[Q] Galaxy Tab i957 - Screen Resolution or Honeycomb? - Galaxy Tab 8.9 General

Just got the i957 and love almost everything about it except, what looks like to me, its poor screen resolution. Now my laptop has the same 1280x800 resolution on a bigger screen. So why are the text and images on my laptop leaps and bounds sharper than the tab? ...
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EDIT: Changing screen font helped a good deal. But I'm still crossing my fingers that ICS takes advantage of the screen resolution better.

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I've noticed the same thing. Screen text is fuzzy because of antialiasing. If you load up an image, unscaled, with aliased text and antialiased text, you'll see that the screen is crisp and perfectly representing the image as it should be. It's when the tab tries to render text that it fuzzifies everything.
One thing that significantly improves readability is an anti-glare screen protector. I found one on Amazon that is pro quality and extremely affordable. Search for Generiks TM Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 and you'll get it.

testulous said:
I've noticed the same thing. Screen text is fuzzy because of antialiasing. If you load up an image, unscaled, with aliased text and antialiased text, you'll see that the screen is crisp and perfectly representing the image as it should be. It's when the tab tries to render text that it fuzzifies everything.
One thing that significantly improves readability is an anti-glare screen protector. I found one on Amazon that is pro quality and extremely affordable. Search for Generiks TM Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 and you'll get it.
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Exactly! The text is definitely not being rendered with antialiasing (or not significantly). If you fire up the Kindle app, though, its fonts ARE antialiased and look much much much better.
It must be an API issue. When the Kindle app loads, it may be utilizing OpenGL or some other library that gives it lower level access.
It'd be great if a dev. could confirm that.
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Can anyone post comparative screenshots?
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orlandoxpolice said:
Can anyone post comparative screenshots?
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No problem. These are screenshots from the dolphin browser, and Kindle app. Note the readability of the fonts.
EDIT: It looks like the XDA app compressed the images heavily. At least from my tab it appears that way.
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[Req] galaxy 10.1 keyboad

I really like that white keyboard from the 10.1 samsung galaxy and wanted to know if anyone would port it to the xoom :>
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darkcr0ss said:
I really like that white keyboard from the 10.1 samsung galaxy and wanted to know if anyone would port it to the xoom :>
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That would be pretty neat. Its up to someone that actually owns the tablet to port it over though -- so i think we will be waiting for a while ;-)
im curious
whats so nice about the galaxy keyboard. is it very different?
would give it a shot absolutely but I am LOVVVING thumb keyboard
I'm curious - did Samsung include swype with their tab? (not that swyping across a 10" screen is all that useful)
Samsung tab is very much on par with the Xoom, also Tegra dual core and Android 3 based
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Samsung tab is very much on par with the Xoom, also Tegra dual core and Android 3 based
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I don't see what this has to do with the thread... unless you're saying that it should be easy to port?
You gotta wait for 10.1 system dump probably
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PDF reader

Is there any PDF viewer that's as smooth as ibooks on the iPad?
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maybe the amazon kindle app...
Kindle started reading pdfs in December. I didn't know this until I looked it up as a result of this thread. That's cool.
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I use ezpdf paid version, depends on the quality if the PDF file, but for most files it is pretty smooth and has a nice page flip animation, large HD photos take a few seconds to load.
Yeah I tried ezPDF and it seemed nice. Although I don't know whether there is a knack to the page flip animation but I could never seem to grab the page corner consistently. If you swipe it does it automatically, but I could never do it manually repeatedly.
At the moment I just use Adobe PDF reader. Does the job even if it's a big of a heavyweight.

Pdf reader

I like to read a lot of magazines in my tab, most are in Pdf format. I'm currently using adobe reader since it is the only one that is very quick responsive and fluid. However this app is not really made for reading books so the experience isn't so nice. I have tried moon, aldiko, goreader and non of them works well. They are very laggy and slow. Any suggestions? I am very desparate!! Thanks in advance
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try ezpdf reader.... its not bad with quite a few options. (better than Adobe's effort)
I think they all seem to suffer from lag
I agree, ezpdf reader is by far the best pdf reader currently out there. It has many features including annotate and read back.
I tried ezpdf the rendering to the odf is nice but it loads every time I flip a page? Why is this so? It seems that it its havung a hard time browsing through the pdf however this shouldn't be a problem any more since its already dualcore right??
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I'm using SmartDevice PDF Reader (free from Samsung Apps). It renders pages faster than others.
I just loaded a couple PDFs onto my 7.7, and for the most part it loads things very smoothly with EzPDFreader.
However, pretty much any larger PDF (~100mb) does not render very quickly... every page turn I have to see a "loading" icon. Is there something I can adjust within ezpdf? I really like its UI and overall features, but super slow loading may be a dealbreaker. I'm thinking about giving Repligo a try.
And if anyone else has any other suggestions, I'd love to hear em!
In order of personal frequency of use: Repligo, Mantano... and (not so much anymore) EzPDF.
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I just loaded a couple PDFs onto my 7.7, and for the most part it loads things very smoothly with EzPDFreader.
However, pretty much any larger PDF (~100mb) does not render very quickly... every page turn I have to see a "loading" icon. Is there something I can adjust within ezpdf? I really like its UI and overall features, but super slow loading may be a dealbreaker. I'm thinking about giving Repligo a try.
And if anyone else has any other suggestions, I'd love to hear em!
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I agree!! This is exactly what's happenning to me!!
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Theory said:
In order of personal frequency of use: Repligo, Mantano... and (not so much anymore) EzPDF.
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I shall give mantano a try
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Was able to try out mantano and it works great! And looks great too
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Aldiko (free version) works well also
Aside from EzPDF which I've been having issues loading large file slowly, I've just now tried Repligo and Mantano.
Repligo and Mantano both seem to render the images more quickly than EZPDF. I feel like Repligo is missing some pretty nice features found in some of the others. Mantano is looking like a pretty good option. Nice UI, fairly quick rendering of my larger PDFs along with some nice features. Although I feel like the text quality in Mantano doesn't appear as good.
For now, I'll probably split my PDF usage between EzPDF and Mantano. Anyone have any other pdf apps to try?
Mantano is good for handling large book libraries which would make it useful if you use your tab to read a lot. Repligo on the other hand is a more basic pdf reader it had less features and in turn makes it really fast and responsive
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I think Ez PDF is the best reader but I have random battery drain problems with this app both on galaxy note and on galaxy tab 7.7 sometimes it goes OK and sometimes it eats up the battery, when this happens I check the task manager and is red with almost 50% of CPU usage.
I don't know what`s wrong with this app, it happens with pro, lite and Note version in several GB ROMs and now in HC with the 7.7
I'm currently using repligo with no battery problems and super low RAM usage
Anyone else with this problem ?
Edroid pdf reader. I use it for large magazine pdf's
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jeslan said:
Edroid pdf reader. I use it for large magazine pdf's
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Do you mean EBookDroid? In any case, I'm really liking that.
Great reader, EBookDroid, didnĀ“t know this app, smooth, a lot of settings and good quality if the CPU and RAM usage is low will be my definite reader
After using ebookdroid for a few hours it's the best PDF reader I've ever used and I think I've checked out all of them, performance is great, no CPU issues and a lot of options to personalize the reader.
I'd like to thank jeslan and Theory for letting us know about the program
s28 said:
I tried ezpdf the rendering to the odf is nice but it loads every time I flip a page? Why is this so? It seems that it its havung a hard time browsing through the pdf however this shouldn't be a problem any more since its already dualcore right??
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You can disable the page flip in the menu. When it is just a slide to the next page it works pretty smooth for me.
If you are using Amazon kindle app, pdf loading is not a problem.

Video Out via HTC MediaLinkHD

You should be able to stream video if you have an HTC MediaLinkHD.
This will only work with videos/music stored locally on the tablet. It will not clone your display, so no surfing the web or games on the tv. Just streaming movies and music to a tv.
I was toying with it last night on my transformer prime. I tried bubble upnp, imediashare, etc... All of them would stream music no issues, but the video would always fail.
Then I found this free app, and every video I tested worked. In most cases, this worked better then the pairing between my evoLTE and the medialink.
If you search the play store for medialink , you should find an app called Wi-Fi Media by Cavium (wont show up when searching for Wi-Fi Media). Install it, choose your movie, and set the renderer to the medialink.
profit???
link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...51bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5iaWFub3IuYW1zY2F2aXVtIl0.
Of course I don't have the Nexus7 yet. But if anyone does, and has the medialink and wants to try it I don't see why it would be any different then my prime running AOKP.
This would be an expensive option if you don't own a newer HTC device and already own a medialink. But seems the option is there at least.
The no video output was more of a deal breaker to me then the storage, and that seems to be a non-issue now. If I could just find one in stock.
we can't have an app for make a mirror screen such as htc one x use 3 fingers to mirror the screen is not possible with a mod in next rom custom ?
I've been using the the media link and the Wi-Fi media app with my nexus 7 and must say it works well. We take it with us now just in case we need to keep the kids quiet with a film. The video quality at 720p source is very good and it hasn't stuttered once.
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Don't know if I would have bought one though. I got mine free from phones 4U, when I got my one x.
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Will it work with games
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I have one but mirroring kind of sucked and it was all that was available outside of the stock player and YouTube which actually sent the content via MediaLink (not just mirroring) on my HTC One X. I'll give it a shot with my Nexus 7 tonight. I was underwhelmed with the device using my HTC One X but I hope that it's better with the Nexus 7. Fingers crossed!
This should essentially be the same thing, a lot cheaper... once it releases.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/tag/android-transporter
Should have a beta out in the next 4 weeks, they are planning support for the n7.
Can anyone confirm if it works using play store movies that have DRM?
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nooomoto said:
Can anyone confirm if it works using play store movies that have DRM?
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Don't think so, I've been trying to find that answer, but I think that's what the nexus q is for :'(
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nitrox1 said:
Don't think so, I've been trying to find that answer, but I think that's what the nexus q is for :'(
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Can anyone provide a categoric answer on whether the HTC Media Link HD will play movies downloaded onto the Nexus 7 from the Play store that have DRM protection?
I think answering this single question will stop a lot of people hunting around and ultimately creating similar threads on the Nexus to TV issue.
Thanks.
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This should essentially be the same thing, a lot cheaper... once it releases.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/tag/android-transporter
Should have a beta out in the next 4 weeks, they are planning support for the n7.
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How is this possible? At 1280x800 we have 1,024,000 pixels, at 32bit color depth that gives 32mbit per full screen image, so standard 60hz video would require just shy of 2gb/s... Wifi can't do anywhere close to 2 gigabit per second, 802.11n theoretical max is only 600 megabit and that's using 4 spatial streams which no consumer hardware supports... for most home users their max is going to be about 300 megabit/second using 40mhz channels and 2 spatial streams with a guard interval of 400ns (and even that is hard to achieve). At 300mb/s you'll get a frame rate of less than 10hz without compression.
So how the hell are they doing it?

Multiscreen function?

So the Galaxy Note 10.1 is out I am wondering if our phone/phobet/phablet will ever receive (probably by the hands of XDA Developers) the multiscreen function.
We have the same screen resolution and despite processor and RAM, the same specs.... would make our note the best pocket device ever.
I am crossing fingers to anyone make a port of the tab rom to our device!!!
+1
Does the 10.1 have multi screen support?
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there is not full functionality available except a paid browser and movie app called overscreen I think.
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n.vasiliu said:
Does the 10.1 have multi screen support?
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Yes, it's not for all the apps, but you can see on many videos online that the tab let's you use S-Note, Browser, Galery, Office in a split screen (only 2 apps) even making a fantastic copy and paste with the pen.
It's pretty amazing!

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