[Android 2.1+][03.10.2011][v3.2] Chainfire3D [ROOT][OpenGL ES 2.0+]

[Dj_Fex]

This has been accidentally installed (Chainfire3D) on my SGS4 AT&T 1337 MF3 - Now it is stuck on boot. Anyway to remove it?

Thanks in advance.

if you have no backup to install (always make backups before something like this happens!)
you have to reset your phone

but before:
if you have a recovery installed you can still make a nandroid backup of your boot-looping phone
this way you can restore important apps with the app Titanium Backup later (from the nandroid backup)
costs around 5 bucks, depends on how important your data is to you (if you haven't bought it already )

should work, but I can't guarantee you anything

and in the future: always read the root app`s descriptions and always make a backup before using it!

 

[sincity]

if you have no backup to install (always make backups before something like this happens!)
you have to reset your phone

but before:
if you have a recovery installed you can still make a nandroid backup of your boot-looping phone
this way you can restore important apps with the app Titanium Backup later (from the nandroid backup)
costs around 5 bucks, depends on how important your data is to you (if you haven't bought it already )

should work, but I can't guarantee you anything

and in the future: always read the root app`s descriptions and always make a backup before using it!

I rooted my cell prior to the MF3 and used GooManager, then AT&T pushed OTA MF3. Lost root... used another method to regain ROOT. At that point I couldn't get into recovery. Now no recovery exist for me. I was hoping on ODIN. But no updates as of yet.

Going to try ADB and delete the APK file... or just wait for the release at this point. I don't want to further mess up my phone with a permanent Brick and end up with a $500 paper weright.

 

[manju_xda]

After installation Boot error

Hi guys..

Unfortunately i installed this on my XOLO Q700 after installation phone stuck on BOOT.

Please please please anyone help me from this.....:crying:

 

[Dj_Fex]

sry I don't think anyone can you help with this problem
at least I can't because I don't know the device
you can write to the support probably but I don't think they want to help you at all because you lost the garantie
read the description of root apps carefully...

 

[macky_almojuela]

Hello There,

Has anyone tried tried to install Chainfire on Galaxy Star (S5280), It worked on my Galaxy Y before.

thanks!

 

[Dands]

Hi all,

can someone tell me how to just enable 16bit graphics on my Revolution HD v9.0 ROM from Mike?

Poor DHD is showing its age running Ingress and CM has a setting to drop to 16bit. Can I just edit a file/s?

Thanks.

 

[nudawa]

It's sad to see this app has been abandoned, I'd love to see it works on 4.1+ and willing to donate. I'm sick of nVidia's lies and bullsh*ts... an Exynos 5 or S600/S4 Pro/S800 would smoke Tegra 4 in performance and yet those can't be running games with amazing effects because of nVidia buys off the developers!

 

[Terr20114]

Hi guys..

Unfortunately i installed this on my XOLO Q700 after installation phone stuck on BOOT.

Please please please anyone help me from this.....:crying:

If you have a custom recovery you should have made a backup before u did. You can just boot into recovery and wipe the device on a stock recovery to fix the problem. If it's custom try reflashing your rom without wiping your data first.

Sent from my SGH-I997 using Tapatalk 4

 

[Mudiver]

Locked My phone

Downloaded this, the phone rebooted and never completed the boot process. I have no idea what to do, I can only turn the phone off if I remove the battery.
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SCH i200 running 4.1.2

It stuck with the word Samsung on the screen going no where. I am going to have to stop playing around for sure.

---------- Post added at 05:33 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:56 PM ----------

Downloaded this, the phone rebooted and never completed the boot process. I have no idea what to do, I can only turn the phone off if I remove the battery.
\
SCH i200 running 4.1.2

It stuck with the word Samsung on the screen going no where. I am going to have to stop playing around for sure.

All I new to do is to reflash the phone to root, its OK now now, boy I am tired of scaring myself

 

[VladHD]

has anyone tested this on huawei u8160(vodafone 858) ?

 

[elspanish88]

Guys this doesn't work with ICS or JB

Sent from my C6603 using xda app-developers app

 

[Terr20114]

Guys this doesn't work with ICS or JB

Sent from my C6603 using xda app-developers app

Says that on Google Play but works with ICS

Sent from my SGH-I997 using Tapatalk 4

 

[moeburn]

Says that on Google Play but works with ICS

Sent from my SGH-I997 using Tapatalk 4

I don't know wtf ICS and JB and HC refer to which versions, but I do know that my Galaxy S3 has Android 4.1.2 on it. Can I run Chainfire 3D on it? Is there any development on a new version that can?

 

[cuezaireekaa]

"using the scroll bar...." lol good one


4.1.2 is JB--which does not work with chainfire. you will bootloop. dev has no plans on updating this app

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history

 

[shak3800]

Hi guys . I just wanted to ask something, probably a noobish question .

I have an htc desire z device, about 1ghz and 512mb ram using miui gingerbread .

My question is now that I have installed the egl driver, and the only options for msaa are automatic and 4x, will msaa always be used for games? Because that would affect the speed of gameplay if msaa is always enabled since before installing it msaa was not used for games. I'm only interested in getting the fastest gameplay so do I have to uninstall the egl driver to stop msaa from being used?

And lastly what is the purpose of the plugins? Can the plugins offer more smooth gameplay or just make the device compatible with games that weren't compatible before ?

 

[Dj_Fex]

The plugins won't allow you to see games that work only on nvidia devices in the play store
they will allow you to play games which have been developed for nvidia cards only (as far as I know they will replace certain instructions which only tegra chips understand with general instructions for your chip, in general chainfire only replaces the os instructions before they get to the graphics cards, night mode also only uses something like color filters): only compatibility and no smoother games by plugins
there is a fix for the market included in the beta that should fix this but pls don't use it!!!!!! The app is already pretty old and we are all using the play store and not the android market anymore so you can't use it or you may get a lot of problems cause it isn't compatible with the play store
(and if you are still using the android market: don't use it even in this case pls!)

you can make the market believe that you are using a compatible device for such apps by changing certain things in the build.prop -> look that up first and inform yourself

your graphic card seems to support only msaa 4x
so chainfire can't make use of something like 16x
it won't be used all the time, because you can only use this settings for certain apps not for all (as far as I remember (1-2 years ago...), you have to configure it for certain apps manually
I don't think you need to uninstall the driver but it won't hurt I think

if you use smaller textures then this can include stuff like game menus too
it's just useful for 3d gametextures if your device can't render the normal (bigger) ones smooth enough
but it will end up in a bad quality of course
you have to decide whether you want strange graphics or not

PS: sry if I answered questions you have removed from your entry already (I looked them up in my email and didn't notice until now )

 

[shak3800]

The plugins won't allow you to see games that work only on nvidia devices in the play store
they will allow you to play games which have been developed for nvidia cards only (as far as I know they will replace certain instructions which only tegra chips understand with general instructions for your chip, in general chainfire only replaces the os instructions before they get to the graphics cards, night mode also only uses something like color filters): only compatibility and no smoother games by plugins
there is a fix for the market included in the beta that should fix this but pls don't use it!!!!!! The app is already pretty old and we are all using the play store and not the android market anymore so you can't use it or you may get a lot of problems cause it isn't compatible with the play store
(and if you are still using the android market: don't use it even in this case pls!)

you can make the market believe that you are using a compatible device for such apps by changing certain things in the build.prop -> look that up first and inform yourself

your graphic card seems to support only msaa 4x
so chainfire can't make use of something like 16x
it won't be used all the time, because you can only use this settings for certain apps not for all (as far as I remember (1-2 years ago...), you have to configure it for certain apps manually
I don't think you need to uninstall the driver but it won't hurt I think

if you use smaller textures then this can include stuff like game menus too
it's just useful for 3d gametextures if your device can't render the normal (bigger) ones smooth enough
but it will end up in a bad quality of course
you have to decide whether you want strange graphics or not

PS: sry if I answered questions you have removed from your entry already (I looked them up in my email and didn't notice until now )

Thanks a lot my friend for your time.

Unfortunately I tried the fix market settings, I think I have an issue that it doesn't show my installed apps for one reason. Don't know if it is because of chainfire.

Right now i'm not using any plugins, so since i'm using QUALCOMM the best would be to use NVidia plugins to support a bigger variety of games I suppose? Anyone knows a game that is only for NVidia ? pvr or QUALCOMM to test it ?

Anyhow the thing with msaa it only has two options , automatic (the app decides) and 4x msaa . So I was wondering , will msaa be always used in this case since the automatic option is enabled ? (my guess is automatic refers to 4x or 16x when the latter is available) . Shouldn't there be an option to turn off msaa?

I have download an application FPS Meter which displays the fps when playing games.When playing subway surfers , I have tried a lot of options, with or without egl driver (which enables the msaa) , reduce texture quality or not , reduce texture size and really the difference in fps is not that big I would expect. I'm only using per-app configuration

I get about 2 or 3 more fps when using chainfire3d reduce texture quality with egl driver than when not using it . I would expect a difference of 7-10 fps.

Honestly I don't care about bad graphics just want fast and smooth gameplay for games like subway surfers

 

[Dj_Fex]

Thanks a lot my friend for your time.

Unfortunately I tried the fix market settings, I think I have an issue that it doesn't show my installed apps for one reason. Don't know if it is because of chainfire.

Right now i'm not using any plugins, so since i'm using QUALCOMM the best would be to use NVidia plugins to support a bigger variety of games I suppose? Anyone knows a game that is only for NVidia ? pvr or QUALCOMM to test it ?

Anyhow the thing with msaa it only has two options , automatic (the app decides) and 4x msaa . So I was wondering , will msaa be always used in this case since the automatic option is enabled ? (my guess is automatic refers to 4x or 16x when the latter is available) . Shouldn't there be an option to turn off msaa?

I have download an application FPS Meter which displays the fps when playing games.When playing subway surfers , I have tried a lot of options, with or without egl driver (which enables the msaa) , reduce texture quality or not , reduce texture size and really the difference in fps is not that big I would expect. I'm only using per-app configuration

I get about 2 or 3 more fps when using chainfire3d reduce texture quality with egl driver than when not using it . I would expect a difference of 7-10 fps.

Honestly I don't care about bad graphics just want fast and smooth gameplay for games like subway surfers

I you have used the "market fix" it's already too late
I hope you have a nandroid backup or can flash another rom/wipe your rom
I think it's related to the completely incompatible chainfire fix
in general: since the app's development stopped long ago you should not use it anymore
and as it was programmed only tegra in generation one existed so it is pretty unlikely that new tegra games will work on it
and I'm pretty sure that new games are no tegra only games anymore so the plugins won't help
I would suggest you to uninstall everything/even better: flash your last nandroid backup without it

chainfire is likely to cause problems nowadays because it got incompatible with android 4 and higher
chainfire didn't want to update it because android 4 changed to much about graphic drivers and stuff
and the only reason it is still in the store is probably for older devices or chainfire himself wants more money (but I really don't think so)
things like the night mode still work and some people may are using it still, I don't know
but for making your device run games smoother, it's no ideal solution anymore

msaa is only for games who aren't using it by default even though your devcie supports it
and like with nvidia or ati drivers on your pc you can force apps to "use" it

normally there should be an option to disable it
but I'm not sure, really it was a year ago when I used it the last time

all in all: if your games aren't running smoothly -> just buy a new device with better hardware

maybe it's also your rom which is filled with bloatware
then you could try a fast custom rom with a custom kernel
there are lots of them out there and you are on xda, so...

good luck with your phone (I really hope for you that you can fix the market issue with a backup or flash/wipe)

 

[cuezaireekaa]

I you have used the "market fix" it's already too late
I hope you have a nandroid backup or can flash another rom/wipe your rom
I think it's related to the completely incompatible chainfire fix
in general: since the app's development stopped long ago you should not use it anymore
and as it was programmed only tegra in generation one existed so it is pretty unlikely that new tegra games will work on it
and I'm pretty sure that new games are no tegra only games anymore so the plugins won't help
I would suggest you to uninstall everything/even better: flash your last nandroid backup without it

chainfire is likely to cause problems nowadays because it got incompatible with android 4 and higher
chainfire didn't want to update it because android 4 changed to much about graphic drivers and stuff
and the only reason it is still in the store is probably for older devices or chainfire himself wants more money (but I really don't think so)
things like the night mode still work and some people may are using it still, I don't know
but for making your device run games smoother, it's no ideal solution anymore

msaa is only for games who aren't using it by default even though your devcie supports it
and like with nvidia or ati drivers on your pc you can force apps to "use" it

normally there should be an option to disable it
but I'm not sure, really it was a year ago when I used it the last time

all in all: if your games aren't running smoothly -> just buy a new device with better hardware

maybe it's also your rom which is filled with bloatware
then you could try a fast custom rom with a custom kernel
there are lots of them out there and you are on xda, so...

good luck with your phone (I really hope for you that you can fix the market issue with a backup or flash/wipe)

well said.
I would also like to add that aosp 4.2 and above, allows you to enable 4x multi scene anti aliasing (aka MSAA) in open gl games through the "'developer settings", in case someone was looking to use chainfire3d for that reason.

 

[dinos3]

Awesome app. Pity that no further progress...