This isnt a new problem but something carried over from ICS. However given the immense performance improvements throughout the system this one is just surprising.
The home screen navigation on the stock launcher is just blocky. Every now and then I have to swipe my thumb twice or thrice to get to the next homescreen. There is no lag or stutter it's just that the phone doesnt recognise my swipe as a significant one so doesnt move to the next screen.
Now the thing is that this is not an issue at all with APEX launcher which just doesnt make sense to me how come a third party launcher is faster than stock launcher? Have you guys felt this problem?
The stock launcher has a 'bounce-back' effect. Which makes it look blocky. At least that's what I noticed.
Apex has an option to enable/disable that. But that doesn't mean it's faster or slower, it just looks that way.
And actually most 3rd party launchers are supposed to be faster, or better in some aspects or else we wouldn't install them.
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Ya I figured it is some "effect" instead of an inherent performance problem. Too bad there is no way to disable it without changing launcher and also the galaxy nexus didnt seem to have this issue or effect whatever it is.
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Hi guys,
Been using ADW for a while now and really like it, but recently getting more and more force closes. Can anyone else recommend a good one? I tried panda but that seemed to slow my phone down a lot. Thanks to anyone who can help
HelixLauncher or Zeam Launcher is good.
got them both installed now. Zeam seems really fast. Can our x10 only take up to 1.5.1? Thats all I could find to download
What version of ADW did you have? I'm using 1.0.1 I haven't had a single force close with it, and I can't say any other home replacement is even close to being as good as ADW!
adw has been my favourite and it was 1.0.1 that I had, but it has just started forcing close and i dont know why
Adw look really nice but it does not work well on the x10, horizontsl slide is very sensitive. That means that you pick up icons while sliding the program menu. Fix that and ill replace Zeam.
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Portrait works much better
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Glenn, you do know you can change the app drawer back to the vertical scrolling type, right? Reason I ask is because I had the same problem when I first installed adw, and had almost given up on it solely because of that, until someone told me I could do that. It is in the adw settings, under drawer settings I believe. The horizontal slide is the galaxy s style, vertical works much more smoothly on x10
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I was going to say the same thing. Vertical slide works MUCH better than horizontal slide.
I'm wondering if the force-close issues in ADW are anything to do with the themes. I love the concept of themes but I'm tempted to disable them in case the size of the graphical components are causing some kind of bottleneck. Or something. I'm just guessing really, it's only really started playing up since I changed the themes.
I used to use HelixLauncher a lot, and liked it... certainly over the stock... but ADW won me over after I changed the drawer to horizontal, and disabled the "new dock" thing at the bottom, which I never used.
I might go back to Helix because ADW is being a bit odd recently. I wonder if that is what is hassling my poor old Beautiful Widgets...
My adw was getting a bit laggy so i uninstalled and reinstalled it. It's back to being super fast again. i use beautiful widgets and everything is fine.
Angie xx
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we have to post alot of requests to Federico to support 1.6
i love launcher pro but i cant use it
here's the link :
http://www.launcherpro.com/forum/index.php?sid=3916e5dae42f92bd615b1c8e9acdfdd8
I've been using ADW for ages, and it's definitely my favourite too...
I'd like to say I've had no issues at all, but recently I've been finding that icons occasionally shift a few pixels to the right - like it's stuck a little way into swiping between screens...
It seems this only happens if I go in and out of a landscape based application (such as the camera) - my fix for this is to enable landscape mode in ADW as well, and I haven't had a problem... So while I don't like or used landscape on the home screen, at least my screens don't get stuck a little skewed...
Note, I only found this to be an issue after I upgraded to the 024 firmware... that, of course, doesn't mean there wasn't an upgrade to ADW too, I just don't remember (given I also wiped my device and re-installed everything)...
Hey everyone, i did some extensive searching in this general section and didnt see my specific problem, so if theres a thread open on it already, please (kindly) point me to it.
I'm having an interesting problem where sometimes, some of my widgets are not displaying properly. So far its been Beautiful Widgets Home, Arti's Contact widget (4x4), and the AudioGuru profile widget that have done it.
PowerControl, TaskPanel X, and BatteryLife have always been fine, and shortcuts have been fine. I attached some pics of Beautiful home and audio guru. For Beautiful Widgets Home, it should be quite obvious, for AudioGuru those buttons are half the size they should be.
I cant pinpoint when it happens, although the last time it did, it was after i closed the stock browser.
Lastly, rebooting the phone fixes it, trashing the widgets and re-adding them fixes it, and connecting to my laptop via usb and mounting the sd-card fixes it.
I'd like to know whats causing it. Has anyone else experienced this bug with any of their widgets?
safe to say it's a bug with the launcher, this sometimes happens on custom launchers and it's a quick fix by just restarting your custom launcher.
usually it happens when the phone tries to rotate and then gets confused so the widgets get all screwed up. Shouldn't happen that often though.
i have it happen on LP everyonce and a while if i'm in a landscape game and then go back to my portrait homescreen, but i'd say 95% of the time they fix themselves.
Well I appreciate the insight but I'm not on a custom launcher which is sorta why it bothers me a bit more.
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so anyone else have anything they could contribute to my issue?
chances are its something with the app/widget that doesnt know what the hell to do in Gbread
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chances are its something with the app/widget that doesnt know what the hell to do in Gbread
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you might be right but I'm not so sure its gbread per say. as an update, since my last post, it was doing it at random times. i could not reproduce the issue intentionally but it happened one to two times a day.
I started toying with LauncherPro yesterday and was impressed so earlier this morning I bought Launcher Pro Plus. it hasnt happened once while using it. So I've recreated every screen i had on the stock launcher in LauncherPro Plus (and then some) with no issues.
The phone has only been release less than a month. I think that devs are still getting to grips or updating existing apps to be compatible with GB.
i find it hard to believe that widgets running on the stock launcher within gingerbread might mess up due to the dev needing to change the code to be gb compatible yet those same ones running within launcherpro are just fine. It has to be something specific to the launcher itself and not gb the os and third party. although i haven't spent any time testing just the widgets that come out of the box to see if its 3rd party only that's having the problem
Running Sensation XE...
Does anyone have lag when switching between the home screens?
I have 5 screens all pretty much full with desktop visualizer widgets.
I realise this might be alot for the phone to handle, and the problem is not THAT bad, but it is something I would like to know more about solving.
First of all can anyone tell me if Launcher Pro is an 'Overlay' to Sense, then presumably sense is still running in the background?
So would deleting all the widgets I used to have when running sense help? (from the screens) or clearing sense data through settings-applications.
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Running Sensation XE...
Does anyone have lag when switching between the home screens?
I have 5 screens all pretty much full with desktop visualizer widgets.
I realise this might be alot for the phone to handle, and the problem is not THAT bad, but it is something I would like to know more about solving.
First of all can anyone tell me if Launcher Pro is an 'Overlay' to Sense, then presumably sense is still running in the background?
So would deleting all the widgets I used to have when running sense help? (from the screens) or clearing sense data through settings-applications.
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If you have launcher pro set as the default launcher the sense launcher should not still be running, things from sense however may still be running, like weather. I noticed lag with lp, adw seemed to be better. I actually prefer sense, though I'm in the minority for that. I would personally remove all widgets and icons from sense launcher to be on the safe side if you're not planning on using it.
Many Sense things remain running in the background even if you don't use it, including the Launcher and Rosie, even if you don't use them at all. Sense is part of the ROM, so really invasive.
If you're using Launcher Pro, and never Sense, you should flash a Non-Sense script to completly remove Sense (or freeze it with Titanium backup)
That's what I do=> No Sense script from Mike1986, Android Revolution HD thread, post 2. It's supposed to work with every ROM
It will already be really faster.
Then go into Launcher pro options, advanced options, memory usage:
most of the time, by default, memory usage is set to light or medium. With the Sensation, and all the free RAM we have, you should set it to high or maximum memory usage.
Once it done, using Launcher pro with 5 pages full of widgets (like mine) will be as smooth or smoother that Sense.
NOTE: Sense is optimized to handle correctly or both cores, Launcher Pro may take time to wake the second core. But if you force CPU1 online, it will fly!
(no no, it won 't kill your battery, you'll just always consume 192mhz more, but your device will suddenly be so smoother that you will reduce your max CPU clock, so in the whole, battery drain is the same for better overall performances)
I'm surprised no one else suggested you use a different launcher that's being attended to. The developer of Launcher Pro updated it quite often up until he released the Plus(paid) version, now he doesn't update at all. I know of the lag issue you're having, as I've had it myself. It's basically old code trying to run along side new code. I promise you if you choose a different launcher you won't run into this problem. I too loved Launcher Pro, but even the most beloved apps need a little maintenance once in awhile.
this is the first time ive heard tht launcherpro is lagging. it never lags on me. ive been using it since the original g1! no lag
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this is the first time ive heard tht launcherpro is lagging. it never lags on me. ive been using it since the original g1! no lag
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I had the pro version on my three last android mobiles also. Never had a lag. I have all set to full speed in settings and it flies.
Never had a problem.
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even on the stock rom, the day I had my Sensation, Launcher Pro was smoother than Sense, once well configured.
Now with custom ROMS and kernels, both are smooth
I've been having this problem with ADW Launcher EX and the JB rom which before made me switch back to CM9. Now that I actually want to stick with JB (since I can now mount the external SD card) I need to figure out why this is happening.
What happens is that only the home page that my phone is on when adw launcher loads will show the icons correctly the rest shrink them down. Here is an image http://i.imgur.com/wqxRD.png
What I've noticed is I can still use the apps if I touch where they are supposed to be (If I click in the top left corner then the folder with my games still opens.) Does anyone else have this problem or know what's going on? I've searched through the adw options and can't seem to figure it out. It only happens on CM10 though.
I believe your problem is just a compatibility issue between adw and jb. You are probably going to have to consider switching to another launcher.
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I believe your problem is just a compatibility issue between adw and jb. You are probably going to have to consider switching to another launcher.
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Yeah I thought that might be it. I might uninstall adw for now and just wait for it to update.
I've used adw with jb and haven't had any issues. You need to go into the adw settings and change a few settings.
I forget which ones. But you can change their sizes, placement, column & rows, ect.
I'm planning my escape from the digital world!
Hi,
I've read a bit about the S6 having RAM issues, but I'm not sure, if that's the reason for my trouble.
When going back to the homescreen after having used an app (doesn't really matter which app), the phone lags a bit and after a second or two the homescreen comes up empty as it takes a couple of seconds for it to reload the icons and one widget that I use..
If I clear all my apps from the recent list, I can go maybe half an hour to an hour before it starts doing it again. It clearly speeds up right after I've done that.
I looks like my RAM usage varies quite quickly between 58% and 91%. Sometimes it shows that Google Play Services uses almost 600 MB as does Snapchat(!) and my browser (even though only one tab is open).
Do I need to return my phone or is this only a software problem? Does using another launcher even help anything here?
Hope you guys can help me!
Thanks in advance!
I'd use smart manager to clear all, and then clear data in application settings for Touchwiz home (This might lose all your home pages/icons/widget etc not sure. I'd then reboot the phone.
If it's still doing it after that, try Nova launcher or similar. I get not lag but the odd tiny redraw every now and again.
Ok, thanks for the tip.
I've gone over to using Google Now Launcher for a bit, and it seems to behave much better and more smooth. Unfortunately I can't use the stock clock/weather widget outside the TW Launcher.
I really hope Samsung addresses this in the next update. I was under the impression that this should have been fixed in the present release.
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Ok, thanks for the tip.
I've gone over to using Google Now Launcher for a bit, and it seems to behave much better and more smooth. Unfortunately I can't use the stock clock/weather widget outside the TW Launcher.
I really hope Samsung addresses this in the next update. I was under the impression that this should have been fixed in the present release.
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Yeah that's a real pain. I use HD widgets while waiting on Samsung launcher to be improved. You have to pay but it's pretty good with good weather.
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Yeah that's a real pain. I use HD widgets while waiting on Samsung launcher to be improved. You have to pay but it's pretty good with good weather.
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Yeah, actually used HD widgets as well on the Google Launcher.
For info, I exchanged my device for a new one due to the home button being loose and making the clicking noise. My new device seems not to have the memory problem like my original device, or at least far from as much/often. So must have been faulty somehow. I have exactly the same apps installed...