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Is there a way we can get RenderFx?

While checking droiddog and watching the cyanogen 6 for the evo video and he used a widget called render fx, do we have a widget like this or is it possible for someone to port it?

abov3dis said:
While checking droiddog and watching the cyanogen 6 for the evo video and he used a widget called render fx, do we have a widget like this or is it possible for someone to port it?
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its included in the Cyanogenmod 6.0.0 RC0 rom

fire our heros?
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Yeah check here. RC0 and RC1 should have it.
http://www.primoweb.com/froyo/

The spare parts app has always had this option. Although, why would you even use it?
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cp0020 said:
The spare parts app has always had this option. Although, why would you even use it?
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i know hurts my eyes looking at it. supposed to give excellent battery life though.

no it does not, i ran a test (its in the general section) because of the "render" it slows your phone down considerably and wastes cpu cycles ergo negating any battery life you would have saved (if you had an oled screen), but since we have an lcd screen EVERY pixel is lit up regardless if its in use or not. i had 29 hours with almost no use, people on here get longer then that with a bit of use...
TL: DR slows your phone down, does make it look cool if your into that, but it doesnt save battery from what ive seen

I would love this app and I dont care if it kills my battery. The green is nice for using screen at night. Better then white screen at night. So do we have a answer where can we get it? Running droidX.

If you are using CM6, it is in Settings > Cyan Settings > Render effect.
You can also add a render fx widget to your home screen. Add it like any other widget.
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Cm6 is not supported on droidX. I do have and use it on my original Droid. And im looking for this or something like it.

shabbypenguin said:
no it does not, i ran a test (its in the general section) because of the "render" it slows your phone down considerably and wastes cpu cycles ergo negating any battery life you would have saved (if you had an oled screen), but since we have an lcd screen EVERY pixel is lit up regardless if its in use or not. i had 29 hours with almost no use, people on here get longer then that with a bit of use...
TL: DR slows your phone down, does make it look cool if your into that, but it doesnt save battery from what ive seen
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You're right. The whole idea of showing only one color exploits the technology of OLED and its ability to only light up pixels on demand. LCD works by having the entire backlight always on, with polarizers selectively attenuating the light appropriately for each pixel. That's why LCD cannot achieve true black like OLED, and that's why OLED contrast ratio tests destroy LCD.
Since our Hero has the latter technology, this has absolutely no positive effects for us. Don't use it unless you like less colors.

So I have torn apart most of cyanogenmod's roms and settings trying to find this. So if anyone has it please upload that would be awesome

here is the spare parts APK. i havent tried pushing it yet, but its worth a shot.

It fails to load on my X
Postraumatik said:
here is the spare parts APK. i havent tried pushing it yet, but its worth a shot.
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don't suppose you ever found a way to bring it from cm?
It would be nice to have as I like the way cm looks at night with this
And would love to have a widget since I must move away from the
Cm 6.2 port for the fascinate on my mesmerize since the bluetooth
Isn't the and when using bluetooth stereo headset made by samsung
Incoming callers and my own outgoing calls can't hear me and i can't
hear them...just weird aosp issue...
Anyway would love a widget with this function.

If you're running CM7 then its settings > cyanogenmod settings > interface > render effect
I don't know exactly what rom the OP is running so I just posted directions to it in CM7

kifno said:
If you're running CM7 then its settings > cyanogenmod settings > interface > render effect
I don't know exactly what rom the OP is running so I just posted directions to it in CM7
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That was NOT the question. The question was is it possible to do WITHOUT running CyanogenMod.

jasonmaloney said:
That was NOT the question. The question was is it possible to do WITHOUT running CyanogenMod.
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Oh well then the answer is in the previous post before my last one. Sorry about that.
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In my experience, renderfx rendered my hero near useless.
~maybe I set it too high...

i actually used to use this for getting late night calls in bed and it hasn't worked properly after one of the many updates since August. Once the phone unlocks its back to normal. Anyone else?

[q] consistent fps??

I have finally found a great rom (pinnacle 1.2) after a string of good looking and poorly functioning roms [early apex releases(no offense, new apex is incredible)] or extremely ugly with fantastic functionality roms (fasty, again no offense, really.)
It seems I am closer and closer to my only fantasy with my Samsung SGH-I897 Captivate. I DESPERATELY WANT CONSISTENT AND HIGH FRAME RATE
Watsa's Pinnacle is sooooo close, but every now and then it slips up and gets real laggy. I flashed the tw 4.5 mod, and that made a big difference, but it seems the frame rate is low and speed is high (which is great) but it still doesn't cater to my true love and desire .
I have watched multiple reviews of other stock smart phones (ie Xperia Arc, Nexus S, etc...) and it seems that they don't have a problem OUT OF THE BOX with performance and frame rate. For us Captivate owners, however, we have to go on this big hunt for better performance because the stock rom runs like S--T (again, maybe it's me or just my phone.)
Maybe it's only me . Maybe I'm doing something wrong. So that's why I'm extending my hand to anyone who can help. I am looking for a consistently high frame rate for my phone with some solid performance. If anyone can show me the tricks of the trade, or the secrets of fashion, I will forever be in debt to you (and possibly write you your own personal jingle [Im a professional musician] and send it to you in your honor)
For the record, I'm still really excited that XDA and it's community has made my phone the way it is today. I love that everyone on here isn't an 1/8 as bad as any youtube dbags. The support is incredible (shoutout to watsa) and everyone is more than willing to help. THANKS XDA!
EDIT: Hell, Ill write you a song. Just PM me three things about you and It'll be in your inbox in a matter of days.

Frame rate in home screen?

What's wrong with Fasty's look?
Sent From My Captivate Fasty Fast while flying in my Tardis

Captain_Nero said:
What's wrong with Fasty's look?
Sent From My Captivate Fasty Fast while flying in my Tardis
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I guess he is asking a more important question than this

watsa said:
I guess he is asking a more important question than this
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Maybe so, but I'd still like to know what's wrong with its looks.
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I juat think its poorly themed. Not my thing is all. sorry!
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could always re-theme it. none of the themes suits my likings so i re-theme every ROM i flash

@OP I blame you for this lol You wanted answer for FPS and getting some for theme, because you mentioned about it. Expect some loyal fans of previous version of apex to question you too

Haha i know. I dont mean "bad," it's just not my style. Hahaha
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WHY DOES NO ONE WANT A SONG WRITTEN ABOUT THEM!!?!?!!?
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You could try Fasty II or Victory Rom both look Good and have slick performance.
If there is evil in this world it lurks in the hearts of man.

lol I feel sorry for OP. Ok I will start with it. I get ~ 45 FPS on KH3 Its controlled by kernel and if you want a higher FPS I am sure you would need a custom kernel which obviosly isnt available for KH3 yet.
If this is your priority no 1 then you need to jump off ship to an I9000 ROM with a highly customizable kernel like Talon.

Alright, all Im asking is iphone-like smoothness. Ive never seen that on the captivate, and Im hoping people can prove me wrong.

Oh nooo u didn't ?! There is no "i.." (the one we shall not speak of) in this comunity ,only we or us
As watsa mentioned earlier I'd too recommend you to switch to i9k based roms and then go for talon (oc/uv will set you straight).
Sent from a captivated SensatioN

BenKranged said:
Frame rate in home screen?
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You still haven't answered what you are talking about.
Also how are you measuring framerate? Is there a widget for that or something?

BenKranged said:
You still haven't answered what you are talking about.
Also how are you measuring framerate? Is there a widget for that or something?
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Just my eyes. I can see that its a little slow and not nearly as smooth as other phones.

thoughts on roms

Ok a rewrite
Monster rom 1.1i is what I've been on all day and there is an update to 1.1j that just came out so my thought are of the 1.1I
Theme of the rom is very little at this time its still very new. The notification bar is a metallic black with white symbols and a battery meter that shows 1%. Very nice. The dialer is also themed with a metallic look.
The rom is I would say looks like an OASP rom even though its not. I like the look and feel of the launcher.
I think that its faster then stock. Feels snappier do to the adrenaline shot that he gave it. I don't know what that does but I like it. No lag or slow downs of any kind.
There is a bloated and a debloaded rom as well.
Also the free ram has been really good. Every time I look I have at least 200 to 230mb of free ram all the time. Can't beat that. The battery has also been good for me as well, as of 12 hour of moderate use I still have 50% left. That's good for me.
I've had no issues with it as of now so im really liking it and im looking forward to more updates. He updates it every couple of days wich I ike. They are not big updates but good ones.
Rom is by 05gsxrk5 and BenLand150
Im sorry if i left someone out.
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I like the idea of rom reviews.. but no disrespect I think you should put more detail maybe pros and cons in each to you, other specifics and structure your paragraphs better.
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I read it back and you are right. When I do the next one I will add more I was pressed for time I had somewhere to go so it was a fast reveiw. I am far from a good writer and was never great in english class either I think a teacher said the same thing to me once its why I got a c in that class. I think the next one I will make a paragraph for each specific thing. I think that way we can get a better idea of the pros and cons. Thanks for the insight
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Monster ROM is by 05gsxrk5. I'm just supporting it on Droidforums so people know about. The first post gives credit to him, too. Just pointing that out.

Yes thank you for doing that. I did not think about the other people involved with the rom.
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I rerwrote it. A little better now
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Monster Rom is not AOSP, it just doesn't use Blur launcher.

I know that its not it just looks that way I will update my post
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Is this thread meant for anyone to chime in? I like that idea too. If you ever want to read reviews without searching through what will end up probably being 100+ pages of questions/comments in the actual respective ROMs threads u could just come here search for the name and read up.

Please chime in. I think its great to here from people who are using these rims. I like one place where we can go to read what people are saying about the rims. As of now im on 1.1k just came out last night. So far I like the changes. Later im going to steel DROID and try out 3.0 that just came out.
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Ok time for steel DROID 3.0
Ive been running this for a full day now and
It very snappy. Opening apps is ferry fast it just kinda snaps open very quick. I have not ran into any slow downs or lag. Been very happy with the speed. It also has the adrenaline shot along with some ram tweaks. This rom is the only one out that I've seen with tweaks that I think are done to make a faster rom.
It is also themed a little bit. It has a 1% battery meter on top a black notification bar. The wifi and bars are changed to a blue and look like ice theme. I do like the look
It is running on the blur launcher as of now.
I've ran into no problems that I needs to be fixed with away. There were a few issues but since have been fixed. He also has some addons that you can put back onto the phone if you need certain Apps that he took off. It is debloated rom, I also think there is a bloated rom as well.
The free ram is not as high as the monster rom but still better then stock. Im usually at 120 to 180mb of free ram.
With every update it gets better and better.
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Actually, dpwhitty is doing the poll on his themed rom
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Ya I got my rom switched up. Thank you for that im updating my post.
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bump let's hear more reviews
I just put Liberty on my phone last night and I like it even better than Monster. It's heavily debloated imo which made me nervous, but Titanium made it easy to restore apps I needed and now i probably have a more refined list of back ups geared towards how I use the phone, so not a bad thing all in all. It moves quicker on my phone than Monster, the way i measure it is hit home on the homescreen of LauncherPro and it no longer glitches when the screens zoom out into formation.
The only bug i've noticed is I can't dial *228. I was able to still call voicemail so I'm wondering if this says anything to the effect of it needing to be provisioned like what I used to have to do in WinMo, but unless I see a problem surface I doubt i'll investigate into that too much. Not really a big deal for me. A lot of people said they had bugs like front facing camera force closing but I haven't had those problems. I used the blur camera as well as the blur calendar/email in the customization options and it all works well.

Liberty is as good as always and will only get better. After Hashcode is done with this new version of safestrap: http://goo.gl/FDYlE I will be dual booting this and CM7 indefinitely.

ICS for HeroC

What do you guys think, does our lowly HeroC have what it takes? Also, even if it does, do we have the devs left to get it going? Sorry...I'm all geeked up for the announcement tonight. Plus, I'm not due for an upgrade until March...eek!
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What do you think?
And, also.. please move this to the Q/A or General section.

Sorry. Will do once I'm on my pc. Not sure I can move it from xda app.
Also, I'm hoping for some official cm8 love or something along those lines.

Eventually!? At least I hope we do.

ubnub82 said:
Eventually!? At least I hope we do.
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If I can get the damn SDK to boot lol

I have faith! You got HC to boot.
dastin1015 said:
If I can get the damn SDK to boot lol
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dastin1015 said:
If I can get the damn SDK to boot lol
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That would be awesome if it did but i believe that you can do it seeing that you got other things working like HC and Sense 3.5.

I know this is in the wrong section. Anyone tell me how to move it to general? Just thought I would see who else was psyched for ICS like me.
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What do you think?
And, also.. please move this to the Q/A or General section.
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We probably have to wait till a low end device comes out running it, or it gets ported to a similar device, like we had to wait for the Pico. Only time will tell. . .

Jurellz said:
We probably have to wait till a low end device comes out running it, or it gets ported to a similar device, like we had to wait for the Pico. Only time will tell. . .
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Or source is released so CyanogenMod can work on it and CM9 is released...

dastin1015 said:
If I can get the damn SDK to boot lol
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Man i know you can get it to work You done some pretty amazing stuff on here and if you cant maybe you can get Jaybob to help you or something

with the navigation buttons at the bottom, it might be a little cramped. sure we can change the dpi to like 120 but my phone lags when i try to make everything smaller and fit more on the screen.

Or if the navigation buttons can be removed... who knows. Of course even cramped ICS would be great on our Heroes.

Im almost positive we will get some sort of port of ICS. Ever since froyo the companies have been saying that the hero simply can not handel the new updates because of minimal system requirements. However I red an article with a Q&A about ICS, and one of the questions was what are the minimal system requirements for ICS? The anser was none that i can think of right now. ICS is meant to bring Android tablets and phones toghether in developmental terms. Google is trying to unify android, rather than have phones rounning one type of android and tablets another. It has even been said that ICS will be available for older devices of up to one year old or so. But in closeing im prety optimistic about a port for the Hero, and probably sooner than latter.

Considering that our devs got the source now I'm sure were gona see ICS can't wait
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I downloaded the beta version of ICS for hero to see how it looks and feels it"s a little buggy it has some things that need to be worked out like not being able to pair with bluetooth device and bluetooth turning off completely and not being able to turn it back on again... Also when trying to turn on wifi hotspot the phone just hangs there saying turning on wifi screen I let it run for 5 minutes before I rebooted my phone... This rom is in early stages of devoplement and if and when the stuff that isn't working gets fixed I see this as my next rom of choice... Nice work jaybob on a job will done and a million thanks to you...

[Q] HTC Jetstream UI on HP Touchpad

Is it possible to port the UI of the HTC Jetstream to the Touchpad? I really like the sense UI on the tablet.

That would be sense, and while it may be possible to do i highly doubt it will happen.

been there and discussed it in a hugely long thread on here.......its too big to load on the touchpad at the moment. It needs to come under 225MB but you never know what'll happen. HTC FlyerSense with ICS just got leaked on there which is the same resolution, keep hope
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1397602

ace9988 said:
been there and discussed it in a hugely long thread on here.......its too big to load on the touchpad at the moment. It needs to come under 225MB but you never know what'll happen. HTC FlyerSense with ICS just got leaked on there which is the same resolution, keep hope
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1397602
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dude...
your signature almost made me punch my monitor because that damn bug thing looked like it was on my screen and wouldn't go away...
very evil...

mputtr said:
dude...
your signature almost made me punch my monitor because that damn bug thing looked like it was on my screen and wouldn't go away...
very evil...
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ahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahah

Thanks, I looked through here but I guess I didn't see the thread, hope it happens
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so far there's only been a sense 'Theme' for AOKP milestone 4
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1554878
gives you the icon and the weather clock but im guessing (like me) you want the whole UI...well if someone here can find a way to make a 'square peg fit in a round hole', we'll get it sooner or later