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[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orbital247:
Great work, what about using a different launcher that is designed for 1920x1080 screens once you resize (i use Action Launcher for example but Apex or Nova perhaps)?. Maybe this will get around the UI issue ?
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] luigi311:
Using a 3rd party launcher should work since they support a lot more dpi but u should check the settings menu if that's all messed up then it will stay like that
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gee2012:
Just get a G2 (wich is still a great phone btw), problem solved ;)
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snowsire:
its a great screen, nova launcher works great imho
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Skin1980:
Up... Someone else can try too?
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] suljo94:
download xposed and the module appsetings and change lg home dpi to 300~400 try it like that
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ekbuz:
I know it's not necessarily ideal, but what about running 720p? Makes the math really easy since it'd be 1/4 the res. I'm pretty sure if they offered a G3 with a 720p display that got 50% more battery life, I'd take it. Winning spec's wars are great, but their comes a point where it's not worth it.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DominicRead:
Any more updates with this? I'll be getting my G3 later - need to do a ton of homework before I start testing properly though. Finally made the switch from Jailbroken iPhone's you see.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ponde:
I have had some time to test my G3 for battery life and I am not impressed. The battery holds OK, but I would be very happy to squeeze more juice out of it. Since there is no much need for the 2K screen I would be interested to change the res to 1080p or even 720p IF it would help with the batterylife. Is somebody testing this?
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] suljo94:
I get 6h of screen on with 24h of total on battery time with brightness on Auto 50% also 2K screen is wrong because that would mean the resolution is atleast 2000 horizontaly while it is just 1440 and it might give you a slight inprovement but it would be less then you would expect bacause the gpu would just slightly less used and the screen is the powerdrainer and it wil still have the same amount of pixels to light up
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lostatsea23:
It's 2.5k technically. 2k is correct.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Enddo:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2K_resolution

you should do some research before you make yourself look like a fool. 2560 x 1440 pixel resolution falls in line with 2K resolution on wiki
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] suljo94:
ups I misread (it was 3 am here I read 2k p resolution which means 2000p resolution and that would make my comment correct but sorry for the inconviniece
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 613BulletProof:
so is there a confirmed app that lets you successfully downgrade the resolution to 1080p with root? I would hope for better battery life and improvement in performance.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NexusWarrior:
There is no way to actually lower the resolution. DPI in Android is just software scaling. It skews the images to look as if they are in a different resolution but you are still using the same pixel density.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Batfink33:
There is, it's called nomone in the Play store. It changes resolution not DPI.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] luigi311:
Changing resolution is a no go guys. It messes up all the scaling completely I just did it on my HTC one m7 and changed it to 900x1600 and my home screen was destroyed and the apps in the drawers were all messed up. Only way I see around that would be to change the DPI to compensate but then I think it will be counter productive. I used xscaler an app developed by our fellow xdaer used for the 1st gen nexus 7
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mrkqql143:
I just used the NoMone Resolution Changer og my G3 and set the resolution to 1080X1920 (Width X Height) with the DPI of 469.

All the LG apps stopped working (obviously). I have replaced most of them from the Google Play Store.. such a new dialer, calendar, calculator, clock, etc..

The only issue I'm seeing is that I can't seem to replace the contacts application. Every time I go to add a new contact, the contacts app crashes.

Other than that, I have to say that my battery life is better than it was with the 4K resolution and the phone seems a bit more quicker.

If anyone has resolved the contacts issue please let me know.

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Oh, and I'm using Nova launcher. Scales perfectly.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] socalwrxx:
Sounds pretty promising with the phone just being released and all. I see a 1080 custom rom in the future ;)
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adrian_nene16:
If you have root then you can install xposed and install appsettings and change the dpi of every lg app to 640 i think it ill work
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mrkqql143:
Didn't think of that. Great Idea! I'll give it a try. Thank you.

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Just tried. It didn't work :(
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adrian_nene16:
mm weird.. i don't remember where i read that using appsettings and changing the dpi to 640 will make those apps work again.. maybe it was 530 i dont remember sorry about that, i'll try to find where i saw it, are you still running 1080p? if so, do you see any impact on performance or battery life?
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Skin1980:
With appsettings set all lg apps to 530 DPI and they will work... I tried and were ok

Edit: also text scaling to 75
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] partylikeaninjastar:
Couldn't you just use that app to change the resolution to 1080p AND the DPI to 530, rather than changing a handful of apps separately via app settings?

And are you noticing any improvements running at 1080p or any quirks?
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mrkqql143:
I thought that if you change the resolution and the DPI for an app, that app has to support that resolution and DPI. If it doesn't then it won't work. Most LG apps are only build to support the native resolution/DPI of G3.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lossah:
So. Is it a real performance boost to set to 1080p? If not, why not? :0 I dont really care about game performance. Mostly UI/Chrome lag.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] navlem:
To those who changed their resolution but wants to use their LG apps.

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[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _Infamous_:
Does this really help with anything. Batter and performance
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SomeGuyDude:
It shouldn't. It won't help with battery because a DPI change won't stop those pixels from firing, it'll just scale differently. And unless you're playing GPU intensive games it won't mean a damn thing to the device's performance.

Try it on your laptop. Change the resolution. Won't do anything of that sort.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stunt_101:
Thank God I wasn't the only one that was thinking this.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jal3223:
I just played around with 1080p and I gotta say that it is muuuuch smoother and fluent. It would be great to have a custom Rom that could switch between the two settings (altering the DPI of the apps as necessary). It would be the best of both worlds when wanting to do some gaming or heavy tasks.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Knucklessg1:
530 is the lowest DPI you can go before breaking Apps.

Also, what do you have running on your phone? Mine is as fast as my Nexus 5 both on ART.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Harrison_K:
While the physical screen will consume the same ammount of power (the number of pixels utilized will not change) the power required to process the lower resolution should result in less consumption across the board (less memory use, less processing power, less battery consumption).
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Batfink33:
Correct.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wavrunrx:
Correct.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Koroz:
Been running 1920x1080 @ 530 dpi without changing any app settings in nomone. So far the LG apps Ive used work without changing anything else on a per app basis.

Only apps I can't get to work so far that I have installed are Naxos Flat UI for Zooper and the lock screen wallpaper will always be zoomed in regardless of how I change it. I have not tried to use any app to change Naxos/zooper by hand though.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dr Forinor:
And have you noticed a difference in battery?
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Koroz:
Yes, with a caveat, I think there is more to it then just the resolution though as my sprint g3 "seems" to have had around twice the battery life as Verizon version sitting right next to it. (Honestly it's anecdotal evidence at this point since I sent the sprint g3 back because of sprint having unreliable service in my area)

I am running more tweaks obviously on the Verizon version as it's rooted an and my sprint version wasnt.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChrisM75:
It seems a lot of people have this all wrong. Reducing the resolution will not save you battery power. Nothing except 3D games are using even a fraction of the power of the GPU, indeed even a really old GPU will happily push the pixels around at QHD on a 2D accelerated interface using hardly any power at all.

It works just like a PC GPU, it wont throttle up unless the 3D hardware is needed, even a really old and low end GPU will happily let you use 2 full HD displays on a PC without even getting warm, its the same deal here.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FandangoL:
But what about phone performance? Should be the phone less large?
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FandangoL:
Hello, maybe I'm stupid but even reading whole thread I not understood if such mod solve my problem, so I try to summarise.

The action to be performed is to put the resolution to 1080p and dpi to 530 using nomone.

The question is: does work LG home? Do work all LG apps?
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MasK:
Setting 1080p with 530dpi as a global setting will make everything look huge and ugly. Might even screw up the alignment of some UI elements. I'm using 400dpi, nice and tidy.

Then theres the AppSettings from Xposed. As recommended by the good fellas here, I set to 530dpi + 75 font scale for LG apps. Works well.

However, my alarms don't sound anymore. My clock works, but when it supposed to wake me up, it force-closes and my LED cycles through all colors when my screen is on. Anyone has a solution for this? I can use a 3rd party alarm as the next resort though..

Ok, now to share my reason for being optimistic on 1080p setting. I'm using it primarily due to the keyboard ThumbKeyboard. This app has not been updated for 2K screen and the secondary characters are too tiny to be seen. I know.. there are many other keyboards but this one works best for me.

Another observation is that quickPic works faster now. I would assume this app has lesser pixels to process since it's a relatively graphic intensive app. Quickpic works fast on all other phones I tried, but it's slower on G3, possibly due to the pixels. Speed it what I expect from this resolution change. Don't keep your hopes up on battery.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adrian07ch:
downgrade needed

Any chance someone could do a mod to make the phone fully functional in 1080p? I want to sell my phone because of this, but also I don't think I will find any other phone than G2 to have such a rich user interface, and that one has no microsd slot or removable battery. I don't understand why they needed this phone to have this resolution. It's basically the same as 1080p on a phone, and I'm the kind of person who can easily distinguish 4x AA from 2x AA at 1080p in a game. This is a smaller difference than that, but a huge difference in performance and battery life.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BenKewell:
Totally agree on this. I will be super happy with my G3 if it has a 5.2" 1080p display same as G2.

And do you know they actually have a 5.2" 1080p version of G3 in Korea? Called "LG G3 A" released for one local carrier there.

I believe they use the 5.5" 2K display so that the spec looks awesome on marketing.

Also this may be the latest panel model from their LCD factory, so they need a flagship model to consume the production.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChrisM75:
It doesnt improve performance in 2D and only has a relatively small effect in 3D. Its not worth the effort doing this.

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It DOESNT affect battery life AT ALL. It has virtually NO effect of 2D performance and not much of an effect in 3D. People just do not understand how the GPU on these phones works, or how incredibility easy 2K is for the GPU in 2D.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aenews:
Well if you want to think that way, if you don't care about games, anything S3 or better is totally enough, perfectly smooth. Any recent 1080P device with even Snapdragon 400 is perfectly fine.

Yeah I've tried, on my qHD tablet, NoMone and the Terminal, and the UI still looks weird at times even at corresponding DPI. I haven't tried the 1200P/800P options during ROM install though. They may work better than the former two options.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ernestriderxx:
Tested it

I tested my ATT white LG G3 with the resolution changer app in Playstore.

So far it's great, battery wise, too early to tell, but seems legitly good, since it doesnt over heat anymore. AND the bonus side, the laggy interface disappeared!! I just couldnt find the right settings and DPI to match it cuz the status bar kept on having not enough room... its being retarted due to the size of the status icons... but overall if someone finds the best setting, please LMK!
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TwinHeadedEagle:
What heat are you talking about, I don't notice anything, except when gaming. But it is perfectly normal, your PC heats more when you play games. With so huge screen and 1440p resolution you can't expect it to be cold.

Stop crying and enjoy this masterpiece.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Richieboy67:
I just cannot understand why anyone would take one of the biggest and most amazing features of the phone and disable it.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MalekoUK:
Totally agree.

If you want a 1080p phone, PLENTY to choose from. If you didn't want a 2K screen then you shouldn't have got a G3...
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keaheng:
yeah amazing but it has a screen sharpening issue -_- we're trying to find the solution to downgrade the resolution first.. when lg roll out a new update to fix that bug, we will be fine with that
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MalekoUK:
This is another 'bug' I fail to see, much like the so called 'lag'.... I'm almost OCD with this kinda thing and can't notice any of these problems.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Richieboy67:
I think if you disable HW overlay it gets rid of sharpness. Xposed had a module for it.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baileyjr:
Right I got my G3 last Friday having come from a G2. Side by side the G3 was noticeably slower opening apps, general responsiveness etc. I had enough of it after about a few hours and changed the resolution to 1080p and 95% of the lag was gone instantly. The other 5% I put down to the fact I had a custom rom/kernel on the G2 with touchboost enabled. Just waiting for the custom kernels for the G3 now.

If you are coming from a slower phone you'll probably not notice, but coming from the G2 it was like wading though treacle :)

With Xpossed and app setting module installed I have no problem with any apps apart from the stock alarm not working, that I have swapped out for the stock google clock.

I don't see what the fuss is about. If your happy with stock keep it at stock. If your not happy change the resolution :good:
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Richieboy67:
Any "lag" can easily get be removed by other means. I don't think the screen has any impact on it. After minor tweaks I'm experiencing no lag at all and my screen res had not been touched.

And no fuss. Personally I don't care what anyone does with their own phone. I only said I didn't understand it. It makes little sense to me. The screen is amazing.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baileyjr:
Well I can only speak as I find, it had a noticeable impact. I doubt that is a placebo effect as I was comparing it side by side with my G2. I'd be interested in other options to remove lag though. :good:

And my comments weren't directed at you buddy, probably like yourself I just l don't understand why people see the need to set up camp and make a stand one way or the other. Just enjoy the phone an way you see fit is my moto :D
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Richieboy67:
It's all good.

You got rid of all the lag though just by decreasing res? I'm not saying that changing the res would not give a little more resource to other things but I just didn't think it was the major cause of the lag. I suppose it could be.

Has your battery life also improved and if so by how much?

I'm not making a stand. I'm just stating my opinion. A forum would be boring and not to helpful if nobody shared opinions.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baileyjr:
Yes, 90+ plus of the Lag is gone by changing the resolution. Its not quite as fast opening apps etc as the G2 which was running Cloudy G3 (a G3 based stock ROM for the G2).

I've got no basis of comparison on the battery as I only had it running at 1440p for 4 hours :) However I'm easily getting a full day. Plus I burn through 30% battery every night walking the dog, while using the phone flash as a flash-light. I would say battery seems comparable to my G2, which is a pleasant surprise.

I have no reason to doubt that with a de-bloated stock ROM and custom kernel it will be every bit as fast/if not faster than the G2 with broadly similar battery life...
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] willdes:
Where i'm at...

Hi,

So having the 2gb RAM lg 855 rooted model, i tried to change the resolution as well.

Not so much for battery life, because being used to the nexus 5, the 3000 mAh is already miiiiles better, but for the laggy interface (!!!)

Is it that hard for the adreno 330 to push double the pixels around, even in a 2D game?! I am confused how you build a flagship with a S4 like usability... but hey, i still love my phone !

I tried many settings, using Resolution changer :

1920x 1080 , 600 dpi : Big no-no

1920x 1080, 441 dpi (as lg G2) : bigger no-no, had to factory reset

1920x 1080, 400 dpi, worked if you tweak every UI element like he has : (type : "How to enable LG Stock apps after changing resolution on your LG G3" on youtube)

I was trying to get the same aspect as 2K with 540 dpi which is very neat, but haven't really reached my goal yet.

If you have any suggestions i'm listening :)

Has anyone tried GPU and CPU overcloking (voltage or frequency) and is able to share his results?

Thanks !
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Richieboy67:
Not needed. The phone flies. Just do a quick search on lg g3 tweaks. Change the keyboard, disable bloat. Change over lay and you will be flying.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] willdes:
Ok I'll look into that ! I guess i've been dealing with it the wrong way around then !

Thanks :)
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Changed resolution to 1920@1080@360dpi. It worked, Antutu benchmarked me at 1920x1080, 2d result is 1650 and 3d one is 13791. I had not touched thermal options at all.

Almost no (28 points?.. Lower than error margin.) improvement to 2d, huge (6k) improvement to 3d graphics. This means that phone won't be any faster in ui, but games will receive a significant boost. Everything as expected.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baileyjr:
Those things still didn't make the G3 anywhere near as fast as my G2. In the end I monitored the cpu frequencies when opening apps using a system monitor. The G3 was only boosting up to 1.6ghz when you opened an app initially. What I did is tweak the governor settings with trickstermod so it boosts up to the full 2.5ghz, the phone bloody flies now. What I suspect has happened is LG was more aggressive than they were with the G2 and deliberately set the cpu not to run at the full frequency for most operations, in an attempt to save some battery for the larger high resolution screen. Battery life will be impacted with this tweak but for me it was a necessary trade-off. I've was running at 1080p but I've since put the resolution back to 1440p as the phone is now plenty fast enough. Once the custom kernels start appearing I'm sure the devs will be able to do a far better job than me while maintaining battery life, but for now it fixes all my lag problems and I lose about an hour of battery life but still make it through the day very comfortably. :good:
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xerionius:
What do you mean with "change the overlay"?
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Richieboy67:
If rooted you can use an app called no overlay or you can change it in the Dev options but if you do it in the Dev options it will reset when rebooting.

I'm not really sure what it is but I think it is something to do with the sharpening.

This made a very large and noticeable difference for me.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xerionius:
Sorry, but I still don't understand what you mean. Do you mean disabling hardware overlays? (That wouldn't make any sense to me)

I can't find an App called "no overlays".

Could you please provide a link to the thread or wherever you got this from? It's sound really interesting to me if it has something to do with the sharpening.

Edit: With the help of Google, I was able to find some threads that gave the advice to indeed disable hardware overlays. I tried it, and it doesn't make any difference at all.

This setting can be permanently applied by changing it in the build.props, just fyi.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Richieboy67:
I don't have the link now. In my car.

App is called nomoreoverlay. I'm not sure if there is a stand alone version. I'm using it with Xposed framework.

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I will try to find the link later.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xerionius:
Thank you, but it's not necessary anymore. I already found and tried it and I'm not notocing any difference at all. I edit my post above yours ;)
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Richieboy67:
Really? Did you reboot?

i had already made all the other tweaks before adding this one. I am talking about disabling the bloat, changing keyboard and launcher and I disabled animations. my phone was already very fast but I noticed a major difference after doing this more so than most of the other changes.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xerionius:
Yeah, debloating is always the first thing I do and I am using the Google Keyboard because the LG keyboard is laggy (even though I liked the keyboard).

Rebooting wouldn't make any sense because it resets when rebooting, or am I wrong?

I don't want to disable animations.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Richieboy67:
Yeah, it resets unless your are using the xposed module I think.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ernestriderxx@gmail.com:
Im doing this

I have the att lg g3 and im using resolution changer amd currently using the same resolution but changed the dpi to 530 or 540 amd it looks so much better. Also, i dont get overheating problems anymore even when im playing dead trigger for 15-30mins. It hasnt lagged as well. So i definitely recommend this setup. Im thinking of making a review for my g3, its stock rom, but i already have so many mods amd tweaks on it. +1 me or click on that thanks button. Hope this helps.