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When The Register reached out to Samsung for comment, a representative today said: "Samsung Electronics does not use any algorithm for the purpose of yielding specific test results."

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Samsung Korea told FlatpanelsHD it "will provide a software update that ensures consistent brightness of HDR contents across a wider range of window size beyond the industry standard." To the cynically minded, that sounds like Sammy making sure it's not called out next time. Also … peak brightness is much lower when testing with a 9 percent window." What does Samsung have to say?

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VW's case of NOxious emissions: a tale of SMOKE and MIRRORS?īased on its findings, FlatpanelsHD's Rasmus Larsen wrote that the Samsung TV it tested "has a significantly over-brightened image overall.

OnePlus accused of installing cheat codes for benchmarks with new handset.

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Samsung denies benchmark cheating, despite evidence.

When FlatpanelsHD testers changed their benchmark size to nine percent they were able to bypass the alleged algorithm and get what they claimed is an accurate score. We'll update this article if Samsung provides a statement.Samsung's alleged actions to cheat at TV benchmarks were only noticed because of its reliance on industry benchmarking standards, which test HDR TVs by focusing on 10 percent of the screen. What good is a fast SoC if you never use it?

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Right now, it looks like the only apps that get full power are the benchmark apps. It's pretty inexcusable to throttle your own home screen, app store, browser, and other core 2D apps. If there is anything you want to be fast, it's the core phone interface. When a command comes in to open an app or navigate a webpage, the phone tries to do the action as quickly as possible so it can go back to sleep and start saving power again. If you're just reading an email or webpage and not touching the screen, the phone does its best to go into a low-power state automatically. Most mobile power conservation relies on a "rush to sleep" policy. Throttling a regular 2D app is a tough sell, though. Games require sustained usage and need to update the screen constantly, so throttling can save battery life. Normally, the throttling behavior is not user-controllable, but the users are tricking the service by modifying apps.įurther Reading OnePlus admits to throttling 300 popular apps with recent updateThrottling a game is not necessarily bad if users have control over the feature, allowing them to choose between performance or longer battery life is reasonable. By changing the package names of popular benchmark apps-thereby making the "Game Optimizing Service" treat a benchmark app like a normal app-scores dropped anywhere from 13 to 45 percent on the Galaxy S10, S20, S21, and the new S22. Samsung's throttling app is called the "Game Optimizing Service." Users of the Korean message board found wildly different benchmark scores depending on whether benchmark apps had their original names or not. It's like benchmark cheating but in reverse.

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Instead of boosting the SoC speeds when a benchmark app is running, Android OEMs are now turning down phone performance any time a benchmark app isn't running. It sounds like the scheme OnePlus was caught running last year.

This time, the company is accused of throttling 10,000 Android apps-but not benchmark apps.

Samsung is once again in hot water over how it treats benchmark apps.