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adw launcher: slow rotation (due to widgets?)

I'm experiencing very slow screen rotation when I re-orientate my Tab, especially on my main home screen.I have two widgets and a bunch of icon on there, and if I turn my Tab 90° it takes around 3-4 seconds to react, then I get a black screen for another second or two, then the icons re-appear, then another second later, the widgets.
I get the impression that the rotation is quicker on a homescreen with no widgets but full of icons, but it's still rather slow.
The original launcher also isn't really amazingly fast on rotation, but it's a good deal faster than adw. In the (native) browser, screen rotation is almost instantaneous, btw.
Does anyone have a suggestion how to speed up the rotation on the homescreen? It's annoying like this, because the Tab is often in landscape orientation when I take it out of my coat pocket, then I have to wait several seconds before it'll react to anything.

Is it using alot of cpu in taskmgr?

biopsin said:
Is it using alot of cpu in taskmgr?
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Not really. It's using quite a bit of RAM (~24MB) but only about 0.9% CPU.
Btw, here's a short video to illustrate what I'm talking about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjpum75xpZk
(Sorry for the bad quality, shot with my trusty old G1 - btw, I'm rotating Portrait -> Landscape in the Video, but the video is rotated 90°)

I'm currently using adw.launcher and my rotation is perfectly fine with lcd density changes and widgets stretched and multiples on single screens.
It's odd that yours is so very slow. Did you root it and do the lag fix? Or do you have a scrolling widget active and have it forcing draw on orientation? Maybe use ti backup and check your running processes.
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funny, I tested 2 widgets yesterday (1 clock + 1 bat) and i notice rotating screen would be sluggish, so i checked ADW cpu usage was jumping around 50-80%
i ended up removing both widgets, and have not experienced it again..
And if u go thru the adw-settings and turn off all the eyecandy and restart what happens then?

biopsin said:
funny, I tested 2 widgets yesterday (1 clock + 1 bat) and i notice rotating screen would be sluggish, so i checked ADW cpu usage was jumping around 50-80%
i ended up removing both widgets, and have not experienced it again..
And if u go thru the adw-settings and turn off all the eyecandy and restart what happens then?
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Rooted yes (z4root) but no lag fix...which one would you recommend?
Also, I just notice that it gets quite a bit quicker when I use one of the stock wallpapers instead of my own 1200x1024 image. Looking into that now.

Have u tried switching back to stock launcher to compare if the same issue apears, or ex. Zeam launcher?
i recommend no lagfix...never testet it.

biopsin said:
Have u tried switching back to stock launcher to compare if the same issue apears, or ex. Zeam launcher?
i recommend no lagfix...never testet it.
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Ok, so the wallpaper seems to be the main culprit. When using a stock wallpaper, both adw and the stock launcher perform about equally. I've also applied the OCLF, but don't notice any difference.

Did u notice the dpi for your custom background, maybe scale it down to 72dpi if its higher..
those who tested the lagfix on the tab did not notice anything either, but higher bench scores..

There is often a considerable amount of lag when switching from portrait (my main use) to landscape (mostly used for reading PDF or EPUB text, and sometimes for web-browsing). Clearly the refresh of shortcut icons and widgets appears to be the culprit, it doesn't seem related to background rendering. I tried various combinations of graphical settings, to no avail. I am running 200 LCD density, but I had the same problem with the original value (240).
Note: I use ADW.Launcher mainly because of the "categories/groups" feature, which makes it a *lot* easier to organize my 200+ applications. The other features are pretty much the same as all the other launchers.

People say the lag fix is unecessary since stock tab is quite snappy, but i recently uninstalled it and noticed a slow down with redraws on my screens with adw.launcher. Agreed though any launcher will slow down with more icons/widgets. Especially those that have been stretched by adw
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ADWLauncher - I turn off the animations and turn the delays and
overshoot down as far as they will go. I also make the drawer
background flat black with no transparency. Makes for a VERY fast
launcher. I also set the "System persistent" option in "System
Preferences". That seems to help keep Android from killing it off.
Returning to home is dawn near instant now.
System animations (Settings->Display->Animation) is set to "No
Animations". Again, makes things faster and I get bored watching the
redraws.

Slower than my GTAB 10.1

For basic tasks like web surfing, I find the A700 actually slower than my GTab 10.1. I have even tried different browsers and the results don't change much. When I go into the TSN.CA video library (broadband link at top), I can click links and 29/30 times it does nothing with the stock browser and dolphin. It works fine with my GTab (3.2 stock). Scrolling with the A700 using quick finger strokes and there's a 1 second delay before it scrolls and I'm not sure if this is by design or not. It's sure annoying though. Other than the nice display and the quicker video decoding, I'm not sure this is going to replace my current gtab just yet.
Rob

Rob:
Haven't picked up an A700 yet, but on my A500 you can adjust the sensitivity settings for the screen. In addition, a few others have mentioned by disabling ring, and a few other non-essential apps, their lag issues were greatly diminished. Maybe a few others that have the A700 can comment on whether they have adjusted their settings.

eshepardson said:
Rob:
Haven't picked up an A700 yet, but on my A500 you can adjust the sensitivity settings for the screen. In addition, a few others have mentioned by disabling ring, and a few other non-essential apps, their lag issues were greatly diminished. Maybe a few others that have the A700 can comment on whether they have adjusted their settings.
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I disabled the ring, but haven't tried much else yet. It seems kind of strange that the O/S is not optimized better than it currently seems. The video playback I have tried is smooth, but I'm also noticing inconsistent sound volume with this tab (all apps). Sometimes the volume is soft even at max, other times it's good. The very first time I tried the tablet the max volume was really low, like about %30 what it should be.
Rob

compared to my tf300 the a700 behaves like a brick on a stick. the OS seems cobbled together, is slow and unresponsive. Yes its helps deaktivating the ring and uninstalling crapware (Titanium Backup uninstall since they are protected apps...)
Bear in mind that the same hardware has to power a much larger pixeldense screen - though i find it interesting that riptide i.e. plays much as it does on my tf300 (ok its a bit more corny but thats thanks to the increased resolution)
but yeah - everyday tasks are much slower - moving smth on your dashboard around i.e. webbrowsing... etc....
this tab needs a recovery mode so bad - since with recovery we can flash custom roms - and a rom without all that crapware on it would go a long way for speeding things up - add some kernelmods and optimisations and this tab could go a long way - but sadly, we're not there yet.
so long
-B

Sounds like you need to stick with your Galaxy Tab OP :good:
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[Q] Asus Stock factory 4.1.1 Lags when recording audio - options?

Hey all,
I have a Nexus 7 and an Asus Transformer Infinity (it's my wife's). We bought the VoicePro application from the Play market for recording and mixing audio. Unfortunately, we are finding that my Nexus 7 running 4.2.1 records reliably and quickly. The Infnity on the other hand, is a mess. Pressing the record button gets us a second or two of lag in the activation of recording mode, and we get interrupts and stutters in the recording. We can actually see the lag hitting as the 'waveform' being recorded is going across the screen, and during playback, sure enough, it's chopped up.
We almost got her an iPad instead of an Android tablet because of audio lag concerns. However, before we give up and go that route (especially being an Android-owning family), I want to see what my options are.
Option 1 - Unlock + Root, and set up the Seeder app that everyone is talking about (yes, I know critics say it's placebo, but what little lag I saw doing recordings on my Nexus 7 has now GONE since I installed it and updated read_wakeup_threshold. Whatever magic it is, I can tell you it does prevent kernel-based blocks that lag the device, and I believe might improve the recording).
Option 2 - New Kernel and/or new ROM. Obviously I'm not afraid to do this as I'm an experienced person in this regard, but I need to make sure we don't lose stability or functionality with the ASUS dock. Although my wife likes some of the ASUS add-ons/apps, she's not married to them, and would be fine with letting them go in exchange for a smoother experience.
For Option 1 - has anyone tried out the seeder/entropy fix on the TF700 and can you report that it exhibits the same performance increases (in terms of less lagginess) as other people are reporting?
For Option 2 - recommendation for a 4.1 (or better yet, a 4.2.1) ROM and/or that will work with a docked Transformer Infinity pad, and provide enhanced performance and less stuttering/lagging?
Thanks in advance,
Randy

Phone performance

I disabled the "Turn over to mute" and "Turn over to activate" settings under Settings > Gestures and i would swear my phone is actually performing better than what it was. Can anyone confirm this for me?

It could be a placebo but I notice it. I had already turned off flip to snooze on mine but left flip to mute on. I had lag when changing from Chrome back to the Homescreen prior to turning off the flip to mute setting. After turning it off it did not lag. In an attempt to recreate the issue I cleared the memory and did it again with no apps running in the background as a baseline and had lag with flip to mute on vs off when going from Chrome back to the homescreen. Also tested it when opening and scrolling through the app drawer. I can't wait for 5.1 update, if it comes...

After switching to Apex launcher, and turning off the other two gestures in the Settings, I have had no instances of missed double taps. It was pretty reliable to begin with, but yes, I was noticing some drops. But those are now gone.
I know everyone is complaining of UI lag - which is indeed present. However I decided to do a more real world test. I loaded up WatchESPN, OSMonitor, Play Store,
Gmail, Firefox (with Engadget open), Two camera apps, Hangouts, Play Newsstand, HBO Go, Google Photos, ES File Explorer, N7 Music Player, YouTube and MX Player. After loading all these up one after another, I started Nokia Here Maps - and asked it to locate an address on the other side of town and compute point to point directions to it. It took what seemed like a blink of an eye, and it was back with the route. I then turned WiFi off ( so that it cannot hand over the task to a server in the cloud ) , and asked it to compute another route, and again it was back within a second, with multiple route alternatives. So - to me - this is a more real life use case - I will actually be using the device a lot in this fashion - and for that - it is performing quite well. In general I have noticed that the UI lag does not get worse with the number of apps loaded. So when it come to real heavy lifting, I think the device is doing pretty well .
There is a YouTube video out there today, which is claiming that the Alcatel did better than a Galaxy S6 in running multiple 3D games simultaneously. I will myself never play any games on this device . For my applications - I find the performance satisfactory. Of course, this clearly has all the 5.0 performance issues, which I am hoping will clear up with 5.1 / 5.2 update.

You may want to go under developer options and try things such as disabled the animation scales or lowering them from 1.0 to .5 and possibly enabling gpu decoding of 2d content.....disabling the animation will give the ui response a bit of snappiness.
If you are running nova launcher it has it's own animation settings under "look and feel" and you can choose the "faster than light" option....I disable all the animations...I'm interested in gettings things done..not gimicks and "flash". I'm sure apex has similar settings.

famewolf said:
You may want to go under developer options and try things such as disabled the animation scales or lowering them from 1.0 to .5 and possibly enabling gpu decoding of 2d content.....disabling the animation will give the ui response a bit of snappiness.
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I already have animations down to 0.5 - I am not touching anything else there. Apex has a setting to speed up some animations as well.
What is a good way to test the browser ? I am using Firefox - with adblock plus.

stl1859 said:
I already have animations down to 0.5 - I am not touching anything else there. Apex has a setting to speed up some animations as well.
What is a good way to test the browser ? I am using Firefox - with adblock plus.
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When the phone is rooted I'll use adaway....what exactly do you want to "test"? I use lightning+ browser(lightning browser (without the +) is free) which is always nice and snappy.

I've found, that turning of the OS "vibrate" on tap functions seems to have improved performance for me. At the very least it feels better. I feel like i was getting 2 different vibrations when using keyboard, and it would double tap things by accident as a result. You also need to independently turn off vibration on the keyboard if you want it gone completely.

Has anyone noticed that transition animation scale keeps on reverting back to 1x after it has been set to 0.5x ? Does this qualify as a bug ? Or is there something I am missing ?
BTW - even with the third party launcher, I am getting unresponsive double-tap ( wake only ) occasionally, and unset/set the option always brings it back. This is something that Alcatel should be able to fix - clearly a software issue.

stl1859 said:
Has anyone noticed that transition animation scale keeps on reverting back to 1x after it has been set to 0.5x ? Does this qualify as a bug ? Or is there something I am missing ?
BTW - even with the third party launcher, I am getting unresponsive double-tap ( wake only ) occasionally, and unset/set the option always brings it back. This is something that Alcatel should be able to fix - clearly a software issue.
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Has anyone found a fix for this? Mine does this as well, resetting the transition scale!
Thanks

zapper_master said:
Has anyone found a fix for this? Mine does this as well, resetting the transition scale!
Thanks
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Never had that problem, I've been using nova prime and double tap to wake works perfectly.
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Stuttery Animations

Hey all,
After using Q beta for a while without a restart i was getting stuttery animations. It is not lag and is not slowness, just unsmooth animations such as in opening apps, closing apps, switching between them etc..
So due to this and other reasons I went back to stable P. However surprisingly the issue came back on P.
My ram usage is about 2.6 gb, sometimes hitting 2.7 gb, but not more. So i know its not the ram since when i close all apps the issue is still there. Only a restart fixes this.
Does anyone know or have a similar problem as this? as i explained, the phone is fast as hell, but sometimes after days of use i get stuttery animations where i did not have such a thing before using Q beta.