Rogers Magic 32A. Currenly Running MarsDroid 1.8D. Switched from CursorDroid an hour ago.
I have been benchmarking ROMs and I found out that no 1.6 ROM has compatible graphics acceleration. I get 3.2 fps with NeoCore on MarsDroid.
CursorSense works faaast probably because of the original HTC drivers that well made for Android 1.5.
Correct me if I am wrong, but there is NO way we(community) will get full hardware graphics acceleration unless we use official ROMS or their modifications?
Also: I have not run these test with Cyan(back with old SPL), but Iam sure that its the same on 32A.
Thanks in advance.
mars droid uses RAM HACK so no GPU accelertion there, Cursor doesnt so u get it
I thought RAM Hack was only for 32B???
I think it should be mentioned in the Rom description whether it supports hardware graphics acceleration . Just flashed 1.5. I guess I have to wait for official update. Staying with cursor till then.
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hey!
which 32A NR rom got best 3d drivers so far? trying play icommando leaves me in like 1-2 frames per sec... so i wonder what rom should i use to have the best 3D GPU support?
at the moment I'm using robocik's last rom.
from what I've been reading HTC MAGIC's CPU is dual core with hardware GPU for 3D. So i can only guess that the performance I can see now is probably due to not perfect GPU drivers.
thanks!
Use a 1.6 rom. Easy as that. In every 2.1 rom thread the devs say you will have problems with video and 3d. So if your really into your games and videos I suggest going to Cyan, Super D or a hero rom.
crypysmoker said:
Use a 1.6 rom. Easy as that. In every 2.1 rom thread the devs say you will have problems with video and 3d. So if your really into your games and videos I suggest going to Cyan, Super D or a hero rom.
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but some people says that 1.6 roms got no 3D drivers for the hardware GPU. so unsure...what do you say about it?
thnx
rommark said:
but some people says that 1.6 roms got no 3D drivers for the hardware GPU. so unsure...what do you say about it?
thnx
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all the 2.1 roms still have issues with 3d and video, and until theyre fixed, i suggest stick with 1.6
Same question though... Does 1.6 have 3d drivers? I thought only cupcake has drivers.
would icommando and exzeus games will work smooth/fast on 1.6 roms?
since now it runs on 1-2 FPS :/
thnx!
rommark said:
would icommando and exzeus games will work smooth/fast on 1.6 roms?
since now it runs on 1-2 FPS :/
thnx!
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icommando is not designed for your phone period
until you upgrade to a nexus one it will play like ****
you cannot install it on roms < 2.1
ok, about android phones is there a way to avoid slow/lag times after prolong usage? because it seems like my mt3g does NOT know how to "cycle" its own memory and then a week later, just like most rom's, it just suddenly SLOWS down. it pisses me off so much! when i began a new rom i could text and call quickly as the phone would normally and then eventually later on the week the most important part of my life my phone just feels like slowin down as if its under depression over something it REFUSES to forget! WTF is there to do to solve this???
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ok, about android phones is there a way to avoid slow/lag times after prolong usage? because it seems like my mt3g does NOT know how to "cycle" its own memory and then a week later, just like most rom's, it just suddenly SLOWS down. it pisses me off so much! when i began a new rom i could text and call quickly as the phone would normally and then eventually later on the week the most important part of my life my phone just feels like slowin down as if its under depression over something it REFUSES to forget! WTF is there to do to solve this???
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Just reboot then, either that or use a different rom...There's also the choice of getting a new phone too, you have to remember the MT3G is kind of like an upgraded G1, but with only more int memory....Same cheap 528 CPU and low 192MB RAM. Phones with these kind of specs cant help it if they slow down.
Ace42 said:
Just reboot then, either that or use a different rom...There's also the choice of getting a new phone too, you have to remember the MT3G is kind of like an upgraded G1, but with only more int memory....Same cheap 528 CPU and low 192MB RAM. Phones with these kind of specs cant help it if they slow down.
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Hi getting a MT3G 1.2 32A the new one with the same CPU MSM7200A ARM11 processor, and 288MB RAM as the HTC Hero my question is
Can it run hero roms or not ?
Thanks
zerodi said:
Hi getting a MT3G 1.2 32A the new one with the same CPU MSM7200A ARM11 processor, and 288MB RAM as the HTC Hero my question is
Can it run hero roms or not ?
Thanks
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any rom you can imagine, and it works just as well as the hero too.
jcarrz1 said:
any rom you can imagine, and it works just as well as the hero too.
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I wonder... could it be? Is it because they are exactly the same phone in a different shaped plastic container?
wow awsome news !!
Froyd on the 32A here we come yeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaa
zerodi said:
Hi getting a MT3G 1.2 32A the new one with the same CPU MSM7200A ARM11 processor, and 288MB RAM as the HTC Hero my question is
Can it run hero roms or not ?
Thanks
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It can but you still don't have working bluetooth (unless you use a different radio version which I haven't tried).
Binary100100 said:
It can but you still don't have working bluetooth (unless you use a different radio version which I haven't tried).
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Thats ok i never use bluetooth - maybe a few years ago on a nokia i did so i can live without that
Have you tried the latest froydvillian 1.4.3
on it ? Does it all work great ?
I love the form factor of the magic better than the Hero so when i saw there was a hero in a magic body i was chuffed
i heard there is a rom supporting skype video?
also which would you guys recomend for fastes stable roms without all bells and graph whistle.
i am intristed in skype first? then second cpu overclock and last if possible to use system storage and allocate it to memory is that even possibel
I believe Skype has it's app that supports video chat now. As far as roms go eagles blood 1.7 is very stable, before the buggy versions started IMO. Great battery life also.
G2X BLUE EAGLES BLOOD 1.4ghz
(ROM) EB 1.7
(Kernal) Faux123 0.1.2
(Theme) Blue Viper
Unfortunately Skype Video is not supported by g2x and I don`t think is related to what Rom you`re running. They just need to make it g2x compatible...
I don't even think it's currently compatible with any Tegra 2 devices, which sucks.
cpu
ive heard that skype is supporting a samsung phone with same cpu
FatalityBoyZahy said:
I don't even think it's currently compatible with any Tegra 2 devices, which sucks.
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It is working with the Atrix which uses a Tegra 2 also.
i had a the skype for the htc thunderbolt on my sensation and it worked fine tho it was prolly easier going from htc to htc but if its doable to sensation it should happen on g2x
I saw in a google + thread that android, since 1.5 version was software rendered, would our little GPU be able to render some launchers? If yes, i'm looking for a method to enable it, I think our phones would be a lot smoother and less laggy (I overclocked a little time ago but i didn't saw any difference)
JPQ Firmware rooted firmware
VOODOO
G3MOD Kernel NON-OC
MIUI Theme
most people say our little g3 doesnt have a GPU :'(
well youll have to edit the elg.cfg to enable HW redering though
Thanks, Well I'm going to give it a try, but our little SG3 has a smll FIMG 3DSE GPU, maybe Tom3q OpenFIMG will help us to have better smoothness then
GPU Rendering is one of the reason of the importance to get Android 4.0 working on our G3, because GPU is used for smooth animation and very smooth luncher .
I'm running CM9 arcee SK3, and like all the other ICS roms, it doesn't have video acceleration. What I'm wondering is, what changed between Gingerbread and ICS that broke this?
Also, given that the Xoom is also Tegra 2 and it has an official ICS rom, is there any way that could be used to bring acceleration to the G2x?
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I'm running CM9 arcee SK3, and like all the other ICS roms, it doesn't have video acceleration. What I'm wondering is, what changed between Gingerbread and ICS that broke this?
Also, given that the Xoom is also Tegra 2 and it has an official ICS rom, is there any way that could be used to bring acceleration to the G2x?
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so, in gingerbread (and all versions of android before it) all video was done by software. this makes it slow ALOT slower than with hardware acceleration. i wont get too intense with the reasons, but basically it lets the GPU do like 100 calculations at once (hardware) instead of 1 at a time (software).
This means that it is MUCH less CPU and GPU intensive to render video. So the developers of Ice Cream Sandwitch (Google, not rom devs here) decided to make it mandatory so that it could be heavily integrated into the phone. (making things like 1080p video recording MUCH easier with a higher framerate).
They also made all of the UI rendering need Hardware Acceleration. now, im fairly sure the developers got HA for the UI working on this phone by doing the equivalent of writing their own drivers (no small feat). however Hardware Acceleration for video still does not have these drivers. (and we probably wont be able to dev them up, being as Video Encoding/Decoding is much more complex then just rendering a UI).
Now as for the Xoom, while it is Tegra, it's a different version of the chip, and because of this nothing useful can be shared between the 2.
Now, if you want video encoding to be done the old way, there are apps from the market that do it, i know MX video player is one that has a software rendering option and i think there is at least 1 video recorder that does it by software. Either way, until we get hardware support, there are options.
TL;DR: Its not broke, its just new, and we dont have the drivers for this new 'feature'.
Yeah, it's not to fun. I cant wait till we have it going! Just bought an extended battery!
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Thanks, Klathmon, everything makes a lot more sense now.
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Thanks, Klathmon, everything makes a lot more sense now.
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Here are the apps he was talking about.
Watch video: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mxtech.videoplayer.ad
Record video: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.androidillusion.videocamillusion