Force GPU rendering? - Galaxy S6 Themes and Apps

I have an s7, but since specs are closely related to the s6, I decided to see if force GPU rendering speeds up your s6. Please reply with some advice
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By my own experience with a lot of devices through a lot of time: not really.

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[Q] How fast is SGT in comparison to other gadgets?

Hi guys, I am considering buying a tab atm but want to know how fast it is with good MIUI and stock roms. The tabs I saw on display were extremely slow..
If anybody could give me a comparison to other phones, ill be thankful
Cheers!
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Yeah, most of the Custom ROMs for the Galaxy Tab (Overcome as well as MIUI and CM7) do make the Tab run heaps faster. The single-core CPU will be noticeably slower than some of the newer dual-core hardware as apps continue to get more advanced, so the choice is yours. Still, I can attest that for the majority of use, my Tab running Overcome is more than speedy enough.
jay_993 said:
Hi guys, I am considering buying a tab atm but want to know how fast it is with good MIUI and stock roms. The tabs I saw on display were extremely slow..
If anybody could give me a comparison to other phones, ill be thankful
Cheers!
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It is not fair to compare the original galaxy tab with the latest tabs available. And I should say it is really slow and sometimes force closes on the latest apps optimized for the latest tabs.
Remember it is more than 1 year old, and for today's technology is considered obsolete.
I would also like to add that despite of being old it is the only tablet that has complete phone functions integrated.
Is the speed comparable to a SGS?
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jay_993 said:
Is the speed comparable to a SGS?
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As far as I know ROM, RAM, CPU & GPU is concerned, it essentially is an SGS.

How to eliminate ALL scrolling lag and YouTube/HD video stuttering

Google's project butter is the best thing to ever happen to android in terms of visual polish but I was curious as to why it still was jittery despite all its freaking gpu/cpu cores.
Turns out full gpu acceleration is not on by default so I went into development in the settings and forced 2d gpu acceleration. Disabling the overlays does more harm than good it seems.
This thing is BUTTER. Try this in rom toolbox, before scrolling was jittery and after it was perfect. Same with tapatalk.
What it breaks:
Google movies
Moon reader+ fonts
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Should work out for the most part, but some apps out there may not function properly with HW acceleration.
Ah, that works much much better. Before it seemed only a little faster than my old Kindle Fire ICS Rom, but now it's flying.
BananaFusion said:
Ah, that works much much better. Before it seemed only a little faster than my old Kindle Fire ICS Rom, but now it's flying.
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Now go and try to watch the Transformers movie you downloaded for free.... LOL
Disabling this also fixed my stuttering problems on YouTube app and 720p movies stored internally. Don't really plan on using Google movies that much anyway.
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Should work out for the most part, but some apps out there may not function properly with HW acceleration.
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Since it's so easy to change (no reboot even required) it shouldn't be a big problem for most people. Its a very dramatic change in fluidity and silkyness you wont forget to turn it back on.
Now I just gotta figure out what's making apex redraw
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Please post all issues you have with this so I can post in the op what this borks so people know what they're getting into.
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Do you need to root?
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Thanks a bunch for this!!!
someone hit the op's thanks button!
Threevo said:
Do you need to root?
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Nope
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You mean something like this?
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Great advice! Gets rid of scroll lag in Tapatalk for sure.
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How do you think this will affect battery life?
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redmonke255 said:
How do you think this will affect battery life?
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As a rule anything that improves performance draws more power so I'm betting this is no exception.
shojus said:
Now go and try to watch the Transformers movie you downloaded for free.... LOL
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Yes, there is no picture in the movie. I don't think overlays need to be turned off for speed, overlays should be supported in HW by the GPU as well. So if you force GPU 2D rendering, that is enough to really speed up the UI.
Or maybe I am wrong?
dmalovic said:
Yes, there is no picture in the movie. I don't think overlays need to be turned off for speed, overlays should be supported in HW by the GPU as well. So if you force GPU 2D rendering, that is enough to really speed up the UI.
Or maybe I am wrong?
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Can anyone confirm this?
It seems like disabling he overlays goes more harm than good, forcing 2d acceleration seems to be the best route.
Oh and this will use more ram, but when was the last time you ran out of ram anyways.
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Funny seeing this tweak brought up here. We went through 6+ months on prime messing with that tweak. I believe it more so just enables older apps to use hardware acceleration. Most newer apps and jellybean rom in general already uses hardware acceleration in the coding by default. Regardless of what you see in developers settings. This was the case in ICS. Likely the same with jellybean also. Alot of developers chimed in on the subject that we might be seeing more of a placebo effect. It likely does work but for older coded apps n such. Most new apps should already use hardware acceleration by default(regardless of what developer setting is showing). Some apps will have issues with it though. Some apps not made to support hardware acceleration so just keep a tally of what apps act up and add them to the op. The new NVISION app for example. At first it messed up with that setting. Cut it off and the app works fine. They eventually updated the app so the setting wouldn't mess it up anymore.
It'll also raise your 2d scores in quadrant, I believe. This will drain battery faster though. I know on prime, it was hard to tell if this was really working or not. To me, it seemed to be working. But down the road I cut it off and things were just the same. So who knows..lol. I know Y nexus 7 doesn't need it. Give it a shot if you experiencing lag somewhere and see of it helps. There's a good chance though that its just a placebo effect. Thouroughly testing needs to be done with it off n on. Jellybean by default already has hardware acceleration for apps n other things. Regardless of what developers option show.
Hi,
Forcing 2D accel results in moon reader+ not displaying fonts on my N7
Envoyé depuis mon Nexus 7 avec Tapatalk
demandarin said:
Funny seeing this tweak brought up here. We went through 6+ months on prime messing with that tweak. I believe it more so just enables older apps to use hardware acceleration. Most newer apps and jellybean rom in general already uses hardware acceleration in the coding by default. Regardless of what you see in developers settings. This was the case in ICS. Likely the same with jellybean also. Alot of developers chimed in on the subject that we might be seeing more of a placebo effect. It likely does work but for older coded apps n such. Most new apps should already use hardware acceleration by default(regardless of what developer setting is showing). Some apps will have issues with it though. Some apps not made to support hardware acceleration so just keep a tally of what apps act up and add them to the op. The new NVISION app for example. At first it messed up with that setting. Cut it off and the app works fine. They eventually updated the app so the setting wouldn't mess it up anymore.
It'll also raise your 2d scores in quadrant, I believe. This will drain battery faster though. I know on prime, it was hard to tell if this was really working or not. To me, it seemed to be working. But down the road I cut it off and things were just the same. So who knows..lol. I know Y nexus 7 doesn't need it. Give it a shot if you experiencing lag somewhere and see of it helps. There's a good chance though that its just a placebo effect. Thouroughly testing needs to be done with it off n on. Jellybean by default already has hardware acceleration for apps n other things. Regardless of what developers option show.
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No placebo effect here, this genuinely works even in new apps especially tapatalk and rom toolbox, you should try those with the setting off and then on. Those two apps were bugging me the most. I'm sure it will drain the battery more but I already get three days of use out of this thing anyways.
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Remove Android Lag [entropy]

Someone just messaged me this "fix" for android lag
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=35971545&postcount=20669
I personally haven't noticed any lag but thought it might be worth sharing here.
sorry if its already been shared
I don't really notice a difference.
The typical Android hiccups are still there.
Lothaen said:
Someone just messaged me this "fix" for android lag
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=35971545&postcount=20669
I personally haven't noticed any lag but thought it might be worth sharing here.
sorry if its already been shared
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Eeehh...
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What lag ?
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What's lag?
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I don't experience any lag at all from this device (and didn't on my S2 running Cyanogenmod for that matter either).
No lag to report on the Nexus 4... But interesting read nonetheless. Might use it on the Galaxy S2 (Which DOES lag, even though some say it doesn't. Compare both N4 and S2 side by side... It's painful to watch)
Is this like jet lag?
Who Lag?
More like turbo lag
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No lag here on this badboy!
The lag is from the way Android was designed originally. Not all apps are even optimized for the platform and others are quick ports from other platforms. Also they are still lacking with hardware to software optimizations.
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The're some apps which are lagging. But the Nexus4 itself? Bullsh**!!!
Smoothest Android phone ever (just compare to the Note 2, this phone lags!)
deezid said:
The're some apps which are lagging. But the Nexus4 itself? Bullsh**!!!
Smoothest Android phone ever (just compare to the Note 2, this phone lags!)
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Agreed. It may be the applications that lag but not the system itself. I have yet to see a hiccup when browsing through my Nexus.
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There are some pretty awful frame drops when using the device in landscape, especially in the app drawer. I wonder if this fixes that.
alwaysbboy said:
I have yet to see a hiccup when browsing through my Nexus.
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Don't lie.
The Nexus 4 might be the smoothest Android device, but it is still lagging compared to other systems like iOS or WP 7/8
Nuu~ said:
Don't lie.
The Nexus 4 might be the smoothest Android device, but it is still lagging compared to other systems like iOS or WP 7/8
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Compared to my iPhone 4 the N4's browser is like internet explorer vs chrome.
Sounds like snake oil. Androids remaining lag is too deeply rooted to be squashed with some shell code parlor trick. Android gives content fetching more priority than rendering the UI, it's something that Google has to take care of by rewriting the framework. Ios does this beautifully btw, it doesn't need 4 cores for fluid scrolling and even with 4 cores nexus can't touch it ... yet.
Ace42 said:
Compared to my iPhone 4 the N4's browser is like internet explorer vs chrome.
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We talking about IE10?
Eric-1987 said:
We talking about IE10?
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IE sucks no matter how many numbers are after it.
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[Q] Optimize RAM

Hi Guys,
Is there any way to optimize the RAM on the HTC one to get better performance.
I know that supercharger v6 is around but haven't heard of anyone using it on the HTC one.
Any other options?
You could always flash a kernel that allows over clocking both the CPU and GPU, and messing around with the governors. Memory management is already rather efficient.
What ROM are you on?
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Optimize in what way?
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Optimizing RAM use won't give any practical performance increases unless you're doing so many things that you're literally running out of RAM, which if you are, you really need to close down some apks.
Android free up space automatically. Have not yet or never on any phone encountered low RAM warnings.
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Samsung Game Tuner

Saw this app and downloaded it. It's kinda like GLTOOLS with graphic features except fake GPU, CPU or any things you need with root.
Works with GTA: LCS, but the FPS on screen is unsupported, I dunno why.
How's you let experience with it, if you use it.
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At max settings for graphics, battery drains like hell though
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I use it for Royal clash, I max the settings and it looks so good.
I also use it for Hearthstone, I lower the textures, resolution and fps: lowest res, 15 fps. Have not crashed since.

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