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Launcher Pro Issues

Many people have offered using Launcher Pro instead of TW for a fix to the lag issues. Personally, I experience terrible lag when using Launcher Pro and only moderate lag when running TW. I have tried this under a variety of different wiget, homescreen, and application configurations.
Any perceivable reason for this? I would prefer to use Launcher Pro...but the lag is so bad that I have to give up. TIA

That's really odd man. I can attest that my phone flies with LP (and TW is rarely feels laggy to me).
I'm starting to wonder if a lot if people talking about lag just have an app(s) that are ready poorly done and the cause of issues. I think it's easier to blame an app than assume an issue with the phone you know?
Random, but how many apps do you have you think installed? Any that you question? Using a task killer?

i can also say that LP has made my phone virtually lag free. I was hesitant to try it out but glad i did!

I havent experienced any lag yet since I got this phone on launch... Maybe I keep my system clean too much coming from a n1 with hardly any App storage space.
I dont see most bugs people post... Im either lucky or less picky.. Maybe both.

Been using LP since the first day I got my Vibrant. There's no lag whatsoever on my phone.

Factory reset.
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Yeah, I would try resetting your phone. As others have said.... no lag here.

Or do the method that moves your apps to make the phone faster. Look for the thread on vibrant lag or vibrant stutter.
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I have reset the phone, downloaded roughly 75 apps, no task manager.
This thing still struggles when running LP, but it is better on TW. I'm baffled.

try ADW Launcher?

there are settings in LP that will make the icons appear faster or slower. I have mine set at a 4 because I like to watch them fly onto the screen. try setting yours to 10 it should eliminate the animation and potentially your lag.

I havent had any issues with LP. I didnt really have any with TW either but now that I'm running LP the phone has a little more snap.

After resetting and reinstalling, you say issue is still present. Like my earlier post, I'm calling acrappy deigned app.

I run adw and experience no lag from what I can tell.
Feeling Vibrant on xda-app

I think it was an app issue. Bought a task kilter from the market and kill everything but my eidos when the screen turns off and the issue has stooped.
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MTC44 said:
I think it was an app issue. Bought a task kilter from the market and kill everything but my eidos when the screen turns off and the issue has stooped.
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Be careful with stuff that you're installing. With that many apps, you're bound to find a couple that either A) didn't get installed properly or B) are poorly designed and cause problems.
You shouldn't need a task killer as your phone is designed to multitask and take care of things you aren't using, but glad you got it figured out!

I find it concerning that I need a task killer to get it to run smoothly. From what I can tell all my apps are are legit. How would one go about troubleshooting a potentially harmful app?
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for me TW and ADW were very laggy and LP was super fast with option to keep it in memory, that was before RESET. After reset, I havent tried others, but I dont even need to keep in memory, its still very fast. I am using Autokiller as a task manager....

Some users experienced lag issues on launcher pro and the support forums at the official site suggested not using live wallpapers. So if you are using one disable it and see if that helps.

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Some users experienced lag issues on launcher pro and the support forums at the official site suggested not using live wallpapers. So if you are using one disable it and see if that helps.
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Thanks for the suggestion. Not using a live wallpaper. I also don't keep LP "in memory". Should I?

[Q]Htc sence reloads constantly

So on my wifes shift whenever she is in an app and presses the home key, it goes to the white htc screen then shows the background and says loading.... it does that almost everytime she presses the home button...not temp rooted, never temp rooted never used a alternate launcher either....
Sent from my wifes phone because its cooler than mine...

I'm running adw ex with the gingerbread theme and I don't think I've seen that since I switched. Sense is okay but I like vanilla android ui. I also went into adw settings and picked the fast preset and installed gingerkeyboard. It's nice now. Things definitely "seem" snappier now. I think it appears to run quicker than when everything is set up to run HTC sense UI.

Mine would do that usually only when running resource intensive apps like Dungeon Defenders. But like Herbman I've gone back to ADW EX and don't have that problem any longer.

spare parts installed?

Same problem. I have spare parts too.
Shifted from my Evo using XDA app.

Mine does that from time to time, temp rooted, and I do not have Spare Parts installed. It only happens to me when I "kill" a heavy resourced app. But the reload is fast so for me it isn't a big deal since it only happens maybe once a day.

Yep on the spare parts....poo
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I put spare parts on my friends evo and set the task killer in it to aggressive and it was doing the same thing until we set it back to normal
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^ Thanks, I will check mine.

silex said:
^ Thanks, I will check mine.
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Mine was already on normal and it's still doing it every time I hit home I might have to do a hard reset. I just wish that Market would save downloads and associate it with the account for free apps. Only seems to do it for paid ones.

G2 running very slow

Been testing my stock G2 with Quantant and noticed that its been really slow. I use to get 1500-1600, now 1000.
Anyone know how I can see is using all my resources?
Best way to clean up the G2?
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Wipe it and see if it helps.

Quadrant is very inacurate. I wouldn't trust it.
Sent from my T-Mobile G2 running Cyanogenmod.

does it feel slow in day to day use? if not then I wouldnt worry what quadrant tells you.

I have read in another thread somewhere in the forums that many people are getting lower scores in Quadrant since the recent update to the application.
Before the update, I scored in the 2200 range (running @ 1.5/performance). I just ran Quadrant now, with the same settings and scored 1600...
The device is running the same, its just some tweaks with Quadrant that are delivering the lower scores. Unless the phone is lagging or having problems, I wouldn't worry about it.

The only thing I have noticed over the last 3 months since I have been using my G2 is the time to load the "Gallery" seems to take much longer.
Sometimes it loads right up, sometimes it loads up showing the placeholders, and other times (more often then not now) it opens up the "Gallery" to a blank/yellow background, then just hangs there for up to about a minute or so without showing anything and then either crashes or finally opens/shows the pictures/gallery.

Throw CM7 on there and crank that ***** up to 11. I OC'd to 1.5 and got a 2500 quadrant last night. I am perfectly happy OC'd to about 1.1 though, so no need to risk damage to the CPU by leaving it OC'd so high.

When I am in landscape mode with keyboard open...then close the keyboard and make it portrait, the home icons don't show up until 10-15 seconds later. Anyone know why? Otherwise, it seems ok in speed except for this switching from landscape to portrait and the icon shortcuts are not there.
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hipertec said:
When I am in landscape mode with keyboard open...then close the keyboard and make it portrait, the home icons don't show up until 10-15 seconds later. Anyone know why? Otherwise, it seems ok in speed except for this switching from landscape to portrait and the icon shortcuts are not there.
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Oh yeah that's no good...... have you tried different ROMs?
Sent from my crack-addicted G2 injected with CM7.

I'm still on the stock rom. I'm actually pretty happy with the stock rom, except for this problem.
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hipertec said:
When I am in landscape mode with keyboard open...then close the keyboard and make it portrait, the home icons don't show up until 10-15 seconds later. Anyone know why? Otherwise, it seems ok in speed except for this switching from landscape to portrait and the icon shortcuts are not there.
Sent from my T-Mobile G2 using XDA App
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I have the same issue. I'm so used to seeing it that I forgot it was a "bug" :-/.
Running stock btw.

well im glad im not the only one with the landscape to portrait switching lag... but I wish someone can help in finding what is causing this....anyone?

There are two other posts on this - no one has any solution.
I have that problem as well using stock launcher.
But many people use launcher pro, or ADW, with those launchers you do not get this problem. I'm guessing the majority of people on XDA use a non-stock launcher so this problem doesn't really get any attention.
I don't know if it's Launcher Pros fault or not, but after I installed it my phone started shutting down randomly. Reflashed and restored using TB and it's still doing the same thing with it uninstalled...

Same problem here. With the Gallery lag thingy too. And now all HQ or HD videos on youtube epically fail when playing. I uninstalled and reinstalled youtube but the same keeps happening...very annoying :/ I heart my G2 idk what happened. I don't have many apps that would make the phone lag or have video problems (yes I just checked...even gallery videos are choppy)
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Beautiful Widgets

My friend told me that Beautiful Widgets causes the phone to crash after a day or two and I have to reboot.
It seems like hes right, but has anyone found a fix for this?

I had beautiful widgets on my phone cm 7 it hasn't crashed yet I don't turn off my phone at all. Try a different rom and see.
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unless you're running a bootlegged copy of BW, it sounds like you have something else acting up. this the third phone I have had BW on and have never had any issues with it causing any of my phones to crash. I have it on the Behold 2 I gave to my 8yr old to use like an iPod Touch, both my wife's and my MT3G-Slide's (have ran it on many different ROMs, currently CM7-RC2) and my MT4G and I have used it on just about every ROM put out for this phone and haven't had it cause a single crash.
what ROM and Kernel are you running? if you're running an O/C kernel what do you have it set at... you may have it set to high for your particular chipset.

^^^ What he said. Been using the same BW on all 5 Android phones I've owned and never had a problem. It's my favorite app.

I just can't get it to install on my Nexus S ... See this post if you have any suggestions!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=12237724
Thanks guys!

Go Launcher ex problems

Anyone else run this app.? It seems so great at first and I really want to like it, but it seems like everytime I go back to my homescreen I'm missing widgets. Its been a problem from earlier version which is why I stopped using it. I really want this to work because it has some excellent features. Anyone else have any of these issues? I'm asking herr because I want to see if its epic related because I don't see anyone else complaining about it.
Tapatalkin' it from my Epic 3g

Been rocking it for a couple months. Can't recall it ever happening to me.

Mine works 100%, replaced launcher pro cuz of fc issues. Love it
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the only issues i had with it was that two of my homescreens would always be missing so i went back to launcher pro.

Been using it for a while and really have not had any real issues. I think it force closed on me once but that's all I can think of.
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I ditched Launcher Pro for it a month ago or so and have been very pleased (running stock EC05, rooted). No problems like what you're describing at all.

man that sucks.. for me that is, i dont know whats causing it.. it happened a while ago so i stopped using it. and now its happening with the latest version.. o well.. wasnt meant to be

jok3sta said:
man that sucks.. for me that is, i dont know whats causing it.. it happened a while ago so i stopped using it. and now its happening with the latest version.. o well.. wasnt meant to be
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Yeah - an update just hit that is causing this old bug to pop up again. Only happening on one of my screens though. Just so happens to be the one with the XDA and PPCGeeks apps on it!
Love the new TV animation for the App Drawer, and the cylinder icon animation is bad ass.

Try going into Prefrences -> Advanced -> Clear Rubbish Data.
They implemented that when that problem started arising.

ill try again..

Yeah I've used ADW and LP for about two months each. Switched to Go Launcher about 3 months ago and haven't looked back. Never had any problems with it at all.

jok3sta said:
Anyone else run this app.? It seems so great at first and I really want to like it, but it seems like everytime I go back to my homescreen I'm missing widgets. Its been a problem from earlier version which is why I stopped using it. I really want this to work because it has some excellent features. Anyone else have any of these issues? I'm asking herr because I want to see if its epic related because I don't see anyone else complaining about it.
Tapatalkin' it from my Epic 3g
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I use Go Launcher Ex and have had no problems with anything at all. The only issue I had ever had with widgets was with Elixir but that was an Elixir problem, not a Go Launcher problem.

I had major problems w/ GO Launcher
GO Launcher used to be useless on my phone (I'm running stock) in the sense that I couldn't customize anything. I really wanted to see how it felt fully functional so I factory reset my phone and now it works flawlessly.

BhRaElEfD said:
GO Launcher used to be useless on my phone (I'm running stock) in the sense that I couldn't customize anything. I really wanted to see how it felt fully functional so I factory reset my phone and now it works flawlessly.
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With recent updates, GoLauncher's customizations are pretty awesome. The TV off animiation, Being able to use one theme with the icons from another etc... Love this launcher.