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First let me say I'm not rooted. With that out of the way, are there any home launchers that are optimized for this tegra 2 phone? I've used ADW, Launcher pro, and Go Launcher and all 3 of them ran slightly slower than just using the stock launcher.
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Since dual core is so new there are no launchers or even many apps that make any use of the extra power
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Unfortunately that's what I was afraid of. Has anyone had any success with a home launcher running fast and smoothly on a non rooted atrix?
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GO Launcher EX ran fast on my non-rooted Atrix. There are a lot of settings for GO Launcher and I just set all the transitions to the fastest settings and it ran fine. I didn't notice any lag at all. I'm rooted now and I'm still using GO Launcher EX.
In fact I'm using all their add-ons for SMS, Dialer, Weather, Score, etc and they all run pretty fast on the Atrix.
omnius1 said:
Unfortunately that's what I was afraid of. Has anyone had any success with a home launcher running fast and smoothly on a non rooted atrix?
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When you installed the launcher, did you remove all the widgets you had on the stock launcher? If you didn't, they'll still be there running even when you use a new launcher. Remove everything then add the new launcher and set it up the way you like. Should be a lot smoother.
Also, have you tried Zeam? It's fairly minimal but quick.
Evil.Bonsai said:
When you installed the launcher, did you remove all the widgets you had on the stock launcher? If you didn't, they'll still be there running even when you use a new launcher. Remove everything then add the new launcher and set it up the way you like. Should be a lot smoother.
Also, have you tried Zeam? It's fairly minimal but quick.
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Or he could just freeze the stock launcher with titanium backup that works well.
Evil.Bonsai said:
When you installed the launcher, did you remove all the widgets you had on the stock launcher? If you didn't, they'll still be there running even when you use a new launcher. Remove everything then add the new launcher and set it up the way you like. Should be a lot smoother.
Also, have you tried Zeam? It's fairly minimal but quick.
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Yeah, I went through all the usual proper steps. Just for kicks I just reinstalled go launcher a few hours ago. Within 1 hour it started freezing my phone causing my screen to either stutter or just go totally unresponsive. Going to go back to adw and see if it happens with that
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I have had no problems with ADW Launcher EX.
DK
DeathKoil said:
I have had no problems with ADW Launcher EX.
DK
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Same here. It's the best option for Android phones.
Do you think the Fancy Widget clock widget might be a problem? I've read that it does some funky freezing to some people.
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omnius1 said:
Do you think the Fancy Widget clock widget might be a problem? I've read that it does some funky freezing to some people.
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It's a strong possibility.
Since my Galaxy S, I've stopped using all running widgets.
Actually come to think of it, all my current icons are shortcuts which is probably why Launcher Pro runs as smooth as butter for me...
Gutterball said:
Or he could just freeze the stock launcher with titanium backup that works well.
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+1
My LWP runs MUCH smoother after freezing all the recommended stuff I'm on GingerBlur 3.5 BTW
JUST ROOT!!
Running adw ex.. noo slow downs whatsoever
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+1 for zeam, I've been using it for months now and its very smooth. It is very minimal by comparison to most others though.... which is what I was looking for actually.
Im using go launcher and having no problems whatsoever... I also use fancy widget on my home screen.
Have also used both lpp and adw* both ran pretty good as well. I just prefer go launcher
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omnius1 said:
First let me say I'm not rooted. With that out of the way, are there any home launchers that are optimized for this tegra 2 phone? I've used ADW, Launcher pro, and Go Launcher and all 3 of them ran slightly slower than just using the stock launcher.
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Root, flash GladiAtrix 3, then use ADW Launcher or Launcher Pro. I use both. You will see a significant speed increase.
Hmmm I might bite the bullet and do that. What's the best root method for a bell canadian atrix?
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omnius1 said:
Hmmm I might bite the bullet and do that. What's the best root method for a bell canadian atrix?
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Get to the french 2.1.1 sbf section and get to there... Its seriously fun
on a side note go launcher ex just got updated and there are some new app drawer animations that I like.
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Ive used both Launcher Pro Plus and GO Launcher EX extensively, and GO Launcher EX has been the smoothest, fastest, best launcher.
I can vouch for the new update with the Icon Transition in the app drawer, its pretty slick. Good stuff here.. not sure how the GO team keeps this stuff free.
same as post above, golauncher is just as good if not better than lp plus, and its free. no brainer
Hi,
Touchwizz is great but it's laggy, did anyone try to use the stock apk launcher from the xoom or the asus transformer?
I found an apk but the installation doesn't work
Ps: i'm not root
Im curious about this too although i hate touchwiz... i would love to be able to get a stock build of ICS on the Galaxy Tab 7.7 and do away with touchwiz completely..
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Not sure abut stock launcher but ADW EX is as smooth as butter. Give it a try.
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clubtech said:
Not sure abut stock launcher but ADW EX is as smooth as butter. Give it a try.
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+1 on this one.
ADW EX is really fantastic!
The problem with TouchWiz is that it's much more than just a launcher; it affects the entire system from the way menus look, transition effects, the buttons at the bottom, etc.
If you really want a stock Android experience, we need someone to develop an AOSP ROM of some sort. Here's to hoping that the Cyanogemod team builds us a version of CM9!!!
I have tried, but it's like gingerbreab and i love the holo theme of honeycomb(and ics) (the transitions and animations)
AOSP Loancher
Yeah lets hope they include the stock loancher with ICS. We are half way there now that Google forced all OEMs to include the stock launcher code even if its not used. Might enable us to use the Cyanogen "Trebuchet" launcher.
For now I guess Ill try Go Launcher and ADW later. Was not very happy with ADW on my SGS2. Lots of bugs.
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I have tried, but it's like gingerbreab and i love the holo theme of honeycomb(and ics) (the transitions and animations)
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ADW Launcher EX supports Themes, and in the market there are themes for Holo HC theme you mentioned.
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I was a fan of adw ex but honestly this ics launcher is pretty sweet and very smooth so its the 1st time I'm sticking with stock launcher..
What have you decided on?
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sticking with stock launcher here! its way better than ADW or GL, by far
alex94kumar said:
sticking with stock launcher here! its way better than ADW or GL, by far
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+1
ADW is especially bad on Honeycomb. So far nobody has topped the stock launcher's UI.
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oldblue910 said:
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ADW is especially bad on Honeycomb. So far nobody has topped the stock launcher's UI.
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I agree....but I REALLY like having the color-coded icons...do you guys just have normal colored icons?
Any app thats good for JUST theming icons and in a small/non-laggy way?
Go launcher seems pretty swift. Loving the cylinder page scroll effect!
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I'm all about the ICS stock launcher.
Nova Launcher
Nova Launcher
Still in beta - but very nice additional options...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1389071
not broke...
I'm using stock. If it not broke...don't try and fix it I figure!
On honeycomb I always used adw because the stock was crap IMO. Ics has improved the stock launcher so much I stay on stock
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On honeycomb I always used adw because the stock was crap IMO. Ics has improved the stock launcher so much I stay on stock
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This is exactly how I feel. I liked some of the additional options like different swiping styles etc, but they weren't that important.
This stock one is awesome with folder, the new of moving widgets around and how smooth it is that I just kept it.
You know they did a good job when the stock launcher is just as good as the rest
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I am using ADW for 3 reasons:
- customizable rows-columns grid (I need it because I use Desktop Visualizer)
- dock
- shortcut in the top-left corner of the screen which I use for Screen off and Lock (very useful because it's not always convenient to use the power botton which is on the back of the tablet)
I have been on Team EOS nightlies until 2 days ago and it was very smooth, but it had some FC.
Now I am trying Team Rogue's CM9 and it seems even more fluid and no FC until now.
However I also tested Go Launcher (terrible), Trebuchet (see above + not enough fluid), Nova (the best one, but not optimized for tablets, I'll test it again later).
So ADW now, but I'm looking forward to Nova's updates
Im OK with eos far.
I wanna look into NOVA too. Apparently it modifies the stock launcher or something?
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I was a fan of adw ex but honestly this ics launcher is pretty sweet and very smooth so its the 1st time I'm sticking with stock launcher..
What have you decided on?
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Stock for me. I personally don't see a reason not to. But to others - I respect that YMMV.
Hi all.
For me and my Xoom ist the ADW Launchner the best Launcher. Because the ADW is smoother as the Stock Launcher on the Xoom.
Greetz
Im not sure if had the people are posting in regards to ICS. Lol
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razorseal said:
Im not sure if had the people are posting in regards to ICS. Lol
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I am. And since the thread title includes ICS, I would assume others are too.
Tried Launcher Pro but its laggy with ICS. Nova works great for me.
Stock ICS launcher for me. ICS launcher = everything wrong with the stock Honeycomb launcher FIXED plus some added goodies thrown in for good measure. I tried ADW on NC but never had the patience to set it up exactly the way I wanted it.
Stock here, but I'm probably going to attempt to put Trebuchet on my ICS Xoom soon.
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ADW has worked smoothly for me on TeamEOS ICS roms - sticking with it for now.
Title says it all. I am currently using Apex, but have wondered about Nova, Trebuchet etc...
Is there much of a difference between them? Also, if you select 'always' when asked which launcher to use (if you have more than one loaded) is there anyway to reverse that to use a different one?
BTW, I am using TWA_privs latest (0223) ROM and its unbelievably good...
Thanks....
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I use the stock CM10.1 launcher. Trebuchet, I like the layout and settings for it. And t change launchers, go to setting an find the launcher you currently use user apps. And click clear defualts
For CM7 I prefer ADW EX and for 4.x.x+, I prefer Trebuchet I try to avoid launchers that will show up in the running category under Settings- Apps like Go Launcher and the newest ADW. The less running processes the better IS MY OPINION because the Kindle's limited memory.
I have grown to love Trebuchet because it usually is included as the stock launcher for JB ROMs. The reason I like ADW EX for CM7 is because ADW was included on the CM7 ROMs and one day I wanted to try the EX version of it and it was quite nice with the density hack to make the icons appear bigger.
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Title says it all. I am currently using Apex, but have wondered about Nova, Trebuchet etc...
Is there much of a difference between them? Also, if you select 'always' when asked which launcher to use (if you have more than one loaded) is there anyway to reverse that to use a different one?
BTW, I am using TWA_privs latest (0223) ROM and its unbelievably good...
Thanks....
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I use Apex for it's ease in customization.
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I also use apex. I feel it is the smoothest and most fluid.
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holo launcher hd
I use holo launcher hd. It looks and acts a lot like apex and trebuchet, but has HD in the name (so its gotta be good!).
Try chameleon launcher..u would not come back to apex or trebuchet pr anything..and spb shell 3d is also a great launcher..very smooth..keep in mind that chameleon launcher is landscape only..
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Chameleon Launcher is a good concept, but it never quite caught on. At first they released it for $12 in the play store. I got it and it need a lot of work it was still betas. I got a refund and haven't tried it since. I was reading reviews and it still is not up to par, with little actual customization and limited widgets. Makes it almost seem like ios
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I use Go launcher ex because it's only laucher can run on my kindle.
I use rom Modaco 6.3.1.
Nova Prime :good:
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Nova Prime :good:
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Me too :thumbup:
Go Launcher on stock and Trebuchet on JB
I like Holo launcher because it is smooth like butter.
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TrojanDad said:
I like Holo launcher because it is smooth like butter.
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I use action launcher pro on my phone and on my kindle running JB. I've bought the full versions of nova and Launcher, but keep going back to action launcher. The shutters feature is awesome
I use Apex because t is super light and buttery on CM9
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I'm about to receive my s4 just wanted to know which launcher you guys recommend. I tried touchwiz before and never really liked it so I'm using golauncher.Just wondering if anyone recommends anything better for the s4.
I like Nova and Apex about equally of the free alternatives on the market and better than I do the GO launcher but some of this is going to be subjective. There is what you like personally and also based upon how you go about doing things on your phone some launchers will be a little better suited to you. That said the latest versions of TW are quite a bit better than the older versions and you will be giving up some of the tw widgets by switching up. Most of them are junk but some are not.
Myself I tend to go back and forth between Apex and TW because I like to change it up to keep things fresh. Apex BTW is the only other launcher I have tried with it so far but I'm likely to take a gander at others as boredom strikes.
You don't like Touchwiz
Nova launcher...
Using Apex launcher. It is amazing :-O
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You guys have to try Action Launcher.
Not free but there is nothing better for Android. Use it for a few days and you just can't go back to traditional launchers.
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You don't like Touchwiz
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I see what you did there
I love Nova, but I haven't tried Action. I'll have to check it out.
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Go Launcher can also be an alternative, i guess Nova and Apex doesn't have lock screen customization feature.