Does anyone know if DPI changes also impact the HDMI output? I have this thing connected to an external monitor all day long and that just might be the final straw that forces me to unlock the boot loader and move to a custom kernel that respects build props.
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Is there any way (via app/driver) to increase the display resolution for a docked g-tablet?
It looks like the hardware can drive much higher resolutons: tegradeveloper.nvidia.com/tegra/forum/does-tegra-250-support-2-deferent-video-output-hdmi-and-vga-same-time
I see the Motorola Atrix has an app that does this trick when docked in their "laptop" dock. It would be real slick to do this with my docking unit - I would probably never go back to a laptop or desktop again, except for remote control from my tablet.
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It wouldn't make sense for a device to push more pixels than the actual LCD is capable of.
I don't care about the display on the tablet when it is docked and hooked to an external monitor - that could be turned off. What matters is the external display and how crappy 1024x600 looks on a 19" 16:9 monitor made to display 1440x900.
Our HDMI out is 1080p. 1080x1920
What are you hooked up to when getting higher resolution? Does the tablet display just turn off and external takes over?
Everything I have hooked my dock up to (4:3 and 16:9 19" monitors and 720p TV) gets the same resolution as my tablet display. So the bigger the display the more jagged the experience.
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i havent tested my hdmi output (waiting for straight cable) but the specs are there.
since max resolution on the gtab is 1024x600, thats what youl see, but through the cord the (720p, 1080p) resolution should show on the HD TV.
Hi Resolution when you use the YouTube.apk
stumppc said:
Is there any way (via app/driver) to increase the display resolution for a docked g-tablet?
It looks like the hardware can drive much higher resolutons: tegradeveloper.nvidia.com/tegra/forum/does-tegra-250-support-2-deferent-video-output-hdmi-and-vga-same-time
I see the Motorola Atrix has an app that does this trick when docked in their "laptop" dock. It would be real slick to do this with my docking unit - I would probably never go back to a laptop or desktop again, except for remote control from my tablet.
TIA
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I was able to get HD (1080p) using the YouTube.APK by selecting HD mode in the application setting. Both the Tablet and the external screen played 1080p videos quite nicely. If you turned off the Tablet display, the external screen also went blank. When I quit out of the APK and set the Tablet to sleep, the HDMI setting appeared to stick in the main Tablet settings. There is no easy way to set the Gtablet resolution using the standard stock settings.
After a few days and trying different TV streaming APKs from the Market. The HDMI Out stopped working altogether. I did a reboot as well as Flash the ROM but the HDMI OUT still does not display. It does recognize the HDMI signal (the LCD shows 1080P) from the dock HDMI port. I am not sure what happened but some how one or more default settings are stuck in the user data configuration file. One of those settings makes my SHARP external display go blank (can't display the set mode). The GTablet continues to display in both 420P and HD (probably 720P) modes.
I will try a data wipe and Flash again to see if it clears the HDMI setting back to the default mode (I believe that is 420p).
If this is the case, then we need some type of HDMI.apk that allows one to set the screen mode to Tablet only, Tablet & External or External only AND set the resolution mode for each. When watching using the dock and an external LCD, I want the default to be 1080p.
So, far when tricking the Gtablet to display 1080p I have some how broken the dock and have not been able to reset back to factory settings.
Any suggestions and/or configuration apk's to resolve this problem?
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Hi Resolution when you use the YouTube.apk
stumppc said:
Is there any way (via app/driver) to increase the display resolution for a docked g-tablet?
It looks like the hardware can drive much higher resolutons: tegradeveloper.nvidia.com/tegra/forum/does-tegra-250-support-2-deferent-video-output-hdmi-and-vga-same-time
I see the Motorola Atrix has an app that does this trick when docked in their "laptop" dock. It would be real slick to do this with my docking unit - I would probably never go back to a laptop or desktop again, except for remote control from my tablet.
TIA
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I was able to get HD (1080p) using the YouTube.APK by selecting HD mode in the application setting. Both the Tablet and the external screen played 1080p videos quite nicely. If you turned off the Tablet display, the external screen also went blank. When I quit out of the APK and set the Tablet to sleep, the HDMI setting appeared to stick in the main Tablet settings. There is no easy way to tell in the standard GTablet setting function.
After a few days and trying different TV streaming APKs from the Market. The HDMI Out stopped working. I did a reboot as well as Flash the ROM but the HDMI OUT still does not display. It does recognize the HDMI signal (the LCD shows 1080P) from the dock HDMI port. I am not sure what happened but some how one or more default settings are stick in the configuration file. I will try a data wipe and Flash again to see if it clears the HDMI setting back to the default mode (I believe that is 420p).
If this is the case, then we need some type of HDMI.apk that allows one to set the screen mode to Tablet only, Tablet & External or External only AND set the resolution mode for each. When watching using the dock and an external LCD, I want the default to be 1080p.
So, far when tricking the Gtablet to display 1080p I have some how broken the dock and have not been able to reset back to factory settings.
Any suggestions and/or configuration apk's to resolve this problem?
EDIT: Fixed the HDMI Display by using new cable. I get really nice HD output using the YouTube.APK with the settings set to HD.
EKS
I use a tape deck adapter to connect my phone to my car stereo (I know, I know, old car plus new phone).
On my old GS2, I could leave the phone volume at the max "warning" level (I think 50%?) and the line level was high enough to play on the stereo without distortion -- the stereo would show a volume of about 25-30 "ticks" (or whatever).
On my N5 (stock, not rooted / locked BL), the line level is lower and I have to set the car volume to a level I'm not comfortable with just to hear it -- about 35-40 "ticks". If I switched to CD or radio input at that level I'd almost certainly blow out a speaker.
At least while I'm in the car, I'd like to disable the headphone warning popup. It's a pain when I'm trying to fine-tune the volume and I have to look at the screen and click an on-screen button to make it just do what I want.
I'm aware that I could root the device (or at least unlock the BL) and flash a mod that changes the way the default volume mapping works, so the "sweet spot" is closer to 50% (like it was on my GS2), but I'm trying to see how far I can get without rooting, and I want to stay on OTA updates so fiddling with system files doesn't sound like a good idea anyway.
Why prolong the inevitable? Just root your phone. You know you want to.
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Why prolong the inevitable? Just root your phone. You know you want to.
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Damn your siren song!
What's the quickest path from (lots of stuff on my phone) -> (rooted) -> (stuff is all back on my phone) ? I'm thinking an `adb backup -all -apk` or something? Does a simple `adb restore` in that case also re-install all the applications, etc? I really don't want to sink another two or three nights into setting everything back up...
have any of you found a way to quick swap your display resolutions? I'm curious because I find myself switching from 1080 to 1440p and vice versa in different situations, like when my phone's on the charger and when my phone's not near a charger. Any ideas would be nice!
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My previous phone on Verizon (Galaxy Note 5) was able to send and receive MMS while connected to Wifi. Why is it that the Galaxy S8+ can't? and how do I set it up so that it can?
You can change the Performance Mode to High Performance, there's a quick-view setting in the notification drawer. That changes your display to QHD. Just switch back to Optimized when you want to go back to FHD (and you can change the optimized settings to go to 720 as well).
I have a OP6 and I found an XP-Pen drawing tablet that I can use with Android via an OTG adapter.
It works, but the problem is, the active area is a 16:9 ratio, while the OP6 is 19:9. So anything I draw on the tablet ends up a little squished or stretched.
I was wondering if there's an Android utility that can alter how much of the tablet can be used at one time, and fit it into a 19:9 ratio probably, with a margin of the active area disabled.
Is there anyway way to get this feature
I think it should be a default feature in android in general
The asus rog phone got it officially as "bypass charging" in a new update
In a nutshell the feature allows the phone to use power directly from the charger bypassing the battery altogether this is especially good for gamers and long sessions because u can use the phone without wasting even a fraction of battery life cycle
It can extend battery life a great deal.
After some searching I found out it can be done with a magisk module called advanced charging controller
Any chance we can implement this in a flashable zip or in a rom without the need for rooting?
It is certainly possible since there is kernels that support this for some devices and since it was implemented on the asus rog phone 3 by a software update
.. it's explained in detail here https://android.stackexchange.com/q...tery-but-use-connected-power-to-run-the-phone
This could be a very interesting feature.
For exemple I drive all day long with android auto and this could be a real life saver for the battery.
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This could be a very interesting feature.
For exemple I drive all day long with android auto and this could be a real life saver for the battery.
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After some searching I found out it can be done with a magisk module called advanced charging controller[/url]
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Battery idle mode needs kernel support to be possible, and this phone's kernel does not support it--not on stock (global), and not on Xiaomi.eu. ACC cannot turn on something that isn't available. And there are no third party kernels for this phone on this site. The closest thing you can do is get a low wattage charger that can only supply roughly the same amount of current the phone is using. Charging from a laptop's USB port might be suitable. This obviously does not require root, but will slowly charge or discharge the battery. The effect will be almost the same as battery idle mode, except that you may still end up charging the battery a bit while the phone is warm, which is not ideal. It should still be better than charging at high current as you would with the OEM charger and cable.
If you charge slowly as recommended above, ACC can be complementary. ACC can stop charging when your battery reaches a certain percent, so can operate the battery in a less stressful region, such as 60-80%.
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Battery idle mode needs kernel support to be possible, and this phone's kernel does not support it--not on stock (global), and not on Xiaomi.eu. ACC cannot turn on something that isn't available. And there are no third party kernels for this phone on this site. The closest thing you can do is get a low wattage charger that can only supply roughly the same amount of current the phone is using. Charging from a laptop's USB port might be suitable. This obviously does not require root, but will slowly charge or discharge the battery. The effect will be almost the same as battery idle mode, except that you may still end up charging the battery a bit while the phone is warm, which is not ideal. It should still be better than charging at high current as you would with the OEM charger and cable.
If you charge slowly as recommended above, ACC can be complementary. ACC can stop charging when your battery reaches a certain percent, so can operate the battery in a less stressful region, such as 60-80%.
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It's actually possible even without kernel support
There is a generic way using acc
Here is a screenshot from the acc GitHub stable channel documentation
So it's possible
but my question was if it would be possible to implement the code in a rom or a flashable zip instead of magisk module
I'm still kinda hesitant to use magisk
I created a thread on the xiaomi.eu forums but didn't get any response
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It's actually possible even without kernel support
There is a generic way using acc
Here is a screenshot from the acc GitHub stable channel documentation
So it's possible
but my question was if it would be possible to implement the code in a rom or a flashable zip instead of magisk module
I'm still kinda hesitant to use magisk
I created a thread on the xiaomi.eu forums but didn't get any response
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I see what you mean about emulating battery idle mode. (Though I'll believe it when I see it, since the two features described are something similar to battery idle mode, not battery idle mode itself.)
The way ACC and AccA are implemented requires root. It's the way the software is written and installed. In fact after you install the Magisk ACC module, you will see a flashable .zip in your Downloads folder. So you have the zip, but it won't install without Magisk. (I did try flashing it without Magisk.) And according to the ACC readme, some root solution is necessary (not necessarily Magisk). I assume it is possible to create flashable software that runs as root without requiring an external root solution (after all, Magisk and SuperSU provide root without depending on an external solution), but that's not the way ACC was implemented.
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I see what you mean about emulating battery idle mode. (Though I'll believe it when I see it, since the two features described are something similar to battery idle mode, not battery idle mode itself.)
The way ACC and AccA are implemented requires root. It's the way the software is written and installed. In fact after you install the Magisk ACC module, you will see a flashable .zip in your Downloads folder. So you have the zip, but it won't install without Magisk. (I did try flashing it without Magisk.) And according to the ACC readme, some root solution is necessary (not necessarily Magisk). I assume it is possible to create flashable software that runs as root without requiring an external root solution (after all, Magisk and SuperSU provide root without depending on an external solution), but that's not the way ACC was implemented.
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I see
Thanks for explaining
It can be implemented in the rom without root if the kernel supports it tho
I posted on akr-developers (one the hiirakernel thread) about the feature if it's possible to implement
Hopefully the developers will implement it
eddie1 said:
It's actually possible even without kernel support
There is a generic way using acc
Here is a screenshot from the acc GitHub stable channel documentation
So it's possible
but my question was if it would be possible to implement the code in a rom or a flashable zip instead of magisk module
I'm still kinda hesitant to use magisk
I created a thread on the xiaomi.eu forums but didn't get any response
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This command just stopped charging... Battery drain is still there
This needs more attention. Im also interested in it to be able this to work whenever needed not only in gaming.