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Is there footage of evo's homescreen running at +50fps?

I would absolutely love to see some footage of the evo running at 50 or 60 fps. Not so much the test screen but just navigating through the homescreens would be perfect. If anyone has a video camera and wants to film their evo or knows where i can see some footage please send it my way. Thanks to all of you who have been unlocking the potential of this phone!
I still don't have an evo but will be buying one on friday and this would help to win me over 100%.
Thanks!
Edit: So I've seen a few videos and the smoothness and reaction timing of the uncapped evo is wonderful. I can only assume that the performance and stability will increase as time goes on.
If anyone has anymore footage of their uncapped homescreens and menus let's post em here. Thanks everyone!

Coming from an iphone, the 30 fps really hasn't annoyed me too much. It annoys me that the droid x has it and HTC can't get a straight answer out about it, but overall, it's still better than my iphone - not as clean or polished, but better.
Go get it!

Yeah i've pretty much made my decision that I will be getting it. I would just love to see some footage of the homescreen at +30fps.

footage? go look at the novatek screen thread, there's plenty of proof there

well there are plenty of screen shots of the bench mark testing but no footage of homescreen navigation that i know of

toneman1984 said:
well there are plenty of screen shots of the bench mark testing but no footage of homescreen navigation that i know of
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I can shoot some of my Epson home screen at 30 fps with my iphone, if you'd like, but I think the reason why there is no actual video proof is because most video cameras only shoot at 30fps, so it'd not going to make any difference on video.

Yeah! if you could shoot that footage and then upload to youtube or something that would be awesome. Even youtube videos of the stock evo homescreen shows some lag so i think i would be able to notice a difference if I saw footage of evo uncapped.
Thanks!

toneman1984 said:
Yeah! if you could shoot that footage and then upload to youtube or something that would be awesome. Even youtube videos of the stock evo homescreen shows some lag so i think i would be able to notice a difference if I saw footage of evo uncapped.
Thanks!
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Oh, well mine is capped. I don't want to bump the refresh rate up just to make it look slightly smoother. I've played with other android phones before and the evo is 100x better. I would have the new iphone 4 if the evo hadn't come out, plus I get 23% off out monthly sprint bill, so that helped, too. Haha.
The all apps menu in list view is lightly laggy right after you bring it out of sleep, but it's really quite smooth after a few seconds. I'm running fresh 5.3, too, which helped quite a bit, and I have a live wallpaper running, too.

There was a video footage month ago.search YouTube.its a kernel called GODMODE by Toastchf and the devs still working on it for all custom Roms.its a work in progress.
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I don't have any footage, there is plenty though but I just did the hack to my EVO and I'm running around 46 FPS stable and the home screens are SMOOTH as hell.
Even though it's a "dirty" hack as they put it, my god it works nicely.
Too bad it doesnt speed up Divx videos though!

GHOST99K said:
There was a video footage month ago.search YouTube.its a kernel called GODMODE by Toastchf and the devs still working on it for all custom Roms.its a work in progress.
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Thanks for the lead! Performance looks amazing. I love modding and tweeking devices so it looks like i'll have a lot of fun with this evo.

If you're looking for something a little more recent, I recorded a video today demonstrating the smoothness of the Evo once the frame cap has been removed. What makes my video sorta unique is that I first show how responsive it is before the kernel kicks in; afterward, I cycle my screen and show the home screen stuff once the cap is disabled.
Big thanks to all the developers who made this possible.

Mecha2142 said:
If you're looking for something a little more recent, I recorded a video today demonstrating the smoothness of the Evo once the frame cap has been removed. What makes my video sorta unique is that I first show how responsive it is before the kernel kicks in; afterward, I cycle my screen and show the home screen stuff once the cap is disabled.
Big thanks to all the developers who made this possible.
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Thankyou for posting that. The video shows a definite increase in smoothness and reaction time. I'm sold. Getting one on friday. If anymore videos become available put them on this thread. I think it's valuable to see the real world practical advantage of using the modified kernel. Again,many thanks goes to the developers and to their hard work.

Mecha2142 said:
If you're looking for something a little more recent, I recorded a video today demonstrating the smoothness of the Evo once the frame cap has been removed. What makes my video sorta unique is that I first show how responsive it is before the kernel kicks in; afterward, I cycle my screen and show the home screen stuff once the cap is disabled.
Big thanks to all the developers who made this possible.
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Is that latest fresh Rom with the godmode kernel ? Does everything work in the phone with the kernel?
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GHOST99K said:
Is that latest fresh Rom with the godmode kernel ? Does everything work in the phone with the kernel?
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Yeah, it's Fresh 1.0 with the Fresh Toast Kernel available through Fresh updater. Since toast is responsible for bringing it to the updater, I'm assuming it's the godmode kernel.
Everything works fine, I'm usually in the 50-52 fps range. However, there is a noticeable amount of tearing when you're scrolling with the phone in landscape mode.

So all I have to do is flash fresh 1.0 and that includes the godmode kernel ?
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froyo too slow/ choppy

just installed the ota to froyo and gave me problems within the first ten seconds of using it. force closed the gallery. specifically the video section because it wouldnt play the video that were recorded with the phones camcorder.
then it seems as if im scrolling between home screens with single digit fps. waay too choppy and unstable for a final release, at least on my end.
anything i can do without doing a hard reset?

I haven't had any of these problems...other than an incredibly slow download/installation, I've seen nothing but speed from FroYo
Hope you can fix whatever bug you're having :\

i dont get it man.. my previews in the gallery take forever to load and when i click on a video for example, it lags like crazy. video that was taken with the phone skips very bad this update just made my phone as slow as my mytouch3g

Stock or rooted?
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must be a class 2 card or user error

its all stock. no way is this user error... havent rooted. uninstalled most of the apps and nada.. next thing to do is just a hard reset which will suck
sometimes the videos play and sometimes they dont. after the ota, when they do play its all choppy. never had that with 2.1. even the home screen was nice and smooth and when i got froyo theres major lag. sometimes it takes a good 1-2 seconds for the screen to scroll to the next. if it doesnt lag that much then its just all around choppy. i guess i got "lucky"

Do a factory data reset. Probably a bad setting or app from before the update that didn't transfer well. That will definitely fix it for you. You will start flying with this update.

i hope youre right man... will report back. thanks

manooti said:
i hope youre right man... will report back. thanks
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the video lag is a bug in the update..i have it too

I'm not running HTC's final build... so I don't know.
Have you tried 2-3 soft resets?
Waiting it out?
I'd do anything but a full reset cause I hate losing data.
Anyway, try running some benchmarks to see if it is the UI that is lacking or the overall performance of the phone decreased.
Try linpack... it should be 35-40'ish MFLOPS.
There are other benchmarks... I guess try Neocore which should be around 25 without 30fps cap...

i deleted questionable apps and updated the ones i thought were trustworthy but still lagged like crazy. had no choice but to reset phone.. man i have to say this thing is crazy fast now. i can see the snappiness that people spoke of!
the video lag is really bad though because i do use the phones camcorder. i hope they release a patch or update for the video playback or whatever is causing the video lag

EB13 Lowlight Camera solution?

Theres alot of chatter on this. This is the deal breaker for some of us so please post if there is a solution at all on any version of froyo. Some say the camera blur is on all the leaks and the final EB13. Is that true?

I just tested it...
My camera was extremely unusable just now. But yesterday, I was able to record a basketball game perfectly indoors.
This was not present in dk28.
Dk28 actually had great lowlight useability... I recorded a few videos out in the park around midnight without flash and they were easily viewable. Flash was just a plus.
But now seeing this problem I might actually go back to dk28...I realllllly don't want to, but ima need the camera to work in low light...
I thought it was just recording laggy, but the playback was exactly the same
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I wonder if anybodys tried it with the OC kernel...it could possibly make up for the lag that is present. I don't think there will be a solution here on xda anyone soon, IMHO. This all seems to be a camera driver issue as I believe samsung changed the inherent behavior of the camera.
but this is all speculation of course
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You know... I thought it was just me aswell. I reflashed the samsung tool again. After a full boot up, launched camera. It was actually better but not eclair better, then I did the prl update and profile update, reboot and now its it worse! This is actualy good news. Meaning that its just a software bug.

squshy 7 said:
I wonder if anybodys tried it with the OC kernel...it could possibly make up for the lag that is present. I don't think there will be a solution here on xda anyone soon, IMHO. This all seems to be a camera driver issue as I believe samsung changed the inherent behavior of the camera.
but this is all speculation of course
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oh yeah. I used 1.2 genocide. No help, just as blurry.

inconsistent
The camera on the Epic has been inconsistent even before upgrading to Android 2.2. Sometimes the images rival a good point-n-shoot but only when there is plenty of light. The fact that the camera sticks out and collects smudges just from holding the phone does not help.
I have had better luck playing with the ISO and other settings. Even just leaving the camera in Macro seems to produce better results.
Is there a better camera app?

I wonder if anyone's had any luck installing the eclair camera app?
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I switched back to 2.1 because of it using odin. 2.2 saves video in mp4 format, 2.1 saves video in 3gp. That may have something to do with it.

Is there a way to change it t 3gp? I don't think a lot of texting 0hones can handle mp4 lol
And has anyon tried a 3rd party camera app?
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A_Flying_Fox said:
Is there a way to change it t 3gp? I don't think a lot of texting 0hones can handle mp4 lol
And has anyon tried a 3rd party camera app?
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I don't think a 3rd party app will make a difference as far as quality. The drivers are the issue.

R0YB0T said:
I switched back to 2.1 because of it using odin. 2.2 saves video in mp4 format, 2.1 saves video in 3gp. That may have something to do with it.
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It is NOT a 3GP issue. I am running DK28 Quantum ROM and there are NO camera issues at all. I'm not going to EB13 until there is a fix for this.

R0YB0T said:
I switched back to 2.1 because of it using odin. 2.2 saves video in mp4 format, 2.1 saves video in 3gp. That may have something to do with it.
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I dont think do. Maybe the outcome of the video should be effected but not the live feed on the screen. I haven't tried the apk from eclair, but I have tried the dk28 on eclair. It FC.

ZenInsight said:
It is NOT a 3GP issue. I am running DK28 Quantum ROM and there are NO camera issues at all. I'm not going to EB13 until there is a fix for this.
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ill try that rom in about 3 hours. I need to see if its true since aloe of people have said that this camera blue is on ALL froyos.

abduljaffar said:
ill try that rom in about 3 hours. I need to see if its true since aloe of people have said that this camera blue is on ALL froyos.
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You may have to take into account that a couple of these dk28 roms have some pretty nice enhancements and tweaks that might make the issue seem less severe.
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mattallica76 said:
You may have to take into account that a couple of these dk28 roms have some pretty nice enhancements and tweaks that might make the issue seem less severe.
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I was running the stock DK28 rom downloaded from Google when it was first leaked and I had zero problems with the camera.
I own a pretty dimly lit store, and I took several videos in there with the phone that I posted to YouTube showing off our products, with DK28. Now with EB13, the camera is useless in the same store with the same light.
This was not a problem with DK28. It's not Froyo. It's EB13 that's the problem.

ZenInsight said:
I'm not going to EB13 until there is a fix for this.
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Considering it took them 6 months to crank out this mess, you could be waiting an eternity for something better.

slybarman said:
Considering it took them 6 months to crank out this mess, you could be waiting an eternity for something better.
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thats my fear aswell. But sprint and samsung just pulled the update from their sites. So that means they do know of these issues anf realize it has to be pulled and fixed. But comparing eclair to froyo camera performance is night and day. Pretty much useless at low light. I need low light. But I will never buy htc just because they update faster. Htc has their own awful hardware problens like under performing gpu and cpu.

abduljaffar said:
thats my fear aswell. But sprint and samsung just pulled the update from their sites. So that means they do know of these issues anf realize it has to be pulled and fixed. But comparing eclair to froyo camera performance is night and day. Pretty much useless at low light. I need low light. But I will never buy htc just because they update faster. Htc has their own awful hardware problens like under performing gpu and cpu.
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Hopefully enough people alert them to the camera and graphics issues. I think right now they are only worried about peoples sd card data being randomly deleted.

Just got off phone with advanced tech support for sprint talking to them about the updates, and i said you know why im calling she said yes, I said why am i calling she said because of the low light issue and the update, I said exactly. she said and I quote " samsung is aware of the issue and the solution they have said will fix it is to do a master reset"
I for one find this irrittating as a solution. im not doing it just cuz my camera cant see low light

boominz28 said:
Just got off phone with advanced tech support for sprint talking to them about the updates, and i said you know why im calling she said yes, I said why am i calling she said because of the low light issue and the update, I said exactly. she said and I quote " samsung is aware of the issue and the solution they have said will fix it is to do a master reset"
I for one find this irrittating as a solution. im not doing it just cuz my camera cant see low light
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how u do a master reset? U mean the 768 dial code? Or odin flash?

Camera issues since Gingerbread update!!

Ever since I updated to gingerbread, my camera takes HORRIBLE pictures if I'm in a setting that has even the smallest amount of low light. My camera used to perform 100 times better than this. The flash used to illuminate small rooms fairly well. Now it is terrible. Even if I turn the brightness setting of the camera to the highest setting, it makes no change. I did experience this issue with the Shift roms as well, but I thought it would not have been a problem with the official release. Is anyone else having similar issues? Forgive me if this has been discussed. I searched the forums, but could not find anythig. I know brightness issues have been reported, but I believe they were all just in reference to the screen brightness.

I am also having issues after the update... Two things I noticed, there is a delay in the time it takes for the phone to actually take a picture and the phone has been randomly been crashing (restarting) after taking a picture..
Not fond of the update..

I posted this a while back, I have the same Damn problem so annoying, but it still take grate pictures just having to avoid low lighting
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Oh and its not screen brightness, I noticed the flash is way off, when you take a picture in low light to no light, it seems that the camera and flash are timed right
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My issue last night with my camera is I was trying to use it as a backup for a wedding until I got batteries to swap out of my Canon. I tried using it in low light and got a FC 4 separate times. Not just a FC but a complete reboot. There is also the thing of my brightness setting going to max after using the camera. It didnt just happen on my camera, also happened on my wifes and she is on a different ROM from me. I use Miks and she is on OMJ, well almost the same ROM. Anyway it was annoying waiting for the camera to reset and Yeah I did miss some of the shots that shouldnt have been missed. That'll teach me to bring extra batteries for my Canon.

In the spirit of GB and camera issues, I recently had a message saying my drivers were missing. Yay. Had to reboot, and it cost me a picture of my aunts ceremony. *sigh*
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crazzysandman said:
it seems that the camera and flash are timed right
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flash and pic are outta sync on mine as well. just found out last night. all this time we waited and for what? where's my hero at lol.

New update slightly fixed it, its better than before just manually for the update
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I have the new update (4.24) my camera is still whack as well. The flash is not in sync with the shutter and the phone reboots randomly after shooting. im not rooted and with totally stock. I have hard reset the phone and all with no improvement.

I have reverted back to Froyo. I don't notice how often I used my phones camera in low light conditions. Hopefully there will be a fix soon enough.
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Give this camera as hot. Works real well for me. I took some bomb pics during a bigtime storm that rolled through today and they look great

NYC Eng said:
I am also having issues after the update... Two things I noticed, there is a delay in the time it takes for the phone to actually take a picture and the phone has been randomly been crashing (restarting) after taking a picture..
Not fond of the update..
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Same problem here too using mikes ROM

I just tried your camera app and it forced closed on my evo
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For low-light pics, try changing your ISO settings from Auto to ISO200 or even 400. It will make pics a bit grainier, so experiment a bit. I normally run 200 without issue.
EDIT: BTW, which ROM are you running? Stock OTA? Custom?

bsims85 said:
I have reverted back to Froyo. I don't notice how often I used my phones camera in low light conditions. Hopefully there will be a fix soon enough.
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Where and how did you flash back to Froyo? I am unrooted Stock Sprint Evo 4G

fsubartender said:
Where and how did you flash back to Froyo? I am unrooted Stock Sprint Evo 4G
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If you have an unrooted phone with Froyo, just search xda for Unrevoked3. It will explain everything and its simple. If you are unrooted with Gingerbread, you are out of luck at the moment. I was already rooted and installed a rooted gingerbread Rom.
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[Q] picture rendering time problem?

I didn't notice any problem like this in any of my other devices.
but whenever i take a picture with G2, and try to have a look at it in gallary,
the picture would first look really blurry at first.
and after 0.5~1 second, the the blur image would get cleaned up from top to bottom of the screen in multiple section, from right to left.
is this normal? or do i have a defect phone?
sorry for the multiple threads, my computer froze up for a second :/

It's normal. These are HUGE images and it is just essentially needing time to "load" it up and process it.
You can also try using a third-party app like Quick Pic which I think does a little better job of caching things.
But no, you don't have a defective phone just because of that.

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It's normal. These are HUGE images and it is just essentially needing time to "load" it up and process it.
You can also try using a third-party app like Quick Pic which I think does a little better job of caching things.
But no, you don't have a defective phone just because of that.
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okay, thanks for the info.
can i ask you few more question? i don't feel like starting another thread.
first question is about the camera. whenever i try to record something while moving the camera, the camera would try to focus itself very often. it feels like it's doing it too much. is this normal?
second, i don't know if you would know this, but would outdated router prevent G2 from getting connect to the home network?
thx XD

ILLHYHL said:
okay, thanks for the info.
can i ask you few more question? i don't feel like starting another thread.
first question is about the camera. whenever i try to record something while moving the camera, the camera would try to focus itself very often. it feels like it's doing it too much. is this normal?
second, i don't know if you would know this, but would outdated router prevent G2 from getting connect to the home network?
thx XD
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1) Yea, its normal for the G2, but its hardly ideal. It is something that has been mentioned in reviews and hopefully a future patch fixes it and makes it more stable.
2) Yes, it would. I've owned routers flat out incompatible for whatever reason with some devices I own. You may have luck forcing the router into a particular channel and/or G-mode -- or upgrading its firmware.

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1) Yea, its normal for the G2, but its hardly ideal. It is something that has been mentioned in reviews and hopefully a future patch fixes it and makes it more stable.
2) Yes, it would. I've owned routers flat out incompatible for whatever reason with some devices I own. You may have luck forcing the router into a particular channel and/or G-mode -- or upgrading its firmware.
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sorry to bother you with so many questions.
one last question
when i record a video with 60fps, and look at the video in the gallary, the video seems to studder alot. the video looks more like 6 fps than 60 fps
i assume this is not normal, right?

ILLHYHL said:
sorry to bother you with so many questions.
one last question
when i record a video with 60fps, and look at the video in the gallary, the video seems to studder alot. the video looks more like 6 fps than 60 fps
i assume this is not normal, right?
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Yeah, video sucks right now. It's really unfortunate as this is mostly an excellent phone. I'm sure DEV support or a official patch will fix it.

ILLHYHL said:
sorry to bother you with so many questions.
one last question
when i record a video with 60fps, and look at the video in the gallary, the video seems to studder alot. the video looks more like 6 fps than 60 fps
i assume this is not normal, right?
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lattiboy said:
Yeah, video sucks right now. It's really unfortunate as this is mostly an excellent phone. I'm sure DEV support or a official patch will fix it.
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Hmm, my 1080p 60fps video is fine on playback...
I usually opt for 720p though just to conserve space and because the video usually ends up on facebook or youtube anyway so it isn't like 1080/60 is necessary.

burningembers said:
Hmm, my 1080p 60fps video is fine on playback...
I usually opt for 720p though just to conserve space and because the video usually ends up on facebook or youtube anyway so it isn't like 1080/60 is necessary.
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really? hm... i should go back to the tmo store and compare mine with the display ones...