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LCD problem?

Hello,
I've just got my replacement phone (the previous one had mechanical problems) and the display seems a bit strange with this new device.
There are visible banding effects in color gradients, (web pages, pictures) I know the Lcd has only 65K colors, but I don't remember those bands being so strong on my previous device.
Could you fellow G1 owners check this on your device please? I am in Hungary, Europe and I don't know any other G1 owners here (you know it's not available here, actually mine is an ADP1).
It's easy to check, the effect is very visible on http://www.google.com/news (Google international news mobile site) in the Android browser. It's slightly visible in the dark blue title bar, more in the light blue bar below and very strongly in the "Sections" bar far below.
Please check it and tell me what you have found...
Thanks,
Peter

I see the same issues with google/news. I think it has to do with google's site and/or the g1's browser. Here's a few high quality jpeg gradients Black-White, RainBow and Blue-Red. Unfortunately google compresses them and they look like junk online. So, here's a .zip of the three gradients your can download right to your phone and view with Astro, or extract to pc etc. They should look fairly smooth on the g1, better on pc tho..
use there gradients for w/e you choose.

Hello sonikamd,
Thanks for your help! Interestingly your test pictures look better (smoother) in the standard picture viewer app than in Astro's viewer. Can you confirm that?
Also how old is your device? It looks like that mine (the replacement device) is very old, it's serial number is lower than what I have sent back (purchased in december).
Thanks,
Peter

Just one last quick question: on the incoming call screen there are strange lines appear, do anyone see those on the G1 or it is just me?
Click on the picture to see what I mean.
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No, I am not crazy - I am a graphics artist and really sensitive to things like that.
Thanks,
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Hi lilithpro,
Thanks for the image, however you won't see the effect on a screencapture (like you attached). I made the pic in Photoshop (from a captured emulator screen) to show the effect - I exaggerated the effect in the pic a little.
You should check your device's lcd during an incoming call to see it. I think it is something to do with the lcd panel. Today I managed to check an other G1 and it showed that effect, too.
So it seems it is not my ADP1's problem.

increase the size of the soft keys at the bottom

is there any way to increase it to make it finger friendly. 5-7 extra pixels should be enough be enough.

anybody has idea?

THE GRIZZ said:
anybody has idea?
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Unfortunately no. One thing that doesn't work: messing around with the system font size. I thought that might increase the size of the bar at the bottom but it didn't work. There may well be a registry entry that would increase the font size and thus the "touchability."

THE GRIZZ said:
is there any way to increase it to make it finger friendly. 5-7 extra pixels should be enough be enough.
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Here is a pic of a stock Asus P565:
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Idk how they do it, but you might want to look into it.
dwizzy130

the picture is exactlywhat i want i just hope this is not a photoshoped picture

Possibilities
There are several possibilities there.
I don't know the resolution of that thing, but it could be that the bars are stock, the fonts are smaller, could be that it's using a non standard today screen but infact a plugin/overlay/shell. The bars are images saved in the theme files, so it's possible that using an advanced theme editor they were able to create non standard layouts, but either way I'd hazard a guess it's not something you can just do with registry/font/file edits on the device.
through a lot of messing of my own, I have been able to acertain atleast that no one thing you change in the UI is going to stay at just that.
Changing the folder background colour for example (like I set the programs folder background to black and font to white) meant that in my mail app and many others i couldn't read the text because it also affected their font colours.
The highlights on a lot of text boxes inside apps are now black too, so unreadable text, certain sections of various windows changed, etc etc.
So, either way, it will need some theme editing or some extensive modifications to the theme layout.

THE GRIZZ said:
the picture is exactlywhat i want i just hope this is not a photoshoped picture
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The pic is real. If you don't believe me, google asus p565.
dwizzy130

what I've come to realize, is that the icons and soft keys use the same pixel count as any other winmo phone, it's just that the pixels are smaller on our phones...lol

im bumping this in case someone knows something now

Cant get head around DPI changes on PA?

Hi guys,
I did do a search but couldnt find an answer to this. I have just rooted and installed PA rom to my phone to use the extended desktop etc. Thing is, there are 3 different tablet ui on their settings which i dont really understand? all are 1000p but diff dpi settings. Seems that if i 'lower' my dpi everything gets smaller, surely that should be the other way around as normally higher dpi = crisper image doesnt it? What ui are people using on PA?
I clicked on the help bit of the pa settings and it shows changing some stuff on the youtube app to make it look different but that doesnt seem to work either, was that only for tablets to get the 3d menu effect?
Thanks all

It's very easy. Dpi = size. That's it. Forget all this Tablet mode nonsense from the past. Dpi makes apps bigger or smaller nothing more.
Now apps bring layout containers, the programmer defines them. These containers tell the app how it should look on various devices and screen sizes. Paranoid android can read the actual layouts out of any app. And you can choose of course, again, app per app.
Every app on your system can have it's own size and layout. Everything is nicely listed on the hybrid manager. System Ui, the app that displays bars is no difference. We treat it in the same way. " tablet mode" means simply we set it to it's highest layout. There's several settings because you can decide how big you want it, these are presets that's all. You can finetune it in the interface section. Play around with it, almost nothing needs a reboot, not even switching UI's.
I sometimes wish xda would not ignore us. They haven't featured hybrid engine at least once so people still don't know what it is.

Ps here's a mini tutorial
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Right column sets Skype into a higher UI. This is how it looks on a nexus 10. Try any app you like there's literally hundreds with awesome UIs that work great on your phone.

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Ps here's a mini tutorial
Right column sets Skype into a higher UI. This is how it looks on a nexus 10. Try any app you like there's literally hundreds with awesome UIs that work great on your phone.
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Thanks for the help mole, yeah i think i realise how the dpi works now it just confused me as i thought higher dpi would = smaller crisper text but i am clearly confusing that with resolution (thought they were the same thing).
Appreciate the mini tutorial will just keep playing with it

[MINI GUIDE] App Optimization: Reducing Overdraw

Hey XDA - I just wanted to share some useful information I came across while developing my app:
App performance is crucial if you want your users to enjoy using your app - the goal is to reduce lag.
There are many ways one can achieve this:
Using multithreading
Simplifying View hierarchy
Reducing Overdraw
Pixel Overdraw occurs when an app repaints a pixel multiple times. This is something we don't really think about, but can have a massive effect on our performance.
Enabling Profiling:
Fortunately, Android has some built in tools to help us developers. (You can find these under Developer Settings)
You'll want to turn on:
1) Force GPU Rendering
2) Show GPU Overdraw
Next, simply restart the app you want to profile and voila - areas of the screen are 'painted' in a variety of colours!
Interpreting Results:
These colours have significant meaning
No color: No overdraw.The pixel was painted only once.
Blue: 1x Overdraw
Green 2x Overdraw
Light red: 3x Overdraw
Dark red: 4x Overdraw
Fixing The Problem:
You'll want to dig in your XML layout files and look for areas of overlap. The biggest issue is if you are drawing backgrounds on top of each other. In my case, my app was drawing 4 backgrounds: one for the activity, one for the fragment, one for the ListView and one for the list item. Then text was drawn on top. As the the image at the bottom of this post suggests, it wasn't pretty.
The solution was simple:
Code:
android:background="@null"
I simply removed the unnecessary backgrounds.
Your solutions may not be as easy, but it doesn't hurt to give it a try. In fact, the scrolling performance of my app improved dramatically - it's now buttery smooth!
Some Results:
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Credits to Romain Guy. He has a full tutorial on his blog that you should definitely check out.
Please let me know what worked for you and do share any tips you have to optimize app performance!

thanks a lot.. a will be using this on my app and see the resaults

alobo said:
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android:background="@null"
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Where do you find the XML files to modify?

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je2854 said:
Where do you find the XML files to modify?
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I'm referring to your app's XML layout files, which can be found in res/layout.

does this work with emulators?i tried checking both overdraw and gpu rendering from dev setting in 4.2 emulator but opening apps does not show me anything

molzz said:
does this work with emulators?i tried checking both overdraw and gpu rendering from dev setting in 4.2 emulator but opening apps does not show me anything
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Apparently you have to check 'User Host GPU' when creating your virtual device. Check this answer for more information.

Nice! I'll check it out

Yes, thanks Romain Guy for this tip. Actually I would recomend to watch all videos with him -- he gives a lot of valuable hints.

You should not use android:background = null, rather set the background to null in your onCreate.

Thanks a lot! I'll try it.

woaaa... great work!! it can be set generally? I mean with that code?

Holo Cards - Nexus 5

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http://mycolorscreen.com/2013/01/20/holo-cards-by-thand/
Install guide;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tase7wn6ibo
Going to be trying to set this up on my N5 when it arrives sometime today (so excited over a phone I feel like a kid on christmas haha)
The guide has two sets of images to use, one set being 728x1200 and the other additional one is 720x1280, which one should I use for the N5's screen? Or will I need to modify one of them to fit the resolution since it's 1080×1920 px?
Has anyone set this theme up on their N5 and can share their experience, things that may need to be modified for it (if at all?)
Thanks

paradoxiumwind said:
http://mycolorscreen.com/2013/01/20/holo-cards-by-thand/
Install guide;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tase7wn6ibo
Going to be trying to set this up on my N5 when it arrives sometime today (so excited over a phone I feel like a kid on christmas haha)
The guide has two sets of images to use, one set being 728x1200 and the other additional one is 720x1280, which one should I use for the N5's screen? Or will I need to modify one of them to fit the resolution since it's 1080×1920 px?
Has anyone set this theme up on their N5 and can share their experience, things that may need to be modified for it (if at all?)
Thanks
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Modify Wallpaper to 1080x1920 and set immersive mode/ expanded desktop mode on. Then run wild with the setup. Due to different screen size resolutions, you might need to play around in Nova settings a bit (particularly desktop grid) to get the far left page working properly.
I did this on my old phone which was running 480x800. Unfortunately, I no longer have the set up but of all the MCS themes there, this is probably one of the more functional ones and as a result, you'll probably enjoy this a lot

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Modify Wallpaper to 1080x1920 and set immersive mode/ expanded desktop mode on. Then run wild with the setup. Due to different screen size resolutions, you might need to play around in Nova settings a bit (particularly desktop grid) to get the far left page working properly.
I did this on my old phone which was running 480x800. Unfortunately, I no longer have the set up but of all the MCS themes there, this is probably one of the more functional ones and as a result, you'll probably enjoy this a lot
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Spent the day setting it up, got it looking how I like mostly now:
http://imgur.com/a/c3s7A