I'm not rooted, I really didn't feel like tinkering with the phone right now, but I'm kind of getting tired of Launcher2's performance and behavior since the last OTA... aside from the obvious bugs (forgetting which home screen you are on), quite often it takes FOREVER to "redraw" when I exit an app and it force closes 5-6 times a week.
Any prospects of them releasing a bug-fix patch? I really don't have time to play around with loading roms and then maintaining my own update schedule.
--Daniel
May 19.
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Like there aren't a gazillion other threads about Android 2.2 and Froyo already on this forum?
aside from the obvious bugs (forgetting which home screen you are on)
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That's not a bug, it was changed on purpose in 2.1 to go the the 3rd homescreen when you press the home button. It does seem like a weird idea at first but it's actually increased my navigation speed considerably. Before I would forget which screen I was on sometimes and I would have to pause and check. Now I know which one it's going to be and I know instantly which was to swipe to get where I want to go. I think it was a good choice.
anstosa said:
That's not a bug.
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Yes it is. I suggest you check again.
From any home screen other than the 3rd one you mention, hit the apps softkey to open apps. Now press either of the home screen buttons, soft or hard and you will (as you say) get returned to home screen 3 or the middle one. This is fine and good. BUT take a look at the mini icons at the bottom of the screen.
They are supposed to show
** ** to indicate you are on screen 3.
However they will incorrectly show the screen you were on before heading off to the apps screen and not the one you are on now.
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That IS the home screen bug.
Yeah, that and the occasional battery pulls I have to do to reset a frozen phone and the bluetooth random reboots are getting bothersome.
logger said:
Yes it is. I suggest you check again.
From any home screen other than the 3rd one you mention, hit the apps softkey to open apps. Now press either of the home screen buttons, soft or hard and you will (as you say) get returned to home screen 3 or the middle one. This is fine and good. BUT take a look at the mini icons at the bottom of the screen.
They are supposed to show
** ** to indicate you are on screen 3.
However they will incorrectly show the screen you were on before heading off to the apps screen and not the one you are on now.
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That IS the home screen bug.
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Yes that would be a bug. I haven't heard of anyone else with this problem nor can I replicate it myself.
I've heard of many people with that bug. I have it also. Only on the stock ROM. The background is also offset to where it would be if you were on the previous screen (the one the dots indicate), as opposed to being centered when on the middle screen.
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Yes that would be a bug. I haven't heard of anyone else with this problem nor can I replicate it myself.
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I had that issue before I rooted and installed Enom's ROM, now I rely on noticing how far left/right my wallpaper is shifted to tell which screen I'm on, as I have the phone/browser buttons in the bottom corners instead of the dots.
I've noticed that after pressing the home button and swiping between menues there is a VERY SMALL, yet noticeable lag. Sometimes the clock/weather widget reloads. It was like this out of the box the first day. Then you start swiping between homescreens and its gone and everything is smooth as butter literally.
I saw this in one of the review videos too. Hopefully a software update addresses this. Somewhat annoying as the phone has 2GB of memory.
MattMJB0188 said:
I've noticed that after pressing the home button and swiping between menues there is a VERY SMALL, yet noticeable lag. Sometimes the clock/weather widget reloads. It was like this out of the box the first day. Then you start swiping between homescreens and its gone and everything is smooth as butter literally.
I saw this in one of the review videos too. Hopefully a software update addresses this. Somewhat annoying as the phone has 2GB of memory.
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Same here... Swiping the home screen is smooth but returning to the home screen via the home button causes a 1 second delay...
I have also noticed the clock / weather widget refreshes when returning to home screen from apps at times...
Overall it's not big deal and I am sure it will be fixed in the next update...
yes~!!! this is one of the annoying parts of this phone.
it isn't performance related either. in nova launcher i have it set that pressing home when at the default screen brings up the app drawer. doing so causes the same fraction-of-a-second delay. but pressing the actual app drawer button on the screen is immediate. something in the Android software is causing this delay between button-push and action.
Thought it was just me.
I'm going to root it and flash ultimatum. Hopefully it gets rid of it.
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Thanks guys. Glad to see its not just my phone. Its by no means bad, just annoying. The home button needs to be more responsive. Hopefully in a software update. If this is all we have to worry about then I'm good.
Yea. Same goes for me, tried both apex and nova just to test if the lag depends on the launcher. I'm on apex now though, a bit less laggy than nova.
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Nova with fancy widgets (sense style clock) and voice disabled not really seeing any lag.
There is a setting you can turn off to fix this home button delay actually.
What you do is
1. Go to apps
2. Find "S-Voice" and open it
3. Hit settings button
4. In settings there is a option for "Launch S Voice" near the top of the settings.
5. Click the box to stop it from launching S-Voice when you hit the home button.
6. Now the home button works very quickly, no more second delay.
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There is a setting you can turn off to fix this home button delay actually.
What you do is
1. Go to apps
2. Find "S-Voice" and open it
3. Hit settings button
4. In settings there is a option for "Launch S Voice" near the top of the settings.
5. Click the box to stop it from launching S-Voice when you hit the home button.
6. Now the home button works very quickly, no more second delay.
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That made a difference!!! Thanks.
extreme11191986 said:
there is a setting you can turn off to fix this home button delay actually.
What you do is
1. Go to apps
2. Find "s-voice" and open it
3. Hit settings button
4. In settings there is a option for "launch s voice" near the top of the settings.
5. Click the box to stop it from launching s-voice when you hit the home button.
6. Now the home button works very quickly, no more second delay.
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thank you
you are awesome.
The delay is there because if you double tap the home button it brings up SVoice, so it gives a small Window waiting for the second press before going to the home screen.
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There is still a lag after unchecking the S Voice launch option. I hope this can be fixed.
I wonder if the Exynos version has any noticeable lag or delay?
I actually completely disabled S-Voice and see no lag
Menu > Settings > Application Manager > All > S-Voice > Disable
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I actually completely disabled S-Voice and see no lag
Menu > Settings > Application Manager > All > S-Voice > Disable
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+1
If I wanted to be a "talking to your cell phone like its a person" douche I would have bought an iPhone. Keep your dignity and just type in whatever you're trying to do, it will probably take less time then getting the voice recognition to get it right
TW is pretty weak for a launcher though.. I put on my ol' trusty ADW launcher and no lag to be seen there..
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If I wanted to be a "talking to your cell phone like its a person" douche I would have bought an iPhone. Keep your dignity and just type in whatever you're trying to do, it will probably take less time then getting the voice recognition to get it right
TW is pretty weak for a launcher though.. I put on my ol' trusty ADW launcher and no lag to be seen there..
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The one and only thing I ever use android's voice recognition for -- and you don't even need S-Voice for this -- is setting alarms, because it's quicker than doing it manually and very accurate.
e.g.: "set alarm forty five minutes"
lol, didn't yall watch any reviews on Youtube? They stated there's a slight delay because it's waiting for a second press for S-Voice. I thought everyone knew that.
Not when pressing the home. When swiping through home screens. There is a slight delay. Its Ever so noticeable. More so when having a few widgets on the home screen.
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cmjkxa said:
Not when pressing the home. When swiping through home screens. There is a slight delay. Its Ever so noticeable. More so when having a few widgets on the home screen.
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Yep. It's only brief, then everything is smooth is butter.
Well, I have 3 home screens so I don't really care. I had 2 on my SGS2.
Hi guys,
I found that my nexus 4 when pressing the recent apps button on the navigation bar to call up the recent apps list, the animation effect of that button looks stutter.
For example, when I using the browser and I want to switch to the message app, I press the recent apps button, after I release the button the disappear of the press effect is not smooth. Have anyone also face this problem? Or are there any solution of this problem?
I have already tried to wipe my phone and flash custom rom but the problem still there.
Sorry for my poor Engilsh Please help...
jacky93li said:
Hi guys,
I found that my nexus 4 when pressing the recent apps button on the navigation bar to call up the recent apps list, the animation effect of that button looks stutter.
For example, when I using the browser and I want to switch to the message app, I press the recent apps button, after I release the button the disappear of the press effect is not smooth. Have anyone also face this problem? Or are there any solution of this problem?
I have already tried to wipe my phone and flash custom rom but the problem still there.
Sorry for my poor Engilsh Please help...
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Could you give some more information? Does it happen all the time? When a certain amount of apps are loaded? What ROM is this? etc...
hhairplane said:
Could you give some more information? Does it happen all the time? When a certain amount of apps are loaded? What ROM is this? etc...
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It not happen all the time but quite a lot. I have try stock, CM, AOKP, the problem still here.
Even there is only one app opened.
I took a video of the button, you can see that the smoothness difference between the home button and the recent apps button...
When my finger leave the button the glow effect delay quite a lot compared to the home button.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njGGJ1cwRQI
It seems that if you enable multiphoto wallpaper and attempt to scroll quickly back and fourth throughout your screen, it will double click or kind of lag. Don't know how to explain this. But I'm dragging back and fourth onto of apps, I never release my finger, and it will register another click and open whatever app happens to open. Anyone else with this issue? On Verizon model.
When I have gestures on and I'm typing fast my phone will jump back to the home screen. I'm thinking it's me dragging my thumb up when I hit the space bar anyone else having this issue?
paniro187 said:
When I have gestures on and I'm typing fast my phone will jump back to the home screen. I'm thinking it's me dragging my thumb up when I hit the space bar anyone else having this issue?
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Yeah it happens mostly when I'm talking to my gf (Facebook messenger) lol, but it has only happened like 1 or two times so not a big deal.
Happens all the time with me. I sure wish they brought calibration back. It might help with all the text issues I have.