far everything is running smooth!
For nightly updates you can always follow cm_tenderloin on twitter for new releases every night.
Can anyone tell me how much sdcard space they have left with after having just installed CM9 alpha2?
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still waiting for camera fix. some one can do it asap.
I know the sensation is fairly close to the rezound.. anyone think something like this may be possible?
http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/21/htc-sensation-ice-cream-sandwich-camera-hack/
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I know the sensation is fairly close to the rezound.. anyone think something like this may be possible?
http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/21/htc-sensation-ice-cream-sandwich-camera-hack/
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Almost positive Joel will be adding it to his next BAMF release.
That would be icing on the cake.
Is this the same thing or different ?
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Is this the same thing or different ?
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That is kind of the same thing I had both mods on my sensation. Both looked good but I liked the BR one better.
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I want I want :thumbup: that would be awesome to have.
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I'm more excited about this mod than anything else with this phone. And that's saying a LOT.
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This would be amazing on our phones! I too am more excited about this mod than any other. I use my camera a lot!
If it corrects for the pops and squeaks during video recording, then that would be icing on the cake. True 30fps recording would great too. I've had pretty severe frame-rate drops during recording.
I went ahead and installed the program and it appears to work. I get larger JPG images and 1080 video at higher bitrates. A few things though. The icons at the bottom are physically lower on the screen so the text on the bottom gets cut off. The button to the gallery doesn't work from video mode but appears ok from camera mode. The effects appear to work too. This is just my preliminary findings.
I'm on CleanRom 4.1 without any of the mods.
Edit: xsnapshot, I haven't noticed the pops and squeaks since the radio update in January. I didn't notice any on the test video I took, but it was only for 10 secs so I'm not sure. I'll take a longer video later and see if I can hear the pops and squeaks.
Edit2: Not sure why you linked to an Engadget post when the original post is in XDA. Here it is so you can get the app. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1533238
I installed this yesterday and haven't had any issues with it. I have not used my Rezound camera enough to really notice a difference. I guess I should have taken a before and after pick to see if the file size changed much.
I didn't flash it. Opened the zip up and pushed each item to my phone.
I did take a picture of some clouds yesterday evening. File size was 2.62MB
Installed this tonight, my photo file sizes are huge now, though I've not seen a huge difference in 1080p video quality. I'll do some outdoor testing tomorrow, to see if there is a difference.
I'll try to post some results if I get around to it
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Out of curiosity... can this be undone
if you reflash a rom without it, yeah lol...
this doesn't do anything for video, btw guys..in joels rom it didn't, anyway. still recorded at around 8mbps, wouldn't ever hit above that to get even near 20...photo's seemed to work uncompressed though; they're bigger in size
I have the GS2 for Sprint and I just got the new 4.0.4 update - I'm not happy. I was excited to get it, but after using it for one day I was less than thrilled. They have really retarded the ability to move quickly through the phone, LOTS of screen animations and transitions are added and really do make things much slower as the screens pops around on you and places buttons in different locations. I want these turned off ASAP. I went to the developer menu and "turned them off" as I was instructed from another website, but that didn't do a damn thing. Every menu change has a cute little animation adding time and lagging my muscle memory screen presses. The phone is laggy now, it wasn't before, at all.
Anyone else share my strife or know how to fix my issue?
Thank you
I totally disagree...since 4.0.4 firmwares have started to come out, i even managed to stay on stock firmware for a couple of weeks without flashing custom ones. S2 can take care of animations without lag.
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drowsy1982 said:
I totally disagree...since 4.0.4 firmwares have started to come out, i even managed to stay on stock firmware for a couple of weeks without flashing custom ones. S2 can take care of animations without lag.
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Well, you "managed to stay on it for a couple weeks" implies that eventually you didn't like it.
I Don't have lag with the animations, I have lag with nothing happening, and THEN whatever it is I was going into pops up.
Test - right now I hit home screen and it takes about half a second, going into anything takes the same amount of time. This sounds rather trivial, but when comparing to the way it originally operated I think we're talking about a set back.
I'm not opposed to switching to another rom, but I've gotten to the point in my life where I use my phone enough for actual work that I don't have the time. Ideally, I would like the old ROM back, and rooted removing the bloatware.
I will do some research to see if I can achieve my goals, I just wanted to see if someone had an answer for my questions and see if I could avoid the issue altogether and get over the "Facebook layout" syndrome.
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I have the GS2 for Sprint and I just got the new 4.0.4 update - I'm not happy.
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Anyone else share my strife or know how to fix my issue?
Thank you
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You're in the forum for the i9100, a phone that doesn't even work on Sprint.
The Sprint Galaxy S2 is the Epic 4g Touch.
No matter what phone , wether the original i9100 or the sprint one , things at first may seem slow , til everything is caching and stuffs ... Do a factory reset or format /data and /cache .. Would defenitly make a difference..(if it still lags try to disable the animations and transitions OR activate the force GPU and see)
I didn't post this in here, it got moved. I think...
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I didn't post this in here, it got moved. I think...
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You just posted another in here. Still the wrong forum. So I'd say you did post in here. Go to the Epic 4g Touch forum I linked above before you irrevocably damage your phone.
Yeah welcome to xda.If you dont like stock rom/update then flash a custom rom.
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Just had a notice on my phone for a 45.5 Mb OTA update.
It is the MDA89D to MDB08K update, will see if I can get links from logcat etc.
https://android.googleapis.com/pack...519ae31a.signed-angler-MDB08K-from-MDA89D.zip
Is it the K revision?
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Is it the K revision?
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It is still updating, should only be a few more minutes, will post more information when it is done
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It is still updating, should only be a few more minutes, will post more information when it is done
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Oh, it usually tells you when it asks to update.
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Oh, it usually tells you when it asks to update.
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It did not unfortunately, it just said System Update and no details. Anyway it has done and now optimising apps etc, so should not be much longer then can see if any revision changes etc
I've not noticed any changes since updating - other than a newer kernel build (8/10). The camera app still seems quite buggy - that's the only issue I've experienced so far so can't really comment on anything else.
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I've not noticed any changes since updating - other than a newer kernel build (8/10). The camera app still seems quite buggy - that's the only issue I've experienced so far so can't really comment on anything else.
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Your camera app too? FFC seems a bit shifty, the back camera seems fine. SlowMo video seems to freeze up though at times. Also is your front facing camera fairly blurry on taking photos? Mine is.
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Your camera app too? FFC seems a bit shifty, the back camera seems fine. SlowMo video seems to freeze up though at times. Also is your front facing camera fairly blurry on taking photos? Mine is.
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It's mainly SlowMo videos that struggle - sometimes they crash the camera app or don't play back correctly. My front facer is perfect, I'm really impressed with it.
Possibly one of those monthly security patches? I hope they release images for each one cause I haven't taken an OTA since... *thinks*... *thinks harder* Holy crap, I don't think I've ever taken an OTA.
Legit, I was in Verizon aka no update land from LG chocolate to droid after droid to Galaxy S3 all of which on cm and rooted etc. Since I've had MotoX 1 and Nexus 5 and 6 in T-Mobile, all rooted stock various kernels. Fastboot FTW.
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Possibly one of those monthly security patches? I hope they release images for each one cause I haven't taken an OTA since... *thinks*... *thinks harder* Holy crap, I don't think I've ever taken an OTA.
Legit, I was in Verizon aka no update land from LG chocolate to droid after droid to Galaxy S3 all of which on cm and rooted etc. Since I've had MotoX 1 and Nexus 5 and 6 in T-Mobile, all rooted stock various kernels. Fastboot FTW.
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It isn't... I applied the OTA and the monthly security patch is still October.
I would really appreciate it if someone could pull the OTA. On my 6P's first boot it downloaded the OTA right away. But when I went to install it it never rebooted or installed. Thanks in advance.
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I would really appreciate it if someone could pull the OTA. On my 6P's first boot it downloaded the OTA right away. But when I went to install it it never rebooted or installed. Thanks in advance.
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Same issue here. I'm wondering if they pulled the update.
I got mine last night, took a while
I must say although the UI is very snappy, anything involving app updates seems to take forever. Anyone else think this?
No update yet device from EE,its running pure android no EE in sight
is it done via IEM number
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No update yet device from EE,its running pure android no EE in sight
is it done via IEM number
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The update should come from Google.
I would pull the update. But huawei seems to not want to ship my order still.
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I would of pulled it last night but like most it was already ready to install before i even finished configuring my phone.
It cannot be declined?
I just had my phone update as well crazy how quick they were on it