Hello, I was planning on changing the launcher on my HOX but all the launchers I've tried seem to be lagging when switching panels on the home screen(jittery animation when switching panels). The launchers I've tried were:
Nova Launcher
Apex Launcher
Go Launcher EX
Holo Launcher
Zeam Launcher
The only launcher that runs smoothly is the stock Sense one but I want a launcher with a scrollable dock! I've googled this and all the results were about lag on the Sense launcher, which I have no problems with. I doubt that my phone's hardware can't handle a launcher. Any ideas as to what causes this problem or a fix?
Energokinetic said:
Hello, I was planning on changing the launcher on my HOX but all the launchers I've tried seem to be lagging when switching panels on the home screen(jittery animation when switching panels). The launchers I've tried were:
Nova Launcher
Apex Launcher
Go Launcher EX
Holo Launcher
Zeam Launcher
The only launcher that runs smoothly is the stock Sense one but I want a launcher with a scrollable dock! I've googled this and all the results were about lag on the Sense launcher, which I have no problems with. I doubt that my phone's hardware can't handle a launcher. Any ideas as to what causes this problem or a fix?
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The HOX has some incredible hardware. So its surely not the hardware.I myself used the pro version of apex launcher for some time and it works smooth. I think you have a lot of background apps running. Disable some background apps.. that will free some memory.
anks257 said:
The HOX has some incredible hardware. So its surely not the hardware.I myself used the pro version of apex launcher for some time and it works smooth. I think you have a lot of background apps running. Disable some background apps.. that will free some memory.
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How much RAM do I have to have free for it to run smoothly? I Currently have 300 megabyte free worth of ram and it's still lagging! The only running apps (according to the task manager) are:
Android core apps
Apex launcher
BetterBatteryStats
Battery Widget
Package Access Helper
FlexNet
SmartcardService.
Also, whenever I end the processes of some apps (like settings, dropbox, calendar and some others), they re-open themselves a few minutes later, what's up with that?
Update:
Oh, I doubt that it's memory related, the menu screen switching is super smooth, if it was RAM related it would be affected too
Anyone?
If menu screen is working smoothly then it's an app problem. Try reducing the number of widgets you have kept on each screen and see if that helps.
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Funny thing is, there are no widgets on any of the panels, is there by any chance that I have a faulty hardware? (which still sounds kind of impossible since the Sense launcher runs smoothly)
Same here with my HOX+. Sense runs smooth, but there are too many limitations, so I run Apex.
I've only one widget on the screen. I think, it's a Apex problem.
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Been searching for a good launcher for my Archos 70. I tried both ADW and Launcher Pro plus. They both worked good for me. But then i found the Go Launcher it works very well for me,smooth and fast. And it has a built in task manager. It has no widgets
yes the go launcher is the bet right now.
I use it on my 70 and my desire.
I also talked to the developers and metioned so bugs and requested some features and by what the told me some cool things will come up in version 2
Just loaded this up. Being a LauncherPro user I was hoping for a lot and I got it. Best launcher I've played with thus far. Wish it had 7x7 grid support though. Extremely fast.
Try requesting it .maybe they will do that
Had a quick look at the feature list, a few screenshots and a video... What makes it better that LauncherPro? In some ways it looks like a iOS-ripoff and I really hate that (ie Samsung's TouchWiz UI...) I see no need for a task manager/killer.
Looking forward to the first launcher that's 100% made for tablets... Haven't found anything like that yet. Maybe when more people buy tablets, and when Honeycomb shows up in more detail.
Tried it on the archos 101 (firmware 2.0.71) but found it laggier than launcher pro and zeam.
Never tried to launcher before. Coming from launcher pro and now using zeam launcher. It lean, mean and extremely fast. Try it...
im using this launcher for 4 days, and i must say i love it, just uninstall launcher pro. This is so fast love the task manager in main menu. You have my support thanks a lot.
I've been trying to get this on my archos 101 and I can't get it from the market. It doesnt come up when I search for it. I can't get any launcher to come up for that matter.
You'll have to do the market fix.
Try the search for finding it then you will find a lot more Apps.
how do we go about doing the market fix??
i'm having the same problem with not seeing apps in the market
thanks
ADW EX
Anybody tried ADW EX yet?
It's basically a fancier version of the stock ADW, very smooth on my phone (Archos yet to arrive)
Grid up to 10x10 too...
Interested in seeing how this works on the Archos family.
I switched to adw ex. ATM go launcher has some annoying bugs, but I'll watch out for further updates.
I especially like the new mainscreen transition animations on adw ex., and without wallpaper scrolling the animations look smith and nice.
I used LauncherPro, but lack of grid support is annoying when you want to place widgets.. just shifted to Zeam launcher. it supports 7x7 grid and is quite smooth too..
but both have an issue when waking up or coming back to home screen from an app..the screen stays a bit towards the left due to archos buttons and returns to normal only after you swipe at it a little..
That is not a problem of the launcher but of the archos itself, because even the stock launcher has this issue
astrodomine said:
I used LauncherPro, but lack of grid support is annoying when you want to place widgets.. just shifted to Zeam launcher. it supports 7x7 grid and is quite smooth too..
but both have an issue when waking up or coming back to home screen from an app..the screen stays a bit towards the left due to archos buttons and returns to normal only after you swipe at it a little..
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There's a thread over on ArchosFans that says if you make the first home screen or the next-to-last home screen (when using more than 3 screens) will fix that problem. Haven't tried it yet as I just read it and my tab is at home, but several say that it works in LP & Zeam.
I have been using Zeam launcher for the last 2 weeks, its very fast and feature packed, definately more stable on my 101 than LauncherPro (which runs well on my HTC Desire).
Give it a go.
cant post a link yet...sorry
Zea
Tried Go, ADW, LP & Zeam...love Zeam...
I tried several launchers on my Archos 101. Go launcher ex can only provide a 5x5 grid what makes it kind of useless for a ten inch screen. So i'm back at zeam as well. I'm still waiting at a launcher specifically for tablets.
Zeam is the daddy
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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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Hi all,
For those OneX owner, you are using HTC Sense or other launcher?
I tried to install Go Launcher, but there is a ... menu at the bottom, so it is out.
Then I try Apex launcher, it is nice but not very user friendly yet, I try to configure it today and see if it can replace Sense.
Both alternative launchers consume lesser memory at startup (6xx vs 7xx in Sense), HTH.
Have you tried nova?
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One of the things that concern me with third party launchers is that it may bring additional ram resources into play since sense cannot be disabled?
It would be worse if we have sense eating all that memory in the background AND another launcher eating its needed ram as well?
Or am i wrong in thinking this?
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One of the things that concern me with third party launchers is that it may bring additional ram resources into play since sense cannot be disabled?
It would be worse if we have sense eating all that memory in the background AND another launcher eating its needed ram as well?
Or am i wrong in thinking this?
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I think so. When I installed Nova Launcher and used that as my launcher, it would still show that the phone was using 800mb or so of ram, which is exactly what Sense uses.
I use ssLauncher (paid version) and really love it.
Don't know much about memory consumption, sadly!
I'm using Apex launcher. Gives me much more options do modify than the Sense launcher. And it doesn't have the 3-dot black bar.
Using it for a few days now, and it looks good.
stm2008 said:
Hi all,
For those OneX owner, you are using HTC Sense or other launcher?
I tried to install Go Launcher, but there is a ... menu at the bottom, so it is out.
Then I try Apex launcher, it is nice but not very user friendly yet, I try to configure it today and see if it can replace Sense.
Both alternative launchers consume lesser memory at startup (6xx vs 7xx in Sense), HTH.
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The problem is that you can't use the HTC widgets and I really want that combined email inbox!
I'm using Apex. After being on stock ICS on my old Nexus S I didn't like Sense at all and can't understand why, given our screens are getting bigger and bigger, why manufacturers keep on making skins that stick to the 4x4 homescreen grid and waste so much space! Apex, plus APW for widgets is doing me proud
I was using ADW EX on my old desire, when I got the One X i put on Go Launcher and like it a lot (especially the excellent widgets and apps it comes with as optional elements)
I'm contacting the dev to ask to remove the ..., aside from that, it's an excellent launcher with loads of settings, themes and extras
I'm in the same boat as you- those "..." are killing me.
smoothunit said:
I'm in the same boat as you- those "..." are killing me.
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Custom rom will remove the three dots...
smoothunit said:
I'm in the same boat as you- those "..." are killing me.
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Try Apex, no ...
I tried Apex, but without root (for now) to let me add widgets to the home screen it's not much use to me at the moment.
Do You think best Launcher?
I think Nemus launcher best launcher
LauncherPro, at least for cm7
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+1 launcherpro
Prince
Trebuchet
Simple and fast. If you need more functionality I would also go for Launcher Pro
Go launcher
on GB i was using ADW and LP on all my android phones, tried Go Launcher but didn't like it. Prefered ADW
on ICS i'm using Nova Launcher Prime and loving it...
BTW. Never heard of Nemus, gotta take a look
And EzLauncher
Nemus&Apex
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oo apex ics look
360 Launcher (translated version) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1345601
Why not make it a poll? That'd be easier to see with more and more people voting.
I use Nova Prime. Sometimes a little laggy, but the fact that I can hide aps plus the gestures control is a huge plus.
nova prime is awesome bt sometimes it reloads the widgets which is a pain...but 360 launcher is one awesome stuff!
Trebuchet & Apex are both nice. Apex causes little bit lag in my Arc, but works great
ok.. i looked for this APEX launcher that ppl recommended and... i can't download him in google play?~~ they said this application is not for my phone?! wtf? i need flash him or what?
do you like apex launcher ?
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Trebuchet
Simple and fast. If you need more functionality I would also go for Launcher Pro
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Trebuchet for me too.
-Trebuchet launcher has a nifty feature: A google search bar that sticks on all screens without wasting any widget space.
-Samsung Touchvis S3 is very smooth on ICS compared with stock.
-Go Ex is also good, lots of niffty extras (but a bug with Xperia bookmark widgets on ICS.
-Apex and Nova almost sama same, nice also but not so smooth scrolling on LT15.
PS. all lauchers can be used with on-screen-button (from 22dpi to 45dpi but the hang-up button will be covered on .431 firmware, so I went to settings in the phone (ICS) and chosed "hang-up with hardware button" and now its GOOD.
Hi
I'm not quite sure how an launcher works. But when I install Nova Launcher, do the standard launcher then still run in the background, so there is running two launchers?
Just curious if it would be battery draining using Nova Launcher over an standard launcher (My phone is Xperia Z3).
Thanks in advance
Faspaiso said:
Hi
I'm not quite sure how an launcher works. But when I install Nova Launcher, do the standard launcher then still run in the background, so there is running two launchers?
Just curious if it would be battery draining using Nova Launcher over an standard launcher (My phone is Xperia Z3).
Thanks in advance
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I'm using Nova launcher, and the battery is fine anyway. I'm not sure about this but i think when Nova launcher is activated then the standard launcher will be idle, its doesn't stop, just on idle state
beespoison said:
I'm using Nova launcher, and the battery is fine anyway. I'm not sure about this but i think when Nova launcher is activated then the standard launcher will be idle, its doesn't stop, just on idle state
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Yeah mine is fine too. But I was curious if there is a battery drain at all or if it is completely the same as stock.
hmm i don't know about that, maybe u can ask to nova launcher creator bout that things
As my venomous friend said, the stock launcher will be idle, so it won't drain battery. As far as launchers go, Nova is pretty "light". I doubt there'd be any additional drain when compared to the stock launcher, and if there is, it'd be insignificant, especially on a marathon runner like the Xperia Z3.
Your launcher battery consumption will largely depend on things like how many widgets you have placed on the screens and the widget activity/ For example, if you have the Google search widget on a screen, it will use more if it's always listening for you to say "OK Google, ...".
I believe that installed but unused launchers should use minimal battery.