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On Phone-Bricker 2.0.1 I've noticed the CRT off animation doesn't always work correctly. After the animation plays, the screen will sometimes flash quickly before going completely dark.
This might be a common issue (there's some discussion in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1505230), but is there any way to fix this? If not, is there an easy way to disable the CRT animation?
I noticed this with SHOstock2. I'm not a fan of the CRT animation in general (I always disable it), so I wasn't 100% sure GB wasn't the same. I'm expecting issues like this for a while in the ICS builds. I don't think any of the devs have posted a disable zip yet.
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I'm not a huge fan either, but I don't mind it as long as it works properly
I guess I'll have to live with it until I can find a disable zip
qrstn said:
I'm not a huge fan either, but I don't mind it as long as it works properly
I guess I'll have to live with it until I can find a disable zip
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Yeah, if I have to choose between ICS with slightly buggy CRT animation or GB, I can live with the little bug. I guess this is just the universe's way of forcing some patience on me.
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quarlow said:
Yeah, if I have to choose between ICS with slightly buggy CRT animation or GB, I can live with the little bug. I guess this is just the universe's way of forcing some patience on me.
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I too am anxious to get rid of the CRT off from Shostock2. Always strikes me as overly flashy, ala HTC Sense UI (though I believe it actually originated with Motorola)
qrstn said:
On Phone-Bricker 2.0.1 I've noticed the CRT off animation doesn't always work correctly. After the animation plays, the screen will sometimes flash quickly before going completely dark.
This might be a common issue (there's some discussion in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1505230), but is there any way to fix this? If not, is there an easy way to disable the CRT animation?
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I don't even have CRT off modded yet.
So I assume you have a theme from the i9100 section, only way to turn it off is to remove the theme or wait for me to make a restore file when I add CRT.
But this is a common issue with ICS.
I found a way to turn off the CRT animation. It probably turns off other animations, but I can't notice what else changed.
Settings > Developer options > Window animation scale > animation is off.
The transition animations are different, and can be left on.
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Ah sorry I didn't mean to blame you
CRT off must be from Vertumus's theme then. I'll look for how to disable it over in his thread.
LiLChris06 said:
I don't even have CRT off modded yet.
So I assume you have a theme from the i9100 section, only way to turn it off is to remove the theme or wait for me to make a restore file when I add CRT.
But this is a common issue with ICS.
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Thanks for this.
I think that setting affects window animation speed. Try setting it to 10x, then try opening some menus or adding a widget to your homescreen. You should see the menus appear a lot slower now.
quarlow said:
I found a way to turn off the CRT animation. It probably turns off other animations, but I can't notice what else changed.
Settings > Developer options > Window animation scale > animation is off.
The transition animations are different, and can be left on.
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Just set windows animation scale to 0.5x. In cm9, this disabled crt effect and increased other "window animations" by 2x. But in reality almost all other animations are "transition animations" so you won't even notice any difference.
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qrstn said:
Thanks for this.
I think that setting affects window animation speed. Try setting it to 10x, then try opening some menus or adding a widget to your homescreen. You should see the menus appear a lot slower now.
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Now that you mention that, I remember trying it, just not the menus in the home screen. I did notice the difference it makes to unlock the phone. The lock screen is also a "window" I guess.
patsmike said:
Just set windows animation scale to 0.5x. In cm9, this disabled crt effect and increased other "window animations" by 2x. But in reality almost all other animations are "transition animations" so you won't even notice any difference.
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Setting it to 0.5 will not double the times, it will half them. Its a multiplier vs a divisor. But yeah, it seems the Transition animation is the vast majority of animations.
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quarlow said:
Setting it to 0.5 will not double the times, it will half them. Its a multiplier vs a divisor. But yeah, it seems the Transition animation is the vast majority of animations.
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Right, I should have said double the speed, not double the time of window animations.
patsmike said:
Just set windows animation scale to 0.5x. In cm9, this disabled crt effect and increased other "window animations" by 2x. But in reality almost all other animations are "transition animations" so you won't even notice any difference.
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Many thanks for this! I've been trying to find how to remove this to take advantage of "NoLED" on the market. Works great!
I don't know if this is even possible, but after almost 5 days running the 2.1 update, the flash on the crt animation is gone. I don't know how... the first night and day, I was getting the random re-flash of the screen after the crt animation, but I haven't noticed this happening in the past couple days. No idea...
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I don't know if this is even possible, but after almost 5 days running the 2.1 update, the flash on the crt animation is gone. I don't know how... the first night and day, I was getting the random re-flash of the screen after the crt animation, but I haven't noticed this happening in the past couple days. No idea...
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Its random sometimes it doesn't happen to me all day then the next day it happens every screen off.
Yeah, I got up this lovely Easter morning, and I am getting the flash back on the animation, I shouldn't have said anything. I did notice my problem is only when I am on the lockscreen, hit the power button, check the time or whatever, then hit power again to sleep, THAT'S when I get the flash, if I am on any other screen and want to sleep the screen, I don't get the flash back. Maybe it has something to do with the lockscreen...
BY THE WAY, LiLChris, you are the effing man, thanks so much for this bad ass rom!
Just went to check downloads on Get.cm. Looks like we have our first CM10 Official nightly build out. Hooray!!!!!
Nice find!!! Finally!
Post a link to the the thread please
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Post a link to the the thread please
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http://get.cm/?device=quincyatt
Change logs
http://cm10log.appspot.com/?device=quincyatt
http://changelog.bbqdroid.org/#quincyatt/cm10
Very smooth! All it needs is the call and lock circles aligned and its go time.
I have actually had to random reboots and my screen is flickering a little when just on the home screen. Its not perfect for sure but not bad for the first nightly, at least in my opinion.
I'm getting the flickering on the homescreen and whenever I'm using the Swype beta keyboard... everything else is working great! If I can get the damn flickering to stop, this Rom will become my DD...
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I'm getting the flickering on the homescreen and whenever I'm using the Swype beta keyboard... everything else is working great! If I can get the damn flickering to stop, this Rom will become my DD...
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Checking "Disable HW Overlays" in developer options gets rid of the flickering for me as a workaround.
matrix961 said:
Checking "Disable HW Overlays" in developer options gets rid of the flickering for me as a workaround.
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That seems to have worked, thank you!
I'm curious, though, will turning off HW overlays reduce the effectiveness of the JB Project Butter tweaks?
paleh0rse said:
That seems to have worked, thank you!
I'm curious, though, will turning off HW overlays reduce the effectiveness of the JB Project Butter tweaks?
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Why, I'm glad you ask! I was just about to let everyone know that disabling HW overlays (or, also, changing debug.mdpcomp.maxlayer from three to 2 in build.prop) will severely impact graphical performance. It may get rid of the flicker, but your performance will take a hit.
My biggest frustration with Jelly Bean on our device thus far that keeps pushing me back to CM9 has been that it is WAY behind in graphical smoothness when Jelly Bean's primarily advertised feature is the graphical smoothness that Project Butter provides. I have to say that I just flashed this nightly build though and it's the smoothest experience I've had yet in Jelly Bean. It's not quite up to par with stable ICS in smoothness but is getting closer.
At the moment, the solution I propose for the flickering of the screen is to use ROM Toolbox to change the debug.mdcomp.maxlayer setting from 3 to 2, then reboot and change it back from 2 to 3, then reboot again. Once you cycle it, the flicker deosn't appear to return and since you're putting the hardware compositing setting back, you don't have to kill your performance to get rid of the flickering! I had success with this method but others may not. Report here to let everyone know.
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Why, I'm glad you ask! I was just about to let everyone know that disabling HW overlays (or, also, changing debug.mdpcomp.maxlayer from three to 2 in build.prop) will severely impact graphical performance. It may get rid of the flicker, but your performance will take a hit.
My biggest frustration with Jelly Bean on our device thus far that keeps pushing me back to CM9 has been that it is WAY behind in graphical smoothness when Jelly Bean's primarily advertised feature is the graphical smoothness that Project Butter provides. I have to say that I just flashed this nightly build though and it's the smoothest experience I've had yet in Jelly Bean. It's not quite up to par with stable ICS in smoothness but is getting closer.
At the moment, the solution I propose for the flickering of the screen is to use ROM Toolbox to change the debug.mdcomp.maxlayer setting from 3 to 2, then reboot and change it back from 2 to 3, then reboot again. Once you cycle it, the flicker deosn't appear to return and since you're putting the hardware compositing setting back, you don't have to kill your performance to get rid of the flickering! I had success with this method but others may not. Report here to let everyone know.
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I am afraid we may have to wait for an S2 official OTA to fix this. It's gotta be something that Sammy has messed with, as we are having the same issue on JB builds for the Tab 7 Plus and the Tab 7.7.
These are Exynos devices, too, so its not an Adreno220 problem from what I can tell.
thair7391 said:
Why, I'm glad you ask! I was just about to let everyone know that disabling HW overlays (or, also, changing debug.mdpcomp.maxlayer from three to 2 in build.prop) will severely impact graphical performance. It may get rid of the flicker, but your performance will take a hit.
My biggest frustration with Jelly Bean on our device thus far that keeps pushing me back to CM9 has been that it is WAY behind in graphical smoothness when Jelly Bean's primarily advertised feature is the graphical smoothness that Project Butter provides. I have to say that I just flashed this nightly build though and it's the smoothest experience I've had yet in Jelly Bean. It's not quite up to par with stable ICS in smoothness but is getting closer.
At the moment, the solution I propose for the flickering of the screen is to use ROM Toolbox to change the debug.mdcomp.maxlayer setting from 3 to 2, then reboot and change it back from 2 to 3, then reboot again. Once you cycle it, the flicker deosn't appear to return and since you're putting the hardware compositing setting back, you don't have to kill your performance to get rid of the flickering! I had success with this method but others may not. Report here to let everyone know.
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Tried it and it didn't work. I'm guessing these minor bugs will be fixed in the nightlies.
yeah, I tried the build.prop settings shuffle, and it didn't work. The only thing working on mine is the Disable HW Overlay setting in dev options. Thanks for the idea, though!
paleh0rse said:
yeah, I tried the build.prop settings shuffle, and it didn't work. The only thing working on mine is the Disable HW Overlay setting in dev options. Thanks for the idea, though!
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Since you have it checked now try going back in and unchecking it. Do you get the smoothness back without all the flickering? I just tried it and it seems to work for now.
I found the gremlin that was causing the constant homescreen flickering for me on this nightly and on Manel's 8/27 kang.
In my case, it was a setting in Apex Launcher that had to be turned off:
Apex Settings -> Homescreen Settings -> Hide Notification Bar
So, if you're running Nova or Apex, make sure to turn off the setting that auto-hides the notification bar. Doing that and setting the maxoverlay value to "2" in the build.prop fixed me right up!
paleh0rse said:
I found the gremlin that was causing the constant homescreen flickering for me on this nightly and on Manel's 8/27 kang.
In my case, it was a setting in Apex Launcher that had to be turned off:
Apex Settings -> Homescreen Settings -> Hide Notification Bar
So, if you're running Nova or Apex, make sure to turn off the setting that auto-hides the notification bar. Doing that and setting the maxoverlay value to "2" in the build.prop fixed me right up!
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But did your graphical performance not take a hit after changing the setting from 3 to 2?
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But did your graphical performance not take a hit after changing the setting from 3 to 2?
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I think it does slow it down, but changing it back to 3 brings the flickering back, so that's not an option for me.
Excellent ....
Looks like it's time to play with some CM !
Thank you OP ....g
I would like to see some dock settings, especially audio through USB. Love the jellybean goodness though, running great.
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I am on Beans 18. I found the screen rotation takes about 2 seconds to react no matter which kernel I use (always with default setting only).
Can we have the iOS like speedy screen rotation without sacrificing the battery life?
Thank you for your comments.
EDIT: Found out why: the lag comes from the "Smart Rotation", because it takes time to detect the face/eyes.
Turn it off and the rotation is so fast now!
torr310 said:
I am on Beans 18. I found the screen rotation takes about 2 seconds to react no matter which kernel I use (always with default setting only).
Can we have the iOS like speedy screen rotation without sacrificing the battery life?
Thank you for your comments.
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Use meanbean ice. He improved that speed alot
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hopesrequiem said:
Use meanbean ice. He improved that speed alot
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Thanks for you reply, but I was using the latest MeanBean and the rotation speed wasn't very speedy. And I am on Beans now and the speed isn't good enough either. That's why I have this question.
edit: For speed, I wonder if we can be as speedy as the iPhones.
Grab "Spate Parts+" from the store and St animations to fast and see if that gets you any closer to the speed your looking for. And also in settings developer settings make sure the transitions are set to .5 on the first 2 and 1.0 on the 3rd. See if that helps if it's not already set there.
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Grab "Spate Parts+" from the store and St animations to fast and see if that gets you any closer to the speed your looking for. And also in settings developer settings make sure the transitions are set to .5 on the first 2 and 1.0 on the 3rd. See if that helps if it's not already set there.
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Thanks for the suggestions, I tried both but didn't get the "instant" speed I need. The screen takes about 2 seconds to rotate. I also tried to turn all the 3 animations off, but the speed was the same- just the transition effect was different.
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Thanks for the suggestions, I tried both but didn't get the "instant" speed I need. The screen takes about 2 seconds to rotate. I also tried to turn all the 3 animations off, but the speed was the same- just the transition effect was different.
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That's just TW in its self. Have you tried other launchers? Like say nova or Apex?
bigtoysrock said:
That's just TW in its self. Have you tried other launchers? Like say nova or Apex?
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I know where is theblag comes from. If the Smart Rotation is turned off, the rotating speed is INSTANT!
Thanks!
Has anybody else activated "Beast Mode" on their T-Mobile Galaxy S 5 or Galaxy S 5 in general.
I do and I'm loving it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RE8cNisslI
PS. Rate the change from 1/10 within 10 minutes of the change if you decide to do this! I'm curious as to how many people will enjoy this "Beast Mode"
My configuration:
Window animation scale:
Animation is off.
Transition animation scale:
Animation is off.
Animator duration scale:
Animation is off.
I just did, its cool but I kind of miss the animations lol.
Thanks for the tips
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krntehknik303 said:
I just did, its cool but I kind of miss the animations lol.
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I'm feeling the same way, but at the same time I'd rather the snapiness that this gives you.. It feels literally instant.
What is this "beast mode" ??
djricekcn said:
What is this "beast mode" ??
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It's not an actual mode. It is instead a series of system tweaks you can perform from the setup menus to enable improved performance. No rooting or custom ROMs required.
djricekcn said:
What is this "beast mode" ??
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I posted a video you can watch, you'll see if you watch the video!
is there any UI smoothners ? I meant our UI is quite quick and all but its not quite as Smoooooth... is there a way to fix this?
madshark2009 said:
is there any UI smoothners ? I meant our UI is quite quick and all but its not quite as Smoooooth... is there a way to fix this?
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Try to play with animation settings in developer options. Can make it more smoother.
Zenthusiast said:
Try to play with animation settings in developer options. Can make it more smoother.
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thanks for the thought
but I was talking about , switching between panels in both home screen and app drawer and time to launch settings app or recent app menu... its fast and all but just doesnt quite feel as smooth for a Z5 that has SNAP dragon 810 or 820 i cant quite remember and for a 64bit chipset its disappointing