Hey All,
Due to some oddities, I've discovered that using any other launcher with the Adam will make it force static wallpapers to be 800x600, even when using Wallpaper Set and Save. This change seems to be permanent, as even after uninstalling launcher pro/zeam/etc, the only way to get it to properly display 1024x600 wallpapers again is to factory reset. (This doesn't appear to be exclusive to the Adam, as I've found threads about it on the Gtab and Galaxy Tab sections)
With this in mind, it appears that live wallpapers aren't affected by this, based off what I've read in these other threads.
However, I can't seem to figure out how to allow Live wallpaper on the Adam without using a highly modified rom. I'm using the basic Notion Ink Hacks x3 (Market/Root/Adhoc) modification for the adam, and really don't want to use Beast or EdenX as that'd require another wipe, and may break further updates from Notion Ink.
Is there anyway to install Live Wallpapers through adding the APK through root explorer, or any other method without changing the rom? Is anyone able to create an enabler/installer for this for us Market/Root/Adhoc folks?
Any/all info is appreciated.
I personlly use Beast rom in its last version + Launcher Pro.
Though I don't remember if it gave me access to the Live wallpaper function or not, I spent time looking around in Notion Addicts & Notion ink Hacks forums on how to fix that "ulgy wallpaper bug"
After installing "Flick ur Pics" app in the market, If you long touch the screen then go to Live wallpaper -> Flick ur Pics -> "Manage favorites", then you should be able to choose one or several picts and set them as wallpapers.
That's the only way I found to center the wallpaper and diplay it correclty in the right resolution (1024x600). This market app has some nice functions anyway
thesfbay said:
I personlly use Beast rom in its last version + Launcher Pro.
Though I don't remember if it gave me access to the Live wallpaper function or not, I spent time looking around in Notion Addicts & Notion ink Hacks forums on how to fix that "ulgy wallpaper bug"
After installing "Flick ur Pics" app in the market, If you long touch the screen then go to Live wallpaper -> Flick ur Pics -> "Manage favorites", then you should be able to choose one or several picts and set them as wallpapers.
That's the only way I found to center the wallpaper and diplay it correclty in the right resolution (1024x600). This market app has some nice functions anyway
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As much as I wish I could do this, this is a Live Wallpaper, which I sadly cannot use at this point, until I can get info on how to sideload the required live wallpaper APKs, or someone is awesome enough to create a file for it.
OK, I really like the Live Weather Wallpaper, but I've got a couple of issues with it.
First, unchecking the Sound box by selecting the wallpaper, then Preview, then Settings has no effect. The sound is always there when unlocking the phone. The dev Seo had a patch for one of his ROM's and is located in this thread...http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1077180
Patch can be downloaded here:http://www.multiupload.com/ABYHAEMEM5
Second, and not as big of a deal is the the animation. It is sort of jerky. If you open the sense weather app, the same animation is used, and it is perfectly smooth, so I don't think it is a lack of processor/video.
I've seen this on all the ROM's I have tried for the Inc1 that have the Sense live weather wallpaper included. I'm using it on my Inc2, and works perfectly.
Any ideas?
Another note on the animation. It only runs for a couple of seconds, then stops on an image. I would be perfectly happy with no animation, only the image.
Here is a video of the animation, right click to save.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17678360/Videos/weather_wallpaper.mp4
Bumping my own post hoping someone will take a look at this.
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OK, I really like the Live Weather Wallpaper, but I've got a couple of issues with it.
First, unchecking the Sound box by selecting the wallpaper, then Preview, then Settings has no effect. The sound is always there when unlocking the phone. The dev Seo had a patch for one of his ROM's and is located in this thread...http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1077180
Patch can be downloaded here:http://www.multiupload.com/ABYHAEMEM5
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Do you still have this patch? All the links seem to be down.
I apologize if this discussion exists somewhere else. I looked but could not find this issue.
I am trying to utilize the Go Multiple Wallpaper app. I want to have a different background on each home-screen page. I am able to do this but I have the "Screens scroll circularly" option enabled on GoLauncher so that I can swipe from the last to the first home screen and from the first to the last page with one swipe.
When I swipe from first to second, second to third and so on the background changes perfectly. However, when I go from first to last the background does not change. If I go from last to first to second then back to first, the first page will have the proper wallpaper.
Before using this app I used the "MultiPicture Live Wallpaper" app, which worked great at first. Then all of the sudden it started to exhibit the above issue. So I switched to the GoLauncher solution.
I just did a complete system restore and switched roms to NOTEorious Prime. I didn't do any restore of apps or info and the problem is not resolved?
I don't know why both apps are showing the same problem. And i don't understnd why if MultiPicture Live Wallpaper was working perfectly before why it is not working after a factory reset?
I am currently running NOTEorious Prime 1.5 on a SGH-i137. Hopefully that's all the info you'll need. Let me know if I left something out.
If you know anything about this topic and could offer any intel I would appreciate it greatly.
Thanks!
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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
after updating to one ui 2.1, wallpaper scrolling in nova launcher or any other launcher has been stopped, i tried reinstalling but problem persists. is anyone having this issue ? any solution ?? help please.
i have the exact same issue. no more scrolling in any of the launchers i tried after one ui 2.1 update
tried evie and nova.
maybe something to do with the way wallpapers get cropped has changed?
I discovered the same thing...three days ago, after running all the updates on my brand new Note 10+. I'm glad to know it used to work, speaks to a non-zero chance Samsung might fix it? I'm largely resigned to not being able to mod phones anymore (got lucky with the Note 4), but this kind of stings.
I have this problem too and it's driving me nuts! I did notice that it still scrolls in the dock on any launcher, but rest of the background will not scroll. I've searched everywhere too and haven't found a solution for it yet.
I've disable HW overlay and for 2 days now it's good...I dont play games, but I did have lags on UI.
I tried to change my wallpaper after 2.1 update and it wouldnt change. I downloaded a new wallpaper and used root explorer to apply it. Woke up the next morning and the wallpaper had changed its orientation somewhere during the night. Got to be some bugs with this update.
I found a solution in Reddit for my Galaxy S10+. In Nova Launcher Settings, tap the search icon at top right. Search for "force", and tap the result that says "force wallpaper scrolling". It's a hidden option that's not normally visible because it's "rarely needed"according to the tool tip.
Enjoy!