Hello,
So I basically want to make a small survey that what launcher are you currently using and how is your battery life. I am trying to narrow down if some launchers are better for the battery life. I am currently using Touchwiz and get about 8 hours of moderate usage every day. Not good.
So how about you guys?
I used LauncherPro for a day but then removed it. It just hasn't evolved enough meanwhile TouchWiz, Sense UI and even MIUI have gone way ahead with their launchers. I don't think you will notice much difference in battery life between different launchers. LauncherPro renders stuff much faster but I don't like its appdrawer and dock.
Now I'm using TouchWiz until someone ports MIUI to SGS2.
GO, I prefer vertical scrolling to horizontal scolling in touchwiz and like that you can sort the apps alphabetically (who on earth tought it would be a good idea to make a horizontal scrolling app drawer and sort the apps by install time!?), also the running apps (+task killer) and recent apps tab are real handy
I'm gonna give Launcher Pro a go today. As for the scrolling, I quite like the horizontal scroll, but dislike it for seeming like the iPhone
By the way. How is the performance with some other launchers?
I used to have Go Launcher when using Desire. Now when I got this phone I first changed to Go Launcher also but then I noticed heavy battery usage and also some jerkiness with the scrolling, therefore I switched back to Touchwiz and still here. It is not THAT bad as everybody has been saying.
Launcher pro paid version.
Could have easily had 24hrs moderate use yesterday.
Tbh I don't think the launcher is one of the main factors affecting battery life though.
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By the way. How is the performance with some other launchers?
I used to have Go Launcher when using Desire. Now when I got this phone I first changed to Go Launcher also but then I noticed heavy battery usage and also some jerkiness with the scrolling, therefore I switched back to Touchwiz and still here. It is not THAT bad as everybody has been saying.
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I noticed the similar jerkiness with the go launcher initially and ended up switching over to launcher pro for a bit. When i reinstalled go launcher to use the notification addon, transition was much better and the battery usage was on par with touchwiz
Builtin widgets are better with launcher pro but i like the notification addon for go launcher more.
I have both go launcher ex and launcher pro installed but the default launcher is set to go launcher
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ADW Ex. Very pleased with it.
Currently 30% battery left after 2 days 3 hours, moderate use, but have removed or frozen a lot of bloat and/or stuff I don't use (Facebook, Twitter, games). Freezing TW launcher seems to have helped hugely wrt to battery life.
On KE2 stock.
I've got the following, adw launcher, go launcher ex,launcher 7, launcher pro, spb shell 3d and TW
Lol, for testing purposes
I usually use go launcher but have been trying regina 3d launcher, looks nice but i should imagine it would have more of a drain on the battery although im yet to confirm that.
ADW Launcher EX its the best choice for me, there are many themes you can use to customize it even more, the desktop scrolling efects are just great and i love the posibility to hide the main dock and the notifications bar, the screen just looks awesome then
Have had all the launchers mentioned already for a spin on the phone. I had been for the most part sticking with adw on the N1 but I was not able to get that to perform smoothly on this phone. Right now I'm actually using tw with most all of the wiz removed/frozen. I find I like it.
ADW EX. the only con is the no-bubbles on the dock. if I receive a message I can't see it in the dock, only in the notification bar.
I'm using Launcher Plus Pro. It's great, but it freezes on almost every boot. Have to wait a minute for force close to pop up, then it works beautifully. I suspect it's because the SGS2 is scanning the SD cards on every boot.
EDIT: Oh and I would have used TW4 if there was a way to alphabetically list apps.
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ADW EX. the only con is the no-bubbles on the dock. if I receive a message I can't see it in the dock, only in the notification bar.
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don't know what settings are you using, but the notification bubble works for me on every call / sms / gmail...
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don't know what settings are you using, but the notification bubble works for me on every call / sms / gmail...
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In settings bubbles are ON and also the catalogs in the app drawer won't work. Dunno why, weird things.
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ADW EX. the only con is the no-bubbles on the dock. if I receive a message I can't see it in the dock, only in the notification bar.
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You have installed ADW notifier from the market, yes?
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I'm using Launcher Plus Pro. It's great, but it freezes on almost every boot. Have to wait a minute for force close to pop up, then it works beautifully. I suspect it's because the SGS2 is scanning the SD cards on every boot.
EDIT: Oh and I would have used TW4 if there was a way to alphabetically list apps.
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There is an app on the market called sort apps that will sort the app drawer alphabetically. Requires root. Another thing I did was move the default home to center, instructions are available here. Hard to believe anyone thought that an unsorted app drawer was a good idea. lol
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There is an app on the market called sort apps that will sort the app drawer alphabetically. Requires root. Another thing I did was move the default home to center, instructions are available here. Hard to believe anyone thought that an unsorted app drawer was a good idea. lol
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Can't find it. I've searched for "sort apps", "sortapp", "sortapps" & "sort app".
It popped up on mine (eu generic) used in the states. It also pops up if I just use touch wiz for the search terms.
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Hey guys. I'm trying to figure out witch launcher is the best out there. So I would like you, yes you, over there, yea you, to post your reasons as to why helix,And, launcher pro, panda, or even ahome is the best. So ready...go!
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Also on using launcher pro right now if it helps
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I honestly think launcher pro is the best because of the way the applications appear when you press the button in the tray, the icons on the tray are awesome and I love how
The application come together when You press the button on the tray, but I dont like how you have to pay for their widgets which are awesome, but I guess its worth it
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I like ADW.Launcher. It has lots of options, it's themeable if you want a different look. ADWNotify is an awesome addition to it. It's open source.
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I have to agree, launcher pro is the best. Im using launcher pro plus and I love it.believe me, I've tried them all
ADW.Launcher and LauncherPro are the two choices that I would personally recommend. Both of them are excellent choices. In the end, it's really up to you to decide which launcher suites you. Try both and play around with it to see which one is better.
Im using a heavily nodded version of touchwiz. Imho its the best launcher. It has landscape and portrait support on the homepage and the apps and it let's you set any page as the homepage unlike regular tw. It also has 4 icons and an app drawer.
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Does anyone have something to day about zeam or ahome
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Does anyone have something to day about zeam or ahome
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I tried them all and zeam is the only one I use now. I like the interface better than all the rest.
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I tried them all and zeam is the only one I use now. I like the interface better than all the rest.
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+1 for Zeam. I have the pay version of Launcher Pro, and have also tried ADW, and TW, but Zeam has worked best for me. It's fast, relatively light weight, gets regular updates, and is not bloated with unnecessary features. I found that I just didn't need all the widgets, etc. that come with the others.
Im an ADW fan boy. I think LP is a little more user friendly. But if you know how to use ADWs settings, and use the bidden gems (hold an app over the trash for 3 seconds to un install, etc.) I find it much better. The latest update of ADW is amazing.
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I too am a fan of zeam. Definitely feels less cumbersome than launcher pro (i have the plus, and I really don't care for any of the widgets). I much prefer zeam's dock, and the action bindings are awesome (i use swipe up for open dialer, swipe down to open app drawer, both of which save be dock space, and use double tap to open notifications)
It now lets you resize widgets and adjust home screen rows and columns- I see no need for launcher pro.
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Im an ADW fan boy. I think LP is a little more user friendly. But if you know how to use ADWs settings, and use the bidden gems (hold an app over the trash for 3 seconds to un install, etc.) I find it much better. The latest update of ADW is amazing.
Lovellkid
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what's new in the latest ADW?
Rearranged menu settings, trash is located at top now when deleting an app off screen, 1/3/5 icon menu, ui changes that I think are great. Another awesome thing is that if you long press an icon and drop it back in same spot, you can change the icon. So for twidroyd (can't stand their logo) I changed it to the official twitters logo.
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LovellKid said:
Rearranged menu settings, trash is located at top now when deleting an app off screen, 1/3/5 icon menu, ui changes that I think are great. Another awesome thing is that if you long press an icon and drop it back in same spot, you can change the icon. So for twidroyd (can't stand their logo) I changed it to the official twitters logo.
Lovellkid
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You know what sucks about it though... If you accidentally put an app over the app drawer button it stays there and you cant remove it, at least I couldnt, unless you uninstall and reinstall the launcher...
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You know what sucks about it though... If you accidentally put an app over the app drawer button it stays there and you cant remove it, at least I couldnt, unless you uninstall and reinstall the launcher...
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you actually just have to hold on the screen to bring up the menu and then go to custom shortcut -- pick activity -- launcher actions -- open/close app drawer
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You know what sucks about it though... If you accidentally put an app over the app drawer button it stays there and you cant remove it, at least I couldnt, unless you uninstall and reinstall the launcher...
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lol that's what i thought at first! so i keep on uninstalling it whenever i accidentally put something on the middle of the dock until i discover where the app drawer is.
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I use Launcher Pro....I only want a drawer button on my home screen.
Widgets to the side--JIC I feel like using them.
Launcher Pro all the way.
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I use launcher pro plus most but I like messing around with all kinds of different things. I kind of liked GDE too but it's too bulky but I liked the customizations you could do with it. I also like adw with all the themes available for it and I think it's pretty similar to launcher pro but no widgets. The notifier is nice though.
http://golauncher.goforandroid.com/2012/03/go-launcher-hd-v1-0-beta/
I use Go Launcher EX on my phone and liked it alot, but on TPF it was rather disappointing. Glad to see they are working on a tablet version! Trying it out now.
oh man - I love it too on my phone.
And I just got my hubs set up on adw - have to do it all again...
Looks pretty good so far. Still missing a lot of the customization features (transition animations and themes for example), though.
This launcher isn't smooth like stock or apex, trebuchet, nova.
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At work atm. Anyone have any screen shots?
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Looks good! Thanks!
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looks good, but lot of work on it
I really hope this turns out well with all the customization that adw has. There are some things I've just always really liked about go launchers (even though I use adw) such as the way you set up folders(its so much faster) and other small things. As long as I can make a nice hubs layout with this and its smooth i'll definitely switch
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This launcher isn't smooth like stock or apex, trebuchet, nova.
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Yes you are right. Compare to stock, even at 1.6 GHz, the scrolling animation isn't very smooth. Hopefully they'll get that fixed in future updates.
A step in the right direction. Definitely missing a lot of features tho.
It's a good start. Obviously still a lot of work to do and features to add but I see potential.
Not feeling it yet. On all of my tabs I have stuck with the stock launcher. On gingerbread I was adwex and nothing else whether it was sense, tw, or mb. But hc and ICS I've been sticking with stock..... feels like they got it right.
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Not feeling it yet. On all of my tabs I have stuck with the stock launcher. On gingerbread I was adwex and nothing else whether it was sense, tw, or mb. But hc and ICS I've been sticking with stock..... feels like they got it right.
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same here stock is the only one that don't have some issue...tried every other big name launcher....sucks
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i agree with you guys in that stock is doing what it needs to do for me. i moved to this for 3 reasons...
1) Go Launcher has done some great things with my phone so i was optimistic that i'd eventually switch to this on my tablet.
2) the dock bar is cool as it stays there via all the homescreens. i have access to gmail, the market, touchdown, and my browser from any any homescreen.
3) this was the main reason. i feel they've gone leaps and bounds with the widget/folder/shortcut/app adding section. instead of going to the app drawer and dragging icons one at a time doing the same steps it allows you to select your apps first via a top scrolling area, then organize after. if you want to add a folder, you can select the apps you want to add and then it gets added after you're done.
reason 3 is a path i hope and imagine all other launchers would go through. makes restoring a lot easier, aside from the obvious backup and restore.
cool im going to try this!
Installed and using it for an hour. First impression "Excellent" and welcome step by Go Launcher. The Go Launcher Ex was not for tablets. I am using it for ~2 hours. Smooth and clean. I especially liked the edit mode. In just one edit mode you can modify wallpaper, add app shortcuts on all desktops & add widget. This feature is definitely better than the stock and ADW EX. I believe Sony has similar UI for tablet S. I liked it when I researching tablets. Waiting for more features.
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can anyone confirm that this is hardware accelerated?
hi at all,
thanks for the great app "go launcher hd".
it's run perfect on my prime, very good speed and stable but with some faults...
i found the following bug:
1. no more apps/games than 24 in 1 directory
- if i create a directory in app drawer like "SPIELE" and i move in this directory 24 games i have a problem.
after a short time or reboot the directory "SPIELE" is not exist anymore, so all my apps/games are normally selectable through app drawer without the created directory, becouse is missing.
2. max 24 apps/games in one directory
when i post more than 24 apps/games in one directoy, the new added app is not listed. on the app drawer the app is missing to. only when i make a new sort the app will be listed, but not in the directory itself.
3. app drawer directory link and desktop directory link are not the same
when i create a directory and make a link to my desktop quick start list, all ok, but when i add more apps/games with app drawer to this directory, the apps/games are not listed in my desktop, so i must delete first the icon on the desktop and add the new changed directory link to the desktop.
4. no oppinion to add apps/games from app drawer to quick start list.
add apps/games are only possible from app drawer to desktop and than from desktop to quick start list, but not from app drawer to quick start list.
5. running apps listed are not correct?
in app drawer category "running apps" are not correct, many apps listed for allways run, like
some root apps like "samba filesharing" (is definite status "stopped") and some asus standard apps like "mpe notice, mail, messenger, facebook, navigation, talk -> they are listed as always run, but i found no process for it.
tested:
version beta 2 go launcher hd
os: asus transformer prime 9.4.2.15 DE
Nova
I have to say Nova launcher is still my fav, lets me use as much landscape possible...
I should qualify that.... it is Nova Launcher Prime....
I'm wondering what the best launcher is for tablet mode. I know touchwiz doesn't like 213dpi. I have used apex before and its nice, not real familiar with nova launcher. Are there any other launchers that work with tablet mode? What about go launcher ex or go launcher HD?
Also what is your favorite rom for running tablet mode?
I'm using adw ex and happy with it
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mike208 said:
I'm wondering what the best launcher is for tablet mode. I know touchwiz doesn't like 213dpi. I have used apex before and its nice, not real familiar with nova launcher. Are there any other launchers that work with tablet mode? What about go launcher ex or go launcher HD?
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Adwex and nova prime are my two go to launchers. Adwex hasn't been updated forever so it doesn't have a strong ics feel to it like nova can.
Nova prime seemed to keep icon sizing better on homescreen as well. But it seems to also limit your grid size. I'm at 213 and can only do 7x7, it may be dpi dependent but I don't usually rock tablet mode so haven't tested. Adwex will let me do 10x10 if I want.
I also like that nova puts the menu at the bottom of the screen while adwex puts it up top which can be out of reach maybe for some.
Here are two quick screens to show stuff I'm talking about. Since I primarily use phone mode I still prefer adwex for some reason lol, I think because I can change the dock icons size in adwex and not nova.
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Also, I know some people will say apex is best, but I bought it, used it, and at the time it was pretty lacking. I don't think I could even set the drawer to transparent. I've never gone back to it and don't see a need. I've also run go, tsf, spb3d, ez, hi, and pretty much everything. So I've bought some I don't even really use anymore lol. But if I had to recommend one to buy, I'd probably say nova prime.
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As a Cyanogenmod fan I have to recommend Trebuchet. It's just an improved version of AOSP's stock ICS launcher but it supports both tablet and phone. I haven't used it on my Note (which is 240dpi phone mode) but it works well on my HP TouchPad (160dpi tablet mode).
I wish you could use tablet mode for apps but keep the phone notification bar. The Note has capacitive buttons so it seems stupid to waste a bunch of screen real-estate for on-screen tablet buttons that are redundant.
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Adwex and nova prime are my two go to launchers. Adwex hasn't been updated forever so it doesn't have a strong ics feel to it like nova can.
Nova prime seemed to keep icon sizing better on homescreen as well. But it seems to also limit your grid size. I'm at 213 and can only do 7x7, it may be dpi dependent but I don't usually rock tablet mode so haven't tested. Adwex will let me do 10x10 if I want.
I also like that nova puts the menu at the bottom of the screen while adwex puts it up top which can be out of reach maybe for some.
Here are two quick screens to show stuff I'm talking about. Since I primarily use phone mode I still prefer adwex for some reason lol, I think because I can change the dock icons size in adwex and not nova.
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Also, I know some people will say apex is best, but I bought it, used it, and at the time it was pretty lacking. I don't think I could even set the drawer to transparent. I've never gone back to it and don't see a need. I've also run go, tsf, spb3d, ez, hi, and pretty much everything. So I've bought some I don't even really use anymore lol. But if I had to recommend one to buy, I'd probably say nova prime.
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Awesome information. I will definitely check those out. I was never a fan of the default adw look, but admit that because I that, I never really gave it a chance to make it look any better lol.
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As a Cyanogenmod fan I have to recommend Trebuchet. It's just an improved version of AOSP's stock ICS launcher but it supports both tablet and phone. I haven't used it on my Note (which is 240dpi phone mode) but it works well on my HP TouchPad (160dpi tablet mode).
I wish you could use tablet mode for apps but keep the phone notification bar. The Note has capacitive buttons so it seems stupid to waste a bunch of screen real-estate for on-screen tablet buttons that are redundant.
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Yeah I heard ya on the redundant buttons. What is the benefit of running at 240dpi as opposed to 320?
I am adding a second question to this post. What is the best rom for running tablet mode? I know rom choice is subjective and can depend on your phone hardware, what works for one might not work for another. But I don't feel like spending hours and hours setting up multiple roms the way I like in tablet mode. I mean I will if I have to, but I am wondering if there are 1 or 2 that are way better then the rest. So far I am leaning towards either Hybrid rom or the collective mesosphere remix.
Here's mine with adw ex. Still messing with it.
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Here's mine with adw ex. Still messing with it.
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Man I love slightly stoopid. Bandelero baby!
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mike208 said:
I'm wondering what the best launcher is for tablet mode. I know touchwiz doesn't like 213dpi. I have used apex before and its nice, not real familiar with nova launcher. Are there any other launchers that work with tablet mode? What about go launcher ex or go launcher HD?
Also what is your favorite rom for running tablet mode?
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I have used Go Launcher Ex for several weeks after getting my Note and it works really well in tablet mode, widgets scale nicely.
But right now I am using the h0tw1r3 ICS rom and it works great in tablet mode as well
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I have used Go Launcher Ex for several weeks after getting my Note and it works really well in tablet mode, widgets scale nicely.
But right now I am using the h0tw1r3 ICS rom and it works great in tablet mode as well
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Well maybe I will try h0tw1r3 then. Having trouble finding a rom I like that will do tablet mode. Starting to wonder if tablet mode is worth all the hassle. Wish it just worked and I could try it out to see if its worth it, lol.
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Yeah I heard ya on the redundant buttons. What is the benefit of running at 240dpi as opposed to 320?
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you'll be able to see more things on the screen, for example there will be more stuff to swipe in the notification bar, more icons in the app drawer and icons/widgets will be a little smaller. be careful though because you'll have problems with the Play Store at certain dpi's.
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you'll be able to see more things on the screen, for example there will be more stuff to swipe in the notification bar, more icons in the app drawer and icons/widgets will be a little smaller. be careful though because you'll have problems with the Play Store at certain dpi's.
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It's sort of like taking your computer resolution from 800x600 to 1024x768.
SGH-i717 mesosphere-remix
elimedina2000 said:
I tried leaked S Voice APK and just like Samsung confirmed, it is only a test app and has many bugs. You can actually hear the difference since leaked test voice sound garbled. Latest one below is one that cam with S3 Rom leak and more up-to-date.
HOW DO YOU INSTALL?
1. Download ZIP on link below(Extract on your desktop). If you download to phone directly, you still need to extract to a normal folder.
2. Contained within is 2 files.(voicetalk.apk & libsvoxtts.so)
3. Place voicetalk.apk in system/app with "Root Explorer" or like(Use Mount R/W and set permissions by holding voicetalk.apk to see sub-menu). Make sure to make permissions as "rw-r--r--".
4. Now place libsvoxtts.so on /system/lib.
5. Reboot *****NO NEED TO CHANGE build.prop such as with others.
6. ENJOY, then ask funny questions to it.
__* IF YOU HEAR NO FEEDBACK, try turning media volume up by opening phone dialer or on youtube video, or a music song and such.
LNK: w w w .filedropper.com/svoiceextracted_1
***NOTE: I did limited testing, if you try on other roms and does not work, just delete both files.
***Warning, Try at own risk...Let me know if it works on other Roms not mentioned on Title...
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Here is where to get it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1661772
[ROM][Unofficial][CM9] h0tw1r3 Release 7 (6/19)
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Do a lot of launchers support tablet as well as phone mode?
guys my friend have s3 with the orginal sammy rom with latest update for our country and i used his phone played with it for like some hours but when opening any app launcher will closed wtf i feel its phone from like 2 or 3 yeras even my s1 never redraw launcher with opening many apps samsung what r u doing with ram management it sooooooooo ****y ram management now touch wiz become heavier than sense who said now touch wiz is so light on ram no its not the device have 780 ram as i know and wtf free ram only 190 or 200 my s1 with cm9 or aokp or sammy rom always have between 180 -150 with 5 apps on back ground
sorry guys but i'm really so sad for what sammy did on the software
yahyoh said:
guys my friend have s3 with the orginal sammy rom with latest update for our country and i used his phone played with it for like some hours but when opening any app launcher will closed wtf i feel its phone from like 2 or 3 yeras even my s1 never redraw launcher with opening many apps samsung what r u doing with ram management it sooooooooo ****y ram management now touch wiz become heavier than sense who said now touch wiz is so light on ram no its not the device have 780 ram as i know and wtf free ram only 190 or 200 my s1 with cm9 or aokp or sammy rom always have between 180 -150 with 5 apps on back ground
sorry guys but i'm really so sad for what sammy did on the software
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I don't experience this. Running ADW Ex. Did not experience it on TouchWiz either (but maybe I didn't use TW long enough to encounter this issue). I boot at 370MB in use. After a couple hours and for days it will hover around 500MB in use... But I don't experience that issue. Nor do I have issues with force closes in apps or performance. I have lots of extras and services running too...
Maybe try a custom ROM?
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I noticed that if we have custom icons for apps , the homescreen reload time is too much, upto two seconds sometime...I had a homescreen like this:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
As you can see I have lot's of custom icons, and it would really have an impact on Home screen loading time ..I've changed them to default icons and it's instant now...
Any solutions?
eggman89 said:
I noticed that if we have custom icons for apps , the homescreen reload time is too much, upto two seconds sometime...I had a homescreen like this:
As you can see I have lot's of custom icons, and it would really have an impact on Home screen loading time ..I've changed them to default icons and it's instant now...
Any solutions?
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same with the widgets..i`ve had a beautifull widget clock on my homescreen and it was lagging then i changed the widget with a stock digital clock and the problems are gone..
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same with the widgets..i`ve had a beautifull widget clock on my homescreen and it was lagging then i changed the widget with a stock digital clock and the problems are gone..
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Don't have that many widgets but 5*2 beautiful widgets super clock seems to run fine. Also have pure grid calender, with scrolling enabled and even scrolling is smooth. There are 3 other widgets as well..
I have random effects enabled too when changing desktop screens, and the effects are fluid...
I guess my launcher is helping with this...
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I don't experience this. Running ADW Ex. Did not experience it on TouchWiz either (but maybe I didn't use TW long enough to encounter this issue). I boot at 370MB in use. After a couple hours and for days it will hover around 500MB in use... But I don't experience that issue. Nor do I have issues with force closes in apps or performance. I have lots of extras and services running too...
Maybe try a custom ROM?
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Yup it never ever happens to me either unless I use a heavy application like going to a large desktop webpage with the browser or playing deadspace. Otherwise with just xda, facebook and email apps its fine. That isnt to say the problem don't exist. It depends on your usage.
Getting pretty much constant redraw too. Go launcher, some custom icons, couple of widgets. Feel as if apps aren't staying open in the background.
Stock rom, rooted, updated.
Reposted here in case you missed it in your original thread:
I have not run into problems with TouchWiz closing down on my U.S. variant. My first guess is that your friend installed some sort of app manager that kills background processes. This kind of program was absolutely necessary in Android 2.0, but the problem was mostly fixed in 2.1 and completely gone in 2.2. These days, it primarily results in poor user experience and, sometimes, noticeably lower battery life. I don't have proof that your friend did this, but the odds are very good.
Just go to android.mimic.ca and upload your services.jar and it will change the oom priority for your launcher stopping it from being killed off.
No more redraws.
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thank u for all replies but i think he will not root his phone any soon or install a non stock rom and he dont use any task killer and he use bw widget gmail widget and email widget only with every thing default + he wipe data from 2 days
btw he came from iphone world
I haven't got root. I set animation scale to 0.5x and using nova launcher and haven't got a single redraw since
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I haven't got root. I set animation scale to 0.5x and using nova launcher and haven't got a single redraw since
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ya because nova or apex are lighter on ram from touch wiz
lol i didnt use touch wiz on my s2 from like 6 months
yahyoh said:
ya because nova or apex are lighter on ram from touch wiz
lol i didnt use touch wiz on my s2 from like 6 months
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Really don't see a difference in ram usage, I think it's a ****ty programing in launcher priority.. That way the browser could be light as f* but still closed because it priority to kill it before other..
You could be right, samsungs apps is pretty heavy and multitasking is a little meh with reloading Web pages and restarting apps
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Really don't see a difference in ram usage, I think it's a ****ty programing in launcher priority.. That way the browser could be light as f* but still closed because it priority to kill it before other..
You could be right, samsungs apps is pretty heavy and multitasking is a little meh with reloading Web pages and restarting apps
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ya u r right and s3 stock rom is the most bloated rom ever made
i've played now with my sis s3 opening many apps played some games no launcher redraw free ram about 200 -190 with 11 apps in ram :silly: and still no redraw so maybe my friend has instlled some apps cuz launcher to close
I'm a long-time Go Launcher user (Launcher Pro user before that) and lately much hype has surrounded Nova Launcher so I decided to give it a shot.
After playing with it for part of a day I'm wondering what all the fuss is. So far, Go Launcher seems to provide everything Nova Launcher does. In fact, for free it provides features you can only get for the premium version of Nova. What am I missing here?
Nova Comments:
1. It doesn't feel as responsive as Go Launcher.
2. My contact icons have no images while they do automatically on Go Launcher.
3. It has the same bug as Go Launcher with not being able to display the text for widget descriptions (when selecting widgets).
4. No real themes.
The reason I'm asking this is that I use swipe up for my dock apps to do multiple things and that feature is only a pay feature. If there's a compelling reason to stick with Nova then I'll buy it. However, since it's not just a buck or two I wanted this to be a good choice and not just an impulse buy that I never use again.
Thanks.
I'd rather go for nova cause I like the UI of the settings more, and the GO Launcher has to much advertisement stuff. But I still think that apex is even better, It's IMO faster, and better responsiveness.
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Go launcher is full of bloatware, it's 10MB and it isn't so good lower end phones.
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I'll look at Apex but regarding Go Launcher being bloatware, so far that's not an issue for me. It runs great on my RAZR. Still nothing solid on why Nova is better.
Nova has options to import desktop data from other launchers, and options to backup desktop data and restore, although I'm not sure if you can do that on go launcher.
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Thanks. Looking over Apex now and, so far, it looks identical to Nova. In fact, I'd say so far I have the same issues as I already posted for Nova.
I assume these apps were related at one point?
Yeah, Apex is identical to Nova. If you compare the latest version of both Apex and Nova, Nova is little smoother than Apex. But I like Apex more.
I used Go for at least 6 straight months on my Galaxy S2, but since then they have gone too much bloated.
On my device go launcher is slow as hell. I actually want to like go launcher because of all the features but it slows my phone down and takes up wayyyyy to much memory. Nova or apex are lightning fast and put everything right where I need it.
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So if I decided on one of these how do you decide between Nova or Apex given that they're so similar? Both are $4 (more or less).
The reason I'd consider it is that bloat (even though I'm not seeing it yet so any details there might help) is nothing I'm a fan of having come from an OG Droid. Sooner or later you run into issues.
Are there solutions to the issues I've mentioned? For example, can I get the widget menu to show text? I can't believe all three have this issue and have had it forever. Is there a way to get my contacts to have their Facebook profile pictures as they do in Go Launcher?
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So if I decided on one of these how do you decide between Nova or Apex given that they're so similar? Both are $4 (more or less).
The reason I'd consider it is that bloat (even though I'm not seeing it yet so any details there might help) is nothing I'm a fan of having come from an OG Droid. Sooner or later you run into issues.
Are there solutions to the issues I've mentioned? For example, can I get the widget menu to show text? I can't believe all three have this issue and have had it forever. Is there a way to get my contacts to have their Facebook profile pictures as they do in Go Launcher?
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Nova Launcher has a lot more features and gets updated quite frequently. It also has gesture support for dock icons, and normal launcher icons now too. It also has unread counters, and a literal crap ton of options.
tetrahedonism said:
Nova Launcher has a lot more features and gets updated quite frequently. It also has gesture support for dock icons, and normal launcher icons now too. It also has unread counters, and a literal crap ton of options.
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What are "normal launcher icons"?
And you say NL has "a lot more features". More features than Apex? More than Go Launcher? If so, can you elaborate as a new user I'm not seeing these.
Nope, I don't think any launcher other than SS has more options than Go. Yes, the new update of Nova does bring some new features like icon gesture feature and all, but it's not the case of 'how many' features, but 'how good' are they. Like I am having constant crashes for unread notifier in Nova since last update, on Apex you don't even need to install any third party app/plugin for unread notifications. I also like how Apex grids the icon on desktop when big grid size is applied. I like how Apex re-size the icon and also re-size it's level, while Nova doesn't re-size the level. You know it ultimately depends on YOU, how you wanna use, what features you like and all.
Well I am paid user of Nova, well I don't regret it, but at the same time I think that I should've purchased Apex. But one thing for sure, I will never buy Next or SPB Shell, not for money, cause they ask WAY TOO much for what's given.
So you might think, which one you should buy, Nova or Apex, well, no one can say just toss a coin. But if I were you and tossed a coin and saw Nova winning, then I will toss it again for Apex, lol.
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Yeah, Apex is identical to Nova. If you compare the latest version of both Apex and Nova, Nova is little smoother than Apex. But I like Apex more.
I used Go for at least 6 straight months on my Galaxy S2, but since then they have gone too much bloated.
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Apex seems to run better as a system app, from what I can tell.
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New version of nova launcher is smoother than apex for me.
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Nope, I don't think any launcher other than SS has more options than Go. Yes, the new update of Nova does bring some new features like icon gesture feature and all, but it's not the case of 'how many' features, but 'how good' are they. Like I am having constant crashes for unread notifier in Nova since last update, on Apex you don't even need to install any third party app/plugin for unread notifications. I also like how Apex grids the icon on desktop when big grid size is applied. I like how Apex re-size the icon and also re-size it's level, while Nova doesn't re-size the level. You know it ultimately depends on YOU, how you wanna use, what features you like and all.
Well I am paid user of Nova, well I don't regret it, but at the same time I think that I should've purchased Apex. But one thing for sure, I will never buy Next or SPB Shell, not for money, cause they ask WAY TOO much for what's given.
So you might think, which one you should buy, Nova or Apex, well, no one can say just toss a coin. But if I were you and tossed a coin and saw Nova winning, then I will toss it again for Apex, lol.
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jujuburi,
I went ahead and paid for Apex last night and will likely pay for Nova as well. I wanted to ask about some of the above comments.
1. What is Icon Gesture Feature? Is that swiping up or down on any icon regardless of where it is? I use swipe up for some of my dock icons (swipe up on Phone and I launch People.... swipe up on Maps and I launch Navigation).
2. I noticed that on Nova my widgets seemed oddly shaped (4x4). On Apex they're just as I'm used to them on Go Launcher. Is this related to the grid issue you mentioned? If not, how can I see what you mean?
3. What do you mean by resize a "level"???
First off all, very good decision on buying Apex, and also taking Nova in consideration.
1- Icon gesture feature is the one where you press and hold on an icon, then you'll be given a pop up menu, press edit, then you'll see this screen,
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
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then this one, if you press on the Swipe action,
You can then choose any option you want. But so far I've seen it only works upwards, Swiping right, left or downwards don't work.
2- Yes, I think that is due to the grid size. I like how Apex reacts on grid size than Nova.
3- By level I mean the app names along with them. You see that if you set icon size to 75% on Nova the icon will get smaller, but weird thing is the name level will remain of same size! Which looks pretty bad. On Apex, the level also changes along with icon size, which looks good.
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jujuburi said:
First off all, very good decision on buying Apex, and also taking Nova in consideration.
1- Icon gesture feature is the one where you press and hold on an icon
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Yep, that's what I thought. I don't use it for anything outside the dock so, for now, no need. Thus Apex meets the demand.
I also finally figured out how to see the text for widgets by using the Root Helper option. Finally! The only confusion was the note about installing Apex as a system app but they don't really tell you why you'd want to do that. For now the only reason seems to have an alternative to the first option for widget interface.
The last thing I really need to resolve are my contact images. Go Launcher is able to see the contact images from Facebook. Apex apparently can't so nearly all my contact icon images are just the default black silhouette on a blue background icons. Very boring. There has to be a way to feed these profile pictures to these icons but short of saving each one as an image manually and then applying it, I don't see a simple solution.
Can't you just assign images with something like Haxsync so the images are saved on to your contacts forever?
DramatikBeats said:
Can't you just assign images with something like Haxsync so the images are saved on to your contacts forever?
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That works. Thanks. I also just found that Friendcaster does it too. Good to go on this.
Interestingly now another issue has cropped up. I'm now noticing home page refreshes which I didn't notice before. I see this is an issue with Apex. Hopefully it's fixed soon. I dumped Launcher Pro over that issue long ago.
I was a long time Go Launcher person since its release until they changed the UI earlier last year. At first the UI was full of bloat and slow, but since I use the latest betas from there blog site I don't run in to the bloat issue. Other then Go Launcher, Nova and SSL Launcher are my favorite launchers. Nova has normal android animations and is very user friendly, and if you know how to use nova's extra labs options you get more out of it.
The problem with Go Launchers new UI, and which I have been complaining about on there blog since day one is that creating widgets/Apps from the home screen in landscape mode changes the orientation of the screen to portrait mode. Its absolutely ridiculousness. If I have my phone in landscape its there for a reason, so don't force users to change to portrait! It doesn't help that you can't add them from the app drawer but being a GNote user I prefer to hold my phone in landscape to take advantage of the real estate.
Another minor issue I found is that Go Launcher does not play nice with Multi-Live Wallpapers. I honestly don't like how they shifted their focus on releasing a new launcher called Next Launcher that really isn't that good and in early development. Go Launcher was named the most best launcher of 2011-2012 by popular vote on LifeHackers, so there was really no reason to stop and work on something else when they were doing so good. Hopefully future Go Launcher Development doesn't suffer from it. I would love to use it again but not until they fix the orientation issue. And yes they are well aware of that issue, I have been posting the complain every time they release a new beta version so at some point they will listen.
LifeHackers Article: http://lifehacker.com/5919526/most-popular-android-launcher-go-launcher-ex