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Honeycomb 3.1 Initial Impressions

If Honeycomb gives every users a mind-blowing experience from Froyo and Gingerbread, Honeycomb 3.1 is quite a update in terms of user experiences.
It improves over quite a number of areas to fix the glitches from here and there due to a first generation OS release.
One phrase to describe it is
Smoothness and responsiveness.
I had a head-to-head comparison with iPad 2 (my friend's) and my Xoom last weekend.
While apps I can find almost what I need from both iOS and Android (tablet compatible), one observable issue is the screen and apps responsiveness. Even my Xoom at that time was overclocked to 1.5G thanks to Tiamat's kernel, it barely matched iPad 2's screen by screen browsing, web page browsing and speed of apps opening etc.
With this 3.1 update, I thought Google hit home run on this front.
Other improvements includes previous mentioned by other folks
1. Recovery boot option appears (from folks who updated "naturally")
2. Under system update , there is a button to hit "check now" , so that we don't need to change system time to force a check everytime.
3. Resizable widgets (Gmail widget tested) is very handy
4. other publicly announced improvements.
Still exploring features now, rooted with instructions from this link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1073884
Thanks stachre!
Will post a quick review with more screenshots on website. =)
Happy xooming folks!!!

Along with your points, I like that the recent apps bar now scrolls as well.

The YouTube app looks awesome in HD.
Sent from my Xoom using Tapatalk

Bluetooth sucks. My keyboard keeps dropping when the mouse is connected. Other than that this thing seems great. Just waiting for some new kernels to drop now!

The new Quick Controls in the browser are fantastic. Overall the browser is much more responsive.
I've also noticed the keyboard lag seems to be gone.
Other differences are minor....
- the selection carrot when typing is more green
- the keyboard clicks as you type
- the Wi-Fi icon shows when you are uploading, downloading
I'm sure I will find more but its only been an hour since I flashed.
Sent from my Xoom using XDA Premium App

I'm wondering if you guys could test and see if the portrait lag is still there?
When you are in portrait mode, does sliding left or right in the home screen still lag? Thanks!

Windstep said:
I'm wondering if you guys could test and see if the portrait lag is still there?
When you are in portrait mode, does sliding left or right in the home screen still lag? Thanks!
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1. yes. I think it is considered lag.
2. no, not at all.

flippingout said:
The new Quick Controls in the browser are fantastic. Overall the browser is much more responsive.
I've also noticed the keyboard lag seems to be gone.
Other differences are minor....
- the selection carrot when typing is more green
- the keyboard clicks as you type
- the Wi-Fi icon shows when you are uploading, downloading
I'm sure I will find more but its only been an hour since I flashed.
Sent from my Xoom using XDA Premium App
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Also in Market, you can choose "app content filter". Damn I can't select "High Maturity" alone.

Thanks jiwengan for the quick reply. Not exactly sure how I should interpret your answer though? Are you saying that there is no lag when in portrait mode anymore? Thanks again!

Can you actually rate apps in the market on Honeycomb yet?

What quick controls in the browser? Mine looks the exact same

DroidHam said:
What quick controls in the browser? Mine looks the exact same
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Quick controls look just like the ones that were already present in labs.

do you still have to be rooted to use a screenshot app?

I'm liking the performance enhancements.
For the browser quick controls, just to go settings in the browser, advanced and google labs.
I don't see any addition to leave comments yet in the market though.
Sent from my Xoom using Tapatalk

jblalock said:
Quick controls look just like the ones that were already present in labs.
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in labs? So what exactly changed in 3.1? People keep saying they love the new browser but i dont see it any diff?

Labs is a section in the browser options where you have a few options to alternate your UI for example. One of which are the quick controls.
And they changed a bit so they got even better. Just try them...

Windstep said:
Thanks jiwengan for the quick reply. Not exactly sure how I should interpret your answer though? Are you saying that there is no lag when in portrait mode anymore? Thanks again!
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He got confused on your questions.
his answer number 1 which was no, meant that when you actually turn it from horizontal to portrait, it still lags slightly before changing the screen orientation..
and his number 2 was to answer your actual question, which according to him is yes, it runs smoother than before.....
I'd like to see this for myself, but I'M STILL WAITING!

Windstep said:
Thanks jiwengan for the quick reply. Not exactly sure how I should interpret your answer though? Are you saying that there is no lag when in portrait mode anymore? Thanks again!
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Portrait is smoother, but still not as smooth as landscape on mine. The update is fantastic though. Overall performance is better. The quick controls redefine tabbed browsing to me. No complaints.

The quick controls are two "rows" thick now instead of 1 and there are a few more controls. It is more definitely different from before as I used the quick controls heavily and noticed the change instantly. Overall a much nicer experience.

Has media playback improved? I'm mostly interested in how HC 3.1 does with scene HD TV show MKVs (720p with H264/AC3).
Thanks.

Galaxy S2 Hidden Bugs

I have been using the phone for 3 weeks now and have discovered the following bugs that no one reported till now:
- List View in the menu causes the app drawer to crash then return back to grid view
- Overall volume (Ringtone, Music..etc) becomes low after using the phone for sometime
- Opening more than 3 windows in the browser causes a freeze with a white screen (rotating the screen to landscape then to portrait again fixes the issue)
- Pressing the call button on my MW600 bluetooth headset causes the phone to crash
I will update more in the future, but for now I only got those
Firmware: JPKF3

I have had none of these.

Jimbojib said:
I have had none of these.
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+1 (except I have a different brand of BT headset)

BarryH_GEG said:
+1 (except I have a different brand of BT headset)
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+2 none of these

List view has been reported by other users too. I didn't encounter any of those problems till now.

It might be worth adding info about your firmware version etc
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List view also happens a lot on HTC phones

I have another one:
- Accuweather doesn't work in the bedside clock app. Somehow it can't get a connection.

elkikin said:
I have another one:
- Accuweather doesn't work in the bedside clock app. Somehow it can't get a connection.
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From within the app, have you gone in to Settings>AccuWeather>Auto refresh and made sure it's enabled?

Flash 10.3 (update) quirkiness/slight incompatibility with some flash video formats?
- I find MPEG decode artifacts with h264 flash videos e.g. videos on BBC news website.
Gives subtle but noticable flickering horizontal lines during playback, particularly when lots of contrast difference within the video.
Only fix is to uninstall Flash 10.3 back to slower 10.1.
(Firmware KE7 and now KF2)

A weird touchscreen issue on the contacts page, swipe all the way down and you get a delay in swiping back up after the bounce:/
[email protected]
Sent from my Samsung Galactic Crusader S II

I've had the list crash issue too (stock rom).

cant play videos in stock players

When selected it only darkens the screen...but nothing
Plays fine on mobo player.
Tried recording and playing, but get the same issue. I can open and play it on the movie editor app..
So much for being anxious about the damn update

Are you updated to 3.2 ? Sounds like some people had problems with the 3.2...

lmcdesign said:
Are you updated to 3.2 ? Sounds like some people had problems with the 3.2...
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Yes 3.2
Never rooted

rotate 90 degrees rty again and itshould work normal from then on i and others have confirmed it works stange fix but it works

this is happening for me as well! Default player - suck lol i had to manually open rockplayer to even play a movie! Default player is no good and keyboard still blows with lag

nego_0 said:
rotate 90 degrees rty again and itshould work normal from then on i and others have confirmed it works stange fix but it works
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Nego_0, it works UNTIL you restart your TF. Once you restart, it is back to needing to apply your fix again. Again, it is fine until you restart. Try it.
The problem seems to be when it needs to load the "complete action using" screen for the user to choose the program, the screen does not show up. If you apply the fix Nego_0 is suggesting it will work. The you can choose the default player such as Moboplayer and then it will always load through Moboplayer as you select your file even after restarting. This bug is reported and members are actively looking for a solution. For now the work around seems to be choose a default player.

I was reading a lot of TF users about this bug after the 3.2 update, I have a WW version and just updated to 3.2 a few hours ago, hoping my TF will not show this kind of bug, BUT to my dismay I am now one of those experiencing videos not playing in the gallery, I just have to dismount from the dock and rotate my TF everytime I boot up from now on or have to choose another player as a default to by-pass this issue. But I was wondering why others did not experience this bug. I updated mine attached to the dock. I am just wondering those who did not experience this video bug maybe they updated to 3.2 without the dock. If anyone who doesnt have this video bug can please confirm if you updated to 3.2 attached to the dock or not. Thanks.

dadgio1979 said:
I was reading a lot of TF users about this bug after the 3.2 update, I have a WW version and just updated to 3.2 a few hours ago, hoping my TF will not show this kind of bug, BUT to my dismay I am now one of those experiencing videos not playing in the gallery, I just have to dismount from the dock and rotate my TF everytime I boot up from now on or have to choose another player as a default to by-pass this issue. But I was wondering why others did not experience this bug. I updated mine attached to the dock. I am just wondering those who did not experience this video bug maybe they updated to 3.2 without the dock. If anyone who doesnt have this video bug can please confirm if you updated to 3.2 attached to the dock or not. Thanks.
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This is not a TF specific bug. The issue also occurs in the XOOM version of 3.2.
If you select a default video, image, browser, etc app you will not experience this bug since there is no need to ask you which application to use to complete the task. This is why some people see the bug and some people do not, and why it seems to only happen with certain types of files.

jerrykur said:
This is not a TF specific bug. The issue also occurs in the XOOM version of 3.2.
If you select a default video, image, browser, etc app you will not experience this bug since there is no need to ask you which application to use to complete the task. This is why some people see the bug and some people do not, and why it seems to only happen with certain types of files.
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Thanks for the reply, very straight and clear!

[Q] Music stop playing on CM10

Hi,
I have an annoying issue on the latest Quarx's CM10 (18/03). I have this problem since November I think. When I'm playing music from my SD card on any music app (usually I use Play music or PowerAMP) it stop randomly after some music when screen is off.
I think it happen because of RAM management which kill running app on IDLE to increase battery life. But I tried tweak RAM setting and it didn't change nothing.
I think I'm not the one with this issue. I'll take every idea to try to fix this.
Thank you.

Keep your app in foreground.
And if your player has notification thingy, the atk can't kill that app. I think both apps you mentioned has a notification control, SDL it can't be memory management!
Sent from my MB526 using xda premium

Thank you for your reply.
I can keep the app in foreground but it take approximately 30-45mo of RAM so my phone will become very laggy.
I think you're right when you say it can't kill the app because of the notification. But I think android system kill an other background service which is necessary to the music be played correctly. I'll trying to investigate when I'll have more time.
I have an other app called Deezer (French Spotify service). This app never stop or less frequently. I think it's because it use it own decode system (music file are encrypted on the server or memory card). The app don't use external services to decode music so the app continue playing after hours.
Btw I find strange that I'm the only one to complain about this. I will make a clean install in some day.

AW: [Q] Music stop playing on CM10
Hi, you test supercharger script? With this you can look apps in memory or under general I saw a post how to look apps in memory.
Gesendet von meinem MB526

Yes in know how to do it. But if I lock music player in memory, it will take about 40mo all the time. My Defy will become very laggy.

Husi10 said:
Thank you for your reply.
I can keep the app in foreground but it take approximately 30-45mo of RAM so my phone will become very laggy.
I think you're right when you say it can't kill the app because of the notification. But I think android system kill an other background service which is necessary to the music be played correctly. I'll trying to investigate when I'll have more time.
I have an other app called Deezer (French Spotify service). This app never stop or less frequently. I think it's because it use it own decode system (music file are encrypted on the server or memory card). The app don't use external services to decode music so the app continue playing after hours.
Btw I find strange that I'm the only one to complain about this. I will make a clean install in some day.
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Hi Husi10,
I have the same issue as you about music playback.
My problem is the following :
When I'm using Deezer app with CM10 or CM10.1, music playback is frequently laggy (always in the very begenning of the tracks) and sometimes it stops playing in some unknown situations (as you described on this thread).
This issue doesn't occur on CM7.
Did you, as me, notice this playback lags in the begenning of the tracks ?
Did you find a fix or a workaround for this issue on CM10.x since March (date of your post) ?
Thanks

Hi,
Yeah, music playback on Deezer's app is laggy in the beginning of every track. I think there's no workaround because it's a bug with the app itself. It happens also with my tablet (Nexus 10). But playback never stop by itself.
After my post, I did a clean install (wipe data) and also format my SD card. It helped a lot, I never experimented this kind of bug again.

Husi10 said:
Hi,
Yeah, music playback on Deezer's app is laggy in the beginning of every track. I think there's no workaround because it's a bug with the app itself. It happens also with my tablet (Nexus 10). But playback never stop by itself.
After my post, I did a clean install (wipe data) and also format my SD card. It helped a lot, I never experimented this kind of bug again.
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Thanks for your reply.
In my experience, music lags issue only occur in CM10.x. Did you already test Deezer on CM7 ?
[EDIT] So, do you think that Deezer is buggy like this only since Android 4.1 ?
On which ROM your Nexus 10 runs ?

My Nexus 10 runs on AOKP (4.2.2). I think it's an issue with Deezer itself, whatever the rom.

Husi10 said:
My Nexus 10 runs on AOKP (4.2.2). I think it's an issue with Deezer itself, whatever the rom.
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OK, did you already try Deezer with stock ROM on your Nexus 10 ? If yes, same lags ?

Yes, there are lags at the beginning of each songs.

Husi10 said:
Yes, there are lags at the beginning of each songs.
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Hi,
I'm just (re)testing Deezer on my Defy running Quarx CM10.1 build (2013-06-26).
I've changed I/O scheduler to "cfq" (before my change, it was "sio") and it seems to work better, I don't notice lags at the beginning of each songs for the moment. :fingers-crossed:
Is it the same for you ? Could you test it in order to confirm my potential finding ?
Thanks

Oh yeah that's really better with cfq scheduler. Thank you for the tips.

Husi10 said:
Oh yeah that's really better with cfq scheduler. Thank you for the tips.
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You're welcome !
Thanks for tests.

Husi10 said:
Oh yeah that's really better with cfq scheduler. Thank you for the tips.
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After one more day of tests with cfq i/o scheduler, I've noticed that lags at the beginning of a song still occur BUT only after launching Deezer and only with the first song. The next songs playback is smooth.

*[Discussion] CM11 Novafusion bugs and problems"

Hey guys,
This is a discussion about cm11 Novafusion bugs and problems if anyone have any bug
. He can post it here and @New Macław can check it to keep his thread about cm11 rom clean and talk about development only

Shuts down while charging
Answer button of Samsung hearphones doesn't work.
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Problem with On Demand TV apps
I have a real niggle at the moment where I cannot use the BBC iPlayer, the ITV Player or the 4OD apps. The apps work and provide the ability to select programmes to watch but each fails to play video and audio (sometimes e.g. iPlayer there is broken/distorted audio).
I have noted that there are a few similar reports on maclaw.pl from other rom users.
In earlier versions of the ROM these apps did work, but I cannot recall which. I am currently using 11-20140318-UNOFFICIAL-golden.
I used to get lots of reboots but after installing this ROM and doing a factory reset these have stopped. This version for me is incredibly stable and works well except for this issue.
Can this be resolved?
PCS

Please download and test latest 20140320 release
Changelogs:
20140320
CM sources update
stable release
minor RIL fixes
better battery life due to disabling looking for LTE networks
Odin package update
20140319
CM sources update
stable release
minor RIL fixes
fixed mic issues in Google OK (thanks PedroM.CostaAndrade)
again fighting with camera – for me it’s ok at all
Odin package update
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piskor said:
Please download and test latest 20140320 release
Changelogs:
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+1
Please before reporting about any issue .. make sure that u follow the installation structions and using the latest release cause maye your issues is already sloved

gaming app bugs
I've downloaded two apps on my s3 mini and there are bugs that i never experienced with stock rom
the new app flappy bird makes a distorted sound when the bird in the app falls and some of the letters in the app jus come up as small black boxes.
i was getting the same problem with a game called car parking the letters bearly show up and the sound is distorted when i navigate through the menus.
i have no idea whether its a problem with the rom or if its the apps that bug out itself
ANY SOLUTIONS???

just some minor bugs that doesnt effect daily use.
i have
*sound adjustment and discrepancy
*whatsapp loads late or doesnt load at all
apollo looks weird with scrollbar
didnt Experience clock freeze.
Sent from my GT-I8190

incall loudspeaker volume (have to press vol+ or vol- every time) and delay answering call (people never hear the first "hello").
why doesn't anyone fix this i8190

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2248340
kwasi.orosco said:
I've downloaded two apps on my s3 mini and there are bugs that i never experienced with stock rom
the new app flappy bird makes a distorted sound when the bird in the app falls and some of the letters in the app jus come up as small black boxes.
i was getting the same problem with a game called car parking the letters bearly show up and the sound is distorted when i navigate through the menus.
i have no idea whether its a problem with the rom or if its the apps that bug out itself
ANY SOLUTIONS???
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Maybe the problem with audio driver ..
Just a suggestion try to backup your rom then un install dspmanager and flash acid audio engine with clear audio + addon and see if it is solved .. if not just restore your rom again .... ( just for trying)
I was using it with my wonder and now use it with s3 mini and work good

Yeah thanks for that never thought of that will try that later ....... BTW jus asking what's the latest version of the rom? Is there an update for it?
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On my phone "camera widget" in nav bar doesn't work

kwasi.orosco said:
Yeah thanks for that never thought of that will try that later ....... BTW jus asking what's the latest version of the rom? Is there an update for it?
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There is an update today see it in development section

GT-I8190 I8190XXAMG4
cm11.0_golden.maclaw.20140314.ODIN_TWRP.tar.md5
- no video acceleration in diceplayer, mx player
- camera app crashes then trying to record a video
- function keys backlighting is lit every time an sms is received even though lights are disabled in settings

Harry Turner said:
GT-I8190 I8190XXAMG4
cm11.0_golden.maclaw.20140314.ODIN_TWRP.tar.md5
- no video acceleration in diceplayer, mx player
- camera app crashes then trying to record a video
- function keys backlighting is lit every time an sms is received even though lights are disabled in settings
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camera already fixed in latest release 22/03/2014

Wifi direct
The only bug that I have found is about wifi direct.It doesn't work at all jaja

bugs
hi dev....
i found any bugs in this rom
- ajust bright setting can not chose in auto mode
- if i scroll wallpapper in home, is can not back to center posittion
how to fixall that ???
please dev ... help me...
thanks before

odoy said:
hi dev....
i found any bugs in this rom
- ajust bright setting can not chose in auto mode
- if i scroll wallpapper in home, is can not back to center posittion
how to fixall that ???
please dev ... help me...
thanks before
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we dobt have a light sensor. so its normal that you cant enable auto-brightness
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- background image cannot be set sort of it changes position often afterwards or the zoom doesn't go with what was set
- cannot change network mode (3g, 2g)
- doesn't find software updates
Thank you for making the rom though ;D I'm very happy with it! :victory:

Aronuser said:
- background image cannot be set sort of it changes position often afterwards or the zoom doesn't go with what was set
- cannot change network mode (3g, 2g)
- doesn't find software updates
Thank you for making the rom though ;D I'm very happy with it! :victory:
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:3 :v we cant directly apply cm updates. maclaw adding theese daily cm updates to his releases.
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Notification Sound
Has anybody else no Notification Sound?
Tried to change but there comes no Sound.