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An interesting development on the laggy app drawer issue

I know I'm not the only one with the problem of the laggy app drawer. When you first open it, it's perfectly smooth. Then, if you leave it alone for a second and use it again, it's extremely slow. It happens on any Acer-based rom, including unrooted stock.
Well, here's an interesting fact: This only happens with a static wallpaper. The issue goes away with a live wallpaper.
Why is this happening? Is it a problem with the launcher or the rom?
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Electrodeath0 said:
I know I'm not the only one with the problem of the laggy app drawer. When you first open it, it's perfectly smooth. Then, if you leave it alone for a second and use it again, it's extremely slow. It happens on any Acer-based rom, including unrooted stock.
Well, here's an interesting fact: This only happens with a static wallpaper. The issue goes away with a live wallpaper.
Why is this happening? Is it a problem with the launcher or the rom?
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Wow, that is interesting.
I have noticed that some people experience this issue, and some of them don't. My app drawer does get slow and laggy, but its more just a bit choppy than anything else. It doesn't really bother me so I never worried about it too much.

To be honest, I hadn't noticed that either. However, based on your description, it sounds like the live wallpaper prevents the cpu governor from underclocking (by virtue of the fact that it's more cpu-intensive, thus requiring the cpu to operate at a higher clock), thus preventing initial lag. Just hazarding a guess, though.

finally a thread about this. Here's what I know. I don't think its the CPU scaling because I've tried to fix this. It still happens even when I force it to 1.4 ghz+ the only rom without this problem is virtuous xoom. And it doenst seem to be the launcher. I've tried swapping them around

stock rooted 3.2 and cant make it happan, using reg walpapper. Did not see on previous versions.

I have seen this on other 3.2 tablets... I assume its a gpu thing or just a bug in 3.2
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Sounds like the problem is on Acer's end. Email time!
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looks like it is hc 3.2 issue - i wasn't experiencing this on hc 3.1 roms
i was trying as well find out the reason...
only thing what i found out - when the lag is there - killing any of running apss will kill the lag for some seconds as well and the app drawer become smooth again.
tested with quick system info pro.

Its the otherway round for me.......the app drawer lags a lot when i use live wallpaper and lags a little less when i use a static wallpaper....i think it depends on the kind of (live or static) wallpaper used on the device.....
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It just always lags for me, but as I said earlier, it isn't enough to piss me off or anything. It's only a slight lag.

Everytime I see lag I just tell myself ics will be open source and one of our fine devs will make this awesome
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Curious
I dont have a app drawer that lags but out of curiosity would someone with a laggy app drawer plug in a mouse to their unit and scroll the app drawer using that mouse. See if it makes a difference.

app draw lag
Could you explain app draw lag for me please?

The stuttery Beast

Is it because of the JB update my S3 stutters just by pressing settings or just by pressing settingsmenu button. Everything just stutters a little bit. Opening the appdrawer, the phone stutters or is to slow for the animation.
I tried 0,5x animation, didnt get better.
What should i do?
Is the beast supposed to act like this?

endrit9 said:
Is it because of the JB update my S3 stutters just by pressing settings or just by pressing settingsmenu button. Everything just stutters a little bit. Opening the appdrawer, the phone stutters or is to slow for the animation.
I tried 0,5x animation, didnt get better.
What should i do?
Is the beast supposed to act like this?
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Remove all Samsung apps and services you don't need. Then install JKay Deluxe and whitelist the apps you use the most.
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I already deactivated sammys bs. Does that mod work with XXDLID 4.1.1?
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endrit9 said:
I already deactivated sammys bs. Does that mod work with XXDLID 4.1.1?
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Didn't know there was a xxdlid.
If you do a call to *#1234#
What does the AP say?
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Use liquidsmooth rom. Im using it cause i had the same problem as you described. Im using it and its damn smooth.
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Didn't know there was a xxdlid.
If you do a call to *#1234#
What does the AP say?
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Ap:XDLJ2..
CP:i9300xxdlid
Csc: I9300NEEDLI2
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Idk maybe just my device. Launcher Pro & Go lags like hell. Nova not as much. But still my S2 lags nothing.

endrit9 said:
Idk maybe just my device. Launcher Pro & Go lags like hell. Nova not as much. But still my S2 lags nothing.
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It is most likely your device. My phone doesn't lag or stutter at all. It's smooth and fast. Even with Energy Saver Mode turned on it is still OK.
I use Touchwiz and all Samsung Apps are still installed.

Doesnt it lag when pressing menu on touchwiz? Any advice on what i should do?
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endrit9 said:
Doesnt it lag when pressing menu on touchwiz? Any advice on what i should do?
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As I said, NO LAG!
Unfortunately I have no concrete advice regarding menu key. One thing I found usefull though, is to clean autostart from unneeded apps.

In OP shoes i would full wipe and install stock firmware .
jjue

You can try the leaked rom 4.1.2. It works very well with siyah 1.8 kernel or any stock 4.1.1 roms.
Just remember to full wipe before and after flashing any roms. (Just a safety procedure.)

I was just soooo pissed off today.....i went to my providers centwr and saw they started selling SIII mini, i swear-it was faster than my S3 which is running on 4.1.2 leak (wanamlite 5) and 1.8 siyah with some minor tweaks from stweaks, seriously, im kind of dissapointed, some mid end device is faster than flagship-this isnt normal
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gaspernemec said:
seriously, im kind of dissapointed, some mid end device is faster than flagship-this isnt normal
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Youre right, it isnt normal so id suggest you look closer to home at your phone rather than think all s3 minis are faster than all s3s. They arent

skimminstones said:
Youre right, it isnt normal so id suggest you look closer to home at your phone rather than think all s3 minis are faster than all s3s. They arent
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Yeah i already did...data wipe at place itself, doesnt seem any faster....when i have time i will flash it to pure deodexed stock w/o mods...everything stock and than see what happens
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anyone else

I had some of those problems - some menus not as fast or smooth as the s3 mini in a store, the application manager crashing and stuff
- jb 4.1.1 stock unrooted - factory wipe after update from ics
So I went through and deleted all apps that I don't use, particularly apps with back ground processes like widgets (animated weather widget apps for example) and then after clearing ram as well, the application manager would work, so I went through and disabled Samsung stuff that looks unimportant
Now it all just blazes, so fast.

gaspernemec said:
Yeah i already did...data wipe at place itself, doesnt seem any faster....when i have time i will flash it to pure deodexed stock w/o mods...everything stock and than see what happens
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FYI odexed rom's a bit faster

S3 buttery

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=dfaRosAWsdc&desktop_uri=/watch?v=dfaRosAWsdc&gl=SE
look at the video. is our S3 supposed to be that fast. it doesnt lag in settings or anything. mines slow compared to this. my lags in settings an appdrawer etc.
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Here is the video of my S3 and S2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_9JDPrRFvI&feature=youtu.be
Now that's how S3 should fly. Both got 1gb ram so don't say anything bout ram, i even disabled almost all Samsung bloat

if i flash 4.0.4 stock on odin will i have the triangle?
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That's the lte version ... 2GB ram
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yeah but my S2 doesnt lag ****. 1 gb ram is enough for not lagging in settings and doing easy tasks lol?
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I just checked my phone against that video, its as smooth as that, and as quick at opening settings and the like (on a fresh reboot so nothing was pre-loaded in memory).
I'm not sure what people are doing to get all this "lag"
Mines a i9300 device running 4.1 JB

-df- said:
I just checked my phone against that video, its as smooth as that, and as quick at opening settings and the like (on a fresh reboot so nothing was pre-loaded in memory).
I'm not sure what people are doing to get all this "lag"
Thats a i9300 device running 4.1 JB
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What firmware? im on I9300XXDLID

Mine is quicker even after 4 days with no reboot, and i don't use taskkillers.

endrit9 said:
What firmware? im on I9300XXDLID
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Same firmware as yours...post a video of your lag, I'd be interested in seeing it.
punktnet said:
Mine is quicker even after 4 days with no reboot, and i don't use taskkillers.
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Same, I don't use task killers since I moved on from 2.2/2.3

punktnet said:
Mine is quicker even after 4 days with no reboot, and i don't use taskkillers.
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Okay i'll make a youtube video in 10 min.

I'm on BTU XXDLJ4. It's as smooth as what's shown in the video. No lags. Even with live wallpapers, my phone doesn't lag!

Got to say I never felt my phone being a slouch. But since I jumped from stock ics to the latest Samsung leak, my phone flies. Didn't really debloat anything even, lots of apps and very residual lag if any. Pretty happy with it. Just replaced kernel for dual boot purposes to try out whatever's out there.
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Yes it is super buttery. Moreover i changed to liquid smooth rom and i am on stock kernel. Its been 10+days and till now i never saw any lag and even during launching apps.
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Ok guys video is up in 10 minutes. Finished recording and all. On the video it shows my S3 stutters. And how s2 is a beast...

IntenseTorture said:
Yes it is super buttery. Moreover i changed to liquid smooth rom and i am on stock kernel. Its been 10+days and till now i never saw any lag and even during launching apps.
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Why do people claim this? Are you claiming to have solved something all the hard working cm devs are continually confirming IS a problem?
Wish people would stop posting this rubbish. There is absolutely no denying that all of these ROMs experience a little lag once in a while.
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Its up now!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_9JDPrRFvI&feature=youtu.be

endrit9 said:
Its up now!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_9JDPrRFvI&feature=youtu.be
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Go to Developer Options in Settings and set the "Window Animation Scale", "Transition Animation Scale", and the "Animator Duration Scale" to 0.5x and report back!

DeadSOL said:
Go to Developer Options in Settings and set the "Window Animation Scale", "Transition Animation Scale", and the "Animator Duration Scale" to 0.5x and report back!
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Tried that. Still same bs..

endrit9 said:
Its up now!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_9JDPrRFvI&feature=youtu.be
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First of all, you should have turned on a light in the room before recording!
Secondly, I do not see the big difference, sorry.
You did not do anything substabtial, you were just navigating in the Installed Apps menu in Settings... That's hardly a point of reference.
Good idea but, if you don't mind me saying, poorly executed and it does not prove anything. No offense.

iridaki said:
First of all, you should have turned on a light in the room before recording!
Secondly, I do not see the big difference, sorry.
You did not do anything substabtial, you were just navigating in the Installed Apps menu in Settings... That's hardly a point of reference.
Good idea but, if you don't mind me saying, poorly executed and it does not prove anything. No offense.
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Look the lag when pressing any setting. Example apps. my S2 does not. its more of a beast than the S3 i guess? Look at the first video of the titanium and when he presses settings what happens and then mine. Youll se the difference

endrit9 said:
Look the lag when pressing any setting. Example apps. my S2 does not. its more of a beast than the S3 i guess? Look at the first video of the titanium and when he presses settings what happens and then mine. Youll se the difference
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I was not talking about the first video nor was I commenting about whether the SGS2 is faster than the S3 or not.
I was merely pointing out that your video does not prove anything.

Nexus seems slow

My phone seems overall kind of laggy. I'm on stock 4.2.1 with stock kernel. Just started noticing the lag today. Minimal but annoying and seems to exist on almost all the kernels I have tried.
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IRX120 said:
My phone seems overall kind of laggy. I'm on stock 4.2.1 with stock kernel. Just started noticing the lag today. Minimal but annoying and seems to exist on almost all the kernels I have tried.
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It's cheap and dirty, but I always set animations to half speed (.5x) and use Nova launcher with the animations cranked to fast. That makes me feel all warm inside.

My advice would be to root and flash a custom ROM such as Parandroid.

IRX120 said:
My phone seems overall kind of laggy. I'm on stock 4.2.1 with stock kernel. Just started noticing the lag today. Minimal but annoying and seems to exist on almost all the kernels I have tried.
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How exactly are you defining 'lag' though? I'm on a rooted stock ROM and stock kernel with no issues whatsoever, speed is much faster than any phone I've used before.

I have tonnes of apps installed on the stock ROM. Runs okay at the moment, beautifully smooth

there is definitely lag on the touch gestures. i see it and it's been commented-on in reviews.
eg. when you gesture to scroll or pinch expand there is a momentary delay (fraction of a second) before anything happens. just long enough to be annoying. it's not instant.

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there is definitely lag on the touch gestures. i see it and it's been commented-on in reviews.
eg. when you gesture to scroll or pinch expand there is a momentary delay (fraction of a second) before anything happens. just long enough to be annoying. it's not instant.
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That's because of the poor touch screen sensitivity of the phone.

theabsurdman said:
there is definitely lag on the touch gestures. i see it and it's been commented-on in reviews.
eg. when you gesture to scroll or pinch expand there is a momentary delay (fraction of a second) before anything happens. just long enough to be annoying. it's not instant.
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That's not lag, that's just the lack of sensitivity in the touch screen. It's hardware related but if you look at this video from oode (definitely subscribe to him for quality tech videos) it appears that this issue isn't there in Firefox for some reason. As of now I don't know of any solution as such.

Nigeldg said:
How exactly are you defining 'lag' though? I'm on a rooted stock ROM and stock kernel with no issues whatsoever, speed is much faster than any phone I've used before.
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Just the occasional freeze for a second on opening the keyboard or apps, seems slower than last week when I got it.
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OK, I installed the touch increase mod and the lag is better
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The widgets drawer is a poorly implmented feature.

Ever since it was introduced no phone has been able to quickly swipe through it without lag. I thought that the galaxy S3 had lag in the drawer because of lack of ram but its shocking to see that even the nexus 4 widget drawer has lag if you swipe very fast.
Whats most puzzling is that the widget drawer is only showing static widgets so I dont understand why it is so demanding. Seems like its not handled properly in the framework or something.

Top it that with live wallpaper

It's totally fine on mine and a lot of others phones. The reason the S3 lags is cause of the touchwiz skin weighing it down. Touchwiz sucks. That's why nexus-es with stock roms FTW!
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JamesInsights said:
It's totally fine on mine and a lot of others phones. The reason the S3 lags is cause of the touchwiz skin weighing it down. Touchwiz sucks. That's why nexus-es with stock roms FTW!
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Try to swipe through the widgets as fast as you can and you will see lag for sure....

i'm using nova launcher with vertical drawer. scrolls fast with no lag or stuttering for me.
just switched it to horizontal and it's fine also. mind you, it stops at each page so i'm not sure if that might be what you're mistaking for lag.

JamesInsights said:
It's totally fine on mine and a lot of others phones. The reason the S3 lags is cause of the touchwiz skin weighing it down. Touchwiz sucks. That's why nexus-es with stock roms FTW!
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Nexii?

Running like a champ here. No lag, but I'm running the xperia z launcher so the widgets are set up differently in the widget drawer
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I don't get why people purposely try to lag down their phone by doing something they would never do in daily use (opening and closing as many apps as possible as fast as they can, swiping around as fast as humanly possible, etc) and then complain about lag? Just use the phone then see if it lags

username8611 said:
I don't get why people purposely try to lag down their phone by doing something they would never do in daily use (opening and closing as many apps as possible as fast as they can, swiping around as fast as humanly possible, etc) and then complain about lag? Just use the phone then see if it lags
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Nah, that's too logical for the internet
@OP, I see what you mean and I experience the same thing but only if I actually try to make it lag. It's probably due to some sort of lack of optimisation, but tbh I just sorted out my homescreen once and don't really go back and reorganise it so I don't see any issues. I know that you're not complaining but just asking about it, so I thought I'd confirm that I have the same experience.

SeraldoBabalu said:
i'm using nova launcher with vertical drawer. scrolls fast with no lag or stuttering for me.
just switched it to horizontal and it's fine also. mind you, it stops at each page so i'm not sure if that might be what you're mistaking for lag.
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For some reason the widget drawer is much faster with vertical scrolling.
Nova launcher just delays the animation in the widget drawer if it can't show it fast enough but on stock launcher it will actually cause a stutter. The developer of nova launcher is an absolute genius.
I still don't see a technical reason why a nexus 4 can't just blaze through the widget drawer.
The guy talking about the xperia Z launcher well its handled very differently and mind you more efficiently in Sony launcher.
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username8611 said:
I don't get why people purposely try to lag down their phone by doing something they would never do in daily use (opening and closing as many apps as possible as fast as they can, swiping around as fast as humanly possible, etc) and then complain about lag? Just use the phone then see if it lags
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Actually this isn't true for this case. When I want to select a widget that's at the end of the drawer then I would swipe as fast as I can to get to it. Infinite scrolling causes even more performance issues with the widget drawer mind you so that's not a better option in this scenario.
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It does lag, it's true.
I run stock now but have tried all different roms and kernel combinations. And then all different governor/scheduler combinations. Swiping quickly through widgets always produces lag after a few pages. Even using nova/apex.
It doesn't bother me anymore (used to when I was a crack flasher), but it's undeniable.

Just install a different launcher like Nova lag free.
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Nigeldg said:
Nah, that's too logical for the internet
@OP, I see what you mean and I experience the same thing but only if I actually try to make it lag. It's probably due to some sort of lack of optimisation, but tbh I just sorted out my homescreen once and don't really go back and reorganise it so I don't see any issues. I know that you're not complaining but just asking about it, so I thought I'd confirm that I have the same experience.
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Yeah this.
Logically this is a non issue for me. Mine lags (4.2.2) but I'd never noticed it because that's not the way I use the phone.
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Ok, so my phone is normal. I thought it was my phone. I see the hesitations and stutter only in widget draw running completely stock.
It doesn't bother me that much, but I am curious to know why that is only in widget section.

I can't reproduce this lag in my widget drawer. Using a CM based rom (modaco cm kang r9) with Trebuchet. Just saw a slight lag / stutter with Buzz launcher but I can't see it with Nova
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I'm experiencing this too. Thought i was the only one!
It happens occasionally on mine though when i swipe real fast. Sometimes it lags terribly, like, i could see the pages stutter and struggle to load the widgets. And sometimes it's just super smooth.
Don't know for sure, but maybe it has something to do with some of the apps installed. Because the lag always happens on the exact same pages i swipe through. Mine is on the first 3 to be exact. And that's where all of my google widgets are placed, strangely.
Maybe it's just an issue with my device though. Running rooted stock 4.2.2 btw.

No lag here. I turned off animations and am using Nova launcher and I am underclocked to 1.2ghz.

No lag in widget drawer for me even when I swipe it unrealistically quickly. Stock 4.2.2, Franco kernel with default settings.
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steviewevie said:
No lag in widget drawer for me even when I swipe it unrealistically quickly. Stock 4.2.2, Franco kernel with default settings.
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Works perfectly fine here also with CM + Nova + Franco kernel.
No lag at all.