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[G3 General] haris182:
I don't know if you know this already...

the reason that icons and widgets don't appear correctly when we change the resolution and dpi because the system apps (APKs) don't support lower density.

G3 has XXXHDPI screen, while the Full HD resolution got XXHDPI screen. Because system apps only have XXXHDPI images, they don't appear correctly on XXHDPI screen...

So, while G3 has the default 640 dpi (xxxhdpi), but if we change it to 480 dpi (xxhdpi), the apps dont appear correctly.

So all we need to is create another density folder (xxhdpi) in /res in each system APKs, if you want to reduce your G3's resolution to Full HD

cheers :D:D
[G3 General] radityo2:
Woow.. Please show me how to do this.. I luv the 480 dpi.. Everything looks normal but certain system apps FC
[G3 General] digweed4me:
this thread made me buy lg g3 i wasnt sure before cause of performance and battery degrade cause of 1440p resolution . now we know we can change the resolution to 1080p for better battery and performance i am in preordering now.
[G3 General] Lostatsea23:
Lol that's so pointless.
[G3 General] digweed4me:
how is that so pointless ? if performance and battery life increase 1080p is the way to go and qualcomm s801 cant handle 1440p(super hot) thats why they made s805 line.
[G3 General] Lostatsea23:
The main reason why the phone is nice is because the display
[G3 General] adrian_nene16:
so anyone else experiencing any performance/battery life boost when switching to 1080p 530dpi?
[G3 General] digweed4me:
you wont see much difference with 1080p and 1440p and i will take performance and battery life than very little diff on display.
[G3 General] Lostatsea23:
True but the g3's only great feature is the display. Carry on.
[G3 General] digweed4me:
nope not only that plus camera,build quality with almost no bezel, 3gb ram and top of the line spec
[G3 General] Enddo:
meh. I like the indea of the 5.5 inch display and the form factor the most. I know the 'it feels good in the hand' is used a lot when a device is first released, but i see just about everyone say how amazing it feels in the hand. the more i see the LG skin, the more i like it too

i use a smartphone for mainly text display. reading, messaging, websites. so a QHD display is about in the middle of the reasons why i want the lg g3. i have heard people say text looks amazing on the QHD display though. but i doubt ill change the resolution anyway

my point is, not everyone is getting it because of the display. some are using a device from two years ago and are just looking to upgrade. out of the 2014 flagships so far, it seems to be the g3 and the m8 at the top with the s5 in a close 3rd and the z2 in a close 4th. then again, the z2 isn't even released in the US yet lol. and the note 4 is still to come. so we'll see how it goes with the rest of 2014
[G3 General] Lostatsea23:
Stock rooted.

Running a custom ROM before. Getting way better battery life now.
[G3 General] Guest.:
Im gonna try this
[G3 General] socalforlife:
Just got my g3 today and its perfect, like the g2 but way better, I'm not tripping on battery life as I'll just buy a zero lemon for it anyways here within a month or so when they come out, no need to downgrade resolution might as well enjoy the 2k, I'm just not crazy about the clock on the status bar its to big, g3 tweaksbox doesn't lower the size or I seemed to miss it
[G3 General] robstunner:
So your battery life is better with the custom ROM or stock rooted???
[G3 General] Lostatsea23:
Its the same... :(

It starts off great then drops off so fast.

Same SOT either way
[G3 General] robstunner:
Lame you got me excited lol.
[G3 General] rushless:
L probably is not going to be the battery savior expected, since the high savings is based on a very Controlled testing condition. People seem to miss that part in the article ;)
[G3 General] latino147:
What would happen if I keep the resolution but lower the dpi to less than 530? I am used to a bigger view (smaller letters) on my s4 and would love to have more space on screen.

I'm scared to just try it seeing that somebody here has had system.ui FC's and I don't have a good recovery to create a nandroid.
[G3 General] JPWOA:
Stock rom, rooted, greenify, some system apps frozen and ART

Screen with full resolution and auto brightness @ 40%

;)
[G3 General] oska3:
is this safe to change resolution on full hd and 530dpi ,without any backups
[G3 General] robstunner:
Ugh, why am I at %100 still after 20 minutes screen on time. I wish it drained that lightly but it's just crappy stats.
[G3 General] gladiator1105:
whats ur battery circle number ?
[G3 General] Lostatsea23:
What?
[G3 General] GroovyGeek:
The system UI works fine, but certain system apks FC. The most notable for me is Mail (I need exchange access), others include calendar, camera, IR blaster, gallery, messaing, and few others. With exception of the mail and IR blaster apks you can easily work around everything else with the stock KitKat apks. Exchange email is badly broken in stock Kit Kat (and has been for many, many, many months) so that is not a workaround.

Having said that, 1080x1920 at 530 dpi is kind of ridiculous. All text and icons gets so big, you feel like you are using a 3" screen. It makes absolutely no sense to reduce the resolution by a larger fraction than the dpi, so I endded up running 1224 x 2176 @ 544 dpi.

The only thing I can't get running is SwiftKey, which is a big enough deal that I may just go back to xxxhdpi
[G3 General] bdt1978:
Got to be honest these tweaks made no difference to the battery life at a on any level for me. I reverted back
[G3 General] _Infamous_:
Changing resolution wont affect the battery life at all the pixels are still being used
[G3 General] bdt1978:
Agreed. I guess it seems obvious now. I'm sure when the roms are developed we will see some outstanding battery life
[G3 General] Batfink33:
Just a warning to those using nomone. I was using it on 1080 before I returned my G3 and the screen started glitching quite badly. It stopped when I went back to 2k. Just incase it was resolution induced.

Sent from my HTC One_M8
[G3 General] splcfiya:
Processor bogs down battery more than the screen does. So if the processor is doing less work while the screen is on, battery life will improve... but of course that is IF the processor is actually doing less work. Not sure how it handles resolution changes through apps.
[G3 General] _Infamous_:
Yea I understand but you can't change a 2k screen to 1080p the pixels are still active and that's why no one except one person in here seen a change in battery life
[G3 General] splcfiya:
The only thing i could think of is if eventhough technically the phone itself is physically has 2k pixels, that by lowering the resolution to 1080p, it tricks the processor into lumping neighboring pixels together. So it doesn't have to update all 2k pixels individually at once, it only has to move 1080p worth. I dunno i'm just talking out of my a$$/wishful thinking. .
[G3 General] Batfink33:
How does a tv change from 1080 to 720? Android tv boxes can also change their resolution from 1080 to 720 and they work faster after they do that. Does it not skip some pixel lines when it's scanning the screen therefore only lighting 1080 instead of 2k. There's a definite performance increase when it's changed .

Sent from my HTC One_M8
[G3 General] _Infamous_:
Because on a android box you are streaming content though internet
[G3 General] Batfink33:
You can also change it at a hardware level so the whole box is drawing in 720 even the UI. There is a kernel setting for it.

Sent from my HTC One_M8
[G3 General] enaybee:
I did the changes as OP, decreased the screen resolution using NOMone and DPI using Textdroider. However before I could even see any changes in battery life, I noticed that most system apps quit working i.e. email, gallery, dialer, contact, quickmemo etc. This tells me that in order to make these apps look good on this display LG has made them on hard dimensions and can't autoscale depending on resolution. So I went back to default resolution and DPI for now.

But FWIW, I have been running 720p on my N5 for the past few days and haven't seen any improvements in battery life.
[G3 General] rushless:
This is correct, but depends on the gpu and display if will work correctly or not.
[G3 General] GroovyGeek:
This is a well known and much discussed behavior, both here and elsewhere.The dpi needs to be above 530, but at 1080p that looks plain weird. My solution is to properly scale to 1080x1920 @ 480 dpi then use Xposed to return all affected apps to 530 dpi and 85 percent text scaling. This gets you the best of all worlds and the phone definitely heats less regardless of what others are reporting here. You will get generic icons for the apps you list. I tool screenshots of at 640dpi then cropped in PSE and edited the desktop icons to recover the cosmetics. Everything except Swiftkey works fine albeit I wish I had swift key back
[G3 General] bdt1978:
So has anyone other then the OP actually reported back with definite increased battery life? A lot of well meaning theory here but no evidence
[G3 General] android_4life:
I agree I have the US version and battery life is great on AT&T network. I can't believe I only used 10% battery after 2 hours of continuous use. Rooted with bloatware from AT&T removed I kept resolution to 2K.
[G3 General] leomd333:
I think thw battery will be even better too on custom ROMs as it was on the G2!
[G3 General] drock212:
Stock res and dpi. Rooted, greenify, and removed AT&T apps.
[G3 General] doctor78SI:
Could you explain how did you change apps dpi with xposed?
[G3 General] GroovyGeek:
App Settings module in Xposed. However, I have now reverted to stock dpi and res because I have discovered that my GPS app does not handle custom dpi gracefully. As a side benefit I got my SwiftKey back. However, some of the secondary characters are difficult to read on the hirez screen. Grrr
[G3 General] sic0048:
Your TV doesn't change it's resolution. Every TV has a "Native" resolution which the tv will always display. It accepts other solutions, but if it is anything other than the native display, it will scale it to the native resolution.

Source devices on the other hand can change the output resolution and obviously the fewer pixels they push, the faster it will be. However, if the source is outputting something other than the TVs native resolution, then the tv will scale the I out resolution to its native resolution.
[G3 General] manther:
Only had the phone for short time but, I rooted it with towelroot, debloated by freezing with TB, switched to ART. Kept auto on screen brightness, switched to Google launcher and so far way better battery than my sgs3 or sgs2.
[G3 General] :
I've been eying this phone to upgrade from my HTC one xl. In order to see if there was any truth to decreasing the resolution for performance and battery life I concluded a test. I downloaded a benchmark off the play store. Before I changed resolution the one xl scored about 18 fps. After changing the resolution from 720p to 360p (which is equivalent to changing 2k, or 1440p,to 720p), the fps skyrocketed and reached 58 fps. This leads me to believe that this tweak could in fact reduce gpu stress and increase battery life.
[G3 General] PunishedSnake:
When is zerolemon making a battery for it
[G3 General] erapmicks:
lol why would u wanna do that? The phone is advertised and is being bought for the QHD display. not for a 720p display. might as well buy a fricken LG G Flex lol
[G3 General] :
I was just testing it. In actuality, I would never actually do that, lol :p
[G3 General] splcfiya:
not everyone who buys the phone is buying the phone FOR the display. Some people are just buying a phone with a sweet camera, and a 3,000 removable battery, good amount of storage, nice design, and a decent skin, that just happens to be QHD. Im getting the phone, but i do wish it was 1080.
[G3 General] klyzon:
do not understand how u guys get such good battery life.

I'm getting 3hours SOT max with about 14 hours standby and i'm empty lol

Rooted and greenified
[G3 General] erapmicks:
did u disable CIQ?
[G3 General] gmaldo007:
How do you remove CIQ?

Sent from my LG-D855
[G3 General] latino147:
Had never heard of it before!

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/the-rootkit-of-all-evil-ciq/
[G3 General] klyzon:
would it make a difference to the battery life? If so, where do i start?

*edit - my device doesn't have CIQ at all and i still get ****ty battery life LOL
[G3 General] phillio:
I'm getting around 3.5-4 hours screen time with a completely stock phone and when left over night the battery goes down 2-3%. How would rooting and using greenify improve my screen time? If I was using 5-10% over night I could understand the need, is there something I'm missing.
[G3 General] geoff5093:
Most ROMS get worse battery life than stock.
[G3 General] gmaldo007:
No they don't. Roms offer even more user control and features. Not to mention the ability to change kernels.. With that and the proper tweaking, you could maximize battery life way past stock.

Sent from my LG-D855
[G3 General] IXChicharitoXI:
Lmao wut
[G3 General] bdt1978:
That's incorrect
[G3 General] jerflash:
On every phone I have ever had. From the of Droid to the thunderbolt to the galaxy nexus to the gs4 to the nexus 5...i always got worse battery life for the most part from running other then stock kernels. I don't know why and I have been at this a long time. I find that the stock kernel on any phone with a few software tweaks is the best way to save on battery. Who know I could be wrong
[G3 General] geoff5093:
Exactly.

Whenever you run custom ROM's, such as AOSP or ported ROM's, battery life is almost always worse. People always compare it to stock and say "it's almost as good as stock" when talking about battery life. The exception are usually stock by debloated ROM's.
[G3 General] erapmicks:
What carriers do yall have? do root explorer - system - Priv-App. it has a IQ name on it. 2 files . delete them
[G3 General] bdt1978:
Disagree about custom ROMs what ones were you using and on what phone
[G3 General] dondavis007:
It's normally depends on the rom. If it's feature rich it will cost you cpu cycles and if it's a leen one with all logging of or otherwise tweaked you get some few % extra. Its not the OS that drains the battery, it's the screen...
[G3 General] erapmicks:
Stock rom gives u the most battery and stability. Nuff said
[G3 General] Enddo:
And this certainly makes sense. With so many people using ROMs like CyanogenMod and SlimKat, that are bogged down with every feature under the sun, they are used to ROMs taking up so much of their battery life

This is one of the main reasons why I enjoy Paranoid Android on my N5
[G3 General] giri0n:
I'm guessing those numbers are WiFi based usage, not LTE based - my existing G2 sees similar increases in screen on time when I'm at home on WiFi all day versus out and about on LTE. I usually keep it on LTE since I have unlimited data, but for those showing 6 hrs+ SOT, I'm guessing those are primarily WiFi only or WiFi mostly.

If I'm incorrect, I'm sure someone will adjust my POV. :)
[G3 General] manther:
Ok on first full charge after doing the things I listed above here is my screen on time.

Attached screen shots of sot and things I froze. Also greenafied everything.

**Welp, that didn't work. Upload screenshots, but they just show up as broken files. Musta been too large.
[G3 General] bdt1978:
So many pages in and we have established that at present there is no way of extending current battery life on the g3. Can't help thinking the OPs silence says it all.......:)
[G3 General] manther:
Well I can't get a screenshot to attach but I got 5:13 of sot for my first charge. But it had nothing to do with changing resolutions
[G3 General] bdt1978:
Thanks. How are you achieving that?
[G3 General] meatlocker:
I had about the same, and my second full charge is looking to be similar. While it won't win any awards, it is certainly within the realm of perfectly fine. I am running Nova Prime, and brightness at 45%.
[G3 General] bdt1978:
I'm running nova. Going to use titanium now. What should I be freezing?
[G3 General] manther:
Check out my quoted text in post 153. I'm gonna write down all the stuff I froze and greenified. And I'll post it later tonight.
[G3 General] bdt1978:
Thank you mate
[G3 General] galaxie500fb:
I got my g3 Saturday from best buy. Its still new to me so I've been using it a lot.
[G3 General] manther:
No prob. This may take multiple posts but here are the apps I froze with no adverse effects.
[G3 General] galaxie500fb:
I forgot to add that I'm completely stock. All I've done is disable most of the att stuff plus some other apps I'll never use. 90 % of the time I'm on 4g. Wi-Fi as soon as I get home. Coming from an LG g pro this g3 is a nice upgrade.
[G3 General] manther:
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[G3 General] bdt1978:
Are you guys running ART
[G3 General] manther:
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[G3 General] manther:
And I switched to ART and greenified and ran wakelock detector and regreenified. And greenify new apps after I install them. And use the stock Google launcher.

Not to mention zerolemon is about to offer a large capacity battery.
[G3 General] StreetkillnHD:
I will not change my screen res. Im not risking to **** up my beautiful screen and phone

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So far not the best for me att lg g3 it seems to be a little worse than g2. I got one hour of use and im 20 percent down heading to 30 percent down. Not rooted. Not sure whats goin on .
[G3 General] android_4life:
I know what's going on, root it and get rid of all 11 AT&T bloatware, I also stopped some of LG 's as well.
[G3 General] StreetkillnHD:
Ill try that in a month i just got phone and like to give my new phones a test drive of usage before rooting. But ofc in the gsam app the number one battery usage is android system . got screen on 55 brightness
[G3 General] drock212:
Doesn't android system just mean it's system apps that are using up all this battery? If so then all the bloat explains the drain since its all installed as system apps. I deleted all AT&T garbage and froze so much lg crap it was ridiculous... Here's everything I froze for when you're ready, there might be some lg stuff missing, as I deleted it lol
[G3 General] StreetkillnHD:
Not even sure but its always the cause of it. I never use the att apps not even opened them so idk how they running
[G3 General] drock212:
Yeah unfortunately with a lot of those apps they run in the background once the phone boots or an app that you use will trigger a wake lock in one of those other apps. I found out that getting a text would trigger a Twitter wake lock and I had to sever that trigger with greenify. I also know some keyboards trigger wake locks too (SwiftKey triggers Facebook). So who knows what's actually causing your high system percent. I just know I got rid of all AT&T bloat and froze all of the above and the only high item is my screen time and whatever else I'm actually using

Ps I converted a lot of Google apps to user apps...

Google+

Newsstand

Maps

YouTube

Don't convert play store or play services to user apps this will cause constant force close that will make you have to reflash to stock lol (personal experience)
[G3 General] PunishedSnake:
Stock is most stable
[G3 General] latino147:
I have a Dutch T-Mobile device. Just checked that folder (a LOT of LG and Google stuff), but nothing with IQ in the name :good:

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What's exactly the advantage of converting system apps to user apps?

I guess you do that with TB?
[HTC One Max] Wmckinnon46:
Does anybody know of any other rooms, other than the Sprint Stock Rooted Rom, that can be flashed while still S-on? Just curious if there is any.
[HTC One Max] cstrife999:
All of them can be. Its just always recommended to be s-off just in case something messes up.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] Time has come:
Is it just me, or are there other people having a hard time finding a news reader/podcast downloader that actually works on a Tytn?

I want to be able to store a lot of shows from the Australian ABC radio site http://www.abc.net.au/services/podcasting/ for later enjoyment.

Can anyone recommend a program that they use on a Tytn and are happy with?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] TheOneWhoIsMany:
i would love to know one as well
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] jeremymacmull:
i use hubdog. works very well with BBC podcasts and they have a lot of channels too

JEREMY
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] grunef:
I get my Dr Karl, and Sunday Night Safran courtesy of HubDog from HubDog.Com

works really well, its not the perfect podcast app, but i love not having to cary my iPod around and being able to "sync" any time any where.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] Time has come:
That's what I wanted

Thanks for pointing out hubdog. I didn't know it existed, even though I trawled everywhere for a ppc podcast client.

It not only does the job, it also looks slick too. Very different from the rest.

Great suggestion.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] warmkiwi99:
with hubdog, how do you supply login/password for feeds that need authentication?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] 3D-Tiger:
Well, I dont how about podcast support, but as RSS reader I like SPB Insight.

http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] richy240:
pRSSreader: http://pda.jasnapaka.com/prssr/

But I'm not entirely happy with it - I have one complaint. I wish there was a way to limit the amount of "articles" kept in memory - some of the Podcasts I list to are large, and there are a lot of them. Even when I delete enclosures, pRSSreader downloads them again.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] victorteg:
Egress is your best option

Hi everyone, first post in here.

There is a program called Egress which will definitely do the job for you.

htpp://garishkernels.net/egress.shtml

It is an RSS reader that you can customise exactly to your particular choice. It does allow for podcast catching and offline reading, among other tasks.

I have it running on my HTC Hermes (JasJam skin) and it works just fine.

The software is not that expensive, around 10 usd is I recall properly, and the developer offers you lifetime upgrades, not bad eh?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] richy240:
I forgot to mention that pRSSreader is FREE!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] jeremymacmull:
oh yeah hub dog is free too

Jeremy
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] Time has come:
Hubdog does authentication.

If you add the feed via your account on the hubdog website it has optional username and password for authenticated sites.

I found Hubdog to be a steep learning curve but worth the patience. I've got my favourite podcasts, vodcasts, headline feeds and flickr photos all stored away so my JasJam will be able to entertainment if I ever get a free moment.

I think JasJam is popular because it makes us feel like we are in touch and in control where ever we are. Hubdog adds yet another dimension with a bounty of multimedia files that we can have without paying cellular data access rates.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] richy240:
I tried HubDog, but it kept locking up... Anyone else see this?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] warmkiwi99:
Great - yeah, that works fine. Thanks
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] pkley:
How do you delete stuff in hubdog? I deleted them, but it kept them in my enclosure and thus didn't download the new stuff... I'm finding hubdog to be difficult to navigate.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] UnrealTechno:
Yea, i'm also finding that WMP doesn't like to stream any of the vodcasts...plus it seems bloated

edit: bloated but cool :)