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[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] minimac:
Hi,

My request will surprise many of you, but here is what I want. I am a developer of Flash based programs and I live a nightmare with all those VGA devices out there.

As they have to deal with 4 times the amount of pixels as their QVGA friends, they generally perform much slower in graphics.

While this is ok for office programs and other phone tools, they are totally unusable with Flash Graphics.

With my Toshiba e800, using SE_VGA, I managed to get back to true QVGA mode. This has brought back the graphic performance of the device.

SE_VGA won't work on WM5 (it could not even reverse back to QVGA on the e830 under WM2003SE), but can OZVGA do that ?

If not, does someone know how to hack the system, so it can work that way.

Many thanks for your help.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] minimac:
Sorry, I forgot to explain the "real QVGA mode".

Right now, the VGA devices like the Universal show a QVGA screen. They only use the VGA mode for smaller fonts and a few other things.

This screen mode is neither a real VGA nor a real QVGA. It is actually set as VGA in the OS, but it makes sure all the interface reamains as visible as in a QVGA mode.

Now, most of you want to access the Real VGA mode as it displays more stuff, but I want the RealQVGA mode for the reasons I explained above.

The reason why those devises are so slow, is that the OS must quadruple each pixels as it displays content. This is an enormous task and there no chance that it could achieve acceptable Flash animations this way.

So I am looking for a great hacker that could do this.

Thanks
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] vijay555:
minimac: although the devices are slow, I don't think it's just pixel doubling that's the cause. I'm sure it's more memory issues then screen interface - my alpha app VJSihaya uses quite a lot of relatively extreme video processing compared to normal use of GWES, but it works at a perfectly good speed.

However, I agree with you, a non pixel doubled display would be faster for you, cutting out the extra processing. However, isn't that the problem? The Universal's VGA screen is 640x480, so the hardware wants to show 640x480. If you want QVGA, the info must either be quadrupled, or just sit in 1/4 of the screen.

I think options may be either playing with the DPI settings as was hacked with OZVGA etc, to force a qvga resolution, or alternatively write a hacked display driver to provide native QVGA (equivalent to Nydiot's software). But as I said, I think that will just force the display to sit in one corner of the 640x480 screen.

V
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] minimac:
Thanks Vijay for this answer.

This is not reassuring. I am going to try different things. I just wish this was set into the display settings, letting the users decide what they want:

- Real VGA,

- Real QVGA

- or Improved QVGA as it is now.

I mean the universal performs 225 at the benchmarks graphics index where we have seen devices reach 4500 points.

This is just too slow.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] vijay555:
Very true. But as I said, VJSihaya windows move around with almost no lag or screendraw issues, (they're slightly slower on the Magician, but the processor is also slower I guess). So I think the graphics processor isn't bad, but certainly not great. I'd kill for an Axim 51v with a phone built in. I was >this< close to going for the Axim and sidestepping the HTCs altogether. No XDA Devs for me then, eh?

I wonder if running flash in a VJSihaya window at QVGA size would improve matters for you... that way, you get the benefits of VGA - ie big screen, plus your flash running at QVGA size. However, I don't know whether the flash issue is crippled by the pixel doubling or the infrastructure of the Universal. But if the flash app is well written to resize appropriately, it'll run lovely jubbly in VJSihaya. What flash app are you running? PM me some links and a demo flash and I'll test it out if you want.

V
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] minimac:
Funy VJ, that you mention the X51v, because I got hold of one once and tried Flash Apps with Videos on them. It turned out that despite its graphic chip, the X51v was very slow. Barelly usable, in fact. This was confirmed by the graphic benchmarks from PPC review sites.

I have a very basic Flash Movie that I run on devices to compare their performances.

http://brunorousseau.free.fr/bench.zip

Right-click "Save Target as"

Eventhough it is not very sofisticated, it is a real life test.

So, this is a rather large video file of exactly 2 minutes and 3 secondes. I made it, so Flash is obliged to play every single frame of the movie without skipping any and obviously, this takes more time on certain systems than others. So here are a few benches.

- 2 min 12 secs on a 3GHZ intel P4 PC

- 3 min 08 secs On a 520MHZ HP H2490 with WM5

- 3 min 26 secs on a 624MHZ AXIM X30 with WM2003SE

- 4 min 24 secs on a 416MHZ AXIM X51 with WM5

As you can see, the HP is working really well compared to the Axim X30, eventhough the AXIM has a 624MHZ processor and uses WM2003SE which is supposed to be faster than WM5.

I would be very interested to know the benchmark on the Universal without VJSIHAYA and then with it.

Thanks VJ
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] vijay555:
minimac: send me the flash over, and a link to, or the flashplayer used, and I'll give it a go in VJSihaya. Does screen size make a difference you think?

Yup, 51v is a beauty internally, but obviously there are only about 3 apps that use the hardware acceleration. But those three, wow. Made my mouth water to see them. Reminds me of kkrieger.

V
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] minimac:
Hi VJ,

Either you live in New Zealand, or you are working late like me.

I changed the link, so now it works.

Try it again.

The app contains the Flash Player installer, so just follow the steps.

I'm dying to know how well it performs.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] minimac:
I am going to bed now.

Today was a 16 hours working day.

Time to get some sleep.

I'll see your post tomorrow

Thank you again VJ
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] vijay555:
I'm a very very late sleeper. Only way I can get any programming done!

Installing now.

V
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Melty:
Same here vijay. Although I'm falling asleep at my desk right now...
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] vijay555:
minimac: interesting results. I didn't use all of VJSihaya, just a simple non skinned VJSihaya to capture the benchmarker. I hope I did this right, but using a 320x240 window, I got 2mins 30 seconds on a landscape normal clocked Universal. It runs very smoothly the smaller you resize obviously, and at fullscreen it's horrible! But 320x240, seemed ok...

V

PS time for bed for everyone, surely!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] minimac:
4h45 in the morning and still univers...ing !

Thank you Vijay for your time. I am really impressed.

Now, 2'30" is an impressive achievment. I need to get hold of this VJSihaya software and get a Universal ASAP.

How do I get your software VJ ?

Question: When you mention "using a 320x240 window", does this means that the actual movie was showing up in 1/4 of the screen (VGA mode), or you managed to make it run on a full screen at 320x240 (QVGA) ?

How did it perform without VJSihaya ?

If there is no way to play it full screen at normal speed, would you be able to alter the driver Vijay ?

I tried before to change the registry values of the screen on a HP Hx4700, but it wouldn't work. I am not a real programmer, so I did not want to investigate further, but this whole performance issue is really getting me frustrated as I cannot take full advantage of these new devices.

Really, we need to make something that works.

Thank you again Vijay for your time to answer my questions.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] vijay555:
Minimac, without VJSihaya, the flash player obviously tries to fill the whole screen, and is hideous, you can see every frame render. This took 6mins 30 seconds!

Obviously as you know, the Uni is VGA, so when I'm playing it at VGA, as you can see in the screenshot, it's taking up one quarter of the screen. As I said, you can actively resize the player with VJSihaya, so I can choose any screen size. As I go smaller, it plays smoother.

I have just retested it, because I was worried that perhaps I'd gone digitally dyslexic and miscounted, but 2 mins 32 seconds on second go. It's worth noting this is without being on power, since I believe that the Uni only runs at it's full speed when on power or overclocked.

VJSihaya is unforunately unreleased, and is likely to stay that way for quite a while due to the development still to go into it. Remember, VJSihaya is basically a hack I'm making to re-implement windows into the OS, to drag windows around, resize them etc. This isn't at a driver level!

However, you could make a new screen driver if you wish, but I think, as discussed above, that displaying QVGA on a VGA screen will always either require pixel doubling or running in a quarter (VGA) screen. I believe that VJSihaya and related techniques are only likely to be a convenient hack, rather than a solution, since you will be running your flash in a quarter screen (as in the screenshot!). However, if this is what you need, i can probably knock together a stand alone hack to achieve this (giving you selectable sizes for the flash player).

I would imagine that the flash player already provides some capability to specify playback size? If not, I'm sure you can knock together a few lines of html to play the flash in a webpage, and you can of course specify the player's size there. This may be the most convenient solution, although obviously there you're carrying the overhead of a browser as well.

Unfortunately I'm not a real programmer either, so developing a driver etc is not really my field. But as I said above, I think running QVGA on VGA hardware is always going to either require pixel doubling, or running at a quarter of the screen, as in my screenshot. I'm not in a position to test benchmark on the Uni at QVGA, since I don't like switching between VGA <> QVGA, because it's so hard to get the VGA hack right in the first place!

Can someone else please play the benchmark app at QVGA, on a landscape non charging Uni?

Minimac - why do you want a Uni if you know that the VGA/QVGA implementation is slow?

What exactly did you do to your Toshiba to get back true QVGA? That would be interesting to see, and might be a good solution if we can get it to work on WM5.

V
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] minimac:
I want a universal because it is gorgeous, and because it is very business orientated.

It also has a 3.6" screen, slightly larger than the 3.5" screens you find anywhere else.

When you say "standalone" hack, does this means that by pressing an .exe icon in the program menu under the factory QVGA mode, I could start VJSihaya and run my Flash App resized into 640x480, so it would actually be transparent to the user who would beleive this is a full screen app ? But then, running at 640x480, like you said, I would get back to slow motion mode.

Please let me know because I'm interested in a hack that could play my Flash Apps at normal speed in full screen.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] vijay555:
minimac: Hmm, that's the big problem of course.

No, I don't know how you're going to play fullscreen at 640x480 smoothly. It's terrible right now. Has anyone else benchmarked at QVGA yet?

You might want to write to Nydiot and a couple of others. On Wm2003 they had software to change resolution on the fly. I don't know if they're updating to Wm5, but it'd be useful to you.

PM or post about what you did to your Tosh to get QVGA and we'll see why it's not possible for WM5.

Re Uni - have you seen the new Acer? Man, I'd sell my body to get one of those. I'd have to sell it many times I'd imagine.

V
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] minimac:
Well, the story on the e800 is really specific. This was the first ever PPC to sport a VGA screen. At the time (WM2003), the OS did not support such resolutions, so Toshiba developped an application that made the switch. Unfortunetely, you found yourself with more or less 2 Pocket PC in one as the VGA mode did not actually display your today screen and preferences as they were in QVGA. However, when you reversed back to QVGA, you got a normal PPC. Not the fastest, but good enough.

So then came SE_VGA. This was an app that let you switch very easilly (just a soft reset at each switch) between the 3 modes (VGA, QVGA and FalseQVGA).

Finally came WM2003SE that supported the VGA screens. Toshiba released its e830, a PXA270 520MHZ device with the same FalseQVGA/FalseVGA crap mode from Microsoft used in all the other new VGA devices.

To make matters worst, SE_VGA does not allow on these devices the "reverse back to real QVGA" mode it had in the previous OS.

As for the new Acer, I agree, it is gorgeous, but for me, the same problem remains.

So I am stuck.

Who is Nydiot ?

Do you think I should start a new post on "Could someone get me a hack to reverse to real QVGA ?"

Thanks Vijay again
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] vijay555:
Sorry, I never get their name correct:

http://www.nyditot.com/NVDPage.asp

You can try posting again, or hopefully anyone reading this thread will follow, yes, you need to get proper QVGA back.

You might find it useful to read this article:

http://pocketpcmag.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=18237

I'll keep experimenting.

V
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] vijay555:
minimac: I've had a thought. You might want to investigate the hires_aware hack. Not sure if it will have any effect, but it might.

V
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] minimac:
What is that ?
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] minimac:
I have read your article Vijay and it is indeed very interesting.

I will get my hands on one of these universals and try it out.

I have tried myself on a Hx4700 to alter the registry values of the display, but I just found out, thanks to this article, that this is not enough.

You also need to twick a few other things.

For now, I will have to wait to get my hands on a universal and dive into its roots to find a solution to my problem ad post it in here for someone to benefit from it.

We will see.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] vijay555:
minimac: the hires_aware hack is basically a way to convince the system that you want pixel doubling, or not.

Your benchmark app - is it a CF app? Looks like it.

You want to check your resources in there, there might be one called Hires_Aware.

Try enabling or disabling this as appropriate to see if it makes any difference. I can't do it from my side, it won't let me resource hack your executables.

V

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnppcgen/html/dpi_awareness.asp

http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2005/12/15/DpiHelper.aspx
[General Questions and Answers] sonu patel:
HAY HI I HAVE BUT galxy grand GT-I9082 CHINESE keeps saying not registered on network when I try to phone also a no entry sign where the signal bars should be keeps randomly appearing any suggestion what can i doo so i can call through my phone
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] armyms25:
I'm just wondering if anyone knows. I got the note 3 on the next program, I love the note 3 it's a beast. Let's say another awesome phone comes out before my year upgrade. Can I sell my note and get that phone? or do I have to give them the note back after my year is up?
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] D150shorty:
You have to have a trade in..and I'm pretty sure it has to be the phone obtained via the Next program
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redrover69:
You only have to trade it in if you havent made all the installment payments.

Once you made all 20 payments its yours to keep

You could do 1 lump sum payment and pay it off. Then its yours to keep!
[AT&T Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] armyms25:
Thanks a lot. I was hoping it wouldn't be that. So I have to keep his for the whole year or pay a lump sum. That sucks lol
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MxZeal:
Hey so about 2 months ago i rooted my device and got the franco kernel with stock rom (got it because i heard it was best for battery)

and im getting freezes that are worst then I've ever had on a plain device i have about 80% space left over all i do is watch youtube videos and once in a while check the web while im pooping or in bed only running twitter widget everyday i use clean master to clean up left over crap i have currents disabled and a lot of other useless junk not on my device but yet im still getting these freezes?

should i remove franco or could it be something else?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GedBlake:
Hi, MxZeal...

Well, you've sort of answered your own question really... you've eliminated everything except franco. So it probably is franco. Whilst it is undeniably good for battery life, it also has problems (in my experience)... and is notorious for causing problems with things like YouTube. When it works, it's brilliant... but when it doesn't, it's a damn nuisance!:(.

Custom ROMs and Kernels are always going to be a bit flaky because the devs. behind them don't have the resources to fully test them in the same way that Google have. And even they screw up from time to time - and they have millions of dollars and a whole army of testers at their disposal !!

The current version of franco is r75, and it hasn't been updated since August, however

this post

suggests an update might be due sometime soon... but you know what unfounded rumours are like... take 'em with a pinch of salt, until they happen. (I'm still waiting for Key Lime Pie!:)).

It's also worth bearing in mind that the first gen. Nexus 7 is now nearly 18 months old, which makes it a bit of an antique... and developers like franco are going to be naturally moving their developer skills onto newer and shinier devices.

In the meantime, if you want stability on your Nexus 7, revert back to stock kernel... if only as a matter of elimination. If your problems persist after doing so, then it's clearly something else.

Rgrds,

Ged.
[HTC One X] Night Shadow:
Hello guys, new here. i have a problem with my htc one x music playback. what happens is while playing music for around a minute or so it changes its sound, it kinda lowers down and the sound is not as clear as on startup. kinda like beats audio disables it self, which it doesnt as the logo is still there,...... this is only on earphones, speaker phone playback is ok. Id really like some help on this as its plain as hell annoying. Thanx a bunch already.

Im on ViperX 4.06
[HTC EVO 3D] Radi0star:
Hello forum!

I have a no career (aka unlocked) GSM EVO 3D. I'd like to know what is the latest Android version with native 3d capture (photo and video) and 3d playback (pictures and video).

Custom or official does not matter, as long as there is full 3d support.
[HTC EVO 3D] donkeykong1:
Sense 4.1 (YAS4) but it's not bugless. If you want bugfree go with pretty much any sense 3.6 or sense based MIUI
[HTC EVO 3D] 2be3_80:
Take a look at this :D

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1671369

and this

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1679394

There are both bugs free and sopport full 3D..
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mderksen:
Hi,

I installed a while ago 4.3 GE (rooted) for OTA updates. Everything seemed fine. Today i got the 4.4 OTA update so OTA does work. I rebooted the phone so it could install. The installation stopped after a while and gives the error: no command. After 30 seconds it reboots and gives this error again. Over and over again :(

I did not make a backup of my data on the phone. The default recovery mode is not available, this also gives the no command error. Fastboot does work.

I'm S-OFF and LOCKED.

What to do?

Someone got this working with Nexus 7 2012. But i need the OTA 4.4 file and ADB sideload needs to work...
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SaHiLzZ:
Are you able to unlock bootloader using fastboot oem unlock ?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mderksen:
Yes, i used the unlockcode. Created a new one via htcdev. Bootloader is now unlocked. Try to reflash 4.3 recovery, flash is ok but still can't start recovery. I wanted to try to start normal recovery and use adb sideload to transfer files from sd to pc. Also tried to flash twrp and CWM but found no solution to transfer my files?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SaHiLzZ:
Try fastboot boot customrecovery.img

Also once you are in recovery, your device will show up under adb devices. Then you can adb push yourromname.zip /data/media/
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mderksen:
Which customrecovery? Can i also transfer my data (pictures?) from sd to pc?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SaHiLzZ:
Use CWM if you wish.. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2173863

You have to use adb pull /data/media/DCIM/ if your pics are stored in DCIM folder.

This is DEPENDENT on your phone connecting and responding to ADB..
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mderksen:
OK thank you, i will try this tomorrow. I also found how to enable USB debugging through CWM . I think i will need that too.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SaHiLzZ:
I wouldn't do that. I have no idea what will it do to your phone. If you are not sure of ADB commands you can get in a bind. Unless you are doing a crash course on ADB&Fastboot tonight?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mderksen:
Ok, i only will try to do that when ADB not works. I think ADB only works when USB debugging is enabled in Android. But i can't start Android.

What do i have to start in CWM to use ADB?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bluestar23:
Same trouble here? Have you figured it out yet?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mderksen:
ADB was working, but i could not get my files off the phone. Tried to transfer files with ADB but it could not find the directories. So i gave up and i just flashed the 4.4 (non-root) RUU. The phone is working now but i lost my files :(
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bluestar23:
You are lucky. I relocked it... So as of now, I cannot even flash TWRP for any rom...
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shurahbil:
Paste your getvar all
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] drsn0w:
Hey XDA!

My replacement S3 is coming in tomorrow, probably gonna come with the 4.3 update...with KNOX...

So i have two questions:

1. What's new in the 4.3 TouchWiz compared with 4.1, etc?

2. If it does indeed come with the 4.3 update with KNOX, what does that mean for me and flashing CyanogenMod and other custom ROMs?

Thanks and happy Thanksgiving!

drsn0w
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bigpappags3:
I'll let another answer the question on features as it wasn't anything notice to me when I checked it out. I would go here....

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2541343 ...As Cnexus has put together great info on knoxious! Any questions after that you should search that thread and ask there to get some faster help.

http://i.imgur.com/qrByUGN.jpg
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] prboy1969:
It may not come with 4.3 . My friend received his refurbished S3 yesterday. It came with 4.1.2 . So there is some chance it may not.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] drsn0w:
Alright, hopefully that is the case. UPS delivers in about 2 hours to my area usually so i have 2 hours to return my old one to stock and get it packaged :D
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] slyest12:
I'm currently running SuperBlue and I really like the ROM. I've tested it feels like all of the 5.0 most of the 5.5 ROMs and have decided on the one for now.

Does anyone have a flashable long-press back kill mod or a functional Exchange Bypass security mod? I've tried using Xposed and not had any luck with it.

I'm posting here because I've been a long time lurker but never post- no permission for the dev forums. Thanks in advance.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] BFirebird101:
I have the stock 4.3 launcher (on Cleanrom 2.1), and sometimes the launcher will redraw. It's almost 2014. Can this please stop? It ruins the experience.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] aresbv2000:
Use "App Settings" xposed module.It has the option "resident" wich will keep your desired app in memory.