Transition Effects - myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I've installed the exact same ROM on my MT4G as well as my girlfriend's (both after a complete factory reset) and I've noticed that hers has this really smooth gliding left-to-right transition effect when entering and backing out of certain menus. I thought it was because we were running different versions of the ROM so I upgraded mine to the same version as hers but she still has those effects while my screens just appear without any gliding or transition. Seeing as these are both fresh installs, no default settings were changed. Is there something I'm missing? Is this related to the ROM or is it a stock option that hers had enabled that mine did not?
The ROM we are both running is Energy (Sense 3.5) July 26 Update.

Figured it out
I know I'm tooting my own horn here but in order to do it, you have to go to your "Display" settings and then under "Animation" make sure it is set to All window animations are shown.
I hope this helps anyone else who had this concern.

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Crop size stuck on Letterbox

Hello,
This may be the wrong thread to put this in, but I've ran into an issue with my Google Ion that I haven't been able to fix yet.
I'm running the default dohnut that comes with the Google Ion 1.6 ver
I installed PandaHome, and love it, I soon found out about the lock screen plugins yesterday, which is what started my problems.
Upon setting the wallpaper for the Hero Lock screen plugin, PandaHome seems to have forced the crop area to letterbox, instead of the default Widescreen.
I was wondering if anyone had an idea as to how to reset that, or what I need to change to fix it. This is what I've already tried....
1. Uninstalling the Hero Lock Plugin (no luck)
2. Uninstalling PandaHome (no luck)
For some reason it seems to be unrelated to PandaHome in a sense that it is affecting any wallpaper settings whether home is installed or not.
Nevermind, I just reloaded my 32b with Android 2.1, so I'm good now.

Stability of Nexus Launcher/Launcher2

Hi all. I've just been wondering... has anyone else besides me ran into countless problems using the Nexus Launcher/Launcher2 on their phone? I'm running Fresh 2.0d with the included .apk, and here are some bugs I've found:
Unresponsiveness
Screen turns black and stays black requiring a battery pull
Launcher will launch without displaying icons in the menu
Now, it is not only Flipz's ROM that has these problems either... it is EVERY ROM I've tried. I'm sure most of you will tell me to use Helix Launcher. I have tried it, but it doesn't have the same feel that the Nexus Launcher has.
Has anyone found a fix for these stability issues? If not, I'd like to start a project so we can get this working, because I'm sure it's completely possible. After all, Flipz was able to get the 2.1 lockscreen working!
mrinehart93 said:
Hi all. I've just been wondering... has anyone else besides me ran into countless problems using the Nexus Launcher/Launcher2 on their phone? I'm running Fresh 2.0d with the included .apk, and here are some bugs I've found:
Unresponsiveness
Screen turns black and stays black requiring a battery pull
Launcher will launch without displaying icons in the menu
Now, it is not only Flipz's ROM that has these problems either... it is EVERY ROM I've tried. I'm sure most of you will tell me to use Helix Launcher. I have tried it, but it doesn't have the same feel that the Nexus Launcher has.
Has anyone found a fix for these stability issues? If not, I'd like to start a project so we can get this working, because I'm sure it's completely possible. After all, Flipz was able to get the 2.1 lockscreen working!
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I am running fresh2.0d and stock screen turns black and needs battery pull when I use camera app and hit back button or any button.
Launcher has been pretty responsive except here and there....
I do get to the mode where no icons on home screen for few seconds at times but it recovers pretty soon....
As far as the lock screen, I ran in to an issue while my corporate policy forced me to assign lock/unlock password! Soon I enable password and lock, phone stops responding!!! I have to either pull the battery or issue reboot command via prompt!!!
I hope this helps.... I am not a developer though....
I have been disappointed by the nexus launcher's performance as well.
The black screen requiring a reboot (or if you hold home and happen to have settings in the app switch menu you can force kill it and restart it) is a common occurrence with seemingly no pattern. Sometimes it after a long browsing session, other times its happens after deleting a single e-mail message and returning to the main screen. The only consistent way to make it happen is to hit back after launching camera from the app drawer.
Ive also noticed in every rom with launcher, that when coming out of the launch screen the app shortcuts and widgets on the home screen don't load instantly. Almost as if the launcher was killed while it was asleep and when unlocking it, it is reloaded.
It's disappointing because as you said, while helixlauncher is an OK alternative, nothing else has quite the same feel as nexus launcher. Unfortunately I think it will take a good bit of modification to make it a perfect match with the hero and I have absolutely 0 idea where to even begin .
Flipz, if you ever read this, could you offer some insight on this? You've worked your magic on the 2.1 lockscreen
The only rom i had it running great on was Darchlegend v4.1 i think it was, i finally said forget it and started using helix
Every one i have tried has been buggy as well. Things mught improve once we get the hero 2.1 source. Or once google decouples them.

Weather Animation Lag

Is any body else experiencing lag for their weather animation on the Home tab? I don't have this problem on my Weather tab, it looks great. Only when in my home tab, it looks like it runs smooth for half the time, then it gets really chopppy and slow.
I've already tried messing with my shortcuts, and removing my sd card, but those aren't the problems. I also have BSB Tweaks installed, and tried disabling the power saver option, but that didn't do anything either.
Mine does that as well sometimes, not always.
You could try disabling "V-Sync" on the device. Or instead of having the HTC Sense userinterface allocate resources "as needed", you could increase the minimum and maximum amount of resources it is always guaranteed to be utilizing at any given time.
Try searching the forums for those minor registry tweaks and I'm sure you won't be disappointed.
Just did a hard reset, that seemed to do the trick. Also using a 8GB class 6 SD card now, with not too much performance increase. May go back to the stock 16GB class 2 card for more storage.
check ur task manager.
you could be using up too much memory. if you have applications running in the background when the home screen weather animation is loading it could slow it down.
i noticed this with my touch pro 2 as well.
I have noticed the HD2 is lagging terrible when The wifi is trying to connect or the data connection changes. When the signal changes it even lags the device. I am not sure if this is a radio problem or what because all roms so far have this issue
Any updates on this issue?
I've discovered that when I hard reset my HD2, it turns out pretty nice. No lag at all, clouds and screenwipers really smooth =)
But then the breaking point, I install the cookie's tabs, it installs .net framework, immediately the weather animations start to lag..
I don't wanna uninstall the cookies tab (and .net) because I'm using pretty much every application from those quick links. the winter is coming, I wanna enable the weather animations, but I can't do it right now because it's too irritating and slowing the quick link screen changes. they become laggy too.
oops.. just came here with google search and didn't notice that its t-mobile thread. hope it's not a problem.
So far,
I've done every performance trick mention in these forums, but nothing has changed.
This thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=629388
has specific tweaks supposed to increase the performance but no, nothing has changed. VSync is disabled, SENSE memory is increased, but still lagging in the weather application.
Should I just switch to a custom ROM? Makes me think that this'll not solve it since it was running just fine before .net 3.5 as I mentioned before.
Weather is annoying me now because it refuses to update. When I click "update now", the little arrow moves in a circle for a few minutes then nothing changes. It's been doing this since I had my stock 2.13 ROM...I did a Task 29, hard reset, formatted my class 6 SD card, and installed Spike's ROM and it still does the same damn thing...
If I disable phone altogether and turn on WiFi, it will update.
How can I just disable Weather altogether on my home screen without disabling Sense?
Oh yeah, and the stuttering does seem to be related to the data connection trying to sync after coming out of sleep...
You could try installing Cookies Home Tab and using the editor to turn off the animations all together. As far as I know you can't "uninstall" weather from the home tab, but you can turn the animations off and just make it a static image.
mfrey0118 said:
Weather is annoying me now because it refuses to update. When I click "update now", the little arrow moves in a circle for a few minutes then nothing changes. It's been doing this since I had my stock 2.13 ROM...I did a Task 29, hard reset, formatted my class 6 SD card, and installed Spike's ROM and it still does the same damn thing...
If I disable phone altogether and turn on WiFi, it will update.
How can I just disable Weather altogether on my home screen without disabling Sense?
Oh yeah, and the stuttering does seem to be related to the data connection trying to sync after coming out of sleep...
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Slide to the weather tab tap menu/settings and uncheck update.
hi,
I just figure out the BSB tweaks make animation lag, (since Im new user to HD2) I notice it after installation yesterday, right know after uninstalling the bsb tweak, the cloud motion is not lag anymore....
im on duttylacreme
That annoyed the crap out of me also. When I flashed a new rom it smoothed out. I get stutters when I turn the screen on and it immediately does a check to update the weather, but every other time it's smooth. I'm on miri and dinik's anastasia one from the non tmous roms page. It also fixed any sms lag I had too, if you're experiencing that.
So there's no way to remove the weather app from the phone?
mfrey0118 said:
So there's no way to remove the weather app from the phone?
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I suppose if you're using cookies home editor you could choose a different weather app to associate with the weather tab of sense and that would not update unless you chose it manually.
you do not need to install or tweak anything to turn the animation from the home screen off, simply select animated wallpaper and choose any wallpaper you want from your sd card or device just as if you were choosing a weather wallpaper

[Q] Bounce effect in Sense 2.1

I am running MCCM's froyo/Sense SD build. When switching between home screens I get this slight bounce effect (left to right). I wanted to know if it is possible to get rid of this. I have tried to turn off all animation and use 3rd party apps like spareparts but nothing seems to work.
I really just want a fast smooth transition, I don't care for animations. Thanks for any help!
Anyone have any thoughts? I have tried searching but cannot come up with anything
i'm looking for a fix too.
what i found is that it's possible to change the transition effect : http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-x-hacks/100725-how-mod-custom-transition-animations.html
but what we need to do is to find the stock android transition effect, the fade and slide one.

Laggy/Flickering Transition Animations

I'm running civato's cm10 and my transition animations are very laggy and at times the screen just flickers whilst the animation should be happening. I first had this problem when I tried out Thor's Cornerstone ICS ROM ages ago, which I then moved on to his non-Cornerstone version because I didn't like it. Those problems persisted after removing Cornerstone however. I only just recently installed the ICS bootloader, did a full wipe/factory reset and installed cm10 in the hope that it'd be fixed but it seems that my animations are still very laggy. Anyone got any ideas on how to fix this?
The flickering occurs mainly when using the app switcher, whilst opening and closing apps seems to cause a stuttering animation and opening the notification panel is very slow.
Edit: It seems ticking 'disable hw overlays' and changing the window, transition and animation scale to 0.5x has hid the lag a bit. Disabling HW overlays makes the big difference but it still stutters a fair bit when animations are set to 1x. The flickering does stop. Wouldn't expect this of a JB ROM though, so I still think something is wrong.
Edit 2: Did a full format, installed civato's ICS rom and everything works fantastic now.

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