CM6: ADW back to home lag solved?!? - G1 Android Development

I think I've stumbled across the culprit for the ADW return to home lag... Android Backup Service
Uncheck "Automatic restore" and "Back up my data" under "Menu > Settings > Privacy"​
My phone is currently running fast with only an occasional return to home lag.
Current set-up:
Fresh wipe and install of CM6 with gapps-frf91-3
Initial google sign-in skipped with back-up option unchecked
Dithering turned off then rebooted
Launcher > Spare Parts > "Window animations" and "Transition animations" set to "Fast"
Unchecked both boxes under Menu > Settings > Privacy
Added my google account under Menu > Settings > Accounts & sync and made sure back-up option was unchecked
Installed SetCPU and set it to 576/160
My last setting was Menu > Settings > ADWLauncher > System Preferences and checked "System persistent"
Setting update 7/15
Menu > Settings > CyanogenMod settings > Performance settings > VM heap size is now set to 32m.
Menu > Settings > ADWLauncher > System Preferences > Scrollable widget support is now unchecked
Menu > Settings > ADWLauncher > UI Settings > Show desktop indicator is now unchecked
I've gone and installed CM6 numerous times trying every trick I've seen in the thread for removing the home lag and this setting is the first one that makes my phone fly! Other then what I've posted I'm using all stock settings with a few apps installed. Let me know if you see similar results.
My phone:
MyTouch 3G (32b)
SPL: 1.33.006
Radio: 2.22.19.26i
Recovery: RA-v1.6.2
Swap = 96
ext3 = 512

I actually did something very close to this yesterday and it made the world of difference. Thanks for posting this for others to see.

I run my phone with those settings off and experience it all day long.
But glad it works for ya.
Everyone should just disable those settings.
Sent from my Chromatic Dream using XDA App

i did something similar to wat inthewoods did when i first installed CM6 and it had ADWlauncher to home lag but after i installed the version from market im guessing it went away, it does happen sometime when i go back to home from other parts of phone but other that that home lag isnt showing. one thing that is bugging me is the battery life i had when i first installed rom it went from fully charged to 45% overnight while i was sleeping, i hope it doesnt die so quick i really like steve's Roms. did ne1 else have this problem after they installed rom?

Oh. My. God. Bravo sir, great post. Worked great.
Sent from my HTC Dream

This worked for me
http://www.androidcentral.com/adwlauncher-gets-big-update
Ever since i went to the version on the market, smooth as silk.

Yeah the lag I'm seeing is when I leave an app and return back home via the home button. ADW would seem to "reset" and reload everything. Once everything reloads everything would run smooth. From what I'm seeing by using the setting above the "reset" has mostly gone away. BUT like everything only time will tell

ekeefe41 said:
This worked for me
http://www.androidcentral.com/adwlauncher-gets-big-update
Ever since i went to the version on the market, smooth as silk.
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Confirmed....installed from market no more lag!!

I recommend using swap to anyone who hasn't tried it on this rom..32mb and swappiness set at 10 eliminated home lag for me..
Sent from my HTC Magic using XDA App

robstillholdin said:
Confirmed....installed from market no more lag!!
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Just downloaded and installed ADW from market and so far so good. Will run it more tomorrow and see how it goes, but so far desktop shows up right away after I went into browser, map, settings, finance app, and dialer. I also have most of the settings turned off and only running 3 screens since i don't keep a lot of shortcuts or widgets on the screens.

sl1k1 said:
I recommend using swap to anyone who hasn't tried it on this rom..32mb and swappiness set at 10 eliminated home lag for me..p
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At the expense of making everything dead slow....

robstillholdin said:
Confirmed....installed from market no more lag!!
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Day 2 of new version and i was getting a little lag...
Still not as bad as it was before.

lbcoder said:
At the expense of making everything dead slow....
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I'm using a 96mb swap and nothing is slow....
Ohhh I have another setting update which seem to help the occasional lag:
Menu > Settings > CyanogenMod settings > Performance settings > VM heap size is now set to 32m.​
I also tried the new launcher from the market and it had a bad return to home lag so I uninstalled it.

inthewoods said:
I'm using a 96mb swap and nothing is slow....
Ohhh I have another setting update which seem to help the occasional lag:
Menu > Settings > CyanogenMod settings > Performance settings > VM heap size is now set to 32m.​
I also tried the new launcher from the market and it was had a bad return to home lag so I uninstalled it.
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i had a 128MB swap and it crawled, lowered it to 64 and everything is great.

New adw launcher

Did exactly what you specified in your post and woohoo!!! no more lag! I'm running on a 32b MyTouch 3G too.

inthewoods said:
I'm using a 96mb swap and nothing is slow....
Ohhh I have another setting update which seem to help the occasional lag:
Menu > Settings > CyanogenMod settings > Performance settings > VM heap size is now set to 32m.​
I also tried the new launcher from the market and it was had a bad return to home lag so I uninstalled it.
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Yeah I had the same problem, .9 is just fine for me

The new ADW launcher (1.01 for D/M) is AMAZING
http://jbthemes.com/anderweb/ADWLauncher_cm6rc1_mdpi_1.0.1.apk
download it and use it. lag is the least it's been yet. It stays in memory like it's supposed to. I can switch between MMS/phone/home INSTANTLY (with no swap)

Everyone seems to talk about the size of their Swap partition, but what about swappiness?
60 swappiness was getting slow and buggy on Swap of 96MB
been running 30 for the last hour and its snappy. I'll report back tomorrow after its had time to 'sleep on it'

ajm2387 said:
The new ADW launcher (1.01 for D/M) is AMAZING
http://jbthemes.com/anderweb/ADWLauncher_cm6rc1_mdpi_1.0.1.apk
download it and use it. lag is the least it's been yet. It stays in memory like it's supposed to. I can switch between MMS/phone/home INSTANTLY (with no swap)
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Have you tried rebooting after it's installed? It keeps reverting back to .9. I've tried adb, root explorer, and installing it using linda. It'll install but once I reboot, it'll revert.

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Apps not remembering settings

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Launcher Pro default homescreen not setting Sprint HTC Hero Extremely Blue Mod

Hi, I installed Launcher Pro and I see a huge potential for customization. Except I'm having one issue. No matter what I set the default home screen to, it always reverts to 2.
I can change the number of homescreens just fine. I wanted to have 5 screens with 3 being the default. No matter what though, it always reverts to 2. I tried to set the deafault to 1,3,4,5,6,7 and always it goes back to 2.
I'm running on a rooted Hero with Extremely Blue Mod with an uncapped kernal.
I was thinking maybe I had to give Launcher Pro super user privileges or something but if I can change the number of homescreens then that means it's saving changes correctly. Any help?
I just installed LauncherPro on my Nexus one (v2.2.1) and am having the same issues - Default home screen is always #2. I haven't seen anything in the LauncherPro forums about this yet so maybe I'll start a thread there.
I got it working after messing with the settings for a while. After I checked the "Home key to default screen" (was off by default) in the Behavior Settings menu, it's working just fine now. Not sure if it's a feature or a bug, but it's working now - happily.

Rogers Android Froyo 2.2 bugs

Figured perhaps a bug thread for the Rogers 2.2 update may be in order?
Not sure if this is a bug or not, but it does seem a bit odd. The lock screen usually has the text "swipe screen to unlock" or something to that nature (the part with the <<< and >>>) - mine had it to begin with in 2.2, however now it has dissapeared and I just see the little lock icon saying the phone is locked. Is there any way to get it back or is this a 2.2 "feature" so you see more of your background?
The 2nd problem I noticed I have already started a thread on (and no replies ) - it deals with contact linking and Facebook. Seems something is whacky there too possibly. The thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=907088
j.smith said:
Figured perhaps a bug thread for the Rogers 2.2 update may be in order?
Not sure if this is a bug or not, but it does seem a bit odd. The lock screen usually has the text "swipe screen to unlock" or something to that nature (the part with the <<< and >>>) - mine had it to begin with in 2.2, however now it has dissapeared and I just see the little lock icon saying the phone is locked. Is there any way to get it back or is this a 2.2 "feature" so you see more of your background?
The 2nd problem I noticed I have already started a thread on (and no replies ) - it deals with contact linking and Facebook. Seems something is whacky there too possibly. The thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=907088
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Definitely a feature. I love the clearer lock screen.
Bug: Haptic feedback vibration is very low system wide (not including soft keys).
Bug: Voice Dialer (Voice Dialler) is misspelled in the App Drawer.
Bug: Going to Settings > Display > Font Style causes a crash.
All I remember so far but there has been several.
Enhanced said:
Definitely a feature. I love the clearer lock screen.
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Confirmed feature of Froyo, or is this a Rogers/Samsung specific feature? Just wondering because it WAS showing up for a few lock screens right after the upgrade, then eventually stopped showing up - reboot/battery reset didn't get it back... haven't tried a factory reset yet to see if that fixes it (if it's broke).
Enhanced said:
Bug: Going to Settings > Display > Font Style causes a crash.
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No problems here - did you have it set to a custom/non default font when upgrading? I had mine on default (I prefer that to any other font) and have no issues changing fonts.
I've had some issues with wifi losing it's internet / market connection after wake up sometimes. shows still connected, but no network access. i have to turn wifi off, then back on occasionally.
rnewton01 said:
I've had some issues with wifi losing it's internet / market connection after wake up sometimes. shows still connected, but no network access. i have to turn wifi off, then back on occasionally.
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Go to Settings -> Wireless and network -> Wi-Fi settings. From this screen, hit your menu key and select Advanced and try changing your Wi-Fi sleep policy to Never... perhaps it's set to "When screen turns off" causing you to lose Wi-Fi whenever you lock your phone?
Oh, another bug possibly...
Go to Camera app and open Settings. Open the wrench tab and go to the 2nd page. Click the Update button beside Firmware update. Either of the next two menu choices ("Check version by network" or "Firmware update") seem to freeze the phone (power off required). Doesn't seem to happen all the time, but my first time trying to get the update to do something caused the phone to lock up in to camera mode.
Also, the "It will occur additional fee." message is quite fun... no idea what fees I will incur, or for what reason (and I won't even get in to the grammar issues).
j.smith said:
Confirmed feature of Froyo, or is this a Rogers/Samsung specific feature? Just wondering because it WAS showing up for a few lock screens right after the upgrade, then eventually stopped showing up - reboot/battery reset didn't get it back... haven't tried a factory reset yet to see if that fixes it (if it's broke).
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Well it can't be a Froyo feature because no other manufactures use the same lock screen as they do. So it's a Samsung feature brought on by Froyo. Simply, it can't be a bug.
No problems here - did you have it set to a custom/non default font when upgrading? I had mine on default (I prefer that to any other font) and have no issues changing fonts.
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Yeah, I had to it some other font besides the default font...guess I'm screwed now? Bugs like these make me more anxious to get real Froyo.
Enhanced said:
W..guess I'm screwed now? Bugs like these make me more anxious to get real Froyo.
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This is real Froyo from Rogers.
Anyone noticing that it's very glitchy and not smooth?
sirknattar said:
Anyone noticing that it's very glitchy and not smooth?
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Its much faster and smoother than 2.1 stock was for me. Did you set it up fresh? Older settings can cause issues.
you guys have this issue? you may not even know it until you try to use mass storage mode. I use iSyncr (lets me use smart playlists based on ratings) so I need mass storage mode.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=907854
My wife and I (each have a Captivate) have had none of the bugs you guys have mentioned.
All we have experienced is a faster phone and WAY better battery life.
The only thing that upset me is that the update deleted my Ocean Wave livewallpaper, but I just redownloaded it.
Did some of you guys experiencing bugs ever run a custom ROM? I am thinking maybe these issues might be because you did...
Re: Haptic Feedback.
I've noticed it too, it's much weaker than before.
I could have sworn that I saw the option to turn up the intensity before, but can't find it now.
I want to update, but all these bugs are not very comforting
Jeffu said:
I want to update, but all these bugs are not very comforting
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Go for it..I installed it and so far the improvements have been great over 2.1
Battery life is much improved, its faster than stock 2.1 (and after applying Ryan's OCLF...its incredibly responsive)
If you do have a lagfix installed prior to upgrading you should uninstall that first. Thats what I did and didn't have much problems. my one issue with Swype was fixed by clearing the cache.
shawn122 said:
Go for it..I installed it and so far the improvements have been great over 2.1
Battery life is much improved, its faster than stock 2.1 (and after applying Ryan's OCLF...its incredibly responsive)
If you do have a lagfix installed prior to upgrading you should uninstall that first. Thats what I did and didn't have much problems. my one issue with Swype was fixed by clearing the cache.
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I gave it a go on your recommendation. Updated with no issues, now to actually try using it...
Has anyone rooted after applying 2.2? If so, what did you use?
I've been having issues turning on WiFi on my phone ever since I installed the update.
I accidentally clicked Airplane mode on my phone this morning, now my phone has been trying to turn the WiFi back on for about 5 mins....
As for battery life, my phone the first few days after installing Froyo seemed great, but now it doesn't really seem as good? No idea why....
And I've noticed a bit of lag at times while navigating on my phone.
Using LauncherPro Plus as my home screen, haven't rooted or installed any roms or anything.
I have noticed that when you turn the phone on from when it is off, if you don't wait for the wallpaper to display before swiping your phone on, the phone will stall. Mine stalled for about 5 minutes before it responded again.
I'm having a couple of small issues:
1) I can't get the GPS to look position. It just displays "Waiting for Location" and sits there.
2) OCLG - I got about 1000 on quadrant score. It doesn't seem laggy but I wanted to apply this lagfix to see if it can be better. I tried runnig the first option in the menu (z4 rooting), and it tries to launch either a page or the market (not sure which) but says "Page Not Found", but when you close it and press back, it says the root was successful, but all the other options are still "unavailable" so I can't apply the lagfix. There's a second method in the menu to do a root and that one fails as well, so I'm not sure how to get this working.
3) Camera - I got the same problem as a previous poster for the firmware update where it says "fees will occur" then when I click "yes", it tries to launch a page/market (again not sure) and says "Page Not Found".
4) Rooting - not sure how to root because the previous method of putting my update.zip and doing it through the recovery menu fails.
Any help is appreciated.
I was running rooted lagfixed stock Rogers 2.1 before. Removed lagfix first and did a factory reset before updating to 2.2 through Kies.
After updating to 2.2 I re-rooted and lagfixed with no issue.
Things bugs I have noticed on my phone:
- Camera a few times had started up with a black screen only with usual camera options but it's as if it does not see anything from the lens (had done camera fw update on it. You can download it from Samsung Apps app)
- When viewing "Contacts" can't press Back button to exit it so I just press Home button. Small bug
- can't set up smtp outbound email settings on stock email app. Keep getting it can't connect with server even when manually inputting correct settings.
- Battery undetermined as i've been playing with GPS a lot testing it so it drains pretty quick.
- GPS - Had no problems with 2.1 (using GPS + "Use wireless networks") but it's been horrible on 2.2. Locks ok when stationary, fluctuating between 5-9 satellite locks (used lbstestmode to check) but when you are moving or when using it for Navigation, it will be ok for a short bit then would eventually start bouncing all over the place or start getting weak/lost locks. Was using it on the hwy one time and it would suddenly tell me to do a u-turn because it thought I was on a side road. (condition was clear and phone was by windshield).
What it did fix for me:
- Opening Gallery before would sometimes lock up the phone requiring battery pull in 2.1. Fixed for me with 2.2
- Running latest updated Maps would sometimes lock up the phone requiring battery pull in 2.1. Fixed for me with 2.2 but still somewhat useless because of issue mentioned previously.
I can live with all the bugs except for the abismal gps.

[Q] Launchers.

First off I need to state that All of my experience with modding android devices is exclusively with the Samsung Vibrant.
A buddy at work just got the Motorola Droid-X for verizon.
I helped him out through the menus and settings and the standards of Android OS and the apps and yada yada yada.............
His phone is Stock and has never been rooted or modded in any way.
In seeing that My phone looked different I told him about home launcher replacements and that I was using Launcher pro. He wanted this for his phone as well and I installed it.
After I installed it I wanted to show him how to revert back to his original stock launcher (as i do on my vibrant) but to my surprise in pressing the home button it did not show me the choose launcher popup as my vibrant does.
I immediately went into settings/applications/manage applications/launcherPro to clear defaults and again to my surprise the clear defaults button was grayed out.
He is now having reboot issues he did not have before. He states he notices this when launcher pro rotates the home screen.
My questions for this forum is, (sorry it took so long)
How do I get his phone back to the stock launcher?
If I un-install Launcher pro,
Will I un-install the what seems to be the only home launcher and Brick his phone?
If I install a different launcher(Zeam) Will it possible give me the Choose default popup again?
I honestly did not think this simple install would cause this kind of issues.
I hate to think he needs to do a factory reset.
Please help me??
Big Dog KMc said:
First off I need to state that All of my experience with modding android devices is exclusively with the Samsung Vibrant.
A buddy at work just got the Motorola Droid-X for verizon.
I helped him out through the menus and settings and the standards of Android OS and the apps and yada yada yada.............
His phone is Stock and has never been rooted or modded in any way.
In seeing that My phone looked different I told him about home launcher replacements and that I was using Launcher pro. He wanted this for his phone as well and I installed it.
After I installed it I wanted to show him how to revert back to his original stock launcher (as i do on my vibrant) but to my surprise in pressing the home button it did not show me the choose launcher popup as my vibrant does.
I immediately went into settings/applications/manage applications/launcherPro to clear defaults and again to my surprise the clear defaults button was grayed out.
He is now having reboot issues he did not have before. He states he notices this when launcher pro rotates the home screen.
My questions for this forum is, (sorry it took so long)
How do I get his phone back to the stock launcher?
If I un-install Launcher pro,
Will I un-install the what seems to be the only home launcher and Brick his phone?
If I install a different launcher(Zeam) Will it possible give me the Choose default popup again?
I honestly did not think this simple install would cause this kind of issues.
I hate to think he needs to do a factory reset.
Please help me??
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Settings -> Applications -> Manage Applications -> All -> Home -> Clear Defaults, not hard...
Go to the market and search for home switcher. That should do the trick.
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You can also downlaod HomeSmack which is like Home Switcher but Homesmack is way better for Motorola phones. I downloaded it on my Droid X and it works best if you enable MotoHomeHelper on the app.
P.S. If you are getting an install error take out your SD card and try to download the app again. Then when the app is done downloading you can put your SD card back in your phone.
You can try any of the home switching apps that people have suggested... Or if you just uninstall the Launcher Pro app, his original launcher will return. I have done this several times on my X.
all you have to do is uninstall laucher pro
Launchers
Thank you all for your replies.
When I went to him to to preform the fix's He had already turned off rotate within launcher pro and it stopped his reboot issues, so now he is happy.
Thanks again to all.

[Q] ADW EX Help

I got ADW EX since it is 10 cents today and I don't know how to make it my default. My Xoom is not rooted and running 3.2.1.
After I install ADW EX and press the home key nothing happens. The screen just gets dark, going to neither launchers. I go into Applications and the option to clear defaults for both stock/ADW EX are not highlighted/doable. They are blacked out. I can only clear data on both of them. I installed Launcher Switcher and it says no default set but it won't let me pick either launcher. I then installed Home Switcher and it again said no defaults set but this time I was able to pick ADW EX as my default. BUT, even after doing that, after I press the home key it goes nowhere again, nothing happens, dark screen.
I restarted my Xoom and after boot animation the screen was black, I could only see the bottom bar where the back/home/windows and time are. Neither stock or ADW EX was launched after I restarted. I had to go into Settings, Applications and open ADW EX to get it to come up. I then uninstalled ADW EX and pressed the home key which brought up the stock launcher. Hunky dory. I reinstalled and the same problems happened.
I searched the forums and looked online but I don't know what to do. I can manually go back and forth between launchers but that's not what I want... I just want ADW EX to work when I press the home key! I suck lol. Could someone please help me? Thank you in advance!
There may be two different issues in play, but if you are stuck with the stock launcher as default, go into settings, apps, choose the stock launcher and on the bottom of the page you should be able to uncheck default. Then if you have ADW installed, you should get the dialog box to choose the default launcher. If the screen dims and does nothing, just rotate your Xoom (i.e. landscape to portrait) and the dialog box should popup.
It could be related to another App you have installed. I did a Google search and some one else had a similar problem on an Incredible 2 where they couldn't set a launcher and it turned out to be a keyboard app causing issues.
I have a similar problem too. After installing the adw launcher I can no longer open links or office documents, or execute any other commands that require a selection via a dialog box. I tried uninstalling the launcher app, but that only fixes the home button not the other things. I already tried resetting all the defaults using the several apps in the market, but that doesn't worked. any help would be greatly appreciated.
whenever I click on an internet link or try to open an office document that I downloaded the screen dims down as it would whenever a dialog box appears except no box shows up.
rgloria12 said:
I have a similar problem too. After installing the adw launcher I can no longer open links or office documents, or execute any other commands that require a selection via a dialog box. I tried uninstalling the launcher app, but that only fixes the home button not the other things. I already tried resetting all the defaults using the several apps in the market, but that doesn't worked. any help would be greatly appreciated.
whenever I click on an internet link or try to open an office document that I downloaded the screen dims down as it would whenever a dialog box appears except no box shows up.
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Enable Autorotate and rotate your Xoom when the screen dims. It's a Honeycomb bug.
okantomi said:
Enable Autorotate and rotate your Xoom when the screen dims. It's a Honeycomb bug.
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thank you. It worked like a charm. I feel bad for blaming the adw launcher for this issue, I was about to leave a bad review...
rgloria12 said:
thank you. It worked like a charm. I feel bad for blaming the adw launcher for this issue, I was about to leave a bad review...
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I'm glad you didn't leave a bad review...I love ADW...
Ouch! If only I had read this yesterday before I wiped my Xoom and tried to reload all my launchers, only to find the problem still existed. :-(
The auto rotate worked like a charm.
Geesh.
Sent from my Sick Sense EVO 3D!

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