Graphics issue??? - Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)

Has anyone noticed odd lines going diagonally through some icons and play store?
Edit : when I run quadrant I get really bad artifacts on the square part of the stairs.
Could it be a driver issue?
Should I return it as a malfunctioning device?
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No haven't noticed this at all.

Here is a ss
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Try a factory restore.. Should fix it for you.

wait....wtf is this.....it's something common to the icons....

monkey28rb said:
Try a factory restore.. Should fix it for you.
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Tried factory reset still happening. It's not only icons.
jamesnmandy said:
wait....wtf is this.....it's something common to the icons....
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If you would ac tally read the op you would've seen its not only icons. I also get it on pics and get bad artifacts in games. So if your looking to get sarcastic take it somewhere else.
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Definitely not a driver issue... It's the GPU failing to render. I recommend exchanging it while you still can, even under severe stress mine does not do anything like that. I'm sad for you mate. What carrier you on?
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meleii said:
Tried factory reset still happening. It's not only icons.
If you would ac tally read the op you would've seen its not only icons. I also get it on pics and get bad artifacts in games. So if your looking to get sarcastic take it somewhere else.
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Apparently you need a hug, there was nothing sarcastic about it. Im sitting here waiting for my phone to come in a couple weeks and seeing someone post graphics issues is unsettling. Of course i read the op, but the point was on the screenshot it is specific to the icons,whatever it is does not impact the background or other graphical parts on the screen which makes me think its not necessarily hardware.
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Ty for the input. And my apologies if there was nothing sarcastic intended.
And I'm on AT&T.
Maybe that is the reason the AT&T store said it was a return of a preordered device and allowed me to buy it in store yesterday.
Just stressing out about it a bit.
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Buying New NOTE

hi guys,
im selling my gnex and buying a new lte note, and here are my questions.
im in canada and i know there are three carriers ROBELUS with the same notes, and they are supposedly identical. is there a PREFERENCE to which carrier's phone i should get?
COMING from the gnex, it had many problems related to screen banding, bad colors, usb charging,power button issues.
are there any known things that i shoud check for when purchasing the phone?
plz list as many as possible
BUT, xom
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First of all,: have seen my brothers galaxy nexus and I haven't notice any of the problems you mentioned.
Secondly, No Galaxy Note doesn't have much of hardware issue other than some people complaining about black corners.
Just bad part with the Note for now is Gingerbread and Touxhwiz.
And after a week of use, with perfect size of device you won't even like to look at any small devices.
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A lot of people seem to have varying problems on xda. Some people complain of laggy screens and low quadrant scores, so you might want to run a quadrant and make sure it exceeds 3000.
Another issue is the black clipping/crush some people are experiencing with dark wallpapers and videos. Run this YouTube video to test for this problem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJO88Qhxwv4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Coffinfeeder said:
A lot of people seem to have varying problems on xda. Some people complain of laggy screens and low quadrant scores, so you might want to run a quadrant and make sure it exceeds 3000.
Another issue is the black clipping/crush some people are experiencing with dark wallpapers and videos. Run this YouTube video to test for this problem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJO88Qhxwv4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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what is the black clipping crush thing? can,u explain a bit? thanks
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Coffinfeeder said:
A lot of people seem to have varying problems on xda. Some people complain of laggy screens and low quadrant scores, so you might want to run a quadrant and make sure it exceeds 3000.
Another issue is the black clipping/crush some people are experiencing with dark wallpapers and videos. Run this YouTube video to test for this problem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJO88Qhxwv4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Lagging is just bcoz of gingerbread.
All should go away as soon as ICS update comes.
And black clipping crush is whatever I don't see it as deal breaker issuse and doesn't bother to many of us.
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Sorree doeesnt mean to you or being rude
But
This is to EVERYONE here.
Plz stop starting new thread every now and then for something answered before.
Plz use search and Google search before starting new thread. Maybe ur query is answered over and over many times .
I know we need to make our forums active but doesn't mean repeating over and over same stuff.
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gotshoaib said:
Lagging is just bcoz of gingerbread.
All should go away as soon as ICS update comes.
And black clipping crush is whatever I don't see it as deal breaker issuse and doesn't bother to many of us.
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goood to hear there arent many problems
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gotshoaib said:
Lagging is just bcoz of gingerbread.
All should go away as soon as ICS update comes.
And black clipping crush is whatever I don't see it as deal breaker issuse and doesn't bother to many of us.
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I actually have little to no lag at all using saurom with ADWex and overclocked at 1.83ghz. I just wanted to let him know what some users are complaining about on stock right out of the box.
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Kevin Ma said:
what is the black clipping crush thing? can,u explain a bit? thanks
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Black crush is when very dark images transitioning to lighter darks or other colors are very blocky. It is very notable on the devices that have it, I'm fortunate enough to not have it
Just run that YouTube video and see if it runs clear and smooth or very blocky.
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Coffinfeeder said:
I actually have little to no lag at all using saurom with ADWex and overclocked at 1.83ghz. I just wanted to let him know what some users are complaining about on stock right out of the box.
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Yeah OK
Sorree, well my post doesn't mean anythingt against you.
I also was trying to refer like its just gingerbread which makes lag, custom from and very soon ICS should make Note even better.
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gotshoaib said:
Yeah OK
Sorree, well my post doesn't mean starlight against you.
I also was trying to refer like its just gingerbread which makes lag, custom from and very soon ICS should make Note even better.
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awesome, too bad it seems as if odin is harder than the nexus toolkit i used to unlocked, root, flash cwm in one step,lol....but that screen is sexy~
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Kevin Ma said:
awesome, too bad it seems as if odin is harder than the nexus toolkit i used to unlocked, root, flash cwm in one step,lol....but that screen is sexy~
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Odin is very simple to use. And if you look in the development section there was a flash counter reset for ATT notes just posted today. I'm sure they'll have all the Canadian versions up before the day is over.
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Coffinfeeder said:
Odin is very simple to use. And if you look in the development section there was a flash counter reset for ATT notes just posted today. I'm sure they'll have all the Canadian versions up before the day is over.
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that is just splendid news lol. thanks guys, appears that all i gotta look out for is the blocky blacks in video playback~more input would be great~but made my decision, and might pick it up in the next few weeks...love the spen functionality, definitely taking this over the non-released s3, of would u guys say otherwise?
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Touchscreen quirk fix

Hope this isn't too misleading.
I was having touchscreen issues to the point where the phone was basically unusable.
Read somewhere about sgs touchscreen booster fixing issues on other phones, but the guides wouldn't work on the 3vo.
After some research on xda I found out that the issue lies in the multitouch software, so, in sgs touchscreen booster:
Lower multitouch points to one. (from five)
This has done the trick for me, and gestures like pinch to zoom work flawlessly.
Let me know if this works and I'll edit the post to be more user friendly.
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Mine has always been hit and miss with the apps. Like browsers. Opera mobile was smoother for me then Firefox and the stock browser was smoother and more friendly for me on certain sites.
Its a phone not a pc, I try to keep that in the back of my head
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What exaclty are you referring to?
I'm talking about touchscreen issues like unresponsiveness, and phantom taps, to the point where the phone is completely unusable.
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mike827 said:
What exaclty are you referring to?
I'm talking about touchscreen issues like unresponsiveness, and phantom taps, to the point where the phone is completely unusable.
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My previous one did that. I just reverted back to stock and sprint exchanged it then and there once I showed them what it was doing...
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Definitely a general topic, not a dev topic. A link to this would be nice...
LiquidSolstice said:
Definitely a general topic, not a dev topic. A link to this would be nice...
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+ 1 for link. & + 1 for general section.
Thanks for the info tho.
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xavier86 said:
My previous one did that. I just reverted back to stock and sprint exchanged it then and there once I showed them what it was doing...
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My phone is doing this too & I had wanted to take it to sprint, but I don't have insurance. Will they still exchange it?
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bbplaya4life said:
My phone is doing this too & I had wanted to take it to sprint, but I don't have insurance. Will they still exchange it?
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My phone had the same issue months back. I brought it into Sprint and paid the $15 fee for them to fix it (they thought they could just replace the screen and that would fix it). They replaced the screen, and said it was still having the same problem. They ended up giving me a "new" 3D, one that was returned within 30 days of the previous owner having it.
mine does this thing where it i can't use the far left of the whole screen. i'd say 30% of it. i can still manage but sometimes its like there is a ghost playing with my screen not letting me text lol.
i thought about taking it to sprint but my bootloader has relocked at the top. im not sure what to do. i thought of replacing it myself but i could risk completely breaking it, i think.
i tried this method with the sgs booster but it didn't do anything for me
My phone is completely unusable because of the touch screen. Unfortunately this didn't' fix it.
I've been having a quirky touchscreen too and just left sprint. They ordered me up a new phone and said the touchscreen was bad.
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[Q] is this normal?

I was youtubing and this is what my blacks look like. Is this normal?
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Is that a screen shot? It looks good to me. You would have to take a picture of the problem with a camera to show us how it looks to you.
Unofficially NOTEd
21productionz said:
Is that a screen shot? It looks good to me. You would have to take a picture of the problem with a camera to show us how it looks to you.
Unofficially NOTEd
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Errr. I feel dumb.
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ballu84 said:
I was youtubing and this is what my blacks look like. Is this normal?
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NO, IT IS NOT NORMAL. There is an issue with the gnote and its black's. I would like to say 8 of 10 ppl are dealing with it. You can see the black blotch is very clear on the right side of your picture. No phone should do this. A fix should be coming with ICS, I hope
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There is no guarentee that there will be a fix for ICS. Most likely, we will have to deal with it.
-Once you go NOTE, you'd say 4 inches a Joke
demetriew said:
NO, IT IS NOT NORMAL. There is an issue with the gnote and its black's the I would like to say 8 of of 10 ppl are dealing with. You can see the black blotch is very clear on the right side of your picture. No phone should do this. A fix should be coming with ICS.
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is it this bad with everybody?
Yes it is this bad. Mine is the same or worse on ics.
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Yes its pretty bad. The lower the brightness the more visible it is on my note. Its kind of a buzkill when looking at my wifes HOXL and seeing perfect blending and no blotchy blacks.
Its gotta be a software issue, cuz I think I read somewhere the one x and note use the same panel tech right?
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Sadly, the black crush problem, or "black clipping," is a very well known issue on both the i717 and n7000 Notes. It doesn't look like the official ICS update is going to fix the problem, but at least one n7000 developer, Supercurio, says he may be able to fix it once we have the official ICS source code.
Even though the problem affects nearly every Note, Samsung has never even acknowledged that the problem exists.
Keep your fingers crossed...

Extreme Nitpick Alert! You were warned!

Hey guys,
I was wondering if anyone here could confirm a small, miniscule, almost-non-existent issue I found with this beautiful device. The left (Menu) touch button seems to be every-so-slightly faded compared to the right (Back) touch button. I haven't been able to find any pictures, or take a picture of mine (no camera around at the moment) to show what I mean. It's almost ridiculous that I am spending my time and energy in typing about this, but I would just like to know if this is normal and not something that is unique to mine. Besides, I think it gives it a bit of a personality (like Nemo and his fin).
Unique to yours.
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i have this "problem" on my S2.. not on the s3. So.. it happens
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Not even sure what you mean to be honest.
Do you mean the light is dimmer?
I haven't noticed any issues in any case. I don't think I'd really care. I'm more inclined to worry about signs I've used it! (microscopic scratches that you can't see from anything but the most obscure of angles etc.)
akarol said:
I haven't been able to find any pictures, or take a picture of mine (no camera around at the moment) to show what I mean.
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You have 2 cameras on your phone :silly:
irish-sid said:
You have 2 cameras on your phone :silly:
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Irish by name....
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irish-sid said:
You have 2 cameras on your phone :silly:
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How can he use the phone to take a picture of the phone? With clarity?
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Irish by name....
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Excuse me??
I agree it was a pretty stupid comment but come on, we aren't all stupid!
Dear god you're Scottish, that must be ****.
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hefonthefjords said:
Irish by name....
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And using the front camera to take a picture in a mirror won't work because....? Use your imagination.
I'm not actually endorsing that (though the front camera is actually not bad, so it could work with enough light), and I'm sure that's not what was meant by that post, but if you're gonna be a **** about it...
esist said:
And using the front camera to take a picture in a mirror won't work because....? Use your imagination.
I'm not actually endorsing that (though the front camera is actually not bad, so it could work with enough light), and I'm sure that's not what was meant by that post, but if you're gonna be a **** about it...
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Well considering the problem is one button is slightly faded compared to the other and the lackluster FFC, I wouldn't assume that would produce anything useful. I said a picture with clarity.
It was an honest question. Obviously he can use the FFC but he is talking about something so slight it likely won't be captured with the FFC.
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nodstuff said:
Excuse me??
I agree it was a pretty stupid comment but come on, we aren't all stupid!
Dear god you're Scottish, that must be ****.
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I take offence to that. Can a mod delete these semi racist comments please. No place for that kind of **** on these forums.
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kickassdave said:
I take offence to that. Can a mod delete these semi racist comments please. No place for that kind of **** on these forums.
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This is the internet.
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kickassdave said:
I take offence to that. Can a mod delete these semi racist comments please. No place for that kind of **** on these forums.
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I took offence to your compatriots comments. Talk to him about the racist comments mate, I have no problem with Scotland, been there twice on hols.
I was just trying to piss him off.
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joshnichols189 said:
Well considering the problem is one button is slightly faded compared to the other and the lackluster FFC, I wouldn't assume that would produce anything useful. I said a picture with clarity.
It was an honest question. Obviously he can use the FFC but he is talking about something so slight it likely won't be captured with the FFC.
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I know I know. I was replying solely to the quoted comment.
About that post anyway, I'm just hoping whoever (s)he is, is trying to make some sort of sarcastic statement about semantics, since the original post said "no camera around" as opposed to "no other camera around". I'm hoping that's what the post's intention was.
Oh how I hope...
nodstuff said:
I took offence to your compatriots comments. Talk to him about the racist comments mate, I have no problem with Scotland, been there twice on hols.
I was just trying to piss him off.
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Better ways than that. In any case, both remarks were pretty tame/lame. No need to make a bigger deal out of it than it is.
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Can a mod delete these semi racist comments please. No place for that kind of **** on these forums.
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I was unaware that Scots and Irish were nowadays considered to be a different "race".
Anyhoo. Back on topic, still don't even know exactly what issue we're talking about here with these "faded" buttons.
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Better ways than that. In any case, both remarks were pretty tame/lame. No need to make a bigger deal out of it than it is.
I was unaware that Scots and Irish were nowadays considered to be a different "race".
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My original reply was pretty light hearted I think.
And we are definitely different races, they like deep fried mars bars!! Lol
But ya we're not. And deep fried mars bars are actually delicious.
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akarol said:
Hey guys,
I was wondering if anyone here could confirm a small, miniscule, almost-non-existent issue I found with this beautiful device. The left (Menu) touch button seems to be every-so-slightly faded compared to the right (Back) touch button. I haven't been able to find any pictures, or take a picture of mine (no camera around at the moment) to show what I mean. It's almost ridiculous that I am spending my time and energy in typing about this, but I would just like to know if this is normal and not something that is unique to mine. Besides, I think it gives it a bit of a personality (like Nemo and his fin).
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yes this is an issue and it also exists in my phone. i got my first S3 and it had lots of glue marks on the screen and the menu led was placed a bit above where it should be causing its light to come on the screen from inside of the scree. i got that set changed with a new one and now rest of the issues are gone but yes the menu led is a bit faded.
aami.aami said:
yes this is an issue and it also exists in my phone. i got my first S3 and it had lots of glue marks on the screen and the menu led was placed a bit above where it should be causing its light to come on the screen from inside of the scree. i got that set changed with a new one and now rest of the issues are gone but yes the menu led is a bit faded.
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Thank you for keeping this thread on-topic. Yeah, it doesn't bother me at all. Just thought I'd inquire.

Anyone give seeder a shot for lag?

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Android doesn't have lag. It suffers from low framerate at times, but latency is not the issue.
That said, the only place I ever see low framerate is when I have a huge widget list to scroll through.
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Okay, just gave 1.1 a shot. Apps are in fact loading up faster when pressed but that's the only thing I notice so far. Can't have a final say on anything else because it's so hard to tell on a Quad Core device with Jelly Bean. But thanks for letting us know of this.
Haven't tried it myself but....
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/entropy-seed-generator-not-all-its-hacked-up-to-be/
There are valid concerns about lag and how the Android OS handles them, and there is discussion currently ongoing within the Android Code about this, but this fix does not address those issues and instead gives performance gains through boosting CPU speed. The developer himself stated that this could in effect reduce battery life, since the hack is waking the CPU every second.
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SwiftLegend said:
Haven't tried it myself but....
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/entropy-seed-generator-not-all-its-hacked-up-to-be/
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I haven't noticed any battery difference on either device. Its also tough to say whether or not it did much for the Note 2 because this phone is already butter stock (with the occasional hiccup)
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chefdave12118 said:
I haven't noticed any battery difference on either device. Its also tough to say whether or not it did much for the Note 2 because this phone is already butter stock (with the occasional hiccup)
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l think the article was just in general or based on he N7 since chat was what they first reviewed the app on
SwiftLegend said:
l think the article was just in general or based on he N7 since chat was what they first reviewed the app on
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Read on http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1987032
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I grabbed this a few days ago when you mentioned it on CTO (thanks buddy). I notice apps opening noticably faster when it's running. I have it set to "start automatically on boot" but any time I "remove all" from a home button long press, which I do after I've been on my phone for a while, the app stops running and I forget to restart it. I wish it would persist that.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hflpcQjK2Q&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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adrynalyne said:
Android doesn't have lag. It suffers from low framerate at times, but latency is not the issue.
That said, the only place I ever see low framerate is when I have a huge widget list to scroll through.
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Or if you have a DROID DNA.
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I never had issues with my dna.
Anyway I tried Seeder and all I can say is I don't see a bit of difference.
adrynalyne said:
I never had issues with my dna.
Anyway I tried Seeder and all I can say is I don't see a bit of difference.
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Haha, I'm just giving you a hard time.
I'm with you, I don't see a difference either.
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WizeGuyDezignz said:
Haha, I'm just giving you a hard time.
I'm with you, I don't see a difference either.
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My theory is that people are launching apps before and then enabling it and testing those apps. Thing is, they are all loaded and load instantly.
I rebooted between my tests. :
adrynalyne said:
My theory is that people are launching apps before and then enabling it and testing those apps. Thing is, they are all loaded and load instantly.
I rebooted between my tests. :
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That's exactly what I was thinking too. :thumbup:
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I gave it a try but I feel the Note 2 is so freaking fast already that it wasn't necessary, with that said, there are definitely many other phones that I've owned where I noticed slowness immediately after rooting, so for those phones I wish I had this.
mazz0310 said:
I gave it a try but I feel the Note 2 is so freaking fast already that it wasn't necessary, with that said, there are definitely many other phones that I've owned where I noticed slowness immediately after rooting, so for those phones I wish I had this.
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Look at the video I posted from Xda TV. The app doesn't do anything
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Lol wow. The Seeder app is placed in the top 50 for top paid in the Google Play Store.
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Not bad for a placebo app
I tried explaining the the thread that Steve Kondik isn't endorsing the app like they think he is. He performed his own tests, with his own compiled code and saw some inexplicable results.
Seeder didn't do anything for him on any device he has.
A moderator deleted it though, conveniently. They of course left behind the part where CM is allegedly endorsing it though.

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