Is there any way i can make my phone alot faster?
When i scroll trough home screens it always lags,i only have 6 maps and clock in one screen and twitter in other,but it stills glitches every time i scroll,i am using GO launcher.i have tried many launchers,but i cant find the one that wouldnt lag,is it possible that i have some problems with phone itself or is it just that this model is laggy?
optim2013 said:
Is there any way i can make my phone alot faster?
When i scroll trough home screens it always lags,i only have 6 maps and clock in one screen and twitter in other,but it stills glitches every time i scroll,i am using GO launcher.i have tried many launchers,but i cant find the one that wouldnt lag,is it possible that i have some problems with phone itself or is it just that this model is laggy?
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Yes , GO launcher lags for me too. Its really very strange as I didnt have such issues on my old phone (desire). I think its just what you have to live with. Or use any other good launcher like apex or nova.
One thing you can do is to Report GO DEV TEAM to test desire x and optimize the launcher for it, and im pretty sure they'll figure something out.
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Yasir
neXus PRIME said:
Yes , GO launcher lags for me too. Its really very strange as I didnt have such issues on my old phone (desire). I think its just what you have to live with. Or use any other good launcher like apex or nova.
One thing you can do is to Report GO DEV TEAM to test desire x and optimize the launcher for it, and im pretty sure they'll figure something out.
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Yasir
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The thing is that go launcher works the best,other launchers lag even worse...well atleast go launcher looks kinda smooth,but others neither feel or look smooth... :s but ill try to talk with go dev
Smart launcher is fast enough
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Smart launcher is fast enough
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Lightning Launcher too
Use seeder app
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i would suggest if u really want to make your phone a bit faster go to settings and disable all the stock transition animations though it is not practically visible the scrolling is a lot smoother and in my experience go launcher is quite heavy and its realy absurd people saying that apex or nova lags for them what i found that if u set it to default launcher and give it a minute its snappier then ever apex rocks for me i try all homescreen set ups on apex and nova and never i found a lag
If apex and nova lagging a lot for you, try to limit number of widgets on your screen. I'm using apex and I have no lag at all (only widget I using is uccw clock) rest is icons. Atm I'm using mihome because of kickass lockscreens
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It seems like LP bogs down SO much after a while.. to the point where everything hangs. I revert to the TouchWiz Launcher and it's like night and day, with the same widgets + feeds and updates.
What gives? Anyone else notice the same?
Yeah I notice it for sure. I haven't noticed it since the lag fix, but it has only been a couple days.
Launcher pro is way quicker than touch wiz for me. Before and after I applied the lag fix. I also try and reset my phone every other day our so.
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Yeah I notice it for sure. I haven't noticed it since the lag fix, but it has only been a couple days.
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I did one of the lagfixes but I undid it and decided to do a factory format. I don't notice much difference, except for when LP lags up the whole phone. I've gone back to the TWL and things are snappy again.
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Launcher pro is way quicker than touch wiz for me. Before and after I applied the lag fix. I also try and reset my phone every other day our so.
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I've never seen the need to reset every other day. But I do notice LP seems really fast with transitions.. but there are some bugs here and there like the preview cards getting jumbled together and such.
Uh. use ADW Launcher? no problems with it with lagfix, I don't know why so many users of the Vibrant community dislike ADW Launcher and is mainly biased towards Launcher Pro.
the only thing i liked about ADW was the option to make more icons fit on the screen. other than that i think TWlauncher is smoother and less buggy. plus the multicons app does what i liked from ADW anyway
Lp is the best! I hate that adw replaces the menu> settings with its own preferences....stupid. Plus lp is faster than anything else
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Uh. use ADW Launcher? no problems with it with lagfix, I don't know why so many users of the Vibrant community dislike ADW Launcher and is mainly biased towards Launcher Pro.
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I have nothing against ADW, but I'm using LP right now so that's why I posed the question.
I use launcher pro for one reason. I love the calendar widget. I do notice that it gets a little laggy every once and a while and most of the time a reboot takes care of it.
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I have nothing against ADW, but I'm using LP right now so that's why I posed the question.
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Seems like you have a pretty big grudge against ADW Launcher. Using another launcher would "solve" your problem. What does LP have to offer that is making you stick with LP? Both are great launchers and the winner depends on the users' personality.
@disturk: It replaces the notifications button on the menu. Is notifications on your menu really necessary? Plus. I believe LP also replaces one button with Settings.
@bromat80: There are other alternatives to the widget, and if a launcher is lagging me then to my opinion it wouldn't be worth having if it lags. At least not until the developer fixes the problem. Try CalWidget as a alternative if you were to experiment with another launcher.
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Seems like you have a pretty big grudge against ADW Launcher.
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What are you talking about? Seriously though. Yeah, I've got it out for ADW launcher!
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@disturk: It replaces the notifications button on the menu. Is notifications on your menu really necessary? Plus. I believe LP also replaces one button with Settings.
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I was referring to being on the home screen..stock is menu, bottom right is settings for phone...lp keeps this whereas adw puts adw settings on the bottom right and moves phone settings to the bottom middle...(unless they've changed it..haven't used adw in a month)
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@bromat80: There are other alternatives to the widget, and if a launcher is lagging me then to my opinion it wouldn't be worth having if it lags. At least not until the developer fixes the problem. Try CalWidget as a alternative if you were to experiment with another launcher.
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I guess what I was getting to is that I like both ADW and Launcher Pro equally and what makes me choose LP is the calendar widget. The lag doesn't bother me. I was just pointing out that I do notice that it does get laggy and normally a reboot takes care of it.
I personally find Launcher Pro more elegant.
No lag that I notice.
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Seems like you have a pretty big grudge against ADW Launcher. Using another launcher would "solve" your problem. What does LP have to offer that is making you stick with LP? Both are great launchers and the winner depends on the users' personality.
@disturk: It replaces the notifications button on the menu. Is notifications on your menu really necessary? Plus. I believe LP also replaces one button with Settings.
@bromat80: There are other alternatives to the widget, and if a launcher is lagging me then to my opinion it wouldn't be worth having if it lags. At least not until the developer fixes the problem. Try CalWidget as a alternative if you were to experiment with another launcher.
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Whoa whoa, whats with the attitude bro? if the OP likes a certain product and want to support it, he can do whatever he wants. It sounds like you are the one with the grudge against LP. I personally like LP because it does 3D App Drawer and 5 icons columns on desktop. AND it's fast as **** on my phone.
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Launcher pro is way quicker than touch wiz for me. Before and after I applied the lag fix. I also try and reset my phone every other day our so.
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Yea, launcher pro all the way, my phone used to lag with touch wiz all the time.
LP here. Absolutely no issues at all. Incredible.
Hands down TouchWiz is most definitely the fastest launcher of them all. I see no reason to use third party launcher other than to customize a few things. Does TouchWiz look like the iPhone? Yes! Does the Vibrant overall look like a better version of the iPhone clone? Yes!! lol. Do I love my Vibrant with all of my hear? *$#@ YES!!! but that is besides the point I am trying to get at
Launcher Pro sucks in my opinion, and is much much slower than TW. You can tell by that it takes a few seconds longer to initially load the icons when going into Applications. Transitions just aren't as fast either.
ADW is probably a tad bit faster, but you still can not compare it to TW. I do wish that I had an option to go back and forth between stock and TW. Hopefully that will be made available in 2.2.
I would say stick with TW, make life easy
You can change the speed at which the applications load in the drawer on lp. I don't think anything is farr than instantaneous
I prefer lp because I don't like the side to side scroll in the app tray. I have my speed set higher than the default values for lp and experience no lag.
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is there a way to get the motoblur launcher back, i kinda liked it, i'm rooted with ADEO
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my guess is that since nobody knows what you did to get rid of it, we cant really help without more info. what launcher did you install?
sorri about that, i installed launcher pro
G1-8701 said:
sorri about that, i installed launcher pro
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so...uninstall it
i did but the launcher never came back
Download Moto home switcher. Try that.
G1-8701 said:
i did but the launcher never came back
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so you dont have ANY launcher right now?
Pirateghost said:
so you dont have ANY launcher right now?
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i reinstalled launcher pro for now, but i found the app that Pirateghost was talking about, i'ma give it a try, thanx to both of yall that helped, hopefully this works
did you try the standard android...
settings>applications>manage applications>launcher pro
clear defaults
And then reboot.
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motoblur is not half as bad as 99% of the people who complain about it say it is..
Its much better than most of the custom launchers in just performance alone. Turn on live wallpapers on all other launchers and notice how crappy the performance is on anything but Motoblur..
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motoblur is not half as bad as 99% of the people who complain about it say it is..
Its much better than most of the custom launchers in just performance alone. Turn on live wallpapers on all other launchers and notice how crappy the performance is on anything but Motoblur..
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i havent really noticed that. I'm running launcher pro with the nexus live wallpaper and it's running fine. The thing i didnt like about the moto home launcher is the inability to change the dock icons and that when scrolling thru screens you have to wait a second to get into the app drawer, just little annoying things like that.
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motoblur is not half as bad as 99% of the people who complain about it say it is..
Its much better than most of the custom launchers in just performance alone. Turn on live wallpapers on all other launchers and notice how crappy the performance is on anything but Motoblur..
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That's true, but in all other performance-related issues LauncherPro and ADW perform *MUCH* better than Motoblur. It's quicker in almost every regard...almost instant to the touch. Motoblur is delayed in almost everything you do.
I'm all about making things look good, and motoblur looks like a flaming turd at my front door...
LauncherPro FTW!
I restored motoblur launcher after instaled gingerblur 1.3, motorblur is way better than the gingerlike launcher IMO
Looking for opinions and advice here.
I'm currently running the stock TW launcher. I would like to use a custom launcher, but my experience is that every time I do, I get a bad battery drain. Most recently, I put Go Launcher on my Skyrocket and it resulted in an extra 3-5% drain/hour. I have used most of the launchers on the market at one time or another and I have a premium license for Launcher Pro.
Anyone running a custom launcher? If so, have you noticed any extra battery drain? Any recommendation for one that works best on the Note? I'm afraid to try Go again, since this phone is pretty much the same hardware as my Skyrocket and I'm sure the battery drain will be the same.
Its going to be hard to estimate battery drain for the first few days. I'm using ADW Laucher Ex, and it seems to have improved performance a notch.
I use Go Launcher EX exclusivly....so many cutomization options and i have never had any lag or issues. The themes are endless.
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I use Go Launcher EX exclusivly....so many cutomization options and i have never had any lag or issues. The themes are endless.
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Yeah, I'm familiar with Go Launcher and I like it. The problem is, every Samsung phone I have installed it on started having a noticeable battery drain. I tested it on the GS2 and Skyrocket. I confirmed that the drain went away as soon as I uninstalled it. Since the Note is basically a bigger Skyrocket, I'm almost positive I'll get the same results.
Ive always used launcher pro on all my devices, better performance, and never noticed any extra battery drain. If u try it, go into settings and make this change. Preferences/ Advanced/Memory Usage Settings/ Homescreen Cache Type/ Light. Without doing this, the home screen transitions were very laggy.
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Looking for opinions and advice here.
I'm currently running the stock TW launcher. I would like to use a custom launcher, but my experience is that every time I do, I get a bad battery drain. Most recently, I put Go Launcher on my Skyrocket and it resulted in an extra 3-5% drain/hour. I have used most of the launchers on the market at one time or another and I have a premium license for Launcher Pro.
Anyone running a custom launcher? If so, have you noticed any extra battery drain? Any recommendation for one that works best on the Note? I'm afraid to try Go again, since this phone is pretty much the same hardware as my Skyrocket and I'm sure the battery drain will be the same.
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I like a very minimalistic phone, so I prefer Zeam launcher. Its very basic and easy to use.
Here's another one that works pretty well. Home screen works only in portrait mode though.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1345601
My first impression
After using the phone for about 2 full days now I can say that I am sticking to the default TW Launcher for now. I tried Launcher Pro, Go Launcher EX, ADW EX, and found that none of them run as smooth as the default launcher. There is a thread in the International Galaxy Note section about this as well. I actually like the TW launcher so I don't mind it.
Anyone tried SPB 3D launcher yet??
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Anyone tried SPB 3D launcher yet??
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Yes. My experience is: Its fun for about 10 minutes. Doesnt have enough integrated widgets and is otherwise slow and after a short while; annoying. I prefer GoLauncher or Native TW
Go Launcher is the only one I fool with anymore... it's got good performance and easily change anything on it.
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Go Launcher is the only one I fool with anymore... it's got good performance and easily change anything on it.
Posted using AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note
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And you're not seeing a noticeable battery drain?
None, I've always used it so used to battery life but battery life on this phone is awesome
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try VTL launcher
I used Launcher 7 (Windows Phone 7 clone) in the Skyrocket, but it doesn't work in the Galaxy note. Had great battery life with it, and it's crazy fast.
Trebuchet launcher! CyanogenMod 9
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I love GoLauncher but I have to agree, it really drains the battery fast.
VTL launcher might be nice but it costs $3.00. Do not want to pay for a launcher before I try it.
I have been trying the stock launcher but the killer for me is I can't change the dock icons (I don't think) If someone can tell me how to do this that would be great!
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I have been trying the stock launcher but the killer for me is I can't change the dock icons (I don't think) If someone can tell me how to do this that would be great!
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I don't have the phone, so I can't test it, but check this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1503988&highlight=sticky
Hey thanks. That works but go launcher really spoils you!
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I use Go Launcher EX exclusivly....so many cutomization options and i have never had any lag or issues. The themes are endless.
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Go Launcher EX lags when scrolling home screens for me, where as the default touchwiz launcher doesn't. Which is too bad, because I'd really like to use GO Launcher... especially for the scrollable/resizable widget support. I might give ADW EX/Launcher Pro another go, I purchased both a while back.
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deserthi said:
I love GoLauncher but I have to agree, it really drains the battery fast.
VTL launcher might be nice but it costs $3.00. Do not want to pay for a launcher before I try it.
I have been trying the stock launcher but the killer for me is I can't change the dock icons (I don't think) If someone can tell me how to do this that would be great!
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Go into applications, and hit menu -> edit and then drag icons off and on the dock.
they either don't let me resize my widgets or ignore and try to force the widget to the centre of the homescreen with a massive border of space all around.
going to try zeam again but i think after that - there's no more h/w accelerated launchers right?
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they either don't let me resize my widgets or ignore and try to force the widget to the centre of the homescreen with a massive border of space all around.
going to try zeam again but i think after that - there's no more h/w accelerated launchers right?
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I am not sure about h/w acceleration, but try (free) Nemus launcher from the Market.
It has got a nice group/folder feature for the homescreen.
thanks, i'll see if it does the trick. i need something accelerated though since every other launcher lags. zeam is quick but doesn't do scrollable widgets
Go launcher works well as does Zeam launcher
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I think I heard launcher2 is quite good... Not sure though..
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nemus launcher seems to be the best i've tried so far. zeam doesn't support scrollable widgets anymore so that's not an option.
i used go launcher till a few hours ago and it's laggy as hell once you add widgets etc. it's widgets were nice though. launcher pro is dead now with the author claiming something new is coming out to (i assume) get people to buy the old version
i'm using my old pure messenger for fbook and sms widgets. gmail now includes a decent full screen widget. i just need a decent scrollable calendar one.
Found SS launcher the other day and I'm hooked. Man, it is so different I love it. Can even add things below the screen and scroll vertically on a page. It lags a bit sometimes but with updates it will get better.
Also, 360 launcher. Top stuff. Heaps of themes available from the launcher like go launcher.
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Found SS launcher the other day and I'm hooked. Man, it is so different I love it. Can even add things below the screen and scroll vertically on a page. It lags a bit sometimes but with updates it will get better
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+1. Bought the pro version, ridiculously customisable, have hardly scratched the surface yet. Had some bootloops and lag, but they seem to have disappeared today.
My current setup with it is intensely boring, but I'm into lists at the mo, and my battery time is huge.
Only downside is centring widgets - a PITA.
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+1. Bought the pro version, ridiculously customisable, have hardly scratched the surface yet. Had some bootloops and lag, but they seem to have disappeared today.
My current setup with it is intensely boring, but I'm into lists at the mo, and my battery time is huge.
Only downside is centring widgets - a PITA.
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Nice! I did notice it on the desktop thread earlier. The beauty of it are the endless possibilities.
As for widgets, yeah they can be tricky to centre. Sometimes they are a bit small as well so I drag half to the next page, enlarge then centre. I have a few hidden out of view like the power and music widgets.
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guys how can we use nova and apex launcher..wen i try to install it is showing there is problem in parsing the package..any ideas??
p.s sory my bad it was a corrupted file..
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guys how can we use nova and apex launcher..wen i try to install it is showing there is problem in parsing the package..any ideas??
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They are only compatible with ics.
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Nova allows you to resize widgets on the ics beta. Works quite well too.
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after changing the density to 160 (from 240) there was something up with all the stock launchers (mentioned in the subject). some wouldn't allow the resize option at all, another did but i couldn't move widgets to the top or sides. there was this big border where i couldn't have any shortcuts or widgets.
h/w acceleration...
So, I don't get is Go Launcher h/w accelerated? If not which are?
go definetely isn't. zeam feels like it is but has no scrolling support so not worth looking at.
ok, trying nova again. for some reason it works properly now i've installed it off the market.
Zeam is too simple and minimalistic for me, I really like the "TSF Shell" but it's not complete yet, a lot of things to do... and it's EXPENSIVE... But it has H/W acceleration and it has a lot of interesting functions... just watch on youtube. It's nice and smooth!
Didn't try NOVA because I'm still on GingerBread (LA4), and as far as I know it's only for ICS...
I wonder why GO developers are ignoring H/W acceleration =(
me too. go launcher with hw accel would be worth a go again. at this point, anything without that isn't worth looking at IMO. far too laggy in comparison. nova now (even with 7 screens full of widgets) is nice and fast. like the stock samsung browser
I use/love apex launcher except for one thing.
Using it in my old Rezound was quite laggy, using it in the newer Galaxy Glll it is very fast and fluid 99% of the time. The one time it annoys me however is when it transitions from portrait to landscape. Making that swap, it kind of hesitates for a half a second or so before it makes the switch.
I have looked all through the menu/settings etc and can not find any way to speed this up. Does anybody know any way to eliminate this slight delay??
NOVA launcher is the way to to go! I always found Apex to be kinda laggy and unresponsive on a few devices. IMHO..
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NOVA launcher is the way to to go! I always found Apex to be kinda laggy and unresponsive on a few devices. IMHO..
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Other than the one setting, Apex is fast as hell on the Glll & I much prefer it to Nova.
I have tried every launcher there is at one time or another. If LauncherPro+ was still supported, that is what I would still be running.
Launcher pro was also my favorite. Did you know you can use the launcher pro M22-3D icon pack with Nova?
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I use/love apex launcher except for one thing.
Using it in my old Rezound was quite laggy, using it in the newer Galaxy Glll it is very fast and fluid 99% of the time. The one time it annoys me however is when it transitions from portrait to landscape. Making that swap, it kind of hesitates for a half a second or so before it makes the switch.
I have looked all through the menu/settings etc and can not find any way to speed this up. Does anybody know any way to eliminate this slight delay??
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I can't find any settings in Apex either for you, but in Settings => Developer Options => Window animation scale and Transition animation scale, set them to 0.75x, it seems to speed it up just a tad, by rotating faster when it finally does...
Thanks, that does seem to help things a little bit.
I just use the default launcher for the s III. Works fine for me
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I just use the default launcher for the s III. Works fine for me
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LOL, I'm real happy for you.........(it always cracks me up when somebody posts random nonsense like this.......)
jmorton10 said:
I use/love apex launcher except for one thing.
Using it in my old Rezound was quite laggy, using it in the newer Galaxy Glll it is very fast and fluid 99% of the time. The one time it annoys me however is when it transitions from portrait to landscape. Making that swap, it kind of hesitates for a half a second or so before it makes the switch.
I have looked all through the menu/settings etc and can not find any way to speed this up. Does anybody know any way to eliminate this slight delay??
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Minimum scrolling set to zero would help anyhow..
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Minimum scrolling set to zero would help anyhow..
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Where are you finding this setting??
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Where are you finding this setting??
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Homescreen settings, default seems to be zero, maybe yours is different... But I thought that only affected scrolling between homescreens...
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Homescreen settings, default seems to be zero, maybe yours is different... But I thought that only affected scrolling between homescreens...
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yea, the default is already set to zero & you're right that doesn't affect the speed that the transitions take effect anyway.