[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] thair7391:
I really don't know what to think about it... I mean, everyone is having good reports about the way that Project Butter is performing so in those cases, you know that hardware acceleration is functional. It's just that for me and only like two other users that I've found, our graphical performance is terrible. I know logic says that since such a small number of people are having different results, then those few people are either installing the ROM incorrectly or there is a hardware defect on their devices. Well, as far as hardware defects go, I just got a replacement Note in yesterday because the earpiece failed in my previous one and I STILL have the same poor graphical performance with lag and low frame rates on the new device so it is EXTREMELY unlikely that I've gotten two defective devices and I'm pretty sure the first one wasn't either because ICS-based ROMS run beautifully. As for the other possibility concerning user error, MERCHAPANDA, PLEASE HEAR ME OUT. I KNOW THAT I'M INSTALLING THE ROM CORRECTLY. Regardless, I've tried it so many different ways that I would have come across the correct way by now anyways.

The final possibility is that my perception of "smoothness and buttery performance" is just completely off so to verify, I found an HD video of someone running the CM10 ROM on the SGH-i717 and I'll be damned if it wasn't the smoothest thing I've ever seen; FAR different from the results that I'm getting so something is just really really off...

I'm getting desperate to get normal graphical performance in Jelly Bean at this point and cannot rest until I find out what I'm doing wrong. Do you think you can help me by telling me EVERYTHING you've done with your Note to get it from stock to custom recovery to rooted to ROM just to see how my algorithm has varied?? Here is what I've done since last night when my replacement arrived:

1) Updated the device to the official ICS update through Samsung Kies just to be official lol (It shipped with Gingerbread even this late... WTF??!)

2) After updating to ICS and LF6 modem officially, I flashed an Odin tarball of ClockWorkMod through Odin.

3) To then root the phone I flashed the SuperUser binaries (and su manager as well I guess) through CWM and verified that I had root access in the stock ICS ROM. All is well at this point.

4) I then copied the 8-13 build of CM10 to the internal SD card (for some reason CWM isn't reading my external SD this time around. Maybe you can help with that also?) along with the 8-02 EOS Gapps and then did a factory reset as well as wiped /cache, /system, and Dalvik.

5) Then I flashed the CM10 ZIP and the Gapps and hen rebooted and after letting the device initialize for ten minutes on the first reboot, I logged into my Google account through the initial setup (WITHOUT restoring from Google backup)

And that's pretty much how I got from point A to B (or more like point F I guess lol) and once I was dropped to the default launcher after setup I could already notice the lag when swiping between launcher pages and pulling down notification drawer and scrolling in apps. Even using Nova launcher as opposed to the default Trebuchet has the same issues.

HELP ME SOMEONE!! I don't know what to do or what's wrong... I don't rely on Quadrant scores typically but in the GPU benchmarks where it tests the frame rate during the video of the hallway and the planets and the DNA strand, the frame rates are SIGNIFICANTLY lower in JB than in ICS. In ICS on the planets, my frame rate is between 57-60 and in JB, my frame rates are between 26-29!!! Something is wrong. I will send money to the person who helps me fix this issue!!

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I've had the same issue with many ROM's for some reason. ROM Toolbox is the only way I've ever been able successfully change DPI. Anytime I've used another app or if I've edited the build.prop manually, the phone doesn't boot. I wonder what ROM Toolbox does differently than the other methods.