So, I'll try and describe the lag. Supposedly, the Jelly Bean animations are all 60fps. But on the homescreen, when you pull the notification bar, I'm sure you will notice a slight (but still noticeable, at least 30fps) decrease in the smoothness. If you pull the notification bar with an app open (you can easily try it yourself, with the Messaging app, or even the Settings), it will be very smooth.
Is there a way to fix this? By overclocking the processor, the memory, I don't know, something like that? Can I flash something to fix this? I've tried searching everywhere, and people actually complained about it in some ROMs' forums (ParanoidAndroid for instance), but no dev seems to do anything about it.
TL;DR: I've been experiencing a slight lag in the notification bar, in ALL the Jelly Bean ROMs I've tested. Am I doing anything wrong?
PNGC said:
So, I'll try and describe the lag. Supposedly, the Jelly Bean animations are all 60fps. But on the homescreen, when you pull the notification bar, I'm sure you will notice a slight (but still noticeable, at least 30fps) decrease in the smoothness. If you pull the notification bar with an app open (you can easily try it yourself, with the Messaging app, or even the Settings), it will be very smooth.
Is there a way to fix this? By overclocking the processor, the memory, I don't know, something like that? Can I flash something to fix this? I've tried searching everywhere, and people actually complained about it in some ROMs' forums (ParanoidAndroid for instance), but no dev seems to do anything about it.
TL;DR: I've been experiencing a slight lag in the notification bar, in ALL the Jelly Bean ROMs I've tested. Am I doing anything wrong?
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Note: This becomes even more noticeable if you use a Live Wallpaper.
I notice this on my galaxy nexus as well. Must be something weird on jb :/
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I experience the same thing on my HTC One X. The notification drawer is "choppy" and lags when you pull it down home screen, but in apps the notification drawer it is buttery smooth.
This happens on CM10 nightlies (20121006), IceColdJelly 2.4, and the Endeavoru AOSP rom.
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I experience the same thing on my HTC One X. The notification drawer is "choppy" and lags when you pull it down home screen, but in apps the notification drawer it is buttery smooth.
This happens on CM10 nightlies (20121006), IceColdJelly 2.4, and the Endeavoru AOSP rom.
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I also had that in the CM10 but I am now using Maximus 4.1 and it is great on that ROM.
I have the same problem with my Galaxy SII on AOKP JB build 4. :crying:
No lag on sense based build smooth as butter.
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it only lags on the launcher's home screen.. but in apps its very smooth.. anyway to fix it?
I think this might have to do with the background going darker, as you pull the bar down. If you have a solid color wallpaper and drag the bar down, it will lag much less than if you have a picture as wallpaper, and I think this might happen because, when the background goes darker, you can tell it creates some banding, and that may result in the lag.
Anyway, just my two cents.
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I've been experiencing a slight lag in the notification bar, in ALL the Jelly Bean ROMs I've tested. Am I doing anything wrong?
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That's Jelly Bean, the notification drawer is definitely annoying and strange somehow, if you choose a custom background for it you can see that when you pull down the bar the wallpaper seems to scroll down cleanly and @~60fps, and the bottom bar (the one which changes color when you touch it) seems to run at a different framerate.
Someone must fix it!
Try disabling the hw overlays in developer options if its available.
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Try disabling the hw overlays in developer options if its available.
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I've disabled hw overlays in developer options and it is still laggy. This lag is still present in 4.1.2 (running CM10 Nightly).
In Flow's video review of Ice Cold Jelly 3.0 - AOKP, you can also see the lag present when he pulls down notification in the homescreen.
So the current information we have is this:
- notification dropdown lags only in the launcher homescreen and app drawer
- the dropdown is very smooth in apps
- some JB roms on other devices also experience this (GNex and SII) as reported in this thread
- the sense JB rom for One X doesn't have this issue
Do have any devs acknowledging the lag? does any rom's issue tracker have this?
When CM10 reaches RC stage we can find an official bug report
Many people are reporting notification bar dropdown lag, in AOSP based ROMs, and that in Sense-based ones this doesn't occur.
I know there are many kinks and bugs that need to be fixed on all ROMs, and that no ROM is perfect. But seriously, this one really annoys me, it takes all the fun out of Jelly Bean.
There's no Jelly Bean without Butter, and with this lag, it just looks like we're back to the Gingerbread ages.
If anyone could please find/suggest a fix for this, I'd be so, so grateful.
As people have mentioned, the notification bar is buttery smooth when there's an app open, but unless:
- The app is showing a dialog
- The virtual keyboard is showing
I've noticed the above while debugging my app (DataSync), but so far it seems to be an issue on all apps. To replicate try the following:
Open settings
Verify the notification drawer is opening and closing without any lag at all.
Tap "Performance", notice a warning dialog shows
Pull down the notification bar, notice the drop in framerate compared to the last attempt
Close the dialog
Pull down the notification bar again, notice it's once again smooth.
The framerate drop is less noticable with the keyboard open, but still there.
Is there any fix for it? or still no one working on it? Sometimes it is really annoying too see it, i had this problem with my galaxy nexus long long time ago, but when i took him now in hand it seems to be rly smooth.
I can't see any difference in the behaviour of the notification drawer if opening it while navigating the app drawer or while standing by in an app, whatever it is, or even when I drop it down from the homescreen. It's always 40fpsish. I bet it's somehow related to transparency which is completely unneeded and I cant disable it.
My question is WHY a single-core iphone4 notification bar drops down at 1000fps and a quad-core android device should draw it at 40fps.
Someone said "Lol wtf you complain about cm10 is in early nightly stage" well no man now it's stable and completely full of bugs anyway.
I'm subscribed to this thread so I'll still wait for a fix....
For me? cm10 is always in early nightly stage. I changed my rom to rd miui ics becouse of battery. This room is pretty fast, looks good for me. jelly bean roms on galaxy nexus looks much better then ics becouse everywhere we have 60fps. if on onex jb roms i haven't always 60fps i don't need it. I will wait for stable version. jelly bean with standart or bricked kernel, 10h work with 2h display and i havent battery, here i have 16h and 3 h display and still 37%
I notice this a lot myself. Compared to my mother's iPhone 3GS running iOS 5 and my cousin's G2 (Desire Z) running AOKP ICS, the notification shade on my phone is really damn slow. I wonder if this was done intentionally by Google to keep a consistent speed for the shade.
I had this too. Specially at the bottom part of the pulldown menu. It stuttered like crazy. Seems to been gone when I switched from ondemand governor to interactive with input boost enabled.
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Most of the lag on ics is caused by the soft key animations. There are some build of cm9 without these although they have been added back in this week. I think that they should be remove as they don't really serve any purpose and they usually look choppy anyway. They do in fact add significant lag to any animation that happens at the same time such as the app drawer closing or the notification pane sliding closed.
I am running stock on a Rogers GSM Galaxy Nexus, China batch. No lag here.
Your own experience is not equal to everyone elses.
Like when the Captivate got released, mine was buttery smooth, my wifes was a choppy nightmare.
Exchange your GN for another one if its so choppy.
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Most of the lag on ics is caused by the soft key animations. There are some build of cm9 without these although they have been added back in this week. I think that they should be remove as they don't really serve any purpose and they usually look choppy anyway. They do in fact add significant lag to any animation that happens at the same time such as the app drawer closing or the notification pane sliding closed.
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Not true.
I have removed the animations entirely in our team rom. A lot of what they are blamed for is individual perception. They do not cause the majority of lag.
I've been trying to supercharge my galaxy nexus but with it now on jelly bean it is a real pain. I followed zeps way but still can't get 100% only 50%, i think the one thing I am missing is patching the service jar files but i'm new to this and can't figure out what i'm doing wrong. Is there a way to get a total breakdown of what to do, usually with instructions I can figure it out buts I'm still confused after reading Zeps thread. Any help is always appreciated thank you
did it yesyerday night,easy way,download the auto-patcher from HERE and you have 100%.let me say how it goes!it's more easy with that patcher,instead of do it manually like i did me before i found that tool...lol
Anyways i have a question.it's the first time i try this on gnex,did you tied this before this time?if yes,on ics i think,right?i'm curious to see if there are improvements or only placebo effect.for now,have better multitasking and i can open more apps than before..but i have yet to see better if it's usefull or not..because i change rom very often and all the time do always this steps..also if it's more easy with the patcher it's a hassle
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did it yesyerday night,easy way,download the auto-patcher from HERE and you have 100%.let me say how it goes!it's more easy with that patcher,instead of do it manually like i did me before i found that tool...lol
Anyways i have a question.it's the first time i try this on gnex,did you tied this before this time?if yes,on ics i think,right?i'm curious to see if there are improvements or only placebo effect.for now,have better multitasking and i can open more apps than before..but i have yet to see better if it's usefull or not..because i change rom very often and all the time do always this steps..also if it's more easy with the patcher it's a hassle
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I did supercharge ICS and that was easy, I will try to supercharge JB to see if there are any improvements on my end but I had the LG Revo before the Nexus on Gingerbread and the supercharger made that so much faster, I'm usually not multi tasking but I just want my device to be as fast as I can make it and yes I also am a flashaholic lol
Supercharged 100%!!! will ride this out for a while and see if i see any improvement, I will keep you informed
Any of you guys have strange issues with the softkeys on your navbar when using supercharger on Gnex? I had no issues whatsoever on my last two devices but now on the gnex right after I reboot with the patched services.jar my phone either starts with the "back" and "home" buttons already visible on the lockscreen but the "recents" button is completely gone (they are supposed to not be visible until you unlock the device), or no buttons show up at all on the navbar, in both instances I can still tap the navbar where the softkeys should be and get a response but the softkeys themselves just aren't there. Sometimes the 4G/Radio icon in the notification bar does not show up until you pull down the notification menu either. I am using ParanoidAndroid so it might just be an issue with v6 related to that particular rom. I do know it's the script though because when I return the original unpatched services.jar to the /system/app/ and reboot everything looks fine again.
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Any of you guys have strange issues with the softkeys on your navbar when using supercharger on Gnex? I had no issues whatsoever on my last two devices but now on the gnex right after I reboot with the patched services.jar my phone either starts with the "back" and "home" buttons already visible on the lockscreen but the "recents" button is completely gone (they are supposed to not be visible until you unlock the device), or no buttons show up at all on the navbar, in both instances I can still tap the navbar where the softkeys should be and get a response but the softkeys themselves just aren't there. Sometimes the 4G/Radio icon in the notification bar does not show up until you pull down the notification menu either. I am using ParanoidAndroid so it might just be an issue with v6 related to that particular rom. I do know it's the script though because when I return the original unpatched services.jar to the /system/app/ and reboot everything looks fine again.
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I haven't had any issues with that but sometimes when I reboot I can see my Homepage and apps behind the lockscreen before I unlock and also sometimes when I reboot there is no signal so 3g or 4g so I need to reboot again. This is my first attempt at patching the services.jar on the any device so I will give a trial run and see if I will continue, so far I'm eating more battery and not getting much better performance if at all. I'm not familar with ParanoidAndroid but I'm sure you checked your nav button settings but not sure what the problem is.
Supercharger could do wonders on Gingerbread. I'm not so sure about its impact on Jelly Bean though. Not quite sure it's needed.
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Supercharger could do wonders on Gingerbread. I'm not so sure about its impact on Jelly Bean though. Not quite sure it's needed.
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The improvement on redraws alone is remarkable on jb ROMs, the speed increase as well as battery life is noticeable also..
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I tried to install it once on JB with the automated script but it would not replace my services.jar so it did not get installed. I had redraws with the Trebuchet launcher but not since I installed Apex launcher so I have not given this script a second thought.
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I think touchwiz has come a long way. It really adds alot to stock android in my opinion, and im not just talking about the s pen additions.
The dialer, the whole phone app in general, all the motion settings...
What I want to talk about are issues that people have with touchwiz in general, meaning, reasons that you would jump ship to a custom rom, and I'd like to see if anyone would have solutions to these issues.
Ill give you a few examples of my own experiences.
1) I need to have a battery percentage in the status bar. So when youre running any rom worth its salt, there's an option for that. I was going through the settings on the note 2 and there it was, built into the touchwiz settings... im curious to know when this was added because im pretty sure it wasnt there in gingerbread.
2) I like the additions to the stock player but to me, its still not functional enough, I at least need a screen lock. When I mentioned this in a post, someone pointed out that screen lock is built in now, all you need to do is press the power key when playing a video and it locks the screen.
3) I remember someone posting about how on this phone, the calls and messages show up in the call log and how annoying that is. I just looked for a second and realized that theres a way to change that. When youre in the call log, you hit menu then view by.
I think we could all benefit from learning about the other "hidden features and functionality" in touchwiz. For example, I still have an issue with the stock video player that you cant easily fast forward by dragging like other players and there doesnt seem to be any options or preferences built it...
What I want from Touchwiz is wallpaper scrolling and the option to change the screen grid. Other than that, it has really improved a lot and I'm pretty much comfortable using it now.
most touchwiz doesn't work for me because I work in a 240dpi environment and touchwiz doesn't scale well in it. not even the Samsung keyboard loads, it just FCs. I use different launcher, different dialer. stock kernel is not too battery friendly...I got almost 2 days usage with jedi master 2 rom with normal usage (yes, it's touchwiz based but wherever I can change it I do).
why would I jump ship?
- better environment scaling in 240dpi
- better/longer battery life
- faster operations
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most touchwiz doesn't work for me because I work in a 240dpi environment and touchwiz doesn't scale well in it. not even the Samsung keyboard loads, it just FCs. I use different launcher, different dialer. stock kernel is not too battery friendly...I got almost 2 days usage with jedi master 2 rom with normal usage (yes, it's touchwiz based but wherever I can change it I do).
why would I jump ship?
- better environment scaling in 240dpi
- better/longer battery life
- faster operations
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+1 on Jedi... I consider myself an "advanced" user and stock touchwiz is not quite there yet but if you add Jedi's rom and Nova launcher then it makes the experience much better imo... I don't mess around with dpi settings as I will just wait for a rom that will customize that to my liking. We are lacking in the development department right now but as soon as it picks up there should be lots of great options for us...:fingers-crossed: And as far as scrollable wallpapers... I just download Zedge & an app called wallpaper changer and I have on demand scrollable wallpapers in Nova!
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I think touchwiz has come a long way. It really adds alot to stock android in my opinion, and im not just talking about the s pen additions.
The dialer, the whole phone app in general, all the motion settings...
What I want to talk about are issues that people have with touchwiz in general, meaning, reasons that you would jump ship to a custom rom, and I'd like to see if anyone would have solutions to these issues.
Ill give you a few examples of my own experiences.
1) I need to have a battery percentage in the status bar. So when youre running any rom worth its salt, there's an option for that. I was going through the settings on the note 2 and there it was, built into the touchwiz settings... im curious to know when this was added because im pretty sure it wasnt there in gingerbread.
2) I like the additions to the stock player but to me, its still not functional enough, I at least need a screen lock. When I mentioned this in a post, someone pointed out that screen lock is built in now, all you need to do is press the power key when playing a video and it locks the screen.
3) I remember someone posting about how on this phone, the calls and messages show up in the call log and how annoying that is. I just looked for a second and realized that theres a way to change that. When youre in the call log, you hit menu then view by.
I think we could all benefit from learning about the other "hidden features and functionality" in touchwiz. For example, I still have an issue with the stock video player that you cant easily fast forward by dragging like other players and there doesnt seem to be any options or preferences built it...
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Hi OP,
If u go to Settings -> Display and if you select Display Battery Percentage, it'll show you the battery percentage in the notification bar.
I'd like a better home screen layout. 5x4 is a GINORMOUS waste of space.
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achusaysblessyou said:
Hi OP,
If u go to Settings -> Display and if you select Display Battery Percentage, it'll show you the battery percentage in the notification bar.
I'd like a better home screen layout. 5x4 is a GINORMOUS waste of space.
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i guess i wasnt clear, i found it, but i never knew it was there... and the homescreen layout... use a different launcher..
The only thing I missed from a custom launcher are:
1) can't change the icon grid, would like a 5x5 at least.
2) can't lock the home screen. Hate it when I accidentally moved stuff after having it setup perfectly the way I want it.
Also it would be great if we can select which app the page buddy brings up.
The only thing that really pushed me away from TouchWiz is that you can’t move the “Apps” button in the dock. I can’t reach the button when holding the phone in my left hand, one handed.
I really hate the lock screen. I was running a ROM with AOSP JB lock screen on my previous phone. I use the lock screen music controls all the time.
On Touchwiz lock screen if you use the basic swipe lock, you get the quick apps at the bottom, but the music controls don't show up at the top (at least not for Spotify or DoggCatcher). I can turn on pattern unlock, then it will show the lock screen music controls, but I lose the quick apps (I find it useful to access Google Search or Camera from lock screen).
The only solution to get both is to use pattern unlock with swipe gesture. This gives me the swipe lock screen with quick apps at the bottom, then when I swipe it gives me the pattern unlock with music controls at the top. WAY too many steps to access these two features that apparently can't be on the lock screen at the same time.
Can't say I often log in just to reply to a thread here, I'm more of a lurker. But I definitely feel the need to contribute to this.
I actually just returned my Note 2 (with the intention of getting an unlocked Nexus 4 in a couple days) and one of the major reasons was TouchWiz.
I hate it. Hate hate hate it. I hate the notification bar customizations. I hate that they've taken something as wonderful as power toggles in the notification bar and so badly butchered them. The entire notification pulldown is a crowded clusterfk compared to vanilla Android (full disclosure: I'm a long time vanilla Android user through Nexus devices/AOSP ROMs). The low DPI for a phone with such a big screen is damn absurd. I feel like I'm using my 37" computer monitor at 1280*1024. The TouchWiz customizations to the settings UI is just as bad or worse than Sense. If anything the Note 2 should be using the default Android tablet settings UI. The TouchWiz lock screen is a step up in customization from vanilla Android, but I still think it's ugly as all hell. Most of it is fluff that doesn't add any function or aesthetics. Not specifically TouchWiz related, but I loathe that they moved the back button from the left side of the screen as in vanilla JB to the left side via a capacitive hardware button.
I don't hate ALL of Samsung's tinkering. S-Voice was actually a phenomenal surprise and I'm going to dearly miss it. I could actually reliably send text messages with it without ever so much as glancing at the phone. Voice recognition was fantastic and it covered basic phone features better than vanilla Android's default abilities.
What I would really LOVE to have is a Note 2 without the hardware buttons, running AOSP with S-Voice and the S-Pen apps. Perhaps one day if there's a stable CM release where I can install extracted APKs for the Samsung apps I may get another one. Until then I'm going to stick with the Nexus line. TouchWiz really is that bad IMO.
... at least TouchWiz is a lot better than one of the first versions of it with the Behold II *shudders* I used one of those for a week.
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Can't say I often log in just to reply to a thread here, I'm more of a lurker. But I definitely feel the need to contribute to this.
I actually just returned my Note 2 (with the intention of getting an unlocked Nexus 4 in a couple days) and one of the major reasons was TouchWiz.
I hate it. Hate hate hate it. I hate the notification bar customizations. I hate that they've taken something as wonderful as power toggles in the notification bar and so badly butchered them. The entire notification pulldown is a crowded clusterfk compared to vanilla Android (full disclosure: I'm a long time vanilla Android user through Nexus devices/AOSP ROMs). The low DPI for a phone with such a big screen is damn absurd. I feel like I'm using my 37" computer monitor at 1280*1024. The TouchWiz customizations to the settings UI is just as bad or worse than Sense. If anything the Note 2 should be using the default Android tablet settings UI. The TouchWiz lock screen is a step up in customization from vanilla Android, but I still think it's ugly as all hell. Most of it is fluff that doesn't add any function or aesthetics. Not specifically TouchWiz related, but I loathe that they moved the back button from the left side of the screen as in vanilla JB to the left side via a capacitive hardware button.
I don't hate ALL of Samsung's tinkering. S-Voice was actually a phenomenal surprise and I'm going to dearly miss it. I could actually reliably send text messages with it without ever so much as glancing at the phone. Voice recognition was fantastic and it covered basic phone features better than vanilla Android's default abilities.
What I would really LOVE to have is a Note 2 without the hardware buttons, running AOSP with S-Voice and the S-Pen apps. Perhaps one day if there's a stable CM release where I can install extracted APKs for the Samsung apps I may get another one. Until then I'm going to stick with the Nexus line. TouchWiz really is that bad IMO.
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I find it entertaining that you mentioned you are an avid vanilla android user, then explain how you run custom roms. *boggle* Enjoy the on screen buttons taking up real estate, 16gb of total memory, and yearning for the s-pen. Btw, something as simple as go launcher could allow you to set up plenty of things you want, to include a 5x5 icon set.
I could go on and on, but to be honest, I don't think it will be long for you to realize you are making a mistake. *cough* battery
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I find it entertaining that you mentioned you are an avid vanilla android user, then explain how you run custom roms. *boggle* Enjoy the on screen buttons taking up real estate, 16gb of total memory, and yearning for the s-pen. Btw, something as simple as go launcher could allow you to set up plenty of things you want, to include a 5x5 icon set.
I could go on and on, but to be honest, I don't think it will be long for you to realize you are making a mistake. *cough* battery
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He does have a point with a lot of that stuff, particularly the lock screen music control. I just don't understand why it's so hard to add it just under the weather, or as a small bar just above the other lockscreen targets at the bottom of the screen. That's the most frustrating thing for me, as most the the other stuff he mentioned can be changed, and if it can't I'm willing to overlook it for a while because of all the added features this phone brings.
I have been using power amp for music since my DroidX2 back when we yearned for an eq... so its always been there for me (the lock screen music control).
Everything mentioned can be addressed. That's the beauty of android; customizing your android experience. What people have become is lazy because roms do it for you.
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I find it entertaining that you mentioned you are an avid vanilla android user, then explain how you run custom roms. *boggle*
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How so? AOSP ROMS are pretty well vanilla with very minor tweaks. Nothing like horribly reskinned menus at every turn. *yahtzee*
I use ADW EX to do a hell of a lot more than add icons to my home screen. Changing the launcher can only do so much to fix a horrible complete OS reskin.
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How so? AOSP ROMS are pretty well vanilla with very minor tweaks. Nothing like horribly reskinned menus at every turn. *yahtzee*
I use ADW EX to do a hell of a lot more than add icons to my home screen. Changing the launcher can only do so much to fix a horrible complete OS reskin.
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Only thing that looks skined on my phobe now isctge lockscreen, and im sure I can fix that with a lock screen app. Otherwise my launcher is now ADW, my notification bar is themed blue with circle battery and stock JB settings/clear all buttons. No brightness bar in notification window either. In all honesty there is not much mire I was able to change on my Galaxy Nexus that I cant on here, visually. In the options department Samsung has done a wonderful job and I currently dont miss anything from AOKP other then the widget popups on nav bar (would love to hold say menu button to get that on here)
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As we all know that the 4.2.2 update made our phone as fast as the 4.1.2. But it has a bug, at least for Maguro (not happening on my N7). Do you ever get a laggy scrolling on homesceen, when entering app drawer and scrolling in recent apps? I believe everyone has it. But only few people notice it. I have tried all 4.2.2 ROMs. AOSPA, AOKP, PAC, etc and all of them has this bug (I have done a clean flashing). And I have tried all launchers, Nova, Apex, Holo, Action Launcher, Stock, but the lag is still back!
The (systemUI) lag has to do with rendering (static) wallpapers. This can be solved by:
1. Setting a live wallpaper
2. Temporarily, by pressing the app switcher button, rotating the screen and pressing the back button
3. Disabling system autorotate
4. Making the launcher (instead of systemUI) handle the rendering of wallpapers. In Nova launcher, use the 'force scrolling' option, in Trebuchet (CM) use the 'wallpaper quick render' option
5.. Using an app to set static wallpapers as if it were a live wallpaper
Also, emptying cache for all user and system apps using Titanium Backup seems to affect the issue positively. Please note that this might result in some settings being set to stock (like the keyboard, snooze duration and some other minor things).
Well, this is only for temporarily solution for those of you that getting sick of this bug. Waiting for the fix from Google.
Thanks to Butter Smooth for summarizing
Tiny Kernel and Crossbreeder Mod = No lag for me.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=37062006
AW: Solution for laggy homescreen and systemUI in 4.2.2 update
I've noticed the choppy transitions in 4.2.2. too and I'm glad I'm not the only one
Another finding is that changing the wallpaper makes the transitions smooth again. But the choppiness returns after a while. I'll try your tip tomorrow and report...
This thread needs closed.
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So, report it.
using xperia z live wallpaper with water ripple and it's free
I have notice this as well. Static wallpapers cause app drawer lag for me and when I use phase beam its lag free! Weird considering live wallpapers usually slow down the system..
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To me 4.2.2 seems the most stable version so far, it's very much consistent, and scrolling in the recent apps menu gets laggy after I scroll a certain amount, and ofc when removing the process it lags, but this was present in 4.2.1 as well, i would have to say that as far as performance say, it's much more consistent than previous versions,
Static wallpaper or live, i see no difference
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im using latest pa (4.2.2) with apex launcher with a few widgets and have no lag whatsoever. i use a solid black color as backround.
Ridho1 said:
As we all know that the 4.2.2 update made our phone as fast as the 4.1.2. But it has a bug, at least for Maguro (not happening on my N7). Do you ever get a laggy scrolling on homesceen, when entering app drawer and scrolling in recent apps? I believe everyone has it. But only few people notice it. I have tried all 4.2.2 ROMs. AOSPA, AOKP, PAC, etc and all of them has this bug (I have done a clean flashing). And I have tried all launchers, Nova, Apex, Holo, Action Launcher, Stock, but the lag is still back!
And I just found that the lag is gone when I use a livewallpaper. I use the phasebeam and get no lag until now (2 days).
Well, this is only for temporarily solution for those of you that getting sick of this bug. Waiting for the fix from Google.
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There's actually a lot of truth to the live wallpaper trick. Back on the Photon forums, we would use this technique to smoothen out the UI on our ICS and JB releases since we did not have a proper kernel and drivers, thus terrible onscreen performance. But this fix has existed since ICS! And it works!
Regarding the live wallpaper being smooth. It might have something to do with scrolling wallpapers too. How is everyone's feelings on a static, non scrollable wallpaper? Or is that what we are talking about?
I've had the choppyness too.
I am now using plasma beam and will report back. I also am going to try it on my nexus 10.
I'm telling you guys, try out the combo I posted in post 2. It really removes lag.
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jsgraphicart said:
Regarding the live wallpaper being smooth. It might have something to do with scrolling wallpapers too. How is everyone's feelings on a static, non scrollable wallpaper? Or is that what we are talking about?
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i use it like that(single homescreen no scroll)and i noticed the same lagging issue after a while
but i think it has to do with how you set the wallpaper, when i used zedge or image2wallpaper to set them the issue stated on the OP appeared
but if i use the stock gallery to set them and the problem is mostly gone
something else ive noticed is that the status bar lag only happens when on the launcher screen, open any app and pull the SB and its smooth, go back to the homescreen and pull it,its choppy
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still happens even after using the stock gallery
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Using plasma live wallpaper. So far so good.
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I've noticed the same problem with 4.2.2 ever since it came out. I usually use Phase Beam so I never noticed it. Only when I switched to a static wallpaper (one of the stock ones) for a day did I notice that the transitions into and out of app drawer and scrolling through home screens gets choppy. I never did find a way to reproduce it reliably, but I do know that if you use it long enough it will start to happen.
Immediately fixes itself by setting to any Live Wallpaper as OP had suggested.
Problem only started to occur with 4.2.2. Never had it happen in 4.2.1 or 4.1.x.
jsgraphicart said:
I'm telling you guys, try out the combo I posted in post 2. It really removes lag.
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Then try to swipe on lockscreen between widgets if you have some. You will notice that the lag is still there, but atleast its a better deal to have it on lockscreen then on homescreen.
greetz
vbauer86 said:
Then try to swipe on lockscreen between widgets if you have some. You will notice that the lag is still there, but atleast its a better deal to have it on lockscreen then on homescreen.
greetz
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I don't know man. I'm either lucky or just not as picky but I don't even notice lag there. I have a few screens of widgets on my lock screen too.
Set a static wallpaper, go back to home screen or lock your device. Then, swipe down the notification bar and notice how choppy it appears.
Now, go inside an application, like Calculator - swipe down the notification bar and notice how smooth it is.
Set a live wallpaper, go back to home screen or lock your device. Then, swipe down the notification bar and notice how smooth it appears.
I don't get it...
akira02rex said:
Set a static wallpaper, go back to home screen or lock your device. Then, swipe down the notification bar and notice how choppy it appears.
Now, go inside an application, like Calculator - swipe down the notification bar and notice how smooth it is.
Set a live wallpaper, go back to home screen or lock your device. Then, swipe down the notification bar and notice how smooth it appears.
I don't get it...
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Ok, I see what you're saying now. It was slightly smoother. Thats odd.
here you go.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZpdhpTEX6o&feature=youtu.be
rom: latest purity
kernel: ak kernel, rubix
nova launcher with "faster than light" animations and all other animations turned down to 0.5x.
A video with no details on how to help those people who lag on 4.2.2 doesn't really do anything for them.
magozz said:
A video with no details on how to help those people who lag on 4.2.2 doesn't really do anything for them.
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edited op. i had lag on 4.2.2 with the stock launcher but once i installed nova and changed all the animation speeds everything changed to bullet speed.
Thanks for the video.
No offense but I don't think we're talking about the same sort of "lag". The one we're talking about is a system bug that came with 4.2.2. causes frame rates slowdown when scrolling between homescreens, lockscreens and in recents. When it appears you can even notice it while switching between the tabs in notification pulldown (gets really choppy). Problem appears randomly, sometimes after couple of hours, sometimes after a day or two. It cannot be eliminated by simple launcher change and turning animations off.
Turning animations off makes scrolling look faster indeed but it kills fluidity on the other hand which I really really don't like.
forever_lol said:
Thanks for the video.
No offense but I don't think we're talking about the same sort of "lag". The one we're talking about is a system bug that came with 4.2.2. causes frame rates slowdown when scrolling between homescreens, lockscreens and in recents. When it appears you can even notice it while switching between the tabs in notification pulldown (gets really choppy). Problem appears randomly, sometimes after couple of hours, sometimes after a day or two. It cannot be eliminated by simple launcher change and turning animations off.
Turning animations off makes scrolling look faster indeed but it kills fluidity on the other hand which I really really don't like.
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to each his own but i prefer having animations off. i havent seen any choppiness, even while doing the stuff you mentioned, and ive used 4.2.2 for 2 days now.
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srsparky32 said:
to each his own but i prefer having animations off. i havent seen any choppiness, even while doing the stuff you mentioned, and ive used 4.2.2 for 2 days now.
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Rebooting, changing wallpaper, rotating screen (under recents) are known workarounds to temporarily get rid of this lag. Probability to reproduce the issue is lower when you did one/ some of them.
Workarounds aren't a fix for the sluggishness - it's still a workaround. And nothing is a workaround for worse RAM management compared to 4.1.2.
Hmm try opening a couple of tabs in browser (5+) and open the tab switcher and scroll. If you see lag, well done. If you don't, the flash 4.1 to see real butter. I can go on and on but the browser is the most apparent lag. Battery life too. Do not suggest me to flash custom kernels, been there done that. 4.2 is just a laggy mess all over. I've wiped, flash factory images, try out many roms even the rom OP is using. But none are as fast as good old 4.1
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Look's as fast as F1 car! :good: