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[Minor FIX] Washed Out Home Screen from Full Screen Videos

This isn't a complete fix, but seems to reduce the washed out image/over exposed home screen from watching videos in full screen mode.
Settings -> Developer options -> Checkmark Disable HW overlays -> Checkmark Force GPU rendering
See if this helps because either I'm loosing my mind or this actually helps - a bit. :angel:

I tried it and it didn't make any difference to me.

Enable he overlay will cause G movie play not rendering just fyi
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda app-developers app

So this doesn't work? I am getting tired of Netflix and other videos washing out on me. This isn't a hardware problem, is it?

Yes it breaks Google Movies. It seems to reduce the gamma overkill from watching full screen videos, but it is still there. It doesn't hurt you at all to try it and if it doesn't work just disable it again. Personally it seems to have helped slightly.

I'm having an issue when I am watching a movie or youtube in landscape mode the screen starts to darken until it shuts off the screen. I went into developer mode and disable HW overlays, it made it go away. What are your thoughts? Sorry if I'm deviating from topic.

hidden developer menu

In case you didnt know there is a secret dev. Menu on the l90 at least if you have 4.4.2 on a d415. Im sure it works on all 4.2.2 and up androids. I learned about it today . and accually i just checked on my gpad and it accually has more opts then my l90 or my htc one m8 so i know its the 4.4.2 + android and not the hardware. Well here it is.
Go to menu , then settings, then go to software information and click on the build number like nine times in quick succession and there you go. Congrats. Your now a developer.
The l90 developer menu includes:
Take bug report;
Desktop backup password
Stay awake
Select runtime
Enable bluetooth HCI snoop log
Process stats........
Then, debugging.
USB debugging
Revoke usb debugging authorizations
Power menue bug reports*
Allow mock locations
Select debug app
Wait for debugger
Verify apps over USB
Wireless display certification
Drawing;
Show screen updates
Show layout bounds
Force RTL layout direction
Window animation scale
Animator duration scale
Simulate secondary displays
Hardware. Accelerated rendering;
Force GPU rendering
Show hardware layers updates
Debug GPU overdraw
Debug nonrectangular. Clip operations
Force 4x MSAA
Disable HW overlays
Monitoring;
Enable strict modeshow CPU useage
Profile GPU rendering
Enable openGL traces
Apps;
Dont keep activities
Backround process limit
Show all ANRs
Ok good glad we all made it through that without soft bricking my l90 for the forth time... Now some of yall who know what some uses are for some of these that some of the ummm *coughs noobs might be able to use these for put your ten cents in...
Hope this helps somebody...

jamesakasparks said:
In case you didnt know there is a secret dev. Menu on the l90 at least if you have 4.4.2 on a d415. Im sure it works on all 4.2.2 and up androids. I learned about it today . and accually i just checked on my gpad and it accually has more opts then my l90 or my htc one m8 so i know its the 4.4.2 + android and not the hardware. Well here it is.
Go to menu , then settings, then go to software information and click on the build number like nine times in quick succession and there you go. Congrats. Your now a developer.
The l90 developer menu includes:
Take bug report;
Desktop backup password
Stay awake
Select runtime
Enable bluetooth HCI snoop log
Process stats........
Then, debugging.
USB debugging
Revoke usb debugging authorizations
Power menue bug reports*
Allow mock locations
Select debug app
Wait for debugger
Verify apps over USB
Wireless display certification
Drawing;
Show screen updates
Show layout bounds
Force RTL layout direction
Window animation scale
Animator duration scale
Simulate secondary displays
Hardware. Accelerated rendering;
Force GPU rendering
Show hardware layers updates
Debug GPU overdraw
Debug nonrectangular. Clip operations
Force 4x MSAA
Disable HW overlays
Monitoring;
Enable strict modeshow CPU useage
Profile GPU rendering
Enable openGL traces
Apps;
Dont keep activities
Backround process limit
Show all ANRs
Ok good glad we all made it through that without soft bricking my l90 for the forth time... Now some of yall who know what some uses are for some of these that some of the ummm *coughs noobs might be able to use these for put your ten cents in...
Hope this helps somebody...
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Nothing new here my friend. And this is NOT limited to 4.4.2. Developer Options have been around for quite some time. CM starting initially disabling the Developers Menu in Jelly Bean 4.1.2.
This is well known around here as the Developers Menu must be activated to enable USB debugging on any device. And yes, there are going to be different/additional/less options for different devices.

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jamesakasparks said:
In case you didnt know there is a secret dev. Menu on the l90 at least if you have 4.4.2 on a d415. Im sure it works on all 4.2.2 and up androids. I learned about it today . and accually i just checked on my gpad and it accually has more opts then my l90 or my htc one m8 so i know its the 4.4.2 + android and not the hardware. Well here it is.
Go to menu , then settings, then go to software information and click on the build number like nine times in quick succession and there you go. Congrats. Your now a developer.
The l90 developer menu includes:
Take bug report;
Desktop backup password
Stay awake
Select runtime
Enable bluetooth HCI snoop log
Process stats........
Then, debugging.
USB debugging
Revoke usb debugging authorizations
Power menue bug reports*
Allow mock locations
Select debug app
Wait for debugger
Verify apps over USB
Wireless display certification
Drawing;
Show screen updates
Show layout bounds
Force RTL layout direction
Window animation scale
Animator duration scale
Simulate secondary displays
Hardware. Accelerated rendering;
Force GPU rendering
Show hardware layers updates
Debug GPU overdraw
Debug nonrectangular. Clip operations
Force 4x MSAA
Disable HW overlays
Monitoring;
Enable strict modeshow CPU useage
Profile GPU rendering
Enable openGL traces
Apps;
Dont keep activities
Backround process limit
Show all ANRs
Ok good glad we all made it through that without soft bricking my l90 for the forth time... Now some of yall who know what some uses are for some of these that some of the ummm *coughs noobs might be able to use these for put your ten cents in...
Hope this helps somebody...
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I guess a may have bricked my phone. Got into the secret menu and selected a test and now the LG logo flashes and then miniOS 3.0 flashes and stuck at the ATT- MiniOS 3.0 test screen. Anyway to correct this ?

pepo2k said:
I guess a may have bricked my phone. Got into the secret menu and selected a test and now the LG logo flashes and then miniOS 3.0 flashes and stuck at the ATT- MiniOS 3.0 test screen. Anyway to correct this ?
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I don't know about this phone nor about this "miniOS", but you most likely played with the "simulate external display" option...
Reboot in safe mode (hold menu or both volume keys as Android loads) and change it back!

Ryccardo said:
I don't know about this phone nor about this "miniOS", but you most likely played with the "simulate external display" option...
Reboot in safe mode (hold menu or both volume keys as Android loads) and change it back!
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He is on stock not on CM or other custom ROM. AAT MiniOS is only accessible on stock. But, once in AAT MiniOS, the only way out is via AAT MiniOS. Otherwise the phone only boots to the AAT MiniOS.
See this post to get out of AAT MiniOS 3.0.

Setting 7th gen Fire tab up as SmartHome wall mounted dashboard - lockscreen problem

Hello,
i'm currently planning on using a 7th gen fire 7 and a 7th gen fire HD 10 as wall mounted dashboard for SmartHome experiments.
Home is not too smart at the moment, it's mainly about a convenient control for philips hue lamps, but would be nice to be scalable in future.
My current setup uses ImperiHome (here) to deliver dashboard and control.
A combination of Tasker, Motion Detector and Secure Settings to detect motion and activate the display automatically (here)
As for the differences between the tablets:
the fire 7 is on fire OS 5.4.0.0 and hence not rootable and not downgradable to a rootable version at the moment, correct?
the fire HD 10 is on fire OS 5.6.0.0 and rooted.
Current main problem is the lockscreen.
My motion detection activates the screen but only reaches the lockscreen..
i've done some googling (no-lock apps, terminal commands, tasker tasks) but up to now i haven't found a way around it.
My wish would be to just disable it - any ideas??
Alternatively i'm looking into the idea of displaying an app all the time, which will avoid standby like a fullscreen clock. (here)
Unfortunately i'm afraid of killing the tablet quickly when it is always on.
Is there a way to switch of the background illumination and display without sending the tablet to sleep/lock/standby mode?
Second (less important) i want to automate the charging with an Osram smart plug +, which the tablet shall activate via a tasker task when it needs recharging and deactivate when full. Haven't looked into that yet but i thought in case someone got a tutorial at hand it would be great!
Thank you very much!

Hi, Have a look at the Fully Kiosk Browser APK on Google Play, check out Home Assistant forums search for Fully Kiosk Browser some information how its been used with that system.

Thank you for the advice! I've already spent some time in those forums. Up to now I'm trying to avoid an additional home assistant raspberry..
So I'd like to use the imperihome dashboard instead of a web based browser dashboard..
But I'll try to see whether I can use the anti-lock function of fully somehow!

How about Developer Options -> Stay Awake ? (google how to enable developer options if you don't have that enabled already)

I've not used Fully yet, but what I understand from the description, you can use the tablet camera as motion detection, switch screen on and load any app,

Yes that's correct, even with a sleeping tablet.
Unfortunately if it was "sleeping" with screen off it will start the target so "behind" the swipe away lock screen...

wcarlson40 said:
How about Developer Options -> Stay Awake ? (google how to enable developer options if you don't have that enabled already)
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But I'd like the display to turn off..

I don't have a fire tablet to try this, the dim function in full will turn the brightness down to 0, and when monition is detected by the camera it brightens back up.

Few things i noticed after upgrading to Android Q

I made a post after getting pie update and now, here is an in-depth list of features of android Q in ZMP M1
all phones are not getting the same features
removing screen lock /fingerprint doesn't save you from password after update (at least it didn't work for me ) make a backup of everything in case you need to reset
list of things I'll suggest making a backup
WhatsApp chat
google photos
apps with es file explorer or any such file manager
settings + contacts+ call log+ messages from settings backup
notification led :
I like to turn it off all the rime even when charging but in android Q I couldn't find any way to disable it during charging
i was checking my old post about pie
1. Ambient Display : settings>display>advance>Ambient Display
It works only when you get a notification (its dope would like it being enabled always) though Daydream nowhere to be found.
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so ambient display is gone screensaver is back (edit: its renamed and moved to display lock screen area as new notification toggle)
volume panel:
change volume click more slider button and this is how to devolve UI it shows a big screen covering prompt to show sliders
font in developer settings only two options device default seems better
no third-party launcher supports the new gesture navigation but it is a problem on google's part
left earphone to week? there is audio balance in assessability settings
vibratin and haptic feedback in assessability
not the true dark mode in assessability settings dark theme and color inversion options are nearby enough to test what we could have got for dark mode
dark mode doesn't get turn back to a light mode in live wallpaper
assessability volume key shortcut might come in in handy for some but it makes a notification sound
there is charging sound and vibration in sound settings might want to turn it off, I have seen Samsung charging sound but Asus just makes the phone vibrate with a faint sound might scare people who don't know as it's on by default in android q
I am getting the rotate once button in navbar when autorotate is off I am using two-button navigation and a small circle when using gesture
the lockdown option to prevent unlock by any other means now also prevents notification to show can be enabled in display>lock screen display> show lockdown option
in gesture navigation you can swipe up and continue in an app to make it go smaller beyond it should go
to start android it asks for setup screen lock password it is stepping in the right direction but we should have it in kernel/bios as once entered in recovery mode anyone can reset a phone
QR code to share wifi available
still no way to monitor or block devices connected to your hotspot
default Bluetooth name QCOM-BTD Qualcomm's BLE chip?
widgets to settings shortcut there should be system UI tuner after opening it shows this funny warning message
apps notificatio>notification snoozing useless button more useless because cant see snooze option in youtube notification
battery saver got new auto turn off at 90% feature
battery picture in battery settings seems thick would prefer "ampere app" like stats in later versions
display don't have color temperature adjust
accelerated location something about data storage and data concent
high accuracy, battery saver, etc options for location not available
google play system update is 1 January 2020 please update it
security patch is 5nov 2019
privacy section is great but would like fingerprint prompt in autofill scenario as like for wifi sharing
digital wellbeing well let's skip it as I already have 18 unlocks 1 hr30 mins in the settings app and will have 4hr+ in youtube so let's skip it
verificatin code auto fill in google settings I something nice to have but also worrying
now you can directly launch apps from app info after force stopping
in about phone >emergency info> medical info you can add your profile pic and emergency contacts
dev options> picture color mode sRGB does this option even work any were?
in dark mode theme when searched in settings there is a white padding
dev options> game driver properties I don't know what it does perhaps boost graphics performance
feature flags section in dev options shows nothing except experimental (edit: these were removed in Q beta 3)
system traces have many options like pre CPU buffer and in the category, it has some tick box options and possibly CPU performance after we stop getting updates
swipe up to recent in any navigation option seem a bit too sensitive
audio seems of though I only watched youtube (Linus tech tips) so far that is without headphones
in dev options audio Bluetooth codec shows APTX HD and other option which might make Bluetooth audio great
in dev options profile HWUI seems new but not sure what it is the bars shown on-screen seems familiar
in dev options adaptive notification priority makes no difference and doesn't have any description but a quick google search shows it is supposed to make low notification priority genital
in dev options apps can be installed in external storage option
in dev options force activities resizable doesn't work in split-screen view but I may be doing something wrong
also I hate the lock icon when unlocking also there is no center icon with face/fingerprint or padlock in lock screen
in dev options wifi entending option might help in office or home to extend wifi if it works
in dev options enable freeform windows doesn't work
in dev options forced desktop scant be tested as no video output but wireless display might allow haven't tested
in dev options I enabled bubble notification will add things that can access it
in dev options auto fill section is too vague and I am not getting what anything does
in the last pie post I said
2. icons in overview/multitasking screen
Settings>apps>default apps>home app> quick setup(new name for launcher3)>home screen>home settings>change icon shape >go back to your preferred launcher.
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it is now in theming in dev options
also ambient display (not to be confused with screensaver) kicks in when getting notification while the screen is off (edit: realized after posting this Asus renamed and moved to it to display> lock screen display> new notification )
widevine changed to L3 its used to stream Amazon Prime Video, BBC, Hulu, Netflix, Spotify, and Disney+ use Widevine DRM to manage the distribution of premium content. as a college student who has no job and already has to spend money on Jio internet I don't have any above-mentioned subscriptions and if you do use any services according to other beta testers you won't be supposably able to access them while in beta.
camera app
in pro mode no shutter speed control option
max iso in pro mode is 1600 like in HMD global camera
auto video encoder is h264
portrait mode has extremely bad edge detection
night mode isn't that good
no fps option for video like 24,25,29.98,30,60 fps etc
no raw support in stock camera app resulting in assumption camera2api isn't enabled by default, though I enabled it in pie and it carried forward maybe so I am not sure.
it is a bit long but if you are reading this then thanks for reading till the end I'll format the whole thing later

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There's really no option for notification led,
You get wake display for new notifications in lock screen display
I don't like that either its ugly pie sliders were better.
Is that even important fonts are fonts and generally no aosp thing gets custom font support and Google sans are for pixel things. Idk about which fonts will our phone get.
Third party launchers will work after December android security patch builds.
Dark mode is in display options and works good.
I don't know what dark theme and wallpaper have to do.
The srgb thing works but android or its apps aren't made to use srgb colors default is rgb which is used by most of the web.
Feature flags were removed by Google in beta 3 of Android 10.
Force activities resizable makes apps which don't work or don't allow split screen (insta) are made to be opened in split screen.
Enabling free form works and can be accessed from recent apps screen - click the app icon - open in free form. (don't know how you tested it)
Auto fill helps in password managers to fill in usernames and passwords.
It's in wake display also same to your missing ambient display.
Other things I've left are either too much to explain / really broken / I don't care of those since I don't use it.
Widevine has changed to l3 you didn't notice.
Sound output isn't very great it'll be fixed in next build I've reported that to asus.

There's really no option for notification led,
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it is named as blink light there is a way to just turn it off but it still lights up when the phone is turned on which previously in the android pie it didn't
You get wake display for new notifications in lock screen display
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I realized it too late going to edit it in
I don't like that either its ugly pie sliders were better.
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the only good news I have is while in a call it shows call slider normally.
Is that even important fonts are fonts and generally no aosp thing gets custom font support and Google sans are for pixel things. Idk about which fonts will our phone get.
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no it isn't that important but I thought that it's interesting and the options are:
device default.
noto serif/ Source Sans Pro.
Third party launchers will work after December android security patch builds
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You are talking about gesture navigation, right? Teslacoilapps says this.
Dark mode is in display options and works good.
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Like the official Reddit app has a dark modeand AMOLED dark mode. the difference is #333943 and #000000. The dark mode is not truly dark but gray.
I don't know what dark theme and wallpaper have to do.
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In Android pie when you set the theme to dark mode and use live wallpaper it uses auto revert back to light mode now it doesn't.
The srgb thing works but android or its apps aren't made to use srgb colors default is rgb which is used by most of the web.
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nowadays phones are getting so powerful and people can take great pictures so shouldn't sRGB be enabled by default? like it does help semi-professional photo editing if we get a bit more color accuracy.
Feature flags were removed by Google in beta 3 of Android 10.
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I didn't know that, but now I do. Thanks for that.
Force activities resizable makes apps which don't work or don't allow split screen (insta) are made to be opened in split screen.
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My bad, I thought it allowed resizing the split-screen apps like increasing the top window while decreasing the bottom one
Enabling free form works and can be accessed from recent apps screen - click the app icon - open in free form. (don't know how you tested it)
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Samsung has a float window feature like actual windows pc like windows I thought it was like that feature i tried it as you mentioned but didn't get results i was expected
Auto fill helps in password managers to fill in usernames and passwords.
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I think this is about this line
in dev options auto fill section is too vague and I am not getting what anything does
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My question is what is
logging level
off
debug
verbose what does these mean
max request per session (it's just a field to enter a number what does it control)
max visible datasets (it's just a field to enter a number what does it control)
It's in wake display also same to your missing ambient display.
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I found it after posting this thread and didn’t get a chance to update it.
Other things I've left are either too much to explain / really broken / I don't care of those since I don't use it.
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things are too much to explain / broken but I like to deeply analyze things and couldn't find an in-depth bug list while thinking whether I should get in beta so after upgrading I made one. it has some errors but I am working on it
Widevine has changed to l3 you didn't notice.
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that's something related to Netflix i don't have an account so wasn't able to notice it, though I saw it mentioned it in Asus forums
Sound output isn't very great it'll be fixed in next build I've reported that to asus.
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I saw this problem also mentioned in the forums and I asked my friends if my phone sounds different and didn't got any negative report also I watched youtube for 4hrs on Thursday and didn't heard any difference

Would be interested to know how to turn off the lock screen. Lock screen none does not appear as an option.
Regards.

Gestures are enabled by Google after December security patch nova / most other launchers work with gestures. You can however use 2 button and 3 button navigation perfectly.
About that dark and black mode difference we don't have an amoled or led display it's an lcd so it won't make difference in battery but kind of personal choice. I like dark more than black.
The thing about wallpaper and dark thing - in android 9 dark/light theme was set by wallpaper color so live wallpapers needed to support color picker api to tell the device to keep light or dark theme. (it was half broken by asus as selecting dark theme should've disabled the api completely, but using pixel default live wallpapers they had that api so dark mode worked with them).
That srgb was being considered by Google they dropped it as it broke a lot of the things.
You can resize top and bottom windows just hold the middle line in centre and drag it where you want to put it. (I use 400 dpi so I get more steps).
It's because that feature is intended towards large screen tablets or foldables and Samsung made their own thing, (the free form window thing).
It's for devs making password manager apps or autofill apps those people need it for debugging, the logging levels are to make reports to find bugs, the max request is how many times in one field the autofill will attempt to fill in credentials. The max visible dataset is if you have multiple accounts to one app (take Gmail as example) so while trying to autofill it lists all of available accounts to show (I'm not an expert in this so I maybe wrong if needed confirm that.
About sound issue it is very real and use some good quality earphones or compare side by side with 060 running device.

Question Is the Netflix app reducing the contrast/grey-washes the colors for anyone else?

It seems like there's some bug either with the app itself or with the phone's color management. When a video on Netflix is playing something happens to the contrast settings and it becomes too washed-out, and that decontrasting thing is visibly disabled when I swipe the phone's menu down during playback. You can actually see when swiping away the menu (to the point it's actually not on the screen any longer) the point where the contrast suddenly jumps between low and (too/black-crushed) high settings.
Changing the MIUI color scheme doesn't correct the problem.
EDIT: I should note that the Netflix app uses its own brightness setting which overrides the system's when content is played, and it along with the contrast thing get disabled whenever a phone GUI element is displayed (even when adjusting the volume the contrast and brightness jump momentarily).

I have same issue with YouTube. I was able to fix it by enabling Disable HW overlays in Developer options. I don't know if it will work for Netflix though.

KBK909 said:
I have same issue with YouTube. I was able to fix it by enabling Disable HW overlays in Developer options. I don't know if it will work for Netflix though.
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That worked! Although the contrast like this is, as I mentioned, maybe a bit too much.
Does this setting affect battery life? Because on some XDA article this was written:
"Disable HW overlays: Hardware overlays allow apps that display something on the screen to use less processing power. Without the overlay, an app shares the video memory and has to constantly check for collision and clipping to render a proper image. Don't mess with this option unless you have a good reason to."
What hardware is disabled? Because it says "always use GPU" when I thought using non-hardware processing it means "software executed by the CPU".