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[Q] New owner here. Anyone else like a low res screen? Hows my theme?

Hi, Im new here, this might be my first post as I dont remember setting up an account but I guess i did cause I could login.
I was just wondering if anyone else liked having a low res screen? I do myself because games run smoother and the battery drain isn't as great. I run taxing programs too like emulators.
I haven't noticed any light bleed. I was getting reboots though. I took someone's advice and unistalled tmobile apps with titanium backup. That seemed to fix it. After it was working I played around with some cyanogen builds but they don't quite seem ready for 24/7 use. Im currently on the leaked tmobile gingerbread 2.3.3.
I am coming from an N900 and do not like the way Android multitasks, but thats as far as my complaints go. I ran android on n900 thru nitroid so I knew what I was getting.
I am curious about an oveclocking kernel and if it is compatible with stock tmobile 2.3.3 (the leaked gingerbread).
I like simple themes so I thought Id show a screenshot of mine. There's no scrolling. Its only 1 page. Set to fast mode with ADW launcher. Using clockr widget, widgetsoid, and some widget besides stock music player I get this with a wallpaper from the HD wallpaper app.
The angry birds icon, nes icon, and folder icon open folders to android games, emulators and programs respectively. I think the icons I used are the glass sense ADW theme if i remember correctly

Read my launcher review thread. Launcher Pro runs the best on the G2x out of Go, ADW and Zeam. Its even smoother than the stock launcher and much more smoother than ADW.
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My battery lasts longer than my low resolution G1, so it's not the battery drain that gets me. I've been sticking with the default resolution on this thing because I can type crazy fast with it. If I increase the density, I start getting mistypes.
I always swapped back and forth between ADW and Launcher Pro back in the day, but with the G2x I find myself sticking with the default launcher.

r4d14n7 said:
My battery lasts longer than my low resolution G1, so it's not the battery drain that gets me. I've been sticking with the default resolution on this thing because I can type crazy fast with it. If I increase the density, I start getting mistypes.
I always swapped back and forth between ADW and Launcher Pro back in the day, but with the G2x I find myself sticking with the default launcher.
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I meant more so the stock resolution vs. a super amoled screen. Higher res and larger screen means more battery used especially considering its got tegra under the hood.

Using ROMs: Performance increase?

I am considering using a custom ROM on the transformer, but is it worth it, I am mainly after performance increases. I see on a few that there are higher benchmark results, but does this actually translate into a real world speed increase?
I remember some custom ROMs for the original i9000 Galaxy S doubled the benchmark performance, but that was more down to "cheating" the benchmark than anything else, although it certainly was noticeable at times.
One of the slight criticisms I have of the TF101 is a slight amount of lag / lack of responsiveness occasionally - not a deal breaker, but if it can be improved then why not? Obviously not at the cost of stability though.
I think the SGS2 has spoiled me a bit here!

apparently there is a big increase (mostly from overclocking). i had the standard firmware for 3 days only, so I can't really tell, but one of my co-workers has a locked B70 and was wow-ed by my TF, the smoothness and speed of it.

Yes, I'm waiting too, to root it and put a cutom ROM on. I read, heard and saw the performance difference. Mainly from the overclock, but also thanks to kernel tweaks and stuff. So If you can root, do it
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I've never been that keen on the idea of overclocking, as I prefer to have a bit of headroom, but I guess if it is safe and makes a big difference, then I would give it a shot. What would be a good middle ground for stability / speed ?

1.4 IMO is very stable and doesn't increase heat or use more battery but the real world performance is noticable. I have never run a benchmark so I can't give you any numbers. Just my normal use.

Cheers for the reply.
Is there any one ROM that stands out as being the best performing?

Contrary to what people think they all perform about the same. There is no source so everyone is building of the same stock rom. If you want the same look then go with Revolution. If you want a little tweaked then go with Prime (What I'm on). If you want the tweaks and a nice tools package then go with Revolver (What I was just running). All 3 devs are really responsive to problems
If you start from a clean base and don't restore any system data from other builds then they will all be fast. The real speed difference is in the kernel and those can be flashed seperately from the rom. Clemsyn is really putting out kernels this week. Some good. Some not so good. Go with whats right for you.
EDIT: I have actually installed all 3 roms in the last week and run them at stock and at 1.4 Ghz. They all performed exactly the same for me. They were all equally stable. I don't use benchmarks because they can be fudged.

I've used all three too. I notice huge improvements with webpage rendering. It's almost as fast as my laptop, where as before I avoided using the browser if possible. The ability to hide the status bar is a really nice addition to the latest version of revolver.
Edit: autorotate is also alot faster.
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tameracingdriver said:
What would be a good middle ground for stability / speed ?
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There is no such thing as an overclocking "middle ground" when dealing with mobile chipsets such as the Tegra. It's not like overclocking a desktop computer where the CPU will constantly run at the specified speed; mobile chipsets are pre-configured to utilize only as much power as necessary. For that reason I always ramp up my tablet to the max clock speed it can reliably handle, because then the governor will handle balancing between speed, stability, and battery life. My clock speed can range from 216Mhz to 1624Mhz, and on the interactive governor I can still achieve a good 8 hours of battery life from a single charge.
Of course that's not to say that you couldn't constantly run at 1624Mhz all the time, and I do sometimes lock it to that speed for games. But for much of the OS interaction, it's not necessary to run at full speed all the time, and you won't notice a difference even if it is locked at full speed. It just comes in handy every once in a while for things like loading apps, loading web pages, and playing games.

Poor interface performance

Maybe i am wrong but it looks like there is something weird with 2d/interface performance of my Sensation.
Currently i am running latest Hypersensation with latest Faux's kernel (ADW Launcher) and i have tested a lot of other ROMs and launchers..but on all of them i am getting nonsmooth interface. Kinda laggy.
I mean, in sense, everything is fine (in the meaning of that word, not supersmooth but fine), but when i try Zeam launcher's drawer (with 6x6 grid) which is superlightweight it gets laggy. In ADW (6x4) it's laggy too. In Go Launcher not too much but i am still not happy. And it's the same with Launcher Pro.
And effected homescreen - switching is not smooth at all. I even tried overclocking my cpu, but it didn't help.
Before some time, by sensation has fallen on the floor by left down corner (and now i have deep scratch on the external casing) - could it damage by cpu in any way? I hope not
I am getting scroll lags in some apps (twicca), new twitter app (released today) is laggy as hell (when pulling to refresh, to be accurate) and new facebook.
However in games it's fine and i am getting around 12000 native cf-bench score with overclocked (1,5 Ghz) CPU, so this is indicating that there is no damage to CPU.
Maybe i am too demanding, but this performance in ui (which you are using most of the time on phone) is not what i expect from 1,2 Ghz DC phone.
Is anybody out there experiencing similar issues? Anyway to fix them? Thanks in advance, guys!
I have attached twitter video...30 fps via screen recorder high quality settings:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_mnEz9tl3E

I suggest using a Sense rom, they tend to have better performance, but switching launchers. The guy who makes HyperSensation also has a no sense rom, try it out, it's really fast and smooth. As for ADW, get ADW Launcher EX, ADW just plain sucks, but EX is very fast.
Before some time, by sensation has fallen on the floor by left down corner (and now i have deep scratch on the external casing) - could it damage by cpu in any way? I hope not
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As long as it's still running, I doubt it. These phones dont have any moving parts, so it's not like you busted a cooling fan or anything. You're not the first to bring performance concerns to the Sensation. And frankly, I've noticed it too sometimes. At times I feel like I'm using my G2, but the good news, ICS will have a GPU accelerated UI (like the iPhone does) so performance should greatly improve soon, hang in there brother.

Thanks, i forgot to mention that i have used all launchers mentioned above with sense rom, with sense disabled via app manager (frozen) and e. g. mentioned zeam sucked. But iwill give ADW EX a try..especially when it costs 0,1 euro

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1350492
There's that non-sense rom I recommended. ADW EX is definitely worth the money, you'll notice an instant performance difference over the standard ADW. The only thing thats laggy about it (on any phone) is if you set a transparent drawer, since it's not GPU accelerated, that'll half your FPS. Hope it goes well for you, it's a shame that even with Sense disabled, you're seeing problems.
Edit: Have you tried either the Faux or Bricked kernels?

Thanks for tip with ADW Ex, it is totally smooth now Zooming animation still isn't perfect (when going from homescreen to appdrawer) but its ok. I have never thought that EX is this big performance improvement.

Funny thing is, I have the same issue. I changed the zoom duration to somehting like 300 or 350, speeds it up so it doesn't look as bad, but I can't find a solution. Atleast EX is running good though.

Hello there! I was in the same boat with my sensation. Unhappy with the seemingly laggy interface of my new 2core phone. So I rooted to reverted aosp with 1.7 kernel and this is about as snappy as I wanted it to be from the start , I'd suggest trying it out

I have something to add. I tried multiple Sense and No-Sense roms, and that homescreen to appdrawer animation is perfect on all of them. I flashed the bricked kernel, but I'm pretty confident that that's no required to get that animation smoothed out.

Lightning fast response from ICS

I am pretty sure this is known, but I have seen some people talk about lag or speed issues. Try going under setting > development > Force GPU
I am running the flashable rogers zip and don't have a single issue with speed so far. The thing runs like a bullet with force gpu on. It basically lets the gpu take over all 2d rendering which helps a lot.

does it affect the battery life though?

I would assume a little bit, but not much.
We seem to find the battery life improvements on our transformer and transformer prime seemed to even out pretty good.

Browser2Ram Interference?

It's hard to conceptually understand unless there really is background optimization, but whatever it is as others suggested performance after JB update seem to go up after an hour of use or so. Just as many stated on Prime forum, I am surprised by the improvement in the browser (ICS stock) performance.
Now this could be simply due to time to settle thing, but I felt like my browser speed bump got noticeable almost immediately after uninstalling Browser2ram. In fact, I am going to continue using stock browser without browser2ram as it is very fast and smooth.
So if anyone feeling browser (stock) is slow and still has browser2ram, try uninstalling and see if it makes any difference.