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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
I found this on YouTube and its a pretty good mod. You don't even see any difference.
Boost Nexus 6 Performance & Battery Life by Lowering the Resolution [How...: http://youtu.be/9HREkRpPVa4
I'll take the hit on battery life for a higher resolution. That's part of the reason why this phone is so great.
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I'll take the hit on battery life for a higher resolution. That's part of the reason why this phone is so great.
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I feel you..... but serious tho you can't see no difference at all.
Sounds interesting, might give this a try.
Have you seen a noticeable difference in battery life? If this would give an extra hour or two at least, I could see doing it. If it's only a few extra mins, maybe not. Guess it can't hurt to try.
Nothing for battery time but here are some AnTuTu tests.
2d and 3d results, Nexus 6 stock, rooted, unencrypted 5.01.
Ran AnTuTu before making the change...
2d - 1596
3d - 16910 (2560x1440)
Made the change and ran again...
2d - 1636
3d - 20004 (1920x1080)
Changed back to stock and ran again...
2d - 1636
3d - 16303 (2560x1440)
I suspect that it would actually be more clear at 1280x720. Reason is that this is precisely the half-way point, which means that one "virtual" pixel takes up 2pixelsX2pixels on the physical screen. At 1920x1080, you're somewhere in between, which means that pixel boundaries won't line up to real pixels.
1280x720 also is the "full" resolution for one direction of the RGBG subpixel matrix.
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Nothing for battery time but here are some AnTuTu tests.
2d and 3d results, Nexus 6 stock, rooted, unencrypted 5.01.
Ran AnTuTu before making the change...
2d - 1596
3d - 16910 (2560x1440)
Made the change and ran again...
2d - 1636
3d - 20004 (1920x1080)
Changed back to stock and ran again...
2d - 1636
3d - 16303 (2560x1440)
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That's sad. I got 51590 on antutu, stock decrypted
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That's sad. I got 51590 on antutu, stock decrypted
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Not really.
I've gotten 52574, 52140 and 52083 all stock, decrypted for the full score just randomly running AnTuTu full test.
I just pulled out my phone today, ran the test and reported the 2d and 3d numbers only.
My full scores today were.
Initial - 51180
change - 54067
back to stock - 49606
These were all run back to back and the phone was getting warmer so that may be why the score dropped as much as it did for the final run. All runs previous to today have been in the 52,000+ range.
I changed mine to 1280x720, with a density of 320. It looks pretty good, with some minor graphical issues. At normal resolution 3d is around 17k.
2d: 1629
3d: 21205
I'll wait for your guys testing on battery life
Nice. gotta try it.
When my phone is sitting idle my GPU spends most of its time at 240 MHz, instead of 300 MHz at stock resolution. I don't know that this will save much battery as our 805's don't struggle with 1440p like the snap dragon 801 does. My wife's S5 would probably benefit from this more as it is fairly easy to bog down.
I'm having video player stuttering and pausing while trying to play 4k video that I recorded with the phone. I also noticed while navigating today that the phone didn't get as hot as it normally did, but there's a whole lot of variables that can affect that. Just some observations, I'll see how this works out tomorrow as far as battery life on a typical day.
No battery life yet eh?
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From the poster of the video
Anything's possible with root! But to be clear, this doesn't change the fact that your phone still has to power the extra pixels (because they're still physically there), it only helps with your GPU in that it doesn't have to process the extra pixels. But less processing generally equals less battery drain and smoother performance, and every little bit helps.
So basically sounds like battery life gains are going be very marginal at best.
Device looks like crappy with 1080p density 420. Icons looks like samsung s3. If you want that, go buy a S3
fethi2 said:
Device looks like crappy with 1080p density 420. Icons looks like samsung s3. If you want that, go buy a S3
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I disagree with your statement, I don't see a difference at all
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From the poster of the video
Anything's possible with root! But to be clear, this doesn't change the fact that your phone still has to power the extra pixels (because they're still physically there), it only helps with your GPU in that it doesn't have to process the extra pixels. But less processing generally equals less battery drain and smoother performance, and every little bit helps.
So basically sounds like battery life gains are going be very marginal at best.
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Pure snake oil. Changing resolution does nothing. Your display/GPU is still having to draw all images at its native resolution regardless of what you set it to. Unless you picture box the screen some how so the processor isn't having to draw a full screen, this will have no effect on battery.
In fact, assuming the GPU does process the image at 1080 first, it is having to process it again to make it fit the 1440 screen. Stands to reason that would cost you battery life.
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I feel you..... but serious tho you can't see no difference at all.
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But serious though...the difference in battery life is most-likely extremely negligible.
The display is still pushing power to all of the pixels...the only battery you're saving is the CPU working slightly harder to create higher-resolution outputs. This is about the same as changing the CPU frequency to like 5% less than normal...you might gain another ~15 minutes of screen on-time.
I had the wonderful sensor Ind wake lock today, so battery life definitely sucked. I'm hitting 5 hours SOT with 15% left as I type this. That's about 1.5 hours SOT shy of an average day with no wake lock issues and 1440p. As we all knew battery life would get at best a very minor bump with this, the screen is still lighting all the pixels after all. Oh well, it was worth trying out, but if Google would just fix these dam wake locks it would save many of us a ton of battery life! Back to beautiful 1440p
:highfive: congrats to those who have it early.
so tell us what you think about it, the feel on the hand, how fragile does it look and feel (is it slippery like the sony phones with glass, grippy?) , hows the performance of the camera, screen, battery, etc.
It's only been half a day but my early impressions are as follows,
-Fingerprint scanner is wicked fast.
-Screen is beautiful
-It is fast fast fast. I love Samsung devices and I admit that lag was always an issue. I have not been able to slow it down yet. Really I havent. Lol. Even the recent app switcher is fast.
-Like the themeing a lot. I can't wait for more themes.
-Feels good on the hand. The edge does make it a bit different to hold but I love the curved screen. Makes using the phone a pleasure.
-I have only taken a couple pictures but they turned out great. More on that later.
I'm sure I'll have more as the days pass..
I played with the phone in a T mobile store. For about 20 minutes battery was down to 93% from 100%.,Power hungry. Could you guys confirm?
Also I found the browser cannot hide the status bar hence no full screen browsing. Please also confirm this?
S6 edge in the bestbuy which is unbranded has no ability to sort the menu alphabetically. But T mobile edge has an option to sort.
You're correct on the status bar. Too early to know on the battery. The option to sort might have come in the software update that dropped today. Not sure though.
does this look like the edge to u? i think phonearena made a mistake
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Sams...r-but-survives-this-violent-drop-test_id67696
It looks like the edge
The regular s6 has very recognizable edge as well and that is not it
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avenging said:
does this look like the edge to u? i think phonearena made a mistake
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Sams...r-but-survives-this-violent-drop-test_id67696
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Yup, that an Edge, and damn did she slam that hard! Good to know it can survive what she just did, lol.
From a performance point of view there is no doubt in my mind the Edge is going to be great, the only doubt is battery life... I realise its a bit early for conclusions yet but once people have used their phones for a week or so, its the questions that everyone wants answering. Everyone's use patterns are different but as long as I can make it through a heavyish day ok, I'll be happy with that.
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From a performance point of view there is no doubt in my mind the Edge is going to be great, the only doubt is battery life... I realise its a bit early for conclusions yet but once people have used their phones for a week or so, its the questions that everyone wants answering. Everyone's use patterns are different but as long as I can make it through a heavyish day ok, I'll be happy with that.
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It's battery is only 7% less in capacity than S5, so I see no reason why battery life would be extremely different. The screen has higher res, but CPU is much more power efficient.
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It's battery is only 7% less in capacity than S5, so I see no reason why battery life would be extremely different. The screen has higher res, but CPU is much more power efficient.
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Yes...still, I'd rather yes some real numbers from someone who actually has the phone. We know very little about its battery performance yet, and I have seen mixed reviews with some saying its good and others poor.
I should just say that I have the phone pre ordered and I'm looking forward to getting it, battery is the only doubt I have...I'd just like to see some numbers and I think most other people would too.
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Yes...still, I'd rather yes some real numbers from someone who actually has the phone. We know very little about its battery performance yet, and I have seen mixed reviews with some saying its good and others poor.
I should just say that I have the phone pre ordered and I'm looking forward to getting it, battery is the only doubt I have...I'd just like to see some numbers and I think most other people would too.
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I have pre-ordered it as well, but it is still 2 weeks before shipping. We will all see in due time. People in the US are already getting theirs, so we should have some info within a week as batteries start working normally after a few charges.
Also could you guys confirm available free memory?
I went to Best Buy yesterday to get a look at the S6 edge. Needless to say, I was very impressed. Touchwiz seems lightning fast compared to 4.3 on my S4. The shortcuts and ease of access really convinced me to buy this (when green comes along). The edge display looks absolutely amazing and does, in fact, feel more immersive. I love the metal frame and the new headphone jack location. Basically, this thing looks and feels all-around perfect. The black looks BLACK in person, whereas online it gave me the belief that it was a deep-blue. Don't know if I want to settle for the white 32GB or wait a month or two in hopes of the green appearing.
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Also could you guys confirm available free memory?
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I forgot to look. With all my apps and a couple hundred pix loaded on have 107 gigs available.
varunkumars said:
Also could you guys confirm available free memory?
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the 32GB should have around 22-25GB available
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the 64GB should have around 53-56GB available
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It's battery is only 7% less in capacity than S5, so I see no reason why battery life would be extremely different. The screen has higher res, but CPU is much more power efficient.
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Eh, you forgot to mention that the screen was actually more efficient, too. Not only is it 14nm, the screen is like 23% more efficient than the screen on the Note 4, iirc.
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Eh, you forgot to mention that the screen was actually more efficient, too. Not only is it 14nm, the screen is like 23% more efficient than the screen on the Note 4, iirc.
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I was not aware the screen would be more efficient with that much higher resolution, but that is a good thing to know as well. Might mean all this whining about smaller battery size is just for the sake of whining.
Thanks for your answers guys. Today again I walked into Best buy and T mobile stores to do my research more. What I found,
Battery: Yesterday when I played with the phone I suspected it to be Power hungry. But I think I should take it back. Battery is ok not bad after all. I am comparing with my LG G2(has a good battery, 3000mah) and I measured the time it takes to drop every %. S6 takes a little more time than the G2 to drop which tells me the battery is good. Also the picture below. I don't have an S5 so I can't really compare with that. I played a couple of games that were installed on the phone and the battery is still ok. This is by no means a scientific way of measuring, neverthless I wanted to share this with you guys.
Although I have chargers at home, car and work still a good battery(if not the best) gives a sense of confidence. and satisfaction that I have the best phone irrespective of all the breath taking features. Don't you agree?? S6 may not disappoint I believe.
Browser/Browsing: Browsing is a breeze. No sense of lag anywhere. But the status bar doesn't hide which I assume is a part of Lollipop. I would be curious to see if a dev can come up with a mod. A full screen immersive browsing on the S6 's beautiful screen would be super cool.
Youtube/Video: Flawless like its predecessors. Nothing special to mention.
Music: Flawless sound like its predecessors. No distortion. Sound is very clean with the headphones. I listen to a lot of Music and sound quality is very important for me. When I played the music on speaker I felt some vibration I wonder what that is??? I wonder if it is the speaker giving the vibration.
Menu:Arrangement of the apps in the menu is nice and simple although I would prefer the icons to be a little smaller. T mobile phones come with an option to sort alphabetically. AT&T don't have the phone for display yet(Slackers:crying so can't tell. All in all I like this new menu. No complaints.
GPS: I didn't spend a lot of time here but I thought it locked quick enough. Nothing special and no complaints.
Screen Quality : I thought the screen is much better than S5 (in the store) and on par with the note 4. But my G2 has a different color temperature which I believe make whites look a little bluish where as S6 whites are yellowish. To me both are ok. But I really have to admit the additional pixels on S6 make no difference in picture quality (S6 vs G2). Really a 1080p screen would have been enough. To clarify I am not complaining, just my opinion. Viewing angles are good unlike G2 (LG's for that matter).
I have to tell you, normal people passing by with no phone knowledge would stop by and take a glimpse at the edge screen, They all seem to like it. Seems like edge is getting all the attention it deserves.
Build/Design: This is where S6 edge outshines every other phone in the market. In my opinion, till date this the best design ever period. I have seen some complaints about finger prints. It is not bad after all. Looks like white takes less finger prints than others. Excellent build quality and feels solid in hands. Thums up.
Single handed use: It can be used single handed with no issues. Menu is set up for single hand use which I really like. Although my hand is not very big it fit nicely in my hand. Not sure about the non-edge S6. Should be the same.
Speed This is one thing that is very crucial. All android phones I used so far tend to be fast initially but as I go adding/deleting apps and other files phone tends to get laggy. It really gets on my nerves. But even as a brand new phone they stutter at times. But with S6 it is blazing fast. No lag anywhere (at least I did not see). App drawer is a little slow to open. Samsung probably configured it to be slower on purpose. Some might misunderstand it to be a lag, just a heads up. Speed speed speed is what it is.
Camera: I need not specially tell you about the camera. There are expert reviews which claim this to be the best camera. Flawless. Double press on the menu opens the camera in split seconds which is very impressive.
I care less about the heart rate sensor so did not test it. Although I care about finger print scanner I could not test it because it is not my phone.
This is a big leap forward not just for Samsung but for android as a whole.
I was disappointed about the battery yesterday but liked it today and took some time to test all the features. I like the phone, will get one. White Color 32gb. AT&T.
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the 64GB should have around 53-56GB available
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I think he meant the true amount of RAM available. (Should be less than 3 GB)
Status bar maybe due to Lollipop. Its present on my Pure Edition Moto X and my Atrix HD running CM12.
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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
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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.
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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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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
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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.
I'm not sure if I'm lucky but 6 hours on screen time and just under 40% is great in my book. I'm on the Sprint variant I have my phone on max brightness, sync and location always on as well.
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What you do all the time reading pdf or something ? It shouldnt be web browsing or gaming
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miyuru4u said:
What you do all the time reading pdf or something ? It shouldnt be web browsing or gaming
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YouTube, reading, facebooking, listening to music, checking email. Basically just general use for me to be honest
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yeah that Sprint update made this phone bomb
well lucky you..
^this is with all of the LG bloatware deleted/disabled - fixed brightness at 65%
GPS/NFC/Bluetooth never on, use standard apps like viber, facebook, chrome
don't watch youtube videos..
Not getting that sort of SOT but this has been the best phone I've owned battery wise. Don't feel compelled to plug it in outside of bedtime.
kangta05 said:
YouTube, reading, facebooking, listening to music, checking email. Basically just general use for me to be honest
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Yeah thats great specally 100% brightness.. I can easily go for 4 and half SOT with 75% brigtness wifi gps on using taptalk and skype viber and bat is left 30% .. I think this phone is awsome i came from nexus 5 and i am reallly happy
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My battery life is terrible. After upgrading from an S3 and watching my partner's M8 and Z3 be ****ing battery tanks this is very disappointing. ~2-3 hours SOT is comparable to the S3 I came from, and meanwhile the Z3 is at 70% battery with 3 hours SOT *with* everything turned on and not debloated. Though admittedly, this phone is wonderful in every other way so it's hard to stay mad.... Just the occasional sad stab of battery anxiety/jealousy every once and a bit. I've only had the phone a week though, so that feeling should hopefully fade.
#firstwoldproblems
Usraek said:
My battery life is terrible. After upgrading from an S3 and watching my partner's M8 and Z3 be ****ing battery tanks this is very disappointing. ~2-3 hours SOT is comparable to the S3 I came from, and meanwhile the Z3 is at 70% battery with 3 hours SOT *with* everything turned on and not debloated. Though admittedly, this phone is wonderful in every other way so it's hard to stay mad.... Just the occasional sad stab of battery anxiety/jealousy every once and a bit. I've only had the phone a week though, so that feeling should hopefully fade.
#firstwoldproblems
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I'm not sure if you did factory reset after when you first bought the phone, but it def helps in my case. ( I did 2 or 3 time factory, don't do the setup yet, just keep doing factory reset once the phone boot-up). I get from 2 hour SOT, to about 4-5 hour SOT with 5% left at the end of my day with the same setup as when i first setup.
PS: don't do restore apps, just do clean install all your apps and settings.
Usraek said:
My battery life is terrible. After upgrading from an S3 and watching my partner's M8 and Z3 be ****ing battery tanks this is very disappointing. ~2-3 hours SOT is comparable to the S3 I came from, and meanwhile the Z3 is at 70% battery with 3 hours SOT *with* everything turned on and not debloated.
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Both 1080p screens
I wish LG could have stuck with that.
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dumb4ever said:
I'm not sure if you did factory reset after when you first bought the phone, but it def helps in my case. ( I did 2 or 3 time factory, don't do the setup yet, just keep doing factory reset once the phone boot-up). I get from 2 hour SOT, to about 4-5 hour SOT with 5% left at the end of my day with the same setup as when i first setup.
PS: don't do restore apps, just do clean install all your apps and settings.
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How does a factory reset double SOT for what is essentially a new phone ?
Wow quite interesting
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I Yeah, I did two factory resets when I got it because I accidentally auto-synced my Google crap, so it's all fresh.
This was just a small frustrated vent. This is my only upgrade since my S3 and it wasn't really by choice as I had to change carriers but this phone is the best option currently available (the other one on my list being the S5, cuz battery and sd card). Meanwhile my partner has hopped from a Note 2 to a HTC M8 to now a Sony Z3, and I watched the amazing all day do-whatever-the-****-you-want battery life and figured that more flagships would be like that... Instead there's this disappointing as hell battery life that isn't much better than what I had and I still need to watch what I do so I'm constrained in the same way lest it craps out midday.
So while this phone is amazing as hell, with many great features, it leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. I could return it and get an S5 but what a downgrade. Not really any other options with removable storage and battery. At least I can hope root with help improve some battery life, and it will certainly fix the ****ty DPI. Also hoping for a slim Zerolemon battery with higher capacity to come eventually.
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One Twelve said:
Both 1080p screens
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Yeah, I'm aware, and pretty terrible looking ones at that IMO. This LG screen is gorgeous and one of the few that don't look like complete ass next to an AMOLED. Shame about the DPI though, but that will come!
On a side note, I fell into a laptop with a 3k screen a couple weeks ago, and I'm really enjoying high-resolution information dense crisp screens.
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Shame about the DPI though, but that will come!
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I don't get this DPI thing. You want to reduce the DPI so it looks better
One Twelve said:
I don't get this DPI thing. You want to reduce the DPI so it looks better
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Well we've got this glorious beautiful hi-res screen but the Gmail app can fit 6 lines, whereas on my S3 (with tweaked DPI) on the 720p screen I could have 10 lines and it was amazing. Not to mention I have smaller hands so I can adjust the DPI on my keyboard to have it take less screen space, making it easier to use with one hand, while at the same time being able to view more if my browser or texts or whatever. It's quite wonderful to be able to choose per-app DPI for different usage.
Lowering DPI which is what was being recommended in that DPi thread, gives you more text to view ?
The thing i dont understand is increasing resolution raises DPI. So lowering DPI reduces resolution. Things become bigger when you lower resolution. You can fit less within the screen in that case.
You can't raise the DPI because its already at its max. So other than reducing font size i don't understand how 'tweaking' DPi fits more in the window.
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Lowering DPI which is what was being recommended in that DPi thread, gives you more text to view ?
The thing i dont understand is increasing resolution raises DPI. So lowering DPI reduces resolution. Things become bigger when you lower resolution. You can fit less within the screen in that case.
You can't raise the DPI because its already at its max. So other than reducing font size i don't understand how 'tweaking' DPi fits more in the window.
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You're conflating DPI with resolution. The resolution is the overall amount of pixels the screen displays, like a canvas, and when you set it lower everything looks bigger but you have less room to fit things overall as icon sizes and text haven't changed. Setting your screen to anything but native resolution in most cases also makes things look worse off, depending on how well your screen scales and how low you go, it gets blurrier and blurrier.
Having a high resolution is like have a massive canvas to work with, you can fit many many things sized smaller on there. Now it can make everything appear too small, so that's where DPI scaling comes in. You need higher resolution icon and things programmed to scale otherwise when you zoom them they get blurry (like a 480p video on a 1080p screen). You can zoom too much though, leaving all that extra lovely canvas space you're screen is capable of filled up. That's what LG did, or you can zoom them out and the higher resolution you have the more you can zoom things out and have them still legible. LG zoomed everything in way too much wasting a lot of potential screen real estate. Sure it's crisp and nice, but I may as well have a 1080p phone. I want to zoom it out, while keeping the resolution, so it all stays crisp.
Sorry if that's a bit messy, I'm thinking of Windows desktop icons as I type this. Haha
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Android apps are set to scale to whatever the manufacturer deems correct, so we have these giant FisherPrice apps with massive buttons and icons taking up half the screen. Browsing the web though is beautiful so far on here though.
(There's also ppi/dpi like when Apple talks their Retina crap, but that's how many physical pixels your screen has crammed into what sized space. We're talking software DPI)
(And the DPI in the other thread is global scaling of everything smaller and has it's share of problems. Per-app DPI using Xposed is where it's at as you can have each setting independent in case problems like crashing arise, or you just don't need something smaller)
OP, are you sure you don't have auto brightness on and set to 100%? Either way you have amazing battery life. 3.5 to 4hr sot is usually the norm for me without gaming. Usual calls, web, txt, email, tapatalk, some youtube
I agree, I've had all HTC devices (currently also have an M9) and I can't get this phone to dye. Lol going on 12 hours of heavy usage with 14% still. Very satisfied with this.
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My G4 is an AT&T variant and the stand by Bayer life is amazing. Off the charger yesterday at 6AM used it maybe 5 or 6 times for quick peaks at Email or a random notification and noticed at 1 pm battery was still at 100%. Art 5pm with fairly light usage I was down to 93%. It's one week old and I usually turn off unnecessary notifications like Facebook or youtube etc. The only App that was disabled was drivemode, and brightness on Auto. Even under moderate usage I'm a embedding a 12 hour work/travel day at 80%. I don't Minnie about you guys but this is fantastic to me. It seems to me with this phone it really powers down when resting on standby.
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Usraek said:
I Yeah, I did two factory resets when I got it because I accidentally auto-synced my Google crap, so it's all fresh.
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Restoring from phone to phone or from ROM to ROM has always introduced problems for me. Setting things up as a new device produces noticeably better results. That "feature" does not work as well as intended.