Hey Guys,
As you can see im new to xda (in fact this is my first post). I own a samsung galaxy s 2 and have rooted it with Darky's Rom. I heard of the theme Go Launcher Ex and when i tried it out i was very impressed with the nice colour schemes and themes available to me. I am currently running all the app animations/transitions so i was wondering if the themes I am using would consume more battery life and/or effect the performance of the phone.
Thanks in advance,
Ripley
i would say yes. i tried it and got some battery drain ,like live wallpapers.
i would not recommend it, download a new theme there are many in themes and apps forums. be careful, that theme and rom compitable and specialy for your rom.
I found go launcher EX to not have any negative effects on battery life or performance.
I changed to ADW EX due to hearing some iffy things about go launcher ex
Go Launcher EX likes your IMEI number.
By the way it's quite logical for fancy stuff and rendered effects to have a negative impact on the battery and performance.
veyka said:
I found go launcher EX to not have any negative effects on battery life or performance.
I changed to ADW EX due to hearing some iffy things about go launcher ex
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Hummm, what are those so iffy things ??? didn't read anything worst than other launchers.
I don't see any differences to TW regarding battery. sure some effects may drain but it's for a second so it won't have that big impact.
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Hummm, what are those so iffy things ??? didn't read anything worst than other launchers.
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A dev who had decompiled it said that it had quite a bit of data mining **** in it.
Dunno how true it is, but I moved to ADW EX just in case, I do miss the combined homescreen/app draw folders and the nice task manager widget.
I think live wallpapers can be a bit of a drain depending on how well there coded but never found the launcher to be bad in regard to battery usage.
thanks for your response guys. Sorry for being a noob but what is "data mining ****". Also if ho launcher is a bit dodgy, what theme would you guys recommend?
Thanks Again!
Actually I'm a go launcher user and have been for awhile and haven't notices bad battery life...but I am interested in what this data mining is too.
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IMO each and every launcher other than Stock TW drains more battery than normal, however it maybe marginal but still it will.
Regards.
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Go Launcher EX likes your IMEI number.
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There's so many apps that like the IMEI or IMSI number... even the XDA app requests IMEI every time.
To answer the OP's question, I haven't noticed any excessive drain with Go launcher. Obviously any launchers, live wallpaper, widget, etc will use *some* battery in varying degrees. Probably worth mentioning that then I'm not one for going through and worrying excessively about battery stats though... I just use my phone, live wallpaper and all, and when it wants feeding, I just plug it in.
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in my experience it seemed to drain a little quicker. Ive tried launcher pro and battery was fine, lost 1% an hour in standby. Moved to go launcher it seemed to go to 2-3% an hour. Last night i put adw launcher with a theme on and will give that a week to see how it goes, although so far this morning its not impressing me, ive lost 5% in an hour on standby so far. But ill give it a week to see how it settles.
With minimal use of the phone I got 3 days out of a full charge. This was with Go Launcher Ex, so I would very obviously say that it is not a battery hog.
As for "data mining", I have mine set to prompt me if it ever requires the permissions that the package suggests. It's never needed to call out, access contacts or access call logs.
If you're worried about apps doing things you don't like, like getting your IMEI (which is VERY common - almost all apps do it), get LBE Privacy.
How accurate are battery monitor apps?
I've used one called 'Where's my droid power?' and everytime I turn on Go Launcher, WMDP almost always reports it's using over 25% battery (though sometimes it would go down to less than 1% which is what it should be using normally)
Apart from what WMDP tells me, I also think Go Launcher uses up a bit of battery just from experience. Though I haven't used it for too long, but it's the impression that I got out of a few days use.
The upside is of course Go Launcher is one of the best launchers out there.. I'd even say it's the best at the moment (Not an invitation to discuss which launcher is the best)
From my experience of using go launcher i can attest to the fact that it does use more battery than the stock launcher thats for sure, tried launcher pro as well and had the same result. So i just went back to stock touchwiz for now don't really mind it; ill just grab a rom with the stock android launcher prebuilt into the rom soon.
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in my experience it seemed to drain a little quicker. Ive tried launcher pro and battery was fine, lost 1% an hour in standby. Moved to go launcher it seemed to go to 2-3% an hour. Last night i put adw launcher with a theme on and will give that a week to see how it goes, although so far this morning its not impressing me, ive lost 5% in an hour on standby so far. But ill give it a week to see how it settles.
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just following up on this, i installed adw launcher yesterday and so far this morning its losing a steady 5% an hour. nothing else has changed on my phone except the launcher. Think ill be going back to launcher pro, the others look nice but if they drain so much in standby its poiintless
I've been using Go Launcher EX exclusively since start of this month. I can assure you that it doesn't use any more battery than any other launcher I've tried.
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OK so my question is....will launcherpro burn battery faster than just the twlauncher? Thanks
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OK so my question is....will launcherpro burn battery faster than just the twlauncher? Thanks
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Well of course running any other launcher rather than the one pre-defined as default will burn more battery because you're indeed running a 3rd party application as your launcher. Although, I've always ran LP or Zeam and they never kill battery as you might expect...
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Well of course running any other launcher rather than the one pre-defined as default will burn more battery because you're indeed running a 3rd party application as your launcher. Although, I've always ran LP or Zeam and they never kill battery as you might expect...
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I use Zeam also, it seems to treat my battery life well. And the dock fits 6 items!
I'm not sure how you can say it definitly uses more battery.... when I check my battery stats, LP is never a culprit of drain. Try it, see if you notice a difference.
Agreed, LP never shows in battery stats and there's absolutely no logical reason to assume a 3rd party launcher would use more than TWlauncher.
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I use Zeam also, it seems to treat my battery life well. And the dock fits 6 items!
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I've got 7 dock icons, at one time on mine, one of my fav features. Zeam is a very nice and simple launcher.
I can agree with this too. Eventually when You get rooted, you can actually make it so Twiz Launcher isn't running in the background and only LP if you decide to go that route. I've noticed no excessive battery drain related to LP.
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Hello. I recently installed ADW EX home replacement and have noticed my battery being eaten alive! I unplugged it at 100% at 11am and with very minimal use (No wifi, no 3G, no Bluetooth etc...) and by 4pm I was at 60%. Without ADW I would still be in the 80's at least.
Has anyone expirenced this? Is this normal? Why would a new launcher drain my battery?
Thanks.
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Hello. I recently installed ADW EX home replacement and have noticed my battery being eaten alive! I unplugged it at 100% at 11am and with very minimal use (No wifi, no 3G, no Bluetooth etc...) and by 4pm I was at 60%. Without ADW I would still be in the 80's at least.
Has anyone expirenced this? Is this normal? Why would a new launcher drain my battery?
Thanks.
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Yep. I concur. I noticed this also. Pretty snazzy adw but I went back to. LP instead.
Thanks. Crappy thing is I paid $3.50 for it and ony had 15 min to get a refund.... fail. lol
I'm not noticing that at all. What rom/setup are you using? Nero v3 + voodoo for me.
Well Im not rooted so the whole phone is stock. I would like to know how to root and make the tweaks tho. Is that what I need to do? Now Im at 43% without hardly using it in the past 6 hrs.
Check my signatures for guides that I wrote. The noob guide is where I would start.
I see a major problem with this policy.
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Thanks. Crappy thing is I paid $3.50 for it and ony had 15 min to get a refund.... fail. lol
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At times it appears to be buggy, when you move your finger over the app drawer button and it slips out..... That button is toasted.
You have to create a short cut to get back into the app drawer and the settings button from the hardware key is no longer available.
Yes I too wished that I had more than 15 minutes to evaluate the software.
I do pay for other apps in the market, like the rom manager pro, root explorer.
Under this new 15 min policy the end users are stuck with more crap apps that do not perform tasks as advertised such as ..."SystemApp remover"...
I see a major problem with this policy.
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I'm not noticing that at all. What rom/setup are you using? Nero v3 + voodoo for me.
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Same. Great battery life
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At times it appears to be buggy, when you move your finger over the app drawer button and it slips out..... That button is toasted.
You have to create a short cut to get back into the app drawer and the settings button from the hardware key is no longer available.
Yes I too wished that I had more than 15 minutes to evaluate the software.
I do pay for other apps in the market, like the rom manager pro, root explorer.
Under this new 15 min policy the end users are stuck with more crap apps that do not perform tasks as advertised such as ..."SystemApp remover"...
I see a major problem with this policy.
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You can move the trash can.
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No battery drain here. I am running Nero V3 with voodoo and live wallpaper. Very smooth with a quadrant score of 1567. No complaints here.
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No problems whatsoever here either.
Using Nero v3 voodoo enabled with solid battery life.
Loving ADW EX.
I didn't want to say it... but I may be a victim to. After running some tests w/ and w/o, far better battery life w/o ADWEX. Nero3 w/voodoo
Lovellkid
Waiting for an update before I start using this full-time. There are alot of bugs thus far and it still should not have been given a release outside of a beta. The stock GB launcher that came with Nero v3 runs much smoother.
Nero v3 with voodoo n my battery is great. 12hrs plus with heavy use.... downloading, wifi, 3g, text,calling, and wordfued.
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Yes mr.orange303 there are some options to place the trash
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You can move the trash can.
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same here
I noticed not only battery drain but extreme lag, especially when pressing the home button, which is set to only take me to my home screen. I noticed these problems while running nero v3 with voodoo enabled. I flashed axura 2.2.5.6 last night and restored everything including adw ex, updated everything, and noticed a vast improvement in all symptoms described above. Conclusion: either adw ex doesn't play well with nero v3, or perhaps you just need a fresh install of any rom just to clean things up a bit and give adw ex a clean slate to start with. Just thought Id chime in with my experience, hope this helps.
PS ADW EX is awesome! I really like the transitions and animation features. I currently use option 3 for animations, and it looks really cool. Also the hidden dock bars make it easy to sort your apps! Well worth the $3 IMO. I'm sure the bugs will be worked out soon if they're on the ADW end.
I've had for a week or so, no drain no difference, alot of the drain may be settings people haven't tweaked. The only real performance issue I see as less that Launcher pro, is the 3d app drawer displays a tiny bit of hang and a bit of lag. But, that isn't that much of an issue. And, ADW EX is way nicer interface.
I make 60-80 min of phone use per day with 40 average emails and 10 text, and of course all the self indulgence youtube..web etc After 12 hours of use I am usually in the 39-47% range...... I think people game a lot more than they realize and eat up battery that way........ADW EX......Nice App
Thanks everyone! Im new to this forum and really enjoy it.
I must say, I am NOT ROOTED and plan on figuring out how to do it. I think my battery issues could be better if I wasn't running a stock phone. In just the time it took to write this post, my phone drained 1%
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have you actually checked to see what's using your battery, or are you just assuming its ADW?
I used task manager to discover adw cpu was around 60% after pressing home, before I wiped and flashed axura 2.2.5.6.
Not saying its adw, just passing my findings on. Im thinking I would have gotten similar results from wiping and flashing nero back. Something wasnt meshing right and I think the fresh install fixed it, not the switching of the rom. I just went with axura to check out the new version. Im a huge fan of both devs and switch between axura, nero, and eugene's often.
Hi Guyz,
I am using optimus one for the past 6 months and have 3 major problems..
1. Scrolling in Launcher pro which was silky smooth once upon a time stutters a lot now a days. i tried different roms, posted a thread on this forum , tried the suggestions but still the same issue exists. When the rom is new, before my set of apps are installed, launcher pro works smooth. but once my apps are installed, it gets back to stutter pro. PLease help
2. Battery drain. - I used to get One and half days of battery without the data on. Its been a week since i subscribed to unlimited gprs pack and with the data on, on 2g mode, with auto sync off, my battery s drained a lot. even in stock rom, it went down from 70 percent to 8 percent in 7 hours. with franco kernel. I also tried froyofinal, void, lol, mik gingerbread, stock gingerbread roms and .. same results.... i used facebook and downloaded a lot durin tht 7 hours. is tht normal...?
3. Minor issue.. When i lock the device and then press back key or any other key after the device is locked, for a split second i get to see the desktop and then only the lock screen appears. some times i used to see a blurred dotted image(we get it wen the cable connection is off). and then the lock screen. This issue exists in stock rom with franco kernel itself... Y?
Please help guyz.....
1. You say once upon a time your launcher pro was smooth. Try reverting to the same configuration you had then and see if this issue is fixed.
2. If you did downloads, then I would say it may be normal. Keep it idle, i.e only a few calls and sms and then see the drain.
3. This happens in franco kernel. Small issue.
make sure u dont use live wallpapers.. they really screw up the phones performance..
for battery drain its.. quite good.. if u downloaded a lot. calibrate battery and then try once again.
i would say u should try miks 6.5.5 with fk v18 cfs.. it gives best battery life with 2g.. and has best performance too
I tried mik's Rom . Still the battery drain is noticeable. And more over the call volume s too loud . Is there any way to reduce it .
And i also calibrated the battery and i don't use live wallpaper. Any other suggestions
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Any live widgets that you use, they do contribute lots in battery drain
Use startup manager and see what apps are loaded on startup and remain in memory there might be some you will like to remove, maps also causes lot of battery drain, remove it from startup
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I'm also facing this issue. I'm using CM7 6.5.4 with v18.1 Franco's Kernel. People have said v18.1 kernel had very bad battery life and I am experiencing this like everyone else. The performance of 18.1 is amazing, but battery is being drained to fast. I'm going to revert to a lower version of the kernel and see if battery life is better.
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karthikus said:
When the rom is new, before my set of apps are installed, launcher pro works smooth. but once my apps are installed, it gets back to stutter pro. PLease help
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That right there. You are obviously installing one or a few apps that are taking up much CPU. You need to try and scale back. I would install your apps back one at a time until you find what app(s) might be causing your stutter.
And quit bumping your topic 2-3 times in a day... FFS people will get to you, chill....
Just got my Rezound and love it. Coming from a jailbroken iPhone it's nice to be able to change so much so easily.
My question is in regards to widgets. I've read that some totally drain your battery so I figured I'd see what widgets people might recommend. I have beautiful widgets but read that can be a killer. I am currently using Go Launcher and have a few of the Go Widgets installed.
Any suggestions on what is cool and not a total battery killer would be appreciated!!
Thanks!
My advice is try different ones you like and see how they drain the battery. It's going to be dependent on what they do, if it's something that syncs every 5 minutes, it's going to drain more then one that doesn't. There's so many widgets that do different things, it's hard to say which you should and shouldn't use.
Personally I use to use Beautiful Widgets on my D1 and never really had problem with it, again, it'll come down to what features you use and how often you have it refreshing.
I have noticed big battery drains while using themer I have a note 3 rooted using vision US T-mo version known for insane battery life. can anyone confirm? and can anyone add advice to retain battery life?
Same problem differer hardware
I have the.LG Optimus l90, rooted but otherwise stock. Normally I get home from work with 40%-60%, after installing Themer I am lucky if I have10%-20% even after going out of my way to conserve battery life. I have tried several different themes but it still just eats my battery like a Sumo wrestler going at an all you can eat buffet. I love the app and would prefer to continue using it but I had to uninstall do to battery drain. I would appreciate any help other than the obvious battery savers and turning off features that I want, need and use.
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I have noticed big battery drains while using themer I have a note 3 rooted using vision US T-mo version known for insane battery life. can anyone confirm? and can anyone add advice to retain battery life?
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Hi,
We are aware of this problem and the developers are currently looking into it. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Just confirming on other hardware (that's not officially supported yet)
I was using Themer the other day on my LG G3 (Yeah, I know, it isn't technically supported yet), and I noticed a pretty drastic battery drain compared to Nova.
On the other hand, the only other bugs I could find with Themer on the G3 is the fact that some categories are blocked "because your device is not supported" and the previews aren't full screen, which I could care less about.
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I was using Themer the other day on my LG G3 (Yeah, I know, it isn't technically supported yet), and I noticed a pretty drastic battery drain compared to Nova.
On the other hand, the only other bugs I could find with Themer on the G3 is the fact that some categories are blocked "because your device is not supported" and the previews aren't full screen, which I could care less about.
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Full G3 support should be arriving soon!
I can confirm the battery drain issue is pretty drastical on my xperia z1c. With Themer, a full charge dropped to almost 50% just overnight, but with sony's default launcher, it can last more than 2 days with just moderate use.:crying:
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Full G3 support should be arriving soon!
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Sweet! Can't wait! Will battery drain be fixed?
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Sweet! Can't wait! Will battery drain be fixed?
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The latest update should fix the battery drain.
I'm curious if anyone has noticed improved battery life? One of the main reasons I just switched phones was for improved battery life so I'm a little hesitant to try themer out now.
Hoping for this fix...my Nexus 5 has some pretty significant batt loss with Themer. I love this app...!
I will try it again and report back. I bought a 8600mah battery because themer was eating more then 45% of my battery. It was more then my screen on full brightness. It was the NUMBER 1 BATTERY HOG I HAVE EVER USED. So it will be hard for me to compare with such a large battery in my note 3 though.
Maybe its because of your apps are draining your battery or it could be your ROM's problem. Reset your phone and it should be fine if you are using stock ROM. For custom ROMs, I don't think there is any solution. Like me, after I flashed cm 10, my battery is draining twice as fast compared to my stock...
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Shao Merng said:
Maybe its because of your apps are draining your battery or it could be your ROM's problem. Reset your phone and it should be fine if you are using stock ROM. For custom ROMs, I don't think there is any solution. Like me, after I flashed cm 10, my battery is draining twice as fast compared to my stock...
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I know it wasn't my rom, in fact it was quite the opposite. Had twice the battery life over stock, with over 200 apps installed.
But here's an update, been running themer all day and its more on par to what it should be. I've had heavy usage today, moving and adjusting things in themer and its only used 12% today, compared to 35%, is a significant improvement. Redraw has also been cut significantly along with lag time.
I must say im impressed.....
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I know it wasn't my rom, in fact it was quite the opposite. Had twice the battery life over stock, with over 200 apps installed.
But here's an update, been running themer all day and its more on par to what it should be. I've had heavy usage today, moving and adjusting things in themer and its only used 12% today, compared to 35%, is a significant improvement. Redraw has also been cut significantly along with lag time.
I must say im impressed.....
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Thanks for the feedback! Our developers are constantly looking for new ways to improve performance and reduce battery consumption.
Same here!
I installed Themer for the first time today, and noticed my stock AT&T HTC1 M8 battery drained dramatically! I can go from 5:15AM until midnight with 35-40% left and that's listening to music, texting, Facebooking, news feed, etc. all going. I love the idea and the themes are beautiful, but I don't think its ready for prime-time, unless it's specific to the latest release.
UPDATE: I'm running AT&T stock rom on my HTC One M8 as you know. Now I can only speak for my specific setup but it may be worth a try for all. What I've done is reverted back to HTC BlinkFeed, remove the Theme notification bar, and rebooted to clear my cache. Upon reboot I then loaded up a fresh theme (without the Theme notification bar), after several hours of use, listening to music from my SDCARD, BT on, and Mobile data on I can report back that I've regained my battery life, and I'm now sporting one of the badass Themes without skipping a beat
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I installed Themer for the first time today, and noticed my stock AT&T HTC1 M8 battery drained dramatically! I can go from 5:15AM until midnight with 35-40% left and that's listening to music, texting, Facebooking, news feed, etc. all going. I love the idea and the themes are beautiful, but I don't think its ready for prime-time, unless it's specific to the latest release.
UPDATE: I'm running AT&T stock rom on my HTC One M8 as you know. Now I can only speak for my specific setup but it may be worth a try for all. What I've done is reverted back to HTC BlinkFeed, remove the Theme notification bar, and rebooted to clear my cache. Upon reboot I then loaded up a fresh theme (without the Theme notification bar), after several hours of use, listening to music from my SDCARD, BT on, and Mobile data on I can report back that I've regained my battery life, and I'm now sporting one of the badass Themes without skipping a beat
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Thanks for the feedback! We're currently working on ways to optimize the notification toolbar this week, so it should be working a lot better in the coming weeks ahead
What a fortuitous coincidence
Battery drain is a bit more than with Themer for me as well, but not too bad.
I noticed though that the charge goes down when I'm using the phone even when plugin, now this is not the case normally because the charge would increase when plugin, using the phone or not.
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Battery drain is a bit more than with Themer for me as well, but not too bad.
I noticed though that the charge goes down when I'm using the phone even when plugin, now this is not the case normally because the charge would increase when plugin, using the phone or not.
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Hi,
We're still working on performance optimization, but for now try this:
1. Uninstall Themer.
2. Delete the /sdcard/MyColorScreen/ folder (removing the Exported folder within it if you saved any themes).
3. Reinstall Themer.
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2. Delete the /sdcard/MyColorScreen/ folder (removing the Exported folder within it if you saved any themes).
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OK but that's uh, not great since I saved many themes to uh, use them.