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Anyone know a good cpu app that will read dual cores? Profiles would be nice. I've read reviews on apps and so far SetCpu seems like a bad idea. I'm either going for CpuMaster Pro or System Tuner pro but don't know if they read dual cores or what each one has to offer. I tried the free version of CpuMaster and says its reading 0 cores.
I'm using Joelz Sense Redefined Rom with 1.7 Kernel by SebastianFM.
I would recommend System Tuner Pro. I don't believe it allows for control over each individual core, but it does show what both cores are doing. I attached a screenshot showing the general layout while in CPU settings.
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Cpu tuner
Yea i triedout the free version and it looks great by appearance. I recently tested CPU Tuner as well and it looks by far the best and its free. Has a bunch of options for Triggers, Profiles, governors, and seems to have an option where you can select if both processors work or not during certain profiles.
Only question I got is if this actually works with the rezound and ICS roms. With Joelz Redefined ROM installed I'm getting the blue flicker when im like at 40% or lower battery from what I observed last night. If I would move the app drawer up an down real fast it would give the blue flicker but as soon as I charged to 100% (First time seeing it 100% since using ICS) overnight the flicker is gone. So anyone have experiance with this particular app before I make my final verdict?
Also looking for a CPU/Mem/Temp widget. I used to use Temp+CPU Widget but it fails to read dual core CPUs and shows -1% at all times.
Neither of these show dual core but Antutu and system tuner pro have good built in widgets
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1233103
Everyone go look at this for info on our dual core problems
That topic is from September has it been fixed?
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might explain my lockups even at default settings with anthrax and incredikernel. might just be a corrupted data between the usage between setcpu,antutu and system tuner pro. had anthrax then flashed beta6 of incredikernel with same issues. going to restart ineff1.3 with only stock and system tuner to see if I can evade lockups again
has anyone ever bothered to go into developer options in settings and turn off transition animations scale or windows animation? to see if things are speeded up even more so. I noticed with windows animation off, the setting screens just pop onto the screen vs. a more gradual appearance of it. I'm trying it with those off to see if any noticeable increase in UI speed. although my UI was fast n lag free before, I'm just curious to see if speed increased even more. Someone brought up a point before that one reason IOS UI is fast because they don't have fancy transition animations n such like android. so cutting those off "should" theoretically improve ICS UI.
I just use the app "spare parts" to speed up the window and transition animations.
krispy521 said:
I just use the app "spare parts" to speed up the window and transition animations.
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I have that app also. but instead of just speeding them up, you can completely shut them off. things do move alot faster as far as ui goes. if you put the transitions to 10x you get this cool slow mo fading effect when switching to certain tasks or apps. but going into developer options and cutting off windows animation and transition animation does speed things up. they pop on the screen that much faster.
I might try out the spare parts thing to see how that fares. reminds me of an app I had on Ipad, jailbreak needed, that was like a fake gpu accelerator. all it did was speed up window animation and transition animation. it worked well so ill take a look at this. I'd still think completely shutting them off is the fastest method vs. speeding them up.
edit update: I just tried out spare parts like you said. Do you know what speeding up the windows n transitions animations really does in that app? lol all it does is change the developer animation settings. I compared it. OK for example stock developer settings has windows and transition set at 1X by default. now if you go into spare parts app and put those animations to fast, all it did was change developer options animations to .5x speed. so really that spare parts app is not even needed for that. you can go straight into developer options and change this without needing that app. I did it a few times and looked back n forth at spare parts settings then developer options and all it does is change developer option speed. which I can do within Asus settings itself. even in the app description it says cutting them off brings fastest device performance.
I still wish we could find out a more technical answer on if Forcing GPU rendering helps or not. and if it does, is there extra battery drain? only seen mixed answers. nothing concrete yet. I have noticed in the developers section there's a custom rom calles WSG rom. one of his features is that he basically cut off CPU rendering and forced GPU rendering full-time. been hearing good things about how fast it is. I wonder if its the same as going into developer options and forcing gpu rendering. Anyone has any technical insight into this?
I think I was the one who mentioned the screen transition in a thread where someone was calling the TFP laggy.
I have mine set to none. I don't see why anybody would use screen transitions. Isn't instant screen changes what everyone wants?
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I think I was the one who mentioned the screen transition in a thread where someone was calling the TFP laggy.
I have mine set to none. I don't see why anybody would use screen transitions. Isn't instant screen changes what everyone wants?
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cutting off those animations does bring instant screen changes. I think I will leave them off. UI is even faster than before with them off. everything, as far as UI. launching apps, etc..is instant.
here is technical info on what happens when you Force GPU rendering. I asked the developer MasterZen about it in his thread. He isbthe Creator of WSG Rom, where he added the feature of removing software(CPU) rendering and forcing GPU rendering full-time. here's his quote:
" FULL GPU rendering puts our tablets into a state where all the rendering steps, both rasterization and scene composition, are handled by the GPU. The rasterization step in the rendering phase takes all the display list objects, either vectors and bitmaps, and creates textures to be rendered. Then the textures are copied on to the buffer. Thus freeing up our CPU for more excessive task"
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here is technical info on what happens when you Force GPU rendering. I asked the developer MasterZen about it in his thread. He isbthe Creator of WSG Rom, where he added the feature of removing software(CPU) rendering and forcing GPU rendering full-time. here's his quote:
" FULL GPU rendering puts our tablets into a state where all the rendering steps, both rasterization and scene composition, are handled by the GPU. The rasterization step in the rendering phase takes all the display list objects, either vectors and bitmaps, and creates textures to be rendered. Then the textures are copied on to the buffer. Thus freeing up our CPU for more excessive task"
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Is this how iOS does it? Are there any drawbacks to full GPU rendering, more crashes..ect?
demandarin said:
here is technical info on what happens when you Force GPU rendering. I asked the developer MasterZen about it in his thread. He isbthe Creator of WSG Rom, where he added the feature of removing software(CPU) rendering and forcing GPU rendering full-time. here's his quote:
" FULL GPU rendering puts our tablets into a state where all the rendering steps, both rasterization and scene composition, are handled by the GPU. The rasterization step in the rendering phase takes all the display list objects, either vectors and bitmaps, and creates textures to be rendered. Then the textures are copied on to the buffer. Thus freeing up our CPU for more excessive task"
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That's how apple does it! I am telling you guys why do you think they use extensive amounts of VRAM and also why they leave their CPU clocked so god damn low!
We should start forcing that in all roms and send a letter to Andy Rubin if we find it helps a bunch!
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aypanthony said:
Is this how iOS does it? Are there any drawbacks to full GPU rendering, more crashes..ect?
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I'm not noticing any drawbacks at the moment on full gpu rendering. MasterZen said in his thread that he will put together a beta team to see if it has any drawbacks or improvements to battery performance.
Wordlywisewiz said:
That's how apple does it! I am telling you guys why do you think they use extensive amounts of VRAM and also why they leave their CPU clocked so god damn low!
We should start forcing that in all roms and send a letter to Andy Rubin if we find it helps a bunch!
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good idea. plus people should definitely go into developer options and cut off the windows and transition animations, tablet is Wahhabi more snappier now. add force gpu rendering and UI n everything becomes really fast. mines was already great before but cutting off those animations took it to another level. I'm forcing gpu rendering also to see how that fares also. we might be on to something
Wow... i just changed the Windows and transition animation setting to 0.5 instead of 1.0 and enabled the force gpu option. There is a Noticeable improvement in GUI speed for the interface. I like the eye candy so didn't want to completely turn them off.
Thanks for the tip!
Def a speed boost when turning off animations.
MadmanJay said:
Wow... i just changed the Windows and transition animation setting to 0.5 instead of 1.0 and enabled the force gpu option. There is a Noticeable improvement in GUI speed for the interface. I like the eye candy so didn't want to completely turn them off.
Thanks for the tip!
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no problem
demandarin said:
good idea. plus people should definitely go into developer options and cut off the windows and transition animations, tablet is Wahhabi more snappier now. add force gpu rendering and UI n everything becomes really fast. mines was already great before but cutting off those animations took it to another level. I'm forcing gpu rendering also to see how that fares also. we might be on to something
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Benchmark it like that!
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Benchmark it like that!
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OK. ill do it tonight. I doubt the animations would affect anything but forcing GPU rendering could have dramatic effect for the positive in the benchmarks. as far as gpu side of things goes.
A little speed boost for the Nexus 10.
Settings, About Tablet, then keep tapping the build number,you will see a "countdown".keep tapping.
Under developer options go to..
Window animation Scale..set to .5x
Transition animation scale..set to .5x
Defaults are 1x and max is 10x(super slow).
Now when using the app manager icon(double pane box)your apps snap in and out quicker.
I remembered using this tip for my GS III and it works flawlessly on the N10..Enjoy!
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A little speed boost for the Nexus 10.
Under developer options go to..
Window animation Scale..set to .5x
Transition animation scale..set to .5x
Defaults are 1x and max is 10x(super slow).
Now when using the app manager icon(double pane box)your apps snap in and out quicker.
I remembered using this tip for my GS III and it works flawlessly on the N10..Enjoy!
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Does this just speed animations up or uses less resources?
BoneXDA said:
Does this just speed animations up or uses less resources?
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I would imagine it just adjust the speeds of the animations.
Is it normal that I dont have the developer option in my settings menu?!
When I go under security/device admin thres nothing there, it says "no users"...
Settings, About Tablet, then keep tapping the build number
Uppers
I remember doing this on infinity this just speeds up animation transitions.
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Does this just speed animations up or uses less resources?
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Speeds up animations. Makes it "feel" like the overall device is faster
Wouldn't the best option be to just set "Animation off" instead of "Animation scale .5x" to achieve the most optimize effect? While you are in the developer settings don't forget to enable "Force GPU rendering" for a graphical speed boost to applications that disables GPU rendering by default.
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g1xx3r said:
A little speed boost for the Nexus 10.
Settings, About Tablet, then keep tapping the build number,you will see a "countdown".keep tapping.
Under developer options go to..
Window animation Scale..set to .5x
Transition animation scale..set to .5x
Defaults are 1x and max is 10x(super slow).
Now when using the app manager icon(double pane box)your apps snap in and out quicker.
I remembered using this tip for my GS III and it works flawlessly on the N10..Enjoy!
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Thanks. I don't like animation on so I turned off.
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I know its of topic but anybody using Engadget site knows how can I zoom in after the new site. I don't seems like to find the way. thanks
placebo... this doesn't make the nexus 10 any faster...
and forcing GPU rendering may break some apps, there's a reason why it's hidden in the developer's section...
OK so I tapped it a few times now all it says is you are already a developer. Now what?
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placebo... this doesn't make the nexus 10 any faster...
and forcing GPU rendering may break some apps, there's a reason why it's hidden in the developer's section...
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It doesn't make it faster. It gives the illusion of it appearing to be faster though... Same could be said about putting the animation speeds at 10x. Won't make the device any slower, but it will feel very slow.
And yes, forcing GPU rendering can break some apps, but for majority of apps, it works fine. Most apps are GPU-accelerated anyway.
Hey guys...
I can't help but notice fps/crack/lag/stutter when i scroll through settings and i think it's time i share this because no matter what i do it's still there.
When i'm in the launcher,everything's so smooth but in settings it's bad..especially when comparing to cm10/10.1 where scrolling through settings is a breeze...
Have anyone else noticed this?How did you fix it?
Thanks.
Btw i'm on Ultima 8.1.2 and [email protected] cpu+640mhz gpu but it doesn't matter really,the kernel/rom combo doesn't affect this.
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Hey guys...
I can't help but notice fps/crack/lag/stutter when i scroll through settings and i think it's time i share this because no matter what i do it's still there.
When i'm in the launcher,everything's so smooth but in settings it's bad..especially when comparing to cm10/10.1 where scrolling through settings is a breeze...
Have anyone else noticed this?How did you fix it?
Thanks.
Btw i'm on Ultima 8.1.2 and [email protected] cpu+640mhz gpu but it doesn't matter really,the kernel/rom combo doesn't affect this.
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Try activating "disable hw overlays" and "force gpu rendering" from developer options....it helps me...
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You want the settings for best smoothness?
1.install siyah
2.change governor to lulzactiveq andchange scheduler to cfq
3.enable gpu rendering + disable hardware overlay in developer options.
4.set the minimum gpu clock to 266mhz in stweaks.
5.set touch boost to 1000 mhz in stweaks.
Now I guarantee you an ultra smooth experience.
Note : disable/kill media scanner or downloads provider service if it's using too much cpu.
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Please ask in the correct section
Stop flooding threads with bulls*it!
We had enough of you already!
Help people or remain silenced!
celeronix said:
Stop flooding threads with bulls*it!
We had enough of you already!
Help people or remain silenced!
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If you're okay with having no respect for the rules, you're not welcome here
bala_gamer said:
You want the settings for best smoothness?
1.install siyah
2.change governor to lulzactiveq andchange scheduler to cfq
3.enable gpu rendering + disable hardware overlay in developer options.
4.set the minimum gpu clock to 266mhz in stweaks.
5.set touch boost to 1000 mhz in stweaks.
Now I guarantee you an ultra smooth experience.
Note : disable/kill media scanner or downloads provider service if it's using too much cpu.
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Bala, is it not idiotic n funny to do all the above even after paying £400.00 / rs.30k to actually buy the damn phone itself.. The reason we paid so much to Samsung was to make all d above and we use it straight away out of d box...
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celeronix said:
Stop flooding threads with bulls*it!
We had enough of you already!
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Wrong you are not wanted .
Do you not give a thought for XDA Developeres forum and mods that have to move countless wrongly posted items .
Just because you don't want them in the correct section and is totally against what XDA exists for its not some fix my phone forum that you and other school-kids can mess about with .
No wonder so many senior experienced members steer clear of this forum .
jje
bala_gamer said:
You want the settings for best smoothness?
1.install siyah
2.change governor to lulzactiveq andchange scheduler to cfq
3.enable gpu rendering + disable hardware overlay in developer options.
4.set the minimum gpu clock to 266mhz in stweaks.
5.set touch boost to 1000 mhz in stweaks.
Now I guarantee you an ultra smooth experience.
Note : disable/kill media scanner or downloads provider service if it's using too much cpu.
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And what does this have to do with the topic? You can lock the CPU to 1400MHz and the GPU to 800MHz, kill your battery, and it will still lag in the aforementioned situation.
If you actually pay attention while scrolling in the Setting page, you will see that the lag/hickup will only happen once any of the On/Off switches come into display and get rendered, if you scroll without any of the switches in view it will be smooth. I can already imagine what causes this; they're fetching the status of the switches in the rendering thread and it simply causes an overhead on the rendering fluidity. No matter what you do you won't be able to get rid of that design problem. Hundreds of other apps are completely fluid in the meantime.
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And what does this have to do with the topic? You can lock the CPU to 1400MHz and the GPU to 800MHz, kill your battery, and it will still lag in the aforementioned situation.
If you actually pay attention while scrolling in the Setting page, you will see that the lag/hickup will only happen once any of the On/Off switches come into display and get rendered, if you scroll without any of the switches in view it will be smooth. I can already imagine what causes this; they're fetching the status of the switches in the rendering thread and it simply causes an overhead on the rendering fluidity. No matter what you do you won't be able to get rid of that design problem. Hundreds of other apps are completely fluid in the meantime.
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Nice find AndreiLux.
I really didn't think it was a kernel or settings issue because i run at 200-1704 for cpu and 266-640 for gpu both with reasonable scaling settings so i think i'm fine.
Also true,in almost any other app everything is smooth as it should be...
So in conclusion a dev or sammy must fix the settings apk not to lag?
gaspernemec said:
Try activating "disable hw overlays" and "force gpu rendering" from developer options....it helps me...
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Thanks for that.
Well,force gpu rendering sticks but disable hw overlays doesn't stick after reboot and i really don't know if it actually does something!
Welcome to android!
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@nfsmw_mr
Oops,my mind totally ignored the word "settings" in your post.
@andrei
Nice find Andrei. Any solutions for that?
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The settings need to be reprogrammed. I tried to get rid of that lag because I thought it was because of the kernel, but then I saw that it only happens when the switches come into display. It's stupid but you don't do anything about it. I don't even know if AOSP has the same issue or if it's a Samsung thing.
It's the same problem as with Tapatalk, it's a badly designed pile of crap and that's why it's so laggy, no matter the performance of your phone.
Take Flipboard, Reddit News, much more complex apps, but they are properly coded and thus fluid.
@Bala
It's ok man...
@Andreilux and all
I see...
I think on AOSP scrolling is smoother in settings..
Anyone to confirm this?
What should we do now?
Report to sammy?Ask an experienced developer to try to fix it?
AndreiLux said:
And what does this have to do with the topic? You can lock the CPU to 1400MHz and the GPU to 800MHz, kill your battery, and it will still lag in the aforementioned situation.
If you actually pay attention while scrolling in the Setting page, you will see that the lag/hickup will only happen once any of the On/Off switches come into display and get rendered, if you scroll without any of the switches in view it will be smooth. I can already imagine what causes this; they're fetching the status of the switches in the rendering thread and it simply causes an overhead on the rendering fluidity. No matter what you do you won't be able to get rid of that design problem. Hundreds of other apps are completely fluid in the meantime.
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+1 , investigating
nfsmw_gr said:
@Bala
It's ok man...
@Andreilux and all
I see...
I think on AOSP scrolling is smoother in settings..
Anyone to confirm this?
What should we do now?
Report to sammy?Ask an experienced developer to try to fix it?
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yes, i can confirm. AOSP is 100,000 times smoother than Sammy.
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What i have found FIXES this issue is to run a LIVE WALLPAPER not a very graphic intensive one, but something like phase beam, or nexus 4 LWP. What this does is, it keeps the CPU fresh and instantly ready to render. Try it if you don't believe me.
download this LWP just for a test: https://play.google.com/store/apps/...2lkd2FzYWJpLmxpdmV3YWxscGFwZXIubmV4dXNkb3QiXQ.. and in settings put everything on MAX. and set the LWP. Now go try to find some lag
I have a samsung galaxy tab 2 7.0 running stock 4.1.1 jellybean and stock touchwiz launcher and in developer options I found the option "force gpu rendering" I have noticed that when this is turned on scrolling through my home screens, app drawer etc. is noticebly smoother and some games like gta 3 are able to be run at max graphics with no lag while when this is off it struggles to run at medium graphics settings without lag. I have looked around and still dont fully understand what force gpu rendering is and I would really appreciate it if someone would explain what it is and why it makes these things smoother. I am also wondering if anyone has run into any apps that dont work or dont work as well with this setting turned on and if you could list any that have problems. Thanks
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