I am going to purchase this but can anyone give me the lowdown on this.
I am a diehard android fan and own every tmobile device, are all functions working on this device?
I mean the important stuff, wifi, browser, games, g-sensor, 3d games?
I was going to get an archos 70 but this looks way cooler and customizable.
Please let me know.
Wifi works fine. I can connect to my home network just fine. Also works connecting to my Samsung Vibrant's mobile AP wifi.
Browsing work. Stock browser is a very sluggish experience. I'm using Dolphin and still find it to be a slower experience than on my Vibrant phone. Wish it was faster. But it's acceptable performance.
G-sensor seems to be working fine. Was playing Raging Thunder and it worked great.
However there is an issue with some games. They will not play at full screen resolution and seem to run in a smaller 4:3 aspect ratio (looks like 600x800) with black borders on the side.
I haven't tried a lot of games. Angry Birds (both) and Paper Toss work in full screen. Solitaire, Raging Thunder don't work at full screen.
But the performance of the games seems good so far.
To me, Dolphin HD (along with the rest of the system) is plenty fast with SetCPU running min 600/max 800 ondemand.
Really, there have been surprisingly few things I've come across that I haven't been able to do-- even without a custom ROM/kernel. I couldn't be happier with this--and development has really just started (I'm sure some brilliant devs found one under their tree today).
If you're looking for a solitaire game, Klondike Solitaire is a full screen app.
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Wifi works fine. I can connect to my home network just fine. Also works connecting to my Samsung Vibrant's mobile AP wifi.
Browsing work. Stock browser is a very sluggish experience. I'm using Dolphin and still find it to be a slower experience than on my Vibrant phone. Wish it was faster. But it's acceptable performance.
G-sensor seems to be working fine. Was playing Raging Thunder and it worked great.
However there is an issue with some games. They will not play at full screen resolution and seem to run in a smaller 4:3 aspect ratio (looks like 600x800) with black borders on the side.
I haven't tried a lot of games. Angry Birds (both) and Paper Toss work in full screen. Solitaire, Raging Thunder don't work at full screen.
But the performance of the games seems good so far.
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If you install spare parts and uncheck compatibility mode. A lot of games and apps become full screen.
Pinesal said:
If you install spare parts and uncheck compatibility mode. A lot of games and apps become full screen.
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The problem for some of those games then becomes the graphics are full screen but the touch-UI isn't. So, you have to click above or below the on-screen buttons to hit them. I've also seen a game (Hungry Shark) where the in-game locations no longer correspond to the graphical locations (the shark thought the water's surface was well below where it really was, so he couldn't get up to the actual surface, like he was hitting an invisible wall).
Hopefully these apps will be updated for tablet resolutions soon.
So, can you guys reproduce this?
I've loaded my homescreen with people, meteo, my friends' tiles, photo, music, some bookmarks etc and the scrolling is not smooth anymore, you can clearly notice some stuttering...
also sometimes it looks like it hasn't loaded the livetiles images, so they're just green, then suddenly they get the correct picture on...
i can see this if i unlock then immediately scroll, or when i go back from an app and suddenly scroll...
another issue, if i longpress the music, photo, or htc live tiles (just an example, happens with every live tile...) they flash, the "basic" tile, the one coloured according to your theme, then suddenly go back to normal
...do you confirm this?
Anyone????
I am having the same problems.
Thanks for replying I'm trying to understand if every hd7 behaves like this, or we can consider them faulty devices
anyone else???
Not me. I've loaded up the home screen with about 30 tiles. I do not notice any lag. Flies from top to bottom no issues.
Yeah i notice this all the time. It's really annoying
After letting my device sit on the charger all night the device has some lag and jerky tiles, and I also experience jerkyness other times so its mostly normal.
I only ever notice it if the phone is syncing and some other stuff is going on at the same time too, like downloading email as well... but even then very rare that it happens and its only for a couple seconds.
Might be why you noticed it when plugged in though, wireless syncing could have been going on?
Infact, I havent noticed it since nodo
Had this phone a few months.. Quite a lot to like, nice size, screen, etc.. The camera isnt the hottest, had some focusing issues but nothing I cant live with for now.
But the pauses are really too much to bear, its the first time I have had a non Nexus phone since the N1 and kind of regretting it.
Currently using the ROW Rom with google now launcher.. Was using Apex launcher but that seemed even worse. Do any of the other ROMs (I see a 'stock like' nexus ROM out there) work smoother ??
Any tips or ticks.. Sometimes when waking the phone up theres a huge lag, so much so it becomes unuseable for a bunch of seconds as it starts app switching or adjusting app focus.
The specs say it should be able to keep up, it feels like a implementation or memory design flaw..
So no ones got any ideas...
Do others have the same multi second hangs and pauses ??
Hi there, I'd not noticed this before the Android 12 update, but refresh rate appears to drop from 120Hz to 60Hz when using Picture in Picture or Split Screen views. Can anyone else reproduce this please?
You can confirm this by going into developer mode and toggling to always display the refresh rate.
Try a factory reset if you haven't already and it was a OTA upgrade...
I'd rather see if others can reproduce this first - would have thought it's a simple enough thing to test and post your results here, thanks!
Hi SSJ100, I just tested this to confirm for you, it does drop to 60hz immediately and I cannot prompt it to 120hz until I return to full screen view
Further testing, if i have video running in the background, Amazon, netflix or YouTube it stays at 120 with windowed mode on
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Hi SSJ100, I just tested this to confirm for you, it does drop to 60hz immediately and I cannot prompt it to 120hz until I return to full screen view
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Thanks for checking! Again though, I'm quite amazed (okay, maybe not quite the word hehe) at how no one has reported this issue in this forum (and at least one other "major" forum). If they have, please excuse my ignorance and I'd appreciate a link to the thread.
I can also confirm that this issue persists even after updating to the so-called bug fixing patch "BUKG".
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Further testing, if i have video running in the background, Amazon, netflix or YouTube it stays at 120 with windowed mode on
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Interesting how bugs like this manifest sometimes huh hehe. I first noticed this issue with Google Maps when I was navigating with it and switching to another app (which automatically forces Google Maps app to become picture in picture mode). Scrolling looks quite different and jittery - it's amazing how one gets used to 120Hz!
Have you tried the tiles app developed by a user on here? It can force refresh rates very easily and just requires an adb permission.....there was a thread the other day
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Scrolling looks quite different and jittery - it's amazing how one gets used to 120Hz!
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There is some black magic going on with these 120Hz panels. 60 Hz never seemed to be a problem before these high refresh rate displays started popping up. I remember smooth as butter 60Hz phones (both iphones and android). But now when i use a 120Hz panel at a 60Hz refresh rate, it feels like something inside the phone is in it's death throes, coughing and spluttering - the stutter is jarring! But if I use my wife's OnePlus 6 (which has a fixed 60Hz screen), it doesn't feel so bad. It's definitely not as smooth as 120Hz but the 60Hz on a 60Hz panel feels smoother than 60Hz on a 120Hz panel. Is it only me or has anyone else had a similar experience?
I have the same issue as well..so pissed..using latest BUKG
I'm on Android 11, One UI 3 still, and when my phone displays split screen apps the refresh rate drops from 120 down to 60.
This must be some battery saving feature, because If I toggle performance mode (processing speed) from the drop down quick menu, the fps shoots back up to 120 in split screen.
So an easy fix if you need 120 in split screen.
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I'm on Android 11, One UI 3 still, and when my phone displays split screen apps the refresh rate drops from 120 down to 60.
This must be some battery saving feature, because If I toggle performance mode (processing speed) from the drop down quick menu, the fps shoots back up to 120 in split screen.
So an easy fix if you need 120 in split screen.
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Yes, that seems to "fix" it for split screen. However, it doesn't resolve picture in picture fps drop to 60Hz.
Hmm must be an Android 12 thing. I'm sat here typing this with YouTube playing pip and the screen is holding 120fps even with my finger removed from the screen.
I did try Android 12 when the public version was released, but didn't like it, so downgraded back to the last version of 11, with a clean wipe.
Ok something odd going off, my screen seems to be stuck at 120!
Forcing it back to 60 in display options, works. Putting it back to adaptive, keeps the screen at 120. Even on the lock screen, and AOD!
I might try a reboot.
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Ok something odd going off, my screen seems to be stuck at 120!
Forcing it back to 60 in display options, works. Putting it back to adaptive, keeps the screen at 120. Even on the lock screen, and AOD!
I might try a reboot.
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If you're in low ambient light, screen at low brightness, panel will be locked at 120Hz even with adaptive selected. Move to bright area or increase screen brightness and check if you are able to get to 60Hz
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Hmm must be an Android 12 thing. I'm sat here typing this with YouTube playing pip and the screen is holding 120fps even with my finger removed from the screen.
I did try Android 12 when the public version was released, but didn't like it, so downgraded back to the last version of 11, with a clean wipe.
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Yes, I've only noticed this issue since Android 12 with the picture-in-picture scenario. Hopefully Samsung fixes this soon.
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Ok something odd going off, my screen seems to be stuck at 120!
Forcing it back to 60 in display options, works. Putting it back to adaptive, keeps the screen at 120. Even on the lock screen, and AOD!
I might try a reboot.
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Nothing odd there - as previous poster mentioned, it's always behaved that way when the ambient lighting is low enough. And yes, has always been that way for AOD too. I never understood why 120Hz is required particularly for that!
I think that after android 12, my unlock animation is rendered at 60hz because it is sometimes sluggish. Did a full factory reset and i have the last update. Do you guys experience the same? other than that the phone is perfectly smooth
Still the same issue with BULC December update. Somewhat disappointing, as you'd think this should be quite an easy fix.
Still same issue after BULG update with PIP. As a previous person has noted, split-screen mode appears to be auto-throttled to 60Hz by default, and the only way to change this so it remains at 120Hz is by toggling "High" or "Maximum" "Processing speed".
Hello,
I've updated to coloros12 and i wasn't able to change the wallpaper of the phone, so, I decided to do a factory reset
After 2 factory resets, (one trought the recovery and other from the menu) I've found that phone have some lag during some animations, like swiping to show all apps, navigating trought apps, also on twitter when you scroll on the main feed, specially when i open twitter after many hours it lags as hell (like an old slow phone)
so, when i got the phone a month ago it was very fluid but now i don't know if something got broken or if it's a software issue
All this happens having QHD enabled and 120Hz
Does anyone have the same issue? is this a bug? is there a dffefrent way to do a new factory reset?
thanks for all your repplies
Not sure if my phone has the same issue or similar. After the update to android 12 when the phone is set to Dark Mode and going through the pictures in Gallery the screen lights up and it feels like is flickering, also feels a bit slower. When in light mode everything seems to be working fine. Is no difference in FHD+ or QHD and at 120Hz
I'll open another thread for this.
Edit: The problem seems to be isolated and is only happening when using the Gallery app at 120Hz, the screen flickering starts and the gallery is very slow. I've installed another gallery app and seems to be working fine.