Anyone notice how unsmooth all the launchers are when scrolling? - Motorola Droid RAZR

The only smooth launcher is motorolas own launcher, every single market launcher is unsmooth when scrolling, is this true for everybody else? Does anybody else know a launcher which would scroll smoothly on our razrs?

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Launcher Pro works flawlessly, before and after updating.
My tab's Flyer than yours! Unless this is posted in a Flyer thread, then it's just as Flyer...
http://android-gz.com

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Yes horizontal scrolls are lagging for me

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I use go launcher ex and it is smooth as silk. Blows every other phone I've ever had away. Makes my GF's DX feel ten years old, and even my DX2 is slow in comparison.

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Using Launcher2, the stock Android Gingerbread. Seem OK to me. The default Motoblur also OK and not bad at all.
I am not picky about the smoothness of the icons' scrolling, just what one of my iOS fan friends told me. The overall system performance, reception and stability are more important than menu scrolling. IMHO.
Thank you.

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If you want smoothness then you should go for a WindowsPhone, but ADW Launcher is coming close. In fact, even launcher pro has been running very smooth on the Razr so maybe there are some settings you've missed?

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Go launcher, ADW and launcher pro all work smooth for me. Both horizontal and vertical scrolling are flawless.
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Go Launcher Is the smoothest launcher that I have tried way smoother then the stock launcher b 4 the update
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Bulletproof your launcher. Google it. Involves using terminal.
Makes it buttery smooth. I do it to every phone/launcher I touch.
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Yes I noticed laggy Launcher... I use 360 Launcher beta 1.2 (the best launcher ever)
He works smooth on my HTC Desire HD
But with my new Razr, Lags...

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ADW Ex working very smoothly on my Rogers branded razr.

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B407 said:
ADW Ex working very smoothly on my Rogers branded razr.
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+1 here. ADW Ex is amazing. I really enjoy how configurable it is!

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bbabiuk said:
+1 here. ADW Ex is amazing. I really enjoy how configurable it is!
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I believe ADW is so smooth due to the fact it uses harware accelerators. Go Launcher simply runs off the phones RAM so it can become laggy at times.

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ddemlong said:
I believe ADW is so smooth due to the fact it uses harware accelerators. Go Launcher simply runs off the phones RAM so it can become laggy at times.
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Pretty sure Ander Webs said hardware acceleration is not utilized as it breaks backwards compatibility. That's close to quotable. It was on Google+. He wants to use it but to fully upgrade ADW it would have to be a separate app.
Again guys, use the terminal suggestion I mentioned. Works wonders. Takes away redraws as well.
Here it is for those that don't Google:
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/bu...draw-launcherpro-adw-credit-samsonite801.html
It works for all launchers. Makes a significant improvement in stock blur. Trust me.
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^^Thanks, Ill have to give that a try
I run adwex and its always been my launcher of choice but it does hang up at times and gives a unresponsive screen at times also. I also don't think it likes to play nice with the moto launcher periodically as i get com.home.motorola fc's a lot with it running,don't know if anyone else has had that happen...maybe just my device. Still, it isn't a problem I can't live with just occasional nuisance.

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mcleaver84 said:
I run adwex and its always been my launcher of choice but it does hang up at times and gives a unresponsive screen at times also. I also don't think it likes to play nice with the moto launcher periodically as i get com.home.motorola fc's a lot with it running,don't know if anyone else has had that happen...maybe just my device. Still, it isn't a problem I can't live with just occasional nuisance.
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Read above, and do it.
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mistawolfe said:
Pretty sure Ander Webs said hardware acceleration is not utilized as it breaks backwards compatibility. That's close to quotable. It was on Google+. He wants to use it but to fully upgrade ADW it would have to be a separate app.
Again guys, use the terminal suggestion I mentioned. Works wonders. Takes away redraws as well.
Here it is for those that don't Google:
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/bu...draw-launcherpro-adw-credit-samsonite801.html
It works for all launchers. Makes a significant improvement in stock blur. Trust me.
Sent from my DROID RAZR using xda premium
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Well, on anderwebs website it says "Use of hardware acceleration on specific features when possible."
Not sure if that means it device specific or what, but all the websites I usually read from even report ADW uses it.
and this was listed under the latest update too
Posted by anderweb
http://jbthemes.com/anderweb/

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I'll have to find the Google+ article and link it. I read your link though. That sounds very vague though, almost like he's covering his you know.
He almost sounded frustrated in the post I'm referring to. Now I have to find it. Lol.
But I do agree with a lot of you, ADW is the best. New update was nice too. But use that trick I mentioned. It'll make it better
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mistawolfe said:
I'll have to find the Google+ article and link it. I read your link though. That sounds very vague though, almost like he's covering his you know.
He almost sounded frustrated in the post I'm referring to. Now I have to find it. Lol.
But I do agree with a lot of you, ADW is the best. New update was nice too. But use that trick I mentioned. It'll make it better
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Yeah definitely if you can find it post it. I would LIKE to believe what dev's claim but sometimes it can too good to be true.
I haven't rooted my razr yet, I did my bionic and my other droids. Not having a fastboot in case I get into trouble was a little bit of a turn off. I know there is a process but it sounds like a pain.

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ddemlong said:
Yeah definitely if you can find it post it. I would LIKE to believe what dev's claim but sometimes it can too good to be true.
I haven't rooted my razr yet, I did my bionic and my other droids. Not having a fastboot in case I get into trouble was a little bit of a turn off. I know there is a process but it sounds like a pain.
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It's just as easy as the bionic man. Put Safestrap on afterwards, make a backup immediately, and you're fine. Safestrap is a wonderful safety net. Boots into recovery everytime. As long as you make that stock backup you're good.
I can help if needed.
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Here you go: https://plus.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts/2FXDCz8x93s
You will have to scroll down through the comments to find Ander Webb. However, it's a great read, so I would recommend reading the entire article and all of the comments.
EDIT: Here is his quote: "This is a great post, I wish 99% users would read and understand it. But unluckily they just want their hardware acceleration turned on and the magic powers of it doing everything fly.
On a more technical note, I've noticed how expensive canvas operations (save layer, porterduff filters, etc) run about 2-4 times faster in software layers than hardware layers, and noticed how great hardware layers perform when using drawing caches.
The bad part is: for a developer, usually there's no easy way of changing the rendering pipeline while maintaining backwards compatibility. So I end up still doing almost everything on a canvas and loosing the benefits of the hardware acceleration for new devices: (" --Ander Webbs (ADW creator)