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[Q] Microbes Live Wallpaper

Does anyone know why this particular live wallpaper makes the phone more sluggish than others? It's my favorite one but if you notice.. the performance of the phone gets a bit more sluggish. Kind of noticeable. Is there a way to fix this? Or is Google going to have to fix this in a future update?

Menace II Society said:
Does anyone know why this particular live wallpaper makes the phone more sluggish than others? It's my favorite one but if you notice.. the performance of the phone gets a bit more sluggish. Kind of noticeable. Is there a way to fix this? Or is Google going to have to fix this in a future update?
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Could I ask what you are running in the background because the microbes live wallpaper is the best one for performance.
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tominater12 said:
Could I ask what you are running in the background because the microbes live wallpaper is the best one for performance.
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Really? Even when I kill all tasks it still runs the same. I'm not saying it's major lag going on that it's unbearable. But you can see when something like a window pops up or the app drawer comes up it doesn't look at smooth as it should be. When I use the Nexus S Live Wallpaper it runs a lot smoother for me.

Yeah the microbes wallpaper also does this on my nexus s. The app drawer doesn't scroll as smooth.

I've noticed this also.
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My nexus doesn't have a problem. All the live wallpapers run at 18mb for every wallpaper including the microbs and nexus.

Does anyone know how to manually reinstall Microbes?
The custom ROM I'm using (OpenSoju) doesn't include Microbes, and I'm not entirely sure how to reinstall it back.
I tried flashing a 230kb Microbes.zip via Clockwork, but didn't work particularly well

Is this normal/

When I enable a live wallpaper, a performance hit is to be expected, but on this phone it seems to make the app drawer into a low frame mess, and I don't recall this happening on the g2 or vibrant I had.
I love my live wallpapers but it makes the drawer so ugly, so i just have to settle for a static one.
I'm running eaglesblood 1.03. Does this issue happen on froyo?
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greengoldmello said:
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I'd say thats pretty normal in this forum.

regP said:
I'd say thats pretty normal in this forum.
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The post posted without me typing by message at first. Look up for changes
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I'm using the Windmill "secret" live wallpaper on stock froyo and my app drawer is fine!
Do you have an example of a laggy wallpaper I could try out?

For us few

I found a hone replacement that is clean and semi 3d and a nice lock screen that has taking my mind off sense temporarily lol
Its called Regina launcher if u pull and hold down it goes to a.carousel like 3d view of ur homescreens
Its not laggy or slow by any means comes with a weather.clock widget that is veryyyyy nice
And ripple lock is a honeycomb imitation lock that goes well with it
Just for.those who want something new
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Ah, I played around with that home launcher, really new and awesome idea. For some reason it was a bit laggy for me, not sure why. And I was getting annoyed by the 3d switching screens thing. But all in all, anyone who wants a change, that's a cool home launcher

Mikeglongo said:
Ah, I played around with that home launcher, really new and awesome idea. For some reason it was a bit laggy for me, not sure why. And I was getting annoyed by the 3d switching screens thing. But all in all, anyone who wants a change, that's a cool home launcher
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Yea its nice bit def needs some updates maybe if enough people catch wind of it.the Dev will work on it some more.
Its definitely a nice change tho I use launcher pro with LG weather widget and regina launcher back n forth all.day
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I tried it on my g2. It needs a ton of refinement.
G2x with CM7 and faux 1.7 kernel. [email protected] 5009 quadrant.

tackleberry said:
I tried it on my g2. It needs a ton of refinement.
G2x with CM7 and faux 1.7 kernel. [email protected] 5009 quadrant.
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G2 don't really have the power to run that smoothly I had the g2 and ended up giving it to my mom
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Ok, I took a look and I liked it...I wanted to love it...but came away with the feeling that it wasn't quite fully baked. It definitely does things differently and I'm keeping my eye on it. A bit more development and polish and this could end up on my phone full time. If you are looking for something different you can't go wrong by taking a look.
Good find OP...thanks for the post.

I use it from time to time, I like that you can have a different wallpaper for each screen. I like the clock to.
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bdkinney said:
Ok, I took a look and I liked it...I wanted to love it...but came away with the feeling that it wasn't quite fully baked. It definitely does things differently and I'm keeping my eye on it. A bit more development and polish and this could end up on my phone full time. If you are looking for something different you can't go wrong by taking a look.
Good find OP...thanks for the post.
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Agreed completely! !! Glad u liked the change of.view
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sabo2000 said:
I use it from time to time, I like that you can have a different wallpaper for each screen. I like the clock to.
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Yess the clock is clean
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Poor performance with live wallpapers on the G2X?

Any reason why ALL live wallpapers perform much better on my girlfriends Mytouch 4G? Both phones using Launcher Pro Plus and same live wallpapers. On the MT4G, Launcher Pro is much smoother.
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Same here
The only thing I can think of is that they are not optimized for tegra dual core processors
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Same here.

I use the Doom live wallpaper, it is both epic, and smooth.

not here
maybe its specific live wallpapers or launcher pro or launchers. i am using go launcher with the weather live wallpaper from go also and no lag whatsoever.

launcher is bad

eagle1967 said:
maybe its specific live wallpapers or launcher pro or launchers. i am using go launcher with the weather live wallpaper from go also and no lag whatsoever.
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Like I said, it's all live wallpapers. I'm not getting any lag, everything is still snappy, just switching/scrolling through screens is choppy with live wallpapers. One the reasons I use Launcher Pro is for the super smooth scrolling.
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I'm good on all I've used
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funny
shilent said:
Like I said, it's all live wallpapers. I'm not getting any lag, everything is still snappy, just switching/scrolling through screens is choppy with live wallpapers. One the reasons I use Launcher Pro is for the super smooth scrolling.
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One the reasons I use Launcher Pro is for the super smooth scrolling.
apparently not
sorry couldn't resist

I use zeam launcher. Thats smooth with live wallpaper..

I just tried out Zeam. You're right, live wallpapers does not slow it down. Too bad scrolling isn't as smooth to begin with though. This tells me that Launcher Pro just performs better on the MT4G.
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ADW Launcher EX is good here.

It is not happening any more after switching to adw. It was happening on the stock launcher.
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I run any of the live wallpapers and use the stock launcher that came with Froyo on the G2x and I have no problems with the live wallpapers. But when I was using Launcher Pro, it was kinda laggy. I think that Launcher Pro is just not for the G2x.

I run a few of the live wallpapers from maxelus.net ... **** is unbelievable causes no noticeable battery drain and runs smooth. And its pretty sick. Some wallpapers are BS and can make your phone run slow access personal info etc. You need to pretend this phone is a PC and all the no-no' s apply... including dl'g aps and or wallpapers
"If Satan lived in heaven he'd be me... "

freakboy13 said:
I run a few of the live wallpapers from maxelus.net ... **** is unbelievable causes no noticeable battery drain and runs smooth. And its pretty sick. Some wallpapers are BS and can make your phone run slow access personal info etc. You need to pretend this phone is a PC and all the no-no' s apply... including dl'g aps and or wallpapers
"If Satan lived in heaven he'd be me... "
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awesome live wallpapers.....ice and inferno galaxy hes got a couple badass ones....vortex galaxy is beast tho

Vortex galaxy makes the stock launcher laggy in my case.
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Any of you guys run the beach or windmill live wallpaper ported over from the Samsung galaxy s 2? I've noticed that my g2x lags quite a bit unless I O'CLOCK the CPU for better performance with either of those LWP on...... also if you could let me know if your battery takes a hit when you let the LWP turn on GPS to get current weather info?

shilent said:
Like I said, it's all live wallpapers. I'm not getting any lag, everything is still snappy, just switching/scrolling through screens is choppy with live wallpapers. One the reasons I use Launcher Pro is for the super smooth scrolling.
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Butter smooth with ADW EX...could be your launcher? ADW EX is hardware accelerated now (since May update) Launcher Pro is not.
Just tried Vortex Galaxy...It's sick! Oh, no lag with ADW EX.

Yes it is Launcher Pro + G2x that doesn't like live wallpapers. I just tried ADWEX and it was nice and smooth. I got a refund after 14 minutes, too bad we can't try it out out longer before we decide if we want to keep it or not.
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Non scrolling wallpaper mod?

Is there such thing as keeping the wallpaper from scrolling mod? I can't stand frame rate loss when scrolling... And I think it's due to the processor processing both things at once. I'm on clean DE, I'm remember this same exact thing on my infuse and a rom came out that didn't have wallpaper scroll and it was a lot more smooth.
Anyways just wondering if there was such thing.
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joho5 said:
Is there such thing as keeping the wallpaper from scrolling mod? I can't stand frame rate loss when scrolling... And I think it's due to the processor processing both things at once. I'm on clean DE, I'm remember this same exact thing on my infuse and a rom came out that didn't have wallpaper scroll and it was a lot more smooth.
Anyways just wondering if there was such thing.
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try the ultrasmooth rossie mod. i have heard some crazy smooth results from people who have used it.
edit: you're on DE you say? then there is an option in apex launcher to disable wallpaper scrolling.