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does underclocking make video run slower? i'm on the htc inspire with Absolution v3.7. i undervolted it aggressively to -75. i also underclocked it to 384. but i dont think underclocking is the cause since i had underclocked this phone with virtuous unity to 384 and videos played well. anyway, i noticed with netflix, video runs slow every 4 minutes then normal again. please let me know if undervolting makes phone/video run slower. thanks.
Undervolting can lower stability. If you end up with such performance issues, raise voltages. Ending up with a reboot will consume far more power than UVing will save anyway.
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Undervolting can lower stability. If you end up with such performance issues, raise voltages. Ending up with a reboot will consume far more power than UVing will save anyway.
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hey harbb.. i went ahead and removed the undervolting and i also overclocked to close to 500.. videos come out a bit smoother but theyre not smooth and theres still some jerkiness.. im uninstalling this Absolution rom.. it sucks. im gonna try miui or go back to a sense rom. im very disappointed with Absolution.
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hey harbb.. i went ahead and removed the undervolting and i also overclocked to close to 500.. videos come out a bit smoother but theyre not smooth and theres still some jerkiness.. im uninstalling this Absolution rom.. it sucks. im gonna try miui or go back to a sense rom. im very disappointed with Absolution.
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What do you expect when you try to run a device at have the processing power. It is not a from issues. It is your settings. Yes under locking a from like that will make it do a lot of things slower.
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What do you expect when you try to run a device at have the processing power. It is not a from issues. It is your settings. Yes under locking a from like that will make it do a lot of things slower.
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you obviously havent read my thread in its entirety. i'll restate to you again that i underclocked a sense rom before. the video was smooth as silk. but on the absolution rom, i overclocked it above the underclocked speed on the sense rom and the video was HORRENDOUS. i couldnt see netflix without jerks.. same thing occured when playing video off the sd card. so, IT IS from issues of the rom, and NOT from my settings. and this proves it.
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you obviously havent read my thread in its entirety. i'll restate to you again that i underclocked a sense rom before. the video was smooth as silk. but on the absolution rom, i overclocked it above the underclocked speed on the sense rom and the video was HORRENDOUS. i couldnt see netflix without jerks.. same thing occured when playing video off the sd card. so, IT IS from issues of the rom, and NOT from my settings. and this proves it.
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Well then time to dig deeper and troubleshoot the issue. I know that VU has built in OC scripts. that run at boot. AOSP and Sense roms also use different drivers, this could be part of the issue.
What does the log cat say when you compared them?
i assume log cat is a log of activity on the phone. but how can i access it?
Hey guys I just got NFS: Most Wanted on the ATT Note. The gameplay and the controls are great but the game sort runs in slowmo. Anybody else getting different performance in other ROMS?
I'm running flapjaxx's AOSP ICS rom W/ GPU OC and CPU OC. I assume the slowness is due to the Note's large resolution and it's not quite as optimized as it could be for our phones. It is smooth but just terribly slow.
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OOOOKAY guys I am back with some interesting results!
I continued to try more roms and see the performance with Need for Speed Most Wanted. I first tried Flapjaxx's stock ICS rom with touchwiz with an overclock kernel and gpu OC. That ran better than any of the AOSP but still had some slowness to it.
Seeing as the stock roms tended to give more performance, I tried another stock rom. This one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766933. No OC kernel, everything stock pretty much. Here is what happened:
1. I restored NFS from titanium
2. NFS says this android is not compatible
3. I uninstall NFS and install it from the Playstore and redownload the SD data
4. Ran the game and observed that there was little to no lag! Well I'm sure it could be a bit better, the frame rate was totally playable and it actually felt speedy!
Now i'm not sure what is happening here. Either 1. the game downloaded a new SD data with lower graphics requirements, 2. the game recognized the device as a different device and choose the graphics setting accordingly, OR 3. the device just performs better @ mostly stock. Now can anybody inform me on how the SD Data actually works that would be great so I can pinpoint what it is.
My next test will be using the above rom that yielded good performance with flapjaxx's OC/GPU kernel to see if it speeds up the frames anymore.
UPDATE 2
After a bit more testing I see that without the OC kernel and using the kernel from 'better stock' ROM above, the road actually is missing some water and effects which is probably leading to the smoother gameplay! If anybody else is testing this let me know what your results are!
UPDATE 3
Trying out flappjaxx's Jelly Bean rom with his GPUOC and CPUOC. No surprise there, graphics got bumped up.
What I did notice is that there is almost NO DIFFERENCE in frames (from what I could see) from Stock rom + AOSP/JB roms with OC kernel in BUMPER CAMERA MODE despite the higher graphics. To be clear, those of you on AOSP that are already using bumper mode will not get higher frames in bumper mode on something like a stock rom. There is little to no difference in bumper modes. Should be all that I can test now. I will be sticking with this Jellybeanie and playing NFS in bumper camera mode myself (in car view).
EA, give us graphic options. That is all.
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In conclusion:
Game is somehow determining the graphics through the kernel
SD Data downloaded is the same on every rom, don't have to download new SD Data.
Some roms perform better than others. I had a lot of luck with Jelly Bean roms on stock kernel, no need to overclock.
Figured I'd give you guys a ranking list from roms. Going from best to worst
1. Latest Jelly Bean Nightly 11/21 Stock Kernel - Great out of car and even faster in car - graphics medium
2. Flapjaxx's FJ Stock Rom Mod - OCGPU/CPU best performance (in car view only) - graphics high
3. Electro's Stock Rom - Stock Kernel with no OC Okay performance in both out of car view and in car view - graphics medium
im running AOPK milestone 1, You can kinda play the game....but all the cars are black the buildings are black and the road is black....Not really sure what is going on! but I do get the slowmo at first but after I go to the menu and go back to playing the game it starts to run smoothly....in black that is!
I noticed the slowness as well, I switched to the in car view and it runs much better. Give that a try...
Sounds like u downloaded the wrong SD data
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im running AOPK milestone 1, You can kinda play the game....but all the cars are black the buildings are black and the road is black....Not really sure what is going on! but I do get the slowmo at first but after I go to the menu and go back to playing the game it starts to run smoothly....in black that is!
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That's jelly bean right? I had some problems running games and with graphical glitches in jelly bean until I turned off HW overlay and that stopped my problems.
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I noticed the slowness as well, I switched to the in car view and it runs much better. Give that a try...
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Wow, yeah running in that camera mode is a lot better. Hopefully the fix the issues completely. Thanks for the tip!
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What do you mean?
Seems to run a little laggy on mine, and it's a real battery hog as well
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Seems to run a little laggy on mine, and it's a real battery hog as well
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Ditto, switching to in-car view is definitely a lot smoother, has decent graphics but looks like the limit of S3 Adreno 225 chip has been reached, this (and other games of similar graphic quality) may be enough reason for me to upgrade to note 2 later. I also have slow down problem with NBA 2K13.
No real graphic glitch however, if you see missing textures it has to be wrong sd data, remember we are Snapdragon NOT Mali.
Im on liquid RC7 with KK.12 kernel no overclocking and the game seems to run fine for me with no lags..however Tomdg07 is right its a battery hog which quite frankly isnt a surprise. I just got off a 30 minute subway ride and I was playing it the entire time..used up exactly 20% of the battery.
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Im on liquid RC7 with KK.12 kernel no overclocking and the game seems to run fine for me with no lags..however Tomdg07 is right its a battery hog which quite frankly isnt a surprise. I just got off a 30 minute subway ride and I was playing it the entire time..used up exactly 20% of the battery.
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Really? No lag? Hmm, what's that ROM? Is it one of the Jellybeanies? Have you tried in car view to see if it is even faster than out car?
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Really? No lag? Hmm, what's that ROM? Is it one of the Jellybeanies? Have you tried in car view to see if it is even faster than out car?
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Yes indeed no lag at all - Liquid is a jellybeanie you can find it in the original development thread. To be honest I havent had the need to try in car view because the out car view has been working fine.
I should mention though that whilst I have not over clocked I am using several build prop tweaks some of which Im sure optimize graphics and what not.
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Yes indeed no lag at all - Liquid is a jellybeanie you can find it in the original development thread. To be honest I havent had the need to try in car view because the out car view has been working fine.
I should mention though that whilst I have not over clocked I am using several build prop tweaks some of which Im sure optimize graphics and what not.
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Just tried NFS Most Wanted on Liquid with KK Kernel and no luck. I even tried some build prop tweaks. It just feels too slow. Weird.
Going to try deleting it and redownloading the SD Data instead of restoring it from Titanium. Will report back with results.
EDIT: No go either. Still low frame rates. On a good note however, Liquid Jellybean Rom is probably the most stable of the Jellybeanies.
OOOOKAY guys I am back with some interesting results!
I continued to try more roms and see the performance with Need for Speed Most Wanted. I first tried Flapjaxx's stock ICS rom with touchwiz with an overclock kernel and gpu OC. That ran better than any of the AOSP but still had some slowness to it.
Seeing as the stock roms tended to give more performance, I tried another stock rom. This one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766933. No OC kernel, everything stock pretty much. Here is what happened:
1. I restored NFS from titanium
2. NFS says this android is not compatible
3. I uninstall NFS and install it from the Playstore and redownload the SD data
4. Ran the game and observed that there was little to no lag! Well I'm sure it could be a bit better, the frame rate was totally playable and it actually felt speedy!
Now i'm not sure what is happening here. Either 1. the game downloaded a new SD data with lower graphics requirements, 2. the game recognized the device as a different device and choose the graphics setting accordingly, OR 3. the device just performs better @ mostly stock. Now can anybody inform me on how the SD Data actually works that would be great so I can pinpoint what it is.
My next test will be using the above rom that yielded good performance with flapjaxx's OC/GPU kernel to see if it speeds up the frames anymore.
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Tried the OC Kernel on the stock ROM which lead it to being slow again! I'm not sure now what to think. Going to wipe and go back to the 'better stock' kernel not the 'pure stock'.
After a bit more testing I see that without the OC kernel, the road actually is missing some water and effects which is probably leading to the smoother gameplay! If anybody else is testing this let me know what your results are!
I really just wish there was an in-game settings option to reduce the graphics quality...... (if there is and I'm missing it please fill me in)
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I really just wish there was an in-game settings option to reduce the graphics quality...... (if there is and I'm missing it please fill me in)
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Agreed. Right now there is no way to change graphics quality. Certainly would save me trouble. What I think is happening is that with some Roms and Kernels the game thinks we have higher hardware and cranks up the graphic quality thus slowing down the performance of the game.
What I found is every time I used an OC kernel of some type, the game slows. So it might be a kernel issue.
I just cant comprehend why despite having the same phone and same setup (i.e. rom, kernel etc) we get totally different results.
PS> Tomdg07 props to your state for pushing obama over the 270 he needed to win. Americans totally made up for giving dubya two terms.
I was testing some more Roms yesterday including Black IV and Electro's stock debloated Rom. Black IV had flapjaxx's kernel with the ability to OC and on the Electro was not OCable.
My results were the same. Something about flapjaxx's kernel or kernels with the ability to OC makes the game bump up in graphics thus making it slower. The game must be scanning the clockspeed or something or maybe it's something deeper than that. If I can I want to test out AOSP roms again to see if its the kernel or both the kernel + the rom.
Trying out flappjaxx's Jelly Bean rom with his GPUOC and CPUOC. No surprise there, graphics got bumped up.
What I did notice is that there is almost NO DIFFERENCE in frames (from what I could see) from Stock rom + AOSP/JB roms with OC kernel in BUMPER CAMERA MODE despite the higher graphics. To be clear, those of you on AOSP that are already using bumper mode will not get higher frames in bumper mode on something like a stock rom. There is little to no difference in bumper modes. Should be all that I can test now. I will be sticking with this Jellybeanie and playing NFS in bumper camera mode myself (in car view).
EA, give us graphic options. That is all.
UPDATE: Those of you that are finding this page and reading this post. Look on the front page for what roms are the best for this game.
Got an alert to update the game when opening it, after updating it won't even open, anyone else issues after update?
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Got an alert to update the game when opening it, after updating it won't even open, anyone else issues after update?
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Same issue. Luckily I had a backup of the SD data on my hard drive so I can revert back. But yeah something messed up in that download messed up the game for us.
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Same issue. Luckily I had a backup of the SD data on my hard drive so I can revert back. But yeah something messed up in that download messed up the game for us.
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Only form of a backup I have is in the nandroid backup I did before flashing cm10, I suppose I could dig it out of there somehow, but I'll give them a day or two to fix it first
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Alright so: found the fastest sensless ROM was slimrom. With quadrant I scored about 4k on funky kernel. Mostly all sense based ROM scored around that that's with funky. Now that I installed rage ROM aosp I'm getting laggier performance in games and about a 2- 3k quadrant benchmark score. Same with antutu benchmark. Lower scores then on sense. This dosnt make sense. I thought aosp ROMs (cm9) were so pose to be godly and around faster then she sense based. But lower benchmark and lower fps and lag in games this sucks. Still running funky. I noticed that system tuner was acting up and making it do all weird things so I cleared data and uninstalled rebooted and still got same scores. Force GPU was checked in all ROMs and kernel versions. And all benchmarks were dine with ball the same CPU setting. Maybe an app is acting up and robing performance? I'm not get any abnormal heat or batter drain.
Did you check the built in cpu manager within the settings? If you have an app to govern it, they will battle over control causing lag.
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Did you check the built in cpu manager within the settings? If you have an app to govern it, they will battle over control causing lag.
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Yes and I only use the built in one to control. I was reading that this is a common problem with cm9 and going from android v 4.0.4 to 4.0.3 might fix it. As in different cm9 ROM.
Told you this before and hate to sound like a broken record. Don't use System Tuner with my kernel, use Android Tuner or CPU Tweaker (these replaced System Tuner for a reason) on Sense roms.
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Told you this before and hate to sound like a broken record. Don't use System Tuner with my kernel, use Android Tuner or CPU Tweaker (these replaced System Tuner for a reason) on Sense roms.
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I don't touch any CPU settings with ST. None. Its pretty much installed for freezing apps task manager to see what's running and the widget. That's it. All CPU settings are dine through CM in the performance section.
NEVER NEVER NEVER turn force GPU rendering on (breaks MANY apps), thats the BIGGEST mistake MANY people do on these forums along with those so-called universal "build.prop" tweaks which do absolutely nothing. Try using the stock kernel first to see if its kernel related.
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NEVER NEVER NEVER turn force GPU rendering on (breaks MANY apps), thats the BIGGEST mistake MANY people do on these forums along with those so-called universal "build.prop" tweaks which do absolutely nothing. Try using the stock kernel first to see if its kernel related.
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I've tested both games mc3 and nova 3 and both run better with it enabled. I've also tried multiple versions of kernel. Found 1.4 gives good performance and battery I've read tho that it is is a cm9 problem and that its "known"??r idk how true that is tho. Its mainly just games that I'm lagging on.
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I've tested both games mc3 and nova 3 and both run better with it enabled. I've also tried multiple versions of kernel. Found 1.4 gives good performance and battery I've read tho that it is is a cm9 problem and that its "known"??r idk how true that is tho. Its mainly just games that I'm lagging on.
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I do not have GPU rendering enabled, on stock kernel and my games run smooth.
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I don't touch any CPU settings with ST. None. Its pretty much installed for freezing apps task manager to see what's running and the widget. That's it. All CPU settings are dine through CM in the performance section.
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You should probably uninstall ST reboot and see if that fixes your issues.
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You should probably uninstall ST reboot and see if that fixes your issues.
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Tried. Nothing.
Any ;new when Neo is gonna push out his CM10 build? I think aims just wait for that see if that dolv s the problem if not them back to slimrom.
It won't be released until the CM10 devs give the go ahead. But I don't think you'll like it any more than what you've been running.
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whens that gonna be?
cm10 is based off of JB though and from what i read, jb is crqzy smooth because vsync was disabled? idk but i read that its insanely smooth
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whens that gonna be?
cm10 is based off of JB though and from what i read, jb is crqzy smooth because vsync was disabled? idk but i read that its insanely smooth
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Triple buffering. You're thinking about triple buffering. We'll only get all those benefits with a full implementation of Project Butter, which is not automatic with jellybean. Right now, what we have is very uneven. Some things are smooth, some things are choppier. Getting a full ION implementation should smooth things out, but it still won't be Project Butter.
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Triple buffering. You're thinking about triple buffering. We'll only get all those benefits with a full implementation of Project Butter, which is not automatic with jellybean. Right now, what we have is very uneven. Some things are smooth, some things are choppier. Getting a full ION implementation should smooth things out, but it still won't be Project Butter.
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ohhh i see.... but like is that lag and fps drop just a problem with cm9, or is it just my phone?
what auntutu benchmark and quadrant scores do you get?
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ohhh i see.... but like is that lag and fps drop just a problem with cm9, or is it just my phone?
what auntutu benchmark and quadrant scores do you get?
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8860 - Antutu
3030 - Quadrant
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8860 - Antutu
3030 - Quadrant
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what was your fps on both tests?
my antutu score was 8094 cpu and everything set to max speed.
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what was your fps on both tests?
my antutu score was 8094 cpu and everything set to max speed.
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Which part on each test? I'll have to do it again to check.. the test results don't tell me that info.
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Which part on each test? I'll have to do it again to check.. the test results don't tell me that info.
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in the knights test it tells you on bottom.... in sense roms i got about 59 in cm9 i get about 45-50. in both tests. somehting has to be wrong your getting a score of 800 better then me and running close to the same kernel and rom ish....
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in the knights test it tells you on bottom.... in sense roms i got about 59 in cm9 i get about 45-50. in both tests. somehting has to be wrong your getting a score of 800 better then me and running close to the same kernel and rom ish....
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56.74 FPS
I have been running Sense on my Rezound since the day the phone launched. I've tried a couple different ROMs but have always gone back to the stock ROM and then removed all the bloat apps, and been very happy with the performance and stability on my phone.
Recently I updated to ICS and the most recent firmware (I was on GB this whole time), and battery life had been sucking pretty bad, so I decided to try a custom kernel. I flashed FunkyKernel 3.7, and, while it didn't do much to help battery life (even with underclocking and undervolting), it did GREATLY improve performance, especially gaming performance.
But, battery life was still MUCH worse than it had been on GB, so I decided to try CM 10.1 and see if a vanilla ROM would fare better. Flashed CM 10.1 and the ROM ran fine, but my graphics performance took a HUGE hit. I've been playing a lot of Sonic the Hedgehog lately (the Android port of the original), and on ICS sense it ran a buttery smooth 60 fps. On CM 10 I'm getting like 15-20 fps. Fired up Quadrant and saw the same results on the graphics tests there. I tried flashing FunkyBean 3.7, and playing with the clock speed and governor settings, but no dice. I enabled "force GPU on 2d" and no dice. I tried suggestions from the CM thread, no dice. Loaded up Shadowgun, and it also ran very poorly, compared to playing on the Sense ROM... very choppy
Has anyone else noticed this? I expected CM to FLY compared to Sense. The home screen and most apps were just fine, no choppiness, no lag that I could really see, only the games really showed any loss of performance. Did I do something wrong? Is it an issue with the drivers?
Cm 10.1 ROMs have a 50/50 gaming performance. Some games are smooth some are not
Now if you want CyanogenMod and great battery life and performance all around than you want a cm9 ROM. I only left cm9 for the new features if cm10.1
So if you use cm10.1 you may need to try different games. But cm9 is perfect but you give up cm10.1 features
Maybe in the future gaming will get fixed. Maybe when ion starts rolling out but who knows..
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Ok, at least now I know it's not just my phone or me screwing something up. thank you.
Yup, just try CM9.
There are any disadvantages to go back to ice cream sandwich 4.0 version? Now I have custom 4.4.2 and it is laggy no matter what.
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There are any disadvantages to go back to ice cream sandwich 4.0 version? Now I have custom 4.4.2 and it is laggy no matter what.
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Perhaps you could try one of the lollipop versions. They (both aosp and Omni) are really stable. If you however need 3G I would suggest the aosp rom.
There's no harm in trying them out. If you still feel that they lag to much you can always go back to stock.
I've been running the aosp rom on my wifi tab for some time now and it performs pretty great actually.
Pretty great you mean responsive? Because I use omni 4.4.2 and it's laggy no matter what I do.
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Pretty great you mean responsive? Because I use omni 4.4.2 and it's laggy no matter what I do.
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Yes, responsive. I did overclock it to 1400mhz but it's running stable. Only youtube is sometimes not the best when running 720p videos.
Not responsive :/
Is it smooth when using chrome, scrolling and doing other activities?
Tell me the best settings to get it fast with Lollipop.
P.S: i suggest the cm10.2 ROM with tabletUI if you want smooth scrolling and graphics.
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Is it smooth when using chrome, scrolling and doing other activities?
Tell me the best settings to get it fast with Lollipop.
P.S: i suggest the cm10.2 ROM with tabletUI if you want smooth scrolling and graphics.
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I can only speak from my experience with the aosp rom but scrolling in Chrome is smooth, I'm also using Nova Launcher and it is overclocked to 1400 mhz. Please don't expect miracles from this old device that samsung gave up on one ago. It runs 5.1.1 as smooth as it can. Also don't expect any hard core gaming and youtube will sometimes have issues. If all these things are deal-breakers then stay with whatever you have now. I wrote this from my own experience with my own tab. My father has the same one else only that one is bone stock. Touch wiz and everything with only a handful of apps installed. And yes it runs smooth and has less "issues" but it's running 4.0.4... I hope my explanation helps you make an informed decision.
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I was considering the same. I was on 4.4 omni, seemed laggy. Flashed stock ICS, which did seem snappy but still bloated. I thought I'd give AOSP 5.1 a go. Haven't over clocked anything and its definitely smoother than 4.4 omni. Very compact ROM, I installed gapps and that only set google play. Currently tested WiFi and GPS and they're working. Chrome is smooth and running flash smoothly. Auto detected resolution on YouTube.com is smooth. Haven't tried YouTube app as yet. I normally use tubemate anyway. This tab will always have trouble playing 1080p vid. Max I go now is 720. Tried and its working fine using mxplayer. 5.1 is still in social testing but the bugs are slowly being fixed. I was on ICS for a long time as it performed well. Having experienced the same with 4.4 and now upgrading to this rom , I'm happy with how smooth and responsive it is. Ticks the boxes.
My main concern is lags. I run omni 4.4 on with nova and the response is disappointing.
Most of the time, my son use it to watch movies, YouTube and some games but nothing really hard. When I take it to do some stuff on it, the lags just giving me crazy. I know that the main problem is lack of RAM but hey, with 4.0.4 it works OK.
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Going back does mean stability. The way I look at it though is you can only put so much into a mini, but it will always be a mini, not a Ferrari. Lollipop seems to work OK but its stretching the capability of this tab. For me with minor tweaks its going OK. A goto software always on all my droids is Greenify. It kills all the apps lingering in the background and stops them from opening again unless I open them. Try it out, you need all the ram you can get outta these older tabs. With the paid version it also kills system apps like google play services which is a big ram hog. I guess the only way you'll make your mind up is give ICS a go for a few days then try LP and see what you think.
A lollipop ROM might be smoother, if there would be the "Performance" menu in the settings app (like CM12).
If anyone has got any cyanogenmod ROM, i suggest these settings:
CPU governor:
• Intellidemand/ondemand: The CPU will increase the frequency when needed. It's default in many kernels. I really suggest that, because the device will be very stable (and smooth) and the battery life will be quite good :good: ;
• Performance: The CPU frequency will be set to max setting;
• Powersave: The CPU frequency will be set to minimum setting.
CPU min frequency: 150mhz (max. 200mhz)
CPU max frequency: overclock to 1400Mhz (do not overclock to 1.5 or 1.6ghz, the cpu will freeze and might be damaged)
I/O scheduler: deadline
zRam: 18%
Resources clean: on
KSM: on
PS: Enable "Set on boot" to each menu.
Sorry for the worst english ever.
I like decatf's 5.1 AOSP rom. He put a lot of work into creating a wrapper for hwcomposer which does a better job translating some of the newer rendering apis to work with the ancient ics binary Nvidia video driver blobs. That's why videos and animations are much smoother on his rom than the alternatives and why you don't get that weird "lightning bolt" rendering effect that's been around since pershoot's cyanogen jelly bean roms. He also implemented an audio driver wrapper as well in the same vein. And if you use his TWRP version, you can format /cache and /data to use f2fs, which definitely helps with disk I/O. He even ported over Multirom so you can dual-boot, but alas, it doesn't boot Ice Cream Sandwich roms at the moment.
It's the best modern rom thus far for the original Tab 10.1. Other than proper modern and native Nvidia drivers updated for Lollipop, the only thing really holding back the original 10.1 at this point is the Tegra 2's lack of NEON support. But there's nothing decatf can do about that.
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