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Low scores benchmarking?

Hey, can i ask some of you guys what kind of benchmark scores u get out of the box so completely stock?
Every review i read about this tab f.e. quadrant benchmark scores are around 3800, some reviews say above 4000.
Im getting like 3300, that really seems low.
Antutu benchmark is around 6800 wich is the same as i read in reviews.
Any ideas?
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Looks like its my CPU thats causing it
The subscores are almost identical except the CPU score, that one is 2331 in most benchmarks i have seen its almost double

Does the device disables 1 core for some reason?
Just found out that sometimes in quadrant it says there is only 1 cpu core, scores are low then.
Very few times it says there are 2 cores and scores are higher then but still too low if u ask me.
I don't get it.
Only thing done to it is that it is rooted. Can this cause it or is it just hardware failure?

I've had a bunch of Android devices in the past few years and have never worried about benchmark scores. If there are no weird force close issues and your interface moves along fine, then don't sweat it. I find that people tend to get a bit obsessive over details that may not even be accurate rather than simply using the device.

i know but still there is something wrong and i dont like it to be wrong. A benchmark doesnt say anything about realtime performance in apps and games etc but if a benchmark is way to low it does tell u there is something wrong. I would have bought a cheaper tablet if i wanted a 30% slower cpu and that is what it is regarding raw cpu power
I just havemt figured it out yet. If i reboot it its okay when test it again after a while its happening. Lowest bench mark 2400 have to reboot again then its 3800 and it gets lower after every run.
Thats not okay

Just did a benchmark, now my cpu score is good but the total quadrant score is still2600 because when the cpu scores normal another component lacks, now its the mem that scores halve. When mem and cpu scores good its the io that scores halve.
Benchmark or not this is wrong and since i spent 20h non stop on trying to find out what kind of crap is causing this im just going to bed and see if i can exchange this piece

as i read, every benchmark would give us different information and also scores i guess. believe with my own eyes

I just run QB advance with ssh server, vnc server, IM+, bluetooth tethering etc. turned on and still got 3733.
I am not sure if this figure satisifying, but I really satisfying with its video streaming playback performance. The performance on video streaming alone surpress any other tablets in the market (except iPad 3 which should be better according to its spec.).

I've posted this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1578981
Check it out, it seems weird to me too, it looks like nobody exactly knows if there's something wrong or not...

Well it is a problem.
A benchmark like quadrant also tests the cpu, its measuring how many calculations a cpu can do in what time.
This CPU should be scoring at least 4k, in my case it did like 2k so that means it does takes double the time for the same amount of calculations.
It's not about being a benchmark addict, it is about commen sense.
I returned mine, got it confirmed as a hardware problem.
So i got a brand new one and i tested it a bit and it seemed good. Steady scores no CPU issues at all.
But now this unit has a bad screen, the one i had was kinda perfect, best screen ever. This looks to edgy causing eye focus issues looking at it, also because the slightest movement changes the way the colors look.
Probably ive been bad in a former life, the performance issue now also reached this unit. It worked for 4 days like it should, not its performing like a cheap tablet again.
So now i have the same problem AND a bad screen.
I have the same issues i have with cheap tablets, the reason why i purchased this tablet is because i was tired about the bad screens in cheap tablets and the stuttering.
Well lol.
I read something a bout sucky samsung quality controll.. I now understand.

radjeshsitaram said:
Well it is a problem.
A benchmark like quadrant also tests the cpu, its measuring how many calculations a cpu can do in what time.
This CPU should be scoring at least 4k, in my case it did like 2k so that means it does takes double the time for the same amount of calculations.
It's not about being a benchmark addict, it is about commen sense.
I returned mine, got it confirmed as a hardware problem.
So i got a brand new one and i tested it a bit and it seemed good. Steady scores no CPU issues at all.
But now this unit has a bad screen, the one i had was kinda perfect, best screen ever. This looks to edgy causing eye focus issues looking at it, also because the slightest movement changes the way the colors look.
Probably ive been bad in a former life, the performance issue now also reached this unit. It worked for 4 days like it should, not its performing like a cheap tablet again.
So now i have the same problem AND a bad screen.
I have the same issues i have with cheap tablets, the reason why i purchased this tablet is because i was tired about the bad screens in cheap tablets and the stuttering.
Well lol.
I read something a bout sucky samsung quality controll.. I now understand.
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Man... sorry to hear that.... mine goes up to 3422, sometimes higher/lower than that....
Anyway I don't know if you did take a look at my post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1578981 There's my whole story...

How many times have I (and many other reviewers) got to say this: Benchmarks are NOT the be all end all of indicating the performance of a device!! Stop getting caught up in that notion! UGH!!!
Here's how you know how well your device is working performance-wise:
Have you tried my performance tweaks listed in the common fixes thread? No? Do that. Yes? Good.
Is your device responsive and smooth? Yes? Good! No? When/where/under what conditions isn't it?
Now, uninstall any and every benchmark tool from your device, free up space and resources, quit your moaning and complaining, and enjoy your tablet.
End of story.

Benchmarks, at least the cpu parts, test raw power, now sorry dude if it scores half what it should then there is a reason to complain.
When it translates into stuttering there is even more reason to complain.
Maybe it is a end of story for you well good for you then.
Even when in use there is no problem yet, when the hardware can't reach the performance it should there is a reason to complain because it has a reason why it cant and that reason is what ever it is not okay.
If u have two of the same units and 1 unit is able to do twice the cpu calculations in the same time the other does then there is something wrong that your neat tweak guide cannot fix.

Let's See Exactly How QHD Affects Performance

These tests were run on an LG G3 VS985. Screen resolution was changed using the Resolution Changer Pro app.
Resolutions tested were:
* 2560x1440 @ 540ppi
* 1920x1080 @ 360ppi
* 1280x720 @ 240ppi
Here are my results
**Conclusion**
QHD results in approximately a 15% hit of graphics performance on the same hardware vs a 1080p resolution.
Also notable is that in AnTuTu, even at 720p resolution, the LG G3 scores less than the LG G2. At QHD, it dips below the Galaxy S4. My guess would be that this is because of LG's power-saving features preventing the SoC from being used to its full ability.
Also of note, I literally cannot tell the difference between 1080p and QHD on this display. Even 720p still looks really good, but LG's UI has some scaling issues.

well did you test it on battery?

We already knew that a QHD display with the Snapdragon 801 was going to give you less performance than a 1080p display with a Snapdragon 800 chip. This is old news and doesn't tell us anything we didn't already know
The real question is if running the device on 1080p/720p give you more battery life than 1440p. And if so, how much more

mgbotoe said:
well did you test it on battery?
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Plugged in to USB. Didn't want heat to be an issue by charging it at the full 1.8A

Benchmarks are a joke!
Here are my antutu scores on day 3 of owning my phone. non-root, completely stock!
Just goes to show what devs have been saying for years, benchmarks dont mean crap! lol

xallinvaynex said:
Here are my antutu scores on day 3 of owning my phone. non-root, completely stock!
Just goes to show what devs have been saying for years, benchmarks dont mean crap! lol
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I agree, my Antutu scores are about 34,000 too. lol

thanks for the effort.

xallinvaynex said:
Here are my antutu scores on day 3 of owning my phone. non-root, completely stock!
Just goes to show what devs have been saying for years, benchmarks dont mean crap! lol
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nah they definitely do mean something. Have you tried AnTuTu X? It prevents the clock speed from changing when it detects a benchmark running (aka "benchmark cheating", although I'm not too fond of calling it that for reasons), so it gets exactly the performance other apps get. Pretty sure LG just disables thermal throttling during most benchmarks, so 99% of the time you'll get the performance that AnTuTu X says you have rather than what regular AnTuTu says.

Turn off knock on and a few useless apps and you can make consistent benchmarks like this. This is pure stock, no root and not my highest run. Im even running a few widgets in the background.

conan1600 said:
Turn off knock on and a few useless apps and you can make consistent benchmarks like this. This is pure stock, no root and not my highest run. Im even running a few widgets in the background.
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Who would turn off knock on though? Its pretty much the whole reason the buttons are on the back.

Osseon said:
Who would turn off knock on though? Its pretty much the whole reason the buttons are on the back.
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I disagree. I like the back button placement. On side buttons I inadvertently always hit volume or power when using my phone. I would, and do, disable knock on as I do not find it useful, however knock on is a small thing, even with it enabled you will pull 35 to 36k antutu scores with proper settings, of course knock on will eat your battery.
I do not multi task on a small phone, there just isnt enough screen, so I set up a toggle for turning it on and off, I keep it off unless I need it which means it will never be on.
From previous lg phones I know quick remote will chew through battery and cpu if left on so I simply toggle it off until I want to use it. I do use that a lot.
I do not find google now helpful so it is off. I do find google search useful so it is on and ok google is enabled.
I don't use 3 billion widgets but I do have a weather widget and I run sync 24/7 with many accounts such as FB, DB, Etc. With just what ive stated even with knock on enabled you should pull 35k which puts this phone above everthing except the m8 on antutu x. Disable sync, uninstall cpu rape ware and your battery life and benchmarks will be even higher. Currently I have 65% battery left with 4 hours screen on time. Wifi enabled, low signal area. My way works for me.

As an avid gamer. I definitely see the difference between All 3 resolutions. You must test fairly. Download same video in all 3 different resolutions.

conan1600 said:
Disable sync, uninstall cpu rape ware and your battery life and benchmarks will be even higher. Currently I have 65% battery left with 4 hours screen on time. Wifi enabled, low signal area. My way works for me.
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What cpu rape ware have you uninstalled? Also do you use greenify or similar apps? 4 hours screen time seems impresssive if you have 65% left.
However I must say this phone sleeps like a baby, 9 hours since I'd pulled it out of the plug. 1% discharge wtf.

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Plugged in to USB. Didn't want heat to be an issue by charging it at the full 1.8A
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So you did the test wrong and may dump your results into trash can. Tests should be performed without charging connected for heating issues to make less impact on results and phone should be cooled before each test

Billy Madison said:
So you did the test wrong and may dump your results into trash can. Tests should be performed without charging connected for heating issues to make less impact on results and phone should be cooled before each test
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are you always such a pleasant person?

conan1600 said:
Turn off knock on and a few useless apps and you can make consistent benchmarks like this. This is pure stock, no root and not my highest run. Im even running a few widgets in the background.
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LG cheats at AnTuTu. You need to use AnTuTu X

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LG cheats at AnTuTu. You need to use AnTuTu X
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That screen shot is antutu x. Look at the top of the ss
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danny_and_2 said:
What cpu rape ware have you uninstalled? Also do you use greenify or similar apps? 4 hours screen time seems impresssive if you have 65% left.
However I must say this phone sleeps like a baby, 9 hours since I'd pulled it out of the plug. 1% discharge wtf.
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Ill do a whole battery thread after im done playing.

Enddo said:
We already knew that a QHD display with the Snapdragon 801 was going to give you less performance than a 1080p display with a Snapdragon 800 chip. This is old news and doesn't tell us anything we didn't already know
The real question is if running the device on 1080p/720p give you more battery life than 1440p. And if so, how much more
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If mainly light use like calls, texting and local video playback it will not much, but anything like web and any games that try push to each pixel will. Gameloft is a good example, since usually have terrible scaling setup (the games behave at whatever the native res).
The advantage is for whatever uses the gpu much. A reason the UI is a little slow (not much IMO) is it is true Qhd graphics and that causes the gpu to sweat some. The mean of the 801 was designed for 1080p. The 805 is the first chip for Qhd.
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Anandtech and other reviews that actually do thorough tests pointed out for light use the G3 has the same or better battery life as current devices. The killer is apps like a lot of Web content and games.
SOT is irrelevant unless itemized based on actual use, brightness, what radios are on and the signal reception.

Could it be that the G3 is really lacking a lot of optimization? youtube vid inside

So i was curious to see how the g2 measures up against the g3, i stumbled across this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nipun6-Grpk
In this video, you can see that after the devices boots up, that the g3 is still taking freaking ages to load the weather widget and the first homescreen generally. So here my question: would the screen's resolution really be that taxing on this device? Is there a reason why a phone with the resolution of that of a g3 would take so long to load just a single screen? Is the high resolution the culprit? Or do you guys think we will eventually get optimizations?
Has anyone contacted LG asking them about this and if we will see an update that will fix this? And i'm not talking android L i'm certainly hoping we get something before that. To me it makes no sense at all, i'm going to take my pc for instance, unless i'm gaming, it doesn't matter which resolution i'm using the OS will probably run the way it's supposed to as long as i, of course, am not gaming.
Now i hope someone with more experience can chime in, i've experienced the occasional lag on this device, it's not as snappy as i expected it to be, but i'm not that disappointed just yet. I'm just hopeful that this thing will eventually settle in and lg g3 will release an update.
All i'm looking/asking for is if this weird behavior can be answered logically, as to why it is so or are we really dealing with just pure optimization?
edit: ugghh!I just headed to the original development subforum to see if we have aosp roms, unfortunately we have to wait for the boot loader to get unlocked ( i know probably old news for you). I was hoping that someone running aosp on the g3 could chime in and lecture us on the potential of this device or if it's really as choppy. Too bad, guess we'll have to wait for LG. . .

There could be many reasons for it taking longer. That test is really bogus.
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DevilMayEmo said:
So i was curious to see how the g2 measures up against the g3, i stumbled across this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nipun6-Grpk
In this video, you can see that after the devices boots up, that the g3 is still taking freaking ages to load the weather widget and the first homescreen generally. So here my question: would the screen's resolution really be that taxing on this device? Is there a reason why a phone with the resolution of that of a g3 would take so long to load just a single screen? Is the high resolution the culprit? Or do you guys think we will eventually get optimizations?
Has anyone contacted LG asking them about this and if we will see an update that will fix this? And i'm not talking android L i'm certainly hoping we get something before that. To me it makes no sense at all, i'm going to take my pc for instance, unless i'm gaming, it doesn't matter which resolution i'm using the OS will probably run the way it's supposed to as long as i, of course, am not gaming.
Now i hope someone with more experience can chime in, i've experienced the occasional lag on this device, it's not as snappy as i expected it to be, but i'm not that disappointed just yet. I'm just hopeful that this thing will eventually settle in and lg g3 will release an update.
All i'm looking/asking for is if this weird behavior can be answered logically, as to why it is so or are we really dealing with just pure optimization?
edit: ugghh!I just headed to the original development subforum to see if we have aosp roms, unfortunately we have to wait for the boot loader to get unlocked ( i know probably old news for you). I was hoping that someone running aosp on the g3 could chime in and lecture us on the potential of this device or if it's really as choppy. Too bad, guess we'll have to wait for LG. . .
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Regarding the PC resolution.The screen has a set number of pixels it has to draw, it never changes. If you change the resolution, you're only scaling the display so there will be no performance increase or decrease it will always perform at that set number of pixels the screen has.

Batfink33 said:
Regarding the PC resolution.The screen has a set number of pixels it has to draw, it never changes. If you change the resolution, you're only scaling the display so there will be no performance increase or decrease it will always perform at that set number of pixels the screen has.
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Oh i totally didnt think about that. So basically the screen on its own is responsible for displaying the image sent to it regardless of hardware. Okay that basically invalidates my thought process...
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DevilMayEmo said:
Oh i totally didnt think about that. So basically the screen on its own is responsible for displaying the image sent to it regardless of hardware. Okay that basically invalidates my thought process...
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When you change the resolution on a PC is just scales up or down the image (interpolation its called, although it does use processing power to interpolate),its still rendering the same number of pixels. If you changed the screen to a screen with a higher number of pixels for example then you would see a performance decrease.
Just like the 801 system on chip the G3 has. Put it in a 1080 screen phone and performance will increase. Put it in a QHD screen phone and performance will decrease.

Its got nothing to do with QHD, at least not in the 2D interface. The GPU is capable of 4k 2D rendering and even then is only limited by bandwidth, not processing power. The amount of power needed to render 2D is pretty small frankly.
The G3s issues are all about LGs optimisations, its over burdened with thermal control and battery saving measures as well as just plain old bad code. Turn a few off and it gets a lot smoother. The G2 was slow and laggy when launched, its not now.

ChrisM75 said:
Its got nothing to do with QHD, at least not in the 2D interface. The GPU is capable of 4k 2D rendering and even then is only limited by bandwidth, not processing power. The amount of power needed to render 2D is pretty small frankly.
The G3s issues are all about LGs optimisations, its over burdened with thermal control and battery saving measures as well as just plain old bad code. Turn a few off and it gets a lot smoother. The G2 was slow and laggy when launched, its not now.
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I thought the max resolution of the 801 was 2k (2.5 really 2560 along longest side). 805 is 4k.
801-
https://www.qualcomm.com/products/snapdragon/processors/801
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https://www.qualcomm.com/products/snapdragon/processors/805

Its bandwidth limited to just under 4k actually, so they have artificially limited it to a standard thats lower to stop OEMs using it for 4K. QHD is still about 30% lower than this artificial limitation.
Either way its not about processing power of the GPU.

(How to) Run your S6 in 1080 mode

Needed tools:
Resolution Changer Pro
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nexter.miniscaler
Build Prop Editor
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jrummy.apps.build.prop.editor
Root needed.
1: Change LCD density to 480 DPI with Build prop editor. Reboot
2: Change Width to 1080 and Height to 1920 with Resolution changer
Enjoy.

I looked at my build.prop and I have 2 of DPI values, one is 640 and the other is 480...

gpvecchi said:
I looked at my build.prop and I have 2 of DPI values, one is 640 and the other is 480...
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Use the build prop editor as stated in 1st post

the question is, did you try it? i mean, does it help with the battery life or performance...?

Why would you do this

yellowsn0w said:
Why would you do this
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Better game/UI performance and better RAM consumption (apps takes less space in RAM since there is less grafic information stored when multitasking). The GPU will not have to work as hard when displaying things on screen which results in less heat and better battery (even though the battery saving effects is not huge). Most media content provided is in 1080p or less so it will be scaled anyways. The visual difference with 1080p on a 5,1" screen is very small and most people probably will not see any difference. I've run 1080p since I got this phone and I'm extremely pleased! Switching between resolutions is easy so if I use the phone for VR (only good reason for extreme res) that's still no problem.

I will give this a try later today, if it's not possible to see any difference it's worth changing for increased performance.
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As somebody else posted above, I have three "ro.sf.lcd_density" options, the first two are set to 640 and one to 480.
Which of the two do we change to 480? sorry if this is a stupid question.
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Not working, DPI doesn't seem to want to change, after restarting it's back to normal.

I too, am having trouble with the DPI value not sticking after reboot. Any ideas on what's going on here?
Edit: I succeeded by editing the values on all DPI associated parts of the build prop manually in the file modifying section of the editor (ie not using the easy edit mode that the app defaults to)

thank you, no problem here.

So you would downgrade the best part about this phone (the amazing screen) to give negligible ram boost.

yellowsn0w said:
So you would downgrade the best part about this phone (the amazing screen) to give negligible ram boost.
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lol, it's still the same screen.

It's up to you to change resolution, but then honestly I don't get why would you spend so much money for the Edge.
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Is there any notable difference in performance after dropping dpi or is it just placebo?

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So you would downgrade the best part about this phone (the amazing screen) to give negligible ram boost.
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For the size of the screen, the difference is negligible
Negligible screen quality over negligible ram space. It's android, and we are free to make that choice if we choose
I've tried this change, and the only reason I've gone back to stock settings was due to a few oddities in 1 or 2 apps.

After editing the file manually it did save after a restart thankfully.
Changed resolution and I honestly can't tell the difference which isn't all that surprising, I ran a few benchmarks and they all reflect the change in the results, GFXBench's onscreen and offscreen results match so the performance increase in games is real.
Also I now have around 1GB of memory free so that's quite a big difference, will play around with it for a few days and see if there are other benefits but so far it's looking good.

How can I fix home screen widgets, it refusing manual fix

Shocky2 said:
After editing the file manually it did save after a restart thankfully.
Changed resolution and I honestly can't tell the difference which isn't all that surprising, I ran a few benchmarks and they all reflect the change in the results, GFXBench's onscreen and offscreen results match so the performance increase in games is real.
Also I now have around 1GB of memory free so that's quite a big difference, will play around with it for a few days and see if there are other benefits but so far it's looking good.
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Yeah the gaming performance really is great in 1080p. It beats preatty much every other phone! I can add that I use the app "resolution changer" from play store which has built in DPI changer (use 480 for best compability), the resolution and DPI sticks between reboots. If you're planning on sticking with 1080p it doesn't hurt to whipe cache and maybe dalvik cache so the phone doesn't have any old cached data. Might be why some have issues. I have no issues so far (one month of usage). One of the big tradeoffs of having a super high res screen is that it counteracts other performance enhancements made with the new SOC's. If you compare performance on lg g3 1440p and Sony z3 1080p you know what I mean. And 1080p on 5.1" is still sharper than the "super retina" iPhone 6+, hehe

What are the names of the 2 buuld.prop lines we need to change??

JohanSjogren said:
Yeah the gaming performance really is great in 1080p. It beats preatty much every other phone! I can add that I use the app "resolution changer" from play store which has built in DPI changer (use 480 for best compability), the resolution and DPI sticks between reboots. If you're planning on sticking with 1080p it doesn't hurt to whipe cache and maybe dalvik cache so the phone doesn't have any old cached data. Might be why some have issues. I have no issues so far (one month of usage). One of the big tradeoffs of having a super high res screen is that it counteracts other performance enhancements made with the new SOC's. If you compare performance on lg g3 1440p and Sony z3 1080p you know what I mean. And 1080p on 5.1" is still sharper than the "super retina" iPhone 6+, hehe
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Hey really interested in this, could you post some benchmarks? Such as Antutu, and screen on time, both with the 1080p mod? Thank you! :good:

KevinGleave said:
Hey really interested in this, could you post some benchmarks? Such as Antutu, and screen on time, both with the 1080p mod? Thank you! :good:
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Sure see below but you won't see much of a difference in Antutu as the 3d graphics tests are mostly vsync limited, there is a slight improvement, GFXBench demonstrates the difference a lot better. I doubt it's going to have much of an effect on battery life, got the usual 4 hours today.
Pay attention to the Manhattan and T-Rex onscreen results in the below comparison, my device is quite a bit faster.

Had Note 8 (VZW) for 48 hours now coming from GS8 - best Android phone I've ever used

I've never owned a Note but I've owned countless Android devices and iPhones too. I got my VZW pre-ordered Note 8 on Tuesday and have been using it a lot since then. This is by far the best phone (Android or not) I've ever used especially in terms of out of the box experience.
Coming from an S8 some thoughts:
- Super smooth and animations don't stutter at all - not sure how much of this has to do with 6GB of RAM and Android 7.1.1 (GS8 has 7.0)
- AMAZING multitasking - finally. My average free RAM has remained about 1.5GB (60-70% used) the last 48 hours. Apps that I haven't used for over 24 hours are still in memory and even multitasking heavy apps like Facebook, Twitter, browsers, etc. is no problem. FINALLY!
- Battery life for my usage has always been so-so on the GS8 the best I could get was 3.5hrs for example. Yesterday I took my phone to work and used it for the whole day without charging (9 hrs) and had 2 hrs of screen on time - left work with 60% battery life! That is incredible for me personally since again I have not done anything to tweak or optimize - everything is on and I used it heavily.
- The screen (even coming from a GS8) is just breathtaking. The quality, brightness and colors are awesome. Outdoors it gets so bright that it almost looks like an e-ink display. HDR videos on Amazon and Netflix look really great
- Fingerprint sensor location is not great but it's fine for me coming from GS8
- Camera seems as good as GS8 but haven't used it as much as I would like yet
- Size is perfect, it's tall but the width is perfect for holding and the keyboard is super comfortable (GS8 felt too narrow)
If you have any questions feel free to ask below. Thanks and for those waiting, it's totally worth the wait

Thanks for all these tidbits! I have been concerned with the lack of excited posts from people who have received the phone - this is awesome to see!!
Especially excited about proper RAM management. Thank goodness Samsung has learned!
Also really glad to hear that scrolling is smooth and no stuttering. Stupid test model had me worried. Thanks again for this post, I am so relieved and even more excited now!

What's your screen resolution op?
Out of the box, i read on one of these android reviews that the highest screen resolution is not selected out of the box, in order to maintain better battery life.
Since you didnt tweak anything according to your post, i assume you did not adjust the screen resolution?
I'm getting the note8 today and the first thing i will do is enable the highest screen resolution and make sure the battery performance is set to highest performance.
This will be my first every Sammy product so im looking forward to it. I have an asus zenfone 3 deluxe special edition with 6gb max and half a terabyte of storage. Ther hardware in it is top shelf but the screen is no where near the resolution of the note 8.

marctronixx said:
Out of the box, i read on one of these android reviews that the highest screen resolution is not selected out of the box, in order to maintain better battery life.
Since you didnt tweak anything according to your post, i assume you did not adjust the screen resolution?
I'm getting the note8 today and the first thing i will do is enable the highest screen resolution and make sure the battery performance is set to highest performance.
This will be my first every Sammy product so im looking forward to it. I have an asus zenfone 3 deluxe special edition with 6gb max and half a terabyte of storage. Ther hardware in it is top shelf but the screen is no where near the resolution of the note 8.
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Yes first thing I did was change to QHD resolution and I'm running at that since the first 5 mins of owning the phone. It does come at 1080p like the GS8 so I knew to change it. So I assume if you left it at 1080p it would be smoother, faster and last even longer!!
PsiPhiDan said:
Thanks for all these tidbits! I have been concerned with the lack of excited posts from people who have received the phone - this is awesome to see!!
Especially excited about proper RAM management. Thank goodness Samsung has learned!
Also really glad to hear that scrolling is smooth and no stuttering. Stupid test model had me worried. Thanks again for this post, I am so relieved and even more excited now!
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Yeah, everyone uses phones differently so hopefully it works for you!