Hi,
I have a kindle fire powered with cm7. I really love it but I have some issues. I've searched for all but could not find a related post. Sorry if already explained.
1. I've heard people say its really smooth. I don't always get this feeling. In desktop transitions there is sometimes disturbing lag. Also in some apps it is much less smooth compared to my htc incredible s. I wiped cache dalvik and system as suggested. is there anyone that have it perfectly smooth? Or any suggestions to fix it?
2. Volume is sometimes not enough even with a good pair of headphones. is there a way to increase the maximum volume.
3. Icons and text are too small. I can change ro.sf.lcd_density in build.prop, but then status bar icons get huge. is there another way to change only icon size?
thanks for the help!
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cenkoloji said:
1. I've heard people say its really smooth. I don't always get this feeling. In desktop transitions there is sometimes disturbing lag. Also in some apps it is much less smooth compared to my htc incredible s. I wiped cache dalvik and system as suggested. is there anyone that have it perfectly smooth? Or any suggestions to fix it?
2. Volume is sometimes not enough even with a good pair of headphones. is there a way to increase the maximum volume.
3. Icons and text are too small. I can change ro.sf.lcd_density in build.prop, but then status bar icons get huge. is there another way to change only icon size?
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1. I am not experiencing any lag during transitions... especially not disturbing lag ;-) Have you tried the modified build.prop for CM7 found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1424068
2. Not sure.
3. The icon size is set by the launcher and not by CM7. Have you tried using GO Launcher Pro, they are pretty huge by default.
I used go launcher back in stock rom. I installed it again now, I see it is better than adw, you can set icon size and transitions are smoother.
Thanks for reminding.
If you want smooth (and don't mind the price) look at SPB Shell in Market. Picks up the fact it's running on a 1024x600 device and activates the Tablet mode.
The reason for the lag is that CM7 comes with ADW.Launcher which for whatever reason seems really laggy on pretty much anything I've used it on. Try ADW EX ($3.99 in market) or Launcher Pro plus. Both have fully hardware accelerated interfaces that for me run ios smooth on the Kindle and on my 1st Gen HTC Evo.
ADW EX also has an option in the icon settings menu for "density hack" which makes the icons bigger and more tablet optimized.
Not sure about your sound issue so sorry on that one. Hope my other tid bits help.
CTTKDKing said:
The reason for the lag is that CM7 comes with ADW.Launcher which for whatever reason seems really laggy on pretty much anything I've used it on. Try ADW EX ($3.99 in market) or Launcher Pro plus. Both have fully hardware accelerated interfaces that for me run ios smooth on the Kindle and on my 1st Gen HTC Evo.
ADW EX also has an option in the icon settings menu for "density hack" which makes the icons bigger and more tablet optimized.
Not sure about your sound issue so sorry on that one. Hope my other tid bits help.
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I have ADW EX with the density hack enabled. When I reboot or sometimes just open and close an app the icons will go back to being small again. I have to go uncheck and recheck the density hack button or reset ADW. Does this happen to you?
thanks
If you want smooth (and don't mind the price) look at SPB Shell in Market. Picks up the fact it's running on a 1024x600 device and activates the Tablet mode.
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Wow looks cool, but too expensive I think. Go launcher is quite fine in fact. Its as smooth as I want.
Thanks for all the answers!
cenkoloji said:
2. Volume is sometimes not enough even with a good pair of headphones. is there a way to increase the maximum volume.
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I use "Equalizer" app from "Smart Android Apps, LLC" to boost my volume. On the Equalizer tab, boost all bands to maximum.
Thanks for the equalizer
brett_c said:
I use "Equalizer" app from "Smart Android Apps, LLC" to boost my volume. On the Equalizer tab, boost all bands to maximum.
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Exactly what I want! Thanks a lot.
Normally volume is not low, but there are some apps/ videos that have volume lower than I need. This app solved it.
still laggy
Well, Go launcher solved smoothness problems in launcher, but in some programs its still much less smoother than my HTC Incredible S.
Why I'm not getting good performance? What can I try?
sdp07a said:
I have ADW EX with the density hack enabled. When I reboot or sometimes just open and close an app the icons will go back to being small again. I have to go uncheck and recheck the density hack button or reset ADW. Does this happen to you?
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I do not use the density hack. I usually just use the small icons so I can't say to that.
BTW, Launcher Pro plus runs much smoother on the kindle than ADW EX. ADW EX is superior on my phone but Launcher Pro likes the hardware on the kindle. Just throwing it out there for anyone looking for a resolution to the "disturbing lag" lol. ;-)
V6 supercharger script made a large performance increase in CM7 as well. My kindle runs as smooth as any modded up android tablet now.
Link below is to V6 supercharger for anyone else looking to use it that hasn't already heard of it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=991276
cenkoloji said:
Hi,
I have a kindle fire powered with cm7. I really love it but I have some issues. I've searched for all but could not find a related post. Sorry if already explained.
1. I've heard people say its really smooth. I don't always get this feeling. In desktop transitions there is sometimes disturbing lag. Also in some apps it is much less smooth compared to my htc incredible s. I wiped cache dalvik and system as suggested. is there anyone that have it perfectly smooth? Or any suggestions to fix it?
2. Volume is sometimes not enough even with a good pair of headphones. is there a way to increase the maximum volume.
3. Icons and text are too small. I can change ro.sf.lcd_density in build.prop, but then status bar icons get huge. is there another way to change only icon size?
thanks for the help!
Sent from my Kindle Fire using xda premium
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#2 - Volume level can be increased natively within CM7. Under apps, go to "DSPManager" -> Select the device (ie speaker) -> Enable the Equalizer and turn up all green bars to max which effectively creates a custom EQ profile.
this is just a shot in the dark but, dalingrin wrote an app for the Nook color called nook color tweaks, and one of the things it does is let it adjust the gain and stuff which allows your speaker to get louder. i know its for the nook color, but i think its worth a shot. its free in the market
V6
CTTKDKing said:
V6 supercharger script made a large performance increase in CM7 as well. My kindle runs as smooth as any modded up android tablet now.
Link below is to V6 supercharger for anyone else looking to use it that hasn't already heard of it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=991276
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Which setting did you use in the script?
I just ran the v6 script setting at number 6 and it seemed to smooth things out a little bit. I would also like to know which option would be best and which one did you guys choose.
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Laucher what do you use? How they work and what settings you prefer?
My:
- Launcher Pro Plus (works great. Smooth motion with no lag. Complete freedom of configuration. Laucher Others not tested.
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Laucher what do you use? How they work and what settings you prefer?
My:
- Launcher Pro Plus (works great. Smooth motion with no lag. Complete freedom of configuration. Laucher Others not tested.
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same here...
GO Launcher EX.. Works great, no lagging no problems
I have just started playing around with GO Launcher and loving it, playing around with the fling speed and transition has given it a whole lot more finished feel
I am using the Go Launcher too but i think that after the new minor update it lags on boot. No other lags after that.
I prefer GO Launcher
Zeam for me.
It has all the features I want (custom dock, home screen gestures) and is so incredibly fast.
I was using GO Launcher Ex and loved it but the new Stockwells B160 Rom includes Launcher Pro so I am giving it a run. Frankly I think I prefer GO. there's not really a lot of difference so far as both are very customizable. I think I'll probably go back to GO as I miss the extra option of swipe upwards. I used this as the camera shortcut - if I haven't got glasses on it's not always easy to find the camera shortcut icon when I need it in a hurry. It worked great. It's a shame to waste memory space on a launcher sitting in the rom unused.
GolfCranK said:
I was using GO Launcher Ex and loved it but the new Stockwells B160 Rom includes Launcher Pro so I am giving it a run. Frankly I think I prefer GO. there's not really a lot of difference so far as both are very customizable. I think I'll probably go back to GO as I miss the extra option of swipe upwards. I used this as the camera shortcut - if I haven't got glasses on it's not always easy to find the camera shortcut icon when I need it in a hurry. It worked great. It's a shame to waste memory space on a launcher sitting in the rom unused.
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You can easily change the Launcher included in the ROM by booting your phone into recovery mode (holding volume + and - keys and power-button) then connect it to a pc and find the launcherpro.apk in /system/app and replace it with the launcher you want to use. I found it more responsive by doing this way then installing a new Launcher-app on the custom one included in the ROM.
This way you can modify the ROM's to use apps that you wan't to use, example other browsers, email- and contact - apps...
sentiment said:
You can easily change the Launcher included in the ROM by booting your phone into recovery mode (holding volume + and - keys and power-button) then connect it to a pc and find the launcherpro.apk in /system/app and replace it with the launcher you want to use. I found it more responsive by doing this way then installing a new Launcher-app on the custom one included in the ROM.
This way you can modify the ROM's to use apps that you wan't to use, example other browsers, email- and contact - apps...
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Thanks. I had read that in a post here but it didn't sink in.
So is there a particular reason for embedding these apk's in the ROM?
Launcher Pro and ADW2Beta
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I am using Go Launcher too. But whenever I press the Home button, it will go back to the default launcher.
Wipe your default
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I'm loving Zeam
Ideos X5 / Huawei U8800
GolfCranK said:
Thanks. I had read that in a post here but it didn't sink in.
So is there a particular reason for embedding these apk's in the ROM?
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I've experienced a more responsive launcher doing this way
I also got a laggy launcher pro when i updated 0.8.5 -> 0.8.6 through market. When i replaced it in /system/app it worked great again.
It's also good to know if you wan't to remove stock apps you never use..
I found this fix on a another forum here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=856385
This problem was driving me nuts so I tried it on my Epic and it's worked great so far. Give it a try if you're having similar issues with Launcherpro or other memory intensive launcher like ADW. You'll be glad you did!
Thanks for the tip!
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Didn't seem to do anything for me. Though this issue was really apparent in ef02. Back on ec05, not so much. Anywho TE didn't give me any confirmation. So I don't even know if it worked.
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RushAOZ said:
Didn't seem to do anything for me. Though this issue was really apparent in ef02. Back on ec05, not so much. Anywho TE didn't give me any confirmation. So I don't even know if it worked.
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When TE doesn't give you an error message after hitting enter, its usually a good thing I actually did not have the issues w/ redrawing of the homes screen on EF02, but the EXPERIMENTAL 3D App Drawer does give me an issues on GB, were it doesn't scroll properly, it kinda jumps from the top of the drawer to the bottom, not allowing one to select any apps in b/w. I was hoping for this to fix that issue, but it did not....thanks anyways!
There are some additional tips on this forum like setting memory usage and home screen caches to light. Also, disabling auto rotation helps a lot.
http://www.launcherpro.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2652&hilit=Redraw
I attached a picture of my settings. I also have 3D drawer enabled, droid hack disabled, auto rotate off, memory usage preset and home screen cache type to light. I have five 6 column, 7 row homescreens loaded with widgets and shortcuts, and static wallpaper. I have easily 150+ apps on my phone. It used to redraw 50-70% of the time when exiting an app, now it's smooth as butter. It's totally changed my phone experience for the better.
I am on an EC05 rom.
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sinman02 said:
There are some additional tips on this forum like setting memory usage and home screen caches to light. Also, disabling auto rotation helps a lot.
http://www.launcherpro.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2652&hilit=Redraw
I attached a picture of my settings. I also have 3D drawer enabled, droid hack disabled, auto rotate off, memory usage preset and home screen cache type to light. I have five 6 column, 7 row homescreens loaded with widgets and shortcuts, and static wallpaper. I have easily 150+ apps on my phone. It used to redraw 50-70% of the time when exiting an app, now it's smooth as butter. It's totally changed my phone experience for the better.
I am on an EC05 rom.
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On EC05 I actually didn't have any issues at all, but its on EF02 that Im having the 3D issues. I duplicated your settings but it seems to be an issue w/ GB cuz its still no good...thanks anyways, again lol
I'm confused about the memory usage settings and which settings are best. Wouldn't higher memory usage yield better results?
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This seemed to work for GoLauncher as well, it is nice not to have to wait 5 seconds for the launcher to reload every time I browse the web with multiple tabs or play a game for a while.
I'm not sure if it is my imagination but I think my battery life has gotten worse.. I will give it some more time to make sure.
I had this problem and my phone constantly vibrating like something was Force Closing, on stock Launcher. Before I rooted I went to Samsung recovery, and cleared all caches 5 times. And everything was fine, even when I redownloaded LauncherPro using LauncherPro widgets like friend feeds, and calander. Youtube widget and sence analog clock.
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tbob18 said:
This seemed to work for GoLauncher as well, it is nice not to have to wait 5 seconds for the launcher to reload every time I browse the web with multiple tabs or play a game for a while.
I'm not sure if it is my imagination but I think my battery life has gotten worse.. I will give it some more time to make sure.
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Even Go sometimes has this issue. The problem is the memory management is killing the background cache. The only real fix I found was to not have as many constant apps running in the background.
thanks for the fixes.
People still use Launcher Pro?
Go Launcher EX surpasses it in every way and its free,Zeam launcher isnt bad eather but not as rich on featureas and themes.
lviv73 said:
People still use Launcher Pro?
Go Launcher EX surpasses it in every way and its free,Zeam launcher isnt bad eather but not as rich on featureas and themes.
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Agreed, the primary reason I use it is for the app drawer folders, makes it much easier to organize/find apps.
The only problem with Go Launcher (other than the previous reloading issue) is with the car dock, it restarts every time it is plugged/unplugged from the dock.
Agree with using Go Launcher EX as well. I jumped from LauncherPro too and never looked back. The devs of Go Launcher EX are constantly updating it and squeezing out the bugs.
sinman02 said:
There are some additional tips on this forum like setting memory usage and home screen caches to light. Also, disabling auto rotation helps a lot.
http://www.launcherpro.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2652&hilit=Redraw
I attached a picture of my settings. I also have 3D drawer enabled, droid hack disabled, auto rotate off, memory usage preset and home screen cache type to light. I have five 6 column, 7 row homescreens loaded with widgets and shortcuts, and static wallpaper. I have easily 150+ apps on my phone. It used to redraw 50-70% of the time when exiting an app, now it's smooth as butter. It's totally changed my phone experience for the better.
I am on an EC05 rom.
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I never tried those memory settings. I am definitely trying those settings and seeing if it makes it any faster
Hello,
I don't know if anybody know about this fix or not, but I've just found a way to fix the lag when the home screen auto-orient from landscape to portrait and vice versa: click on the + button that you use to add widgets and apps to the home screen, select any tab other than the add widget tab, go back to your home screen and that's it no more lag! I believe the left and right screen transitions are smoother as well.
I do not know if this problem/fix is specific to our tab or honeycomb as a whole, but I'm glad I found a workaround since it was really bothering me. I hope this can be useful to somebody.
Wow - that really works well; thanks!
Hmm, still a bit laggy. 3-5 seconds to re-orient due to rotation. Seems too long, IMO.
...Ok, maybe a small reduction.
Hmmm 3 to 5 secs was what I had before the fix, it's now only about 1 sec.
Do you have many widgets and use a live wallpaper perhaps?
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No live wallpaper, just minimalistic text and weather widget.
I don't know why but this works perfect! I went from a whole 6 seconds for the orientation to change to near instant changes. I noticed once you choose a different tab, I have apps shortcuts chosen, if you go back into the + menu that tab is still selected. This is a strange bug but awesome. Thank you
i really didn't spend much time on the stock launcher, but launcher pro switches quickly.
madsquabbles said:
i really didn't spend much time on the stock launcher, but launcher pro switches quickly.
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I concur. The best way to get rid of the lag is to use a different launcher. Personally, I prefer ADW Launcher EX because it is "optimized" for Honeycomb, but LauncherPro is a great alternative.
I've never had more than a 1 second orientation lag. What am I doing differently?
ralexand said:
I concur. The best way to get rid of the lag is to use a different launcher. Personally, I prefer ADW Launcher EX because it is "optimized" for Honeycomb, but LauncherPro is a great alternative.
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Are they smoother? I think my biggest Honeycomb pet peeve is the choppiness when swiping to different home screens. It makes the tablet feel slow to me. I have LauncherPro on my Nexus S but Im not sure if I'd use a phone launcher on a tablet...
Strangely its working !!!!!!!!!!!!
Huh, it does work. But doesn't survive a reboot. Have to redo after reboot.
Amazing indeed! Great find! Will test on my friends thrive tomorrow too. I think that HC, for some odd reason, is caching the widget drawer on the background and it might be straining the orientation of the device. They need to have HC keep the alo or other drawer on default instead to keep his from happening every time you restart.
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thanks dude work like a charm
Anybody know if there is any way we can submit a bug report to Samsung/Google?
TabGuy said:
I've never had more than a 1 second orientation lag. What am I doing differently?
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Same here and I'm using live wallpaper. Maybe it's the ROM I have loaded?
You have to check out the new adw ex which is optimized for tablets. It is simply awesome especially the main dock
Screenshots below ...
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works great.
Can the bar being themed easily ?
DannyBiker said:
Can the bar being themed easily ?
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Yes it can.
Cool ...i run into my market !
Liking it...mostly.
Adds a new dimension to wallpaper wonkiness, unfortunately.
My wallpaper (via wizardrii) is not properly centered in landscape mode. Have not fiddled with it yet.
Anyone have any tips?
I will definitely be purchasing this for my girlfriend's 10.1.. thanks for the tip, it looks great!
Am loving it just make sure if your rubbish bin bar is located at the bottom you enable auto scaling of desktop when bin bar is used, otherwise you won't be able to add icons to the docking bar !
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Mine works well for an hour or so, then takes an age for an app to return to the launcher. Only way to fix is to reboot the tab. Anyone else seen this?
Is there a light or trial version that I can try for free? I can't find one in the market.
TabGuy said:
Is there a light or trial version that I can try for free? I can't find one in the market.
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Buy it from android market and you will have 15 mts to refund. I know not much you can do in 15 mts, but something better than nothing.
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Pottsy said:
Mine works well for an hour or so, then takes an age for an app to return to the launcher. Only way to fix is to reboot the tab. Anyone else seen this?
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Got the same problem, when i exits some app the screen goes black and nothing happens for a long time and then the desktop appears.
/qsec
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Wallpapers aren't rendered properly, and my dock bar just disappeared on mine. Still has a ways to go on tablets.
Dock bar going away is a common "problem" with ADW. Turn off hidden dockbar in the settings, turn off gestures.
I went ahead and set mine up without a dockbar, and with just the ADW settings menu item in the top right. Removed the trash bin as well (long-press then Remove from the desktop works just fine).
"Endless" page scrolling, page-turn animation of Tilt, 350 turn speed, 15 desktop bounce, and a theme that has a transparent top menu bar. Desktop has 9x7 columns/rows, icons scaled to 95%, density hack off. App drawer is 6x6, in 4D vertical scroll.
Basically, it looks pretty much like Honeycomb at a glance, but without the one-inch "tap space" wasted on the left and right screen edges. It's much faster and smoother. About the only performance issue I've had is that it doesn't handle "card" widgets like YouTube, Market or News360 as smoothly as stock, when you go to "fling" a card away.
Maybe I'm just getting old and simple, but I don't really see the point of having the excessive customization of ADW on a Honeycomb tab. I have my homescreen setup with two widgets and about 12 regular icons, then the next screen over has some lesser used stuff. If I need any other apps I just open the app drawer and easily locate them. I mean, it's neat to make things whiz-bang and all, but from a usability perspective there's already so much overkill built in to Honeycomb that ADW doesn't seem worth the time.
On my phone, ADW is great, however. Now get off my lawn.
burhanistan said:
Maybe I'm just getting old and simple, but I don't really see the point of having the excessive customization of ADW on a Honeycomb tab. I have my homescreen setup with two widgets and about 12 regular icons, then the next screen over has some lesser used stuff. If I need any other apps I just open the app drawer and easily locate them. I mean, it's neat to make things whiz-bang and all, but from a usability perspective there's already so much overkill built in to Honeycomb that ADW doesn't seem worth the time.
On my phone, ADW is great, however. Now get off my lawn.
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You don't have to use the power of ADW, it's just there waiting to be harnessed if you want it.
In fact, you can use ADW to simplify it, for example you can delete unused home screens, unlike stock Honeycomb. Doing things like adding widgets or changing wallpapers is also cleaner and quicker than the flashy Honeycomb interface. It's simpler.
I'm a card carrying member of the Curmudgeon's Club of Canada, by the way.
burhanistan said:
Maybe I'm just getting old and simple, but I don't really see the point of having the excessive customization of ADW on a Honeycomb tab. I have my homescreen setup with two widgets and about 12 regular icons, then the next screen over has some lesser used stuff. If I need any other apps I just open the app drawer and easily locate them. I mean, it's neat to make things whiz-bang and all, but from a usability perspective there's already so much overkill built in to Honeycomb that ADW doesn't seem worth the time.
On my phone, ADW is great, however. Now get off my lawn.
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So... You are saying that you need adw
I like simple too, and adw help me doing that.
I mean, I do not need the 3d cubic scrolling effects, neither than the futuristic widget selection screen, or the quick search bar at the top.
I didn't choose to display the dock too in adw.
And it is so fast, close to the ipad smoothness.
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Dock bar going away is a common "problem" with ADW. Turn off hidden dockbar in the settings, turn off gestures.
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It is not a problem but a feature hehe. If you slide one the dock, it disappear. I you slide again it appears. I think you can disable somewhere that movement.
ADW still sucks on the Tab..not only are the card/live widgets like Youtube slow to flick like someone said, but the worst thing is that for certain widget, like the Digital Clock stock Tab one...it looks fine when using the Tab landscape at first, then every single time I rotate to portrait view, the widget re-draws for new orientation and both left and right sides of the widget are not cut off. This does not adjust/fix itself instantly like stock launcher does and the only way to really fix it is to re-add widget or sometimes turn screen off and on.
I like the smoothness of the launcher/drawer but I aint dealing with this **** where a widget gets screwed up every single time....too annoying to deal with. Why is this such a hard thing to get right?? Is there a fix for this or no? I am not resizing the widget to begin with btw...just adding it as normal size. The homescreen size I use is 8 columns and 7 rows btw, just like stock.
Oh and why in the app drawer, the the top still unmatching/not dimmed like the rest of the drawer below it? Looks so stupid. They should dim it too and still keep the buttons in the top right corner, ughh.
EDIT: Here, compare landscape to portrait when flipped. Not only does that Digital Clock widget get cut off, but also look at the Wireless Widget..it looks ridiculous now.
EDIT2: I unchecked the ADW option for resizing widgets to fit blah blah but the same thing still happens where the Clock widget, for example, gets cut off after going vertical.. although the Wifi Widget looks a little less ridiculous now when turning. Anyone know about the widget issue though??
TabGuy said:
Is there a light or trial version that I can try for free? I can't find one in the market.
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The 15 minute refund policy really sucks, especially for apps like ADW EX where you really need some time to get a feel for how you like it and check out all the customizations. To get around it you can always buy it, pull the apk from /data/apps (requires root), refund it, and re-install the program using the pulled apk file. This way you can take your time to play around with the app before deciding if you want to keep it. If you do go ahead and re-buy it from market. If you decide not to buy it do the honest thing and uninstall the program.
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Is it just me or does touchwiz have better screen responsiveness than go launcher/other launchers?
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Touchwizz is much snappier / more lagfree then GoLauncher. It's even faster underclocked to 800 MHz then stock 1,2 GHz with GoLauncher.
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Launcher pro seems just as good to me speed wise.
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Launcher pro seems just as good to me speed wise.
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I second this
Go launcher is laggy. Launcher Pro on the other hand is as fast as touchwiz
Go Launcher was laggy on my first installation but snappy on my second installation. I don't know what changed between the two but it was as quick as LP
I noticed this when I tried GO launcher, almost as if when you swipe between screens there is an ever so slight delay, which is not major, can get a little annoying.
TW is slick and super fast compared
THUDUK said:
I noticed this when I tried GO launcher, almost as if when you swipe between screens there is an ever so slight delay, which is not major, can get a little annoying.
TW is slick and super fast compared
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Yeah i noticed this with go launcher, turned out to be a clock widget with animated seconds hand was causing the glitch, took it off, put a different animated clock up, same result (sticky) took it off put fancy widgets on, smooth as silk
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MJ-12 said:
Yeah i noticed this with go launcher, turned out to be a clock widget with animated seconds hand was causing the glitch, took it off, put a different animated clock up, same result (sticky) took it off put beautiful widgets on, smooth as silk
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What battery icon is that and how did you put it on? I'm still on stock rom with chainfire's rooted kernel.
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Hello , i prefer Go Launcher and no lag for me ( using lite'ning) .
neo6776 said:
What battery icon is that and how did you put it on? I'm still on stock rom with chainfire's rooted kernel.
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The one on the desktop is minimalist text (for when i swipe the notification bar off).
The one on the notification bar I added using the kitchen app from the market which is for use with the Revolution Rom.
In the kitchen app you just chose a theme/feature, click ok, it downloads, installs and reboots, plus it has many other features in the app like BLN and EDT, kernel change, boot ani change, battery sound on/off, slide glow on/off etc. etc. etc. and kitchen is always being updated.
A great rom and the kitchen app sets it apart
That's my sales pitch over Leo
Enjoy...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1171523
Go launcher Ex 2.53 beta 3 now available here
http://golauncher.goforandroid.com/...edium=rss&utm_campaign=go-launcher-v2-53-beta
So why do you prefer the Go launcher over TW?
Things I found I didn't like with GO, the calendar widget on TW especially the month view one I prefer, also mini paper although it works with GO, when you click the plus to add another widget note, it opens TW to tries and add it to one of those screens instead of the Go screen, I use mini paper a lot, best postit note type widget that actually works from the home screens quickly.
THUDUK said:
So why do you prefer the Go launcher over TW?
Things I found I didn't like with GO, the calendar widget on TW especially the month view one I prefer, also mini paper although it works with GO, when you click the plus to add another widget note, it opens TW to tries and add it to one of those screens instead of the Go screen, I use mini paper a lot, best postit note type widget that actually works from the home screens quickly.
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I use the memo thing that came with TW the one with the cork background it is really nice.
One of the other nice things about Go ex is that the dock keys can be swiped to give second user defined function, eg open file manager, plus they can be drag and dropped replaced!
Also customisation, icons can be renamed and/or swapped with other icons from other download themes.
I have used both adw ex and LP plus for quite some time, but I really can't see me changing. Even the Go keyboard shocked me with how good it looks and how fast it is, and it has (at a swipe) a T9 keyboard or an arrows keyboard... (iphone theme keys
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MJ-12 said:
The one on the desktop is minimalist text (for when i swipe the notification bar off).
The one on the notification bar I added using the kitchen app from the market which is for use with the Revolution Rom.
In the kitchen app you just chose a theme/feature, click ok, it downloads, installs and reboots, plus it has many other features in the app like BLN and EDT, kernel change, boot ani change, battery sound on/off, slide glow on/off etc. etc. etc. and kitchen is always being updated.
A great rom and the kitchen app sets it apart
That's my sales pitch over Leo
Enjoy...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1171523
Go launcher Ex 2.53 beta 3 now available here
http://golauncher.goforandroid.com/...edium=rss&utm_campaign=go-launcher-v2-53-beta
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Your a star thanks
Just installed the ROM. Now just need to try to get Allshare working.....
Cm7 with adwex with some debloating and an occasional cache cleaning... this has kept my phone lag free since my n1 days
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TW4.0 is mostly HW accelerated, it runs smoother and consumes less cpu cycles compared to other launchers.
Hmm it seems Launcher Pro is just as responsive as touchwiz. Is there any way to change dock icons for touchwiz? Also is it possible to set the app drawer icon in the middle as opposed to on the right side?