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What do you guys think of the camera modes? I think a lot of them seem to be cool but aren't they all independent? I.e., if I'm taking a shot of 3 people in a busy area, it stands to reason that I would want to use best shot for the people's faces but also use the eraser feature in case someone walked by. Is that possible?

I'm also thinking about combining all the features in very few modes...like what the htc one did.. it's actually all based on burst-mode or post-effect.
I'm really confused why they've made it in this way, it can't help a lot in the daily usage and sometimes is annoying.

Is anyone else having the issue of the camera not remembering the mode if you close ot then open it again at a later point
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ipmanwck said:
Is anyone else having the issue of the camera not remembering the mode if you close ot then open it again at a later point
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I think that's the way it is designed. I have the same problem with my 9505

kkloon said:
I think that's the way it is designed. I have the same problem with my 9505
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Gs3 gti9300 had this to it is easily fixed by choosing your desired settings, then take a snap of something, then close cam and close in running apps, then when u load fresh it will still have saved settings. This only applies to gps, face detection, ISO, resolution, not the drama shot and shot with sound.
Hope this helps
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km8j said:
What do you guys think of the camera modes? I think a lot of them seem to be cool but aren't they all independent? I.e., if I'm taking a shot of 3 people in a busy area, it stands to reason that I would want to use best shot for the people's faces but also use the eraser feature in case someone walked by. Is that possible?
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Yes it is, go to settings when camera is loaded then select face detection on (set to off by default) then go to Eraser shot.should work and give best possible outcome. Let me know if this works for you mate

LG G2 Shutter Speed...compared to HTC One?

Ive got a Nexus 5 and an HTC one and I like the nexus but the shutter speed is just un acceptable to me , trying to take pictures of my son is impossible with the nexus 5. Can anyone comment on the shutter speed, have you taken pictures of people moving , do they always turn out blurry? thanks

znc62511 said:
Ive got a Nexus 5 and an HTC one and I like the nexus but the shutter speed is just un acceptable to me , trying to take pictures of my son is impossible with the nexus 5. Can anyone comment on the shutter speed, have you taken pictures of people moving , do they always turn out blurry? thanks
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+1 lg g2 d802, stock, unrouted... i even went to the service by typing : 3845#*802# to put High Temperature Property on ON
The phone seems even faster and focusing seems also faster
BUT still impossible to take moving things while not under the sun...they all turn blurry...
Not ready to try this method for for the moment : http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2471900...

Thanks so much, I thought it might suffer from the same problems as the Nexus 5. I'm still in search for my perfect phone....
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znc62511 said:
Thanks so much, I thought it might suffer from the same problems as the Nexus 5. I'm still in search for my perfect phone....
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There's no perfect phone. Sorry.
Best you can hope for is to pick the top 3 or 4 features you want and see what phone matches best.
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jondrix22 said:
+1 lg g2 d802, stock, unrouted... i even went to the service by typing : 3845#*802# to put High Temperature Property on ON
The phone seems even faster and focusing seems also faster
BUT still impossible to take moving things while not under the sun...they all turn blurry...
Not ready to try this method for for the moment : http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2471900...
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Why would you risk the damage by messing with the Temperature Property?

vween said:
There's no perfect phone. Sorry.
Best you can hope for is to pick the top 3 or 4 features you want and see what phone matches best.
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Why would you risk the damage by messing with the Temperature Property?
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I know I was just being stupid... Anyway it seems like there's always one aspect of a phone where the manufacturer cut corners or something.
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Have you tried the sport scene? The thing with the G2:s camera seems to be that you really have to choose the right scene to take good pics in every situation.
I find this acceptable, because every scene is optimized and gives the best performance for the occasion instead of one for all that is mediocre.

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Have you tried the sport scene? The thing with the G2:s camera seems to be that you really have to choose the right scene to take good pics in every situation.
I find this acceptable, because every scene is optimized and gives the best performance for the occasion instead of one for all that is mediocre.
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Sports has exactly the same problem. Intelligent auto sometimes picks a fast shutter indoors, but it seems random.

Phone slowing down already?

I've had the S5 for about a week and it's lagging way too much for me. it's completely stock with all of the S-Features turned off. Gallery, browser, camera, everything is extremely slow. anyone else having this issue?
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Try turn off Google now and disable home bottom voice
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I had my phone slow down a bit (Judging by benchmark scores) so I flashed the AEL Kernel and tinkered around until I found a good combo of governer and scheduler.. I am using the Alliance ROM on a G900F with dancedance and Deadline.. Antutu ranked my device as #5556 in all devices, but I see people with the same phone as me still scoring 1000 points above me..
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I also froze most of the google bloatware and Sfinder and Svoice, and used ROM Toolbox to make an SD Boost changing the value 256K to 3072K (which seemed to be the sweet spot according to the in-app benckmark)

Yep.
Get ready to see your 699€ SGS5 slow down like no other.
In time Samsung's updates will slow the device.
Sometimes I even think they have disabled TRIM... I just don't trust them.

How to Make Your Samsung Galaxy S5 Faster
http://blog.laptopmag.com/speed-up-galaxy-s5

Sensamic said:
Yep.
Get ready to see your 699€ SGS5 slow down like no other.
In time Samsung's updates will slow the device.
Sometimes I even think they have disabled TRIM... I just don't trust them.
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LOL, what a joke!
Enviado do meu Galaxy S5

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How to Make Your Samsung Galaxy S5 Faster
http://blog.laptopmag.com/speed-up-galaxy-s5
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This is great to know.
Many Thanks for the Share

krappo said:
This is great to know.
Many Thanks for the Share
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Make sure you do that cos a slow phone is really annoying

Disable the bloat and switch to art. the phone will be much more faster with a lot less ram consuming.

boykioy said:
Disable the bloat and switch to art. the phone will be much more faster with a lot less ram consuming.
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And how do i do that?

To reduce the impact of bloatware go to Settings > Application manager and look at the All tab. Any app you don’t want to use, you can tap on it and choose Disable. All disabled apps will be listed in a separate tab, so you can always turn them back on again in the future.
You can go further in Settings > About device by tapping the Build number seven times to turn Developer mode on. Now go to Settings > Developer options > Windows animation scale and set it to Animation is off. You can do the same thing in Settings > Developer options > Transition animation scale and Animator duration scale.Also in this page you can change the runtime from dalvik to ART.

boykioy said:
Disable the bloat and switch to art. the phone will be much more faster with a lot less ram consuming.
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Done this and I'm really happy.
Matches my Nexus 5 speed in most or nearly all use cases. I have both phones on ART.
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Whats changing to art do?
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.art is slowing down my S5 !!
after enable art and latest samsung push update, my s5 runs hot, lags like hell, and drains battery !
i do factory reset now !

Mine did the same....not all apps are optimized for art. I jus switched back to dalvik for now
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adie1234 said:
Mine did the same....not all apps are optimized for art. I jus switched back to dalvik for now
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Yes same.
But even wit Dalvik there are lags, most annoying while typing text and it hangs for a couple of seconds before catching up. I have the lightest most debloated ROM and still I get 1-2 sec lags, sometimes while scrolling, sometimes while typing, sometimes while loading apps.
It has done this on any ROM from day 1. I have increased Animation Speed, removed S-Voice shortcut on home button, but the lags remain. This is a Samsung disease and this pisses me off.
Now I will have to switch to CM or GE when they appear. The Smsung Software is so broken!

Mine seemed to get a bit more lag after installing/activating Lastpass app.
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I don't know what happening to your phone but mine actually got faster

puremind said:
Yes same.
But even wit Dalvik there are lags, most annoying while typing text and it hangs for a couple of seconds before catching up. I have the lightest most debloated ROM and still I get 1-2 sec lags, sometimes while scrolling, sometimes while typing, sometimes while loading apps.
It has done this on any ROM from day 1. I have increased Animation Speed, removed S-Voice shortcut on home button, but the lags remain. This is a Samsung disease and this pisses me off.
Now I will have to switch to CM or GE when they appear. The Smsung Software is so broken!
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Yep.
Like I previously said, it's TouchWiz. It will always lag.
How can anyone explain that a new 699$ phone with latest 801 chip and all still has lag while other phones like M8 don't have that much lag if any at all?
No ART or tricks will remove this lag. TouchWiz has many many bloatware. It's that simple.
Don't expect it to get any better. On the contrary, it will get worst with time... Ask SGS3 and SGS4 owners...

Sensamic said:
Yep.
Like I previously said, it's TouchWiz. It will always lag.
How can anyone explain that a new 699$ phone with latest 801 chip and all still has lag while other phones like M8 don't have that much lag if any at all?
No ART or tricks will remove this lag. TouchWiz has many many bloatware. It's that simple.
Don't expect it to get any better. On the contrary, it will get worst with time... Ask SGS3 and SGS4 owners...
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It might be more of putting a band-aid or a patch over a wound but for me using Nova Launcher and turning off several TW apps I did not use has helped a lot.
I don't see such a major difference in performance (in ART) compared to the Nexus 5 side-by-side after disabling unnecessary crap and using ART.
Available RAM is a whole different story, the difference is huge but the effects of that so far are not hugely noticeable in my usage patterns.
The S3 multitasking was extemely bad... S5 is much better compared to that, I had a GT-9300.
Edit: I do have the Exynos variant which has Global Task Scheduling (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big.LITTLE#Heterogeneous_multi-processing_.28global_task_scheduling.29), I can't say anything about how the Snapdragon might perform.

I just disabled the LG keyboard and my phone is ultra smooth now

Like the title says, I changed over to swiftkey keyboard lastnight and after rebooting to get the old keyboard to stop running my phone is now EXTREEEEEEEMLY responsive and the animations are now REAAAAALY smooth!!
It's been 24 hours now and it's still blowing my mind.
Just thought i would share this here incase anyone else wants to give it a go.
EDIT: just to increase the success rate, I decided to post a few simple steps.
1. Download new keyboard of choice.
2. Go into G3 options and set the new keyboard to default.
3. Reboot (important).
4. Hopfully by now you're enjoying some butter smoothness.
I looked through the thread and out of everyone that reported if this helped or not, is about 50% say this helps and 50% say no difference.
The worst that can happen from trying this is wasting 30 seconds from your life.
Here's a quick video i made showing the difference in stutter & response time of my notification bar, it helps in all areas of the phone, not just the notification bar but i just wanted to show an example.
You can easily see the increased response times in my video. But It's really hard to see the stutter difference in the video since it was only recorded with a 30 fps camera, though in real life it's improved a ton too.
For my testing conditions, I have 100% same apps & i shutdown and coldbooted and let the phone sit exactly 10 mins to let the os settle before testing for each test.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AxkRF7vI8M

Woah, i salute you!
Just tried, works like a charm!!!!! Magical!!
Smoothest phone ever!!!!
Thanks!
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Amb669 said:
Like the title says, I changed over to swiftkey keyboard lastnight and after rebooting to get the old keyboard to stop running my phone is now EXTREEEEEEEMLY responsive and the animations are now REAAAAALY smooth!!
It's been 24 hours now and it's still blowing my mind.
Just thought i would share this here incase anyone else wants to give it a go.
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This has always been the first thing I do when I get a new phone or flash a new ROM. No surprises here

I really love the LG keyboard. but gonna try.

veddandekar said:
Woah, i salute you!
Just tried, works like a charm!!!!! Magical!!
Smoothest phone ever!!!!
Thanks!
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Good stuff
It really is THE smoothest phone ever after doing this
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I really love the LG keyboard. but gonna try.
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After you download a new keyboard, make sure you set it up as the default keyboard in the G3s options then reboot for it to completly disable the LG keyboard.
I like the LG keyboard too, like i mean i personally think it's the nicest looking keyboard i've used yet, but if it does that to my phone no thanks.
My phone is butter smooth now, But much more importantly is it's sooooo much more responsive :victory:

lossah said:
I really love the LG keyboard. but gonna try.
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I never really used it much. Try the Google keyboard. Since it wasn't available in play store in my country, i had to grab the apk. Apk is lying somewhere on xda......

Hmm, unlike many of the so called tweaks out there this does seem to help. LG stock items do seem rather memory and CPU hungry.

ChrisM75 said:
Hmm, unlike many of the so called tweaks out there this does seem to help. LG stock items do seem rather memory and CPU hungry.
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It's funny you said that, because i thought exactly the same thing haha.
I've done near everything in the book to make my phone faster & more efficent including debloat of more than 130 apps and only having 3 running processes in the end seemed to have little to no effect, and then this happened.
My goal was to save battery life, but enstead i realized i had just REMOVED my stutter which is even better :laugh: if i coulda hoped for ANYTHING for this phone this was it!!

What about battery life after disabling stock keyboard? I mean if its affect so much at performance of the phone its probably affect on battery too...
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What about battery life after disabling stock keyboard? I mean if its affect so much at performance of the phone its probably affect on battery too...
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I'm currently testing that out right now as we speak under extremely controled conditions, I'll post back the results when i'm done.

Well I don't know if it is just placebo or what but to me apps like gallery are opening smoother and it does seem to be a fair bit better so thanks op.

i dont know if i see any difference.

Uninstalling Lg Stock launcher makes it even more smoother!
I used titanium to uninstall it....
Shows how terrible LG software really is!
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First thing I did was download Google keyboard. I personally hate the LG keyboard. For a phone so big, the keys on the keyboard are surprisingly small. I get that you get more keys, but I can't get used to it and the predictive text is almost comical.

it is indeed a bit faster. I have ART enabled, so everything was already running pretty smooth.
Next test: disable ART and install xposed with some app settings, G3 tweaksbox and 'nomoreoverlay'....

Now how does it compare to a Nexus 5 in smoothness?
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Now how does it compare to a Nexus 5 in smoothness?
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I don't think that's a fair comparison. Let's wait for the unlocked bootloader. And a good AOSP rom. Then we can compare those devices...

It mainly the LG apps that are making this phone slow. The LG gallery is killing me, its so slow. I can't even replace it became the camera needs it.

I don't exactly understand what is "unlocking the bootloader", I thought rooting the device made everything possible on the device, but it's probably not the place to ask for the difference between the two.
However I may ask why is it taking so long? The phone has been out for months now.
Did it take so much time for the LG G2?
As I remember I have been adding new ROMs to my Nexus 5 a few months after purchasing it and i bought it on very early January which was two months after it was out.
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jhericurls said:
It mainly the LG apps that are making this phone slow. The LG gallery is killing me, its so slow. I can't even replace it became the camera needs it.
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I am not an expert but I think there's probably a tweak for doing that? Like freezing the lg app and grabbing the kit Kat gallery app then resetting the association in the app settings?
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I don't exactly understand what is "unlocking the bootloader", I thought rooting the device made everything possible on the device, but it's probably not the place to ask for the difference between the two.
However I may ask why is it taking so long? The phone has been out for months now.
Did it take so much time for the LG G2?
As I remember I have been adding new ROMs to my Nexus 5 a few months after purchasing it and i bought it on very early January which was two months after it was out.
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I am not an expert but I think there's probably a tweak for doing that? Like freezing the lg app and grabbing the kit Kat gallery app then resetting the association in the app settings?
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Allows you to flash ROMS. Bootloader unlock policy depends on the manufacturer. LG is infamous for not facilitating this.

G5 performance increase (response time)

I was playing around with a few settings on my G5 today when I thought of something - the real strength of the SD820 SOC lies in its GPU, not the CPU. Low and behold I found that enabling "Force GPU Rendering" shaves several tenths of a second off of the average input-to-response time for just about everything you do on this phone. I know it may use a bit more battery having it on, but the effect is quite striking. To demonstrate the difference, try double tapping to wake your screen without the option enabled and then try again with the option on. You should notice a remarkable jump in response time. Even in launching apps it is a very noticeable gain. Just thought I'd pass this on to those who haven't tried it.

Yup working great for me

Wowcha, it's incredibly faster when running like this, even typing runs quicker!
Thanks for the heads up dude
Nathan
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sevsman said:
Wowcha, it's incredibly faster when running like this, even typing runs quicker!
Thanks for the heads up dude
Nathan
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You're very welcome!

I think it also saves battery life as it takes stress off the CPU... If rooted install a kernel mngr app and view cpu-freq times... It stays low
And GPU sits just above its lowest freq with normal use.
So your phone stays cooler works faster and gets better battery life! Now just turn down those animations to .5x
And voilà! Better battery life!
The SD820 is truly magnificent and our version doesn't explode!

I can enable this in developer settings?
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johnnyman25 said:
I can enable this in developer settings?
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Yes it is in the developer settings.

Great! Thanks for the tip

meattray said:
Yes it is in the developer settings.
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How do you make Developer Settings visible so this can be enabled? Forum search isn't working for me.

Diablo_692 said:
How do you make Developer Settings visible so this can be enabled? Forum search isn't working for me.
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Go into settings and then to about phone, software info then tap on build number multiple times until it tells you you've gained developer settings.

meattray said:
Go into settings and then to about phone, software info then tap on build number multiple times until it tells you you've gained developer settings.
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Thanks, I know I had to do this years ago on my HTC One to enable USB debugging, but I'd forgotten the sequence.

Do you think it really saves a bit of battery compared to leaving it off? If it does save some battery I think I'll give it a whirl

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Do you think it really saves a bit of battery compared to leaving it off? If it does save some battery I think I'll give it a whirl
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The OP said it may cause a little extra battery drain, but, I've been using it, and I'll say that battery impact is entirely negligible and the speed of openings apps is extremely noticeable!!
I do however, always have animations turned off when I run any Android device.
Why forsake speed for a little useless animation and battery drain is what I say!!
Nathan
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What exactly are you guys seeing? I tried enabling and disabling it 10 times and I cant see any difference.. I tried double tap to wake up, swiping, typing, opening apps... Everything feels the same..

galr said:
What exactly are you guys seeing? I tried enabling and disabling it 10 times and I cant see any difference.. I tried double tap to wake up, swiping, typing, opening apps... Everything feels the same..
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By offloading all on-screen graphics processing from the CPU (rather than just specified instances like in the case of 3D graphics), it is able to save valuable process time and thus respond to user commands more quickly. There is definitely a real difference here.

Thanks for the tip. This helped me. And I noticed the difference too. :victory:

Force GPU rendering: This setting forces apps to use hardware 2D rendering, even if they were written to not use it. It can make things look great, or it can temporarily bork your phone. Use with care. (link)
GPU consumes more power the CPU, hence you may observe 5-15% lower battery life with option enabled. (link)
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Also most apps that support it have it enabled in the settings. It's off by default for battery life and compatibility issues, including making some games slower as they optimise between what to pass to GPU and not. Setting the flag overrides these optimisations.

In theory couldn't it make the phone run cooler though?
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I got my phone last week on friday . It came with the software version v10c . I got 6 hours sot and the phone did not heat up without gpu rendering beeing enabled . On sataurday i updated to v10i and the phone got really hot that day and on sinday too . I tried to install v10d via Lg up but failed at it . I enabled force gpu rendering today and my device didnt get hot anymore . I am sitting at 75% with 2 hours screen on time . I was mostly on XDA and was using chrome . So i dont think , that the battery life decreases if you enable force gpu rendering .

galr said:
What exactly are you guys seeing? I tried enabling and disabling it 10 times and I cant see any difference.. I tried double tap to wake up, swiping, typing, opening apps... Everything feels the same..
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Same for me. 100% identical, not a single improvement or change.