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jmarsh667

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I know this has been answered before but what do any of you do for your motion? I've noticed it's a bit quicker with it on.
 
I'm going to try it out now. I would love for someone to shed a little light on what exactly this means.

edit: looked it up and basically makes the ui smoother at the cost of a little battery, I've never tried it on though so I will now :

A quote from taranfx of xda-developers
Enabling this preference in developer options offloads task of rendering window components like buttons, text and complex 2d graphics calculations to GPU. This often results in much faster UI rendering including animations.
On one side you will definitely achieve better frame rate (and hence smooth experience) throughout system, but you may end up using more battery. On certain devices, GPU consumes more power the CPU, hence you may observe 5-15% lower battery life with option enabled.

I would recommend having this option enabled on devices with weaker CPUs e.g. You should seldom need to enable this on dual-core 1.4ghz ARM CPU.

offloading UI rendering to GPU has obvious benefits so that CPU can work on other important tasks like database IO, data manipulation, layout calculations and responding to other user inputs.
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Anytime I'm glad you like it mine seems much snappier aswell and I like to leave it on. Only downside is when I use puffin browser I have to turn it off but for everything it seems Much Much!!! faster now In my opinion. For me Battery is eaten up a bit faster but the phone is also much faster so I'm getting more done and less agravated by lag so a win win for me :)
 
I've done the research as well and I'm aware of what it does thank you. I was just asking what you guys feel it does when the option is turned on and if anyone else notices the difference like I do
 
Yah, the only thing it does (that Im aware of) is force any 2D applications or visuals to be rendered through the GPU instead of the CPU. So your home screen and app drawer and things like that will be rendered through the GPU. Which would take some of the load off your CPU (making things snappier) and Im sure the GPU is capable of rendering these things faster (again, making things snappier), but having the GPU on all the time I would think would kill your battery MUCH faster than the CPU taking that load (especially since the CPU has to be on anyways)
 
I believe that you pretty much nailed it. The phone is definitely faster in every way with it on. Battery life goes down the drain pretty quick even on standyby. I get maybe 10-12 hours where as before standby hardly ate up any battery. Also now with it on I notice that the battery drains extremely fast full charge for me will drop to 75% in 20 minutes to a half an hour of use
 
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