I use/love apex launcher except for one thing.
Using it in my old Rezound was quite laggy, using it in the newer Galaxy Glll it is very fast and fluid 99% of the time. The one time it annoys me however is when it transitions from portrait to landscape. Making that swap, it kind of hesitates for a half a second or so before it makes the switch.
I have looked all through the menu/settings etc and can not find any way to speed this up. Does anybody know any way to eliminate this slight delay??
NOVA launcher is the way to to go! I always found Apex to be kinda laggy and unresponsive on a few devices. IMHO..
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LouSkywalker said:
NOVA launcher is the way to to go! I always found Apex to be kinda laggy and unresponsive on a few devices. IMHO..
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Other than the one setting, Apex is fast as hell on the Glll & I much prefer it to Nova.
I have tried every launcher there is at one time or another. If LauncherPro+ was still supported, that is what I would still be running.
Launcher pro was also my favorite. Did you know you can use the launcher pro M22-3D icon pack with Nova?
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jmorton10 said:
I use/love apex launcher except for one thing.
Using it in my old Rezound was quite laggy, using it in the newer Galaxy Glll it is very fast and fluid 99% of the time. The one time it annoys me however is when it transitions from portrait to landscape. Making that swap, it kind of hesitates for a half a second or so before it makes the switch.
I have looked all through the menu/settings etc and can not find any way to speed this up. Does anybody know any way to eliminate this slight delay??
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I can't find any settings in Apex either for you, but in Settings => Developer Options => Window animation scale and Transition animation scale, set them to 0.75x, it seems to speed it up just a tad, by rotating faster when it finally does...
Thanks, that does seem to help things a little bit.
I just use the default launcher for the s III. Works fine for me
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tehsprayer said:
I just use the default launcher for the s III. Works fine for me
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LOL, I'm real happy for you.........(it always cracks me up when somebody posts random nonsense like this.......)
jmorton10 said:
I use/love apex launcher except for one thing.
Using it in my old Rezound was quite laggy, using it in the newer Galaxy Glll it is very fast and fluid 99% of the time. The one time it annoys me however is when it transitions from portrait to landscape. Making that swap, it kind of hesitates for a half a second or so before it makes the switch.
I have looked all through the menu/settings etc and can not find any way to speed this up. Does anybody know any way to eliminate this slight delay??
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Minimum scrolling set to zero would help anyhow..
instechgainza said:
Minimum scrolling set to zero would help anyhow..
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Where are you finding this setting??
jmorton10 said:
Where are you finding this setting??
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Homescreen settings, default seems to be zero, maybe yours is different... But I thought that only affected scrolling between homescreens...
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Homescreen settings, default seems to be zero, maybe yours is different... But I thought that only affected scrolling between homescreens...
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yea, the default is already set to zero & you're right that doesn't affect the speed that the transitions take effect anyway.
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It seems like LP bogs down SO much after a while.. to the point where everything hangs. I revert to the TouchWiz Launcher and it's like night and day, with the same widgets + feeds and updates.
What gives? Anyone else notice the same?
Yeah I notice it for sure. I haven't noticed it since the lag fix, but it has only been a couple days.
Launcher pro is way quicker than touch wiz for me. Before and after I applied the lag fix. I also try and reset my phone every other day our so.
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Yeah I notice it for sure. I haven't noticed it since the lag fix, but it has only been a couple days.
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I did one of the lagfixes but I undid it and decided to do a factory format. I don't notice much difference, except for when LP lags up the whole phone. I've gone back to the TWL and things are snappy again.
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Launcher pro is way quicker than touch wiz for me. Before and after I applied the lag fix. I also try and reset my phone every other day our so.
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I've never seen the need to reset every other day. But I do notice LP seems really fast with transitions.. but there are some bugs here and there like the preview cards getting jumbled together and such.
Uh. use ADW Launcher? no problems with it with lagfix, I don't know why so many users of the Vibrant community dislike ADW Launcher and is mainly biased towards Launcher Pro.
the only thing i liked about ADW was the option to make more icons fit on the screen. other than that i think TWlauncher is smoother and less buggy. plus the multicons app does what i liked from ADW anyway
Lp is the best! I hate that adw replaces the menu> settings with its own preferences....stupid. Plus lp is faster than anything else
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Uh. use ADW Launcher? no problems with it with lagfix, I don't know why so many users of the Vibrant community dislike ADW Launcher and is mainly biased towards Launcher Pro.
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I have nothing against ADW, but I'm using LP right now so that's why I posed the question.
I use launcher pro for one reason. I love the calendar widget. I do notice that it gets a little laggy every once and a while and most of the time a reboot takes care of it.
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I have nothing against ADW, but I'm using LP right now so that's why I posed the question.
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Seems like you have a pretty big grudge against ADW Launcher. Using another launcher would "solve" your problem. What does LP have to offer that is making you stick with LP? Both are great launchers and the winner depends on the users' personality.
@disturk: It replaces the notifications button on the menu. Is notifications on your menu really necessary? Plus. I believe LP also replaces one button with Settings.
@bromat80: There are other alternatives to the widget, and if a launcher is lagging me then to my opinion it wouldn't be worth having if it lags. At least not until the developer fixes the problem. Try CalWidget as a alternative if you were to experiment with another launcher.
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Seems like you have a pretty big grudge against ADW Launcher.
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What are you talking about? Seriously though. Yeah, I've got it out for ADW launcher!
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@disturk: It replaces the notifications button on the menu. Is notifications on your menu really necessary? Plus. I believe LP also replaces one button with Settings.
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I was referring to being on the home screen..stock is menu, bottom right is settings for phone...lp keeps this whereas adw puts adw settings on the bottom right and moves phone settings to the bottom middle...(unless they've changed it..haven't used adw in a month)
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@bromat80: There are other alternatives to the widget, and if a launcher is lagging me then to my opinion it wouldn't be worth having if it lags. At least not until the developer fixes the problem. Try CalWidget as a alternative if you were to experiment with another launcher.
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I guess what I was getting to is that I like both ADW and Launcher Pro equally and what makes me choose LP is the calendar widget. The lag doesn't bother me. I was just pointing out that I do notice that it does get laggy and normally a reboot takes care of it.
I personally find Launcher Pro more elegant.
No lag that I notice.
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Seems like you have a pretty big grudge against ADW Launcher. Using another launcher would "solve" your problem. What does LP have to offer that is making you stick with LP? Both are great launchers and the winner depends on the users' personality.
@disturk: It replaces the notifications button on the menu. Is notifications on your menu really necessary? Plus. I believe LP also replaces one button with Settings.
@bromat80: There are other alternatives to the widget, and if a launcher is lagging me then to my opinion it wouldn't be worth having if it lags. At least not until the developer fixes the problem. Try CalWidget as a alternative if you were to experiment with another launcher.
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Whoa whoa, whats with the attitude bro? if the OP likes a certain product and want to support it, he can do whatever he wants. It sounds like you are the one with the grudge against LP. I personally like LP because it does 3D App Drawer and 5 icons columns on desktop. AND it's fast as **** on my phone.
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Launcher pro is way quicker than touch wiz for me. Before and after I applied the lag fix. I also try and reset my phone every other day our so.
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Yea, launcher pro all the way, my phone used to lag with touch wiz all the time.
LP here. Absolutely no issues at all. Incredible.
Hands down TouchWiz is most definitely the fastest launcher of them all. I see no reason to use third party launcher other than to customize a few things. Does TouchWiz look like the iPhone? Yes! Does the Vibrant overall look like a better version of the iPhone clone? Yes!! lol. Do I love my Vibrant with all of my hear? *$#@ YES!!! but that is besides the point I am trying to get at
Launcher Pro sucks in my opinion, and is much much slower than TW. You can tell by that it takes a few seconds longer to initially load the icons when going into Applications. Transitions just aren't as fast either.
ADW is probably a tad bit faster, but you still can not compare it to TW. I do wish that I had an option to go back and forth between stock and TW. Hopefully that will be made available in 2.2.
I would say stick with TW, make life easy
You can change the speed at which the applications load in the drawer on lp. I don't think anything is farr than instantaneous
I prefer lp because I don't like the side to side scroll in the app tray. I have my speed set higher than the default values for lp and experience no lag.
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I suggest for everyone to try out he launcher, a pretty awesome launcher. It features sense like dock and homescreens.
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I suggest for everyone to try out he launcher, a pretty awesome launcher. It features sense like dock and homescreens.
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used it for 10 seconds nearly killed myself in the process. extremely laggy!
+1. I've got to have it 100% smooth and this was far from smooth.
Changed to Sense template. Rock for me on Adeo v 2
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used it for 10 seconds nearly killed myself in the process. extremely laggy!
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+1 the changing between home screens is terrible. You can literally watch the lag. Cool "themes" poor execution.
I suggest freezing motoblur. Mine works perfectly!!
Worked fine for me, it just lacks about any kind of custom setup beyond the theme which are pretty sweet
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No problems here either, simple but smooth and fast. I like how you can flick up to hide the status bar
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=988430
Found a bug since this doesn't work with other launchers found on my device. Whenever I reboot my phone, some of my apps are missing in the App Drawer, but when I go to say Launcher Pro or Arc Launcher, they are definitely there and I can open them up. Has this happened to anyone else?? If the developer can look into this, hopefully it will be fixed in the next release.
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No problems here either, simple but smooth and fast. I like how you can flick up to hide the status bar
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I tried it quite a while ago but wasn't very impressed. I'm pretty sure that GO Launcher EX will let you set up a swipe up gesture to hide the status bar, among other things.
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I tried it quite a while ago but wasn't very impressed. I'm pretty sure that GO Launcher EX will let you set up a swipe up gesture to hide the status bar, among other things.
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Yes it does
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I was an adw ex guy for so long but go just kills it. Way smoother way better layout. Its very similar and I think its adw based... No wonder why I like it
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I've noticed that the stock Sense app drawer scrolls incredibly slow in the "All Apps" tab and isn't much better in the "Downloaded" tab. Compared to ADW EX it scrolls about as quickly as Verizon gets updates out. Has anyone else experienced this?
My Sense app drawer scrolls just fine.
I have tried both LPP+ & ADWLauncher EX in mine & while both work very well I didn't really notice any speed difference between any of them.
~John
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I've noticed that the stock Sense app drawer scrolls incredibly slow in the "All Apps" tab and isn't much better in the "Downloaded" tab. Compared to ADW EX it scrolls about as quickly as Verizon gets updates out. Has anyone else experienced this?
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Absolutely! Especially when you use a live wallpaper. It's crawling at about 15FPS it looks like.
I've just decided to either stick with a static wallpaper in Sense, or use whatever I want to in GO Launcher and enjoy the high speed smooth scrolling
I guess I never noticed because I never saw the point in using a Live wallpaper.
~John
jmorton10 said:
I guess I never noticed because I never saw the point in using a Live wallpaper.
~John
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I don't typically bother with LWP's either, but I like the ICS Phase Beam LWP, so I tried it out. It's not smooth enough though.
Hopefully having real ICS on this phone with hardware acceleration will help the app drawer to be smoother.
IDK how all that works though or if it effects all aspects of the visual experience or not.
Well, I'm not using a live wallpaper. Just wallpapers from my gallery. I wanted to give Sense a try and I do like it, but the reduced speed of the app drawer is enough to convince me to switch back to the speed & added functionality of ADW EX.
It's not slow, it's designed that way. It is meant to show one full slide at a time rather than flocking through all of them at once. It's just how sense is, you'll need ti install another launcher to change it.
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Jim - Yes, I'm aware that it's set up to scroll. Thanks for the heads up on that for anyone who hadn't figured it out. However...
I fixed it. I was scrolling through the app drawer today and hit the "Menu" soft key. I found an option to display the drawer as an alphabetical list instead of an icon grid and now it's fast as can be! I also love the list because it's more readable. I know this might not work for everyone, but hey, it's better than waiting for one slow page after another, right?
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Jim - Yes, I'm aware that it's set up to scroll. Thanks for the heads up on that for anyone who hadn't figured it out. However...
I fixed it. I was scrolling through the app drawer today and hit the "Menu" soft key. I found an option to display the drawer as an alphabetical list instead of an icon grid and now it's fast as can be! I also love the list because it's more readable. I know this might not work for everyone, but hey, it's better than waiting for one slow page after another, right?
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Sweet, didn't realize you could show it as a list. Good find.
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launcher pro seems to be the fastest home replacement for gingerbread but the icons and launcher are far to small on the rezound. anybody have any tips to increase the icon size or is this because the dev has not updated the app for almost a year? ive tried several launchers and it seems to be the fastest.
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launcher pro seems to be the fastest home replacement for gingerbread but the icons and launcher are far to small on the rezound. anybody have any tips to increase the icon size or is this because the dev has not updated the app for almost a year? ive tried several launchers and it seems to be the fastest.
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It's because the dev hasn't updated it, you could try changing your screen density
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It's because the dev hasn't updated it, you could try changing your screen density
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how do i do that? got any recommendations for size?
It's really too bad that app has basically been abandoned.
LPP Plus was always my favorite launcher when I was using my DroidX.
It seemed that he gave up on it when he couldn't get the unread gmail count to work right after gmail updated their app.
Now, with the Rezound I find that the stock Sense launcher is just as fast or faster than any of the other launchers (& I LOVE the Sense widgets) so I don't bother installing the other launchers anymore (I also have ADWLauncher EX)
It was a great launcher, seems he took the money and ran though instead of delivering that promised re-write of the code....
go launcher is more supreme now at least for gingerbread. maybe slap it on aosp once it's stable
Launcherpro was the smoothest launcher on my og droid and I loved the customization of it, but nowadays go launcher and nova launcher are taking over
i adjusted the resolution in the build prop from 320 to 340 and it helped a bit.
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Launcherpro was the smoothest launcher on my og droid and I loved the customization of it, but nowadays go launcher and nova launcher are taking over
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go launcher has too much lag when opening and closing the app drawer.
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i adjusted the resolution in the build prop from 320 to 340 and it helped a bit.
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Screenshots? 360ish might even be better
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Screenshots? 360ish might even be better
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I thought rezound only had 342 ppi or are you guys still talking about dpi
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I thought rezound only had 342 ppi or are you guys still talking about dpi
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Changing the dpi so items are bigger on screen
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Screenshots? 360ish might even be better
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i tried 360 and some of the UI was messed up. 340 seems to be ok though. also increases the browser font size which looks 10x better IMO.
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i tried 360 and some of the UI was messed up. 340 seems to be ok though. also increases the browser font size which looks 10x better IMO.
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I changed mine and I agree
still wish the dev didn't abandon launcher pro.
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go launcher has too much lag when opening and closing the app drawer.
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Actually I think it goes beyond that. I like Go Launcher, but that's my only gripe about it. It's like at times when you hit the app drawer button it won't register, you have to hit the drawer like 2-3 times for it to open. I sent feedback in on this a while ago, not sure if anything is being done about it.
I take it back..adw launcher ex is the best. Plus its got an awesome ice cream theme.
It's a shame that LP hasn't been updated. It used to be so good!
I had to set my lcd density back to default as it screwed up the market where i could not install apps. Just a heads up guys.
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Actually I think it goes beyond that. I like Go Launcher, but that's my only gripe about it. It's like at times when you hit the app drawer button it won't register, you have to hit the drawer like 2-3 times for it to open. I sent feedback in on this a while ago, not sure if anything is being done about it.
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FWIW, that's never happened to me. Have you tried changing different settings in Preferences? There are several that might impact your situation. ....just a thought.
Is there any way i can make my phone alot faster?
When i scroll trough home screens it always lags,i only have 6 maps and clock in one screen and twitter in other,but it stills glitches every time i scroll,i am using GO launcher.i have tried many launchers,but i cant find the one that wouldnt lag,is it possible that i have some problems with phone itself or is it just that this model is laggy?
optim2013 said:
Is there any way i can make my phone alot faster?
When i scroll trough home screens it always lags,i only have 6 maps and clock in one screen and twitter in other,but it stills glitches every time i scroll,i am using GO launcher.i have tried many launchers,but i cant find the one that wouldnt lag,is it possible that i have some problems with phone itself or is it just that this model is laggy?
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Yes , GO launcher lags for me too. Its really very strange as I didnt have such issues on my old phone (desire). I think its just what you have to live with. Or use any other good launcher like apex or nova.
One thing you can do is to Report GO DEV TEAM to test desire x and optimize the launcher for it, and im pretty sure they'll figure something out.
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Yes , GO launcher lags for me too. Its really very strange as I didnt have such issues on my old phone (desire). I think its just what you have to live with. Or use any other good launcher like apex or nova.
One thing you can do is to Report GO DEV TEAM to test desire x and optimize the launcher for it, and im pretty sure they'll figure something out.
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The thing is that go launcher works the best,other launchers lag even worse...well atleast go launcher looks kinda smooth,but others neither feel or look smooth... :s but ill try to talk with go dev
Smart launcher is fast enough
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Smart launcher is fast enough
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Lightning Launcher too
Use seeder app
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i would suggest if u really want to make your phone a bit faster go to settings and disable all the stock transition animations though it is not practically visible the scrolling is a lot smoother and in my experience go launcher is quite heavy and its realy absurd people saying that apex or nova lags for them what i found that if u set it to default launcher and give it a minute its snappier then ever apex rocks for me i try all homescreen set ups on apex and nova and never i found a lag
If apex and nova lagging a lot for you, try to limit number of widgets on your screen. I'm using apex and I have no lag at all (only widget I using is uccw clock) rest is icons. Atm I'm using mihome because of kickass lockscreens
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