Live wallpaper lag fix with pro launcher! - Captivate General

I don't know if anyone knows this but here are the steps on how I fixed live wallpaper lag
1.install pro launcher beta
2.remove all icons from touch wiz and all pages *hit menu,edit ,delete all pages leaving just one*
3,make prolauncher your default home screen* after u install Pl hit home button to do this*
4.while at the Pl home screen hit menu , preferences,appearance,disable wallpaper scrolling
5. Enjoy lag free iphone like scrolling with live wallpaper

cowballz69 said:
I don't know if anyone knows this but here are the steps on how I fixed live wallpaper lag
1.install pro launcher beta
2.remove all icons from touch wiz and all pages *hit menu,edit ,delete all pages leaving just one*
3,make prolauncher your default home screen* after u install Pl hit home button to do this*
4.while at the Pl home screen hit menu , preferences,appearance,disable wallpaper scrolling
5. Enjoy lag free iphone like scrolling with live wallpaper
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Wow, thats awesome. Thanks!

I'm still new to Android, so help me out with this here. I'm using LauncherPro myself, but from what it seems, when I set it as default, TouchWiz should never even be open, so why would it's configuration make a difference when I'm using LauncherPro? Does TouchWiz still load somehow?
I actually think I did delete most everything out of TouchWiz, but if it would make things faster I'll dump all the extra pages I have too. I'm not using a live wallpaper, but anything that will help speed I'm down for!

Well I just remove every thing for insurance just incase it does run in the background, but don't forget to remove the pages in touch wiz as well, if you don't use live wallpapers it obviously run smoother but the live wallpapers put iphone to shame, only if it runs smoothly of course

Thanks for this but what I actually wanted to fix was the app drawer.....
The app drawer lags terribly when I am using a Live Wallpaper with LauncherPro....
Anyone know how to fix the app drawer lag?

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[UPDATE] Go Launcher 1.20

Go Launcher v1.20
Requirements: Android
Overview: Go Launcher is an amazing home replacement app for Android.
-Extremely smooth scrolling
-Convenient icon pop-menu
-Gesture supported
-Useful app drawer to uninstall apps and kill tasks
-Removable screen previews (Up to 30 screens)
- NOW SUPPORTS PUTTING APP ICON IN FOLDER
Keywords: launcher home desktop fast access uninstaller taskkiller recommended
Recent changes:
-New app drawer folder:Drag the icon overlay to create a new folder
-Supported scrollable widgets & resizable widgets
-Supported custom icons (test)
-Improved scrolling speed & response
-Fixed crash issues in Droid & Droid X (thanks Adam’s help)
-Fixed icon disappearance problem
-Fixed live wallpaper interactive response
credits : markinho
keeps getting better, thanks!
One thing I mentioned in email I wanted to bring up here for others feedback is that if I choose to not have the screen indicator at the top of the screen, and I hide the status bar, the few pixels reserved for the screen identifier should be given back/not used anymore.
I wont keep repeating how great work you guys deliver
1 point of improvement:
On my X10 it's impossible to resize the widgets...
Sorry, it works, this plonker forgot to enable it in settings
Cheers,
Arnold
I really like this launcher guys,great stuff. ill be honest, im still sticking with launcherpro FOR NOW, but im closely watching this app because its got great potential.
just a little suggestion: adding option to configure the press-icon highlight color...a lot of people are anal about their phone's appearance and the current yellow color can really counter-act with some peoples theme
just one mans opinion......keep up the great work!
I love your apps and this launcher is awsome.
Now i need a loooot of custom icons <----- any idea?
Add alphabet sorting in the app drawer folders
I really really like your apps
Actually I'm using all of them
Keep it up
BTW u got the best GUIs I've ever seen on an android apps
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How do I save the application settings??
Finally someone has done it!
Congratulation on this excellent home replacement. You are the first and only person to create in my opinion a better Home replacement than the default Galaxy S one. Doesn't need much improvement, maybe spring load the first and last app draw screens.
Very nice, and my thanks.
Add ability to choose custom docks and more homescreen rows x columns and im switching from lp.
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Nice launcher, really smooth. I've set the app drawer scrolling to portrait and I would really like the possibility to swype between all, recent and running apps.
Just a suggestion i'm already really appreciating your work!
Nice launcher and getting better constantly. However, I have had a problem of misplaced text label for the drawer taps for all the versions so far (see attached image). I have lcddensity=220 on Froyo, and have not tried on the standard 240.
It's a bit laggy for me at the moment and all widgets are gone after every reboot...
Too bad, because I love this launcher.
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The drawer's animation ruins all it's smoothness. Can you create an option to switch the drawers animation off ? Or change it with something smoother.
I really like this launcher, it's pretty clever.
I must say I do love this launcher, however after running it a couple of days it's showing up as a large battery consumer on my Droid Pro. (And unfortunanlty I can't afford to lose anymore battery on this device). LauncherPro normally runs 3-5% of my battery, and your launcher is pulling 10-12%.
Again, I'm a big fan, and definitely think this has potential, but until you guys can shave off some battery usage, I'm going to have to go back to LPro.
bwhite757 said:
I must say I do love this launcher, however after running it a couple of days it's showing up as a large battery consumer on my Droid Pro. (And unfortunanlty I can't afford to lose anymore battery on this device). LauncherPro normally runs 3-5% of my battery, and your launcher is pulling 10-12%.
Again, I'm a big fan, and definitely think this has potential, but until you guys can shave off some battery usage, I'm going to have to go back to LPro.
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I am in doubt going back to lpp too for the same reason. After setting go launcher as my defàult launcher, i lose around 8 till 10% an hour, which is way too much...
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How to disable the christman gift ?!
how to get out of christma theme!
steph-one said:
How to disable the christman gift ?!
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how to get out of christma theme?
go to dock setting for default style, and reset the wallpaper from preference menu.
Thank you
yeah it looks good
I'm having problems with my widgets not visually updating correctly on Galaxy Spica 2.2 (CM 6.1.1 alpha 8.2)
You can see an example here (look at the date of the calendar widget)
I have this on all my widgets, including the power widget

A Launcher Comparison

Have tried a few launchers over the past few weeks, and made a comparison spreadsheet, take a look-
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc...4NmJ4X29sRk43dGc&authkey=CMfSjJgH&hl=en#gid=0
My thoughts
For a fast lightweight launcher, zeam (perfect apart from no notifications in the dock).EDIT - i have since found the appdrawer to be laggier in scrolling than go launcher / launcher pro, so cannot stand by my original near perfect opinion)
For a launcher with themes and lots of visual customisation - ADW EX
For an all round launcher - Go Launcher EX
For an all round launcher with its own widgets - Launcher Pro Plus
I use actualy crazy home pro and is very useful you have 3 desktop whit 5 pages each. Try and add to spreadsheet.
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I use Arc Launcher. It isn't the most customised one but is indeed one of the most stable and refined. I just love the effects of one removing a widget on Arc Launcher!
thanks~~~~~~~~``
Nice, only thing I noticed was that ADW does have notifications with ADW Notifier, but very well done
You compltely missed on the most important thing, SPEED. For me launcher pro has absolutwly no lag at all on an htchero where as all other except zeam do. AdW has a clunky was to organize the homescreens in my opinion and although go launchwr was good, it was a bit laggy and the style didnt suit my taste
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dre89 said:
Nice, only thing I noticed was that ADW does have notifications with ADW Notifier, but very well done
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spreadsheet amended. thanks for the update
fowenati said:
You compltely missed on the most important thing, SPEED. For me launcher pro has absolutwly no lag at all on an htchero where as all other except zeam do. AdW has a clunky was to organize the homescreens in my opinion and although go launchwr was good, it was a bit laggy and the style didnt suit my taste
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yeah, i have to agree with you that speed is important. i have only ever had lags with adw, but until i have the launchers set up with identical widgets i felt it was unfair to rank them on their perceived speed.
What you put in the "home screen notes" row is the reason I didn't use LP or Zeam.
I suggest you separate the "gestures" row into two, one for home screen, and one for dock bar.
Question for those with GO Launcher and Launcher Pro installed -
For the scrollable widgets, how do you find widget scrolling using Go Launcher compared to launcher pro? i find Go launcher very sensitive to left / right movement while trying to scroll the widget making it more difficult to vertically scroll the widgets than launcher pro. I tested this using pure messenger scroll with both.
fowenati said:
You compltely missed on the most important thing, SPEED. For me launcher pro has absolutwly no lag at all on an htchero where as all other except zeam do. AdW has a clunky was to organize the homescreens in my opinion and although go launchwr was good, it was a bit laggy and the style didnt suit my taste
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yeah, i have to agree with you that speed is important. i have only ever had lags with adw, but until i have the launchers set up with identical widgets i felt it was unfair to rank them on their perceived speed.
EDIT
Had lags on LPP this weekend...half second delays or so when swiping between screens...
nxdu said:
What you put in the "home screen notes" row is the reason I didn't use LP or Zeam.
I suggest you separate the "gestures" row into two, one for home screen, and one for dock bar.
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done!
cheers
nepentanova said:
done!
cheers
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GO has a up swipe for dock gesture.
tanjinjack said:
I use Arc Launcher. It isn't the most customised one but is indeed one of the most stable and refined. I just love the effects of one removing a widget on Arc Launcher!
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ARC Launcher added (though i don't share your love!!)
nxdu said:
GO has a up swipe for dock gesture.
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i thought there were only 2 gestures in GO Launcher, swipe up / down on home page (not just dock). perhaps we have our terminology mixed up..
Maybe you should add SPB Shell 3D as well - the launcher for users with too much money
nepentanova said:
ARC Launcher added (though i don't share your love!!)
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Thanks for the addition of my favourite non-Sense launcher in it. Really like some of the effects that other launchers will probably never implement (like the effect of moving a widget, deleting a widget, going into app drawers etc.)
There are actually 7 screens version out there, and I got it here also from the link below. And there are some variants as well, including landscape mode (something I think is missing in other launchers.)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11856283&postcount=43
I manage to put apps into the dock as well (Miren browser and Dialer One).
Also about GO Launcher, I believe it does support swipe gestures on dock as well - it pretty much does whatever the free Launcher Pro does, except for the all home-screen views.
Maybe you may want to take a look at the NetFront Screen as well. A launcher of different concept, which I still think more works need to be done and more performance upgrade (have lags on my AOSP-loaded Desire).
Other wise, really good jobs on the spreadsheet. Appreciate it.
Have you tried Sweeter Home?
this is great, but just to let you know LPP has "resizable home screen" of 10x10 also
nepentanova said:
i thought there were only 2 gestures in GO Launcher, swipe up / down on home page (not just dock). perhaps we have our terminology mixed up..
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You can set swipe up actions for dock icons. Just long=tap a dock icon and hit "change gesture."
This means that the dock of GO Launcher can do 10 things instead of 5, or 30 if you use the scrollable dock option.
When you update the dock notes you may want to update the app drawer notes too. You can change the default 4x4 view in the app drawer to 4x5 and 5x5, just like you can for the home screens.
Another GO Launcher note: when you use it it sends data home (probably usage stats). If you don't want GO to phone home you should block it with DroidWall. (Maybe the other launchers phone home too?)

Regina Launcher 3D Mod Backgrounds

For those of you that likes to use Regina 3D Launcher, these are few wallpapers that I mod and been using on my evo , I want to give credit to "zandog". To get the best you need to use desktop visualizer.
Let me know what you guys think.
1- Download Regina 3D Launcher & Desktop Visualizer from the market
2- Download the attachments to your SD card
This is how is going to work: From Regina launcher hit menu and select to change the wallpaper, select the one you like the most, after that press the screen and select android widgets
use desktop visualizer 1x1 SS and place on top of each icon,select the clear icon from the attachments, do the same for each of the icons, select action by selecting the application that you want to use, clear the label and for touch effect select press OK, do this for each icon on every wallpaper, hope you guys like it.
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B3...OGVhMTZkN2I4ODY5&sort=name&layout=list&num=50
Beautiful. I love it
Wow! Couldnt give a damn about wallpaper, but HOW do you get things laid out like this???!!!!???
Really nice looking.
Edit: and i have played with regina launcher, but still have NO idea how you did this.
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Looks awesome
This is the 2nd time I have tried Regina 3D. I cannot change the wallpaper in it at all. Both times trying to change the wallpaper it never changes.
dmoses1969 said:
This is the 2nd time I have tried Regina 3D. I cannot change the wallpaper in it at all. Both times trying to change the wallpaper it never changes.
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From menu, are you using gallery to get to the wallpaper on the SD card?
How do I download it? I have the laucher but no file found, on link?
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The Rubenator said:
From menu, are you using gallery to get to the wallpaper on the SD card?
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Every time i try to set one of these as a wallpaper, it just makes a copy on my SD card. What am i doing wrong?
Edit: found out it is the android gallery that is the problem. Dl gallery 3d from the market and use that to apply the wallpaper.
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Regina 3D Launcher
I love the concept and the wallpapers, but when I drag the desktop visualizer over the icons, the trash folder pops up and I cannot drop the desktop visualizer over the icons
Just drop the icon from desktop v as close as you can it will work, does not need to be perfect on top. See if that work if not I send you a new one.
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Thanks for the credit, but as I stated in my concept design for this UI, I was commissioned to design this UI for another ROM developer. Therefor it's got a legal copyright. The interface mapping is proprietary but I'm curious if you have you come up with your own code for mapping this interface or is it just the launcher?
http://zandog.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2pfgz0
The HTC EVO IU, is free to use.
http://zandog.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2pyhnb
Zandog said:
Thanks for the credit, but as I stated in my concept design for this UI, I was commissioned to design this UI for another ROM developer. Therefor it's got a legal copyright. The interface mapping is proprietary but I'm curious if you have you come up with your own code for mapping this interface or is it just the launcher?
http://zandog.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2pfgz0
The HTC EVO IU, is free to use.
http://zandog.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2pyhnb
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Just the wallpaper with out any mapping, we good to go as long the graphics are use as a wallpaper like the way is post here, thanks Zandog.

Launcher 360

For some of you that don't know this launcher, you should try it !
It works very well on our P920.
I find it better reactive than go launcher.....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1345601
+1
I totally agree as I am using it even as it came on Chinese!Fastest and lowest memory usage launcher with smooth animation and fast response.
Definitely recommend everyone to give it a try!
I'm normally using GoLauncher EX but i'll try this one for a few days from now on.
The first impression:
the scrolling is REALLY very smooth / it is even smoother than in GoLauncher EX with exact the same apps on the homescreens
i like the way the folders are managed -> like in iOS and with vertical scrolling (screenshot attached)
there are only few options to customize the homescreen, eg apps are not renameable and widgets can't be resized like in GoLauncher EX
maybe it is a wrong feeling but it seems to me that the apps open faster
deox91 said:
I'm normally using GoLauncher EX but i'll try this one for a few days from now on.
The first impression:
the scrolling is REALLY very smooth / it is even smoother than in GoLauncher EX with exact the same apps on the homescreens
i like the way the folders are managed -> like in iOS and with vertical scrolling (screenshot attached)
there are only few options to customize the homescreen, eg apps are not renameable and widgets can't be resized like in GoLauncher EX
maybe it is a wrong feeling but it seems to me that the apps open faster
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How do you set city for weather? Its all chinese.
I use the pre-installed weather widget, not the one from Launcher360
yeah i had the same question....is there anyway to make it...not chinese?
For the moment only Chinese city are supported by the 360 weather widget
Downloaded and installed , awesome. Nice launcher.
Thx guys.
There is an full chineese update . An chance of getting this update in english?
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Nice! but I 'll continue with Go Launcher as mine is customized

[Q]Xperia J no-scroll wallpaper

Okay so I saw that there was a thread like this in the past but the issue was not addressed.
I want to know how I can set a no-scroll wallpaper on the Xperia J. I've tried a few apps ( such as picspeed or wallpaper wizardii) and they do the trick but it only last for like 10 minutes and then it's back to the same old scrolling wallpaper.
I've read that I might need to try other launchers but to be honest if I use another launcher like Nova, or the others, I won't have any free ram to use.
The reason I want to use a static non-scrolling wallpaper is because of the smoothness that it provides( the home screens scrolls so much better and the phone is easier to use-- buttery, if you will).
So does anyone know how I can set a wallpaper to be-and remain- static?
Thanks!
Same problem
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layup23 said:
Okay so I saw that there was a thread like this in the past but the issue was not addressed.
I want to know how I can set a no-scroll wallpaper on the Xperia J. I've tried a few apps ( such as picspeed or wallpaper wizardii) and they do the trick but it only last for like 10 minutes and then it's back to the same old scrolling wallpaper.
I've read that I might need to try other launchers but to be honest if I use another launcher like Nova, or the others, I won't have any free ram to use.
The reason I want to use a static non-scrolling wallpaper is because of the smoothness that it provides( the home screens scrolls so much better and the phone is easier to use-- buttery, if you will).
So does anyone know how I can set a wallpaper to be-and remain- static?
Thanks!
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You can try installing serajr's gx home launcher and enable static wallpaper option in launcher's settings:laugh:

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