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9505 not clocked to max when it should be

Can anyone please test 9505 (the 4 core version of S4) on following two applications ?
1.) Droidfish (chess engine with UI)
a) settings -> threads -> 1
b) back to chessboard -> click "M" -> select mode = "Analysis mode"
c) keep it running for at least 30 seconds (from the starting position) and write down the "nps" (nodes per second) number - mine is showing 137k which is the same as on my old galaxy S2 at 1.2 GHz
2.) Counting Benchmark
a) Count To -> 10 Bilion
b) Threading -> Single-Threaded
c) Start Benchmark and write down number of seconds it took, mine is 62.76s which is very close to what I get on my old SGS2 (74.418s)
When I check how much time the CPU spent in which state (with CPU spy plus) - it shows me that:
On S4 during the "droidfish" test it spent 100% in 918MHz state (and 0% in 1890MHz state ???) - while on S2 it shows of course 100% of time being in 1.2GHz state (max for S2)
On S4 during the "Counting Benchmark" test it spent like 2/3 of time in 918MHz state and and 1/3 of time in 1890MHz state
PS: I have turned off all power savings & smart scroll / air gestures etc. features I know of (and even tried the tests while charging)
SHOULDN'T S4 RUN EVERYTHING MUCH FASTER THAN OLD GALAXY S2 ??? - that is including the single threaded performance ?

Maybe the app doesn't work properly on S4 and doesn't know how max out the CPU on S4, thought about that?
Single threaded performance is the same on S2 and S4, you say? I might have understood you wrong?

mkrmec said:
Maybe the app doesn't work properly on S4 and doesn't know how max out the CPU on S4, thought about that?
Single threaded performance is the same on S2 and S4, you say? I might have understood you wrong?
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Yes single threaded and most likely even 2 threded performance is the same in doridfish.
In "Counting benchmark" it's only marginally better - it should be much higher if for nothing else then just due to the difference in frequency (1.9GHz vs. 1.2 GHz)
Are there any other integer benchmarks / test apps (for non - floating point arithmetics) where I can select number of threads ?
Btw the droidfish app is the latest one from Google Play on both phones - and I even tried installing it directly to clean (factory reste) S4...
Edit: found this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2258210
Kapitein187 said:
Ran it on 4 cores (i9505) and saw for the first few turns values of arround 680 but i think when there are more difficult turns it will get higher.
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That is aobut 2x more I see when I run the test from start position with 4 threads enabled on my S4 i9505

Was your device warm/hot when you started it? Could be a throttling issue.

shox22 said:
Was your device warm/hot when you started it? Could be a throttling issue.
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No it wasn't - it was close to room temperature before and also during the droidfish test ( but it gets warm after running some GPU intense benchmarks / games etc. )

Minor update: I've run all the benchmarks they used here:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6914/samsung-galaxy-s-4-review/4
and had similar results in all of them - yet the droidfish seems to perform so badly...
Please can anyone try the droidfish test on i9505 under the conditions mentioned at the beginning of this thread and report the results ?
I just don't understand if this is a hardware issue or a firmware issue or droidfish application issue (the last thing is highly unlikely as it simply uses one CPU core to 100% - failure to do so on the application side would seem quite absurd)
And btw kies reports my device as having the latest firmware (the one that ends with MDE)

comrad said:
Minor update: I've run all the benchmarks they used here:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6914/samsung-galaxy-s-4-review/4
and had similar results in all of them - yet the droidfish seems to perform so badly...
Please can anyone try the droidfish test on i9505 under the conditions mentioned at the beginning of this thread and report the results ?
I just don't understand if this is a hardware issue or a firmware issue or droidfish application issue (the last thing is highly unlikely as it simply uses one CPU core to 100% - failure to do so on the application side would seem quite absurd)
And btw kies reports my device as having the latest firmware (the one that ends with MDE)
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Pls check my thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2451001
Same issue also on LG G2 - which probably indicates Snapdragon hw issue or droidfish sw need to be optimized for snapdragon. I sent emails for LG & Droidfish programmer to comment on that...

[Q] After OTA 2.4

After i Have Updated OTA 2.4 i Put my SD card in the Tab And many games were showing Move to SD card option but games which were small like temple run nd all were moved but games which were big like asphalt 8 nd iron man 3 were also showing option for move to SD card but when i moved them it take almost 5 to 10 minutes nd automatically it closes nd then nothing happend therefore game was deleted.. Help by this i have lost Asphalt 8 , Iron man 3 , walking Dead season 1 how to fix this..!!

akii rock said:
After i Have Updated OTA 2.4 i Put my SD card in the Tab And many games were showing Move to SD card option but games which were small like temple run nd all were moved but games which were big like asphalt 8 nd iron man 3 were also showing option for move to SD card but when i moved them it take almost 5 to 10 minutes nd automatically it closes nd then nothing happend therefore game was deleted.. Help by this i have lost Asphalt 8 , Iron man 3 , walking Dead season 1 how to fix this..!!
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I test thi with order and chaos online (1.66 GB) and works perfectly. I use a Samsung 32gb class 10 uhs1
Inviato dal mio TegraNote-P1640 utilizzando Tapatalk

potalifs said:
I test thi with order and chaos online (1.66 GB) and works perfectly. I use a Samsung 32gb class 10 uhs1
Inviato dal mio TegraNote-P1640 utilizzando Tapatalk
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Im using sandisk ultra 32gb 10 class but many times big game failed too transfer nd get deleted to any solution?

akii rock said:
After i Have Updated OTA 2.4 i Put my SD card in the Tab And many games were showing Move to SD card option but games which were small like temple run nd all were moved but games which were big like asphalt 8 nd iron man 3 were also showing option for move to SD card but when i moved them it take almost 5 to 10 minutes nd automatically it closes nd then nothing happend therefore game was deleted.. Help by this i have lost Asphalt 8 , Iron man 3 , walking Dead season 1 how to fix this..!!
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I also experienced the same thing. I moved xcom/Walking dead s1/Dead on arrival to sd card and nothing happened, my tablet hanged and after rebooting the game was gone. I think the "move to sd card" feature is still not working with 2.4 OTA.
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Have you noticed that while playing asphalt 8 in "Low graphics quality" mode, the game looks much more sharper than the "High quality settings". I observed that with "High quality settings" the game requires more anti-aliasing, lines and edges of various objects/buildings/cars are very very jagged. What is your observation?
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Going to give the low quality setting a go. as for Move to SD issues its seems to be hit and miss but you can always root the device and use a script or program to symlink everything to the external SD card for things like games which works as i am using FolderMount and have no issues.

For me it work on little apps (Angry Bird for example, only 50 Mo of data), but not for big ones. It crash after 1 minutes.
I use a Transcend micro sd card of 32 Go (class 10)

How about uninstall and re-install APP?
I my case, walking Dead has issue, but others are OK.

asratxda said:
I also experienced the same thing. I moved xcom/Walking dead s1/Dead on arrival to sd card and nothing happened, my tablet hanged and after rebooting the game was gone. I think the "move to sd card" feature is still not working with 2.4 OTA.
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Have you noticed that while playing asphalt 8 in "Low graphics quality" mode, the game looks much more sharper than the "High quality settings". I observed that with "High quality settings" the game requires more anti-aliasing, lines and edges of various objects/buildings/cars are very very jagged. What is your observation?
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Yeah ! I ve also seen it! Thats beacuse of resolution or gpu can do it ! ?

[Q] Dead Trigger 2 Graphic Downgrade?!

does anybody else have this problem right now after updating the game to version 0.09.0 (x-mas update) that we only have low and medium graphic settings left on our tegra note 7 (instead of high and ultra high, while the ultra high setting was meant to be made for tegra 4)?
now i am only able to play the game at medium graphics. even if i try autodetection, the game switches between low and medium every time i tap the autodetect button.
anyone else with this problem?
Edit: there seems to be workaround for this litte bug. if you have applied low or medium quality just reinstall the game and do NOT change any of the graphic options and you will have ultra high graphics enabled again you will still see low and medium only as selectable graphics, but if you just look at both settings, you will see that the green apply button is highlighted for both of them (which means the game still applies the ultra high settings at the first start after installation thanks to our tegra 4 chipset to get recocnized by the game)
if you want to test if you have ultra high settings enabled just start the "arena of death" and you should see the reflections on the floor.

GodOfPsychos said:
does anybody else have this problem right now after updating the game to version 0.09.0 (x-mas update) that we only have low and medium graphic settings left on our tegra note 7 (instead of high and ultra high, while the ultra high setting was meant to be made for tegra 4)?
now i am only able to play the game at medium graphics. even if i try autodetection, the game switches between low and medium every time i tap the autodetect button.
anyone else with this problem?
Edit: there seems to be workaround for this litte bug. if you have applied low or medium quality just reinstall the game and do NOT change any of the graphic options and you will have ultra high graphics enabled again you will still see low and medium only as selectable graphics, but if you just look at both settings, you will see that the green apply button is highlighted for both of them (which means the game still applies the ultra high settings at the first start after installation thanks to our tegra 4 chipset to get recocnized by the game)
if you want to test if you have ultra high settings enabled just start the "arena of death" and you should see the reflections on the floor.
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I don't have that problem. Maybe contacting the dev is in order. Or maybe you changed something with root that's made the game unable to recognise the Tegra 4 (can't think of anything on the top of my head apart from a custom kernel).
Sent from my TegraNote

DNAGamer said:
I don't have that problem. Maybe contacting the dev is in order. Or maybe you changed something with root that's made the game unable to recognise the Tegra 4 (can't think of anything on the top of my head apart from a custom kernel).
Sent from my TegraNote
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I already solved it (read the edit). I also contacted the support but no answer, yet.
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Game Issue

Sorry for a silly question guys, but It's kinda irritating to me...
I play Clash of clans with my G530H and the problem is when I like to chat, the apps keyboard even the default has a problem to pop up, it take atleast 5-7minutes... and If I play with XMOD It takes a longer time and sometimes It doesn't shows up anymore...
I would like to ask If this is the GPU issue or its the processor? I'm just disappointed because I like this phone a lot especially the camera.
I only want to play 1 game, Clash of clans the and the processor or the GPU lacks of capability to run it smoothly...
any tips? Thanks for whoever reply or concern....
PS,
sometimes I'm thinking about swapping it with a little upgrade of what Grand Prime have to run it smoothly..... what phone do you suggest?

Please guys?

i play clash of clans too the device should work without an issue .i also had bit lag in keyboard coc but there was an update came to the phone settings--> about phone softweare update after that the lag has gone .try to do a factory reset this will wipe your data so backup your data and try again

violinxperial said:
i play clash of clans too the device should work without an issue .i also had bit lag in keyboard coc but there was an update came to the phone settings--> about phone softweare update after that the lag has gone .try to do a factory reset this will wipe your data so backup your data and try again
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What is your firmware made and version before you update... There's nothing available update for me
It is not lollipop update, isn't it? because it's not available yet...

Mr.IDK said:
What is your firmware made and version before you update... There's nothing available update for me
It is not lollipop update, isn't it? because it's not available yet...
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yep its not lolipop its kitkat fix
here is my updated firmweare see it with your current

Mr.IDK said:
Sorry for a silly question guys, but It's kinda irritating to me...
I play Clash of clans with my G530H and the problem is when I like to chat, the apps keyboard even the default has a problem to pop up, it take atleast 5-7minutes... and If I play with XMOD It takes a longer time and sometimes It doesn't shows up anymore...
I would like to ask If this is the GPU issue or its the processor? I'm just disappointed because I like this phone a lot especially the camera.
I only want to play 1 game, Clash of clans the and the processor or the GPU lacks of capability to run it smoothly...
any tips? Thanks for whoever reply or concern....
PS,
sometimes I'm thinking about swapping it with a little upgrade of what Grand Prime have to run it smoothly..... what phone do you suggest?
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i have problem too
mine is already a lollipop when i open clash of clans it take long time after that it said no connection even there is a connection after u retry the game will start the second problem is when you are searching for opponents it hang for 5sec it take a long time to search please help me

Hi,
I think you already rooted your device. You can tweak your phone to make it better faster [stronger] (just kiddin)
Go to this link for v4.4.4
The best build.prop tweak for Grand Prime 4.4.4 ( Fully tested on (530H-DV))
Before doing anything plz backup your main build.prop located in root/system/build.prop
Here is some Enhancements:
1. Supreme Battery life (even more in idle)
2. Smoother experience
3. 3G Speed hacks (new)
If u faced any problem please change "ro.ril.hsdpa.category=24" to "ro.ril.hsdpa.category=20"
4. Google DNS
5. Better Microphone
6. More Ram
7. Better signal reception
8. Wireless Tweaks
9. Smoother video streaming and tweak media
10. Increase the Antutu Score (new)
11. Faster Boot-Animation FPS (new)
12. Better call voice quality (new)
13. Game tweaks
14. Qualcomm Tweaks
15. Multi Users (Enabled) (new)
This link for v5.0.2.
Give thanks and Enjoy!

nadz02 said:
i have problem too
mine is already a lollipop when i open clash of clans it take long time after that it said no connection even there is a connection after u retry the game will start the second problem is when you are searching for opponents it hang for 5sec it take a long time to search please help me
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Hi,
Did you found a solution?
I'm having the same problem here, it takes too long to load the game, then lost connection...
When i'm at multiplayer it shows a strange orange shaddow.
Thank you

Hi guyx.tomorrow i resets my phone factory .after resets then i go play store when i search coc there is no install button....thay said your device isn't compatible with this version plz plz help me ..I'm so confused

nadz02 said:
i have problem too
mine is already a lollipop when i open clash of clans it take long time after that it said no connection even there is a connection after u retry the game will start the second problem is when you are searching for opponents it hang for 5sec it take a long time to search please help me
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This happens for me too bro
Dont know why
The app doesnt pull internet connection well

screen response time

Hello xda members
I got this in my mind , and i need some answers if u have it please .
I have the s7 edge for monthes now and my mother got the iphone 7 .. so i tryed somegames onn it and one of them was subway surfers .. i tryed it in both devices and found that the i phone 7 have much less lagg in between the touch and and the result like when u swap the character in iphone 7 it feels more fast like u will never miss anything in it , very fast results .not like my s7 edge that some times need to do more than one time to do somthing and it have some lagg to see a result ( by lag i mean a numbers in millie seconds )
is there in way to improve that in the s7 edge ?

Clear cache in recovery, disable animations in dev options, enable Force 4xMSAA in dev options, disable systems apps you don't need, make sure there are no apps running in the background when you play. See if this makes any difference.