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HTC clock widgets constantly fidgeting

Does it bother anyone else that whenever you switch back to the home screen, the clocks reset the hands and do the little animations to spin to the correct location? The flip clock does it like it used to in TF3D too, the numbers flip over until they catch up. It seems such a waste of time and cpu cycles. I've tried the default Android clock and it is much calmer, it is always at the correct time regardless of whether you switch back or not. The down side is it isn't as attractive and doesn't take you to the clock app when you press on it.
Anyone else annoyed by this?

Indeed I find it a little annoying...not tried the different clock....
one question, are you able to change the type of clock on your profile?
I seem to be only be able to select different front clocks under different profiles (Scenes) so you are stuck with that clock for that scene?
Rich

Funkyfin2000 said:
Indeed I find it a little annoying...not tried the different clock....
one question, are you able to change the type of clock on your profile?
I seem to be only be able to select different front clocks under different profiles (Scenes) so you are stuck with that clock for that scene?
Rich
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You can just remove it, then add an HTC Widget and select 1 of 12 clocks (think its 12)

kiz said:
Does it bother anyone else that whenever you switch back to the home screen, the clocks reset the hands and do the little animations to spin to the correct location? The flip clock does it like it used to in TF3D too, the numbers flip over until they catch up. It seems such a waste of time and cpu cycles. I've tried the default Android clock and it is much calmer, it is always at the correct time regardless of whether you switch back or not. The down side is it isn't as attractive and doesn't take you to the clock app when you press on it.
Anyone else annoyed by this?
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nicelad_uk said:
You can just remove it, then add an HTC Widget and select 1 of 12 clocks (think its 12)
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Genuie!!!!! Thanks dude!!!

I also found that when I changed my clock to the small one (so it still fits in the same space on the home screen), my Hero became much more responsive. It still adjusts the time with an animation every time I go to the home screen, but it seems way better. Others have suggested removing the People widget, but for me it was just a change of the clock.

Bugs the hell out of me, so much so I had to remove it.
Hope the new update fixes this problem.

jhericurls said:
Bugs the hell out of me, so much so I had to remove it.
Hope the new update fixes this problem.
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Indeed it does (see the other thread...).

Nemo0815 said:
Indeed it does (see the other thread...).
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Brilliant! I can't wait for this update even more now.

kiz said:
Does it bother anyone else that whenever you switch back to the home screen, the clocks reset the hands and do the little animations to spin to the correct location? The flip clock does it like it used to in TF3D too, the numbers flip over until they catch up. It seems such a waste of time and cpu cycles. I've tried the default Android clock and it is much calmer, it is always at the correct time regardless of whether you switch back or not. The down side is it isn't as attractive and doesn't take you to the clock app when you press on it.
Anyone else annoyed by this?
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I know its sad but the animation slightly amuses me every time (same with the weather app)

cdyat said:
I know its sad but the animation slightly amuses me every time (same with the weather app)
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o/\o
I like seeing the clock flip over! I'm sure it does it by design too, it's not a fault/bug.

tatwamasi said:
o/\o
I like seeing the clock flip over! I'm sure it does it by design too, it's not a fault/bug.
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It is a fault, the clock widgets can't store the time. So everytime you enter the idle screen it updates the clock.

jhericurls said:
It is a fault, the clock widgets can't store the time. So everytime you enter the idle screen it updates the clock.
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I don't believe it's a fault either, judging by the way it is animated. It is just designed not to update whilst not visible.
Regards,
Dave

Most if not all of the HTC clock widgets do the animation.
However, on the leaked video of the new speedier ROM, I notice the clock never updates like that, even though it is the big one with weather combined. It just changes immediately, so maybe that is part of the speed up...

i use the smallest one, digital, but not a flip. number 5 i think it is.
yes, if you look closely you can see it update when you go back to the homescreen, but it is so fast, most of the time i don't notice it, and i'm certainly not gonna sit there trying to see it happen, cos it's really not that important to me...

Maybe they added a setting to enable / disable clock animation ?
Hope so as I quite like it.

On the CDMA Hero there seems to be a bug... IN the Clock app, home location and current location show the correct time but most HTC clock widgets insist on displaying the GMT time. What's up with this?

Strange clock behaviour when screen first turned on

Does anyone else clock have a strange glitch where by, when you first turn the screen on and unlock it. The clock reads 62 mins slow then flips to the correct time immediately.
My friend pointed it out to me. I never noticed to be honest but he has a Hero and because it's quite a lot of a slower machine it is really noticeable.
Maybe it's just a 'feature' to make you realise that the clock numbers have a nice animated flip

Yeah I have it also. I assumed it was the HTC developers showing off their animations.
Nothing to worry I thought

chimpsinties said:
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Maybe it's just a 'feature' to make you realise that the clock numbers have a nice animated flip
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Spot on. It's meant to be eye candy.

There is a way remove this feature: [MOD] Disable 01:02 clock flip in Manila 2.1 and 2.5

Weather Animation Lag

Is any body else experiencing lag for their weather animation on the Home tab? I don't have this problem on my Weather tab, it looks great. Only when in my home tab, it looks like it runs smooth for half the time, then it gets really chopppy and slow.
I've already tried messing with my shortcuts, and removing my sd card, but those aren't the problems. I also have BSB Tweaks installed, and tried disabling the power saver option, but that didn't do anything either.

Mine does that as well sometimes, not always.

You could try disabling "V-Sync" on the device. Or instead of having the HTC Sense userinterface allocate resources "as needed", you could increase the minimum and maximum amount of resources it is always guaranteed to be utilizing at any given time.
Try searching the forums for those minor registry tweaks and I'm sure you won't be disappointed.

Just did a hard reset, that seemed to do the trick. Also using a 8GB class 6 SD card now, with not too much performance increase. May go back to the stock 16GB class 2 card for more storage.

check ur task manager.
you could be using up too much memory. if you have applications running in the background when the home screen weather animation is loading it could slow it down.
i noticed this with my touch pro 2 as well.

I have noticed the HD2 is lagging terrible when The wifi is trying to connect or the data connection changes. When the signal changes it even lags the device. I am not sure if this is a radio problem or what because all roms so far have this issue

Any updates on this issue?
I've discovered that when I hard reset my HD2, it turns out pretty nice. No lag at all, clouds and screenwipers really smooth =)
But then the breaking point, I install the cookie's tabs, it installs .net framework, immediately the weather animations start to lag..
I don't wanna uninstall the cookies tab (and .net) because I'm using pretty much every application from those quick links. the winter is coming, I wanna enable the weather animations, but I can't do it right now because it's too irritating and slowing the quick link screen changes. they become laggy too.
oops.. just came here with google search and didn't notice that its t-mobile thread. hope it's not a problem.

So far,
I've done every performance trick mention in these forums, but nothing has changed.
This thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=629388
has specific tweaks supposed to increase the performance but no, nothing has changed. VSync is disabled, SENSE memory is increased, but still lagging in the weather application.
Should I just switch to a custom ROM? Makes me think that this'll not solve it since it was running just fine before .net 3.5 as I mentioned before.

Weather is annoying me now because it refuses to update. When I click "update now", the little arrow moves in a circle for a few minutes then nothing changes. It's been doing this since I had my stock 2.13 ROM...I did a Task 29, hard reset, formatted my class 6 SD card, and installed Spike's ROM and it still does the same damn thing...
If I disable phone altogether and turn on WiFi, it will update.
How can I just disable Weather altogether on my home screen without disabling Sense?
Oh yeah, and the stuttering does seem to be related to the data connection trying to sync after coming out of sleep...

You could try installing Cookies Home Tab and using the editor to turn off the animations all together. As far as I know you can't "uninstall" weather from the home tab, but you can turn the animations off and just make it a static image.

mfrey0118 said:
Weather is annoying me now because it refuses to update. When I click "update now", the little arrow moves in a circle for a few minutes then nothing changes. It's been doing this since I had my stock 2.13 ROM...I did a Task 29, hard reset, formatted my class 6 SD card, and installed Spike's ROM and it still does the same damn thing...
If I disable phone altogether and turn on WiFi, it will update.
How can I just disable Weather altogether on my home screen without disabling Sense?
Oh yeah, and the stuttering does seem to be related to the data connection trying to sync after coming out of sleep...
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Slide to the weather tab tap menu/settings and uncheck update.

hi,
I just figure out the BSB tweaks make animation lag, (since Im new user to HD2) I notice it after installation yesterday, right know after uninstalling the bsb tweak, the cloud motion is not lag anymore....
im on duttylacreme

That annoyed the crap out of me also. When I flashed a new rom it smoothed out. I get stutters when I turn the screen on and it immediately does a check to update the weather, but every other time it's smooth. I'm on miri and dinik's anastasia one from the non tmous roms page. It also fixed any sms lag I had too, if you're experiencing that.

So there's no way to remove the weather app from the phone?

mfrey0118 said:
So there's no way to remove the weather app from the phone?
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I suppose if you're using cookies home editor you could choose a different weather app to associate with the weather tab of sense and that would not update unless you chose it manually.

you do not need to install or tweak anything to turn the animation from the home screen off, simply select animated wallpaper and choose any wallpaper you want from your sd card or device just as if you were choosing a weather wallpaper

CRT-Screen off pixelated fix-test

We have had it with this dammned bug (black squares on CRT white animation, pixelated as karendar says), lets hope we get it right this time uh!
update: seems the only way to break the CRT is taking a screenshot from the samsung included screencapture and music app...that is holding down the home button and pressing power at the same time..... this is for the pixelated effect.
I also own a Galaxy tab, which doesnt have the smooth animation on CRT effect either, this feels like there is something on framework.jar and even on the surfaceflinger.cpp (where the animation is stored) that differs from the one HTC uses.....I dont know any coding of drivers, neither how to edit cpp files, I do know however how to decompile jar files, took a look inside and at first glance everything seems the same.
I feel the CRT effect is as good as is going to get, until someone comes along and breaks the surfaceflinger apart and compare it to the HTC one. There are more important things to do and fix regarding the S2 than the CRT off animation (which ain that bad withouth pixels to begin with), so, if anyone is willing to invest time on cpp coding, pm me and Ill help it whatever way I can.
Now, CRT pixelated effect is indeed fixed with blur set to slow, which means the surfaceflinger is unable to handle the overload when set to fast which then leads me to the following:
Have two theories about the screencapture pixelating the CRT animation
1.- the white flash that it uses to take the screenshot corrupts the animation or overloads surfaceflinger.
2.- the screen is resized while taking the screenshot wich again corrupts the animation or overloads surfaceflinger.
Thanks everyone who tested it, and I already see it is being implemented on ROMS and themes, which honestly makes me happy to have been on any help
Continue on with experimenting then.......
so straight to the point..... based on this
false
did the following (dont have to be a genius to do it)
decompiling framework-res.apk, navigate to res/values/bools.xml
change the following[/B]
from
false
to
true
and of course, enable CRT effect
from
true
to
false
then compile back
Have been testing it on my device and have not had the bug ever since......Obviously this needs more testers than myself (lol), reason for this thread.....
I am providing an example for VillainRom v2.1, CWR flashable zip, with only the two mods explained above, nothing else, but feel free to mod the framework on you desired rom
and if working....pls give credits....!
btw, should work on CM7 too.(edit, just saw CM7 already has this config and bug still exists there, but i also know surfaceflinger is not optimized yet)
Needs feedback working or not!
Mods, I think this is the wrong subforum right?, sorry, pls change it to the right one....(I think it is
Galaxy S II Original Android Development)
@pulser_gt, if working feel free to add it to VRtweaks
mirror
http://www.multiupload.com/P6TLZBYECR

doctorcete said:
and of course, enable CRT effect
from
<bool name="config_animateScreenLights">false</bool>
to
<bool name="config_animateScreenLights">false</bool>
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i think you meant true on that first bit
looks promising, though!
edit: oh so it's true to false lol i couldn't remember

Ok, I tried this on Villain Rom 2.1 lite, a very good try by doctorcete, but somehow this fix didn't work for me

kryptoner said:
Ok, I tried this on Villain Rom 2.1 lite, a very good try by doctorcete, but somehow this fix didn't work for me
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what happens, u have the squared bugs on CRT?....I always had the bug when long pressing power button, now i dont have it, been using it, and havent bumped into it....is lite version odexed aswell?, maybe that has to do with it too?

Does this fix the sudden brightness changes bug thing?

eiraku said:
Does this fix the sudden brightness changes bug thing?
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I dont know about that....maybe?
but it is intended to prevent the squared display that sometimes happens on CRT screen off effect.

doctorcete said:
what happens, u have the squared bugs on CRT?....I always had the bug when long pressing power button, now i dont have it, been using it, and havent bumped into it....is lite version odexed aswell?, maybe that has to do with it too?
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Yeah, I still see the screen turning off weirdly, I mean its not like what we saw on nexus s... I think villain 2.1 lite is same as original rom, only apps are removed... but I'm not sure, because it was not mentioned in the rom thread and it was themed

do u mean the smoothness of the animation, or u see the black squares inside the white fliping crt animation?.......if so, how are u reproducing it?

Give it a try. How does the animation work is it like the boot animation?
Greetz Nebucatnetzer

doctorcete said:
do u mean the smoothness of the animation, or u see the black squares inside the white fliping crt animation?.......if so, how are u reproducing it?
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I mean the smoothness, its still not very smooth, maybe its my view, we need more testers... this should be in original development...

ah ok....its intended to fix those ugly black squares, about the smoothness, if this is fixed, that is the next step.....
(u made me wipe the phone just to retest, lol)

How is this any different to the CRT animation off thats been around for some time, I never noticed it bug out on me.. can you guys put up a video on how this "fix" looks like?

it aint different.....for instance, if long pressing power button, then presseng back, and turn off phone (just hit the power button, standby), The white flipping image becomes distorted, with black squares, this aims to prevent those black squares, as I said, same animation, just not distorted...

EarlZ said:
How is this any different to the CRT animation off thats been around for some time, I never noticed it bug out on me.. can you guys put up a video on how this "fix" looks like?
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he already said its for testing.. just try it and post whether you feel any improvements or not... If this post gets enough positive responses, then it can be a major fix... so please try

It works! In my case, the bug appears when I activate the alarm. Now doesn't, thank you!

Finally, two feedbacks...thanks....im glad to be of any help

Hey Doc!
Does this use the odex framework? I ask because i had the extended power menu mod posted in the Villian thread installed which deodexed the browser before this, well i flashed through cwm and wiped cache and now i get a few random force closes and when i try to enter the power menu i get booted to the boot screen.
Gonna try again now on a fresh install.
Not sure if im being dumb or or it was to do with odex.
I will say the crt seems to be working a treat from what ive seen lol

No more black squares on Cog 1.15 great job !
Thx m8

kryptoner said:
he already said its for testing.. just try it and post whether you feel any improvements or not... If this post gets enough positive responses, then it can be a major fix... so please try
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Im doing a battery life testing right now and rebooting the phone is not part of the test, sorry I cant be of much help yet.

On cognition 1.15, this fixed it for me when opening the power menu!

Clock widgets stop working on ICS

I have been seeing an issue on my Arc S where, after playing something quite memory intensive (such as Draw Something). when I return to the home screen my clock widget is not showing the correct time (see screen shot - note the time in the top-left is different to the widget). It's driving me nuts. Any ideas? Here's what I know:
I have seen this on GB before back when I first got my Arc S in December last year. Again when using a lot of memory (Maps for example). So it isn't necessarily a new issue.
It is much worse since the official release of ICS. I don't remember if this happened on the beta but it's possible I wasn't using my phone to play as many games.
It affects all the clock widgets I've tried. I have tried the supplied analogue clocks, digital clocks and the HTC Sense 4 clock pictured.
Sometimes if I leave the screen on the clock will sort itself out.
Sometimes it stays like this for good until the widget is deleted and re-added.
Sometimes locking the screen for a little while will fix it.
A full reinstall doesn't fix this.
I am now on 4.0.4 (clean install last night) and the issue persists.
I am running the stock ICS kernel with CWM (from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1591279)
I know of one other user having this issue (and he's on Arconium)
I think this is probably an issue with the Sony Launcher but any suggestions are welcome because it's most annoying that I can't even rely on my clock widget to tell the right time!
I might try the Nexus launcher and see if the problem persists.

So I tried the stock ICS launcher (Launcher2) and the same problem exists.
Perhaps this is a kernel problem.

rec71 said:
So I tried the stock ICS launcher (Launcher2) and the same problem exists.
Perhaps this is a kernel problem.
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Your clock widget gets killed due to out of memory when you run heavy applications . See "Running Services" at Settings>Applications. You will notice that the widget is 'restarting'.
Sent from my LT15i using XDA

So why doesn't it restart properly? Seems odd. Even if the launcher reloads completely the clock stays "stuck".
Guess I'll have to live with it.

I could give SuperCharger a go and try to make the clock widget HTK...

This also happened to me while I was on Gingerbread, and I was unable to find a solution...
P.S. I accidentally pressed thanks button on your last post rec71, LOL