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[Nexus 6P General] dplakta:
When I downscaled to 1080p and 720p, I felt a slight increase in "snappiness" in the UI and games, but not much since the 6P is already a very fast device.

Battery life (% per hour SOT) was pretty much the same as on 1440p.

The reason the difference is small would be because the 6P already handles 1440p well. You'd probably see more improvement on a slower phone.
[Nexus 6P General] Jonnyredcorn:
Right, I would agree with that. What I was saying is the same thing you said, battery life wouldn't really be affected by the scaled down resolution as it still has to light the same amount of pixels.

It makes sense that performance would possibly slightly increase as there is less to render.
[Nexus 6P General] dlads:
I've seen an improvement in longevity. Just done my normal commute to work (overtime) and where it'd normally be on around 95-96% its stayed on 99, same thing, music, light gaming , WhatsApp etc.. Can't be certain if its a placebo just yet but it appears to better on face value.
[Nexus 6P General] pickaso:
After changing the size to 1080x1920 use an app like texdroider_dpi to adjust the dpi (even though it needs root) it will fix those issues with apps like swiftkey and others not aligning with the adjustment.
[Nexus 6P General] dlads:
DPI is set to 390 unfortunately it makes no difference to swift key. Must take it's information from somewhere else, the name of the device perhaps.
[Nexus 6P General] @work:
Have you tried downloading an apk of the appropriate resolution from somewhere like apk mirror?
[Nexus 6P General] sabaramo:
If someone is willing, changing the screen resolution to something much less (say 720p) would highlight a difference (if any). If battery is noticeably better at 720p then it probably is marginally better at 1080p. Just a thought.
[Nexus 6P General] dlads:
I haven't actually, what I might do is get me missus to install it then pull the apk from her so at least its the most up to date version, to be honest aosp keyboard isn't that bad.
[Nexus 6P General] dlads:
this is the same result with 1080p after installing 3 different variants of swift key.

Really doesn't like it.
[Nexus 6P General] pickaso:
In my case by changing dpi with texdroid_dpi SwiftKey and all other apps look normal. Even when I tested 720p at 220dpi

(I would upload a screenshot but I am considered a new user)
[Nexus 6P General] dlads:
Have you set 1080 and has it actually altered? Swiftkey is definitely not happy.
[Nexus 6P General] pickaso:
Haven't tried Swiftkey at 1080p but all the other appa that were reacting to the line "wm density XXX" were fixed using the mentioned app.

Dropbox (file previews) , gmail (user picture under settings), camscanner (image preview) were not showing up properly. Now they do. Give it a try. It's a free app
[Nexus 6P General] dlads:
OK so this seriously messes photo editing up. Badly, deal breaker for me now. Shame I was enjoying it.

All it shows is the bottom left side of the pic, can't zoom out, even now back on 1440 it doesn't work..something's gone bad.

This used to work
[Nexus 6P General] GroovyGeek:
This is incorrect. While changing DPI does fix some apps SwiftKey remaines foobar'd. And since this is my preferred keyboard this mod, even if it did anything meaningful (it dies not) would have been a nogo for me. Another app that breaks badly is BackCountry Navigator. Most of you probably don't know or care about BCNAV but for me it is one of those essential apps that I absolutely need to have working since there are no good alternatives (no Gaia is not an acceptable alternative for me, not even close)
[Nexus 6P General] incognitonk:
Is there a way to only temporarily switch to 1080p while running games? (without a reboot)
[Nexus 6P General] dlads:
I don't think so, but its possible, I think the z5 does that.
[Nexus 6P General] incognitonk:
Yah It'd be a cool feature to have. I think the new HTC 10 does it as well. Shame there's no app or xposed module for that.
[Nexus 6P General] dlads:
I'm more than likely going to get the HTC M10 it looks too good to pass up on.

I thought the M10 was a 1080p device.
[Nexus 6P General] incognitonk:
Nope. Its 1440p. They'd have been slaughtered if they had released a 1080p phone.
[Nexus 6P General] dlads:
Well i dunno, personally i can't tell the difference
[Nexus 6P General] incognitonk:
Neither can I, but you know how pixelphiles can get when they hear a 2016 flagship has a 1080p screen. Also I doubt the media would've been any kinder.
[Nexus 6P General] dlads:
Lol what do they know ;)

So long as it's a beefy battery it'll be ok.
[Nexus 6P General] DespairFactor:
To fix these apps you need to use wm density and swap the value in the build.prop for dpi to what the wm density value is.
[Nexus 6P General] EarlZ:
Has anyone noticed any blurring when using it on 1080p? id love to run it on 1080p if its a bit better on battery life :)
[Nexus 6P General] dlads:
No none and the difference is negligible to be honest.

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Will give that a try cheers

Edit: did not work. To replicate the issue, take a pic, then attempt to edit and crop. You'll see that it only shows the left side of the image.
[Nexus 6P General] nadiros:
I'm sure using scripts and shortcuts. Also Tasker.
[Nexus 6P General] incognitonk:
The first post says you need to reboot. Is that not a necessary step?
[Nexus 6P General] PaulDnoOb:
I've scaled my 6p to 720p and change the density to 270, the phone doesn't heat up that much while browsing and playing games, esp. heavier games. Haven't had any problems though.
[Nexus 6P General] dlads:
AFAIK it is for all apps to see the alteration.. Better be safe.
[Nexus 6P General] incognitonk:
So what happens if I dont reboot?
[Nexus 6P General] dlads:
I don't know mate, but i'd always give it a reboot when altering something like that, just me being safe.
[Nexus 6P General] EarlZ:
So thats a no to the blurring and no to the increase in battery life as well ?
[Nexus 6P General] pickaso:
Dude, you are a reboot away of finding out. No biggy, give it a try ?
[Nexus 6P General] EarlZ:
I just tried this now and what ive noticed is that the font on some applications seem a bit thicker and as I thought a massive boost to games.
[Nexus 6P General] EarlZ:
Can you share those? I want to game at 1080p and just havr everything else at 1440p
[Nexus 6P General] dlads:
One thing I've found is, when this is applied it really messes up editing pictures. You only get the left side of the image and can't move around the rest, even after reverting back to 1440p the editing is still broken.. Doesn't app ops allow you to change the resolution per app ?

Edit: couldn't get app ops to work ? Not sure if it ever did offer that anyway.
[Nexus 6P General] eman3316@optonline.net:
Are you being serious about rebooting your phone? I never seen anyone stress or question a simple reboot of their phone.
[Nexus 6P General] incognitonk:
-_-

Check the context first man. I dont want to reboot my phone because I'm trying to switch resolutions on the fly. I want to switch to a lower resolution only during gaming and have the normal resolution for everything else.

I don't want to reboot every time I have to play a game.
[Nexus 6P General] eman3316@optonline.net:
Gotcha, sorry. That makes more sense now.
[Nexus 6P General] Buk-Lau:
I'm seeing various opinions here going around and some people still have misunderstanding about this so lemme clear a few things up

1. in theory downscaling to 1080p will save you power, on the SoC end, not the screen. the screen has to power the same number of pixels regardless, but there will be less of a workload on your GPU because it now renders less (interpolation is less workload compared to compute) and don't say something like gpu is not involved, as far as rendering goes everything that goes through android rendering api uses the gpu. also, if you can see the difference between 1440p and 1080p, then there will be differences, only because of resolution change, at this size interpolation doesn't make a difference.

2. as for the shell commands, you don't need root access for this. I did it without it; there are people on youtube that showed this without rooting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhrOL2ZqEE0

around 9:10 he does the same thing we do except on different phones.

to check whether you did it correctly or not, you don't have to use any fancy apps or anything, just take a screenshot and see what the resolution of the image is. screenshot captures the native rendered image, so if your screenshot is at 1080p then you did it right.

if you really want an app you could use something like AIDA64 to check easily

3. somehow swiftkey still works when I did this, not sure how people got it broken but there's no guarantee. when my dpi setting were changed apps for the most part looked fine, just smaller because of text settings, but anything you do photo related will be broken. you also won't have the option for 1440p videos on youtube when doing this.

4. unfortunately, I don't see any significant changes in battery life when I did this. it could be that i didn't any gpu intensive tasks like gaming, but I just did normal stuff like web browsing and youtube videos which didn't really make any noticeable difference on the SoC end i guess. also keep in mind that not all games render at your native resolution anyways. iirc, games like modern combat 5 locks at 1080p 30fps so even if your screen has higher res it just stays at 1080p
[Nexus 6P General] EarlZ:
What app are you using to edit ? Because its fine on my end..
[Nexus 6P General] dlads:
HTC gallery, photos, photo editor pro, all of them.

Doesn't matter to me now anyway as i've gone back to 1440p.

I'm getting rid of the device soon too, HTC M10 on order.
[Nexus 6P General] jorceshaman:
I haven't noticed any performance difference and the difference in resolution is barely noticeable but... Holy crap this is the coldest my phone has felt with brightness cranked up since I got it! Definitely worth it just to keep the heat down!
[Nexus 6P General] feeq13:
After test it on my 6p straight away i can tell the difference. It doesn't look blury, but just not as good as before. But man, it cool. My phone felt cooler when playing games. Great
[Nexus 6P General] jassun16:
Thanks man, it worked through adb command. :) Also I'm on Android Nougat Developer Preview 5
[Nexus 6P General] dankatz1:
I actually see no difference in temperature while gaming or otherwise, using ElementalX kernel manager also shows the same temperatures.

Testing fps in games show no change to negligible difference, maybe 2 to 5 fps improvement (and if you want to improve your fps I suggest instead changing your thermal file to the modded one so you can use MSM thermal instead of core control).

While it's a nice placebo effect, real tests show no difference in changing the resolutions and the PPI on the Nexus 6P.

I agree that we can not see any difference in our eyes between the resolutions but the battery drain is also negligible so it's really up to you if you want to save 10% more to the end of the day (while being able to charge it almost anywhere in 5 minutes) or have a bit crispier look but only if you really try to look at it, I can't see the difference.
[Nexus 6P General] jorceshaman:
I didn't test the temperature with software. But it's definitely not placebo that the back of my phone is no longer running hot under full brightness.
[Nexus 6P General] XRaptor29:
So far enjoying this! I set the Density to 360 which makes things crisp. Can't tell the difference between the QHD and 1080p now. Running the latest Android N Preview.
[Nexus 6P General] IIEtCII:
Is there a way to change the resolution without rebooting ? like in the Note 7 and HTC 10?
[Nexus 6P General] Tommebaas:
Does the phone run cooler when playing Pokémon go?

Verstuurd vanaf mijn Nexus 6P met Tapatalk
[Nexus 6P General] hoseth0711:
Thank you for this very useful tip :)
[Nexus 6P General] djide:
Mod makes chrome look weird... the fonts don't match and makes it look ugly, or am I doing something wrong?
[Nexus 6P General] 6:17:
Holy Hell! My wallpaper image and google clock widget got huge after applying the changes.I can't really speak on thermals or longevity, because I have my gpu clock reduced in my kernel.
[Nexus 6P General] tech_head:
Once again for all reading this list.... This is a placebo effect.

The GPU does not do anything when using the phone in regular operation.

It might have some small effect when gaming but that is it.
[Nexus 6P General] jorceshaman:
It's definitely not just placebo. My phone is back to feeling really hot to the touch after changing my settings back. I had two scanning apps (CamScanner and Transflo Mobile) not letting me see the whole images that I took to verify that they were clear. So I changed the settings back to default and my phone is now hot to the touch again.

I wish those apps worked with the changed settings because I enjoyed my phone no longer heating up like this.
[Nexus 6P General] gigoo25:
Has anyone that's tried this mod enabled the "Force GPU rendering" option in the developer settings? Forcing the OS to use the GPU to render window components like buttons, text and complex2D graphics calculations to the GPU at a lower resolution could potentially save power and make it slightly snappier.
[Nexus 6P General] diegogero:
Is the battery going to last longer?
[Android General] GT Recovery:
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[Android General] Mirothan:
Thanks

Thanks for your suggestion!
[X Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] richardrs123:
Is it worth letting marshmallow convert my 64gb (10) SD card as internal memory
[X Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pijes:
If you trust your sd card reliability then yes.
[X Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] richardrs123:
So if u download heavy game data itv would use card
[X Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrBelter:
It will if you set the SD card as the default storage.
[X Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sickaxis79:
Make sure to use a class 10 or higher sd card to get the best performance.
[X Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] richardrs123:
I have class 10 but still seems to putting still on internal even though SD is formatted to internal

Ie to test I installed per purchased GTA sa but all on phone memory as u see in pic
[X Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MotoXPlay:
Try formatting it again and portable and then internal and then can move ur apps

I did it i had the same problem...
[X Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sickaxis79:
Strange.It must be the other way around.Think the post above is the solution for your problem.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] thuancoihg:
Hello,

I'm using a G925P, but when i type a SMS more than 64 characters and sent to another phone, it will be 2 SMS, not combined into one SMS. Please help me to fix it and sorry because my bad English.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] dhonzik:
Try installing the firmware again
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] triadko:
Same problem with incoming messages (probably outgoing too). I've not count, but one my SMS on SGS3 = two or even three SMS on the S6Edge.

Tried to install another sms manager, same here. Any ideas?
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Accessories] greg_h_w:
I just want to know which Redmi 2 case did you use? Pros and Cons from that case.

I'm using Cocose case

[IMG="Cocose Redmi 2"]https://ecs7.tokopedia.net/img/cache/300/product-1/2015/6/23/229015/229015_c3995206-1945-11e5-b98e-abb649bc7260.jpg[/IMG]

Pros

- Quite Tough

- Lot of variation colours (Black, Silver, Gold, Blue, Pink)

- Elegant model

Cons

- Hard to open, because if you open the case sometimes it will make the battery case will stuck on it --> But if you no need to open the case, this issue doesn't matter for you :)
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Accessories] sarath67:
I am using MI flip cover, it's good,made of leather like. Easy to remove and fit. Costs Rs 500
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Accessories] AmAnzx:
i use simple transparent rubber cover. Just for Rs100, also it saved my redmi2 several times when accidentally fell.
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Accessories] russelgrim123:
my device is color white redmi 2 2014817, my lovely cover looks like this http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61E90XMIyKL._SX425_.jpg which have quicksand finish.
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Accessories] b1h:
It replaces the battery cover but the side scratches off easily.
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Accessories] sandeep_7:
I USE THIS
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Accessories] guddux5:
Sandeep_7 from where can I get that cover

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Guys from where I can get all these 3 covers....plz tell
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Accessories] greg_h_w:
Yup... some people prefer to use the flip cover, to prevent the glass from scratch.

my device also has fallen twice T_T

nice... is it nillkin case?

lately I almost bought this, because I do not know that's only a battery cover.

Wooow....look so cool... :good:
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Accessories] md_hedayat:
Where to buy?

where can i buy this cover?

or what is the name of this cover?
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Accessories] b1h:
I bought it here.
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Accessories] AmAnzx:
Nice but...

it looks cool, but if u want my honest opinion. I ll say its Overkill! :p
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Accessories] danderrion:
is there any case to protect rear camera from scratch? rear camera is the reason i boughy this phone
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Accessories] hardikkchavda:
None becomes heavy.
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Accessories] prodigy_dev:
the original Xiaomi flip case is very good .

the leather like (may be leather) back has excellent texture .

feels premium

(costs premium too )

I got it from Xiaomi free as a gift.(no kidding)
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Accessories] Lennoard:
I'm using the regular one, by Xiaomi, flip
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Accessories] GeorZ:
nCase shockproof Case
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Accessories] armanke13:
shamelessly copied iphone 5s look,

but it's not as good as it look at the advertisement,

the back is just some plastic rather than glass,

kinda bulky, but I'm okay with some added weight,

the bumper is just glued cheap, but the aluminium look catchy,
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Accessories] ARAVINTH007:
ME ALSO USING DIS ONE:svetius:
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Accessories] kusumarajender:
I want this bro....

Link pls
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Accessories] psychopac:
I'm using the soft silicone case one from Mi
[Huawei Ascend P7] danielproenca:
THIS damn update RESET my phone and Motion Control and SWYPE for Huawei disappeared.

I am not rooted due to this reset and I am having work done on my ADSL line, so I cant get full speed to redo my phone to the previous version (B817) as internet is too slow

I have tried SwiftKey and Swype from Google Play but I just cant get used to them and I prefer SWYPE for Huawei Lollipop version

B853 is much faster, no lag or freezing to force close on Instagram or Snapchat

How do I get Swype for Huawei back? :(

THANK YOU!!!
[Huawei Ascend P7] RejZoR:
B853 is only for Asian region apparently. I was testing with it and got same problems with European P7-L10. Only way to fix it is to force downgrade with a full version of B839 and then installing OTA B852 over it again. Be aware that downgrading will ERASE all your data so make sure you copy/export it to SD card first.
[Huawei Ascend P7] deltaromeo974:
try this

try this method, it worked for me:

androidcustomrom1.blogspot.com/2015/12/update-huawei-ascend-p7-l10-to-b853 (.html)
[Huawei Ascend P7] Tippfehler:
Extract B853 and B830 (full rom) update.app with Huawei Update Extractor, copy cust.img and cust.img.header from b830 to B853 folder, repack and make a local update with the new created update.app. If you have problems with recovery, flash recovery.img from B621 with adb.

Motion Control, Swype, Mirror, native sip-client (but not working) and all the huawei games will reappear.
[Huawei Ascend P7] riveraljohnrey:
Is it effective? I mean the whole this will be complete? like motion control and etc...

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Is it effective? I mean the whole this will be complete? like motion control and etc...
[Sprint HTC One (M8)] Erbat:
Hello, firstable congratulations to everyone to made an awesome forum, page, etc... :D:D:D

Im from Mexico and I have a HTC one M8 Sprint and I use it on GSM band

a guy sold me with a program named teamwin this program appears when I try to install the new version

I already have the 4.4.3 android version, 6.0 sense and 2.16.651.4 sofware version

and my doubt is can I make any modd to my celphone? I guess that's sounds pretty obviously but I'm new on the topic

I remember I can modd a sony ericsson telephones (like w600) but now Im so noob on the celphone topics.

I like learn new things and I only asking for your help, maybe if you can help me I appreciate that

All the links you can give me will be readed 100% for sure.:good:

So greetings for everyone and again please help me to get this cellphone a new life :laugh: