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App Drawer Lag

Anyone else have alot of lag when you open/scroll in the app drawer? I got alot of lagg and it doesn't look very nice. Anyone got this and found a solution?
I only have this problem after I updated to 2.1 like 3 weeks ago.

Yes i also have the same problem but that is only when using live wallpapers. Switch to normal one and see if it still lags.
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Nankov said:
Yes i also have the same problem but that is only when using live wallpapers. Switch to normal one and see if it still lags.
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Hey thanks that worked. What a stupid add-on to use Live Wallpapers if you can't use them properly.

Try launcher pro (free in the market) its much more stable and has tons of options! Pretty much everything is customisable...

You might have a lot of applications running on the background. Check the running application page in the settings. When I restart my phone I always go there first and shut down what I don't use, like the face recognition, etc...

Yea just turned off live wallpaper and no more lag on menu screen thanks just wish there was a way 2 live wallpaper on am not have that lag there
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get autokiller and set the last 3 values to
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check it out here for more help

Doom LW is the one that gives me less lag in drawer, all the others give me a lot of lag in the drawer, a shame we don't have a good implementation for the gpu or the thing that give us that crap performance.

I get lag using the stock launcher and Launcher Pro, but not with ADW.
That's even with a live wallpaper, and I have ADW set to a transparent drawer so I see the live wallpaper there too.

Widgets and 2.3.3

Anyone having issues with widgets loading in 2.3.3?
My twitter widget will not load. Even stranger, I cannot add any applications to any screen. Very odd.
I'm running on ADW. Is ADW the real issue?

b84cops said:
Anyone having issues with widgets loading in 2.3.3?
My twitter widget will not load. Even stranger, I cannot add any applications to any screen. Very odd.
I'm running on ADW. Is ADW the real issue?
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another issue with 2.3.3

All my widgets disappeared and I had to place them back...
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how did you get them back? a long press does nothing for me now!

hmmm. my widgets work just fine. long press also works. did you try a reboot?
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Only problem I am having with 2.3.3 is the screen colors. It's terrible, definitely gotta get use to it..
Widgets work fine. Try a reboot or a battery pull.

Works fine here, using LauncherPro Plus.
I chose to clear the dalvik cache before rebooting, after applying the update. Perhaps that helped me?

b84cops said:
how did you get them back? a long press does nothing for me now!
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Haven't used ADW in a long time but isn't there an option to lock your screens? Which in turn wouldn't allow you to modify anything.
Press menu and check that out.

no problem here. all widgets work fine and i didnt have to mess with them at all.

This happened to me today but I'm still on 2.3.2...
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Rebooted and long pressed. I did have it lose them a couple more times though. It's fine now... I think.
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SupaDupaFly24 said:
Only problem I am having with 2.3.3 is the screen colors. It's terrible, definitely gotta get use to it..
Widgets work fine. Try a reboot or a battery pull.
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I noticed that too, the call interface is gray or something, the color seems different. What were you referring to?
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brmayhem said:
Haven't used ADW in a long time but isn't there an option to lock your screens? Which in turn wouldn't allow you to modify anything.
Press menu and check that out.
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This. From the home screen you can also press:
Menu>Add
To add a widget.
Menu>More>Unlock Desktop
To unlock the home screen if locked.
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Hearing about glitches already worries me =T

onthecouchagain said:
Hearing about glitches already worries me =T
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You and me both
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b84cops said:
Anyone having issues with widgets loading in 2.3.3?
My twitter widget will not load. Even stranger, I cannot add any applications to any screen. Very odd.
I'm running on ADW. Is ADW the real issue?
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Google voice widget doesn't load properly either :-(
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The few widgets I use are working the same. Only problem I ran into was having to reinstall Swype.
Running on stock android.

Not sure how it got locked, but the unlock feature did the trick.
Thanks!
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Two annoyances

Hi all,
So far km loving the tab apart from three thing:
1. It takes more than 1 second to turn the screen on after lock, why?
2. Rotation of the screen and swiping homescreens is jerky and slow
3. Gmail keeps crashing
Anyone else noticing this?
My desire s phone is more smooth on transitions and quicker to unlock.
Makes the look a bit cap when trying to show why it's better than an ipad
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same experience for 1 & 2

Non of those problems but I am using adw ex not stock launcher

I also suffers wake delay and laggy rotation. My single core phone with ics is way faster.
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bountygiver said:
I also suffers wake delay and laggy rotation. My single core phone with ics is way faster.
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I think delay is normal as this is the systems problem but I never experience laggy rotation.

K999rrl said:
Non of those problems but I am using adw ex not stock launcher
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adw launcher solves the rotation and swipe homescreen issues but not others points ... I have same behaviour, including occasional gmail fc

The Note was/is the same way. Custom ROMs usually fix these two issues, but there are only a few 6800 ROMS out and NO 6810 ROMs

The wake delay exists for all the touchwiz devices as far as I know, occurs with my galaxy S2 when it is on battery due to the fact the cpu is throttled down to save on battery. When plugged into the wall the delay is absent.

Thx all for the replies, glad I'm not the only one suffering this.
Just wish a nice plain Google only ics rom would hurry up and appear!
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furius said:
adw launcher solves the rotation and swipe homescreen issues but not others points ... I have same behaviour, including occasional gmail fc
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i am using adw but i still have to wait for the wallpaper to refresh everytime i rotate the tab.

Wait a little for ICS and you will be in heavens
Btw I have the same problems but a democracy has always a lot of problems but it is democracy....thank for that
And not so bad problems...

I've never had Gmail FC on me, for those who claim or will claim they dont have any wake up delay.. post a video.

With any Cyanogenmod version, how do you fix screen stutter?

The stutter/lag effect I see when I have my home page mostly filled with apps. Is this impossible to reduce? It's also the same with the app list, as I scroll through apps, the frame-rate seems like super low. So they stutter across my screen.
Any good fixes?

I had this happen a few times and had to do a fresh install to get rid of it.

airmaxx23 said:
I had this happen a few times and had to do a fresh install to get rid of it.
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I don't believe it is an instal issue, it seems to occur if the screen has a good bit of widgets and apps on it.

This happens to me when scrolling sometimes, like when on tapatalk. Kinda annoying but I'll live.
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It could be the launcher you are using also. I was having the same problem until I switched to the ADW Launcher EX. Its wicked smooth and worth the price IMO.
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Locklear308 said:
I don't believe it is an instal issue, it seems to occur if the screen has a good bit of widgets and apps on it.
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The times I had it happen it was after a fresh install with no apps installed and no widgets on the home screens. Everything would be slow and stutter a lot, I tried multiple things to try to fix it but the only thing that worked was a fresh install.

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.