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Camera won't focus

Recently I found the camera fails to focus in various occasions. The image in the viewfinder stays blurry no matter how I configure the camera app (stock/3rd party). But it can capture clear close-up shots so I assume the camera is somehow fixed at macro shots. To fix this issue, I have to open something like Barcode Scanner (which will continue adjust the focus) and leave it for a couple of minutes. Then the camera will be working again for a few hours or so or until I reboot the phone.
Does anyone encounter the same issue? I would like to know whether it is hardware or software problem.
PS: I am pretty sure this is nothing related to any sort of settings/configurations.

It happen here, too...
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Check your macro configuration.

AragornPE said:
Check your macro configuration.
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As I said I am sure it's nothing related to configuration. It's more likely to be related to software (if not hardware, which is still possible).
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I have this problem with third part apps too.

I have no problem about this.
No matter I use stock camera, vignette or camera360, it focuses normally.
What camera app are you using?
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i have no problem at all. whether i use the stock camera app, or cameraFX, my camera has no issues focusing at all.
since nobody else is actually experiencing the problem, it might be something related to a fine setting, or an application thats interfering with your camera app. why not u try a hard reset and see if solves the problem?

WongJames said:
I have no problem about this.
No matter I use stock camera, vignette or camera360, it focuses normally.
What camera app are you using?
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Thanks for your reply. Goggle often freeze and cannot focus normally.
The picture will be blur when I put the camera about 30cm away from the targets using goggle app.
Do you have the same problem? I don't know whether it's a software problem or firmware problem.

agent008my said:
i have no problem at all. whether i use the stock camera app, or cameraFX, my camera has no issues focusing at all.
since nobody else is actually experiencing the problem, it might be something related to a fine setting, or an application thats interfering with your camera app. why not u try a hard reset and see if solves the problem?
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I saw many ppl meet this problem on Chinese forum even using the internal-camera app.
I think it's firmware's problem.

waigx said:
I saw many ppl meet this problem on Chinese forum even using the internal-camera app.
I think it's firmware's problem.
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its quite odd that different firmwares seem to pose different problems: ie from what i noticed those running GB and EuroRetail versions seem to have a problem with the responsiveness of their hardware keyboard. AsiaRetail has a bug issue with the contacts search, and now the ME722 with a camera focus issue. what i have seen with my camera is after a reboot, when i capture a picture, the picture ends up being captured, but the capture animation freezes until i hit one of the soft keys. not really a bother but its still an issue
really, it all boils down to the same argument, that Motorola and MotoDevs really need to address these issues in fixes and updates, cuz really though some bugs arent that annoying, certain ones like a malfunctioning keyboard and a non-focusing camera can be a real pain in the a**.
@ the person tho started this thread: why not you try to flash Argen2Stone ROM? perhaps that might solve your problem?

agent008my said:
its quite odd that different firmwares seem to pose different problems: ie from what i noticed those running GB and EuroRetail versions seem to have a problem with the responsiveness of their hardware keyboard. AsiaRetail has a bug issue with the contacts search, and now the ME722 with a camera focus issue. what i have seen with my camera is after a reboot, when i capture a picture, the picture ends up being captured, but the capture animation freezes until i hit one of the soft keys. not really a bother but its still an issue
really, it all boils down to the same argument, that Motorola and MotoDevs really need to address these issues in fixes and updates, cuz really though some bugs arent that annoying, certain ones like a malfunctioning keyboard and a non-focusing camera can be a real pain in the a**.
@ the person tho started this thread: why not you try to flash Argen2Stone ROM? perhaps that might solve your problem?
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Sadly, I am currently using Argen2Stone 1.8, but still experiencing the problem.
I tried to flash back to UK2.2, which the phone came with, but still no luck.
The "barcode scanner" trick temporarily solves my problem. Yet who wants to run it for a few minutes before taking photos?
I swear I won't purchase any Moto smartphone in the future. They simply ignore customers outside the US.

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!

Possible Cause of Camera White Screen - Gingerbread

I installed DSC 0.61B today. I'm reasonably pleased with its performance, except for 3G not wanting to wake up with the rest of the phone (a known issue). Besides that issue I encountered a problem that plagued me when using StreakDroid. An issue crops up where the camera display turns white, rendering the camera and all apps that depend on the camera useless. It took me three hours to pin down the issue, but I believe I have found it.
Something in LBE Privacy Guard 2.x is causing the camera to cut out on my Streak. Don't ask me exactly what in the app is causing the problem. All I know is that I need to find a copy of the 1.x APK and install it to see if that version also causes the camera to cut out.
To everyone else that has encountered the camera white screen of death, post here whether you use LBE or not, and what version.
EDIT: LBE 1.x also causes the camera screen of death. Guess I'll have to use Droidwall instead.

Yes, the same to me?
My camera display turns white screen, but I dont know how to fix it.
Thanks,

Are you running LBE Privacy Guard? If so, you have to do a factory reset and not install it. If you're not running LBE one of your apps is not compatible with Gingerbread. You'll need to factory reset and install your apps one by one, checking the camera each time. The app that breaks the camera is likely the last app you install. Once you find it, then factory reset (again!) and don't install the incompatible app. Using nandroid backups do not work. At least they didn't for me.
I wasn't kidding when I said it took three hours to pin things down.

Same problem here:
DSC 0.62b & LBE Privacy Guard
==> white screen when using camera
==> white screen when trying to play youtube videos
In LBE Privacy Guard I unchecked "Start automatically at phone boot"
After a restart, camera & youtube worked fine.
Obviously, the LBE app causes the issue.
Unfortunately, Droidwall can't compete with LBE Privacy Guard's features.
So let's find a solution.

i have DSC 62b and without this problem, I have this problem only if I install Chainfire3D and his drivers ...
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Sackradi said:
In LBE Privacy Guard I unchecked "Start automatically at phone boot"
After a restart, camera & youtube worked fine.
Obviously, the LBE app causes the issue.
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That's good to know for the future. People at least won't have to do a hard reset.
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Unfortunately, Droidwall can't compete with LBE Privacy Guard's features.
So let's find a solution.
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Contact the developer, if you can. They seem to have no contact information on their pages. Droidwall may not be able to compete with LBE's features, but it's also not intended to. Droidwall is simply a front end for the built-in IPTables.
I will be looking into Permissions Denied by the man who put out Busybox as an alternative.

I think switching video driver mode to mdp should help.

@_n0p_: LBE Privacy Guard should function regardless of what video mode is used. While I am sure changing the video mode helps, the point is that people shouldn't have to make that change just to use the software. The fact that LBE has a bad interaction with the camera means LBE has a bug somewhere in its code.

I personally think that composition type gpu mode is quite experimental, it functions, but it's not an app fault, if it (probably) uses hw accelerated features of GPU chip, that breaks hw accelerated surfaces on camera output.
What really should be done - is fixing adreno driver/libs that are the real problem.
I've already tried some other adreno drivers with no luck so far, but as we are working on updating and improving kernel so a solution may be found in near future.
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Sergei

Perhaps I'm not understanding you here, so forgive me if I restate myself.
LBE Privacy Guard only deals with app permissions and has no control over other hardware or software, especially at the driver level. Yet it's interacting with the camera driver to render the screen useless? If that is the case, StreakDroid is also using the same video mode. The question is whether the other Gingerbread ROMs are encountering this problem and whether they use the video mode you and Streakdroid use.
As a side note, Permissions Denied works perfectly and has no autostart option. This means Sackradi is absolutely correct in that the LBE autostart mode has a problem. So what is the connection between LBE's autostart mode and the camera?

I got your point.
To be more specific - it's not the app that controls harware. It's a bug in video driver function, called by app.
Glad you've found a workaround.

I freeze the LBE by using titanium backup then restart, and then I defrost LBE.
Everything work fine for me until I restart my phone.
I like LBE very much, so I just do the step everytime I restart my phone.
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Which essentially renders LBE useless since LBE has to be active to monitor the permissions and deny them as needed. If Permissions Denied has such a monitor, it's written so that it doesn't screw up the camera like LBE does.

I get this issue when I patched libwebcore.so with Arabic patcher. How to change the video mode?

system/build.prop
change
debug.composition.type=gpu
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debug.composition.type=mdp

I am using Power_rom_lite and this issue was bugging me from last two days, when I installed LBE. I realised the problem during video call on Gtalk. I saw white image in place of my video but other end was able to see me without any problem, only I was not able to see myself. Changing gpu to mdp solved the problem. Thanks a lot.

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debug.composition.type=gpu
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debug.composition.type=mdp
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can you tell me how to use this ?
i have a problem whit white screen camera, i tried ewerything expect this

chynol said:
can you tell me how to use this ?
i have a problem whit white screen camera, i tried ewerything expect this
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That's quite old thread. You should edit system/build.prop file.

_n0p_ said:
That's quite old thread. You should edit system/build.prop file.
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yes i know its old thread, but this problem happend to me few days ago on my samsung a51, only 0,5 zoom works, i know it is not a hardware problem because i changed it and didnt help
i cannt find any other solution for this problem, so i gona try this, but i cant find system/build.prop file, can you tell me where to find and how to change it(through win? or?)
thank you

[APP][DEV]Moxee 0.3a (3rd Release) 11/09/2012 - (Steaming Video)

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Development Info
Possible future functionality:
Youtube: comments, annotations( I suspect that this can be done), description etc.
"Save video to sdcard";
RTMP video sources would be nice...(I'm not sure I can do this but will be thinking about ways)
Changes in 0.3a:
11/7/2012 Video transitions much shorter! DONE!
The process for video selection is rather long so I'm having the next video selected while the current video is playing. This cuts down on time between video's in most cases!
11/4/2012 Incorporation of YouTube related video's DONE!
Related video's on a random metric!
11/2/2012 Youtube video quality option. DONE!
This one took a little while. Had do deal with what was available on a case by case basis. Bonus: Revision3 video's obey the quality setting!
11/2/2012 Preserve last video and position for resuming. DONE!
This turned out to be pretty simple too. Just had to store some state info in the db.
This was much easier than I thought it would be!
11/2/2012 Provide "In App" button for settings. DONE!
This was much easier than I thought it would be!
10/25/2012 9 patched the background image for feed items. DONE!
I was hoping that 9 patching the background image would give me a more consistent look across multiple devices in the feed manager. It helped but not nearly as much as I would have hoped.
Changes in 0.2a:
10/16/2012 Stop Moxee from playing while the screen is off. DONE!
There was an issue where if you turned the screen off when Moxee was in a transitional phase, threads that were started before the screen was turned off would cause the app to continue to play videos. Terminating these threads have resolved the issue!
10/15/2012 Toggle fullscreen to access notifications. DONE!
This turned out to be a simple matter of adding and clearing window flags. Now when ever you see the onscreen display, you will have access to the notification bar!
10/15/2012 Worked out a few minor issues.
There was an issue were sources were not seen until they had been updated by the back-end.
Added thumbnails for sources in the feed manager.
There was an issue where if YouTube did not have a "medium" quality mp4 for any particular video it would error off.
Resolved a threading issue where if next was pressed at a particular time, there would be a discontinuity between the titlebar and the actual video playing.
Resolved a threading issue where the titlebar said it was "Loading when in fact it was playing a video.
10/13/2012 Making setting available to those without physical menu button. DONE!
According to the information provided here (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11702831/android-best-way-to-let-user-access-preference-activity) putting a menu option called "Settings" in the menu will cause ICS and above to show the 3 dot soft settings button. We shall see!
Well as it turns out that if you lower your build target(ei gingerbread), ICS (and above) will auto detect and put soft settings button in the action bar. However, lowering the build target caused problems with the latest Google ads jar so I had to revert to a lower version of that, but It's all working now!! I just need to make sure that the ads are really working.
History:
10/12/2012 Moxee Initial Release 0.1a
10/19/2012 Moxee 2nd Release 0.2a
11/09/2012 Moxee 3rd Release 0.3a

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Works fairly well on my Sprint GS3 running 4.1.1.
Main problem, plays after turning the screen off.
Would love to be able to turn to portrait to get access to notifications without stopping the video.
Nice work
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Running well on my Xoom (4.1.2).
It would be nice to be able to get to the original source of the video somehow, however I kind of like that you can't as it saves your from becoming distracted and not actually watching anything all the way through. In that respect it really is like watching old analogue TV.
Edit - Menu not available on the Xoom due to the lack of a dedicated (physical) menu button.

lattisimo said:
Works fairly well on my Sprint GS3 running 4.1.1.
Main problem, plays after turning the screen off.
Would love to be able to turn to portrait to get access to notifications without stopping the video.
Nice work
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Thanks for giving my app a try! I have reproduced that it does play with the screen off and I will be working on that one. I don't think that I'm prepared to allow the app into portrait mode but what I will work on is the option to take it out of full screen mode so users will have access to the notification bar.

conantroutman said:
Running well on my Xoom (4.1.2).
It would be nice to be able to get to the original source of the video somehow, however I kind of like that you can't as it saves your from becoming distracted and not actually watching anything all the way through. In that respect it really is like watching old analogue TV.
Edit - Menu not available on the Xoom due to the lack of a dedicated (physical) menu button.
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Thanks so much for testing on your Xoom! I suspected that the lack of a physical menu button might be a problem. I suppose it would be best to make my own buttons for those functions. When you say, original source of the video, I'm not sure what you mean, but I am considering a "download this video" button for the future and even a "cache these video's overnight" kinda thing...

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Thanks so much for testing on your Xoom! I suspected that the lack of a physical menu button might be a problem. I suppose it would be best to make my own buttons for those functions. When you say, original source of the video, I'm not sure what you mean, but I am considering a "download this video" button for the future and even a "cache these video's overnight" kinda thing...
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You're welcome, also tested on my SGSII (CM10 4.1.2) and running fine there too.
When I said original source I meant for example being able to get to a video on YouTube or wherever it originally came from in case someone wanted read the comments or get some background info etc...
Cheers

Moxee 0.2a released. See 2nd post entitled "Development Info" for changes. See 1rst or 4th post for download links!. Let me know what you think!

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Moxee 0.2a released. See 2nd post entitled "Development Info" for changes. See 1rst or 4th post for download links!. Let me know what you think!
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Menu button now working on the xoom. Thanks
Sent From My Fingers To Your Face.....

conantroutman said:
Menu button now working on the xoom. Thanks
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Thanks again for testing! How is the video quality on the xoom? Watchable?

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Thanks again for testing! How is the video quality on the xoom? Watchable?
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Very watchable. It's not really any different to the quality it would be on YouTube, obviously some things that were uploaded in a lower resolution may not scale up to the larger screen size so well but I won't hold you responsible for that...

I have a few devices I'll test on for you. All U.S. devices. HTC Sensation 4G, SGS2 T989, Galaxy Note 10.1, and if the app will be compatible I also have a Motorola Charm, Motorola Cliq2, and an older MyTouch 3G. I'll let you know how they all perform though. Thanks for the app, and it's a great idea and piece of software.

Just tested it on an 7 inch tablet. Looks great,
but I only see 3 buttons... Where's the Menu key?

FC on Motorola Atrix stock 2.3.4
Wysyłane z mojego MB860 za pomocą Tapatalk 2

sxeforlife said:
I have a few devices I'll test on for you. All U.S. devices. HTC Sensation 4G, SGS2 T989, Galaxy Note 10.1, and if the app will be compatible I also have a Motorola Charm, Motorola Cliq2, and an older MyTouch 3G. I'll let you know how they all perform though. Thanks for the app, and it's a great idea and piece of software.
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Thanks so much for givin' it a try! While your testing, if you think of anything that might improve the experience or any options you'd like to see, give'em a post here!

Doorman404 said:
Just tested it on an 7 inch tablet. Looks great,
but I only see 3 buttons... Where's the Menu key?
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If you 7 inch tablet has Gingerbread then, I think, it should have a hardware menu button. If you 7 inch tablet has honey comb or above there should be a "3 dot" software button in the bottom bar, next to the 3 buttons on the left. If however, your 7 inch tablet has no hardware button and is running gingerbread or below, that is the case where there would be a problem
If this is the case, let me know, and I'll put it on the list for 0.3a :good:
Thanks so much for testing and let me know if there is anything else you notice, or if there is anything that you think would make the experience better!

Chamelleon said:
FC on Motorola Atrix stock 2.3.4
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This is a shame... I know my sig says that I have an Atrix, and I did, but I got rid of it and haven't removed it from my sig yet. Is there anything that you can tell me about the force close? Logcat info? When it happens, etc? Do you have a lapdock or...
Thanks very much for given it a try, even though it doesn't seem to work for you

Meticulus said:
If you 7 inch tablet has Gingerbread then, I think, it should have a hardware menu button. If you 7 inch tablet has honey comb or above there should be a "3 dot" software button in the bottom bar, next to the 3 buttons on the left. If however, your 7 inch tablet has no hardware button and is running gingerbread or below, that is the case where there would be a problem
If this is the case, let me know, and I'll put it on the list for 0.3a :good:
Thanks so much for testing and let me know if there is anything else you notice, or if there is anything that you think would make the experience better!
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It got ICS with no Menu button.
I know the 3 dot butten, most of the apps has it, but yours don't
If you'll got the time, Can you add an icon for MENU?
Moxee got lot's of potential but
it's not really usable without costomizing the feeds

Question Refresh rate bug with Dolphin

Hello everyone!
I'm not sure if I'm allowed to talk about this here but I don't know where else to do it :/
I have a refresh rate bug on the Dolphin emulator. If there is a framerate drop and the game comes back to normal framerate, Dolphin displays me the right number of fps but visually, it's very jerky.
To solve this problem, just put the app in multitasking and return it to full screen (switching the screen to 120hz solves the problem).
I can reproduce the problem, so it's not just isolated in places, but I can't reproduce it with other apps (and I didn't have this problem on my Pixel 7).
Nothing OS problem?
Thanks a lot!

Sounds like it

Possible solve it with custom rom ?

Shuyin10 said:
Possible solve it with custom rom ?
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Possible
That is a really specific problem. You need to Test or ready trough Log Files If you have the knowledge

xtcislove said:
Possible
That is a really specific problem. You need to Test or ready trough Log Files If you have the knowledge
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No I don't have that knowledge unfortunately :/
I tried to reproduce it on other large applications (Aethersx2 for example) but nothing
I will try to switch to PyxisOS, there are a few things that bother me on NOS

Ok, I can confirm that this is indeed a NothingOS problem, I switched to PyxisOS and no more problems (and much better performance by the way, it's weird xD)