Owned my shield a couple days now. Laying in my bed and watching netflix is something I do every nite so this problem is quite annoying for me. While watching netflix the buffering dialog will popup quite often, almost to the point its unwatchable. Sometimes I can get thru a whole episode of something and it wont happen and others itll happen every minute or two. I know its not my signal or connection because I have full bars and I have more then enough download speed to handle simoultaneous streaming from several devices. I also have noticed the colors will get dimmer sometimes and then a few seconds later theyll be bright and vibrant again. Almost like the screen is dimming a slight amount. Does anyone have either of these problems with their shield and netflix? Id like to think im not the only one, I would hate to have bought a bad unit, albeit very unlikely thats what happened. Thanks for reading.
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I've experienced some netflix buffering issues on my shield as well. In my experience it is simply just the wireless connection strength. I have about 50% connection in my basement and speed tests and most things appear perfect (Can stream perfectly too) but netflix will buffer occasionally even though it seems like it shouldn't. Probably just loosing some packets every now and then cause it doesn't happen when in a stronger connection.
As for the screen dimming and brightness this is a known issue and posted heavily about in the main nvidia forums. I'm not sure if the cause is quite known yet and i see it usually when web surfing but it doesnt really bother me much, but would certainly be happy if a software fix is released that fixes that.
HobsonA said:
I've experienced some netflix buffering issues on my shield as well. In my experience it is simply just the wireless connection strength. I have about 50% connection in my basement and speed tests and most things appear perfect (Can stream perfectly too) but netflix will buffer occasionally even though it seems like it shouldn't. Probably just loosing some packets every now and then cause it doesn't happen when in a stronger connection.
As for the screen dimming and brightness this is a known issue and posted heavily about in the main nvidia forums. I'm not sure if the cause is quite known yet and i see it usually when web surfing but it doesnt really bother me much, but would certainly be happy if a software fix is released that fixes that.
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Weird, i don't have the screen dimming issue. my screen works fine!
hello, now to the forums. Just got my s6, noticed some lag out of the box, and the scrolling feels really weird. Scrolling down a web page or through instagram, it seems really heavy, scrolling stops almost instantly if i do a soft flick, while it goes really far if i flick hard. I used the lumia 925 in the past, the scrolling just seems more consistent overall, flicking the screen softly the web page will come to a gradual stop, instead of stopping instantly.
Tried to fix this issue by rooting my s6, installing XtreStoLite rom, and using googy max kernel, also did the build.prop mod. While it seems to make the lag slightly better, the heavy scrolling momentum still persist, and really annoying. Anyone knows ways of fixing this? thanks, any help is much appreciated.
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So when using the front facing camera im noticing two things:
1. The picture doesnt seem to be focused on my face (beauty face off)
2. The top 2/3 of the phone is getting pretty damn hot to the touch
3. Battery is being drained when the top two occur^ (probably the heat)
Is this normal? I wanna return before my 14 day period if not.
Also, is anyone else getting constant crashes from snapchat and excessive heat?
I have a strange problem with my new Anker Zolo (non plus). While the screen is off it works almost flawlessly, with really rare dropouts on left bud. But when I turn the screen on I immediately get a dropout and a stutter and I get a dropout on the left bud every 30 seconds or so while the screen is on.
I know it's not a signal issue since it's the same if I'm holding the phone 20cms from my face or if I'm 10 meters away. Also, this happens only if I'm using AAC. If I turn it off it's ok (albeit the sound is so much worse that I'd rather have dropouts). It should be something software related. I played with bluetooth settings in developer tools but no luck.
Any ideas or similar issues?
As mentioned, after the 11/One UI update, when I scroll slowly, like pretty slow, the scrolling us jumpy, laggy, whatever word you want to use for "not smooth". It's system wide, ui elements, apps, home screen, all the same behavior. it's really annoying as I love to scroll as I read. I have made sure adaptive is on, no power savings is on, tried enhanced processing. It even does it in safe mode.
Anyone else have this issue? I was going to do a full wipe but I suspect this was a bug introduced in Android 11.
I don't have this issue, just upgraded this morning.
Ended up taking the time to do a full wipe. Still have the issue...Great. Like just to confirm, if you're barely scrolling, real slow, the fps dips and jumps all the time. I confirmed this using GPUWatch in the dev settings. Is there really no one having this issue out there?
I'm tempted to send it in but if I just get another phone back with the same issue, that's a lot of wasted time.
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Ended up taking the time to do a full wipe. Still have the issue...Great. Like just to confirm, if you're barely scrolling, real slow, the fps dips and jumps all the time. I confirmed this using GPUWatch in the dev settings. Is there really no one having this issue out there?
I'm tempted to send it in but if I just get another phone back with the same issue, that's a lot of wasted time.
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I see it too. I recorded a video to show it. I noticed it using Instagram and I also observe the problem going away in app restart. Is this what you see too? I'm wondering if Good Lock is implicated in this?
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So funny enough, I dropped my fold, cracked the outer glass and bought bestbuy protection on it so I went and got a new phone. This did let me further test everything out. The new phone came with the original firmware version so I tested it through every upgrade. I think maybe I just didn't see it before but now I can see it happens on a new phone, regardless of version. Like I said, it's when you scroll very slowly which I tend to do often and happens quite literally everywhere. I tried to record it with gpuwatch but it locks the screen to 60 fps and doesn't show the stuttering in the data like it does in 120hz mode, even though it's still there. I'm honestly confused by this. No other phone has had this behavior.
Imgur was the best place to upload
https://imgur.com/a/5m6Nnzu
You can see when it start smooth but slowly devolves. It does not stutter when it slows down at the end of a scroll that you let go of (flick scroll)
Is it doing on both screens? It looks like you are using Nord VPN, could that slow it down?
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So funny enough, I dropped my fold, cracked the outer glass and bought bestbuy protection on it so I went and got a new phone. This did let me further test everything out. The new phone came with the original firmware version so I tested it through every upgrade. I think maybe I just didn't see it before but now I can see it happens on a new phone, regardless of version. Like I said, it's when you scroll very slowly which I tend to do often and happens quite literally everywhere. I tried to record it with gpuwatch but it locks the screen to 60 fps and doesn't show the stuttering in the data like it does in 120hz mode, even though it's still there. I'm honestly confused by this. No other phone has had this behavior.
Imgur was the best place to upload
https://imgur.com/a/5m6Nnzu
You can see when it start smooth but slowly devolves. It does not stutter when it slows down at the end of a scroll that you let go of (flick scroll)
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Ah, you're talking about the inside screen. Yes, I have that too. Doesnt bother me very much, but I see your point.