I currently have the Infinity tablet and was wondering if the netflix app has any lag in the video selection menu on the Note? The lag is really bad on the Infinity when trying to find a video to watch. Everything is fine once the video is playing though.
I also wonder if anyone has tried Nova 3 on the Note. It plays ok on the infinity but it does stutter from time to time and the overall framerate isn't perfectly smooth either.
Thinking about trying the Note out for comparison
so far this tablet has the smoothest netflix scrolling i've seen without forcing gpu acceleration. it's still a bit stuttery and not nearly as smooth as ios' version. but i'm sure it could be if netflix put their mind to. forcing gpu (on the tf700) is the closest i've seen comparable to ios netflix scrolling, but still a bit buggy turning it on - the touches sometimes don't register. i haven't had the need to force it on the gnote.
No it's no where as nearly as bad as the prime or infinity. Both of those were laggy big time. It is at least tolerable on the note. It stutters sometimes but you can definitely use it.
Netflix lags for the menu on everything I have tried to use it with but less on the Note 10.1.
I guess its a netflix problem. It lags on any device I try it with, note included even if less.
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Hi all,
Before I start, let me state I love my gtab.
Buttttt, when scrolling the desktop or webpages it is no match for the silky smooth interface
as the ipad. I thought the gtab had higher hardware specs?
Different software. Its also dependent on the website. Flash enabled sites are choppier usually. Xda isn't as smooth as engadget for me either.
Not 100% sure but the gui in ios is accelerated by the gpu Android has yet to enable this might be in Honeycomb.
Also I find if you have flash set to on, as opposed to on demand its much choppier as well. On demand seems to be much smoother.
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Hi all,
Before I start, let me state I love my gtab.
Buttttt, when scrolling the desktop or webpages it is no match for the silky smooth interface
as the ipad. I thought the gtab had higher hardware specs?
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Try the VEGAn-Tab ROM with LauncherPro, and then reconsider those words.
Launcher pro and fennec web browser seem to be the smoothest for me. It really is just the software. Hopefully honeycomb fixes it.
What they said. This is really just a few issues with some of the stock software.
iOS browser feels "smooth" because it doesn't re-render mid-scroll. But I find it very annoying that it's so slow when scrolling on complex pages relative to my G Tab. Once you're used to the G Tab it's hard to go back to iOS, in my opinion.
xScope browser in full screen mode is far smoother and better than the iOS browser. No waiting for re-rendering mid-scroll, and it just feels great.
And regarding scrolling in Launcher, like the others said, LauncherPro is smooth as a baby's bottom.
Well, had the thing for a few weeks, and I just can't find a reason to keep it. I wanted to stream videos from the net - but I can't as it stutters and doesn't play 720p smoothly at all (Not Youtube), and the amount of tablet software is pretty woeful to be honest.
Unless someone can persuade me to keep it, I will have to say byebye... and I am quite sad about that
And no... I'm not getting an iPad either
Do some searching, this question comes up all the time.
My 2 cents is that if you want a table for playing videos the iPad2 is your best choice.
You will have to wait but for video the archos tabs seem to be really good and they are easily unlockable. The next generation is gonna be released soon and the specs look good.
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Well, had the thing for a few weeks, and I just can't find a reason to keep it. I wanted to stream videos from the net - but I can't as it stutters and doesn't play 720p smoothly at all (Not Youtube), and the amount of tablet software is pretty woeful to be honest.
Unless someone can persuade me to keep it, I will have to say byebye... and I am quite sad about that
And no... I'm not getting an iPad either
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Have you updated to latest firmware?
720p works fine. Mkv with ac3 audio won't play audio in stock player but will in moboplayer or dice player.
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Do some searching, this question comes up all the time.
My 2 cents is that if you want a table for playing videos the iPad2 is your best choice.
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I am not disparaging the ipad, it is a very well built device that IF it does what you want is a great choice, however you're recommending it for 720p playback when it doesn't even have a 720p display.
I don't want an iPad mainly due to lack of Flash - I have various sites I use with flash video streaming and the TF simply cannot play any of them - and I have rooted and tried Revolver 2.1.2, which is great - but makes no difference to flash videos.
MKV video plays fine btw - that's not what I was after
I'm thinking the next gen of tablets may be worth waiting for - the current crop simply are not up to the task - and simply seem to be made to contend with the iPad 2 - which isn't exactly a great choice anyway.
mine streams fine, better than my ipad, i watch tv shows and films no problem over wifi, even on a slow 1mb connection, try istreamnet.net and see if they stream using the standard player.
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I don't want an iPad mainly due to lack of Flash - I have various sites I use with flash video streaming and the TF simply cannot play any of them - and I have rooted and tried Revolver 2.1.2, which is great - but makes no difference to flash videos.
MKV video plays fine btw - that's not what I was after
I'm thinking the next gen of tablets may be worth waiting for - the current crop simply are not up to the task - and simply seem to be made to contend with the iPad 2 - which isn't exactly a great choice anyway.
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if what you are having an issue with is flash video then I would suggest installing the hack that enables hardware acceleration. A quick search will turn it up. Flash is pig, it's nice to have support for it but flash is really suited only for real PCs and it will never be a real priority for tablets.
I have the One X for about 2 weeks now, and my main complain is the video (flash).
I have tried pretty much every browser that is available for this device and the results are the same (pixelated, slow, etc.) I've tried on Wi-Fi and LTE, and both connections are excellent (It drops once in a while, but that's a different topic), but the video still look like crap.
I have the international version of the Samsung Galaxy Note, and it plays video flawlessly (even on 3G).
Please tell me that I'm not only one experiencing this. This is my second one, I have return my previous one for a completely different reason, but I believe the video playback on the first one is the same.
Any explanation for this, or any settings I need to change to make this bearable? I'm really not happy with this phone overall.
Thank you in advance.
i dont have this problem i guess it depends on how the video was uploaded
Works fine with my phone. Depends on site / browser. Some are better than others.
Thanks for the replies guys.
When you guys says, "fine". Can you please elaborate. I mean is it smooth, HD quality.
Can you guys go espn.com, and play some of the videos. Dolphin doesn't even play the videos, Stock browser plays, but pixelated (especially fast paced - basketball, etc.), ICS+ plays, but still the quality is not that great. Opera is the same thing.
I can run the Galaxy note side by side with the One X, and the Note, not only load fastest, the quality is great. It might get a hiccup once in a while, but it keeps the quality of the video at a very good quality.
Thank you.
pm me the video you are trying to watch and i can test it
what browser are you using thats messing up? or browsers? What site ect. no pron please tho.
Same for me, I get these weird black and white pixels when watching flash videos on stock browser. It also happens when I watch movies that are software decoded with mx player. Certain videos seem fine, like the ones on youtube.
I've got the same issue. Dunno if it's hardware related though.
I can go to Video or YouTube and they all play fine.
On other sites I get stuttering and population issues.
Maybe it's the flash that's not decoding correctly? Or crud its the processor fubaring?
Meh either way still a ton nicer than my old.Captivate
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Hi All,
Having owned a Galaxy Nexus, and getting Jelly Bean some time ago, I was expecting a lot more from Jelly Bean on the Infinity when it came to interface fluidity. My Galaxy Nexus was a lot smoother - transitions and the notification menu especially.
But then I started to notice - in apps - the notification menu is actually very smooth, but not at the home screen. All transitions were still very slow however.
I had quite a bit of a play around and nothing seemed to improve the performance. Then I think I found something, and I want some people to sanity check me. I use Apex launcher (performance was still just as slow with the default launcher). In it's options, you can disable wallpaper completely (which you cannot do on the default launcher).
When I do this...I finally get the greatly improved fluidity I was expecting. It's not perfect, but the difference is huge.
Is anyone else able to confirm this? It seems strange. I was not using live wallpapers...just a static wallpaper. How much difference can a wallpaper make?
High resolution wallpaper can slow down performances due to pictures taking space on the RAM. Thus high definition pictures can take quite a bit of data ~10MB. Though that doesn't seem to be a lot...
Well I have tried using a smaller image, but I expect Android is up-scaling it to full resolution. The anmation was much less smooth. Once I disabled the wallpaper again, animations were smooth again.
Does anyone else use Apex, or a launcher that can disable the wallpaper to test this?
I just use a 1x1 pixel of black, pretty much "removes" the need to draw the wallpaper.
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I just use a 1x1 pixel of black, pretty much "removes" the need to draw the wallpaper.
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Did you notice a perceivable improvement in performance as a result of using that wallpaper? It seems likely that Android will stretch that 1x1 pixel out to fill a large canvas of black, which may not give any performance increase so I would be interested to know.
I would also like to know if I am the only one noticing this difference? Maybe no one else really cares about it except for me!
I use Apex Launcher Pro. I notice no difference whether I'm using wallpaper or not. Everything seems nice and smooth to me.
I would say you shouldn't expect to much from the Infinity. The Nexus 7, being a Nexus device, will always be faster than any other devices out there. The Infinity with it lousy flash storage and a full HD screen will never be able to catch up with the Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 7 in terms of speed and fluidity.
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I would say you shouldn't expect to much from the Infinity. The Nexus 7, being a Nexus device, will always be faster than any other devices out there. The Infinity with it lousy flash storage and a full HD screen will never be able to catch up with the Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 7 in terms of speed and fluidity.
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I somewhat agree...it is certainly pushing a lot of pixels. So my expectations have not been too high. In fact, I have really been pleasantly surprised. However - for the most part - I don't believe the I/O limitations should be affecting this tablet that much. Obviously there will be some effect...the same issues I was seeing before are still present...but I still do expect some improvement from JB.
That said...I am actually seeing it...but only with the wallpaper disabled. This is what strikes me as odd...it is just a static background image...and it feels like a bug.
Maybe I should just keep it off and wait until Key Lime Pie?
Disabling unused apps and clearing their data helps a lot. If you cannot disable see if you can "uninstall updates" first after that you should be able to. If you're rooted like me you can disable even more stuff using Titanium BU.
The difference? Everything is loaded immediately on startup (i.e. no calender widget that takes 5 sec to show). Balanced mode feels like performance mode, I can go on.
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Disabling unused apps and clearing their data helps a lot. If you cannot disable see if you can "uninstall updates" first after that you should be able to. If you're rooted like me you can disable even more stuff using Titanium BU.
The difference? Everything is loaded immediately on startup (i.e. no calender widget that takes 5 sec to show). Balanced mode feels like performance mode, I can go on.
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What benefit is clearing a disabled app's data? My typical method for disabling something is to "freeze" it with TiBU and skip the OS menus altogether. Is there some additional benefit I could gain by clearing the frozen app's data too?
I was one of the people having slowness issues with their device but a couple of days later i figured it out. I went into the settings - apps - running and cached apps list. My ram was down to 100MB at some points. The 1GB of ram doesnt seem to be enough but we need to make due with what we got. So i installed Autostarts and disabled all the startup apps and any other apps i dont need when i change wifi state and all that other useless stuff. Google+ would run almost every 2 seconds, Maps aswell. So i disabled those apps from running at bootup and such. Now my available RAM is at 400MB constantly and it is running crazy fast. Opening the recent apps list and clearing those apps is super fast now. Also disabled some of the animation effects that jelly bean puts in. I personally am more concerned with performance then quality.
I noticed every app has notifications turned on by default (settings/apps). I don't know if it matters but I've been turning it off on everything I don't use notifications with.
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I somewhat agree...it is certainly pushing a lot of pixels. So my expectations have not been too high. In fact, I have really been pleasantly surprised. However - for the most part - I don't believe the I/O limitations should be affecting this tablet that much. Obviously there will be some effect...the same issues I was seeing before are still present...but I still do expect some improvement from JB.
That said...I am actually seeing it...but only with the wallpaper disabled. This is what strikes me as odd...it is just a static background image...and it feels like a bug.
Maybe I should just keep it off and wait until Key Lime Pie?
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I kinda laugh when I hear that it is pushing a lot of pixels so that's why it isn't smooth.... take the iPad 3 for example higher resolution, crappier specs and crappy iOS but it runs so smooth that it makes me want to trade in my infinite for it. I will have to jailbrake it to be able to do what I like but the experience will be better.... was just playing around with my friends iPad 3 and **** did I get me tinking.....
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I kinda laugh when I hear that it is pushing a lot of pixels so that's why it isn't smooth.... take the iPad 3 for example higher resolution, crappier specs and crappy iOS but it runs so smooth that it makes me want to trade in my infinite for it. I will have to jailbrake it to be able to do what I like but the experience will be better.... was just playing around with my friends iPad 3 and **** did I get me tinking.....
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Dude, you should seriously do some homework on Anandtech to say that the iPad 3 has crappier specs. In term of SoCs and graphic performance, the A5X chip in the iPad 3 is the most powerful SoC on a tablet right now, even the upcoming Snapdragon S4 Pro is unable to compete with it. I don't have much love for Apple, but we need to consider facts. If you consider raw computing power, Tegra 3 is even behind the iPad 2. In order to drive that many pixels on the iPad 3, Apple had to include a humongous SoC as well as much bigger battery, which explains why the iPad 3 is thicker and takes longer to charge. For your information, Tegra 3 is still stuck with single-channel memory while the rest of the industry have moved on to dual-channel memory early this year (look at Snapdragon S4, Exynos 4, OMAP 4)
As much as I dislike the current situation, there is not much of a competition going on right now with SoC. Currently, on the tablet front, Apple has the most powerful SoC on the market (A5X). On the phone side, the A6 chip is also the most powerful SoC on a phone as well. I am severely disappointed at Qualcomm and nVidia for failing behind Apple so far on this front. Not much is known about Tegra 4, but they'd better bring some Kepler to it, otherwise nVidia will become irrelevant.
Hi,
I've recently found and 16gb 7.7" for really cheap but before I take the plunge, just wanted some questions answered from the experts
1. The tablet will primarily be used for media consumption on the train to and from uni. Thus I need the display to be big enough and play video's without lag. Is it comfortable to watch video's on the 7.7? I found the nexus 7 to be too small, and the ipad mini was pretty good but due to the 4:3 ratio, video's weren't full screen. I'm pretty sure the 7.7 is 16:9 so will I be able to view video's full screen (ie no bars tob or sides) in landscape mode? Also, how is video playback? I don't watch 1080p video, but I need 720p to work flawlessly, no lag at all. Can the 7.7 do this?
2. Is the tablet laggy? Be honest and and cynical as possible here please, I don't want to spend my bucks to find out its a laggy pos.
3. How is the mod support? I can't stand touchwhiz.
Thanks.
1. Best tablet I must say for media consumption. The Superamoled plus screen's color reproduction is gorgeous, very good sunlight legibility. Aside from the screen, an amazing part of this tab is the battery. It lasts 14-15hours on me when just watching movies. The screen is actually 16:10 but the on-screen navigation buttons makes it 16:9. I had the iPad3 and I highly advice against buying any Apple product when you have media consumption in mind. While the Galaxy Tab 7.7 plays each and every format and play subtitles too (which is amazing because of Android), my iPad3 won't play any, it just plays MP4s. So I had to convert them and had to do with the 4:3 aspect ratio with thick black fillers. Good thing as well is that when the video you are watching isn't in 16:9 in ratio, the player will let you stretch it to full screen. Nexus 7's screen is no match at all when side by side with Tab 7.7. Did not lag on me a single time on both 720p and 1080p videos.
2. ICS made the tablet smooth. Just disable Touchwiz UI in App settings because it is very laggy. Download either Apex Pro or Go Launcher HD as those two have tablet UI to replace TW UX for tablet. Your Tab will feel different believe me. What's great however when you don't flash any Custom Rom, which I like with Touchwiz is the 'mini apps'. It won't be taken away when you change the Launcher. So swiping through home-screens and app drawer, as well as widget loading will become faster.
3. Mod support might be few, but they are great. Official Jelly Bean update is confirmed by the way. I actually love some features Touchwiz offers to be honest, I just hate their Launcher. You can remove all the apps running in background or apps you hate from Samsung anyways through root if you want a few more memory or you want your RAM to breathe easily. Hope I helped.
good answers to good questions....
I say go for it..
I went from a nexus 7 to the Verizon 7.7 because I really needed the mobile data. Honestly its a really good tab and I don't feel like it's any more sluggish than my N7 was. Obviously there's less dev for it but having 45 nearly identical roms for the N7 is kinda stupid. Is this tab cutting edge anymore? No but it has good hardware especially being a year old. The screen is also freaking awesome
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