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Galaxy Nexus Watering Hole
- Thread starter BabyBlues
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RadYOacTiVe
Android Expert
Mine has dropped 3% since I changed the settings so it's still dropping pretty fast.
Android OS 50%
Screen 25%
Android OS 50%
Screen 25%
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HanSolo
Guest
Altimax, do me a favor. Go into Netflix HD and start playing the newest Star Trek movie. Let it buffer, of course, but in the opening moments, when they are being attacked by the gigantic ship, look at the blackness of space and the shadows inside the ship. They're totally frakking black!
I tested this going into the bathroom here at work (it's a 1-person deal) and shutting off the lights. It was ink-black.
I did get splotches with DVD Catalyst when I tried to convert a non-HD movie and I chalked it up to it being a crappy res'd file.
Is there something I'm missing?
(Not meaning to sound contrary or jerk-like. I'm just genuinely confused.)
jbdan
Extreme Android User
WOwzers. I haven't lost more than 4-5% while sleeping (about 7 hours).
So you just used the power widget sync icon thingy or you just go into settings > accounts and sync and turn it off there?
BabyBlues
Trouble Just Finds Me!
woodraskam
Android Expert
I'm definitely trying that over my Christmas vacation. Since the Nexus S has the same issue after the upgrade, it's obviously a software issue. This will only make the phone unstoppable once this bug gets fixed.
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HanSolo
Guest
BB, you need to sleep more. You'll be looking like a 70 year old in a few years otherwise!
Altimax, do me a favor. Go into Netflix HD and start playing the newest Star Trek movie. Let it buffer, of course, but in the opening moments, when they are being attacked by the gigantic ship, look at the blackness of space and the shadows inside the ship. They're totally frakking black!
I tested this going into the bathroom here at work (it's a 1-person deal) and shutting off the lights. It was ink-black.
I did get splotches with DVD Catalyst when I tried to convert a non-HD movie and I chalked it up to it being a crappy res'd file.
Is there something I'm missing?
(Not meaning to sound contrary or jerk-like. I'm just genuinely confused.)
When it comes to stuff like this from video conversion and compression the possibilities are endless. But in general the better the conversion/compression the longer you are gonna be waiting for it to finish. The simpler programs like DVD Catalyst and handbrake do a best/easiest/quickest trade-off of some sort. Usually though, from my understanding, the biggest reason for splotches as you describe is related to compression that gets a lot of the downsizing from reducing color content and thus making fine smooth color gradients impossible. It's actually possible you would see less of this in a similar sized 480p file as the smaller resolution would allow for more color info and on such a small screen it will tend to look almost as sharp as a moving picture. I am still not fully upto speed on all the different compression regimes and which is the best, but pretty sure the better the regime the more likely it will bring our Nexus to a standstill as it tries to decode the compression at cost of MASSIVE CPU/GPU use.
BabyBlues
Trouble Just Finds Me!
BB, you need to sleep more. You'll be looking like a 70 year old in a few years otherwise!
I catch up on weekends when I can sleep in! Lol. But I do appreciate the concern.
RazorSharp
Android Expert
I'll try this when I get home to corroborate.
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HanSolo
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Stigy
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jbdan
Extreme Android User
Nice! I haven't had a long enough time with some of these as they're coming out in droves (and that is a good thing indeed!), but this one has some killer customizations in it, specifically to reduce power usage for those that like the "2 day battery life". I'm testing now
EDIT: eek he added this
do not use this feature yet lol AS OF NOW THE 2G POWER SAVER SCREEN-OFF OPTION DOESN'T WORK FOR CDMA DEVICES. IF YOU PICK IT YOU'LL HAVE TO DATA WIPE.
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HanSolo
Guest
What is the best conversion tool out there, regardless of ETA of completion? I know DVD catalyst has a few different settings for the Nexus. I think HQ2 is the best one (it certainly takes it's time. About 2 hours, I think.)
Okay, let us know. I don't think my eyes are playing tricks on me. I really tried looking for artifacts or imperfections in the Star Trek movie, but honestly couldn't find anything. I kept muttering "Holy crap, this is ridiculous."
jbdan
Extreme Android User
RazorSharp
Android Expert
I found MiLocker, an app that reproduces MIUI's lock screen customizations, but it's not compatible with ICS yet.
Real shame, some of the example lockscreens shown look awesome.I am actually not sure on this one?? My guess is that any of them with device profiles for the compression are going to be friendly to the devices battery and assume a regime and format compatible with the stock player. I really haven't messed with this so much for portable devices as I have to create files for my media center computers to play from a central store on my network. I was using a free program called mediacoder then, but that was a couple years back and I had picked it as it had nVidia CUDA support to speed it up. There may be other options out there now and it was kinda less than user friendly due the highly custom regimes you could use.
Maybe this weekend I can play with some stuff and report back since it's been a couple years since I was doing this last. The new google VP8 format exists now also and might be a good option that I didn't have when I last did this, but not sure what converters support it so far.
RazorSharp
Android Expert
Galaxy Nexus LTE Signal Is More Accurate Than Others, There May Be No Problem – Droid Life
DL picked up the AnandTech story I posted earlier today.
DL picked up the AnandTech story I posted earlier today.
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HanSolo
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HanSolo
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Stigy
Some say...
nice! I haven't had a long enough time with some of these as they're coming out in droves (and that is a good thing indeed!), but this one has some killer customizations in it, specifically to reduce power usage for those that like the "2 day battery life". I'm testing now
edit: Eek he added this
note note note
Edit: Ninja'd.
jbdan
Extreme Android User
yeah he recently added it. I've been running it since this morning and have not tried the data switch power saver just wanted to see how it performs running stock 4.0.3
He also added some nice tweaks (haven't seen any of these yet implemented) with the LED notification, battery % in status bar or not, pulldown wifi and rotate toggle and auto-brightness setting and slide really cool advanced power menu, and a nice gradual auto brightness rather than stepped up.
edit: he has a build out now that is in testing to fix the 2G issue
I'll let a few test it out before upgrading
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HanSolo
Guest
yeah he recently added it. I've been running it since this morning and have not tried the data switch power saver just wanted to see how it performs running stock 4.0.3
He also added some nice tweaks (haven't seen any of these yet implemented) with the LED notification, battery % in status bar or not, pulldown wifi and rotate toggle and auto-brightness setting and slide really cool advanced power menu, and a nice gradual auto brightness rather than stepped up.
edit: he has a build out now that is in testing to fix the 2G issue
Is this the beta Cyanogen mod you guys are talking about?