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[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] aaronc_98:
How to enable "Camera HAL HDR+" (and make sure that CONTROL_ENABLE_ZSL is "true"? 8.1

I can seem to find this option in developer options- does anyway know how to enable?

thanks,

AC
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] mnrivera210:
Not yet available, hopefully we see it in a future preview/final.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] david.degraw54:
I can't find this option either. It shows when I search in settings but when I tap it it just takes me to developer options
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] aaronc_98:
Same for me but Android police reported it was part of the 8.1 released. I'm on 8.1
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] david.degraw54:
Yes I'm on the 8.1 beta as well.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] ssingh819:
dev preview 8.1 (opp6) has the option in developer settings for the "camera HAL HDR+"
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] fixxxer0:
I see the option in DP2 developer settings, and have it turned on... but what does it do?

I don't really notice anything.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] galaxys:
Should be faster pic processing...
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] sluflyer06:
Other people are saying the Google camera app does not call on the hardware api and is still using the software api. A user on reddit used a different camera app and edited its configuration file to call on the visual core and then did a side by side and the difference was huge, many times faster.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] VanGolfer:
How to enable the Pixel Visual Core’s HDR+ feature on Android 8.1

https://9to5google.com/2017/11/28/h...droid-8-1-developer-preview-2-android-basics/
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] BR7fan:
I do not have that option in Deloper mode. I have the latest oero on my pixel 2 XL. Anoyone no why?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] Badger50:
It now resides in the camera app. Camera/settings/advanced and there ya go ?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] uicnren:
if you are on the Feb. update it is now enabled by default, no need for it in dev settings any longer.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] gettinwicked:
Does this mean the stock camera app now uses the visual core? I didn't think it did before, even if you had it enabled in dev.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] Try4Ce:
With the february update not only the stock camera does use it, all other third party apps who target camera api 26 from now on use HDR+ processing, like Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat etc.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] v2.2v:
That option has been there since before the visual core was even announced though ?
[P3300, MDA Compact III  upgrading etc.] Roni:
I flashed my device with the original Rom from HTC (which I downloaded at the xda-developers page) and since this "upgrade" I can't flash my device with any other roms, whenever I try it shows me new problems why it doesn't work.

another problem is that the Wi-fi of my device doesn't work since the last flash. the today theme shows me just the date even though i clicked in the settings to show me everyting apart of the date.

any help? i would be really thankful.

thanks in advance.
[P3300, MDA Compact III  upgrading etc.] sheennick123456:
try a reflash it might work

good luck :)
[P3300, MDA Compact III  upgrading etc.] Samson711:
Hehe very funny answer :) First Line: "since this "upgrade" I can't flash my device with any other roms" ...

What Errors do occur? Ran USPL before trying to flash new ROM? Make sure the Active Sync Connection is established in case there are connection problems.

Edit: Now i think maybe sheennick meant trying to reflash the same ROM you flashed last, the HTC ROM, maybe you can flash this one once more.

Sorry sheennick if you meant this ;)
[Moto E Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shadow Sphynx:
I just installed Titanium Backup in my device with Lineage OS 14. But initially I was not able to set the storage path to my external SD card. I was doing this because my phone is always low in internal storage. By using Filesystem storage option, when I reached the external SD card it said that "This folder is not writable." Filesystem Storage - media option only showed the internal storage. Also whenever I clicked on the DocumentProvider Storage, I got this: https://imgur.com/a/pCJ8I

Then I made a small backup and copied that to a folder in external SD card so that the Detect option can automatically get this location. But then I am getting this: https://imgur.com/a/T1iMI and when I try to make a backup I get "Insufficient storage" error.

What should I do?
[General Questions and Answers] kaja.alyo:
Hello,

Is there any music player that has buttons for previous and next folder like on some car radios?

I had new Pioneer car radio and upgraded to android car radio and I really miss this feature.

I did a research and couldn`t find music player that has this buttons.

Thank you for help!
[Google Cardboard] soulnemesis:
I am just about to release a new version of my game - VR Puzzle Room.

Everything was going fine, then yesterday I uploaded a version to google play and the "Pre-Launch report" showed it crashing on 5 out of 6 devices.

I know it works on my device (Galaxy S8) but now I am not sure if my device is just a "lucky one" or if the pre-launch report is broken.

I cant find any other errors that seem to be related to my app, it just exits. This is the "issue" that is reported in the report:

Issue: Crash of app uk.co.softkitty.puzzleroom running instrumentation ComponentInfo{com.google.android.apps.mtaas.crawler/android.support.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner}

Not very helpful, it looks like a generic test result. I've trawled through the logs and found something suspect though:

10-27 01:54:54.494: I/ViewInteraction(19677): Performing 'single click' action on view (with class name: is "android.widget.ImageButton" and with id: uk.co.softkitty.puzzleroom:id/ui_back_button ...............

To me that looks like the test runner is trying to "explore" my app, and the first thing it is doing is clicking the "exit" button in the Cardboard UI. But that button has been there for ages and this has only just started happening (it was working fine a couple of days ago). The main thing I can think of that might have caused this is that I recently updated Unity to the latest version, including the latest Google VR SDK, so that might have introduced a change that broke this.

Anyone else experiencing this?

Also if anyone is able to test that it runs on their phone that would be really helpful. Google play shows it crashing almost immediately after startup so if it gets further than that you know it "works".

You would need to sign up for Alpha Testing here, then make sure you have the Alpha version (because the "Live" one works fine):

https://play.google.com/apps/testing/uk.co.softkitty.puzzleroom

Just worried I'll release it and it wont work for loads of people.

Any help most appreciated.

Many Thanks!
[Moto Z2 Force  Questions & Answers] jhttr1z:
Is there a way to resize a widget on the home screen. I noticed that the widgets use 1x1 in my Zforce, but on the Z2force, it uses 2x2. How do I get it to 1x1?. Thanks
[Moto Z2 Force Accessories] jdrch:
Moshi's new USB-C to Digital Audio Adapter with Charging adapter works with the Z2F. I tested it myself.
[Moto Z2 Force Accessories] Amd4life:
$45 dollars though, whoa.
[Moto Z2 Force Accessories] jdrch:
The price sucks for sure. Hopefully more competition emerges soon.
[Moto Z2 Force Accessories] FrozenLemon:
I wonder if this can pass turbo charging provided by USB PD source to Z2F, since both it and Z2F support USB PD. Any Ideas?
[Moto Z2 Force Accessories] jdrch:
I can confirm it fast charges the Z2F in my testing.
[Moto Z2 Force Accessories] FrozenLemon:
That's nice, thank you for testing :). Now, I'm considering buying it.
[Moto Z2 Force Accessories] res0sf9v:
Does it support quickcharge
[Moto Z2 Force Accessories] jdrch:
ddd

Technically I think it supports USB-PD. But yes, it will fast charge your phone when connected to a USB-PD or QC 3.0 A/C outlet with a USB-C data cable.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Neo3D:
Found this super useful!

https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyNote...o_bring_back_the_physical_navigation_bar_and/

This looks long, but it's not.

STEP 1:

Say to Bixby: "open bixby settings"

Scroll all the way down to: Bixby key

Touch and select: Don't open anything

STEP 2:

Install Button Remapper: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=flar2.homebutton&hl=en

Install ADB on PC: https://wiki.lineageos.org/adb_fastboot_guide.html

Follow Button Remapper's setup instructions for ADB

STEP 3:

Say to Bixby: "open navigation bar settings"

Enable: Hard press Home button

This is the invisible Home button that you can press anytime no matter what app you're in. Set your preferred sensitivity level. I set mine to 5 so I don't accidentally press it in other apps.

STEP 4:

Install Nova Launcher: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teslacoilsw.launcher

Go to: Settings > Look & feel > Notification Bar > Hide navigation bar > ENABLE

STEP 5:

Say to Bixby: "open fullscreen apps"

Look for all apps that don't have the sub-label: 'This app is optimized to run in full screen`

Enable those apps

CONCLUSION:

Set 1 press = Back

Set 2 presses = Recents

Set long press = Bixby

Use the "Hard press Home button" = Home

Profit!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] winol:
Cool, thanks a lot
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Neo3D:
Found this super useful!

https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyNote...o_bring_back_the_physical_navigation_bar_and/

This looks long, but it's not.

STEP 1:

Say to Bixby: "open bixby settings"

Scroll all the way down to: Bixby key

Touch and select: Don't open anything

STEP 2:

Install Button Remapper: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=flar2.homebutton&hl=en

Install ADB on PC: https://wiki.lineageos.org/adb_fastboot_guide.html

Follow Button Remapper's setup instructions for ADB

STEP 3:

Say to Bixby: "open navigation bar settings"

Enable: Hard press Home button

This is the invisible Home button that you can press anytime no matter what app you're in. Set your preferred sensitivity level. I set mine to 5 so I don't accidentally press it in other apps.

STEP 4:

Install Nova Launcher: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teslacoilsw.launcher

Go to: Settings > Look & feel > Notification Bar > Hide navigation bar > ENABLE

STEP 5:

Say to Bixby: "open fullscreen apps"

Look for all apps that don't have the sub-label: 'This app is optimized to run in full screen`

Enable those apps

CONCLUSION:

Set 1 press = Back

Set 2 presses = Recents

Set long press = Bixby

Use the "Hard press Home button" = Home

Profit!
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] nacos:
With all due respect but this guide is beyond stupid (no offense intended, really).

1. With Samsung S/N8 NOT having physical navigation keys is damn straight IMPOSSIBLE to "bring back the physical nav bar". Title is deceiving and misleading.

2. Assuming anybody would be interested in giving this a try, why getting mixed up with Bixby (OK, admittedly, you may have mentioned disabling Bixby, as a prerequisite, but not as a step in the process; if you insist, then you forgot to mention the "few" steps for installing TWRP and rooting).

3. Although Nova is one of the most popular and highly appreciated launcher, why would you assume that whoever follows this guide would want to install and adopt Nova?

4. With S8 having a 18.5:9 (rather than 16:9) aspect ratio, one doesn't really loose that much from the screen due to the on-screen navigation bar.

5. Samsung S8 natively supports automatically hiding the navigation bar, as an option in settings.

6. There are better ways to get the Back / Home and Recent buttons on an overlaying app (like LMT)

Peace! :confused:
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] y8s:
First off, D65 is impossible on this phone without using Comfort View.

The best I was able to achieve (using a Konica Minolta CS-200 chroma meter, brightness at 50%, auto deselected) was x=.285, y=.325 (D65 is x=.313, y=.329), so I'm a little on the blue side. Here are the settings I used:

Screen Color:

Select Custom and hit the gear icon

Color Temperature: Cooler (slider all the way to the left).

RGB Levels:

Red: maximum

Green: maximum

Blue: MINimum

Result: x=.285, y=.325

If this is too green for you and you're ok with a little more blueness, decrease green until you're happy.

If you want true D65 white point, you have to use comfort view to filter out the blue, but then you lose your ability to use comfort view on a schedule. When you set comfort view to the setting just to the left of center, you'll get x=.313 y=.335, which is pretty much dead on (the slight green shift is pretty tiny). I did not yet measure the individual RGB illuminant values.

You will notice that these color values feel incredibly red or yellow compared to stock. You might not even like them. But they are technically more "white" from an sRGB standpoint. When I hold the phone up to my calibrated monitor, even the corrected version above looks incredibly blue. The comfort mode version looks about right. It will make your photos look more natural though. I have a photo of a sandwich that got more delicious after making these changes. Seriously, mouth watering.

For reference, the stock color profiles look like this:

normal: x=.276, y=.288

movies: x=.287, y=.300

photos: x=.287, y=.300

web: x=.286, y=.288

In all of them, the blue value is incredibly high. high blue will drive down both x and y coordinates. It looks to me like this panel is red-limited.

The color temperature was a bit unintuitive, but given the above red limitation, I think it simply removes green and you end up back where you started. Hence leaving it at full "cool".

So if you plan to take photos and want more accurate color when you do, try the above settings and compare the photos when you view on your phone to when you view on your computer monitor.

References: CIE chromaticity chart: D65 is 6500k on this chart. x and y coords are along the horizontal and vertical axes. You'll notice that x=.313, y=.329 cross at the 6500k point.

I've also attached some simple R, G, B, & W test images and a gradient.

y8s
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] steve841:
Interesting ... thanks!
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] old_fart:
By default it is too warm and you're dialing the warmness back to neutral ? ? ? ? I think samsung defaults to warm also ( in what I've seen... )

.

I think I want a little warm.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] y8s:
By default it is very BLUE. Blue is what most people consider "cool". Even with my adjustments, it still leans a bit cool/blue. I'm not sure this display will ever be able to look "warm" with the factory adjustments.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] CHH2:
I dunno, using those settings and without activating the comfort view, it looked too warm.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] y8s:
Don't trust your eyes after staring at a blue phone all day. Get a piece of white paper and sit the phone next to it. Compare that or a computer monitor. Also try using it this way for a couple days. Once you start to get used to it (or forget you changed it), switch back to "normal" and see what you think of that.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] CHH2:
I stare at a calibrated computer monitor all day and paper all day. Sliding the blue all the way down definitely makes mine too warm.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] y8s:
Probably is a wide variation in displays. I calibrate LCD and OLED microdisplays pretty often and we see all sorts of things from batch to batch.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] old_fart:
This excellent review shows a lot of nitty gritty display data ( and you can compare too ) . . . . . .

https://www.phonearena.com/reviews/LG-V30-Review_id4437#
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] liteon163:
I did like you said with Comfort Filter and sliding the overall color one notch to the left. Yes, compared to a piece of paper the display looks quite close to white. But when I start using apps, the color seems fairly off to me. I acknowledge this is ME, not the phone. I'll probably make a more concentrated effort to change over a few days.

I was wondering how closely we'd be able to get the screen to 6500 K because that's one area my old S7 really excelled in. Thanks for the tip!
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] stuartmc:
Thanks for bringing this subject to my attention. For no apparent reason, I have been a little wary of playing with the color settings. Very glad that I did today. I'm using a calibrated monitor screen to match whites and colors and my optimum settings are way different than the OP's.

I bumped the color temp one click towards warm and then backed off only the blue slider about 25%. Bingo...it's spot on.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] qualitymove13:
Has anyone tried to play with the sRGB setting in the developer options? Is there any use for this?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] liteon163:
I've enabled it on my phone, but it doesn't stay on. I have no idea why.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] liteon163:
I tried it your way and it ended up just about the same as the other way...
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] y8s:
One other thing to note is that we can only change one setting per color, not the gamma curve. Who knows what that looks like. Our changes may be trivial. I just set the white point. Maybe when business gets slow I'll go back and measure the white point of various gray levels and see what I find.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] hachiroku:
thanks for this...using the recommended settings resulting in a green display for me.

i ended up leaving the cool/warm slider in the middle and moving the blue slider one click to the right of center. green one click from the right most. this gave me the most neutral balance of colors. muted but natural to my eyes.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] hemirunner426:
I was wondering what my eyes were seeing. Something in the back of my head was telling me the display was blue.

Comfort view seems to offer the best balanced color on my screen.

Hopefully LG will allow more color control in software.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] CHH2:
There is. There's an entire menu devoted to tweaking the color of the screen to your liking.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] NayrStrebor:
Can you take a screenshot of your sliders? It's been a long day and my brain can't comprehend which way you moved the color temp slider and whether you meant set the blue slider to 25% or take off 25%.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Arcide:
Take off 25% is what I understood from what he said.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] fsi22:
Measured my V30+ with an i1 d3. Web is closest to srgb, photo is most saturated. Custom colour is strange the individual sliders don't affect white balance linearly or at all depending on setting. The cooler to warmer does though.

The white balance also seems to affect 50 to 100% grey mostly. 0 to 40% is very close to D65. Gamma is by default excellent.

Web plus comfort view 3 clicks is the best for accurate colour but not ideal wb. its slightly cool.

Every display or batch is most probably different.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ledvedder:
Has anyone found the best settings for the display?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] lightninbug:
Read the last sentence of the post above yours. ?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] kventura:
so anyone finally got a good setting for this? just got the phone and beign my first oled display didnt know about the blue tint in an angle...anyone wanna help me reduce this?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] clouds5:
For my v30 display the setting "best for photos" gives the best result. I'm comparing it to my calibrated Surface Pro 4.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Emu:
I enabled Comfort View permanently to get the white balance right and I love my display now so much. I just wish we could get the black crush under control for low brightness.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChazzMatt:
No.

I don't look at my phone sideways. I tend to look directly at my phone when I'm reading emails, texts. The only people bothered by the sideways blue tint are nosy people. ;)
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] kventura:
what are your settings in colors please?

---------- Post added at 02:07 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:04 PM ----------

hahaha im not nosy xD...its like i said beign my first oled phone coming from the G6...didnt have any idea about the blue tint when you look at it sideways, reading about it now i guess its just a normal thing on oled but some has it worse than others. I guess its gonna be a thing we just get used to and forget about it.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Questions & Answers] alexaka1:
So this morning I noticed that 8.0 is available for my device, single SIM XZ Premium. So I immediately upgraded.

After testing things out, I found out that there is no way to get notification dots and PiP to work.

As for the dots, the dot does appear on the App icon. However long pressing the icon doesn't bring up any notifications. I only get the standard delete and app info options. And for certain apps the quick launch functions, such as New Tab for Chrome etc. I can't get notification dots to work. I made sure I didn't disable it accidentally, as it took me a couple of hours to comprehend what the hell notification channels are, and what Notification dots are called in my language (hungarian).

But no, I have it enabled on a system level, and on an app by app level as well. For the apps I've tested. Messenger, Viber, some misc. apps I use. I've read that on Pixel phones, only the stock launcher supports the dots. Is it possible somehow the Xperia stock launcher didn't get support? Would be a major oversight, but I mean it is possible.

Also PiP doesn't work either. I checked, and it is enabled for all my apps that support it. Tried it with Netflix, Chrome playing full screen video, VLC player. For VLC you have to also enable an in app setting, but it still doesn't work with any of them. I can't try with YouTube since my country still doesn't have Red. Also I heard the Google Maps app is still rolling out pip in updates, so I didn't bother with that either.

Is this an issue for anyone else too, or am I missing something?

So far I'm enjoying Oreo, my phone became super fast, which shocked me, as I didn't expect this much of a speed difference. Animations look a lot smoother. And I'm really starting to dig this new notification channel thing. Really helps me customize all my different app notifications.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Questions & Answers] reiriop:
I have only been able to get pip working with google maps and chrome when playing a video, but I had to try it twice for chrome to actually do it, since then it has been working without issue though. For notifications I have the same thing where the quick options show up but not the notification, to view the notifications I still have to pull down the notification bar. I tried netflix and youtube but pip refused to work, it just kept going to the homescreen, I haven't tried vlc.

I will also say that I am enjoying Oreo and how much faster the phone is, it shocked me as well because it really is significantly snappier when jumping between apps or going back to the homescreen and opening something new. I have also actually started using the google assistant and some of the features it provides.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Questions & Answers] chivu10:
Just install internet beta from Samsung... And you have picture in picture...