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[Android Apps and Games] zagonico:
I have seen the review in the home page of XDA. Thank you very much! :)

It is a great honor for us (the coauthor of the App and me), we spent a lot of energy and time in doing this App and it is a great reward to be in the home page of the main Android forum. :cool:

In a few days, we are releasing version 2.1 with a new modality and improved performance, so that the App will be fast in large part of the devices, also at the first usage.

In the App we implement the check of the license, and it would not work if installed out of the Google Play. According to the feedback, we may disable the check and upload the apk in this page (but we need some time, we are developing and maintaining the App in our free time).

We are available for any other advice or give other information about the App. :good:
[Android Apps and Games] blueether:
Works well on a xperia Z-Ultra, very fast.

Congrats on the feature on XDA Portal.
[Android Apps and Games] soumaine:
on the lite version how do you target a whole gallery? it only letting me target on photo. and also the setting tab is not working
[Android Apps and Games] okty2k:
The idea of the app is great.

While I understand the effort of the devs to build it, I have a complain (not on the app itself, to be noted): I think that the double limitation on Lite version (number of photos to use AND watermark) is too much. Basically, any photo created with the Lite version will be unusable.... :)
[Android Apps and Games] soumaine:
I agree with you.. The Lite is useless! but the app seems great
[Android Apps and Games] zagonico:
The target is the image that will be used as base for the mosaic. You can select only one target at once.

You can select which Album of the Gallery to use as tesseras for the mosaic in the Select Album section (you can access it from the main screen). By default the whole Gallery is already selected.

What do you mean with "is not working"? In the lite version some option are disabled (the high and very high quality, and some parameters related to them), and you can choose the kind of thumbnails to use (I suggest you to use ZaBa thumbnails, they have less bugs that Android thumbnails) and the output directory (internal SD or external SD, if you have one).

Let me know if you solve your problems!

blueether: thank you for the feedback!!

In the lite version you can use from 50 to 600 DIFFERENT photos, which are quite a lot in a 33x33 tesseras resolution: you can expect to create the whole mosaic using only two or three times every picture.

I think that this is a sufficient number of photos to understand the potentialities of the App (note that all the color modes and the tessera modes are available in the lite version), unless you need an high quality mosaic.

In a few days, we are releasing the new version of the App, including a new modality to obtain 2 possible kind of mosaics with the Lite version (again with all color and tessera modes available), I hope this will improve the possibility of test the Lite App.

In any case, the Lite Version does NOT insert a WATERMARK in the mosaic (a watermark is a writing in the image, isn't it? or what do you mean with watermark?).

Thank you for the feedback!!
[Android Apps and Games] *Phi*:
great app, but the album select can better

nice app, tried a few samples and was pretty interesting.

I have a lot more images on my phone then what the album select is picking up.

and couldn't browse the folder structure to see the full path of the folder selected.

my external sdcard, is not recognised on my stock SGS4.
[Android Apps and Games] lll_ari_lll:
Works pretty fast in my N5, both mosaics. cool app

One problem I faced, that if I want to create more than one mosaics in a same go, it causes a filename conflict.
[Android Apps and Games] Anubhav Agrawal:
OP = orignal post/ orignal poster , depends how and where 'OP' is being used ..
[Android Apps and Games] zagonico:
Hi! Probably you see less albums in "Select Album" than those present in your phone, because of Android Gallery is somewhat messy and we already verified that sometimes it can happen. As we suggest in the FAQ section of our site (www.zabaapps.com/en/faq#10), it is possible to restore the Gallery with the following simple procedure:

Go in the Android menu Setting > Application > All, and click on Media Storage. Then click on Data clear and Cache clear. In this way the Android Gallery information will be cleaned and in the next device reboot (in a few minutes) it will be re-initialized correctly.

What do you mean with "my external sdcard is not recognised"? Albums present in the external SD are not shown in "Select Album"? Maybe this is due to the previous problem. Otherwise, can you please tell me the exact path of the external SD in your device?

In this case we are going to fix this issue in the next release.

Thank you very much for this information!

In some devices, when you create a mosaic and then you overwrite it with another one (same name), Android doesn't update immediately the thumbnail associate so you continue to see the previous preview. But if you open it you will see the second one created as you expect. Is this your problem?

We know this issue, and we are going to solve it in the next releases. I hope it's not blocking for you.. :)

Thank you for the feedback!
[Android Apps and Games] okty2k:
Yes, in my understanding a watermark was something 'on top' of the picture. I will try it out.

I think that this has a huge potential and it is something quite new (never heard of something similar). I was looking for something like this for some time. Probably I will end up buying it... :)

As a suggestion, maybe you can consider to allow the use of multiple albums. I have most of my pictures arranged in albums and it would be great to allow multiple albums.
[Android Apps and Games] zagonico:
There are no watermark... just try the free version and check it, if you don't believe me... ;)

You already can select multiple albums: just click "Select Album" in the main screen, and select the albums you want to use as tesseras in the "Select Album" screen.

I hope you'll enjoy it!
[Android Apps and Games] okty2k:
You convinced me. :)

So, 1.5euro from me... for the Pro version (that looks great, by the way)
[Android Apps and Games] eeyeemk:
Tried it.

And I love it

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] *Phi*:
hi,

clearing the media storage and the gallary storage works. just that it took a while to regenerate the thumbnails.

it is in the "advance settings" the external sdcard is not recornigzed for the location where the mosaics is to be saved

the path is /storage/extSdCard

it is a stock rom.

other then the path everything looks good. runs ok on my galaxy S4.

THANKS!!!

was looking for an app like this for a while.

will be getting the full version :)
[Android Apps and Games] zagonico:
Thank you everybody for the feedback, I'm very happy that you like it!!

*Phi*: we'll try to solve the problem with your external sd.. as far as we know, it's the first time it happens.. :/ I hope we'll solve it soon!

In these days we are releasing a new Complete version, easier to configure, and a Lite version where you can test all the features of the Complete one.

Thank you everybody again! Your suggestions have been very useful!
[Android Apps and Games] okty2k:
Is there somehow possible to limit the number of photos to be used.

I have around 1000 photos, and then I make the mosaic it seems a little bit unclear.I have tried and play with the settings, but did not succeed.
[Android Apps and Games] zagonico:
Hi! Yesterday we released the new version of ZaBa Photo Mosaic and ZaBa Photo Mosaic Lite.

I think this is good to solve your problem: the new versions have the "fast" modality (search it in "Advanced Setting") that uses only 300 photos, allowing repetitions near one to each other (the same picture can be used as tessera in near locations).

More in general, if the photos are in different Albums, you can select only some Album in the "Select Album" section, to limit the number of photos used.

If they are all in one album, the are two possible solutions:

The first consists in creating a new album in the Android Gallery, adding to it only a limited amount of photos and than you select only this new album in "Select Album" when you create a new mosaic.

The second solution is to change Advanced Setting in this way: Number of Thumbnails Repetitions: 50, Distance between repetitions: 1. This setting probably will limit the number of photos used, since allowing ah high repetition rate, a certain color will be rendered always with the more similar picture. The number of repetitions should be higher than 50, but with more than 1000 photos maybe it would become to memory consuming..

In any case, you are right, it could be useful a parameter to limit the number of photos used, thank you for the suggestion!!

I hope this answer will help you!

I also would like to add that the new Lite version can create the preview of mosaics in High and Very High quality, so that you can test them without having to buy the App!
[Android Apps and Games] okty2k:
I must say that you are providing one of the best support I have seen lately.

I will try your suggestion(s) one of these days and come back with feedback.
[Android Apps and Games] zagonico:
Hi,

we released the new version of ZaBa Photo Mosaic. Now the App has two modality: Photographic and Print, the first creates very high resolution mosaics with small tesseras, so that the mosaic occupies few memory and can be easily stored in the smartphone, while the second creates mosaics with tesseras with high resolution, thought to be printed.

I think that this new modality is a great improvement, in fact it reduces the time to create a mosaic and improves the quality.

Here some example of results that you can obtain:

I hope you'll like it.. :fingers-crossed:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rakshit.sherwoodian:
is there any way to get small icons on nexus 5 kitkat ?

i dont quite like the big icons :P
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tcat007:
Uses SS launcher or Nova.

Or you can use Power Toggles and put apps on the widget (icons end up small).
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chk27:
You can edit your build.prop to change the dpi of the device.

By default it comes with 480 dpi set (but the screen has an actual value of 445)

I've found that a 445 value will change a lot on the device, everything will be more defined and much smaller, unfortunately this will reflect everywhere, even in the browser where things will tend to be a bit smaller. 460 seems to be a good compromise.

The line you'll need to search for in the build.prop is ro.sf.lcd_density=480

You will need root and something like ES file explorer in order to mount the system as RW to be able to edit that row and save the changes.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] e_rene:
This worked perfectly fine! I did not like those giant icons!

I think 445 is the perfect value.

Thanks.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Apex Launcher, Nova Launcher or Icon Changer from Google Play
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aergern:
Yep. After seeing this thread I set mine to 445 and it looks/works just fine with all my apps. :)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] terminal 7:
smaller means bigger .... in terms of space !

I went full on for the small look with maximum real estate and tablet mode apps, set dpi to 240 and get 2 separate drop downs at the top and apps go dual pane like a bigger tablet , love this look so much more ..
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermonk:
Sorry guys for my noob question but where is build.prop located?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] netsyd:
/system
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] icrzymonkey:
How do I go about changing the build.prop

I open the file on the phone and use text editor but does not let me save the change.

Do you need to be rooted?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] netsyd:
Rooted = Yes.

I use the text editor that's built in to Root Explorer. I'm sure there's other ways/apps but I've been using root explorer for so long that I don't even think about other options anymore.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrro82:
Rom toolbox works very easily too.

Sent from the jaws of my Hammerhead!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reisa:
Dang. I tried this same setting, but it didn't give me the double drop-down.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drawde40599:
KitKat launcher in market ..
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] terminal 7:
build.prop

What app are you using or are you manually editing the build.prop

May be the xposed framework and app settings module may give you the result .

Or download an app called ROM toolbox and use the editor in thee app.

Good luck .
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ggoomani:
Great tips OP. For some reason, my edits made from using root explorer would not stick and revert back to 480, even after hitting "save"

Fortunately I read more advice on trying rom toolbox and it seemed to save the build prop edit to 445. I agree, it looks perfect and has the insanely sharp feel that the HTC One had.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] icrzymonkey:
Use ES file explorer, works
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oroesi:
I use Textdroider from market for DPI changing. It's simple and requires a restart ... voilà
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DigitalUnderground:
Before you edit the build.prop with root explorer... at the top of all of the files in /system, you will see a mount r/o and r/w... Click r/w then make the change. Save, exit, and reboot
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yogeshmha:
please donot attempt to do it manually using text editor. rather if you have rom tool box installed you get a better interface option to tweak the build prop. you can even keep the backups.

for me

460 makes a perfect gamble 4 x 6 looks decent and will keep.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DigitalUnderground:
Why not? Its just as easy using a text editor. You're changing 1 number and you don't need to install another app...
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] alexforgetmenot:
I may be wrong, but it seems to me that battery goes down qute fast in opened state (when display turned up as normal pda)...

THX
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] heliosfa:
well, yes, the backlight chews battery, just like on a laptop. Turn down the brighness a bit (i use on the 2nd notch) and you will get more battery life.

Also, you do not have to have it "on" all the time to receive calls etc. as it will bring itself out of standby when a call cfomes in.

Remeber, PDAs do not have a massive batterry life, and with "normal" use, you ca expect the exec to be at around 50% battery after a days "average" use (a couple of hrs wed surfing, 30 mins calls phone on all day)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MORSTE1:
Hi,

I've finally got my phone back to stock ready to return it for repair, i used guru reset stock rom but ive noticed some of the stock apps are missing i.e torch and calculator is there a way to get these back on my phone now that im completely back to stock??

Thanks.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] n1234d:
Copy them from any rom that you've downloaded in the past. System/app/
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MORSTE1:
cheers mate ive tried copying them from another rom and placing them in that folder using es explorer but i get an error about it been read only?
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] kellrobinson:
In the title of this post I quoted the error message my 2013 N7 gives when I boot it up. It is acting seriously messed up and I' ve been trying for days to fix it. It won't download updates or anything, and the Play Store won' t open. I found some threads here by people with similar problems, and I would like to try the suggested solutions but for some reason my tablet's menus don't offer the actions I need to do, like enable downloads or reset app preferences. I've looked everywhere and tried everything.

At androidcentral they had me wipe the cache partition, and I was pretty sure that wouldn't help but I did it anyway. I've lost many hours to this, posting in various forums and trying everything I can think to do, and every avenue is closed to me. Please advise.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] z0phi3l:
Have you tried a factory reset?
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] kamalaggi:
If you mean "com.google.process.gapps" then you need to reinstall/update Google Play Services from the play store.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] kellrobinson:
Google Play services

The play store won't open. I can try to uninstall/reinstall Play Services if there's some other way.

On my device, when I go to settings -- apps -- Google Play Services, there are buttons for force stop, uninstall updates, disable, clear data, and c!ear cache. I don't see one for uninstall.

Trying just to update the app won't work, attempts to update anything always abort.

If you'll please suggest a course of action, I'll try it and get back to you. Thanks for your help.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DrAzzy:
On my old Note, when looking at battery usage (and on my nexus 7), "Screen" was always the top listed user of battery life, and below that were apps that i'd been using.

This couldn't be farther from reality on my note 3, however!

Right now:

47% - not charging. 1d 12h 8m 15s on battery

Google Play Services - 59%

Android OS - 9%

Cell Standby 7%

Screen 7%

Granted, I am not using the phone very heavily (obviously), and I have no complaints about the battery usage (I've been skipping nights of charging because-I-can with this, which I could never do before). I just don't understand why it's showing so much battery usage as being due to Google Play Services...

Is this:

a) A problem with my phone that could be remedied (how?), resulting in even more ridiculously long battery life

b) The battery usage numbers are bull****, at least for low overall usage.

c) Normal - Samsung's engineers are miracle workers and managed to make a very efficient screen

d) Normal - Google Play Services is a huge battery hog in general.

If it's d), can anything be done to rein it in? The potential battery life without that drain is so tempting!

Using Rooted AT&T note 3 on MI9 with all non-disabled apps fully updated.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] babyshanks:
A. go to settings, connections, location services, either turn it off or turn it off and on again but disagree with the google pop-up. Google is constantly waking your phone up to log your location to "better your experience/better ads"
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DrAzzy:
So it's the "Use Wireless Networks" option under location services, then? That one can't be checked off without agreeing to the popup. Let's see if that improves anything.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] babyshanks:
yup, and so disagree and leave unchecked. Had the same problem myself (pic below), this did the trick.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DrAzzy:
Is that a Note 3?

I ask because, well, you've been on battery about the same length of time as I had, with no obvious offending apps shown in battery usage, yet had 28% battery left vs 47% on mine...
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] babyshanks:
ya haha, just used it slightly more than you- more awake time with screen on.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DrAzzy:
Okay, this has yielded improvements.

But now Swype+Dragon is listed as taking 53% of battery usage! How?!

Though I'm down to ~1% per hr drain, maybe I shouldn't complain.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mad383Max:
53% of how much time? 1 to 3 hours, no worries. Up to 6 or 7 hours up time probably an issue. More and definitely a problem. It is a matter of perspective. 50% of an hour is 30 minutes while 50% of 10 hours is 5 hours. It is hard to tell if there is a problem with these high percentages if they are based on short total time.

Sorry if that is long winded, but hope you get what I am trying to say.

1%/hour is not bad if there is some use time on it. If it was during down time, still not bad but shoot for .5 to .8.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DrAzzy:
I get exactly what you saying.

1 day 10 hrs uptime, 53% on Swype + Dragon (well, 49 now, after doing some battery hungry stuff). Tapping that entry shows:

CPU total: 3h 3m 49s

Stay awake: 1d 4h 47m 28s

Data sent: 38.1 kb

Data received: 42.83 kb
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mad383Max:
1 day 10 hours is not bad but with only 3 hour and x minutes of screen time, I think you have an issue. I get between 1 day and 15 to 17 hours with 5.5 to 6.5 hours screen time. (edit:There are days I get worse and some days better. Depends on where I am at and what I am doing) Usually with 2 to 3 hours of music. Of course a lot of variables contribute to the difference between our results.

Try doing a battery pull and then keep track of a full charge cycle and see what happens.

Edit 2: just reread your post and saw that swype/dragon shows awake for 1 day 4 hours. Have you tried a different keyboard to see what happens? Is Dragon the speech to text program?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DrAzzy:
Yeah, for some reason swype now comes bundled with some speech recognition feature I never use.

The problem with a different keyboard is that I am practically paralyzed on my phone without swype :P I don't know how I used a phone without it. I'd have to set this up for a test when I'm not going to be using the phone much.

It's bad enough to be talking to my phone when i'm making a call, I don't want to be talking to myself when i'm not making a call. I think everyone looks crazy when they're on hands-free barking orders to their phone - where I live, you see a lot of people talking on hands free, but you also see a lot of crazy bums talking to themselves, and you can't tell them apart if they have a hat on, cause it hides the headset, except by judging how expensive their clothes are - and even then, hipster and homeless look pretty similar....
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LuckyColdJohnson:
I'm sorry but rooting to me messes this phone up.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mad383Max:
Rooted 1st day a method was available and have seen nothing to make me regret it. Same battery life. Same speed. No issues so far.

I think your first device was defective like you had stated in one of your posts. How is your new one holding up?

---------- Post added at 05:50 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:49 PM ----------

Sorry, thought I had quoted lucky.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DrAzzy:
I disabled some of the permissions (location, read contacts, post notification) from Swype in AppOps.

I don't know if this was what fixed the issue, or whether Swype wound up in a "wakelock" through some one-time event.

Now, I'm seeing the screen at the top of battery usage, like it's supposed to be. Can't yet quantify the improvement in battery life, as I was using the phone more heavily the past 2 days since I charged it.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rippley05:
This phone is psycho. I thought my battery drain was fixed..but nope. Android OS is again killing it. My phone won't sleep. Better battery stats and wakelock detector doesn't tell me why. .in 11 hours my phone has been awake like 6 hours..While being in my pocket.

sEnt from thE noTe 3
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] butchieboy:
I read in another post to install GPS Status&Toolbox from playstore. I installed pressed menu button on phone ticked settings..then back arrow..ticked menue again then tools and it took care of the problem. Have no idea why but battery is back ontop:confused:

---------- Post added at 03:32 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:31 PM ----------

Sorry meant screen use is back at top of list.
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theorioles33:
Nonsense!

The person using the phone however can really screw it up. :)
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] butchieboy:
Hey it worked im very serious