I noticed that the News and Weather Widget cause lags, on the HTC Launcher when the headlines on the widget changes.
I noticed that very much in the ics rom. On JB it's much more improved but still some lags. you can see it by sliding the homescreens when the heeadline changes you should feel some lags. on some lwp you can see it too. the animation stops or get slowly for a short moment when the headline change
can someone confirm this?
on any replacment launcher it's working as usually.
i always liked htc and htc sense. but the new launcher is a pain in the ass. just remember problems with livewallpaper and scrolling at the beginning.
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I just completed my first app which works fine, and want to make a widget version of it.
I notice that most of the standard Android widgets are extremely limited in what they can do. Yet the Hero ones which run under Rosie have cool features like animations and scrolling within the widget itself.
Anyone know if there is an API or SDK for such effects, or if there is a fundamental reason why they arent generally used in widgets? Battery life and/or performance?
Why do lwps make adw so choppy? Its so annoying that I'm kind of forced to use a normal wallpaper unless I want choppyness. The stock launcher, 2.3 launcher, and touchwiz work perfectly fine with them. Is there some option or something to make it work better?
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Why can't ADW just work well? I use stock. Try contacting Anderweb and convince him to stop wasting his time.
MattKilla said:
Why can't ADW just work well? I use stock. Try contacting Anderweb and convince him to stop wasting his time.
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haha, amen.
ADW has never worked for me on any devices I've owned that used it. I do like that you can get pretty deep into the settings, but unfortunately, none of those settings seem to be able to remedy the choppiness and general lag (at least for me). the only setting that ever made a noticable difference for me was disabling the wallpaper hack (or enabling? whatever the opposite of what it is by default is). I am not on the development side of things, but I feel like with these launchers, the more feature-packed they are, the more buggy they are.
launcher pro was so much smoother for me, but it force closed, again on multiple devices, every time the phone booted.. and I don't like that.
I finally went to virtuous and am giving it a shot with its stock launcher... no issues thus far. of course going to a sense rom isn't really a solution to your problem. I'm getting used to it but I do miss CM.
Don't get me wrong, adw is VERY smooth (adw ex at least) but lwps just slow the bujeezus outta that thing. I don't really use them often but I mean really. Stock has no lag or choppyness, neither 2.3, neither touchwiz, neither sense. It seems that all launchers that come with the phone work fine with live wallpapers but not market ones. I tried launcherpro, adw, adw ex, and go and they were all pretty incompatible with live wallpapers.
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Interesting... You are on a G2 or Desire Z I suppose?
I am, and I found all launchers to be smooth up to very smooth on my device, with the 'Grass' live wallpaper set. I am running the latest nightlies of CM7.
Of the different launchers, GO Launcher was 'worst' in app list scrolling and Launcher Pro's shortcut bar just doesnt appeal to me. Zeam is very cool as well, but doesnt offer widget resizeability. So for the time being I'm stuck with ADW, which is very very smooth both in homescreen swiping as well as (vertical) app list scroll orgies.
Where does your setup differ from mine? Do you have a lot of background tasks (FB, Twitter, ...) or a taskkiller or similar at work?
...I almost forget: or a lot of widgets? Animated content? Semi transparent widgets or the likes...?
I have fully transparent widgets to fit my theme and I am using the paginated app drawer. When I scroll in the paginated drawer, it is very choppy. Also scrolling on the desktop is choppier than usual and the app drawer animation is EXTREMELY choppy. I am using adw ex.
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Has anyone noticed that when you try to set a wallpaper from your gallery, the adjustable rectangle is as if rotated 90 deg. The area you choose is exactly the size of one screen, so the wallpaper doesn't scroll when you move from one screen to another.
Is it a bug or is it like this because the transition between screens 1 and 7 wouldn't look good.
Also, I've noticed that the sense 3 widgets aren't properly scaled. They're a little bit flat. Not much... but It's annoying when I look at my girlfriend's photo and see that it's too wide. I can't show her that!
Other than that that rom is epic! Great job, baad!
Yeah I noticed that too! It's annoying because I got loads of cool wallpapers from the Galaxy S. Though I suppose maybe it's due to the new Sense 3.0 Rosie scroll "carousel" as opposed to the 2.1 one which works differently, no? I also used RCMix 2.0 Test 3 and it was the same...
same issues here, but hey, its a nightly build..
I think it is meant to not scroll the wallpaper anymore in Sense3 homescreen. I heard this issue in other forums too. Its like on the HTC Sensation. There is also no scrolling. Because of the carousel scrolling.
Hi, some days ago i have discovered this great launcher link called SimpleHome, developed by LG.
It is the best launcher for me: simple, fast, no app drawer and very beautiful. :good:
I have only one problem: the scrolling between home pages is slow, and sometimes this slow scroll begin to have lag, and it lags all my phone.
Can someone change the speed of scrolling for me, to make it faster? If it is possible to make the scroll as fast as it is on default ICS launcher, it would be great
Thanks :good::good:
The launcher is in attachments .
Hi all,
Since my G3 became very laggy in a week or so, lots of redraws when returning to the home screen, I decided to just get rid of the Smart Notice / Weather widget on the home screen. This pretty much fixed the issue with redrawing. Unfortunately I'd like to have this stock widget.. Does anyone know what's actually causing the problem with the widget? Also I prefer using the stock launcher..
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Hi all,
Since my G3 became very laggy in a week or so, lots of redraws when returning to the home screen, I decided to just get rid of the Smart Notice / Weather widget on the home screen. This pretty much fixed the issue with redrawing. Unfortunately I'd like to have this stock widget.. Does anyone know what's actually causing the problem with the widget? Also I prefer using the stock launcher..
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Hello , LG's widget "Smart Notice" is using a lot of power from the device . It is using a lot of pixels and it is designed for 2K display so that's why you can see a few flashes from the widget or redrawing .
You can download the stock widget from 3rd party developers which has the same looks but it is more power efficient and it will not use so many pixels !