[q] Different launcher - Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

if i run a different launcher like pro or something does moto blurr still run in the backround adding lag or burning battery? Just curious because i use Go launch but i am not sure if it is negatively effecting my phone?

frankiedizzle87 said:
if i run a different launcher like pro or something does moto blurr still run in the backround adding lag or burning battery? Just curious because i use Go launch but i am not sure if it is negatively effecting my phone?
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Yes and no. The UI will be gone but the Widgets are still available. To stop blur almost completely load Titanium backup and freeze "home 2.2.1" app I think.it is. Just make sure before you freeze it you have another launcher installed already.
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so if i do that i will have my atrix running faster and smoother right?

frankiedizzle87 said:
so if i do that i will have my atrix running faster and smoother right?
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Correct.
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I recommend adw launcher, I use it on my nook and atrix.
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Clienterror said:
Correct.
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I recommend adw launcher, I use it on my nook and atrix.
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Nice tip! I bought Titanium Backup Pro and froze Home 2.2.1. (after I installing Launcher Pro and setting up). It does seem a bit zippier.

so titatnium backup lets you freeze moto home?

fRenZy-_- said:
so titatnium backup lets you freeze moto home?
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Yep. It basically eliminates blur. If you want you can go a step further and freeze the widgets associated with blur also.
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Buttom bar

Hi there,
Do anyone know if it's possible to remove the Buttom pop-up bar.
I'd like to use WizzBar, but after installing Wizzbar, I now have the default one and Wizzbar poping up :-(
Sorry but no there is no way to remove it.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tlalexander.tabletbarhider&feature=search_result
I am incorrect, I just noticed a new app.
How do you change the icons on this thing (task manager, calendar, world clock etc)? Surely it's configurable ....
simonk83 said:
How do you change the icons on this thing (task manager, calendar, world clock etc)? Surely it's configurable ....
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You can't change them.
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qsec said:
You can't change them.
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What? Really?!
simonk83 said:
What? Really?!
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yea, couldn´t believe it either... honeycomb is pretty good, early beta
sentencedx said:
yea, couldn´t believe it either... honeycomb is pretty good, early beta
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That's terrible Are there any mods or anything to get rid of it, or force changes or something? That's pretty weird that they didn't just make it configurable. What's the thinking behind that?
I am just guessing but I don't believe the "mini" apps on the touchwiz taskbar are like regular apps. Regular apps can't be used in a multitasking way like the touchwiz "mini" apps on the taskbar, which is why you can't place your own apps there. I believe Samsung would have to develope more "mini" apps first.
If you get one of the android launchers from the market like launcher pro or adw ex, they each have docks that you can place your own apps on. On adw ex you can even have the dock rise up and disappear like touchwiz's taskbar.
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The pop-up touch wiz/apps bar is just annoying I only ever use it for task manager I wish you could not have it and just have tas man as an app or widget. The bar only over pops up when I accidentaly press it when playing a game. It's totally rubbish since the apps are not configurable.
Samsung take it off and/or make it configurable it's the biggest bug bear I have with Samsung tabs.
qsec said:
You can't change them.
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Thats really sucks

[Q] Restore apps/widgets

I know Titanium Backup will re-install all of my apps, but is there anything that will place all of my apps & widgets?? I want to flash an new rom, but not so much of a fan of re-placing all of my apps & widgets on my home screens.
Adw will save your desktop layout, minus widgets.
Don't know about any other launchers, as I have no experience with them
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Which launcher is the best?
Unfortunately I don’t believe there’s away to restore widgets without having to manually go back and add them. Launcher Pro is also an excellent home replacement.
chadhoard said:
Which launcher is the best?
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What color is the best? Who is hotter Mila Jovovich or Rue Paul? Who makes crappier cars, Chevy or Dodge?
It's all personal preference, there are free versions of almost all launchers on the market, try adw, launcherpro, go launcher, etc. have fun
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adamcooks said:
What color is the best?
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blue
Who is hotter Mila Jovovich or Rue Paul?
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Mila Jovovich
Who makes crappier cars, Chevy or Dodge?
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dodge

Safe to remove htc sense

I am running Leedroid v2. I want to use launcher pro but would like to remove the sense, is it safe to uninstall it from titanium backup?
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No
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Absolutely not. Its a vital part of the framework. Just install Launcher Pro over it, and when you hit the Home button, select it as the default launcher.
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markdexter said:
I am running Leedroid v2. I want to use launcher pro but would like to remove the sense, is it safe to uninstall it from titanium backup?
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HERE is a mod that a dev made that does this. You can then use whichever launcher you want. It works well.
tjb3401 said:
HERE is a mod that a dev made that does this. You can then use whichever launcher you want. It works well.
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Thanks mate, perfect, will give it a go
Would doing this mod essentially make the phone faster?
Edit: just tried it and didn't really make much of a difference in speed for me. It wasn't noticeable atleast. It seems to just remove sense as a launcher but everything sense is still intact. If you want comeplete senseless your best bet is any asop rom like miui or cm7 alpha.
Removing Sense is highly inadvisable. And a launcher is pretty much just a skin, so sense will still run. Not 100% about this, but uninstalling sense MAY mess with your ability to recover back to it should you choose to unroot. Definitely take the advice above, and try flashing an aosp ROM. They are much quicker anyway
Thanks for your advise guys, unfortunately I am gsm, so as far as I know, there is no aosp ROM available yet, ill just stick with it for now until. IM just used to cyanogenmod with other devices, IM sure our day will come for the gsm guys! Just find sense, abit bulky, and sluggish at times. Also everything that sense provides can be found in apps, on the market (beautiful widgets, widget locker......) cheers
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kyleg517 said:
Removing Sense is highly inadvisable. And a launcher is pretty much just a skin, so sense will still run. Not 100% about this, but uninstalling sense MAY mess with your ability to recover back to it should you choose to unroot. Definitely take the advice above, and try flashing an aosp ROM. They are much quicker anyway
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this is untrue. you cannot remove sense totally, however, you can remove many many many of the components associated with it without much problem at all. this also does not affect returning to stock in any way whatsoever.
tjb3401 said:
HERE is a mod that a dev made that does this. You can then use whichever launcher you want. It works well.
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This also has the issue where you have to unlock to answer a call. I guess if it were a tablet but being it's a phone that would annoy me having to do that every time get a call.
I Remember seeing a Thread with a zip Called DeSensify or something like that, Look for that it May Help?

MiLocker problems

Every time I enable MiLocker, it ends up becoming secondary to the stock lockscreen, be it Sense or AOSP. Is there any way to fix this?
Freeze the stock lockscreen with titanium. I haven't had problems doing it and it leaves just the lock screens the want to use. I found MiLocker pretty buggy on the Rez though. I use GoLocker.
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It's not an instant thing. Like, it'll be the only lockscreen for a while, but after about an hour or so, the stock lockscreens come back up again.
mentallo said:
Freeze the stock lockscreen with titanium. I haven't had problems doing it and it leaves just the lock screens the want to use. I found MiLocker pretty buggy on the Rez though. I use GoLocker.
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Thanks for saying something about GoLocker. I didn't even know it existed and I love it!
mentallo said:
Freeze the stock lockscreen with titanium. I haven't had problems doing it and it leaves just the lock screens the want to use. I found MiLocker pretty buggy on the Rez though. I use GoLocker.
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What is the stock lockscreen listed as in titanium backup? Im having the same issue and cant find it in titanium

help with LAG!!!!!

alright no matter what i do to this phone weather that be new kernel/ rom/ ruu update/ hboot/ recovery, it is so freaking laggy on every rom! ive tried so many sense roms, senseless, and CM9 and there all laggy! what the hell am i doing wrong!?!?!?! curently i restored from slim 1.9 and funky back to adrenaline and funky in my sig.... help please! its crazy irritating! in on latest hboot, latest recovery.
Do you re install your apps before the lag happens? It shouldn't lag straight from an ruu and no apps installed
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Quadrider10 said:
alright no matter what i do to this phone weather that be new kernel/ rom/ ruu update/ hboot/ recovery, it is so freaking laggy on every rom! ive tried so many sense roms, senseless, and CM9 and there all laggy! what the hell am i doing wrong!?!?!?! curently i restored from slim 1.9 and funky back to adrenaline and funky in my sig.... help please! its crazy irritating! in on latest hboot, latest recovery.
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Give us an example of what you call lag.
Also, have you checked another rezound to verify that your performance is abnormal?
Install cpu usage monitor from play store and place their icons in the task bar. This will help you see if your CPU is maxing out when its supposed to.
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Squirrel1620 said:
Do you re install your apps before the lag happens? It shouldn't lag straight from an ruu and no apps installed
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the only app i install is go launcher and system tuner. and stright off it lags in go launcher and a tad in the auctal systemmmm. once i install all my apps, it gets worse
topgun1953 said:
Give us an example of what you call lag.
Also, have you checked another rezound to verify that your performance is abnormal?
Install cpu usage monitor from play store and place their icons in the task bar. This will help you see if your CPU is maxing out when its supposed to.
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lad as in stutters switching pages, doing generl task with settings etc...
i do freeze some apps if that makes a difference?
cpu is fine and is maxing out when needed.... and no i dont have another rezound to compare with....
Quadrider10 said:
the only app i install is go launcher and system tuner. and stright off it lags in go launcher and a tad in the auctal systemmmm. once i install all my apps, it gets worse
lad as in stutters switching pages, doing generl task with settings etc...
i do freeze some apps if that makes a difference?
cpu is fine and is maxing out when needed.... and no i dont have another rezound to compare with....
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Well, there's your first mistake. Using Go Launcher
Obaterista93 said:
Well, there's your first mistake. Using Go Launcher
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It's the smoothest launcher I've downloaded
Obaterista93 said:
Well, there's your first mistake. Using Go Launcher
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Exactly what I was gonna say. It might look nice and all but its a poorly coded home replacement.
wildstang83 said:
Exactly what I was gonna say. It might look nice and all but its a poorly coded home replacement.
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I have always had lag with Go Launcher. For GB you can't beat ADW EX or LauncherPro, but for ICS, Nova all the way. I've always had choppiness with Apex.
Obaterista93 said:
Well, there's your first mistake. Using Go Launcher
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I third this. Also, using newts sense 4.1 rosie is smoooth
mforminio7 said:
I third this. Also, using newts sense 4.1 rosie is smoooth
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Alright I'll try nova and launcher pro. But that wouldn't explain the lag in Yeh actual system and such tho like play store and settings.
Quadrider10 said:
Alright I'll try nova and launcher pro. But that wouldn't explain the lag in Yeh actual system and such tho like play store and settings.
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No it could. Depending on what bg services Go has running. You can't expect a 1.5GHz proc to run 100 different processes and be butter. Like I said, Go was poorly written, but hey, at least its shiny.
Damn. Wouldn't think it would make that big of a difference. Owell. I guess I will be making a switch to launcher pro. Seems to be smoother off the box. Go was always.smooth as butter on my stock rezound. Well when it was stock LOL thanks for the help guys much appreciated!
Quadrider10 said:
Damn. Wouldn't think it would make that big of a difference. Owell. I guess I will be making a switch to launcher pro. Seems to be smoother off the box. Go was always.smooth as butter on my stock rezound. Well when it was stock LOL thanks for the help guys much appreciated!
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I wouldn't use LauncherPro if you're running ICS. It was written for GB and hasn't been optimized for ICS yet. The homescreen is really smooth, but the App drawer lags a lot. If you're running ICS use Nova, Trebuchet, or Apex.
Or the new adw, its been rewritten and is really sick
Dude, you always have the worse experiences. Just do yourself a favor and install the stock deoxd global rom.....no lag and battery life will amaze you on STOCK.
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try with setcpu or any other program to change the cpu to max and performance
if not helping
try to run antutu see which department is low score
I tried uninstalling system tuner and it didn't make a difference, not going back to stock, cause that's the reason I rooted my phon. Apex is slo, and way too Manu settings in adw. Il try nova and the other one u said. And this Rom AMD kernel I got 8600 something benchmark antutu. Benchmarks don't mean anything but pure raw speed.
Quadrider10 said:
I tried uninstalling system tuner and it didn't make a difference, not going back to stock, cause that's the reason I rooted my phon. Apex is slo, and way too Manu settings in adw. Il try nova and the other one u said. And this Rom AMD kernel I got 8600 something benchmark antutu. Benchmarks don't mean anything but pure raw speed.
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On STOCK, you can make your own mods. I am pretty sure you didn't root your phone to acquire bugs and headaches. Besides, stock Rom is the smoothest 3.6 rom I have ever ran. It also has the best battery life I have ever gotten by far...
I just don't like any bugs. Just about every rom out has their share.
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If nova is giving you some lag as it was for me, install Apex launcher 1.2.5. this is the smoothest version of it i have found, the newer updates are much slower. (this is all based of my personal rezound)
im gonaa do an ruu update, then flash eaither slim rom or slim kang, or viral with funky kernel.... call it a day. if it is still slow, i give up and just leaving it.... im tired of doing all this so many times...

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