Hello,
About a month ago I had the opportunity to renew my mobile subscription. After 2 years of enjoying Samsung Galaxy S2 I decided to go for the new galaxy S5. So I got the phone and everything was fine for the first few weeks. Got use to the phone real quickly but had only one major issue. Every time I loaded up heavy graphical apps like asphalt 8 I got a really annoying and weird pixel rendering all over the screen. I have tried googleing my issue multiple times and have looked on many forms but couldn't quite find anyone with the same issue as I have been having.
There are 2 screen shots of asphalt 8 and a TV streaming app.
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The bug also appears when i use the dual camera option.
I really like the new S5 and most of my other apps run smoothly on it. My question is has any one of you have or had this issue? Is it a software bug and should i not worry too much about it? I really hope some body can help me with this issue.
My carrier is T-Mobile in The Netherlands.
Yours sincerely.
M. Stuart
Since you mentioned that most of the apps run correctly, I would assume that your phone is acting funny only to a specific type of game engine or a specific type of code.
I would guess that it is not hardware related since you do not experience this problem on other apps.
Have you considered a factory reset to determine whether the bug persists?
Those could be artifacts. Does the phone get hot when that "bug" shows up?
I think it is a hardware issue. Smart phones are like mini computer. Computers show artifact on the monitor if the video card is heavily burdened caused by overclocking or just a sign that the video card is breaking down.
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jopat said:
Those could be artifacts. Does the phone get hot when that "bug" shows up?
I think it is a hardware issue. Smart phones are like mini computer. Computers show artifact on the monitor if the video card is heavily burdened caused by overclocking or just a sign that the video card is breaking down.
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My phone does get a little hot when i'm playing the game. Its really weird. One day i had the game run completely smooth for a wile but then to back to the pixelated state in seconds. Oke i tried the next things: Usualy i have my phone in a flip case. After pulling the phone out. The pixels appeard only on the start screen of the game (asphalt 8) and some light flikker once in a wile.
Didn't know that it would be that big of an issue. The pixelation is still in the other apps. Now i'm wondering should i go to Samsung and ask them if the can relace my phone or do i have to live with it like this for the next 2 years.
Anyways thanks for the advice
Go to Samsung and have it replaced.
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I've gotten this message about three times so far while playing Sims 3:
"Heap 2 out of memory" allocating 40 bytes but only 128 available (36 LFB). Increase icf setting . . ."
Anyone else get anything like that?
Ive gotten this warning several times i have been doin research on how to increase icf setting and it said it was sum advanced stuff and it sed it cood ruin your rom but it wasnt necessarily for the vibrant i think it was more of a computer thing idk but i want to increase memory so i can play more soon
Here's a pic and video of the crash from the Tmo forums:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG2e8941fNc
I pretty much can't buy/move anything without this happening so it's rendered the game practically unplayable. Hopefully a dev here can tell us what we need to tweak.
I think the above poster is trying to promote a site, its not even fully up and running, and i see nothing as to a fix for anything on the site, unless someone else see's something I dont
Inat said:
Here's a pic and video of the crash from the Tmo forums:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG2e8941fNc
I pretty much can't buy/move anything without this happening so it's rendered the game practically unplayable. Hopefully a dev here can tell us what we need to tweak.
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The one thing i have done is every-time i buy something, or move something i save my game, for me it usually happens if it try to buy 3 things in a row, so i now buy, save and buy,save...and when it crashes at-least my last save has the prior thing i bought. Its not a great way to play, but its all i can figure out until someone smarter than me comes up with a fix.
I haven't event installed the game yet so sorry I am of no help. Though I still find it funny that they promote a game that does not work.
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hey there!
some days ago, I had new problems with my digitizer.
began 4 months ago, when I have replaced the broken digitizer with a new one bought on ebay, and so i had some issues with its sensivity. at first i had a problem on the bottom. I couldn't scroll up the pull-down menu of the status bar or scroll through the bar of the music player (red).
recently the sensitivity of the touchscreen is worsened and when I adjusted the smearings inside the digitizer, the situation got even worse, and now I am unable to use the keyboard on the "zxcvbnm(del)" row in portrait mode and I can't open new page of the browser in landscape mode (yellow).
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right now my screen is literally gone mad! it automatically picks up touches on each side of the screen and I can't no longer use it. I must do a lock/unlock of the screen to get it out of this loop and so here's that it happens again in half a minute!
What could I do to fix my digitizer? I should be grateful if I might avoid to purchasing a new digitizer one more time, I wasted so much money on my phone that I would have been able to buy a new one!
PS. I'm sure that someone will say that it's only my fault if I have the phone in these conditions. not for really. I had great care to replace the digitizer on the phone and vice versa, so I would like a bit of professionalism to take my issue in a certain way and not that you always criticize the user, fool or not to be. I will consider any advice aside the usual criticisms.
I ask forgiveness for my clarification perhaps a little cheeky, but I felt compelled to say these things because I have experienced similar cases, and I wouldn't to happen again for better mine and yours, and thank you again for your unfailing support and sorry for my bad english I believe that you may solve the problem
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I am also faced such difficulties. You can find my thread regarding "touchscreen malfunction" . But now the problem almost solved. Previously i was used froyo kernel based wiui. Then i change kernel to gb and flashed wiui for gb kernel.Its all before 3 weeks. I cant see the problem Till today. So just try it. My digitalizer was original and not replaced yet. I think the touch sensitivity of froyo kernel is more atleast in my case
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OK so biking to work today noticed a few different bugs I had not noticed so far, coming from iPhone I had never experienced these problems with Apple.
My bluetooth simply will not auto connect to my garmin 510, I have to go into both devices and "forget" paired devices and reconnect a fresh, every time I turn either device off/on.
Headphones crackling at high volume (which isn't really that high to be fair) can't be the headphones as there very high spec. Atomic Floyd HiDefDrum
Just tried to compose an email (original email client) and as I write the email the cursor moves by itself back into the middle of the line im writing making it impossible to write a full line??? WTF?
TBF, at the beginning of this note I seem to compare to Apple, but thinking about it these are basics that should work on any device, I have been perfectly happy with the S4 up until now.... But the 3 jobs I wanted it to do properly today, it's failed at....... miserably!!
OK, So I've managed to write my email. Had to switch to original samsung keyboard (from swiftkey)
Can anybody replicate this error using original email app/swiftkey
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OK, So I've managed to write my email. Had to switch to original samsung keyboard (from swiftkey)
Can anybody replicate this error using original email app/swiftkey
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I think I've read one or two complaints about the cursor issue. You can just install another keyboard from the Play Store. Thats the joy of android..
About the crackling, there's a whole thread on that topic. It seems that the S4, majorly the qualcomm LTE version I think, has crackling issues when you use headphones with a resistance lower than 14-16 ohms, so you're out of luck as of now until that issue is sorted by Samsung. You can find more info here, just search for it next time:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2258831
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Noticed some bugs today.....
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I recommending this anti bug spray.
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Hello XDA experts i have problem with my galaxy note 4 n910c witch started befor 2 days that when ever i start any game on my phone
It well appear hezy pixels .but when i take off the battry and start the phone i can play one gamewitch is normal and i start another game it bcome hezy again . The phone didn't fall down the only thing i did i charged the phone with power bank from cheero company
Then the problem developed. Other wise my phone fuctioning normally on playing videos and using other apps
Same trouble here
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Hello XDA experts i have problem with my galaxy note 4 n910c witch started befor 2 days that when ever i start any game on my phone
It well appear hezy pixels .but when i take off the battry and start the phone i can play one gamewitch is normal and i start another game it bcome hezy again . The phone didn't fall down the only thing i did i charged the phone with power bank from cheero company
Then the problem developed. Other wise my phone fuctioning normally on playing videos and using other apps
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Same problem here. All games are pixelated. Looks like its displaying zoomed in so much. I really hope someone comes up with a solution soon. Everything else works perfectly fine.
This is how subway surfers welcome screen appears on my phone.
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Me too looks the same....i want to know if its hard were problem or not
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Me too looks the same....i want to know if its hard were problem or not
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All games work perfect just after boot, but later on the problem starts. So highly doubt it is some rogue app or service that starts to run in the background.
I think I found the solution
dr.rebellion said:
Hello XDA experts i have problem with my galaxy note 4 n910c witch started befor 2 days that when ever i start any game on my phone
It well appear hezy pixels .but when i take off the battry and start the phone i can play one gamewitch is normal and i start another game it bcome hezy again . The phone didn't fall down the only thing i did i charged the phone with power bank from cheero company
Then the problem developed. Other wise my phone fuctioning normally on playing videos and using other apps
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Goto Application Manager and you need to find and uninstall or disable an app called "Game Optimization Service" . After this all the games work perfectly fine. Try this and do let me know.
Thanks
Thanks man i thought i have to replace my phone ..... It got the job done thank you.....but why the app do this to games
dr.rebellion said:
Thanks man i thought i have to replace my phone ..... It got the job done thank you.....but why the app do this to games
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Could be a bad code in that app. Anyway, I am so relieved that this creepy issue is solved.
Since upgrading a lot of games (seems to be any that have 3d graphics) experience what looks like tearing of the polygons flashing like crazy that take up most of the screen. It looks like its overlaid as can still make out the graphics underneath.
I have tried a factory reset and not restored any data. Installed 1 game and no difference.
I will downgrade if cant sort this as its unusable for games as it is and 2 hours each way on a train has never been so boring.
Anyone have any ideas?
For normal phone use Oreo seems great, faster and battery life has been no different. (had a new battery and screen fitted under warranty a month ago)
Same
chill37 said:
Since upgrading a lot of games (seems to be any that have 3d graphics) experience what looks like tearing of the polygons flashing like crazy that take up most of the screen. It looks like its overlaid as can still make out the graphics underneath.
I have tried a factory reset and not restored any data. Installed 1 game and no difference.
I will downgrade if cant sort this as its unusable for games as it is and 2 hours each way on a train has never been so boring.
Anyone have any ideas?
For normal phone use Oreo seems great, faster and battery life has been no different. (had a new battery and screen fitted under warranty a month ago)
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I have the same problem. Im not have idea to solve.
Sorry by my poor english.
I have same issue in swgoh and marvel strike force so far. Have emailed samsung see if i get a reply.
It seems that the cause of the problems are the MALI drivers. Samsung does not care about this problem because games work find on the S8/S9
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At the moment if you don't want to suffer this annoying issue => do not update your Galaxy S7/S7 Edge to Oreo (Android 8.0) using the UK rom (G930F/G935F only). US variants are not affected by the problem.
Here are two uploaded videos showing the issue (links below).
Video 1: https://youtu.be/-RG1zfc9cf4
Video 2: https://youtu.be/5FINR6BZ41M
Also I've noticed that AR Core crashes constantly (tested with games that support AR Core like Tower AR). It seems that this OREO build although "final" still has some issues which Samsung will not fix.
The following has been tested:
Changing the display resolution through settings.
Changing the game resolution (using Game Tuner)
Disabling GameLauncher/Game Tools/Game Tuner (all the possible combinations).
Rebooting the phone
Reinstalling the game
Changed the GPU renderer in Developer Settings.
Changing performance modes.
Today, the new Oreo update seems to fix this issue.
Firmware version G930FXXU2ERE8 and G935FXXU2ERE8 for the Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 edge respectively addresses the graphic tearing in games.