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[Nexus 7 General] Cynnthetic:
They've said the same thing to everyone for every single thing they bring up. Their policy at launch is just to juggle hardware. Plenty of people on the forum send units back with issues and get new ones... with the same issues.
[Nexus 7 General] jtrosky:
So, is the replacement any better?
[Nexus 7 General] micks_address:
bought the app with the free credit google gave me... works great.. notice a difference already..
[Nexus 7 General] samomamo:
Thank you this fix made me to look at my nexus 7 too keep it and not to post it on craiglist. Thanx

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Its just why can't this be included in the ROM's? Or maybe people don't know about this trick? I applied it and it made my screen 10 times sharper right away.
[Nexus 7 General] poondog:
Because the dimmer prism thing is supposed to save battery :D

And its easy to enable/disable

I use trickster mod for this, love that app it does basically everything <3
[Nexus 7 General] jtrosky:
For what it's worth, the Asus TF700 tablet had the same issue (only much worse). However, with the Jelly Bean upgrade for the TF700, Asus actually put an On/Off switch right in the settings so that it can easily be enabled/disabled from the Settings app.

My point is that hopefully Asus will do the same for the Nexus 7 in a future firmware update...
[Nexus 7 General] samomamo:
Well thank you I didn't even know that trickster mod had this:)
[Nexus 7 General] rockvoid:
Thanks for the hint! Much easier than adding the script manually.
[Nexus 7 General] jtrosky:
Just remember - the setting in Trixter will *not* survive a reboot, so you'll have to go in and reset it any time that you reboot the device. Not a big deal, however, it only takes a second...
[Nexus 7 General] rockvoid:
no there is an option called "set on boot" in trickster mod.
[Nexus 7 General] jtrosky:
Yeah, but it doesn't work (at least with the stock kernel on the Nexus 7)...
[Nexus 7 General] rockvoid:
hmmm i tried it - it works for me with stock kernel on N7...
[Nexus 7 General] jtrosky:
Interesting... While I can select "Set on boot", the SmartDimmer option always reverts to "On" after a reboot. When I asked the author about it, he confirmed that it doesn't work under certain conditions (it's actually a post in this thread).

Again, I'm on a Nexus 7 using the stock ROM with stock kernel (but rooted) running the latest version of Trickster Mod and I just rebooted and the SmartDimmer option reverted back to "On".

Can anyone else running a completely stock Nexus 7 test this? Now I'm wondering! :)
[Nexus 7 General] rockvoid:
i´m on rooted stock rom and stock kernel too...

open trickster mod and clik on the menu-button (3 dots) on the right top side and select "set on boot".

smart dimmer should be set to "off" for better colors (default setting is "on")
[Nexus 7 General] jtrosky:
Yeah, that's what I've done. But, after rebooting, the "SmartDimmer" option always reverts to "On".

So you are saying that after you reboot, the SmartDimmer option stays set to "Off"?

Do you have any other tweaks installed such as init.d support or anything like that?
[Nexus 7 General] rockvoid:
I didn´t install init.d support or other tweaks.....

I previoulsy had installed "script manager" for disabling smartdimmer on boot but i deleted it and use trickster mod now...

Maybe "script manager" didn´t uninstall completely??? (But if i don´t use trickster mod now it sets back to on..)

With trickster mod Smartdimmer stays"off" even if i reboot.
[Nexus 7 General] jtrosky:
Well, I dunno then!

Maybe someone else with a stock N7 can tell us if the SmartDimmer sticks or not using Trickster Mod. I have a feeling that you actually do have init.d support (maybe left over from Script Manager?). Trickster does install the init.d scripts to reset this stuff at boot, so as far as I know, that is the only way it could work (if init.d is working).

Regardless, I just found a simple "flash this for init.d support" thread for the N7, so I'm going to do that - I'm sure the settings will stick after enabling init.d support.

Thanks!
[Nexus 7 General] rockvoid:
i don´t have /system/etc/init.d i only have /init.rc

i use stock android 4.1.1 JRO03S
[Nexus 7 General] jtrosky:
Well @rockvoid is 100% correct here! I was having other issues with my N7 (wouldn't shut down properly), so I decided just to wipe everything and start over. So, after rooting, I installed Trickster Mod, set the SmartDimmer to "Off" and set the "Set on boot" option - sure enough, after a reboot, the SmartDimmer setting *did* stick!

What's really strange is that before I wiped my device, I noticed that I had an /system/etc/init.d directory and the only file in it was a Trickster startup script (and I never even enabled init.d support). So I'm *guessing* that at one point, that is how the app started things at boot-time (via init.d), but a later version started things automatically using a different method (but didn't overwrite the existing method if it existed). Just a guess....

Anyway, I apologize for spreading incorrect information that Trickster Mod didn't "save" the settings properly with a stock N7 and I'd like to thank @rockvoid for helping me realize that Trickster Mod does, in fact, save these settings properly now!

Thanks again @rockvoid!
[Nexus 7 General] rockvoid:
:good: thanks for your explanation too - i already thought scriptmanager left some settings after uninstall :laugh:
[Nexus 7 General] KiNG OMaR:
It's a Nexus device, lol (that means firmware is not Asus' job)
[Nexus 7 General] jtrosky:
Good point!! :) Ok, so maybe an option *won't* be added to enable/disable the SmartDimmer in future versions of the firmware!

On a side note, Trickster Mod is no longer saving my SmartDimmer option again! Since the fresh install, all that I've done was update all of the "built-in" apps and installed 2 other apps (which I've since un-installed)... Still testing to see if I can determine what exactly "breaks" it (it's driving me crazy now)!

EDIT: @rockvoid - do you have stock or custom recovery installed? If custom, is it CWM or TWRP? I'm starting to wonder if it's TWRP (or any custom recovery that broke it) - I'm testing that theory now...

EDIT2: Yep, it's TWRP which "breaks" the ability for the settings to stick in Trickster Mod... Strange. Maybe, with the paid version of Trickster, you could use the "Set On Boot Delay" option to work-around this issue somehow - not sure. Oh well, I guess I'll just manually reset it each time for now! At least we determined *what* was breaking it and confirmed that it does work fine as long as you don't use a custom recovery (with TWRP at least - haven't tried it with CWM). Man, what a way to waste a few hours! :)

Thanks.
[Nexus 7 General] rockvoid:
I use CWM ... strange that it doesn't work with TWRP...
[Nexus 7 General] jtrosky:
Well, it was easy enough to test switching to CWM, so I just tried that and sure enough, Trickster Mod now saves the setting again! So, I'll just keep CWM installed, that way I don't have to worry about SmartDimmer anymore!

Thanks for all of the replies - you've been very helpful - I appreciate it! At least we got to the bottom of it!
[Nexus 7 General] Metallice:
Its not a file. Its a sysfs interface for changing kernel parameters. It loads the default values at each reboot as the kernel recreates this "file" at each reboot.
[Nexus 7 General] farmerbb:
The /sys/ filesystem is a dynamically created filesystem and it's not physically located on the flash memory, which is why everything reverts itself after a reboot.

If you have a ROM that supports init.d then you should be able to add something like this to an init.d script:

# Disable NVIDIA Prism
echo 0 > /sys/devices/tegradc.0/smartdimmer/enable

That should automatically disable it on boot.
[Nexus 7 General] Metallice:
I think you have to add a delay using "sleep 30" or something like that before or else it wont work.
[Nexus 7 General] jtrosky:
Yeah, with the Trickster Mod app - that's actually what started all of this talk! :)

Only issue is that the Trickster Mod app doesn't seem to save the settings if you use TWRP, but it works perfectly if you are using CWM.
[Nexus 7 General] Metallice:
Yes. Making the relevant change in the kernel source and then compiling it.
[Nexus 7 General] Wilks3y:
This is an interesting theory and fix.

I've never noticed any of these changes, apart from Lock/Unlock you can notice the brightness change.

although I don't think this is the same as what you are describing.

But I didn't even know this happened :D

Tegra3 your so SLY!
[Nexus 7 General] simacca:
I don't get the washed out screen problem either, thankfully.
[Nexus 7 General] Nospin:
Start the youtube app. Notice the colors and text, remember how it looks. Now start a video, watch it for a minute or two, now back out of the video to where you just were. Notice any differences.?
[Nexus 7 General] poondog:
If you make it an init.d script it will run at boot.
[Nexus 7 General] EasyE63:
Is there a way to update the script for use with 4.2? I'm getting an error when trying to run the script that I think relates to the multiple user feature.

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Nexus 7 General] johnblaze00:
it doesn't seem like it's something to fix though. the way it was explained seem to make it sound it's a design feature to save battery life just that some don't like it.
[Nexus 7 General] GedBlake:
Thank you very much Metallice for this fix/patch...

Whilst I haven't noticed the 'washed out' quality as reported by others, I have noticed ongoing brightness/dimming fluctuations in certain videos on my Nexus 7. It's particularly noticeable in vids where there are no fast cuts, and the general background color is 'light', ie. scenes shot in bright sunlight.

At first I though this was a problem with the auto-brightness feature (and this has been reported on other forums), but disabling it didn't remedy the problem.

Your solution, however has... video playback is now rock-solid stable.

Using the script (SmartDimmer-OFF) you posted, with ScriptManager (set as Root and Boot)... the random screen fluctuations are now history.

Rgrds,

Ged.
[Nexus 7 General] Adinaky:
Great, just great. It worked very well, thank you!
[Nexus 7 General] basketor:
Alléluia !

I noticed since first time i played a vidéo this horrible change in colors and wondered if there was a way to change this behavior.

I don't understand why this is not an option.
[Nexus 7 General] Kilek_360:
Hi, i have seen a lot of complains about the washed screen after videos, but in my opinion its not important.

On my N7 the washed sensation only appears sometimes, and disappears after a few seconds if I stay without moving the screen, I use MX and I use to increase the brightness but when I return to launcher with auto brightness when it auto adjust the washed disappear, also if I open an app or I move the launcher screen the colors return to be normal inmediatly, the same if I turn off and on the screen, so I don't know what's the problem...

Also so many people complain about color saturation, I think it is OK, its not amoled so the colors look normal, exactly as a lot of IPS screens except apple IPS screens that looks so warm... Maybe there is a lot of people that thinks iPad/GalaxySIII look better, they should have configured the TV with the color at maximum...

Enviado desde mi Nexus 7 usando Tapatalk 2
[Nexus 7 General] basketor:
the point is that it's important WHEN watching the video
[Nexus 7 General] Kilek_360:
I tried to turn on/off when whatching videos and I didn't see differences, so if it saves battery why turn it off?

Enviado desde mi Nexus 7 usando Tapatalk 2
[Nexus 7 General] zdarovje:
I have the exact same problem on my ASUS Memo Pad HD7, but that is not even a Tegra device. See screenshots. Could it be fixed somehow?
[Nexus 7 General] Androidnow:
Yesterday I was watching avatar on the tab at 720p without an issue . Then switched to wolverine at 720p which started stutter. Changed to another video which is under 720p it also stutters and is quite irritating. Audio and video goes off sync. Sometimes no audio at all. What can be the issue. I am on stock rom. 4.4.2. Stock kernel

Playing Riptide GP2 absolutely fine. The problem is only with videos. Every thing is fine. I don't understand why avatar played fantastically smooth even after being the most demanding visually and rest just stutter. Unwatchable.
[Nexus 7 General] lefterisv:
any solution about asus memopad hd 7 ??
[Nexus 7 General] 19dragon98:
If there is a kernel with smartdimmer support, try to install.

And install also Trickstermod for set on/off smartdimmer.

Inviato dal mio Nexus 7 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Nexus 7 General] purlezz:
Change Screen Colour

Hey guys,

Is there any way i can manually change the screen color? Mine is a little yellowish and i would love to increase the blue tone manually through logs(idk)? Tried some app to increase the blue but it lags terribly :(

will appreciate if anyone can help!

Cheers, mates!
[Nexus 7 General] 19dragon98:
No you can't! Our display colours can't be change. I know is a bad news :)
[Nexus 7 General] purlezz:
Nooooooo that is a bad news :crying: .. anyway, thanks! :good:
[Nexus 7 General] mohammad2010:
NVidia Tegra PRISM Toggle work on android 5.1 ? :confused:
[Nexus 7 General] GedBlake:
Yes, it does... providing your Nexus 7 is rooted:).

Rgrds,

Ged.
[Nexus 7 General] mohammad2010:
you sure !? test this app on your device ?
[Nexus 7 General] mohammad2010:
today tested

NVidia Tegra PRISM Toggle work on 5.1.1 :o:o:o
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] randomzombie:
I'm posting this here as I figure it's more trafficked than the "Accessories" forum. Move it if you like.

First time poster here, though I've been observing for a couple weeks. Rooted and using a custom ICS ROM, and am grateful for everything here.

Now my question: as a new owner of the T-Mobile GT 10.1, I need a screen protector, and other topics weren't able to help me.

I want a screen protector that is like the one the tablet shipped with. Has a tab for pull-off. I pulled it off and regret ever since. I'm using this thing with TouchTune and Sketchbook, and the original protector was smoother and flowed with the stylus better than the three things I've tried since:

-Glass, no protector.

-T-Mobile brand (matte?) protector.

-cheap "amFilm" brand protector.

The glass by itself is not as smooth as I'd have hoped. I still have the original protector but since I've taken it off, the somewhat sticky underneath has accumulated debris. But it's a weird piece that works. Plastic and dense. And again, the smoothest thing that just literally flows with the stylus, like painting. Does anyone have their original shipped-in protector that knows what I'm referring to? Is it T-Mobile specific? Are there any protectors on the market like it?

Thanks for any help.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] randomzombie:
Wanted to add: is the pack-in protector vinyl, does anyone know? Just read somewhere about folks cutting their own sheet vinyl protectors that've been pretty smooth...
[HTC Rezound] Toddricks:
I have relocked and put recovery back to stock recovery (vigor gb) and can download ota but phone just powers down and boots to bootloader then nothing. What do I need to di. I am a newb please help me get proper recovery as I think that is the problem. I would like to go back to factory firmware and relocked
[HTC Rezound] Nopi45:
Read the problems thread in general. They have a lot of trouble shooting methods over there.
[HTC Rezound] proghouse:
Having the exact same problem. I had the phone rooted and had clockwork recovery. I relocked the phone and went back to stock recovery (using an img file posted here).

I can download the 299mb file just fine, but it reboots to fast boot every time. Thought a factory reset might help, but my phone now won't even do a factory reset. Again, it just boots to fast boot.
[HTC Rezound] proghouse:
I think I figured out the issue. I relocked before I used the all in one toolkit to flash to stock recovery. You need to be unlocked to flash stock recovery. So I had to restore the phone to an unlocked state, flash the stock recovery, and then relock it again. Now the update seems to be going through okay.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XanSteel:
Hi all.

I have installed CM9 RC2 from the CM website. And I've been having issues with the official FC09 modem.

Back story. My phone was stolen recently and I got a replacement. It already had the latest install of android from Sprint. So when I got it. I rooted and installed CM9 RC2. I didn't thing anything about the modem having issues.

However it takes 20 minutes to connect to 4G and then its unstable. If you have a secured wifi it won't connect it all. It will however connect just fine to any open network.

Anyone else having issues with the FC09 modem?

Thanks

Xan Steel
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] seonny:
Hey all,

A search yielded no answers, so here I am :)

Under settings in the display menu, there's no option for me to change the "screen mode" (e.g. dynamic, standard, etc). Is this something that's only on the international versions?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] blue265:
Yes I believe so. I had the i9300 for a bit before getting the i747. It was in display options but on this model we don't have screen mode. Not sure why. Possibly due to the snapdragon cpu and gpu
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] electech13:
Screen mode? What did it do exactly? Definitely not on this model. I'll have to check it out on my international model cuz I didn't notice it before!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] seonny:
From what I understand it changes the display setup (e.g. Colour saturation), take a look and report back!

Powered by Samsung Galaxy S3 via Tapatalk2
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] los0325:
I'm on jb if I want to flash back to stock do I need to flash stock kernel, or just flash the stock rom or nanodriod from back
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tyshemi:
Flash kernel then flash stock and then factory reset again and tour good
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] los0325:
Any stock kernel?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] blue265:
I'd just make a cwm backup of your stock rom. Then go back and fourth. Its what I do without any issues at all. I just have to clear my play store data as I have market problems after but that's it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] los0325:
Yes I have a back up so I don't need to flash a stock kernel or will the back up will do the job
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] blue265:
When you restore from the nandroid backup you'll get the kernel you had before. So you'll have the stock kernel again when you restore
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] los0325:
Yes sir it worked
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Moothead2:
I downgraded to .15 from .21 using wolfs method and then rooted my device but now I can't seem to update OTA, I just get the 'no updates available' message. I don't think an processes are frozen or anything. Any ideas?

Thanks.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] whycali:
download direct from asus and follow their instructions to install. That's what I had to do when I forgot to replace my modified build prop and asus locked me out from ota.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Moothead2:
Do you keep root that way? Only reason I downgraded was to get root back.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] whycali:
You do not, however there arel very easy root methods now that work no matter what. I used sparkys after the update.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Moothead2:
Can you do that without unlocking the device? If so, can you link please :).
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] SteveG12543:
Just use this tool and it'll root your tablet, even on the most recent release (.28). You don't need to be unlocked or anything. I ran it on the .28.5 beta build a while ago and it worked flawlessly.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Moothead2:
Thanks a lot :).

Edit - I've been a bit of an idiot. When I downgraded using Wolf's method I dowgraded to .15 WW edition on my US tab. I can't seem to update either OTA or manually with both WW and US edition of the .28 update. Anyone know if I can use Wolf's method to flash the .28 us update?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] qery:
I have gone WW -> US -> WW with this method all on .21 and I was still able to get .28 update, so it shouldn't be a problem.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Lock-N-Load:
so you can confirm modding the build.prop will stop OTA updates?

When you then pull the update manually, I assume it then replace the build.prop back to stock.

has anyone tried putting back the build.prop file and seeing if the OTA is then triggered.

I lost my OTA update ability and I never knew build.prop file edits was the reason until now... news to me
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] qery:
AFAIK (correct me if i'm wrong): If you have modded build.prop, you should see ota update, but when you try updating, it will fail. But if you rever changes in build.prop, it should be fine. Same goes if you modify/remove any of stock apps.

When yoh do full update (downloaded from asus website) it should be fine.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] whycali:
After I failed the first ota because I forgot to unmod the build.prop the ota never worked again. It had to be done manually.
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pator57:
Hi all i used ics ( aokp or miuiv4 or cm9 ) rom .What kernel should i used to oc the rom and enable fastboot option in aokp ?
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eventcom:
I hope you know what you're doing as you can't "overclock a ROM" but the cpu only :D

Regarding recommendations I can't help though as I don't know those roms.

Swyped from my HTC Wildfire (Buzz)
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NeXT1001:
I think, Sympfinity is good.

{V4}[AOSP] Beta Sympfinity [SIO-V/R-BFQ3 & SAVAGEDZEN-LAGFREE-SMARTASSV2]
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pator57:
Im french so i don't speak english very well.But yes when i was talking to oc it was for cpu.:D

I already try symp kernel but the wifi don't work after flash it.Did anyone have the nfinity kernel and can upload it? I never try it .Somebody say that the best kernel for ics but i don't found this kernel.
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Scratch0805:
Isn't the stock kernel that comes with cm9 arco's nfinity? Just reflash the rom to get the old kernel back, which is also overclockable.
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eventcom:
seems like the WIFI of ErwinP:'s ICS build works if I'm not mistaken (don't know what kernel it has, though)

nFinity: arco has put flashable zips into this post a while ago - don't know if it's most current version though: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1015532

There's also this one which you could try (seen it in many threads): http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=798471

hope it helps

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that's what I also thought initially - but just a noob here :D
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pator57:
Ha ok and the wifi work again i reflash stock rom.Don't know infinity was the stock kernel thanks :D
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] dreuzel:
i know about hepatic key settings in the cyanomod setup menu

i suffer from to sensitive hepatic keys and seem not to be able to make a real change...

what i want to do e ex is extend the delay for triggering a hepatic event to activate only after pressing more then 3 seconds

preferably for the whole device....

can anyone indicate the right parameters to change

Enthusiastic Gio User

Very glad with the work done

But sometimes a pusher for results( nothing bad intended)