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Anybody else experiencing this issue?
I looked everywhere but found no real solution.......
Tried flashing new rom no luck ...
This was quite common with the S2, what you can try is to power off your phone and remove the battery for 20-30mins, if the same issue occurs either the battery sensor is messed up or IDK.
Happened with my infuse in the summer out in the sunlight and i posted a topic in there about it. They say its normal
Well I tried this still not working .....
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Same problem here. Even i charge my Note also is heating. Dun know why.
Screen bright again
I dont know what cause this problem, but I got the same thing on my phone. A temporarily solution is to install Brightness Level from Android Market. It does not fix the problem in the system settings but it makes your screen 100% bright again
opiujn said:
I dont know what cause this problem, but I got the same thing on my phone. A temporarily solution is to install Brightness Level from Android Market. It does not fix the problem in the system settings but it makes your screen 100% bright again
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Maximum brightness? trying to get blind?
just joking....
Why so much brightness?
You know that you will get burn-in sooner with so much brightness?
yea sometimes its like a heatpad on my thigh jeans pocket
Well for me it dissapeared suddenly... I'm happy
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Jeshter2000 said:
Anybody else experiencing this issue?
I looked everywhere but found no real solution.......
Tried flashing new rom no luck ...
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I got this issue before , here is my solation
Use titanium backup to wipe the setting/wallpaper
Than u can adjust brightness but can't set wallpapers
Reboot your phone ...and everything good like before
Jeshter2000 said:
Well for me it dissapeared suddenly... I'm happy
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Problems that go away on their own, come back on their own...
Is there a way to remove this protection?
When I have the gps in the car I get that all the time, even if the phone is not hot at all, very annoying because with the sun and sunglasses -> cant see the screen very well.. stupid!
If you have one of those tpu softcases you will not know whether or not your note is hot just by the feel. Those cases are terrific insulators. I had overheating with the Note on GPS and charging. It actually shut down once and dropped out of the GPS signal a couple of times. Took the Nillikin case off and found that the whole phone was very hot.
After the case was removed I continued the trip with four days of continuous GPS and on charge with no problems. Even with the TPU naked, it still got pretty warm at the top half of the phone, but worked fine with brightness set pretty high. I think this is normal for the Note
[FiX] Galaxy Note ICS OVERHEATING PROBLEM SOLVED
[FiX] Galaxy Note ICS OVERHEATING PROBLEM SOLVED:
1 Go to settings- developer options - UNCHECK "Dont keep activities"
2 Use go launcher ex (or some other good launcher...) instead of default launcher
3 Instal from google play android assistant and use it to clean cache and stop most of background process
4 install from google play "cpu master free" (MUST HAVE ROOTED PHONE) and set 1000 MHz for MAXIMUM, and check box "set on boot"
P.S. DO NOT expect that your phone will be cold as ice after you do this...
ICS is build that you can use max. out of dual core, and galaxy note is pretty slim and back is made out of plastic...All that increase heating problem...
Hope i helped! =D
download the free version of "watchdog" and it will give you an alert if any software uses a lot of cpu power, you might have to go into setting and add system process to the watch list, you can also whitelist and blacklist program so they are killed as soon as they cpu usage goes above a certain level, though this might be pro version only.
Only use watchdog to find the problem and then remove it as it can use quite a bit of cpu power itself.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...GwsMSwyLDYsImNvbS56b211dC53YXRjaGRvZ2xpdGUiXQ..
John.
Having modded the framework for my rom to include lower brightness mod i can say that the values set in the decompiled framework are virtually the same as gb values infact brightness was increased at the lowest level from 32 in gb to 40 in ics with powersaving mode set to 32 in ics
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thering1975 said:
Having modded the framework for my rom to include lower brightness mod i can say that the values set in the decompiled framework are virtually the same as gb values infact brightness was increased at the lowest level from 32 in gb to 40 in ics with powersaving mode set to 32 in ics
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I see no difference at 38 and below in LQ3. The lowest dim at 39. At 40 the brightness will then increase.
legion1911 said:
Maximum brightness? trying to get blind?
just joking....
Why so much brightness?
You know that you will get burn-in sooner with so much brightness?
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Hi legion =)
I most often use phone at 100% brightness simply just because I like it when the screen is bright and clear, colors appear nicely too on high brightness. And outdoors in sunlight its sometimes hard to see whats on the screen even though brightness is set to 100%. You were right about the burn-in. Can see some burn-in if looking very carefully, depending on what colors there are on the screen over the burn-int areas. But still they are so weak and hard to notice even when you know where to look for those areas that I will probably have bought a galaxy note 2 or maybe even 3 before they appear clearly visible and too annoying to endure
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Chaimfire made an app called "root dim "
Does as it says
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I use the goku kernel together with the LRQ stock rom and my phone does not overheet. Sure it gets hot when charging or surfing the web, especially with wifi on. But this has been normal with all smartphones I have owned so far.
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As you can read above i read about a mod for the htc one s wich improves battery-life by lowering the brightness of the screen when auto-brightness is on (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1638559)!
I was wondering if it was possible to port that to the nexus s? and if it is, is there somebody that could do that? ;D
best regards!
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As you can read above i read about a mod for the htc one s wich improves battery-life by lowering the brightness of the screen when auto-brightness is on (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1638559)!
I was wondering if it was possible to port that to the nexus s? and if it is, is there somebody that could do that? ;D
best regards!
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+1 for this
Wtf ? You can set your own levels in CM9 or AOKP and that's exactly what this HTC mod does. Note: stock ICS lowest is 10 (11 on the HTC mod), so nothing's really changed lol. 10% battery save = fairy tale
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Wtf ? You can set your own levels in CM9 or AOKP and that's exactly what this HTC mod does. Note: stock ICS lowest is 10 (11 on the HTC mod), so nothing's really changed lol. 10% battery save = fairy tale
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Except CM9 custom levels aren't responsive for [email protected]?! on the Nexus S... Cannot say for AOKP. Takes way too long for the brightness to scale down compared to GB.
I tried it on aokp for a day now and my battery drained rly fast.. i didnt quite get it though how it worked!
I will just stay with constantly being on the lowest of brightness and only turn it up if i need it at a higher level.. probably the best for my battery!
We all know about turning your brightness down saves battery life... but I had to wonder, why when I had my brightness down so low, on swagged out stock, was my display using over 70% of my battery life and draining my phone out so fast. It was an issue on every other rom too, so I thought it was just a hardware issue.
I discovered the culprit.
Its the backlight on the capacitive buttons on the bottom!
I discovered this by trying out cyanogen, and I was tweaking the autobrightness calibrations. I discovered that regardless of screen brightness, the buttons were at 255 for 4 of the 10 tiers of brightness, while the other 7 they were at zero.
Well, when I'm in a room bright enough for tier 2-4, I don't need the light, and I checked a dark room for the bottom tier, and dropping it all the way down to 1 (from 255 mind you!!!) was sufficient. This stopped LCD backlight bleeding on the bottom edge of the device that was annoying the heck out of me!!!
I also recalibrated autobrightness to what I'd use as manual brightness at various light conditions.
I tried it with very active use for a few hours...drastically slower battery life drain.
Since I'm on cyanogen 7.2 nightly (night after RC3 came out), I'm using the tiamat 4.1.1 kernel.
My CPU drain is semi irrelevant because I use smartassv2, using nstools, to recalibrate the governor to be much more battery friendly. My ideal, sleep, and wakeup speeds are 100mhz, while my max is 100, and min is 85. Doesn't feel laggy at all. Clock is still 245 to 998mhz.
I think you are onto something big here.
I've also noticed that on some roms the display is always the biggest drainer. By back light you mean the 4 button at the bottom right. Now I'm on Deck's Reloaded and loving it but would like to improve on battery. The best rom ever that I have had is MikMik v3.11 with AnthraX 2.6.38.6-REV_004 kernel. Display was never the biggest drainer, in fact the battery would last way too long, I thought something was wrong with my phone setup. I guess either Mik rom or Anthrax kernel had a tweak for back light built in. Now that I remember it was after I installed Anthrax kernel. It was a great setup but ran out of mem all the time.
Thanks so much for sharing I think i've seen a setting for this in the rom I'm sporting now.
Not that Deck's Reloaded is bad on battery its good+ but there is always an new improvement to try out.
Angelus359 said:
I checked a dark room for the bottom tier, and dropping it all the way down to 1 (from 255 mind you!!!) was sufficient. This stopped LCD backlight bleeding on the bottom edge of the device that was annoying the heck out of me!!!
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There is no difference in light output between 1 and 255. If it is anything other than zero, the capacitive lights are fully "on" (and light bleeds just as much as it ever does).
But if what you say is true (ie the backlight behind the capacitive buttons causes a lot of battery drain), then yes, it's a great idea to set it to zero for the three levels above total darkness that aren't already zero.
Lux brightness can fix this its an extremely customizable brightness app that you can choose thresh hold for captive lights and how bright your screen is in a particular light
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jrollercoasters said:
Lux brightness can fix this its an extremely customizable brightness app that you can choose thresh hold for captive lights and how bright your screen is in a particular light
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+1 for Lux...quick and easy
any lux or doenst matter?
I just disabled the bottom button light for all frequencies. I know where and what the buttons are/do from memory.
I've noticed SERIOUS improvements. I've noticed on manual brightness, its always on.
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We all know about turning your brightness down saves battery life... but I had to wonder, why when I had my brightness down so low, on swagged out stock, was my display using over 70% of my battery life and draining my phone out so fast. It was an issue on every other rom too, so I thought it was just a hardware issue.
I discovered the culprit.
Its the backlight on the capacitive buttons on the bottom!
I discovered this by trying out cyanogen, and I was tweaking the autobrightness calibrations. I discovered that regardless of screen brightness, the buttons were at 255 for 4 of the 10 tiers of brightness, while the other 7 they were at zero.
Well, when I'm in a room bright enough for tier 2-4, I don't need the light, and I checked a dark room for the bottom tier, and dropping it all the way down to 1 (from 255 mind you!!!) was sufficient. This stopped LCD backlight bleeding on the bottom edge of the device that was annoying the heck out of me!!!
I also recalibrated autobrightness to what I'd use as manual brightness at various light conditions.
I tried it with very active use for a few hours...drastically slower battery life drain.
Since I'm on cyanogen 7.2 nightly (night after RC3 came out), I'm using the tiamat 4.1.1 kernel.
My CPU drain is semi irrelevant because I use smartassv2, using nstools, to recalibrate the governor to be much more battery friendly. My ideal, sleep, and wakeup speeds are 100mhz, while my max is 100, and min is 85. Doesn't feel laggy at all. Clock is still 245 to 998mhz.
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Good info, I will play around with my settings and see what kind of progress I can make improving battery life and report back here.
downloading screen filter app from the market disables soft key buttons and dims brightness to whatever you want with a touch of a button.
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After more experimentation, I have found that this has to be the single largest change on extending the evo's battery in history, besides not running the screen at max.
I finally don't murder my battery every day!
After I did my testing, I actually put in a new battery, anker 1700mah from amazon, and it got even better Now I really only need to charge every 2 days.
Great info-will have to do some messing around and check it out!
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Angelus359 said:
After more experimentation, I have found that this has to be the single largest change on extending the evo's battery in history, besides not running the screen at max.
I finally don't murder my battery every day!
After I did my testing, I actually put in a new battery, anker 1700mah from amazon, and it got even better Now I really only need to charge every 2 days.
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I just got the same battery yesterday is yours draining fast i dont know if maybe it soposto do that.
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Ok... what exactly are you talking about with 255 and tiers? The only way I know to adjust the screen brightness is on the slider under settings, display, then just slide it over.
Please inform so I can save my battery from early death too
Angelus359 said:
We all know about turning your brightness down saves battery life... but I had to wonder, why when I had my brightness down so low, on swagged out stock, was my display using over 70% of my battery life and draining my phone out so fast. It was an issue on every other rom too, so I thought it was just a hardware issue.
I discovered the culprit.
Its the backlight on the capacitive buttons on the bottom!
I discovered this by trying out cyanogen, and I was tweaking the autobrightness calibrations. I discovered that regardless of screen brightness, the buttons were at 255 for 4 of the 10 tiers of brightness, while the other 7 they were at zero.
Well, when I'm in a room bright enough for tier 2-4, I don't need the light, and I checked a dark room for the bottom tier, and dropping it all the way down to 1 (from 255 mind you!!!) was sufficient. This stopped LCD backlight bleeding on the bottom edge of the device that was annoying the heck out of me!!!
I also recalibrated autobrightness to what I'd use as manual brightness at various light conditions.
I tried it with very active use for a few hours...drastically slower battery life drain.
Since I'm on cyanogen 7.2 nightly (night after RC3 came out), I'm using the tiamat 4.1.1 kernel.
My CPU drain is semi irrelevant because I use smartassv2, using nstools, to recalibrate the governor to be much more battery friendly. My ideal, sleep, and wakeup speeds are 100mhz, while my max is 100, and min is 85. Doesn't feel laggy at all. Clock is still 245 to 998mhz.
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For whoever this helps:
I've been using Karma's Heaven ROM since last saturday and the battery life has just been AWESOME!. I've tried about 30 different ROMs in the past year and this seems to have finally done it for me.
Just my 2cents.
Hey all not trying to threadjack, but is there a way to disable the buttons so when it is dark they come on, but off when it is bright out?
patmanz28 said:
Hey all not trying to threadjack, but is there a way to disable the buttons so when it is dark they come on, but off when it is bright out?
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The short answer is yes. The slightly longer answer is that it can be done but the ease of doing it depends on your ROM.
If you are on a CM9 based ROM you can use this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1702125
Although it says it's for CM9, it should work with other aosp roms as well...I've used it on Decks reloaded and Paranoid Android. I couldn't tell you about Sense
jrollercoasters said:
Lux brightness can fix this its an extremely customizable brightness app that you can choose thresh hold for captive lights and how bright your screen is in a particular light
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Cant get it to work can u explain how to make it work
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Hey there, got my N4 this morning, its a good upgrade from the GNexus. I haven't had any problems so far, besides the GMail not syncing and the lack of a LED notification light. Or so I thought at first, its actually on, but incredibly dim, so I didn't even notice.
Is this just me?
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Hey there, got my N4 this morning, its a good upgrade from the GNexus. I haven't had any problems so far, besides the GMail not syncing and the lack of a LED notification light. Or so I thought at first, its actually on, but incredibly dim, so I didn't even notice.
Is this just me?
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It appears to just be you, my notification LED is rather bright, actually. Have you tried tweaking it with a third party app from the Play Store?
Its dim in comparison to the Samsung LED for example the LED on my Note 2 is a lot brighter and more vivid
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Thanks for the replies. Its very dim, even when I tried using Light Flow. I haven't installed any other app that may interfere with it.
In addition, my GMail syncs really slow.
I'm currently re-flashing the stock rom and maybe it'll be fixed.
Thanks
Moved to Q&A
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No your not the only one.. Did flashing the stock ROM help you?..
I notice mines is dim compared to my gnex
Its dim and it blinks unbelievably slow. I dont understand what they were thinking. Notification lights should be bright and obnoxious to.... notify you.
Has anyone found a fix for this yet? The notification light on mine only blinks once then stops. How is this suppose to notify me if I missed a message if it only flashes once and is extremly dim. The Samsung Led light are are way better. Is there going to be a patch for this problem?
Hello fellow RFDer - to the OP
I used light flow with the custom flashing rate, set at 1000/1000 (so 1 second flashes with 1 second gaps) and it seems to work well. Setting any of the other settings (slow - fast) didn't make a difference. I really can't wait for CM where all these items are built in and we dont have to mess with 3rd party apps.
It worked for a while yesterday, now it stopped working. I've since installed Light Flow with no luck, have Light Manager right now (all free so far), but still without success. I've always been a Blackberry person and had a GNexus before, so I'd be lying if I said I wasn't spoiled with a working light.
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Its dim and it blinks unbelievably slow. I dont understand what they were thinking. Notification lights should be bright and obnoxious to.... notify you.
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Agreed, I'll be keeping an eye on this thread to see if anyone has any recommendations.
Same thing for me, notification light worked fine the first day, then I rooted the phone and now it's very dim. LightFlow did not improve anything.
florentnicoulaud said:
Same thing for me, notification light worked fine the first day, then I rooted the phone and now it's very dim. LightFlow did not improve anything.
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Hmmm I noticed my light is super dim as well just like the pictures on the first page. Unlocked and rooted it before I got a notification though.
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Agreed it's dim.
The LED appears to be under the plastic in the bezel rather than displayed through a hole cut through it. Not sure adjusting brightness at the software level will have much of an impact.
My led is dim as well
Mine is dim and glows really slow! Using Light Flow now, but still not as bright as the one in GNex.
Hi all,
I have a similar issue:
My LED light flashes only when I get notifications relating to Facebook & Whatsapp.
It does not work for missed calls, Gmail messages, text messages or while charging!
I had installed Lightflow and it was a little buggy, but I think, the LED notification should still work for all types of notifications?
I have also factory reset the phone and have the pulse notification option under the display menu turned on, but still no success.
Any help/replies will be much appreciated.
I have no issues with using light flow.
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Ulver said:
I have no issues with using light flow.
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Thanks mate, how about without light flow? Does lightflow drain a lot of battery?
pratopathak said:
Thanks mate, how about without light flow? Does lightflow drain a lot of battery?
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Light Flow only drains battery when you leave a notification unchecked for long periods of time (i.e. the notification LED flashes for long periods of time). Naturally, the longer the LED flashes, the longer the wakelock.
In normal use, the battery hit is negligible (in my opinion).
Has anyone had any problems with the light sensor on their Nexus 6P?
I've noticed that it works fine if the light is shining directly onto the device, but it's not so good at picking up ambient light.
If I put my Nexus 6P and Nexus 9 flat on my desk at work, I get a reading of 225 lux on the Nexus 9 and 226 lux on the Nexus 6P - basically the same.
But if I pick up both devices and stand them upright on the desk, the Nexus 9 shows 90 lux and the Nexus 6P shows just 36 lux.
Most of the time this isn't a problem, but if I'm using it somewhere where the light levels are borderline and change a lot (like on a bus or train at night) I find that the device ends up changing the brightness a lot because there's not much light directly shining on the screen.
I've been using the free App "Sensors" from the Play Store to check the light levels - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.calintat.sensors
Has anybody noticed anything similar? I'm running stock on build MDA89D (not had any OTAs yet).
I am seeing the same behavior with my 6P. Borderline light conditions at all, and the brightness is constantly changing.
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I am seeing the same behavior with my 6P. Borderline light conditions at all, and the brightness is constantly changing.
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Could you check the readings you get from the light sensor when it's happening?
There are lots of apps that will let you see the sensor readings.
I noticed this last night in a dark room with a few lamps on -- the brightness would just randomly increase and decrease.
Yep, was sitting on the couch last night reading in a moderately lit room and the screen would randomly get bright and then dim again. Got so annoyed that I turned off adaptive brightness and will just adjust the screen manually. My biggest complaint with this awesome phone.
Nothing to add except that I also turned off adaptive brightness as it wasn't functioning properly and was pretty annoying.
aw1974 said:
Yep, was sitting on the couch last night reading in a moderately lit room and the screen would randomly get bright and then dim again. Got so annoyed that I turned off adaptive brightness and will just adjust the screen manually. My biggest complaint with this awesome phone.
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Would you be able to try and get some light sensor readings in that same location?
I'd be very interested to know if it's the same cause as mine.
Same thing here with the low light. It kept going bright and slowly back to dim where it should be.
Same issue. This and being virtually unable to use the phone in direct sunlight are my only two gripes.
Watching the sensor as I move around it bounces all over the place where as with my S5 the sensor readings appear much more constant.
Same issue, I wonder if it's software or faulty device
I checked out the light sensor In the lux app as I was having a similar issue, I can see the sensor go from 1 lux to 11 even though it's in a pretty dim room at night, it keeps changing...
Same for me.
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+1 for this issue, when playing games in a brightly lit room, my brightness on the phone keeps constantly changing, even though I always hold my phone in the same position while playing.
I ordered replacement and will check
kolyan said:
I ordered replacement and will check
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Is the replacement any better. I have the same issue and was not sure if it is hardware or software issue.
amfractal said:
Is the replacement any better. I have the same issue and was not sure if it is hardware or software issue.
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Don't think it is any better. EX Kernel dev also noticed this issue and made some fix in his Kernel
kolyan said:
Don't think it is any better. EX Kernel dev also noticed this issue and made some fix in his Kernel
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Would you have any source on this, I'd love to get this better as it's pretty god damn annoying. I'm sure it can be fixed with a kernel or xposed module.
TigerSoul925 said:
Would you have any source on this, I'd love to get this better as it's pretty god damn annoying. I'm sure it can be fixed with a kernel or xposed module.
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Not sure what u mean by source. Download this Kernel and app
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/orig-development/kernel-elementalx-n6p-t3240571
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Not sure what u mean by source. Download this Kernel and app
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/orig-development/kernel-elementalx-n6p-t3240571
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Thanks, that's what I meant with source: source of the information
Hey guys, did the ex kernel fix the issue for you? So are we sure it is a software issue and Google is gonna have a fix up its sleeve?
Cheers