I readed that one of the new features of Ice Cream Sandwich is hardware acceleration for graphical user interface in device that support it.
Samsung's stock ROMs for SGS2 based on ICS have this feature enabled?
If not, is possible to enable it?
Yes a search would have as usual found the answer is in settings . Sure you are a big enough boy to find it .
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Settings --> Developer Options --> Force GPU Rendering
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRlneTly3JI
Thank you!
It's safe to use it or Can cause problems such as battery drain?
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Technically it should save on battery as you're forcing your gpu to do the work of the cpu. If i remember correctly, Sammy GB roms, touchwiz was accelerated by default, this option has to be checked in ICS. So go ahead and use it.
I often use dsixda's Android Kitchen to customize new stock ROMs before flash them on the phone. Is it possibile to enable HW acceleration in the code, so it'll be enabled on the phone by default without need to enable it manually after flash?
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I've seen a tweak included in some ICS rom's that state they have Enabled Hardware acceleration, which is something I think was there by default in gingerbread.
Can someone tell me how I can apply this single tweak to my rom myself? I don't like the other changes custom roms include would just like this tweak done to mine.
I wanted to use the SB Nation Android app, which is basically a program for reading sports articles.
However, I encountered a problem, which I wrote about to the dev:
I just wanted to alert you to what seems to be a bug in your app.
Basically, I cannot see any text in any of the articles. The
background of the articles is a light gray; pictures and text within
quotes show up (so do comments). However, the main text body does not.
I'm running an HTC Flyer on Honeycomb OS.
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The dev wrote back:
While we don't have an HTC Flyer to test with, but one thing you could try is to check your device settings for something along the lines of
"hardware acceleration" or "GPU acceleration" and turn this option off.
While these options generally improve UI responsiveness, it's a known bug
for them to wreak havoc on embedded web views. Let me know if that does or doesn't resolve the issue.
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Is there a way to switch off hardware acceleration to test this issue?
I think the app developer is blowing smoke or smoking blow. There is no user setting to turn off the GPU on any Android device. A properly written app can deal with those settings for example MX player knows which formats can use HW accel and which one's need SW codecs.
If you are running on a rooted ROM, there is a parameter in the system/build.prop file
video.accelerate.hw=1
you can change that to 0 and reboot to see what happens. It will definitely slow other things down though.
Acceleration off
Sir,
how can i switch off the HW acceleration,will be helpfull if anybody teach me how to build custom rom with HW acceleration off for nexus 4.
pls help to to learn from you.
Are there any tweaks to make games run smoother on ICS? The only reason I haven't switched to custom roms is for the walkman player and the fact that many roms have multitouch problems (AOKP, etc) For some reason v6supercharger slows my apps down
P.S. Should I check Force GPU rendering in developer options?
jasonwsc said:
Are there any tweaks to make games run smoother on ICS? The only reason I haven't switched to custom roms is for the walkman player and the fact that many roms have multitouch problems (AOKP, etc)
P.S. Should I check Force GPU rendering in developer options?
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Just tweak according to your likes.
Here's the link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1227269
hey guys
can i know what is HWcomposer actually? what work it does? i know it doesnt work in JB but dont know what it does actually . what features i may miss without it?
ancilary said:
hey guys
can i know what is HWcomposer actually? what work it does? i know it doesnt work in JB but dont know what it does actually . what features i may miss without it?
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HWcomposer enables UserInterface (UI) rendering via GPU
u can see the link below to understand more about the same
HW Composer
and can we dual boot jb and ics? is it possible?
Sun90 said:
HWcomposer enables UserInterface (UI) rendering via GPU
u can see the link below to understand more about the same
HW Composer
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hi there! I have been wondering what this means too.
What are the effects of having HWcomposer not working? Laggy graphics?
Force GPU rendering isn't enabled by default, so how will this impact performance? Battery life?
Thanks!
According to the HW composer link HW composer is there since Honeycomb so how is it a JB enhancement all of a sudden?
So, SurfaceFlinger in Android is what actually puts together the different screens and surfaces, using OpenGL (the GPU).
Hardware Composer (HWC) is a little module that plugs into SurfaceFlinger, and helps offload some of the surface compositing onto specialized display hardware. Usually this is just a 2D GPU, but sometimes graphics parts have special "overlay" planes that can be used, instead. This lightens the GPU load in several ways, potentially improving performance.
It's been present since Honeycomb, but the API is updated once in a while to support more features. The [Android Sync infrastructure] was added in JB MR1, and requires a whole bunch of new APIs to be implemented for this explicit synchronization. It also relies on some Linux kernel APIs which are only present in v3.4+.
[Android Sync infrastructure]: http s://lwn.net/Articles/569704/
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Good, waiting for review. Hehhe
Unfortunately, u dont support for Nougat as we majority use this ROM.
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febry_valdy said:
Good, waiting for review. Hehhe
Unfortunately, u dont support for Nougat as we majority use this ROM.
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heheh i started working with GB,JB,ICE,KK Because many people are using this version of Android , we can not left them behind.and not let them feel sad:angel:
ryt now i am working on LP, MM And Android N and in few days i ll come up for Uper Version of Android.
Thank You for replying :angel::good:
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heheh i started working with GB,JB,ICE,KK Because many people are using this version of Android , we can not left them behind.and not let them feel sad:angel:
ryt now i am working on LP, MM And Android N and in few days i ll come up for Uper Version of Android.
Thank You for replying :angel::good:
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Yo man, glad to hear that.
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