After having flashed to JM2 + mimocan lag fix, I did notice significant improvement in terms of overall speed. However, there was still one annoying lag that made navigation though menus and apps less enjoyable. Everytime I hit either home or back button in order to return to the home screens, the home screens would appear, but be unresponsive for about a second before I can either click an icon or scroll to other pages.
That was before I tried removing Samsung's daily Briefing widget from my home screens. Surprise!! After the widget has been removed, the home screens becomes responsive immediately after they re-appear. And now the UI feels much snappier, even comparable to that of that phone from the fruit company, I'd say
Perhaps this is the reason why people seem to have differing experiences about lag on SSGS (the fact that they have or not have this stupid widget, which ironically was pushed heavily by Samsung as one of the cool features of this phone, on their home screens)? I'm not sure whether those who use alternative launchers would have the same experience or not, as Daily Briefing Widget probably won't load on those launchers anyway, but I can say that - for my case (I'm using stock touchwiz) it does make a huge difference.
Yep, i recognized the same thing... So now after each flash I remove everything from the Touchwiz homescreen and then install my other launcher
Me too.I deleted all samsung widgets and my SGS is now F1
Seems to work for me.
On a related note; does anyone know of similar widgets to Daily Briefing? It's a really good idea, but obviously it causes some of the lag, and I'd like the ability to add my own feeds (e.g., I don't want the AP - I want more UK-focused BBC).
Flyscreen gathers news from places BBC news has an apk in the market as well which is ok. Or just put an RSS feed reader widget on and tag it to google uk news rss feed get the best of all news sites then
The two worst ones are the Buddies Now and Daily Briefing widget. The Feeds and Updates widget doesn't lag much, only when it's pulling in new data.
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Does anyone running non hero roms use any of the home replacements out there like sweeter home, dxtop, panda , ahome or any other ones?
i used open home recently on JACxROMv1.3 to change the ugly palm pre app tray. it worked for a while, but then it really started making the phone lag.
Open home was great but im using now stock home on CM3.9.10 build.. its better
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Nope, only used aHome on 1.1 before I rooted. Using the stock launcher on Cyanogen 3.9.11, loving global search
Advanced Launcher + Ted's Hero. I found all of them slow compaired to a themed phone.
Open Home is awesome... But it slows your phone down way too much
With Cyans ROMs a home replacement may not slow down the phone too much. The CPU scaling could help with the slowdown issues. There may be a little slowdown, but I doubt it would ever be slower than a stock build not running a home replacement.
I use the Home program that comes with the sdk samples. It's only got one home screen, an app drawer (lower right) and 3 icon spaces that list your most recent apps. It's all very basic and it's got a bug where it loses the wallpaper when you switch portrait-landscape, but here it is anyway if you want to try it. I'll be using this app as the base for a launcher i'm working on (I'll add 4 more home screens, widget capability, I'll turn the "recent apps" strip into a scrollable "favorites" strip, and maybe toss in some default, full screen widgets (like hero's, kind of like search is bundled as a widget for Launcher). It'll be a good long while though, i'm still brushing up my java.
to install this, connect your phone, put it in your C:\, and do:
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adb remount
adb push C:\Home.apk.zip /system/app/Home.apk
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I use the Home program that comes with the sdk samples. It's only got one home screen, an app drawer (lower right) and 3 icon spaces that list your most recent apps. It's all very basic and it's got a bug where it loses the wallpaper when you switch portrait-landscape, but here it is anyway if you want to try it. I'll be using this app as the base for a launcher i'm working on (I'll add 4 more home screens, widget capability, I'll turn the "recent apps" strip into a scrollable "favorites" strip, and maybe toss in some default, full screen widgets (like hero's, kind of like search is bundled as a widget for Launcher). It'll be a good long while though, i'm still brushing up my java.
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Would defeat the purpose of a home replacement. Whole point is to make it look pretty. I'm not sure how the default home and a home replacement program interacts. If the default home runs in the background even when using a home replacement, then a lighter weight default home could help the system run faster.
ahome doesnt work at the moment on latest cyanogen experimental roms, DXTOP is nice i like the "diamond" shape screen layout, the speed is good but can sometimes be a little slow loading apps in launcher, sweeter home looks amazing the preview one is not really usable but a preview 2 will be out soon and it has amazing potential with being able to customise so many aspects of the layout. I loved the standard home with advanced launcher but am having issues with the advanced launcher i think where screen goes black. Currently i am on panda, I had tried this when it came out and really didnt see the point but it has come along and has some very nice touches will probably stick with this until I can resolve the issues with advanced launcher, overall speed is good on the home replacements but the standard home is the quickest, the launcher is so smooth and there is no lag at all.
I'm using dxtop... its pretty quick now.
I was having lag issues many iterations of CM and dxtop ago. But both are working very well with eachother now. dxtop also added a categories view for the tray and you can have live folders of those categories on the desktop.
The dev is also constantly working on this to optimize it and add features. (I beta for him)
I would like for a home replacement to incorporate the sense UI bar.
I am beta testing SweeterHome right now. IT IS AWESOME. The new and improved SH will have some options that will just blow the others AWAY! (IMHO)
With the current Beta options I only need to use about three of my total screens (with widgets and ALL)... And, the third screen is used for the Application Grid.
I'll be sure to post something in the Apps section when it comes available.
There are some seriously great new options in the new SH and the image handling has all been updated - so, it works much faster.
There are a few features that just blow me away. But, I have to wait to speak about them until the app is ready!
I have a stock, non-rooted G2, running GB 2.3.4, which I love. The only complaint I have is that the home screen often takes a while to refresh when coming back from another app, or even when turning on.
I'm using the stock launcher, I have seven screens, and 8 or 9 widgets that need to refresh. It doesn't seem to matter whether I've recently cleared my cache or not, or whether I have animations on or not.
Similar threads from other phones suggest there may be settings somewhere to improve this performance, although I probably don't have that app loaded... Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance...
You're close to maxed out on home screens and widgets so it's expected to have a lag when coming out of an app. The stock launcher *may* have some tweaks (it's been a while since I've used it) but most third party launchers have a "keep home screen in memory" setting which speeds up coming out of an app and back to the launcher.
Really though, I'd suggest trying to slim things down a bit. I know it's fun and all to have widgets for everything and apps sorted into home screens but there comes a point where it becomes faster to do things "the old fashioned way" than to have widgets and screens lagging to do it for you.
For example, I have three screens; my main one (clock/weather widget), my most used apps (phone, mail, messages, voicemail) and my camera/video camera, another screen for social apps and another for note apps and daily utilities. I also hide all the apps I don't actually lauch manually (URL shorteners and other "share to" type apps).
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I have a Sprint Galaxy S3 - yes, rooted, but still running stock ROM for now. I like Titanium and other apps that require root.
The issue I'm having is that widgets are often not responding after a while. I have the HD Widgets and Multicon, business calendar and a people/contact widget as well as battery pro.
The issue most frequently was the HD widgets would still perform their functions, but not change on the screen what they were doing. (Wifi, bluetooth, brightness). And battery pro would stop actively monitoring. Reboots solved those MINOR issues and it wasn't a huge deal.
TODAY, however, reboot blew away ALL widgets on my screens. Many multicons were gone, calendar widget, people widget, HD widgets. ALL were gone. Oceans of blank screen where I had 4 screens of nicely organized icons before. SO WTF HAPPENED? Why are widgets seemingly an issue for TouchWiz (which, admittedly, I do like) and the GS3?
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I have a Sprint Galaxy S3 - yes, rooted, but still running stock ROM for now. I like Titanium and other apps that require root.
The issue I'm having is that widgets are often not responding after a while. I have the HD Widgets and Multicon, business calendar and a people/contact widget as well as battery pro.
The issue most frequently was the HD widgets would still perform their functions, but not change on the screen what they were doing. (Wifi, bluetooth, brightness). And battery pro would stop actively monitoring. Reboots solved those MINOR issues and it wasn't a huge deal.
TODAY, however, reboot blew away ALL widgets on my screens. Many multicons were gone, calendar widget, people widget, HD widgets. ALL were gone. Oceans of blank screen where I had 4 screens of nicely organized icons before. SO WTF HAPPENED? Why are widgets seemingly an issue for TouchWiz (which, admittedly, I do like) and the GS3?
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Something about the ICS TW launcher...just doesn't play nice with many widgets. I'm not a dev, so I don't know why, but I do know that this has happened to other people I know. Perhaps TW force closed and cleared data spontaneously? Most of the problems I had were with widgets that have to auto-refresh. The You-Tube one for example, which is scrollable, would dissappear sometimes. Nova Launcher rarely had this problem.
The good knews is that TW on the JB leaks for our phone has not had this problem. Samsung has definitely improved TW on 4.1.1 and hopefully soon you'll be able to enjoy this.
I bought a Tab Pro 8.4 last week (still haven't opened it) from Best Buy for $199. I read reviews that stated there is some hiccups and lagginess while doing multiple things at once.
I will not root the tablet, but, what bloatware can I and should I turn off to make this quicker and not have any lag? I read on the Tab S forum, someone that had the Tab Pro and this is what he mentioned:
haven't picked mine up yet, but I'm coming from a Tab Pro, which should have mostly the same UI elements. It's not difficult to turn off most of the Samsung bloat. In particular, turning off the magazine UI provided a significant boost.
I copied 8.4 forum, but I don't remember where. So I'm sorry to whoever I can't direct appropriate credit:
Try the Nova launcher from the Play Store to improve speed. Set it as your default launcher then Disable/Turn Off;
Flipboard, MagazineWidget, S Voice, Samsung Apps, Samsung Apps Widget, SapaMonitor, Screen Saver, World Clock, and (Hancom; Office for Android Share, Hcell, Hshow, Hword, Updater, Viewer Launcher, and Widget) if you don't plan on using it. Then reboot.
After following these recommendations performance improved significantly, and in using NOVA touchwiz is mostly unseen.
Hopefully this helps, but ultimately if it's not making you happy there's no reason to keep it. Good luck.
Now, I will keep my stock launcher. What can be turned off to give "UI provide a significant boost?" As the above member mentioned. Also, a real newbie question, how do I turn off the recommended bloatware?
Lastly, I just opened it for the first time to charge it. I bought the black tablet. Does the black tablet still come with the white charger? I would of thought the black tablet would come with a black charger?
10char
It comes with a white charger and cable
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I've disabled the following: Cisco Webex, e-meeting, Memo, Screensaver, SideSync, SNS
You can speed up magazine UI by removing all of the (magazine) widgets except for one, and removing all of the magazine UI pages except for one.
Under developer options I have window animations and transition animation turned off. I just have the photo widget running in the magazine screen. I think this thing is pretty damn smooth. My first samsung tablet and I don't mid the ui, it's different and a nice change. When I get bored of it I will probably install another launcher. The thing I have grown to love about stock roms is that they generally just work.
Take that out of the box and play with it and you be the judge. You won't find a better tablet for the price.
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I've disabled the following: Cisco Webex, e-meeting, Memo, Screensaver, SideSync, SNS
You can speed up magazine UI by removing all of the (magazine) widgets except for one, and removing all of the magazine UI pages except for one.
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Older thread but I just picked up this tablet.
To disable the apps you don't want do you use the turn off button in Settings/General/ "Application Manager"?
Is there a danger if you turn off say the ANT apps not sure if they work in tandem with other apps that I want to keep.
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Older thread but I just picked up this tablet.
To disable the apps you don't want do you use the turn off button in Settings/General/ "Application Manager"?
Is there a danger if you turn off say the ANT apps not sure if they work in tandem with other apps that I want to keep.
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I posted what I had turned off satisfactory in a post a while back in regards to the T-900, but you should more,or less be able to turn off the same things. It was something like 160 files, using the freeze option in Titanium. Good luck.
Hi all,
From a processing overhead and memory standpoint, I was wondering if it's better to have one big widget or many smaller widgets. I have a big widget that has a lot of functionality, but I've noticed that it tends to make my phone (Galaxy Note 3) jumpy, especially in things like games. If I remove the widget from my home screen, everything smooths back out. I know that Zooper takes all of the widget elements and renders them as a single unit, so I didn't know if maybe it would help smooth things out if I broke the widget up into smaller ones. Or would that just make it worse?
Thanks,
Jeremy
Sorry to hi-jack but have a similar question
Is it would be better to have one app, say zooper or UCCW taking care of all my widget or many app, Zooper, UCCW, simple calendar, beautifull widget. And in addition, one big widget or many small... would be on a lg g3.
Any hint?
Well I found that one big widget does a few things.
Multiple widget configuration:
First. A bunch of small widgets have redraw issues (widget disappears then redraws on the screen and reappears) Especially if widgets overlap.
Second. It becomes a nightmare for hotspots to not overlap.
Third. There's quit a few issues with which widget to keep up front and which widget to move to back. (Becomes a juggling act getting everything just right)
One big widget with lots of modules:
First. Way easier to make a apk for playstore.
Second: Very little redraw issues.
Third. Way easier to make multiple different colored versions of the same screen.
Fourth: Can get very confusing to yourself and others if you didn't name the modules as you went along.
Fifth: if you share your creation, the end user will need to change there background to add close as possible to your widget color, because there will be some type of margin somewhere on that screen, even if set to none.
So in conclusion, I find better performance with full screen pages. It makes my life easier. Plus list glitches from redraw.
Of course your milage will very though.
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Hi all,
From a processing overhead and memory standpoint, I was wondering if it's better to have one big widget or many smaller widgets. I have a big widget that has a lot of functionality, but I've noticed that it tends to make my phone (Galaxy Note 3) jumpy, especially in things like games. If I remove the widget from my home screen, everything smooths back out. I know that Zooper takes all of the widget elements and renders them as a single unit, so I didn't know if maybe it would help smooth things out if I broke the widget up into smaller ones. Or would that just make it worse?
Thanks,
Jeremy
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As someone who cut down from over 30 individual Zooper widgets to 9 large-ish ones, I'll have to say that I strongly prefer fewer larger ones. Previously, Nova often crashed and notified me it was due to any one of the 30 or so Zoopers which had crossed the limit of my device.
Furthermore, as @sandman7793 says quite rightly, redraws are a pretty major issue whenever booting up or switching between apps/homescreen pages.
In addition, it is much easier to manage large number of modules in fewer widget than jumping to and fro between several smaller ones to copy a slight adjustment you may have made to one of them. Simply put: fewer widgets, fewer hassle.
Thanks for the info. Guide me in one direction. As for battery life, one better than the other, since you tried both ways?
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Thanks for the info. Guide me in one direction. As for battery life, one better than the other, since you tried both ways?
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Honestly, it's a bit hard to tell. I never tested Zooper in isolation for its effect on battery life. However, based on the performance improvements with fewer widgets, including decreased redraw issues and just fewer homescreen widgets to power at any one time, I'd say fewer widgets of little variety probably has better battery life (although, the effect may be minimal to none at all).
Is it possible to have one widget cover the entire screen? I thought 4x4 was the biggest available.
Also, is there a way of combining two widgets into one? For example, I have a 4x1 weather widget and a 4x3 weather bitmap icon which, by the sounds of it, would work better as a single widget.
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Is it possible to have one widget cover the entire screen? I thought 4x4 was the biggest available.
Also, is there a way of combining two widgets into one? For example, I have a 4x1 weather widget and a 4x3 weather bitmap icon which, by the sounds of it, would work better as a single widget.
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It is possible to have one widget over the entire screen, but it may depend on your launcher. Some launchers, like Lightning, Nova and Themer, allow for easy resizing of widgets to be as big or as small as you want. The best way to do it is to place a new Zooper widget on your home screen, and before you tap it to start editing it, resize it to the size you want. Then when you go into edit mode, Zooper will pick up on that size and behave accordingly. For example, I have a 6x5 and a 6x3, neither of which are available options when dropping a new widget initially.
As for combining widgets, I haven't found a good way of doing that yet. I think you'd have to create a new widget, import the one with the most elements into it, and then manually create the rest of the elements from the other widget and configure them. An alternative may be to export the .xml for both of them to a computer and add the two together there. This way you should at least be able to get all of the elements into one widget, but then when you load it into Zooper, you'll need to move the elements around because they'll probably overlap at that point.
Other than that, if someone knows of a better way, I'd be happy to hear it.
Referring back to my original question that kicked this thread off, thanks to everyone for your input. @sandman7793 especially had some great points, which I really appreciate. I've done some more digging, and it looks like some of my performance issue was actually related to Greenify rather than Zooper. I was seeing jumpiness in things like games because I had them under my list of apps to forcibly keep hibernated. Oops. Once I figured that out, everything is working smooth again.