I often get the circling arrow type of refresh notification when trying to open the drawer in launchers like Apex and Nova. I have the latest radio and set my build.prop to keep launcher in memory. I have almost 200 apps. Is there any way to make ameliorate the problem? It "refreshes" way too often and takes way too much time. I've been using Smart Task Bar and even when installing new apps, as far as I can recall, it has never made me wait to show all apps. What do you guys think is the problem here? Would moving apps to SD help? I vaguely recall it makes the startup slower.
You cannot lock the home launcher process in memory via the build.prop like you can with GB in ICS.
Second, I feel like Smart Taskbar is hijacking the launcher process and as such your home launcher is not getting the appropriate priority it needs to stay in memory. Every time you see the app reloading animation that means your launcher has been killed and has reloaded.
You should try V6 Supercharger to reprioritize your home launcher and unfortunately, uninstall Smart Taskbar since if it's using the launcher priority you will always have to deal with a reloading launcher since it'll be killed very often.
On a different device (and possibly Android version) I'm sure Smart Taskbar would be great, but if it's sitting behind all your tasks, all the time, it's using up memory, which is why your launcher keeps getting killed.
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Apex launcher has been fine for me, and I'm at around 160 apps now.
"Move to SD" moves the app to the FAT32 portion of the SD card, which would be much slower overall. I'm using SD-ext which still shows as installed to internal, but all the apps are on an sd-ext partition of the SD card (moving to SD would be pointless from there as it's already on the SD just on a faster/leaner ext4 partition). Besides some applications simply do not like being stored/run from a FAT32 partition.
Thanks for the replies. Although when flashing andromo I picked to have supercharger installed, following your advice, I chose to reinstall via directions from the supercharger thread with script manager and the .sh file. Works better now with less refreshing of launcher. Added bonus, global touch responsiveness significantly improved.
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Most apps I've installed are gone after reboot if stored on the SD card. Can anyone can tell me which applications would work if stored on SD card.
I even tried some games but only works if they on the phone memory.
If you are using launcher pro then there is a bug. I don't know if it with the launcher or ROM but it happens to me and a couple of other people I have read. If you restart your phone then just force close launcherpro, press home button and when it restarts it will see all your apps. I am guessing it is something to do with it loading before the SD card has initialised so it doesn't pick them up. Small price to pay for a great from and a blazing fast launcher though IMO!
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despite the apps going missing from the app drawer in Launcher Pro, it's still possible to add shortcuts to the 'missing' apps on your homescreens
only if you use usb storage they dissapear and dont reappear... go into advanced task killer and kill launcher pro ... press home and all will be fixed
Thnx for info just force close launcher pro and they all back. Also, when you install widgets if they go to sd first then move them to phone and restart the phone only then you can see them.
Hey guys,
no need to 'kill' LauncherPro. Just go to manage apps and clear the defaults for the app. Then press your home button, and reapply the default choice to use LauncherPro. That fixed it for me
please forgive me if this sounds silly or has already been asked/answered. I have searched the forums but couldn't find anything related, maybe due to it being either a given or silly question.
What's the rule-of-thumb when it comes to running multiple launchers? If one is currently active, are the others running in the background? Should I be concerned with battery and memory resources?
I currently main Go Launcher EX, but have also purchased ADW Launcher EX (loved it on the Eris), and Launcher Pro Plus. All are installed... I switch between them occasionally, and tend to go back to Go Launcher EX.
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no takers??
thanx anyway.
I'm not sure either, but I use titanium pro, and it lets you freeze the launchers or apps you aren't using, so they don't appear in the app drawer. When you want to use it again, just defrost it. Hope this helps.
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I'm not sure either, but I use titanium pro, and it lets you freeze the launchers or apps you aren't using, so they don't appear in the app drawer. When you want to use it again, just defrost it. Hope this helps.
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Thanx for the advice! I'll use Bloat Freezer to disable the ones I'm not using!
I'm not positive but once you set one as your default launcher I'm pretty sure the others you have installed do not run in the background. So you shouldn't have to worry about battery life if you have more than 1 downloaded and installed. I am using Go EX now but I also have adw ex installed. Have you checked out the honeycomb theme for go launcher ex? I like it a lot.
I use LauncherPro and I know when I switch over to rosie every now and then, the HTC loading screen appears for a few seconds before showing my home screens, so it's not running in the background (at least not at any capacity worth noting). If you switch constantly without ever rebooting your phone it may be a different story.
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I have 4 currently installed and notice no difference from when I first got my phone.
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awesome! Thanx for the replies! I've removed Launcher Pro and kept Go EX and ADW EX. At the moment, I haven't figured out how they're different, but like Go EX better because it doesn't do the 180 degree screen flip thingy. I remember ADW having an option of disabling that on my Eris, but I haven't been able to find it.
I am not familiar with Launcher.
If I have multiple launcher on my phone, do I able to switch between them from time to time?
Do I need root rights to do this?
I am using HTC sense and would like to try android default launcher or others.
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I am not familiar with Launcher.
If I have multiple launcher on my phone, do I able to switch between them from time to time?
Do I need root rights to do this?
I am using HTC sense and would like to try android default launcher or others.
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Yup you can switch between them as often as you'd like no root permission are required.
Home switcher for froyo works great.
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If its not you're main launcher, its not running..no need to freeze the others
I just installed CM7 due to some random reboots/freezes with Evervolv (that I attribute to kernel issues since I flashed a new one...nevermind that part right now)
Anyway, I'm having a problem with some widgets. My SetCPU widget works fine, but some aren't - my Juice Plotter widget isn't available to select, nor is my SimiClock widget. I've verified that they are both installed, but they just don't show up when I go to add widgets. Any suggestions?
I use Launcher Pro as my app launcher with two rows of dock buttons that lets me access all my vital apps. On my home screen I like to run the SimiClock widget since it gives me a clock, weather, and battery percent. Below that, I have the SetCPU widget just to keep an eye on frequencies and temp (but I use CM to set the frequencies...) next to that, I run juice plotter to see how much battery I have left - it's a very zen type layout for me, and not having this is screwing with me...
Go to settings>application>manage apps and click on the downloaded tab. From there scroll down to each app you want to have a widget for and make sure they are not installed to the sdcard. If they are move them to the phone. No app widgets will work if the app is installed to the sdcard. After you move the apps to the phone, you may need to reboot to get them to show up in the LP widgets.
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Go to settings>application>manage apps and click on the downloaded tab. From there scroll down to each app you want to have a widget for and make sure they are not installed to the sdcard. If they are move them to the phone. No app widgets will work if the app is installed to the sdcard. After you move the apps to the phone, you may need to reboot to get them to show up in the LP widgets.
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Thank you so much - that was exactly it! Got my beautiful home screen back now
Just something to keep in mind if you continue having issues with launcherpro and cm7..I basically had to dump launcherpro while running cm7. Launcherpro was my first non-stock launcher and it was what I was happy and familiar with...but once I moved to cm7 it became a nightmare. Constant lockups and forcecloses, my homescreens would lag up..
Now, I know full well it could just be a problem more with my phone and the way I use it than a cm7 or LP issue, but it was a consistent issue that came back any time I tried to move back to LP and went away whenever I moved to another launcher (using GOlauncher now).
If you want to store apps on the sd with functional widgets and all, you'll need to go the ext3 route. Look for the darktremor a2sd thread on here. You'll also need to repartition your sd to create this ext3 partition, so make sure to backup your sd first.
I've been using the SuperChargerv6 script for quite some time now, and I noticed something annoying: even though my home launcher is set on Hard-to-Kill, after using a memory-intensive app my wallpaper disappears (becomes black). I know that I can bullet-proof it, but I would like it to be linked to the launcher (as in it gets killed after (or at the same time as) the home launcher). Any suggestions?
I don't think you can link an app to the launcher... you'd likely need to go with the bullet-proofing
I've tried the V6 supercharger script, nova, and apex. NONE of them eliminate launcher redraws. It's so annoying!
The only launcher that provides a smooth stock experience with no redraws is...the stock launcher. Why? I love the features of the other launchers, especially being able to back up my homescreen. But the redraws kill the experience. Why is it so hard for aftermarket launchers to replicate the experience?
Whaa...
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ro.HOME_APP_ADJ=1
Try adding this to your build.prop. I had the same problem and this little tweak locks the home screen in memory works great for me. Pay attention, that you don't mess something up in your build.prop!!!
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I believe Apex has the option to lock the launcher in memory, if not do the build.prop tweak in the post ^ mine.
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ro.HOME_APP_ADJ=1
Try adding this to your build.prop. I had the same problem and this little tweak locks the home screen in memory works great for me. Pay attention, that you don't mess something up in your build.prop!!!
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Add. "ro.HOME_APP_ADJ=1" right? I I might use this cause it annoys me too
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Try a less intense kernel too.
Wow. My nova launcher rarely redraws. Rarely. And when it does its quick.
let it be.
Laucher reloads and redraws are the results of Androids wonderful memory management. You'll have to find a launcher which locks in the memory, but by doing so, other apps will auto-kill faster than usual.
When I run nova or anything other than stock launcher, system panel shows its process as "perceptible" and using 40mb of ram while stock launcher has a process running too. Essentially I find its running both launchers, being more prone to kicking it out of memory.
Also on 4.0.1 this happened with the stock launcher getting redrawn. On 4.0.4 it seems to be fixed almost completely.
I still don't have perceptible in my sys panel and my nova usually hovers around 42ish and Max around 50. But I did buy the nova prime and set it as default. No sign of the other launcher unless it is system UI which hovers around 25mb.
let it be.
Yeah I'm jealous then. I been messing around tonight and can't get it to stop showing like that.
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Yeah I'm jealous then. I been messing around tonight and can't get it to stop showing like that.
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This is why I freeze/uninstall all launchers except the one I'm using in Titanium backup. Though you shouldn't really have to, because Android should kill off the old launcher process eventually (when it needs more memory for something else) and it shouldn't return unless you manually switch back to that launcher. But I freeze it anyways just to ensure it doesn't interfere with anything. I freeze a lot of other Google/Android services that I don't use too.
I have been using apex launcher since the beginning on my galaxy nexus. However after android 4.2.2 update, I found that redraws have been really frequent and annoying.
The same happens on my nexus 7, especially after using memory hog apps like the "new hangouts" (really, really poorly optimized...)
Indeed apex reloads always, after exiting from hangouts.
Recently I tried also nova launcher (importing all settings from apex, so my configuration is identical), and I have to say that nova has much less redraws with respect to apex (both on galaxy nexus and nexus 7).
For example when rotating the screen from portrait to landscape, I don't experience any visible redraw with nova, while apex was redrawing quite often...
So far so good, I decided to switch to nova, even if I liked apex really much
wetter app caused launcher redraws
I also had frequent launcher redraws on my GN... the issue came with Android 4.2 and got MUCH worse with the recent 4.3 update (i'm on stock rom).
yesterday I removed the widget from wetteronline.com's "wetter app" I had on my homescreen - and surprise! I could not believe it, did not have a SINGLE launcher redraw since then (2 days heavy use) what a relief...
so I still think it is a bad memory management issue in Android, but maybe it is worth trying if one of your apps or widgets is contributing to the problem.
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