Has anyone tried this out? According to them it's supposed to be the fastest Gallery app available but it doesn't seem to have any real advanced options. Also, when I first tried it, it told me to disable Force GPU Rendering. In terms of speed, it's hard to say. It zooms in really quickly, but seems to have more lag than the AOSP ICS Gallery app when rendering a photo.
There is no free version. And people are going to think yer advertising. I don't care, but some people would flame ya for it. I may give it a try, I never usually use thirdly party gallery apps
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I bought it, very nice.
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Let me start off by saying I don't know too much about any technicalities or requirements needed by hardware for applications. This is simply an idea.
Now how possible would it be to have an app/live wallpaper that uses the camera either front, back or both and overlays the home screen entirely. In other words having a realtime camera feed as a live background.
Again its an idea but there can be a feature able to instantly screenshot an image from the actual feed and use it as a stationary wallpaper on the go or just as an easier way to take a photo.
The world is your background. Let's say I have the wallpaper applied and I see a interesting wall with graffiti. I can pull out the phone either record a short 5-10 second clip or snap a picture to use as my wallpaper with ease.
Any feedback as to the likelihood of something like this or similar being possible is welcomed.
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I think I've seen this already. There was a app like this that even took screen pictures.
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Googled it for you buddy, something like this? http://m.androidzoom.com/android_themes/wallpapers/kwall-camera-live-wallpaper_hgbb.html
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Here's one on the market:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.brayden.camera
I'm using one, and it works, and it's free, called "camera through wallpaper" by "chikashi yajima". On the market
I'm a bit late but thanks nonetheless to you guys that gave some input. I tried them all and found my favorite "camera through wallpaper" by Chikashi Yajima
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I imagine that would be a major battery hog, but very cool to show off your phone.
phatmanxxl said:
I imagine that would be a major battery hog, but very cool to show off your phone.
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Battery Hog it is. I've used it to show off a couple times but to use it daily i would need a double stacked extended battery.
Hi
Im just wondering...how come such a powerfull phone
Cannot "multi task" with live wallpaper..
When i put LWP the phone become very slow and laggy.
I have here galaxy s and he doing fine with heavy multi task and LWP
As well.
Even with another launchers the problem remains.
does anyone else having the same problem?
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Nope, I run an lwp ..several ones actually. I jump between xda, twitter, facebook, gplus, gmail, corp email and browser all day long and don't have any issues with slow downs. In fact the only time I have ever seen this phone slow down is with the keyboard on occasion in landscape mode.
What lwp are you using. Could just be a crappy coder.
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GUARDIANBD said:
Hi
Im just wondering...how come such a powerfull phone
Cannot "multi task" with live wallpaper..
When i put LWP the phone become very slow and laggy.
I have here galaxy s and he doing fine with heavy multi task and LWP
As well.
Even with another launchers the problem remains.
does anyone else having the same problem?
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No problem here.
Extremely fast!
What do you have installed? Stock? Unlocked? Rooted?
Fast on mine too and smooth!
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Run a memory optimization app, problem solved.
thanks for the replay's m8's
same...the phone become slow when put an Live wallpaper
using stock rom 154_6 rooted.
used the Memory optimization tools but no go...
I have the same issues. I just don't run a lwp any more. I use launcher pro and when.I.open.the app drawer with a lwp, its pretty bad. Same on go launcher.
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I noticed this on my EVO 3d as well but not on my nexus s. So I'm assuming it has to do with the memory hog called sense and blur.
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phyba said:
I have the same issues. I just don't run a lwp any more. I use launcher pro and when.I.open.the app drawer with a lwp, its pretty bad. Same on go launcher.
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Same problem as i have..
By the way have 412mb ram free.
GUARDIANBD said:
Same problem as i have..
By the way have 412mb ram free.
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Either the people in this thread don't know what silky smooth is or their phones are better than ours for some reason. But the display at the sprint store dis the same thing. The stock launcher is already laggy as hell so a lwp makes it non issue on stock launcher. But on any other launcher, there are issues.
My EVO 3d was the same way. Pure vanilla phones seem to do better with lwp...like the LG g2x and nexus s
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And this happens with the stock lwp
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I'm running launcher pro, stock rom, rooted with some build.prop tweaks and I have the same laggy opening of the app drawer. I never contributed it to lwp. After a quick test its only laggy with lwp as the op said. Its not terrible but its not silky smooth either. Everything else is fine.
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GUARDIANBD said:
Hi
Im just wondering...how come such a powerfull phone
Cannot "multi task" with live wallpaper..
When i put LWP the phone become very slow and laggy.
I have here galaxy s and he doing fine with heavy multi task and LWP
As well.
Even with another launchers the problem remains.
does anyone else having the same problem?
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Here's a tip: STOP USING LIVE WALLPAPERS THEY KILL YOUR BATTERY. Also LWP shouldnt slow your phone down if anything it should be faster since lwp keep your cpu clock speed a bit higher.
kennypow3rs said:
Here's a tip: STOP USING LIVE WALLPAPERS THEY KILL YOUR BATTERY. Also LWP shouldnt slow your phone down if anything it should be faster since lwp keep your cpu clock speed a bit higher.
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Anything that requires resources and CPU cycles should slow things down. Albeit how much depends on many factors. Video based apps like live wallpaper especially could be resource intensive.
kennypow3rs said:
Here's a tip: STOP USING LIVE WALLPAPERS THEY KILL YOUR BATTERY. Also LWP shouldnt slow your phone down if anything it should be faster since lwp keep your cpu clock speed a bit higher.
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Dont you mean lower? Higher, in theory, would make it slower because it needs that power to multi-task for whatever reason? But then again, some of my servers run well over 200% and no one complains? Oh well............
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Dont you mean lower? Higher, in theory, would make it slower because it needs that power to multi-task for whatever reason? But then again, some of my servers run well over 200% and no one complains? Oh well............
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I mean live wallpapers keep the cpu active, you fire up the screen so its already faster than the phone with regular wallpaper because it needs to continuously keep the lwp going? Idk maybe im seeing this wrong......seems like the phone using lwp should be more responsive and able to multitask over the phone with regular wallpaper since the cores have to fire up upon the screen wake.
I use adw ex with no issues.
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cornelious2 said:
I use adw ex with no issues.
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Same here and not had any problems
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Using seeds of life and stock launcher with no problems as of yet other than having to apply the lwp twice to show all the..."seeds"
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You see this phone is just great from the start. The moment you fire it up you just know its a great phone. How the **** anyone can say its slow is behond me. The only phone where I'm not tempted to install a custom rom, on stock with root and I tell you what its a ****ing beauty, end of, final, its just ****ing great
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It has S-Note (ability to record your self in app with audio and replay)
S-Memo improvements
S-Pen settings have some features added in.
Browser is definitely improved.
ATT Messages app preinstalled. Sorta.
Voice Talk super responsive!
S-pen still not calibrated just right but better.
Rotation more responsive.
New sounds.
Used allshare to stream my own movies to my mac via XMBC (Success!).
Screen only activates facelock when you manually lock the device, otherwise its just a swipe lock.
Update. 4G is way stronger and faster.
couldn't find any more right now.
SMS send button corrected
claywd said:
It has S-Note (ability to record your self in app with audio and replay)
S-Memo improvements
S-Pen settings have some features added in.
Browser is definitely improved.
ATT Messages app preinstalled. Sorta.
Voice Talk super responsive!
S-pen still not calibrated just right but better.
Rotation more responsive.
New sounds.
Used allshare to stream my own movies to my mac via XMBC (Success!).
Screen only activates facelock when you manually lock the device, otherwise its just a swipe lock.
Update. 4G is way stronger and faster.
couldn't find any more right now.
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agree on all except allshare & facelock...I dont use...
+1 on the 4g is stronger for me in my area...
i noticed theres a lil delay when u unlock the screen then hurry and lock it, it shows the homescreen for a sec then goes to the lock screen
Camera seems quicker and the preview after shooting no longer has the laggy animation.
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I can't change the lock screen wallpaper in the settings.I did some work around magic to get what I wanted
from my big a$$ phone
maybe its a dumb question to ask, but is all share a touchwiz only app?
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+ Palm-sweeping screenshot is working now
- sweeping title bar brightness control still broken
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egomezmorales said:
maybe its a dumb question to ask, but is all share a touchwiz only app?
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Not sure what you mean. I use Go launcher and all share still works.
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It uses frameworks only supported by the stock rom and stock applications.
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samic said:
+ Palm-sweeping screenshot is working now
- sweeping title bar brightness control still broken
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I've tried and tried to no avail as far as using my palm to get a screenshot. Is it maybe because I'm using ICS perfection based on the newest build?
EDIT: I didn't realize your palm has to touch the screen. Silly me it works flawless. Its actually the quickest way to achieve a screenshot
from my big a$$ phone
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It uses frameworks only supported by the stock rom and stock applications.
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thank you for the info, I really miss this feature
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Is it my imagination:
The android keyboard is less forgiving?
I have way more typing errors than with previous bases.
The gallery looks blurry?
My eyes aren't what they used to be, but . . .
still could use more work
As with the previous leaks some of the issues were not addressed. Basically some will find this leak pleasant and others such as myself not worth the hassle (returning once again back to stock). I quess it all depends on how one uses their phones. For me the task manager (jobmanager.apk) is a must, task manager must be used repeatedly to accomplish anything. Next Bluetooth works, however when using it with Pandora and programs via data I lose the ability to control music using headset (some functions work others don't). Trying to connect to a call via Bluetooth during audio playback in news or Pandora is more trouble than its worth. Tap to zoom while viewing pages over zooms not to big an issue but prefer to have it zoom and fit the screen. Last but not least, I still think the note has the worst call quality of any phone I've ever used was hoping a ROM or update would fix this, of course this is my opinion here. I will give the browser one thumbs up (the other hand is being used to display a middle finger to this leak) it far surpasses the previous stock browser, I'm not a fan of the checkerboard effect. I haven't used this leak long enough to find any other problems.
egomezmorales said:
thank you for the info, I really miss this feature
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Works on hybrid though
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rangercaptain said:
Is it my imagination:
The android keyboard is less forgiving?
I have way more typing errors than with previous bases.
The gallery looks blurry?
My eyes aren't what they used to be, but . . .
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I'm glad to see that the keyboard problem wasn't just me. I felt like Homer Simpson trying to type. Not only was it generating a lot of typos but it also seemed like the auto-correct was acting like a drunk Marine... way too aggressive and usually wrong. The strange part is that I encountered the exact same problem with the android keyboard, the samsung keyboard, ICS keyboard, A.I. Type, and Swype. Swiftkey has acted fairly good for me though. I imagine there has to be some component, related to autocorrect, that all of the other keyboards share but Swiftkey doesn't.
I seems that the hidden menu:
*#*#4636#*#*
is not working anymore. I think this is a new issue, before this was always working.
I also don't like too much this new keyboard ... too many typos.
So is it the way the screen reads your fingertips, or is the dictionary a suck-hole?
mimmus said:
I seems that the hidden menu:
*#*#4636#*#*
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Yeah, that hurts the people who want to drop to EDGE to save power.
I have always wondered this, is this to improve speed or a design flaw? You got a square and the rest of the screen goes white for a split second. And even if you use a third party browser it's the same. Is this an android thing?
For_itembine said:
I have always wondered this, is this to improve speed or a design flaw? You got a square and the rest of the screen goes white for a split second. And even if you use a third party browser it's the same. Is this an android thing?
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Its there on iphone too.. its like that cos of hardware gpu acceleration.. which makes it fast...
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^^ yup.
Its rendered in tiles, like chillz said its just the way its done now with GPU rendering.
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I know I saw it somewhere in here but can't find the message again. Where is this option, and the rest of the dev options?
Assuming your developer options are still hidden. Go to about phone and tap build number repeatedly until it says it has unlocked developer options. Then you should see that in settings and your force gpu is there.
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Thanks, I knew it was something weird like that.
What do we gain by using force gpu rendering?
RaptorMD said:
What do we gain by using force gpu rendering?
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Only instability in some apps as far as I know, the genie widget for one (news and weather)
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richii0207 said:
Only instability in some apps as far as I know, the genie widget for one (news and weather)
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So is it worth enabling at all?
JihadSquad said:
So is it worth enabling at all?
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Not unless your running some app that hasn't been updated since ICS and want to eek some more performance out of it. (Like genie widget... Which breaks)
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So is it worth enabling at all?
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Not at all, the S4 does not lag one bit. I would NEVER recommend enabling it, it comes disabled stock for a reason.
People claim to experience "laginess", but this is perceived due to having a 3rd party launcher. Install ANY launcher and look at the delay between tapping an icon and the app actually opening. On the stock launcher, it is INSTANT. Don't know how I managed to go off topic but hope I answered your question.
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richii0207 said:
Not at all, the S4 does not lag one bit. I would NEVER recommend enabling it, it comes disabled stock for a reason.
People claim to experience "laginess", but this is perceived due to having a 3rd party launcher. Install ANY launcher and look at the delay between tapping an icon and the app actually opening. On the stock launcher, it is INSTANT. Don't know how I managed to go off topic but hope I answered your question.
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This, I use to be a big supporter of a popular launcher but I realized that there is almost always going to be lag with them. Its better to find an awesome ROM and go stock imo.
On the topic of gaming, not all emulators are the same.. I use to use a paid PSX emulator but had to switch to a new Gmail so I had to start over and was using a free PSX emu. While I finally got my S4 2.0 MHL adaptor in from Samsung and was gaming. I see that the performance is a bit laggy and slow (40-43fps). Having done my research and knowing that its not the phone's fault or the adapter, I conclude that its the app so I buy the paid app I use to use (FPse) and boom, 59-60fps consistently