Here is the updated Google Experience Launcher.
I am testing it, and a 4PDA (Russian PDA Site) claims that it was updated to reduce lag. Will test it out, for I wasn't too fond of the initial GEL.
***Test Results***
- Launcher is much more responsive than the previous version.
- No hesitation when swiping across home screen pages.
- Drawer opens faster, swipes feel more fluid.
Now...I can use this on a daily basis.
Enjoy...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4qi0rua41n34kcu/GoogleHome.apk
- Paul
Paul_Days said:
Here is the updated Google Experience Launcher.
I am testing it, and a 4PDA (Russian PDA Site) claims that it was updated to reduce lag. Will test it out, for I wasn't too fond of the initial GEL.
***Test Results***
- Launcher is much more responsive than the previous version.
- No hesitation when swiping across home screen pages.
- Drawer opens faster, swipes feel more fluid.
Now...I can use this on a daily basis.
Enjoy...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4qi0rua41n34kcu/GoogleHome.apk
- Paul
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is it based 4.4???
Much better than the initial .
nitin.chpr said:
is it based 4.4???
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Yes....
Does it Works ?
Does it works without search installed ?
vazi00say said:
Does it works without search installed ?
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I think you have to installed the latest search apps ,but you may not use it.
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Samsung-backed Terrain Home launcher pulls in personalized cards with a swipe!
Google Play link
Joe0113 said:
Samsung-backed Terrain Home launcher pulls in personalized cards with a swipe!
Google Play link
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Have you tried this out yet Joe? Wondering if anyone has any thoughts.
mnuttall87 said:
Have you tried this out yet Joe? Wondering if anyone has any thoughts.
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I personally have not. But it has gotten good reviews on the Play Store and looks really cool (watch the demo video on the Play Store).
Just thought I'd share!
mnuttall87 said:
Have you tried this out yet Joe? Wondering if anyone has any thoughts.
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I have tried it and I have to admit that the concept of this launcher is awesome. But currently there are several bugs/lags, which are the reason I switched back to my former launcher:
1. No translation to German language
2. Very (!!) laggy on any device
3. Weather info does not show temperature unit Celsius (though I have selected it), always Fahrenheit
4. Very less additional tabs, e.g. Mail, WhatsApp, etc.
Any improvement would be highly appreciated.
BTW: I guess Samsung hasn't made this an open source project. Therefore does anyone know a similar launcher with similar features but better performances?
I've been using it for a while and other than a few very minor graphical issues, I love it. I've found that as long as you don't use a lock screen app, I haven't had any lag at all
Is anyone else have problems when scrolling web pages? My phone laggs pretty much in browser. Sometimes less, sometimes more. Problem can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jttoOoC8k_Q#t=00m07s
Loaded page is http://m.monitor.hr, browser is android default browser (but same problem exists in Chrome).
it is probably a lot of advertisment content inside
in my G4 is same as you - laggy
Yeh, I've had lots of problems using chrome on some web pages. Seems to be advertising.
I'm now using Opera, which runs smoother for me.
@johnny8910
if you rooted already you can use adaway app
which is adblock - very pleasant function to me
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95916177934553157
It's totally smooth here using UCBrowser (rooted + adblocked of course) :good:
It's driving me crazy, especially because I'm using desktop browse agent. I desperately need root+adblock, tried the adblock plus without root solution didn't work well.
Tried that page on mine. it's as smooth as silk with no lag at all.
the_scotsman said:
Tried that page on mine. it's as smooth as silk with no lag at all.
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are you stock or rooted + adblock ?
nowy57 said:
are you stock or rooted + adblock ?
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Stock - I use Nova launcher, but tried stock launcher too, just to be sure. It's all smooth.
nowy57 said:
@johnny8910
if you rooted already you can use adaway app
which is adblock - very pleasant function to me
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95916177934553157
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Thanks
I have it installed and updated, but still get some issues.
Thanks for you replies guys.
It is true that page on video is loaded with adds, but by my old Samsung Galaxy S4 scrolls it without problems same as my 7" Alcatel tablet bought for less than 40€.
From your replies it seems that some of us have this issue and some not. I'm considering to ask for a replacement unit because I tried other unit in T-Mobile center and that one didn't have problems with laggy scrolling.
Will try to do a factory reset and test it again (shame because of lost time for settting it up).
Hard reset did not solve the problem I think I will try to get replacement tomorrow.
tomtomhr said:
Hard reset did not solve the problem I think I will try to get replacement tomorrow.
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I heard some of tmobile users has update (non europen yet)
it improve respons system ui and battery as well
wait for returnI think
nowy57 said:
I heard some of tmobile users has update (non europen yet)
it improve respons system ui and battery as well
wait for returnI think
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Will wait few days for update. Tried to update it yesterday but already on latest version.
Sorry to necro this thread, but this link might help.
I can't post links, so just Google "10 speed hacks to make chrome faster"
Basically,
You can use chrome flags to give chrome access to more memory and other thing thing that help chrome scroll smoother. Just got the lg g4 and giving chrome 512 memory seemed to help.
Firefox is laggy in scrolling, also when rooted and adaway installed. Opera or Chromium is very smooth on my G4...
gratz... i guess?
whats the point of this post? are you trying to tell us there is a new update to the launcher? are you saying you modded/hacked the launcher itself or made an edit to the build.prop to enable it? or have you simply used the search function and are telling us that procedures that are described in other (device-)forums/threads work for the 5x as well?
just wondering since in my opinion this is an option that would certainly make the experience with the 5x a little more fluent without using a third party launcher.
There was an update to the launcher and its the most glorious day of my ****ing life. Lonmg have i awaited the landscape mode in the google now launcher
Your welcome F.....s
What is the launcher version? I have 1.3.large and it tells me it's the latest. No rotation here..
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What is the launcher version? I have 1.3.large and it tells me it's the latest. No rotation here..
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from what i could find, it's actually not an update to the launcher, but rather the google app through which the launcher settings are managed.
my version (without landscape) is 5.7.14.19.arm64, the latest slowly being rolled out is 5.8.47.19.arm64.
could be wrong though.
anyway, my actual launcher version is the same as yours, and as far as i can see there were no updates of that pushed to the playstore. oh the waiting game.
Broken303 said:
from what i could find, it's actually not an update to the launcher, but rather the google app through which the launcher settings are managed.
my version (without landscape) is 5.7.14.19.arm64, the latest slowly being rolled out is 5.8.47.19.arm64.
could be wrong though.
anyway, my actual launcher version is the same as yours, and as far as i can see there were no updates of that pushed to the playstore. oh the waiting game.
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Yeah makes sense, my Google app version is 5.7.14.19.arm64 as well. Now we wait.
k.s.deviate said:
Yeah makes sense, my Google app version is 5.7.14.19.arm64 as well. Now we wait.
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since i was bored anyway: apkmirror.com
oh that's cool, i wasn't aware they finally allowed this.
Been using Nova but I'll enable it on my SOs phone
Thank you and Google ! I was looking for this feature for ages :laugh:
Easier way to get rotation is to become a Google tester. The version that it will allow you to download has the allow rotation option.
I bought a Galaxy s9, a couple of weeks ago and the next update came:
G900ZHU2ARE6 / G9600OWA2ARE6 / G9600ZCU2ARE6
my question is, is it advisable to update it? or I wait for Android P?
Currently I have the G9600ZHU1ARBG version
Of course update it
XxXProSlayerXxX said:
I bought a Galaxy s9, a couple of weeks ago and the next update came:
G900ZHU2ARE6 / G9600OWA2ARE6 / G9600ZCU2ARE6
my question is, is it advisable to update it? or I wait for Android P?
Currently I have the G9600ZHU1ARBG version
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Just curious, but why do you think it's not ok to update. I've seen very few if any problems with an official update.
I just did the update and I regret it so much. First of all, dozens of my apps don't work anymore. Most noticeably - Swipe Keyboard and Coinbase Wallet. Besides that, I can't apply custom themes from themeGalaxy anymore because the demo themes are limited to 10 minutes of use now. Good Lock refuses to work as well and I hate the new Quick settings and task window. Also getting random crashes on every other app now. My phone is entirely stock and not rooted. All in all, awful experience for me.
wictor1992 said:
I just did the update and I regret it so much. First of all, dozens of my apps don't work anymore. Most noticeably - Swipe Keyboard and Coinbase Wallet. Besides that, I can't apply custom themes from themeGalaxy anymore because the demo themes are limited to 10 minutes of use now. Good Lock refuses to work as well and I hate the new Quick settings and task window. Also getting random crashes on every other app now. My phone is entirely stock and not rooted. All in all, awful experience for me.
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So flash back
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So flash back
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That was my initial thought. Luckily I managed to fix the app crashing issue (my custom launcher design was at fault). However, I had to revert to the standard theme and I'm not a fan of the new non-customizable task changer and notification bar. I'll learn to live with those, I guess. It's pointless to stay at an older Android version for such minor reasons.
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That was my initial thought. Luckily I managed to fix the app crashing issue (my custom launcher design was at fault). However, I had to revert to the standard theme and I'm not a fan of the new non-customizable task changer and notification bar. I'll learn to live with those, I guess. It's pointless to stay at an older Android version for such minor reasons.
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Overall it is a huge upgrade over Oreo, few changes to adjust to but as is the way with updates, personally I prefer the new task changer and so on now, while weirdly when using Goodlock on Oreo I hated that design and always left it as stock
Update G9600
Go to Setup / update / manual update / search for update
The phone is loading the official Samsung S9 G9600 update.
(every month between 10 and 15 has an update)
In January promised update to Android PIE official.
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Overall it is a huge upgrade over Oreo, few changes to adjust to but as is the way with updates, personally I prefer the new task changer and so on now, while weirdly when using Goodlock on Oreo I hated that design and always left it as stock
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My issues with the task changer are the fact that you can't swipe the apps down anymore (it now opens them instead of dismissing) and the inability of leaving the task changer by simply tapping the background. It just disrupts my "workflow" and I'm getting annoyed by it every single time. Oh, and I'm always locking my chat apps but now the unlock button is in the lower right corner of the app card, which is where my thumb usually sits when I scroll through - I'm constantly unlocking the app instead of switching to it.
But I'll get used to it, I guess.
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My issues with the task changer are the fact that you can't swipe the apps down anymore (it now opens them instead of dismissing) and the inability of leaving the task changer by simply tapping the background. It just disrupts my "workflow" and I'm getting annoyed by it every single time. Oh, and I'm always locking my chat apps but now the unlock button is in the lower right corner of the app card, which is where my thumb usually sits when I scroll through - I'm constantly unlocking the app instead of switching to it.
But I'll get used to it, I guess.
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I don't lock chat apps, and if I am closing recents, I just close them all using the "Close All" button anyway so that doesn't really bother me, just took a bit of time to get used to swiping side to side instead of up and down to scroll through them, but while I was running one of the beta's of Pie the close all button was missing so I got used to swiping up to close them anyway, like you say you adjust over time
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I don't lock chat apps, and if I am closing recents, I just close them all using the "Close All" button anyway so that doesn't really bother me, just took a bit of time to get used to swiping side to side instead of up and down to scroll through them, but while I was running one of the beta's of Pie the close all button was missing so I got used to swiping up to close them anyway, like you say you adjust over time
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That's my problem. Swiping up and down seems normal and about half the time I swipe up and close the app window. I believe someone suggested it and it got the standard canned response.
wictor1992 said:
I just did the update and I regret it so much... All in all, awful experience for me.
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Can say the same here, feels sluggish. I updated it to Pie after hearing great stuff from others.
I'll see if clearing app data of most apps makes any difference.
On the official beta I'm not seeing any sluggishness at all but I do see others on it complaining about it.
Title says it all ... I had already reported this in another thread somewhere ...
However, I was not aware that this is actually a Google issue, explained here:
https://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?t=1018524&p=6907317&viewfull=1#post6907317 or
Nova Launcher
The premier custom launcher for Android, loved by over 50 million.
novalauncher.com
Many of you probably knew this, I did not ...
Still, I used Nova on OnePlus 8 pro as well and there such issues were NOT present.
Anyway, looks like we'll just have to accept it.
I've not experienced these issues on my P6P. I'm trying it now and Chrome and Pocket Casts seem to open up immediately. Same with the other listed issues: Clear All is there, and the animations look just a fluid.
Nova is working fine on my P6P, i can return to the home screen and open something else instantly.
Gestures have worked fine with Nova for some time, they worked from the off on my Pixel 5 and that was in October 2020.
Use quickswitch
GitHub - skittles9823/QuickSwitch
Contribute to skittles9823/QuickSwitch development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
I know the delay you're referring to, it's certainly a minor annoyance but not enough of a deal breaker for me to no longer use Nova - the benefits outweigh such a con!
I'm intrigued by QuickSwitch but see Nova isn't supported so unsure if this would even be able to help?
cd993 said:
I know the delay you're referring to, it's certainly a minor annoyance but not enough of a deal breaker for me to no longer use Nova - the benefits outweigh such a con!
I'm intrigued by QuickSwitch but see Nova isn't supported so unsure if this would even be able to help?
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Ah sorry I wasn't paying attention. I know I had/have the delay with lawnchair and this always fixes it. Think it's something to do with recents.
No worries
notegalaxy said:
Ah sorry I wasn't paying attention. I know I had/have the delay with lawnchair and this always fixes it. Think it's something to do with recents.
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No worries at all!
I'd stick with the pixel launcher mods but I like being able to rename honescreen apps/folders....
foobar66 said:
Title says it all ... I had already reported this in another thread somewhere ...
However, I was not aware that this is actually a Google issue, explained here:
https://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?t=1018524&p=6907317&viewfull=1#post6907317 or
Nova Launcher
The premier custom launcher for Android, loved by over 50 million.
novalauncher.com
Many of you probably knew this, I did not ...
Still, I used Nova on OnePlus 8 pro as well and there such issues were NOT present.
Anyway, looks like we'll just have to accept it.
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Are you using the latest beta build of NOVA Launcher? As of this writing, that would be 7.0.54.
burbank said:
Are you using the latest beta build of NOVA Launcher? As of this writing, that would be 7.0.54.
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Yes ... version 7.0.54 ...