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Galaxy Note - video quality grainy??

I just received this Galaxy Note and noticed that on youtube video playback, the HQ playback on various vids look grainy and somewhat pixelated. My friend has a Nexus and the same playback looks really clear. I've always heard great things about the Note's screen so I'm really surprised and disappointed. This is noticeable on different brightness levels. Can anyone suggest what I can do to determine if my screen has issues or if there is some setting I have to tweak?

You need to update your YouTube app as the default doesn't use hd, just hq. Also HD only works over wifi.
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Thanks bud, updating the app worked.

HQ=480p. Obviously when you compare it to true HD, the HD will look better...
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Noted said:
I just received this Galaxy Note and noticed that on youtube video playback, the HQ playback on various vids look grainy and somewhat pixelated. My friend has a Nexus and the same playback looks really clear. I've always heard great things about the Note's screen so I'm really surprised and disappointed. This is noticeable on different brightness levels. Can anyone suggest what I can do to determine if my screen has issues or if there is some setting I have to tweak?
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I hope you don't have the black clipping issue that is widespread on dark videos. By your're description of pixellation, it sounds like you might... :-(
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I just got my note and it's showing the black clipping issues that are described here.... should I return my not and try to get one that doesn't have this issue?
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As soon as you can, yes. Some units play almost unwatchable videos. Better units r out there
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hmm.. This kinda reminds me of the Samsung screen lottery from a couple years ago lol... I'm going to do an exchange and see what happens
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sad.. im facing the same problem as well. while using youtube to view clip, the dark side of the clip will black clipping

Pinch to zoom quick sand?

Thinking about the N4 as a secondary phone but I played with one in the T-Mobile store and noticed that pinch to zoom seemed to be pretty unresponsive and disappointing and that's putting it lightly. When pinching to zoom it felt as if I was moving my fingers through quick sand. It was as if my fingers had to literally transverse half of the entire screen before the phone started to react. Can anyone else confirm this? Like I said, this will be my secondary phone and my primary will be an iPhone 5 so I will going back and forth between the 2 phones often which will make the poor responsiveness even more noticeable and bloody annoying since the iPhone is very responsive and accurate in this department. So now I'm rethinking my purchase of this phone. Again can anyone confirm this??? Thanks

mine doesn't do this. it is very responsive.. are you talking about having to go out farther when zooming in? i think they designed the zoom in to occur after your fingers have spread over a certain distance so you don't accidentally zoom in when you don't mean to.

Its like people are just finding reason not to buy this phone cause it has real issues or they just like to complain....personal I think your all crazy . My coworker got his nexus 4 last week and its ****ing awesome the camera in HDR mode is amazing the data speeds are top notch and the screen is responsive. I don't know it everyone and there mama was playing with the display phone at T-Mobile ,but here a story I was playing with a Gs3 at T-Mobile and found pictures of a girls ***** on it .
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stormtroopercs said:
mine doesn't do this. it is very responsive.. are you talking about having to go out farther when zooming in? i think they designed the zoom in to occur after your fingers have spread over a certain distance so you don't accidentally zoom in when you don't mean to.
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There was another thread on this yesterday - this is actually Google almost certainly designing around someone else's patent on touchscreen usage. They probably figured that what was going on in older versions was too close to Apple's or someone else's precise method for interpreting multitouch input, so they designed something effective but different enough to avoid litigation. There's a reason why neither Apple nor Microsoft have sued Google directly over Android - Google designs around patents pretty well.

I wrote about this yday... Seriously. . try Firefox
Also , qickpix for gallery doesnt have the issue either
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stormtroopercs said:
mine doesn't do this. it is very responsive.. are you talking about having to go out farther when zooming in? i think they designed the zoom in to occur after your fingers have spread over a certain distance so you don't accidentally zoom in when you don't mean to.
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but why should you zoom in accidentally? you use two fingers to zoom..
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Falzar said:
I was playing with a Gs3 at T-Mobile and found pictures of a girls ***** on it .
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Epic
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italia0101 said:
I wrote about this yday... Seriously. . try Firefox
Also , qickpix for gallery doesnt have the issue either
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I hear ya, but even still it'd pretty annoying and making me think before I buy. Honestly I'm a stock app kinda guy. I like the stock apps, I actually want to use Chrome but I can't, I want to use the stock gallery since it would be more integrated but I can't without this bug/feature this will also make using Google maps bloody annoying more than anything as when using maps there is a lot of zooming in and out. I'm wondering if other ROMs have this issue with the N4 or not.... Hmmm... That would be an indicator if there was more of a real issue/hardware level issue or not. Wondering if Cyanogen, Paranoid, or AOKP would have the same issue...

this is such a moot issue based completely on software filtering/calibration of your touches. Capacitors are hyper sensitive to touches, so much so that you have to tone it down and filter out all the noise... You can easily go into the software and figure out where the pinch-zoom controls are and fix them...
I am running codefireX's build and my pinch to zoom works perfectly in gallery, chrome, maps, camera. Registers my touch input no mater what I try.
If this is a deal breaker for you, I would be more worried about thermal throttling issues tbh... Those are actually hardware related.

elliot.newnham said:
this is such a moot issue based completely on software filtering/calibration of your touches. Capacitors are hyper sensitive to touches, so much so that you have to tone it down and filter out all the noise... You can easily go into the software and figure out where the pinch-zoom controls are and fix them...
I am running codefireX's build and my pinch to zoom works perfectly in gallery, chrome, maps, camera. Registers my touch input no mater what I try.
If this is a deal breaker for you, I would be more worried about thermal throttling issues tbh... Those are actually hardware related.
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So you're saying right out of the box you can go into settings and configure pin h to zoom to react immediately rather than after transversing half the screen before it starts reacting?

Well, this is xda developers where we hack software and improve it for our own uses. Its part of the fun. You would have to get into the kernel for that
pinch zoom on my ROM setup right now begins the second I place 2 fingers on the screeb
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elliot.newnham said:
Well, this is xda developers where we hack software and improve it for our own uses. Its part of the fun. You would have to get into the kernel for that
pinch zoom on my ROM setup right now begins the second I place 2 fingers on the screeb
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Awesome . hopefully Google will fix it for stock users
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elliot.newnham said:
Well, this is xda developers where we hack software and improve it for our own uses. Its part of the fun. You would have to get into the kernel for that
pinch zoom on my ROM setup right now begins the second I place 2 fingers on the screeb
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Which ROM and could you perhaps record a video for us?

elliot.newnham said:
Well, this is xda developers where we hack software and improve it for our own uses. Its part of the fun. You would have to get into the kernel for that
pinch zoom on my ROM setup right now begins the second I place 2 fingers on the screeb
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I'd like to know wHich ROM that is as well. I ordered my N4 but I definitely want to fix this before I do anything as.

Ingress and Nexus 4 Users

Anyone here play Ingress? How cool is it? I want to play SO BAD!

I wouldnt get your hopes too high. It is a unique and well thought out game. But depending on how many people play it in your area and your attention span, it doesn't have much replay value.
In my area, lots of people have the game, few are actively playing it. And most of those people are on the same team, so its stagnant.
I think the app fieldtrip by the same developer is a cooler experience (while not a game, you will see that its pretty much the same thing).

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I think the app fieldtrip by the same developer is a cooler experience (while not a game, you will see that its pretty much the same thing).
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Thanks for the tip.
As for Ingress, I do play but only very little. I'm just not the guy to get overly motivated for "nothing" like in this game. I dunno. I play when I come across a portal but I don't explicitly go outside only to play Ingress anymore. I did in the beginning though.
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Fieldtrip: This app is incompatible with your O2 LGE Nexus 4.
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Oh really? I feel like the idea is super cool. How does it work exactly? How long have y'all been playing?
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Fieldtrip: This app is incompatible with your O2 LGE Nexus 4.
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It should work fine on the Nexus 4. Are you sure you are looking at the right app? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nianticproject.scout
Anyway Ingress is pretty fun when you are at lower levels and getting a lot of experience levels for doing tasks, which is a reward in itself, but once you have got to higher levels, you will start having to strategize more and play the game on a much larger scale. Depending on how active your area is, anything you do will be undone by the opposition pretty quickly so it can get a bit discouraging. I find that people who are enjoying the game are people who team up to work together to create huge control fields or coordinate attacks on the enemy, so I think the social aspect is the main reason to play the game at a more advanced level.
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Ingress is fun. It does indeed slow down at higher levels, but I find a lot of fun in doing level 8 get togethers. Its nice to go out for the afternoon with like-minded people.
I have extra invites if you want.
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So if there isn't a lot of people playing than its boring? Wouldn't that mean that you level up super fast because you have no competition?
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Kandydish said:
So if there isn't a lot of people playing than its boring? Wouldn't that mean that you level up super fast because you have no competition?
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Especially in the lower levels you will mostly be getting experience by hacking enemy portals and blowing up their resonators. Without competition there aren't many ways to quickly level up.
Edit: Although not saying that a small amount of players would make the game boring by any means. As long as you have active players on both sides to keep things moving the game will be interesting.
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Chrono_Tata said:
Especially in the lower levels you will mostly be getting experience by hacking enemy portals and blowing up their resonators. Without competition there aren't many ways to quickly level up.
Edit: Although not saying that a small amount of players would make the game boring by any means. As long as you have active players on both sides to keep things moving the game will be interesting.
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Well then hopefully when I get an invite, my area will be full of actives.
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Screen jitters, force GPU?

So I rooted and froze all I felt comfortable with (almost all of the bloat and non used) and seemed to have a few more moments of jitters. I thought it was my fast moving in and out of apps, or my games causing the hardware to stumble, but now think its totally hardware.
My question is, after switching to force GPU settings in developer options, has anyone noticed it stopping? Or at least a marked decrease in episodes?
Disable HW overlays and force GPU rendering of 2d being the two options I'm using. I just started last night and already I'm noticing things seem much snappier and no stutters.
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8on3s said:
So I rooted and froze all I felt comfortable with (almost all of the bloat and non used) and seemed to have a few more moments of jitters. I thought it was my fast moving in and out of apps, or my games causing the hardware to stumble, but now think its totally hardware.
My question is, after switching to force GPU settings in developer options, has anyone noticed it stopping? Or at least a marked decrease in episodes?
Disable HW overlays and force GPU rendering of 2d being the two options I'm using. I just started last night and already I'm noticing things seem much snappier and no stutters.
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I did not have force GPU selected. I just turned it on and will see if it makes a difference.

scottjb said:
I did not have force GPU selected. I just turned it on and will see if it makes a difference.
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Yeah I noticed a jitter now and again, seems it was more placebo than cure. The setting did make the phone a little faster in response though.
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8on3s said:
Yeah I noticed a jitter now and again, seems it was more placebo than cure. The setting did make the phone a little faster in response though.
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Been running it with the force GPU on. I still see the problem but I don't think I see it as much.
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I think its definitely a hardware issue. Seems like most people report it after they flash a new ROM, stock based or not.

i kinda like the jitters
makes me think im having a flashback

uthkuknwme said:
i kinda like the jitters
makes me think im having a flashback
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Lol well that's one way to look at it.
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viper74656 said:
I think its definitely a hardware issue. Seems like most people report it after they flash a new ROM, stock based or not.
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Guessing so then, well screen shakes aren't enough to hate this phone anyways, it's too smooth.
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8on3s said:
Lol well that's one way to look at it.
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honestly, i thought it was me until i saw someone mention it on here, like an eye twitch from trying to focus (i have double vision)

uthkuknwme said:
honestly, i thought it was me until i saw someone mention it on here, like an eye twitch from trying to focus (i have double vision)
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Oh, that doesn't sound like a fun situation. Man the worst situation I had regarding any eye twitching, I was working swing for a few months
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8on3s said:
Oh, that doesn't sound like a fun situation. Man the worst situation I had regarding any eye twitching, I was working swing for a few months
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i just have prizims in my glasses, but sometimes when they get tired my vision splits and i have to reposition them. i wish i could wear contacts, but i bet contacts with prizims would be huge

uthkuknwme said:
i just have prizims in my glasses, but sometimes when they get tired my vision splits and i have to reposition them. i wish i could wear contacts, but i bet contacts with prizims would be huge
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And uncomfortable I'm sure. I can't stand wearing my novelty lenses for Halloween for more than a few hours, lol, I know not the same but the best I have to compare to.
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[Q] Is there a vibration absorber system for the Note 3 to be used as a Dash Cam?

I am starting to record my driving every time I get in the car. I'm just using the camera app but I might switch to a dedicated car dash cam app.
My friend was recently hit in the front of her car. It was totally the other guy's fault but he's claiming that she went into his lane, which is utter BS. Anyway, long story short, a lot of our friends are going to start recording our driving, esp since we all have 64gb micro SD cards anyway...may as well put that storage to good use!
I'm really happy with the results of the recorder except one major issue is that the video is really shaky even though I have it attached to a mount on the windshield.
Is there any way to dampen or absorb the vibrations of the car so the recording can be more clear?

Try the video stabilization in camera settings

I tried that, it makes no noticeable difference.
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Have u tried to use smooth motion?

What's that?
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Neo3D said:
What's that?
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Sent from somewhere under the sky, at the corner of this rounded earth.

Thanks but that setting records video at 60fps. It doesn't have image stabilization.
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Neo3D said:
Thanks but that setting records video at 60fps. It doesn't have image stabilization.
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I know. But the result is smoother than the normal video if u put on ur car.
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I'll try it.
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I've considered doing this a number of times but the thought of using my phone as a cam while a nice dual use feature, it not really that practical. I am also afraid it would get damaged way too easily for that type of purpose when a second device which is desiged to do it will do it better, be a lot more rugged and capable.
I am getting a Drift Innovation HD Ghost for this purpose. They actually make a much less expensive one that does 720 which is more than enough for dash cam usage, but the HD Ghost has a DVR like mode which records over the same memory device automatically and easily saves an incident with the click of a button for later playback. Still a lot of money, but it would keep the phone being my phone and do a much better job at recording the vehicle in motion.

I tried it and 60fps makes no difference.
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Neo3D said:
I tried it and 60fps makes no difference.
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maybe you could try other recorder software
I'm out of idea for the stock camera/video.

Thanks
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krelvinaz said:
I've considered doing this a number of times but the thought of using my phone as a cam while a nice dual use feature, it not really that practical. I am also afraid it would get damaged way too easily for that type of purpose when a second device which is desiged to do it will do it better, be a lot more rugged and capable.
I am getting a Drift Innovation HD Ghost for this purpose. They actually make a much less expensive one that does 720 which is more than enough for dash cam usage, but the HD Ghost has a DVR like mode which records over the same memory device automatically and easily saves an incident with the click of a button for later playback. Still a lot of money, but it would keep the phone being my phone and do a much better job at recording the vehicle in motion.
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Does it have to be wire installed?
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