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Hi all
I've succesfully updated to the new 1.93.XX ROM, I agree it's faster but I'm a little disappointed. The TouchFlo 3D menus transitions are not as cool anymore. For instance when you navigate through the menus with your finger acroos the screen (not using the slide menu in the bottom) the menu sections don't flow anymore, they just disappear and fade in instead.
Other than that I don't have much to complain about, but I just wanted to check if it's like this for you guys as well.
Has anybody else found any other disappointing "improvements"?
Cheers
as i have understood it, the transitions you mention was there to "hide" the lag in the previous ROM, and it's not needed in the new because of the speed increase.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=421311
Try using swots new ROM. It retains the animations yet apparently its much faster .
The Diamond is really disappointing me these days. I too am on the latest official (UK) ROM.
Some of my problems..
Battery Life - absolutely terrible if you use the phone for business means and push email. I dont leave BT or WIFI on and still the battery lasts no longer than around 12 hours
Alarm - the windows mobile alarm simply doesnt ring if you recieve an email or notification before the scheduled time. Its useless and has failed to wake me on a many a occasion
Reminders - for some reason dont pop up on the screen. You have to manually tell it to via sounds/notifications in settings, and even once you have done that, the Diamond some how reverts back to default settings automatically and the reminders fail to display again!
Answering calls - If your phone is docked in the official cradle and you tap the answer button when reciving a call before you take the phone off the cradle, it will reject the call regardless.
Opera - no flash and no way to click on a youtube clip and watch it. Why cant it operate like iphone and launch the you tube app when you click on a link to a clip on the webpage??!!
Activesync/Push/MS Exchange - loses sync sometimes and you have to softreset or manually launch activesync and hit the sync button... why??!
A2DP - doesnt work at all, it should be REMOVED as a listed feature. Im listening to music on a tube train via A2DP - I hit overground, I recieve a call, I answer via my headset. I end call, music continues playing THROUGH MY PHONE SPEAKER! Its embarassing and happens all the time. Useless. My old HTC Touch never acted that way.
Camera - Absolutely useless. We have a 3 Megapixel autofocus camera, yet the iphone still produces better quality images. Diamonds photos are fussy, soft and undefined - they lack sharpness and clarity. some say its because of the plastic lens cover, I see it as poor design.
GPS - works fine... apart from the LAG, which defeats the purpose of turn by turn navigation.
Its these annoying problems that are seriously pissing me off and will probably tempt me to the dark side come next generation of phone.
oh dear
I'm using Duttys latest rom..
I like the phone but I can give you my view on your points.
Battery life lasts me a day with pretty heavy use .. I expect to charge it and I'm not normally that far from a charger.. charges quickly
Ive never had a bad experience with the alarm. I will try and emulate what you said though.
reminders.. they sound and I can see them.. in fact it speaks them at the moment too
Answering calls. I don't use the dock but sometimes it does drop calls when i go to answer them ..
Opera No flash.. so whats new there then? You tube.. I like the you tube app.. but to be honest if i wanted something to watch you tube on id probably have gotten an Iphone
Active sync. I have never had a problem with active sync with any phone.. All my mail for my phone is collected/sent via orange so mail is no issue for me.. as for synching files.. no problems at all.
A2DP .. sorry but its not even an issue I don't listen to music through it. I do use bluetooth devices though and have no problems.
Camera.. Now I do use that and I like it. Its a good practical camera.. that takes adequate pictures.. except in poor light when its rubbish..
GPS.. mine doesn't lag and works much better than my old M700 and looks miles better
Dont get me wrong.. I dont live in Diamond Utopia .. but for what I need and use it for.. (on the move office related stuff, phone calls and sat nav) Its great.. it cost me nothing and it looks good too. I think its very good.
Now if i'd wanted a phone to play music through and watch videos on Id have probably gone to something else.
For what I need/want this phone hits the nail on the head.
Ive also grown to quite like the rom development side too.. !
Hi
Any possibility for turning off the screen when I am using mhl tv out?
It doesn't makes sense that the screen it is on with the same image all the time.
How do you plan on doing stuff without using the screen? I can understand if you want to have it turned off during movies, but isn't it possible to turn the screen off and still get the image on the TV (when you're watching movies etc.)?
LordManhattan said:
How do you plan on doing stuff without using the screen? I can understand if you want to have it turned off during movies, but isn't it possible to turn the screen off and still get the image on the TV (when you're watching movies etc.)?
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No, it isn possible.
If you turn the screen off, then the tv doens't play anything, thats because I ask.
For movies or flash on phone streaming to tv I don't want to have the screen on but I can't put it off and continue playing or I don't see how to do it
up ?
probably isnt possible, the same as with conencting a laptop to the tv via hdmi, the laptop cannot be shut and still plays the video
well i have a Blackberry Playbook + Galaxy Note, the playbook has an amazing option (would be great if they could put it in the Note) they have presentation mode for videos, u press it and then u can hit the off button, the screen will go off but the video will keep on playing
I am using Galaxy Note too. The reason why we need to turn off the Mobile Screen while playing movie, is because of the performance.
I read somewhere that the movie playing on TV is having bad performance because the phone has to render for 2 displays, hence it make the playback lags.
I bought MHL cable and it's really a waste that I can't have a smooth playback of movie...
I haven't tried it yet but maybe a combination of the TegraDisplaySelector.apk with chainfire3d will allow us to turn our screens off.
from:
http://dext3r.komodin.org/
This widget app will give you the option to be able to switch between LCD and HDMI output, so you can preserver battery power, and disable any
annoying display enabled on lcd while using your TV.
you need to note, that managing the display is best with a mouse, but you can still use the disabled tablet screen for controlling your screen, but its not easy.
Remember you need to add this to your screen as a widget, thats the only way to access it, and it require root access to run the lcd vs. hdmi functionality. It does not work on android 3.x, as the library does not appear on that release for now
fosselman said:
I haven't tried it yet but maybe a combination of the TegraDisplaySelector.apk with chainfire3d will allow us to turn our screens off.
from:
http://dext3r.komodin.org/
This widget app will give you the option to be able to switch between LCD and HDMI output, so you can preserver battery power, and disable any
annoying display enabled on lcd while using your TV.
you need to note, that managing the display is best with a mouse, but you can still use the disabled tablet screen for controlling your screen, but its not easy.
Remember you need to add this to your screen as a widget, thats the only way to access it, and it require root access to run the lcd vs. hdmi functionality. It does not work on android 3.x, as the library does not appear on that release for now
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NICE! Will test it out when I get home
ghlaw said:
I am using Galaxy Note too. The reason why we need to turn off the Mobile Screen while playing movie, is because of the performance.
I read somewhere that the movie playing on TV is having bad performance because the phone has to render for 2 displays, hence it make the playback lags.
I bought MHL cable and it's really a waste that I can't have a smooth playback of movie...
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I get absolutely no lag on HD movie playing over MHL
but i agree that having both screens running is completely useless
when watching a movie
Richy99 said:
probably isnt possible, the same as with conencting a laptop to the tv via hdmi, the laptop cannot be shut and still plays the video
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A little off-topic, but yes you can. Windows button + P will shut the computer screen off and only show the image on the TV.
nothing new?
Interested in a solution to this myself. Why burn the pixels when there is no need? Im a bit uneasy trying out the tegra solution presented above. I am heading to the play store to see what is available as far as presentation apps and such.
Wanted to bump this thread back up. Has anyond found a way to turn off or disable the phone screen while using the mhl hdmi out?
Like others mentioned its silly to have the phone screen on at the same time your watching a movie on a tv screen. There should at least be an option to disable phone screen while watching movie.
inurb said:
Wanted to bump this thread back up. Has anyond found a way to turn off or disable the phone screen while using the mhl hdmi out?
Like others mentioned its silly to have the phone screen on at the same time your watching a movie on a tv screen. There should at least be an option to disable phone screen while watching movie.
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Look at my app here. It would be the solution.
Screen Standby its a app u can download keep ur touchs working i know what u mean like playingg ames whitout looking at device like gta! touch still works
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kersh said:
Hi
Any possibility for turning off the screen when I am using mhl tv out?
It doesn't makes sense that the screen it is on with the same image all the time.
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just did this to see that answer in ur notfications
No solutions yet? Would be nice if MHL mode could disable the phone screen for saving energy while improving HDMI video performance. I'd like to use my Galaxy Note as a netbook with external bluetooth mouse and keyboard, so keeping the phone screen on would be useless.
MHL does turn the screen off - but seems only while using built in player and playing a movie. At least it works like this on android 6 and Note 4. I am interested however in using KODI with the screen off while playing media...
Hey guys, need a bit of help...
Been using the Z a few days now, and I'm having 2 issues...
WiFi and Bluetooth won't work together at the same time, one knocks the other off whenever I'm browsing and listening to music on my Bluetooth stereo... In the ratio of about 5:1 for WiFi:Bluetooth like...
That's one issue that's a little annoying.
Another is that video playback over WiFi is broken... If I load up a video on the YouTube app, depending on video length, the video normally freezes around the 40 second mark. If I load a video up in my browser, more of the video will load, but never the full video, could freeze 3 minutes in, 5 seconds in, but never fails to freeze.
I've reverted to stock YouTube app, cleared cache, didn't solve a sausage.
I haven't gotten to the end of a single video since I bought the device.
EDIT: Above issue is most likelyan android wide YouTube issue, if the comments on Play are anything to go by.
And that's on top of the Bluetooth/WiFi clashing that I mentioned above.
Not what I expect from a quad core device with 2GB ram like! Any ideas? Faulty handset? Factory reset? Return the handset? I've never rooted or used custom firmware ;so don't really know how to go about it, open to any suggestions to get the best out of the hardware...
Thanks in advance guys.
WiFi/Bluetooth issue
Seems the YouTube issue is an android wide issue, sorry for bringing it up.
Just leaves the Bluetooth/WiFi clashing issue where they keep knocking each other off while they're both being used.
I picked up a Google Cardboard for some fun, but the picture constantly rotates while trying to use it on my XZ. The axis of the rotation is that of going from portrait to landscape (Y axis??)
I've tested the accel, compass, and gyro using the service tests and they all seem to be fine. My XZ is completely stock and up-to-date (OTA).
Not sure what the problem could be? It works fine on my SGS5. I'd appreciate any feedback as the XZ looks and fits inside SO much cleaner than the SGS5, plus its not my daily driver so I won't have to take it out often.
I vaguely recall the same error happening on an app a long time ago, can't remember for the life of me what it was.
Hey. I also play with VR for almost month now(got two vr goggles with are WAY better lenses and quality than cardboard)
And also I have this problem of rotating screen. And to be honest its all depend on app and orientation provider. Most of the time app use indirect/direct sensor fusion but this method just suck...
I found only one solution for that and its to put phone on flat surface for few second with screen face up, and then phone calibrate sensor itself.
Of course its not helping for too long, but its always something...
My favorite VR game: Corridoom is best example for problem that we have.
Fast movement of device constantly move gyro starting point to one direction and when you sit in chair and look straight after a while you need to almost turn 180* because device lost this starting point. App does provide only simple calibration in main menu and Dev that I write about that said that for now its not gonna change this option.
So even if gyro in our xz is really accurate, because i use it as a VR goggles for PC gaming thanks to app Trinus VR
Only real solution for that is actual app that have option to block or reset roll effect. For example my main movie app for watching VR movies Cardboard Theater have such option and for most of time I dont have this problem when I watch movies.
I also tested it via service tests and you can see this problem, when you start app and this Rubik's cube is faced to you green move phone right and left and after few moves its not facing green, but red or blue... And for that app should have that option to reset yaw and roll when you stop moving, but for now most of devs that create VR apps and games just dont think to put such options.
And its not only XZ problem I tested it with galaxy S5 and galaxy Grand Prime and its also have that problem but not that often, mostly when I move my head very fast or for too long, screen start rotating.
maybe it would be possible to fix that in device it self to reset that roll effect but I dont think that anyone with knowledge would like to check that... :/
Trackers are pretty sensitive without some kind of reference point such as a camera. I expect a small amount of bias error over a duration, but using cardboard movie theater the screen turns 180 degrees (roll) in less than 10 seconds. The sensor tests are nowhere near as inaccurate.
Obviously any phone will have the issue over time though, they are cheap parts in small housing. There's multi thousand dollar systems with small degree of wander that are only IMUs. It's the severe amount the xz has that bugs me.
I'll try the laying it flat so it can reset its bias, might work. I noticed yesterday that when facing west it wasnt half as bad.
If you were actually able to enjoy a movie without locking the orientation then yours is far better than mine. My sgs5 I might have to adjust the orientation once every 30 minutes, the xz I have to reset it every seconds lmao.
Thank you for the input!
update:
Letting the bias adjust helped immensely. Thanks for the advice!
Hi did u manage to sort it out. I have xperia z and have same problem. I can play some games but everytime i use 'view in cardboard ' on youtube the screens spin, also when i use googke cardboard apps. Maby its a google problem and not our phones? Like you iv testedband recalibrated my phone byt to no avail
If you got it fixed giz a shout mate
Cheers
Hi all,
As the battery of my S8 is almost dead I thought instead of throwing it out I'd give it a second life as some kind of webcam. I want it to take a photo every 2 mins and upload it to a server. That works perfectly, except that the phone won't take a photo when the screen is off - even when it's not locked. I tried something like Turn on screen - take photo -turn off screen but that worked neither. In fact, as I put it on a tripod on my sleeping room window facing outside, I don't want to be disturbed at night by the phone screen.
So my question is, how can I make the phone take a shot every 2 mins with the screen being off?
The phone is running Android 9 and not rooted, but if that's what is required I am fine with doing so. If there is another solution than Tasker, I am also happy to hear about it. (Note: I tried the IP camera app which is really cool, but the phone gets super hot, thus I consider it a fire hazard)