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even after update, the original screen-lock remained laggy and inaccurate sometimes. is there some more screen-lock apps that can be used on X10?
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piercewei said:
even after update, the original screen-lock remained laggy and inaccurate sometimes. is there some more screen-lock apps that can be used on X10?
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Have you checked the market at all. Lots of options. Goto seems to be popular.
Lock screen
Sorry for hijack but My lock screen is too sensitive and my phone is always unlocking in my pocket and then making calls, sending texts and changing things around, its starting to pi** me off a bit.
I need a proper lockscreen that needs a password or something to enable phone.
I bought app protector from the market but that just messes with the whole phone big time, disabled.
Just activate the additional pattern lock under android settings --> security. your phone shouldn't be able to draw a pattern specified by you
ClintonH said:
Have you checked the market at all. Lots of options. Goto seems to be popular.
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let me try first.
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I would like to remove the se lock screen as well and replace it with stock android. I tried many apps in the market but none of them work properly. So in my search I was looking to disable it manually. Interestingly enough when I removed the phone.apk it removed the lock as well. I couldn't use the phone but at least no lockscreen . Anyways i think modifying the phone.apk is what needs to happen unfortunately i don't have the knowledge to do this yet...
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Ashame lockbot does not work on the X10. I have problems with the lock as well. Sometimes i miss calls because it hangs In de top, very annoying.
Lock 2.0 from market Works for x10 and is great, a bit Luke s2u2. Full version Allied you to change settings to your likings.
i use adw launcher, dont change your settings in adw after installing lock2 otherwise the default lockscreen Comes back for some reason and you end up with a Double lockscreen. Further it is the best lock screen on the market for our phone. Hope this will help.
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I'm a huge fan of goto but sometimes a lil bit laggy
I've tried all sorts of lockscreens and apps that disable the stock lockscreen. I still always end up with the stock lockscreen coming back, so I have to unlock stock and whatever lockscreen app I had installed. Some of them didn't disable the stock at all, some did but randomly the stock would come back after some time
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I'm a huge fan of goto but sometimes a lil bit laggy
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where is goto? i couldnt find it in the market?
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piercewei said:
where is goto? i couldnt find it in the market?
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Sent you a pm mate
Was going to get goto, but it is a pain that you can only pay with a credit card, i havent got one
Goto its really good but its main problem was that any button could wake it up which resulted in battery drain!! don't know if that's fixed now cause I really did prefer it over the built in one!!
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can someone please post the goto apk?
Goto keep waking up w/o even touching the phone. Anyone has a solution? I hav advance task killer n juicedefender install
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Goto keep waking up w/o even touching the phone. Anyone has a solution? I hav advance task killer n juicedefender install
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No real solution im afraid, you can try changing your task killer to only kill apps every couple of hours and ignore the GOTO application, or uninstall it completely, this helps.
I now use Lockbot pro which i think looks better than GOTO + its got 100's of themes, but i sometimes see the SE lock screen, hardly ever, but still seen it, whereas with GOTO i never saw it.
jatt101 said:
can someone please post the goto apk?
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Unfortunatly GOTO is a paid app so its against forum rules to post the .apk.
Google is your friend, or pay for it.
The only way to change the default lock screen is by tampering with the /system files. Don't think anyone has been successful in revamping it. The only progress I've seen was the arrow being changed to a different image.
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Goto keep waking up w/o even touching the phone. Anyone has a solution? I hav advance task killer n juicedefender install
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I think you have set Advanced Task Killer to "kill when screen off". This setting turns on the screen when you use goto, it's some kind of bug. Just use a setting like "kill every 30 min" or something like that and goto will work fine.
btw. you should read the topics about how pointless Task Killers are on Android. They're often even making things like battery life and smoothness of the device worse. Here's one of the many topics about it on the forum
I have no lock installed but i still get the SE's lock screen and Lockbot is not there most of the time ...
Well, sometime Lockbot appears after i unlock the SE one ... which is stupid.
It feels like a WebOS multi-tasking.solution for android. What do you guys think if it (in the market)?
Im using it with CM6, it launches from longpress of the homekey for me and I really like it a lot
Update: helpful for non CM6 users, longpress for search can now launch VTS.
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It feels like a WebOS multi-tasking.solution for android. What do you guys think if it (in the market)?
Im using it with CM6, it launches from longpress of the homekey for me and I really like it a lot
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Regardless of the feeling that this is an astroturfed post, I'll try it since there are three things about WebOS that I wanted to make love to after leaving my Palm device. This covers one such concern.
After approximately fourteen seconds with this app, I can say that if it holds up on resource usage, it will never, ever leave my phone.
Single click brings up my "open" apps.
Double click takes me back to home.
Triple click replicates a unicorn out of my camera lens that burps rainbows and farts lasers.
Its as close to app cards as we will get on Android. Kudos to whoever is behind this.
Checked it out, all is good... only if we can map this to home button LONG press action, to replace the current task switcher.
Good look with finding this app and telling us!!! I think its pretty sweet and works well, the only gripe I have with it, is that on my EVO is kills leap when I hit the home button
Desperately needs the option to set launch button.
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If you use cm6 you can change visual task switcher to replace the default home long press in the settings
Settings > cyanogen mod settings > input settings
Amazing now...
I'm using this with power stripper..amazing
I'm using cm6.
Liking this. Thanks for the tip. Id like a free memory read out on the screen since that is about the only reason I use a task killer. But is pretty sweet for switching between tasks.
hdad2 said:
Liking this. Thanks for the tip. Id like a free memory read out on the screen since that is about the only reason I use a task killer. But is pretty sweet for switching between tasks.
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Task Killers bad.
mrono said:
Desperately needs the option to set launch button.
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If you use cm6 you can change visual task switcher to replace the default home long press in the settings
Settings > cyanogen mod settings > input settings
Amazing now...
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hmm, this app isn't showing up in the list of applications available to set for custom long-press-home..
looks pretty sweet so far though
How do you switch the home screen it forwards to? It seems to default to sense and I can't get it to go to ADW.
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How do you switch the home screen it forwards to? It seems to default to sense and I can't get it to go to ADW.
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You can't use it with a custom launcher, try deleting any other launcher then it might forward correctly. Or if your on a sense rom just ban/remove sense
~edit~ I just did that and it works fine. You have to have only VTS and the launcher you want to use active.
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mrono said:
You can't use it with a custom launcher, try deleting any other launcher then it might forward correctly. Or if your on a sense rom just ban/remove sense
~edit~ I just did that and it works fine. You have to have only VTS and the launcher you want to use active.
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Woah ... not cool. I'll be watching for a future update that let's me set a preference for a home, but can't say I'll be using it as is.
Such a good find! Loving it
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This app really has potential to become great.
Please don't give out incorrect information...
You can change custom launchers. Once in the app press menu, settings, default home screen.
soxozor said:
Please don't give out incorrect information...
You can change custom launchers. Once in the app press menu, settings, default home screen.
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Hitting the home button twice reverts home to ADW, I use LP.. I think the information is correct.
I really like the app but needs to mature a little more before I could use it to replace long-press-home, which I use all the time
Did you even try what I suggested?
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Did you even try what I suggested?
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I tried that before you suggested it. VTS needs more development, it just doesn't integrate with a custom setup very well yet.
I love this app so far. I even tried to swipe it off the screen (Used to have a pre)
Nothing fancy, but heres the newest Launcher Pro apk, 0.8.3, for gingerbread. If you're like me, the "preferences" and "notifications" bothered you when pressing menu on the homescreen, as they were left over from froyo. Want a fix? Well thats why you're here.
You'll need to uninstall your current lp install, so remember to back up if you need to =P
Throw it on your SD card and install with your favorite file explorer.
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?m0zhi01tj9mfo80
Enjoy.
What would we do without...
As always, thanks for the fix!
I appologize for the bump but...
What is this actually supposed to do? In true flash-a-holic manner, I uninstalled and reinstalled but I don't notice any difference... "notification" and "preferences" are still the same... could you post a screen shot?
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I appologize for the bump but...
What is this actually supposed to do? In true flash-a-holic manner, I uninstalled and reinstalled but I don't notice any difference... "notification" and "preferences" are still the same... could you post a screen shot?
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+1 same here
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Like I said it isn't anything too involved. And its for a gingerbread rom. The two bottom left icons. They are the ones from froyo on the market download so they have a shadow that makes them fugly looking. I can post a screen later.
Here ya go. Two bottom left icons. That's it. If your on gingerbread you can look at yours and see the difference.
I see, I see. The difference is small, but I'm sure I couldn't do with out it.
Thanks again!
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I see, I see. The difference is small, but I'm sure I couldn't do with out it.
Thanks again!
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Small indeed. I'm sure fede will fix it once gingerbread becomes more widespread, but I've got ocd when it comes to stuff like that =P
As you might know, I always post what I got in case anyone shares my views on these things
I need help!!!
How do I uninstall the LP?
Go into settings > application > manage applications > downloaded > find launcher
pro, then uninstall.
Port the aosp phone.apk to sense in your FrostRom 5.0. Please Uncle Barnacles!
Uncle Barnacles????
Found my solution. It's QuickPic. Unbelievably good, simple, and not overdone. It's fast and to the point. I recommend everyone install it.
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Gallery3D is by far the most over-engineered photo app on the planet.
I absolutely HATE it.
~ Why does it take so long to "index" all my photos?
~ Why do I not have an option to disable all the retarded tilt/sliding animations?
~ Why can I not use it without it prompting me a million times to access my Picasa Web Albums (which I do NOT want to see)?
~ Why does it not remember my place when I go back to my homescreen?
The frustration I'm facing is coming from trying to place shortcuts on my Launcher Pro homescreen using custom icons. Gallery3D is the only registered handler to pick photos, and Its driving me nuts. The folder structure seems to randomly change order, the thumbnail cache of all the folders seems to be continuously rebuilt, there's just SO many things I hate about it.
I found the wonderful app called "JustPictures" but LauncherPro doesn't recognize it as a handler for images when selecting icons
Is there an alternative app I can use that will work with LauncherPro's custom icon support? I really need folder support, as a minimum, and that's honestly all I care about.
quickpick, miui gallery, or gallery 2D
I agree with liquid. Im really sick of 3d gallery. Im going try one of those you posted kyle!!
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Quick pic is pretty nice. Couldn't find miui gallery!
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zanywood said:
Quick pic is pretty nice. Couldn't find miui gallery!
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Its not in the market do a forum search for it I know its in the miui camera thread
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+1 for QuickPic... much better than Gallery3D
-mb
Quick pic is the best blows that damn 3d gallery away
Hijacked aospCMod Darkhorse GB Hero
Have u downloaded desktop visualizer? Its a great cutom widget/shortcut app. Also, if u like wp7, search photo safari in the market and check if launcher pro supports that
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I agree. Quick Pic is awesome.
METHOD1911 said:
Quick pic is the best blows that damn 3d gallery away
Hijacked aospCMod Darkhorse GB Hero
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THanks guys, QuickPic is excellent, everything I needed and nothing I didn't want. Updated OP so others can know about it as well.
Cool man, glad it worked out for you. I've switched over to it as well. Much faster than G3D.
By the way, I want to say thanks to you LS for your fantastic work on this phone. Your dev skills are epic in comparison to mine, so I thank you for your hard work to make our phone "Hero-scale"
Be advised: if you delete the 3d gallery you will lose picture frame widgets. I also lost the video player. So, until I find a lighter weight video player im stuck with it gumming up my phone with its crappy slowness.
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Don't know if this will help any of you all. But when I do a fresh installation of a rom I always clear data on gallery before I start it up. Also on every reboot I clear data as well and I have over 300 pic's on my sd and it performs good
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Love the quickpic.
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Hell yeah! This QuickPic is on point. Exactly what I needed.
LiquidSolstice said:
Gallery3D is by far the most over-engineered photo app on the planet.
I absolutely HATE it.
~ Why does it take so long to "index" all my photos?
~ Why do I not have an option to disable all the retarded tilt/sliding animations?
~ Why can I not use it without it prompting me a million times to access my Picasa Web Albums (which I do NOT want to see)?
~ Why does it not remember my place when I go back to my homescreen?
The frustration I'm facing is coming from trying to place shortcuts on my Launcher Pro homescreen using custom icons. Gallery3D is the only registered handler to pick photos, and Its driving me nuts. The folder structure seems to randomly change order, the thumbnail cache of all the folders seems to be continuously rebuilt, there's just SO many things I hate about it.
I found the wonderful app called "JustPictures" but LauncherPro doesn't recognize it as a handler for images when selecting icons
Is there an alternative app I can use that will work with LauncherPro's custom icon support? I really need folder support, as a minimum, and that's honestly all I care about.
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Amen to everything you just said LS, I have always wondered the exact same things! Oh and Dl'ing QuickPic now
*UPDATE* QuickPic is freaking Awesome!
user7618 said:
Be advised: if you delete the 3d gallery you will lose picture frame widgets. I also lost the video player. So, until I find a lighter weight video player im stuck with it gumming up my phone with its crappy slowness.
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Personally I love the Act1 Video Player...
user7618 said:
Be advised: if you delete the 3d gallery you will lose picture frame widgets. I also lost the video player. So, until I find a lighter weight video player im stuck with it gumming up my phone with its crappy slowness.
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Try Mvideo player its decent
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LiquidSolstice said:
Gallery3D is by far the most over-engineered photo app on the planet.
I absolutely HATE it.
~ Why does it take so long to "index" all my photos?
~ Why do I not have an option to disable all the retarded tilt/sliding animations?
~ Why can I not use it without it prompting me a million times to access my Picasa Web Albums (which I do NOT want to see)?
~ Why does it not remember my place when I go back to my homescreen?
The frustration I'm facing is coming from trying to place shortcuts on my Launcher Pro homescreen using custom icons. Gallery3D is the only registered handler to pick photos, and Its driving me nuts. The folder structure seems to randomly change order, the thumbnail cache of all the folders seems to be continuously rebuilt, there's just SO many things I hate about it.
I found the wonderful app called "JustPictures" but LauncherPro doesn't recognize it as a handler for images when selecting icons
Is there an alternative app I can use that will work with LauncherPro's custom icon support? I really need folder support, as a minimum, and that's honestly all I care about.
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Or you could always try this
Brainmaster's "Increase Read Cache for better SD Card access" tweak
I just used a system app remover and got rid of 3d gallery all together.
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Hey all, this mod is for those who are having launcher redraws on GB. This was an issue since GB was released. For those who don't know, a redraw is, simply put, when your launcher's icons all disappear but reload after a few seconds.
Here's what you do:
1) Get your launcher moved into /system/app. You should do this from a clean flash (edit the ROM.zip, put it in, and rezip the file). You could try to manually push this, but I don't know how that'll work. You could also try to convert it into a system app by using Titanium Backup PAID (thank you shawnshine for this one).
To get the apk for your launcher, you should uninstall it and reinstall it. Once you reinstall your launcher, go to /cache and look for downloadfile.apk. That's the app you just recently downloaded (in this case, it's your launcher). Save that downloadfile.apk, rename it to whatever you want, and move it into /system/app whenever you flash a new ROM.
2) Edit the build.prop for your ROM. Use Notepad++ and add this line at the bottom, without quotes: "ro.HOME_APP_ADJ=1" Save the changes to your build.prop. You can manually push this and this seems to work as well.
This thread is really made so you guys could get the edited build.prop and push them yourselves. I'm including only the most recent GB ROMs.
3) Flash your ROM and enjoy less redraws. If you choose to manually push it, wipe your dalvik cache and fix permissions.
I take NO credit for any of this. jager555 was the one who mentioned #1. AntonX is the one who mentioned #2. Of course, all the build.props that have been edited belong to the respective developers who tweaked it and such.
If the developers have a problem with me posting their build.props here, please let me know, and I'll remove it.
UPDATE: Here's a short explanation of why this thread died down. When 2.3.6 was just released, I tried using this mod again to fix the build.props for all ROMs. Unfortunately, it seemed to be ineffective, so I dropped this completely. However, icy56 recently informed me that this still works on 2.3.6 (at least the newest ROMs), so I decided to pick this up again!
Below are the three most commonly used ROMs on this forum atm (Valhalla Black Edition, ICBINB 2.3.7 v2, and AOSP Style X). For those of you who haven't made the move yet, I kept the older ROMs in Older ROMs.zip.
Let me know how this works for all of you! I know it definitely made a difference on LauncherPro and GO Launcher EX.
Sick!! Thanks works great it was def an annoying issue.. I just moved the apk in root explorer and reinstalled into system app
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hey just wanted to say i can attest that these settings do lessen the withdraws.
For launcherpro users, settings that have completely stopped withdraws for me are setting memory usage to low, not checking "prevent FCs", and checking "keep in memory"
EDIT: Forget this post. It was another issue.
Wouldn't using the "convert to system app" function in Titanium Backup Pro for your preferred launcher do the same thing?
I pushed it and didn't lose settings.. like I said I moved adw from data app to system app and then immediately clicked install and it reinstalled successfully
The launcher will fc if you hit home without reinstalling in system app
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Mizun0h said:
hey just wanted to say i can attest that these settings do lessen the withdraws.
For launcherpro users, settings that have completely stopped withdraws for me are setting memory usage to low, not checking "prevent FCs", and checking "keep in memory"
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The only reason why I don't want to set the memory usage to "low" is because it makes my previews lag with 7 screens. Also, I've been reading that we should keep the memory usage as "high" instead.
shawnshine said:
Wouldn't using the "convert to system app" function in Titanium Backup Pro for your preferred launcher do the same thing?
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I'm not sure. I've never tried that. I put it into the OP just in case though. Once I get someone's confirmation, I'll put it as one of the methods.
mbernusg said:
I pushed it and didn't lose settings.. like I said I moved adw from data app to system app and then immediately clicked install and it reinstalled successfully
The launcher will fc if you hit home without reinstalling in system app
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It turns out that it was SAS vXXX that wiped everything. Very strange. I'll have to ask dsexton702 about that.
mbernusg said:
I pushed it and didn't lose settings.. like I said I moved adw from data app to system app and then immediately clicked install and it reinstalled successfully
The launcher will fc if you hit home without reinstalling in system app
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Tried that. Didn't loose anything but it seems like the launcher still re-draws for me
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icy56 said:
Tried that. Didn't loose anything but it seems like the launcher still re-draws for me
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What's causing your redraws? I usually get a redraw after playing Cut the Rope for a level or two, but now it doesn't happen at all.
Yay!! It worked. I played Nova 2 for a while and my launcher didn't redraw still!
-Sent From My Amazing Galaxy S 4G-
i appreciate the credit
i will be writing a guide this week on all of this. i've noticed a TON of questions that i know I have addressed too many times for me not to be bothered by it.
jager555 said:
i appreciate the credit
i will be writing a guide this week on all of this. i've noticed a TON of questions that i know I have addressed too many times for me not to be bothered by it.
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No problem.
That sounds like a great idea. I just put this up cause I saw too many posts regarding this problem.
bkoon1218 said:
What's causing your redraws? I usually get a redraw after playing Cut the Rope for a level or two, but now it doesn't happen at all.
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I get a redraw like right after playing angry birds, or cut the rope, or even simply just web browsing. I guess I have to do it the real way.
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icy56 said:
I get a redraw like right after playing angry birds, or cut the rope, or even simply just web browsing. I guess I have to do it the real way.
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I just tried playing Angry Birds, Cut the Rope, and browsing for over 5 minutes each. None of which caused a redraw.
Maybe you should try a fresh flash.
OP has been updated with Beautiful SGS4G v2's build.prop.
bkoon1218 said:
I just tried playing Angry Birds, Cut the Rope, and browsing for over 5 minutes each. None of which caused a redraw.
Maybe you should try a fresh flash.
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Yeah imma try that out this weekend once I have the free time.
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icy56 said:
Yeah imma try that out this weekend once I have the free time.
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Let me know how that turns out for you.
hey guys. sorry im taking so long with my promised tutorial/noob guide. i have program reviews at work this week (which i completely forgot about) and it is killing me. i will get it done over the weekend.
I'm using beautiful sgs4g and my adw launcher was already in system apps and my phone redraws really badly, mainly after I use Facebook, hanging with friends, and browsing the Web
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I'm using beautiful sgs4g and my adw launcher was already in system apps and my phone redraws really badly, mainly after I use Facebook, hanging with friends, and browsing the Web
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I put in the Beautiful SGS4G modded build.prop. Try manually pushing that into /system. Go into CWM, wipe your dalvik cache and fix permissions. Let your phone sit for 10-15 minutes afterwards to let the dalvik cache rebuild.
Keep in mind that wiping the dalvik cache and fixing permissions are optional, but it would be safer to do that.