Hi guys,
I'm a new HD2 owner and I love live wallpapers, but I have noticed that the quality of some of the native widgets degrade greatly. It is especially noticeable on the power control widget and the calendar widget.
I talked to my friend with a Nexus One and he does not notice this. He said it could be due to the difference in screen size.
If you want to know what this looks like then download Launcher Pro and under advanced settings make sure that high quality scrolling is not checked. Then just scroll between homescreens and it will become painfully obvious.
Thank you so much!
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Hey everyone, sorry if this has been asked before, but here goes!
Every now and then my Nexus One will stutter when anything animates, the homescreen, twidroid, even the beautiful widgets weather thingy, it'll act all smooth for a few seconds, jerk and stutter, then carry on as before.
I wondered if anyone else had this, or if it's something I've done/not done. Or am I just abusing this wonderful device a little too much and need the RAM I was promised (sorry, I am really bitter about my missing RAM bank )
Some third-party live wallpapers are badly optimized and will cause your homescreen to lag.
Go to settings, find "Sound and display" and look for "Show animation" tab, check "Some animations" instead of "All animations." You won't notice any loss of eyecandy, and the phone'll magically become a lot faster.
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Some third-party live wallpapers are badly optimized and will cause your homescreen to lag.
Go to settings, find "Sound and display" and look for "Show animation" tab, check "Some animations" instead of "All animations." You won't notice any loss of eyecandy, and the phone'll magically become a lot faster.
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I was using the Bezier live wallpaper (fantastic wallpaper) with 4 lines, quite a slow movement with a small stepping and everything jittered like heck, even with the "some animations" setting, which lost me the menu transitions
It's the same even when I use the 'Nexus' live wallpaper, everything is a bit jittery. I tested it with a static photo and one of the stock wallpapers and it's still a bit jittery but an awful lot less noticeable!
I love the phone, but I guess I just want to see it blow me away with speed, it just seems that I can bog it down really quickly!
Huh. I've never experienced slow-downs with the stock live wallpapers, but when I used Digital Rain all speed went to hell. Not tried Bezier.
You could also try home replacements, I suppose (if lowering animations to "some" doesn't help); many of them make use of the GPU over the processor, resulting in better performance overall.
I found a bit of a balance between stuttering and the buttery smoothness I long for (it's now only happening in the beautiful widgets weather forecast as the clouds drift/stutter by) I tweaked some of the settings in the live wallpaper, uninstalled some widgets I don't use and rebooted the phone - I'm guessing it's my constant abuse of the poor thing eating up all the ram! I'm still trying to work out how I coped with my old G1!
It'd be nice to see some of the graphical touches offloaded to the GPU, especially transitions... OpenGL rendered home/menu/window transitions does sound nice...
Hi,
I noticed that there is a slight delay when I scroll down a web page or the application menu. I have the impression that the display isn't as fluid as the iPhone to my girlfriend. Another comparaison than i saw, is on the locking screen, when i unlock the phone the little triangle isn't really smooth if i compare to the iphone. It's like if the refresh rate of the screen was too low.. I wanna know if i'm the only one to have this issue..
X10 for the win!
iPhone runs only one app at a time.
while this phone can run tens of apps.
maybe too many apps are running in your background
try using 'Advanced task killer' to kill all unused apps.
my phone runs as fast as iphone for the features u mentioned..no lagging whatsoever.
I'm using this app, that's not a lag like if the phone had too many apps running..
I installed hardware info app on the market and I have noticed something strange. Under Display, Size=320x569. The screen resolution is not supposed to be 480x854 ?
In others words, when I scroll down/up/right/left (anywhere) the phone has a little delay to scroll...
The scrolling on browser was smooth. Maybe its a heavy page.
About the lockscreen its natural IMO because if we make our phone sleep/standy or screen off. The apps that runs lockscreen etc is idle and like also turn off to make battery life efficient. So its natural that the lockscreen is too lag a bit moment as it refreshes from being idle to being used. It begins loading up
I have a concept homescreen replacer where there are no "pages", instead there is one single horizontal scrolling strip, much like a film strip. Think Windows Phone 7, but with widgets, icons, folders etc and horizontal.
Look at the attachment if you dont understand. I would put the image in the post but I cant post outside links yet.
Yes, it is possible to see half a widget, but I thought about it and decided it will be to the user to scroll so it is displayed right.
I have no experience in coding but I am pretty good in graphics like my picture
Tell me what you think
I've been thinking about and attempting to create (with limited success so far.) something similar to your home replacement but Vertical Scroll rather than horizontal. To give you an idea it would look similar to The Zune Launcher or the but also be able to take widgets. Again no snap to screen (cant figure that bit out).
Good luck with this, it would be interesting to see what experiences you gain and what problems you run into. Similar to you I am fantastic with graphics but not too good at coding (not done any since C++)
When I "jailbroke" my ipod ages ago, there was a tweak that was called "smooth scrolling" and it did the exact same thing described here. I think it would be awesome to have a free-scrolling home screen. I am working on a home replacement myself and it features a vertically scrolling home screen where the icons and widgets can be placed anywhere (not snap to a grid). If you would like to help, click on the logo in my signature to be taken to my site to see what I am working on. I could use a hand in graphics, myself. PM me if you're interested
I would prefer something that is like infiniboard for iOS
This would technically allow widgets to stretch past the 1 page limit in LauncherPro, as in, you could have widgets large enough that they cut off, allowing for some GREAT theming and future uses.
hmmm....interested but why vertical? feels a little to Windows Phone to me and i think widgets would work better scrolling horizontally. I looked up smooth scrolling for iOS and yep thats what i want with widgets and gridless.
I just want to subscribe to this and give my two cents:
I think any seamless homescreen app should still have the option at least of enabling a grid for apps and widgets. The idea of this as a functioning homescreen replacement could certainly get me to switch over from ADW, but only if it could satisfy my OCD needs for everything to be lined up juuuust so.
I think this would be a great thing to have, but I also would like to have an option for the widgets & apps to line up on a grid. while it is great to have the seamless scrolling (preferably horizontal & not vertical...maybe there could be an option for that as well) I like things to line up too.
I could definitely make that an option for my home-replacement. I just want to know what people would want out of a home replacement so that I can model mine around the general consensus of what everybody wants. Oh, and why does everybody want vertical scrolling? Because its different. Sure Windows phone 7 has it. But it does it in its own way. Android is know for its open-ness and widgets. The wonder of Android is that anyone can do anything with Android, and its free.
At first I want to say that the idea of a seamless lauchner is brilliant.
I had that idea by myself but I have no experience in programming.
I think I would prefer somewalls original concept with icons that fit into a grid and horizontal scrolling. To me it seems to be more useful on portrait format screens compared to vertical scrolling.
But anyway, I hope the best for you guys.
I think vertically scrolling widgets will work buggy this way. Unless there would be some kind of listener that stops the horizontal scrolling when interacting with a vertically scrolling widget.
Else both ways of scrolling will interfere.
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I like the idea, it's something that I would love to have on my phone! Just one suggestion.. I would like to see both horizontal and vertical scrolling, if it could be developed. As in, the user decides what kind of scrolling he wants, either vertical, horizontal.. or may be both? I don't if it's possible or not, I have no "serious" coding experience, as you may call it since am just in school!
Hi ive noticed a problem on a lot of recent roms and was wondering if anyone else had the same issue.
Problem: The display is sharp however the display for pictures, widgets, videos, apps etc can be bitmapped and 'fading light' appears layered.
What I found weird is when i installed launcher pro the 'lighting' graphics appeared smooth and the problem was fixed for widgets.
Is it a kernel issue, because i know many of the more recent roms are using the same kernel. I do remember reading that it can be caused because of different resolutions?
Please let me know if this is just me, in which case any help?
I can post a screenshot to clarify...
Any help is much appreciated. Thank you.
Some ROM stock launcher renders pretty fade icons layout. Use launcher pro or upgrade to paid one for better functionality. I'm currently using ADW Launcher EX paid version that punch out all kind of magic. Another note is reducing lcd density also make the device load fast and nicer/smaller app icons. The back side of reducing lcd density is some app doesn't support it which make the screen view smaller.
I Just got a ZTE ZMax Pro (Z981) today from MetroPCS overall the phone is great but im having a weird issue when setting my wallpaper, when viewing images in the gallery or previewing to set the wallpaper everything looks fine but when the image is a wallpaper i notice a slight change in the color like a slight green tint.
preview images below edit: cant post images... any idea what could be causing this ? Using Stock with Nova Launcher, Color Correction is off.
This is a minor problem and isnt a deal breaker to me but if its fixable it be nice.
Any help or input would be appreciated, thank you.
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I Just got a ZTE ZMax Pro (Z981) today from MetroPCS overall the phone is great but im having a weird issue when setting my wallpaper, when viewing images in the gallery or previewing to set the wallpaper everything looks fine but when the image is a wallpaper i notice a slight change in the color like a slight green tint.
preview images below edit: cant post images... any idea what could be causing this ? Using Stock with Nova Launcher, Color Correction is off.
This is a minor problem and isnt a deal breaker to me but if its fixable it be nice.
Any help or input would be appreciated, thank you.
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Have you played with your screen anamation in developer options it will change visuals as well as if you have a adaptive brightness set u may just b seeing rough version or a installed app affecting you , I use Nova without issue on the z981 ,it preforms sexy like a unlimited data mod lol , and it may make a diff if you are using free version or paid lite may have bugs I'd try my custom launcher c if it has a better effect or check , check all you nova visuals you may have simply made a mistake in display preference good luck
Thanks for the input, i had animation scale to off, and reverting it back to 1x and restarting did not fix the issue, also playing with the nova animations and tinkering with settings didnt fix it, im using nova prime, tried with the stock launcher also gives me the darker wallpaper, im not sure what it is, because when im looking at the image to set it the colors are fine, its not until its a wallpaper that its darker, like i said it isnt horrible after awhile i dont even notice but its just odd..
what is this custom launcher you speak of?
and yes this phone is pretty amazing, i was little bummed at first because the blade was out of stock where i went but upon further review im happy i got this, could care less about the camera.. on another note can we be expecting android 7.0 in the future ?