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[APP]homescreen 3D cube(and more)with MultiPicture Live Wallpaper and Launcher Pro

FOR THE USERS WHO JUST WANT TO SEE THE VIDEO DEMO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZHIH7F0Z4g
Have you had an LG phone like the BL-40 Chocolate or the KP-500 cookie before with that cool 3d cube thingy, and wish you had the same for your android phone? Well, here's something that closely resembles that.
The chocolate had 2 home screens, and the wallpaper can be set differently for the two screens. When i bought the galaxy s, my very first android phone, i hoped that it had a similar thing, only now with 7 home screens to fill widgets with. Sadly, it didn't come with that feature (although the live wallpapers was a cool alternative).
And then i came across MultiPicture Live Wallpaper (free on the market) that let me set a different picture for each homescreen. AND it came with some AWESOME screen transitions. Also, you are not limited to just one picture, you can set a whole album to be shuffled for each homescreen. Cool yeah?
So i was impressed with that. Then I saw that launcher pro was having an update. In the newest version, Fede included some cool transition effects so I immediately updated and tried it out.
I don't know if it was fate or what, but the transition effects of the live wallpaper and launcher pro really work great together. Now my phone looks cooler than before!
IMPORTANT THINGS TO TAKE NOTE BEFORE TRYING THIS OUT:
Scrolling speed is different for the live wallpaper and the launcher, so i recommend playing with the minimum scrolling speed setting of launcher pro (launcher pro settings > advanced settings > minimum scrolling speed). If you find the wallpaper lagging behind your widgets/shortcuts, try setting the scroll speed to faster speed until they are in sync when scrolling.
IF MULTIPICTURE LIVE WALLPAPER FROM THE MARKET DOESN'T WORK AS IT SHOULD, OR IF IT LAGS TRY THIS OLD VERSION THAT I HAVE.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16398746/Apps Backup/MultiPicture Live Wallpaper.0.4.8.apk
If this solves your problem good for you. If it doesn't, well it sucks to be you. LOL
people are reporting that in Darky's v9 this wallpaper doesn't work properly.. haven't tried it though since im in v8.1.. people on V9, please try the old version and report back if it works.. thanks..
neilbantoc said:
If it's lagging, here are a few tips you could try.
1. Reduce pictures to your screen's size.. My screen is 800x480 so I resized my pictures to that size.. The file size of the picture may have an impact on the performance of the live wallpaper, so keeping it as small as possible may help speed things up..
2. Swipe your finger as slow and as short as possible.. I don't remember if I did this in the video, but whenever I swipe my finger, I do it slowly and my finger touches the screen for about half an inch.. This helps slow things down by registering a slow homescreen swipe..
3. Try less hardware intensive but visually unimpressive transitions.. My personal favorites are wipe, card and swap.. Wipe is the fastest for me..
4. Contact the developer and see if you could help out.. Im not the developer of the live wallpaper so I can't really do anything to improve it from a programmer's point of view..
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BE SURE TO UNCHECK THE DISABLE WALLPAPER SCROLLING OPTION IN LAUNCHER PRO. go to launcher pro settings > appearance settings > disable wallpaper scrolling. Naturally if you leave that setting on, your wallpaper won't scroll.
YOU DON'T NEED TO USE BOTH THE LAUNCHER AND THE LIVE WALLPAPER. You can use a different Launcher on MPLW, and a different Wallpaper on Launcher Pro. But do take note that you can't have the launcher transition effects in a different launcher, and the Live Wallpaper transition effects in the live wallpaper..
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Here's how to create the same setup
1. Download launcher pro. It's free and i believe the transition effects come with the free version.
2. Customize to your hearts content. Place widgets, shortcuts, etc just fill the homescreen with content so that you can see the effect.
3. Select transition effect. Press the context menu button while on your homescreen > preferences > homescreen settings > transition effect.
4. Download Multipicture Live Wallpaper and set it as your wallpaper
5. Set a picture for each homescreen. You can even set a whole folder to shuffle pictures from.
6. Set the transition effect that you want to go with your launcher pro transition effect. Press the context menu while on your homescreen>wallpaper>configure.
7. Enjoy!
Tip - go to launcher pro settings > advanced settings > minimum scrolling speed, then set it to 0.. it will slower the swipe speed (provided that you swiped your finger slowly as well)
Transition effects that go nicely with each other as shown in the video:
LP - Cube
MPLW - Cube
LP - Scale
MPLW - Swap
LP - Flip
MPLW - Swing
Not shown in video:
LP - Cube
MPLW - Wipe
LP - Rotation
MPLW - Card

Very nice effects. Thanks!!!

Ok im using a galaxy S with darkyys rom 9.0 and Voodoo 5.2 kernel.
Im using the latest launcher pro plus 0.8.3.
I download the app and go into setings and set individual settings for each screen, but when i go back to the homescreen it says no picture available please set picture on a black screen.
I cant double tap any of the homescreens to set a picture either.
I have noticed from some looking around that you have to go into default settings and pick screen type... but i have no default settings on my app or i cant figure out how to get into it.
Please help me set this up properly!!!

cabessius said:
Very nice effects. Thanks!!!
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Glad you liked it.

Nice FMA song in background
About Multiwallpaper just awesome

zolah said:
Ok im using a galaxy S with darkyys rom 9.0 and Voodoo 5.2 kernel.
Im using the latest launcher pro plus 0.8.3.
I download the app and go into setings and set individual settings for each screen, but when i go back to the homescreen it says no picture available please set picture on a black screen.
I cant double tap any of the homescreens to set a picture either.
I have noticed from some looking around that you have to go into default settings and pick screen type... but i have no default settings on my app or i cant figure out how to get into it.
Please help me set this up properly!!!
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I heard darky v9 was buggy, that's why I settled for v8.1 ay the moment.. Anyway, I'm just your average android user, not a dev or anything but I'll try to help you out as much as I can..
First, can you post screen shots of your multi picture live wallpaper settings screen? I'll try to find a back up of my old version of that wallpaper for you to try.. I think the transition effects were included in the old versions..
EDIT: The link to the old MPLW is in the first post.. try it!
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sedinix said:
Nice FMA song in background
About Multiwallpaper just awesome
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Thanks.. Makes me want to watch fma all over again..
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FMA Is great
I'm buy donate version its cheap and I hope you make more good apps
Ok im using a galaxy S with darkyys rom 9.0 and Voodoo 5.2 kernel.
Im using the latest launcher pro plus 0.8.3.
I download the app and go into setings and set individual settings for each screen, but when i go back to the homescreen it says no picture available please set picture on a black screen.
I cant double tap any of the homescreens to set a picture either.
I have noticed from some looking around that you have to go into default settings and pick screen type... but i have no default settings on my app or i cant figure out how to get into it.
Please help me set this up properly!!!
I heard darky v9 was buggy, that's why I settled for v8.1 ay the moment.. Anyway, I'm just your average android user, not a dev or anything but I'll try to help you out as much as I can..
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I'm on darky 9,0 Voodoo same as you and all works perfect. Maybe You have some options on check LP>Appearance Settings> disable wallpaper scrolling I think that option must be unchecked
I have this on and MPLW dasn't work

*FYI* You can use this with other launchers or if you can't find the setting inside Launcher Pro to set the transition (I HAD THIS PROBLEM THE SECOND TIME AROUND) This guide will help you. If anybody is using a different launcher like me I use ADW EX you might not be able to see the transition setting inside the launcher settings. You can still set this transition. While setting multipicture live wallpaper you can go into the settings before you actually save the wallpaper, scroll down to Drawing Settings and select your desired transition under Transition Type.
Before exiting I go into each individual screen setting for example Screen 1 Settings and click on Type of Screen then select Single Picture, Select desired image from gallery and then continue to do the same for Screen 2 Settings untill I have done all of my home screen wallpapers *BE SURE TO HAVE SCROLLABLE WALLPAPER ACTIVE IN YOUR SETTINGS ELSE YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO USE MULTIPICTURE WALLPAPER ****OP you might want to place all of this information in your 1st post***

Amazing! wow, thank you for sharing.. love it.. Thank you!

sedinix said:
I'm buy donate version its cheap and I hope you make more good apps
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I didn't make any of the apps.. Im just sharing what i've discovered..

uppon2 said:
*FYI* You can use this with other launchers or if you can't find the setting inside Launcher Pro to set the transition (I HAD THIS PROBLEM THE SECOND TIME AROUND)
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Well technically it is a live wallpaper, and live wallpapers are not tied to a launcher (at lest MPLW isn't) so yeah, you can use it with other launchers. But the point of this post was to show that the new Launcher Pro version's new feature are these transition effects, and those new effects go pretty well with the transition effects in MPLW..

neilbantoc said:
Well technically it is a live wallpaper, and live wallpapers are not tied to a launcher (at lest MPLW isn't) so yeah, you can use it with other launchers. But the point of this post was to show that the new Launcher Pro version's new feature are these transition effects, and those new effects go pretty well with the transition effects in MPLW..
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It makes it seem like you need to use LP due to the nature of your original post. I was just clarifying it for the interested parties.

I have Darky`s v9.0 and it works great. Thanks

I installed the older version and it works fine now.
It loses the settings though if the phone is switched off and back on.

Ive set 5 different wallpapers to 5 different homescreens, disabled scrolling, but my wall paper isnt switching when i cange home screens, with or with out transition effect aplied in either mplw, or launcher pro plus . any ideas???

nvm .......

PacoCGN said:
I have Darky`s v9.0 and it works great. Thanks
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Good to hear that..
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zolah said:
I installed the older version and it works fine now.
It loses the settings though if the phone is switched off and back on.
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Well that's better than nothing.. Sorry that it couldn't work properly for you though..
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monoxide.tryst said:
Ive set 5 different wallpapers to 5 different homescreens, disabled scrolling, but my wall paper isnt switching when i cange home screens, with or with out transition effect aplied in either mplw, or launcher pro plus . any ideas???
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That was a typo. You should leave the disable wallpaper scrolling option unchecked.. Sorry about that, I corrected the instructions..
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Launcher Pro / Go Launcher back button returns to home screen

Did anybody noticed that on GS2, when you hit the back button from within an app, both launcher pro and go launcher brings you back to the home screen instead of the app drawer?
i.e.
Home -> App Drawer -> App
When you hit back on touchwiz:
App -> App Drawer -> Home
When you hit back on launcher pro/go launcer
App -> Home
Is there a fix to this problem?

Ye sometimes it pisses me off as well! I think we should tell the developers of these two apps to implement the change in an update!

This is extremely annoying. It seems to be Rom related. There's no problem with my cousin's desire Z

Really annoying! =/

I suppose it is a matter of preference, I do most of my things on my homescreens anyway so it doesn't bother me that much but to cater for everyone I guess they (launcher and rom devs) could add an option to turn this on or off.

ValmarWeln said:
I suppose it is a matter of preference, I do most of my things on my homescreens anyway so it doesn't bother me that much but to cater for everyone I guess they (launcher and rom devs) could add an option to turn this on or off.
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Agreed, option would be cool. Lets wait for an update.

Is it really an option issue that is causing this or is it some sort of coding incompatibility?

WidgetLocker + GoLancher = trouble?

When i shut my phone off and turn it back on it will get to the widget locker lock screen like it should but once i slide to unlock there will be no icons on my screen? I have root and am using widgetlockers home helper thing it also did this using lancher pro.
I usually have to turn the phone on and off a few times before the icons will show after unlock.
Any ideas?

Maybe you should set it to default when it asks which one you want to use..
Or I haven't understood your problem
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I would ask in the widget locker and go launcher help thread in the main android app section. I use both in conjunction and have had zero issues but I know the last go update was fixing some icon issues so make sure you update.
Also more info could be helpful. Such as what rom, kernel, etc

go lancher is set as the default. It's once you unlock from the lock screen there will be no icons.
I'm using the stock ROM rooted KE7 2.3.3

David9723 said:
go lancher is set as the default. It's once you unlock from the lock screen there will be no icons.
I'm using the stock ROM rooted KE7 2.3.3
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Are you using the integrated icon switching or are you using desktop Visualizer?

bclark said:
Are you using the integrated icon switching or are you using desktop Visualizer?
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I'm not sure what you mean? I really haven't did anything but set go lancher as the default lancher and in widget locker i had to set it to use WL HomeHelper (optional) if i don't you can double press the home button and bypass the screen lock.
It's random when the icons don't come up after a unlock.

David9723 said:
I'm not sure what you mean? I really haven't did anything but set go lancher as the default lancher and in widget locker i had to set it to use WL HomeHelper (optional) if i don't you can double press the home button and bypass the screen lock.
It's random when the icons don't come up after a unlock.
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Are you using custom icons? If not, or even if so bring it up to the go dev team. Definitely looks to be something on their end. Have to tried to replicate it without widget locker?

Nothing to do with widget locker I think (I use it too in conjuction with Go Launcher) however there seems to be a bit of a bug in Go Launcher where icons randomly disappear - the last update was supposed to have fixed that but hasn't really, some still occasionally go missing from my home screens too. The easiest thing to do for now is to put all your apps and shortcuts how you want them, then backup the configuration from within Go Launcher preferences, next time they go walkies just hit restore configuration and job done. Just remember to back up the config every time you add or remove stuff.

I'm using go launcher and widgetlocker for 24 hours now and having no problems at all, initially the launcher was slow, but after 1-2 hours when I used it again, it was smooth, maybe cache related thing

bclark said:
Are you using custom icons? If not, or even if so bring it up to the go dev team. Definitely looks to be something on their end. Have to tried to replicate it without widget locker?
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I am using go lancher themes from the market. It did it again the whole screen is blank after a unlock no icons at all only the wallpaper shows. Lancher Pro did the same thing.
I can go into go lancher settings click on themes and nothing comes up.

I used widgetlocker and go launcher ex. I have not had any problems.

Preferences -> Operation settings -> Screen rotation (switch off)
I had the same problem, got rid of it by applying this setting. Wish you luck

Already had the rotation off.
If i hold down the home button after i unlock and bring up the task manger and find widget locker and do a force close all my icons come back.

As a note, I get this exact same issue with ADW Launcher EX.
Happens only right after a reboot, and not every time - WidgetLocker Lockscreen appears, I unlock and find a completely blank screen (Only the notification bar shows). Pressing the menu button brings up the ADW Launcher Ex menu though...
Restarting ADW Launcher doesn't seem to help, only rebooting a couple times until it does appear seemed to help me, but I'll try force closing widget locker itself next time.
I initially set ADW as default launcher, but then set the WL HomeHelper as default in widgetlocker settings, which I believe is the correct way to do it to block the home button from auto unlocking etc.
Edit: Restarted the phone just to test, and force closing widgetlocker does do the trick - minor annoyance only I guess

Ziyathiiri said:
As a note, I get this exact same issue with ADW Launcher EX.
Happens only right after a reboot, and not every time - WidgetLocker Lockscreen appears, I unlock and find a completely blank screen (Only the notification bar shows). Pressing the menu button brings up the ADW Launcher Ex menu though...
Restarting ADW Launcher doesn't seem to help, only rebooting a couple times until it does appear seemed to help me, but I'll try force closing widget locker itself next time.
I initially set ADW as default launcher, but then set the WL HomeHelper as default in widgetlocker settings, which I believe is the correct way to do it to block the home button from auto unlocking etc.
Edit: Restarted the phone just to test, and force closing widgetlocker does do the trick - minor annoyance only I guess
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Yes it is for me it seems to only do it when i'm in a hurry lol

I use widgetlocker and GoLauncher too.
I've had the same problem this morning too, but a reboot of the device fixed the problem.
I've had similar issues without Widgetlocker installed, so I think the cause is to be found in GoLauncher. But the phone reboots very fast so I am not really bothered by it.

I used LP and switched to GO Launcher.
GoLauncher is set as default launcher at the first boot.
In WidgetLocker i disabled the homebutten with homehelper to stop the unlock by the homebutton.
No the problem:
When i reboot, there is a message that says "go launcher is not your default launcher." (Attach 1)
When i click ok, i'm in the assignments of WidgetLocker (Attach 2)
When i disable the homehelper in WL there is no problem when i reboot.
But i want to disable the homebutton...
Any ideas?
BTW: LP is disabled!
I'm using Litening Rom 6.1

I had exactly the same issue and stopped using Go Launcher as a result. It would only happen sometimes but it would require me to restart my phone. I now use ADW instead and it works fine.

How to disable screenoff animation in Sandvold`s ICS rom?

Sandvold`s rom is simply fast and stable enough for my daily use, but sometimes the screen will shine for about 0.1s after it get closed, which is a little bit disturbing for me
Is there anyone know how to disable the screenoff animation?
Thanks in advance!

?? what do ya mean, when u press the power button and ya get the white line in middle off the screen? if so thats on every rom as far as i know, well every rom iv tried anyway
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jmcclue said:
?? what do ya mean, when u press the power button and ya get the white line in middle off the screen? if so thats on every rom as far as i know, well every rom iv tried anyway
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But in BCM I have an option in settings to turn it off, so how can I do so in Sandvold`s rom ?

go to settings --> developer settings (2nd option from the bottom) --> and then scroll down to the bottom again. above the section "apps", there are two options:
(freely translated as scale for window animation and scale for interface/crossing animation.
set both of them to "animation off".
then there will be no delay when you turn your screen off and on.

BU7CH4 said:
go to settings --> developer settings (2nd option from the bottom) --> and then scroll down to the bottom again. above the section "apps", there are two options:
(freely translated as scale for window animation and scale for interface/crossing animation.
set both of them to "animation off".
then there will be no delay when you turn your screen off and on.
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So there`s no way to turn off only that single animation?

it's not like there won't be any animations anymore... it mostly applies to the screen on/off animation.
don't know what else is affected by it, but i like it that way.
just try for yourself and see how you like it.

whats with the lag?

ive tried every rom, even stock rooted and while my benchmarks are great i get some brief lag exiting programs and there's a delay waking the phone from the power or home button. i though jb had project butter? anyone else having this?
edit: just saw quite a few people have the lockscreen wake lag, sorry to post this again. hopefully this gets addressed and or we get aosp soon.

fix-this! said:
ive tried every rom, even stock rooted and while my benchmarks are great i get some brief lag exiting programs and there's a delay waking the phone from the power or home button. i though jb had project butter? anyone else having this?
edit: just saw quite a few people have the lockscreen wake lag, sorry to post this again. hopefully this gets addressed and or we get aosp soon.
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I don't have lag, but I just rooted and then set up go launcher. I still don't see a ton of benefit to most ROMs currently. The phone is just too new, imho. Prolly worth waiting a few months for the roms to work the bugs out. Until then, i am enjoying the way go launcher basically de-touchwiz'd my note 2.

make sure you dont have "activate S-Voice with home button" that delays the home button response

Try this : go to setting /Developer options /enable Force GPU rendering . Set Window Animation & Transition Animation to .5. Lag will gone

simplelife said:
Try this : go to setting /Developer options /enable Force GPU rendering . Set Window Animation & Transition Animation to .5. Lag will gone
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Thank you! Lag is gone

mdt73 said:
I don't have lag, but I just rooted and then set up go launcher. I still don't see a ton of benefit to most ROMs currently. The phone is just too new, imho. Prolly worth waiting a few months for the roms to work the bugs out. Until then, i am enjoying the way go launcher basically de-touchwiz'd my note 2.
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Go launcher is a terrible memory and battery hog.
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simplelife said:
Try this : go to setting /Developer options /enable Force GPU rendering . Set Window Animation & Transition Animation to .5. Lag will gone
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Thanks, this did help with hitting the home button to wake. I've also noticed some slight lag though with using the home button in general. The UI is *so* fast, there's a noticeable lag when i hit the home button it seems. Say i'm on my home screen, i swipe left, i swipe right, i click the Apps button, all of that is lightning fast, but then i click the home button to go back home, and there's a noticeable lag, anybody else notice this, and find any "fixes" for it. I say "fixes" because obviously a 3rd world problem.

russds said:
Thanks, this did help with hitting the home button to wake. I've also noticed some slight lag though with using the home button in general. The UI is *so* fast, there's a noticeable lag when i hit the home button it seems. Say i'm on my home screen, i swipe left, i swipe right, i click the Apps button, all of that is lightning fast, but then i click the home button to go back home, and there's a noticeable lag, anybody else notice this, and find any "fixes" for it. I say "fixes" because obviously a 3rd world problem.
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Like noted above, make sure you have Svoice home button activation turned off. That causes a lag.