When I turn the screen on, sometimes but not all the time, the screen turns on but the text at the bottom where it says swipe to unlock and Verizon wireless is not present and the screen is unresponsive but after a few seconds it appears and I can then unlock my device. I feel like I just keep having issues haha.
Happens on mine as well, but only for a second or so it seems. I tried turning the watercolor effect off to none but it still did it, I think its just the crappy samsung lockscreen wish I could get the stock AOSP one on there.
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Happens on mine as well, but only for a second or so it seems. I tried turning the watercolor effect off to none but it still did it, I think its just the crappy samsung lockscreen wish I could get the stock AOSP one on there.
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haha me too man it's probably because i'm so used to my rooted Note 2 where I fixed all these laggy issues. Damn Samsung needs to polish touchwiz badly. Thanks for responding again btw.
Happens to me too! very annoying because i have to swipe to unlock twice
I do use dashclock on my lockscreen
Well I ended up freezing the stock samsung clock with Titanium and taking the stock clock from 4.3 off my Galaxy Nexus and putting it in system/app and changed the permissions to match, its a little smaller I think because of the high resolution but it doesn't seem to lag out like the stock one did better than it was
Touchwiz is composed of lag. Every time I turn on or off my screen I am reminded. It helps if you are constantly using the task manager and clearing ram while closing apps but this should not be a necessity for the OS to run smoothly.
I may just have to become a de-hack-loper to get this unlocked bootloader going however even then knox is watching us.
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Well I ended up freezing the stock samsung clock with Titanium and taking the stock clock from 4.3 off my Galaxy Nexus and putting it in system/app and changed the permissions to match, its a little smaller I think because of the high resolution but it doesn't seem to lag out like the stock one did better than it was
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FYI that clock is chronus in the play store for people that arent rooted
Chronus looks much better perfect size. Now if only I could get the cyanogen lock and shortcuts close enough
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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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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.
Im gettin quite abit of lag wen scrolling through the pages on the homescreen.. I do have a few widgets but I'm coming from having the htc incredible s which had much more widgets and no lag. Does anyone else have this problem? And is there anything I can do to stop it without removing everything.
Hmmm no lag here, all I can say is try a factory reset then place all the widgets down again and see if that helps.
What homescreen laucher are you using?
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I've filled up 4 pages full of widgets/apps and I get no lag whatsoever. Not sure what's happening with yours tbh.
BullSh!T. Theres absolutely no lag with the homescreen. Your lag is called user error
Don't mean to stray off the sub but how is ur battery life considering ur 4 pages full.? Jus mine sucks an I was wondeing if its down to that
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Don't mean to stray off the sub but how is ur battery life considering ur 4 pages full.? Jus mine sucks an I was wondeing if its down to that
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When I was playing with my new toy like crazy I was getting a day in a half. I check 10 webpages hourly, tons of emails, text, usually 30mins of calls, start my music thru headphones around 9am till 5pm, checking xda app hourly, and other random things.
Its 8:18pm and im at 37%. Ive downloaded 2 torrents thru wifi, handled business thru google voice(mostly text) since ive been home. My vibrant would usually die around 5pm while at work. Im a extremely heavy user and im getting great battery life.
Ive just checked my phone. 3g/H+ stays on all day, auto sync is off, brightness turned 100%, all emails sync hourly thru samsung email app.
Ur so lucky, I jus can't get to the bottom of it. Did u charge ur battery all da way at the start an do u let it die then recharge it off? Give me some pointers. I'm hoping its jus not a faulty phone. I mite buy a new bat
What is your battery usage like? Get us a screenshot
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i too have the lag actually. I find that the enlarged accuweather widget that came with the device to be the main culprit, not sure what else. I've switched to launcherpro for the time being.
I can confirm that the stock accuweather widget makes a little lag. Changed to Beautiful Weather and the lag was gone.
****ty apps and widgets make even the best of the smartphones lag.
I can confirm there is lag too....once in a while. The lag is most easily reproducible if you slowly change from one home-screen to another. Drag your finger slowly rather than do the typical swipe-and-release action.
Sometimes it is noticeable lag, but to me it is more like skipping a frame or two during UI rendering.
i notice this lag too, do anyone else notices it? like elythor stated, you can see it well if you slowly change screens, like it skips a few frames, it is not 100% fluid.
5pages widgets one full screen caledar page. Ob i know this is ovious to some but try extending the refresh hours for your widgets. E.g weather 3 hours. Etc
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I had no lag on KE2. I upgraded KE7 on top of it and I started to notice some lag. I formatted my SD card and internal storage and then did a hard reset. The lag went away.
i am on ke7 and i have a lag when i go the the home screen. be it using the home button or just pressing back until i get there.
it goes back to any other screen very smoothly, but when it goes back to the home screen, there is about 3 seconds lag.
i have 5 homescreens, using stock touchwiz
Any of you guys using live wallpapers?Always found them to cause some nasty lag on my phones(Currently Desire HD,maybe GS2 in the near future...Well,that or Sensation! ).If yes,try switching to normal pictures or lighter LWPs.
Now that I mentioned it though,could you guys do me a favour?There are four LWPs on the market from maxelus.net,Shadow Galaxy,Inferno Galaxy,Ice Galaxy and Vortex Galaxy.They are magnificent,but are causing far too much lag on my DHD.Could you guys test them out and tell me the results?
Now that I think of it they suit the phone...A galaxy wallpaper on Galaxy S...
Sorry for offtopic,eh?
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i am on ke7 and i have a lag when i go the the home screen. be it using the home button or just pressing back until i get there.
it goes back to any other screen very smoothly, but when it goes back to the home screen, there is about 3 seconds lag.
i have 5 homescreens, using stock touchwiz
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I have lag too going to home screen about 3 second, very annoying but it is on ke2, touchwiz, 3 screens, weather and time widgets. Sometimes lag is smaller. Removing all widgets i have small delay about 1 second returning to home screen. I wish it would be instant...
P.S. No live wallpapers
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I have lag too going to home screen about 3 second, very annoying but it is on ke2, touchwiz, 3 screens, weather and time widgets. Sometimes lag is smaller. Removing all widgets i have small delay about 1 second returning to home screen. I wish it would be instant...
P.S. No live wallpapers
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i think its the launcher.
try launcher pro, and the lag will go away
however im staying on touchwiz because i really like the widgets, unless you know any way i can get all my widgets with any other launcher?
I dont know if this has already been discovered by others but i found a solution to an issue i was having. I have always wanted to use a custom lockscreen but every one i would try to use, the factory lock screen would show up for a bit first and then the new one would show up, which just irritates me.
I found that if you download and install no lock from the market, it will block the factory lock screen but the aftermarket one will still work!
A small thing but it solved one of my nitpicks and allowed me to finally customize my lockscreen.
If you dont have one yet i recommend wp7 lock, pretty clean in my opinion
widgetlocker has this built in...
+1 widgetlocker
I hate sliding left to right so I switched to the Sense lock and now I can swipe down.
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widgetlocker has this built in...
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hmm odd, last time i used widgetlocker i still had the stock lockscreen popping up right before or during the widgetlocker lockscreen. When did they add this feature? Still its helpful for me because i dont particuarly like widgetlocker, i like the more simplistic approach.
Widgetlocker works just fine with my Droid X. I never see the stock screen. Only issue is the stock lock screen is no longer smooth (sometimes have to swipe 2 or 3 times) with GB update so it also effects widgetlocker.
To be clear, I am liking ICS a lot, and am happy to see where Android is progressing. Here are a few complaints, however:
-I can't believe they disabled the search capacity button from the home screen. If you remove the search bar, there's no way to search from the home screen. Still hate the fact that the top bar is unusable space.
-Limited items in folders. This is one area which I don't understand why they back-peddled. It's very iOS-like, and it's one of the worst things to copy. Max 16 apps in a folder now. My understanding was that it was unlimited before. This will require adjustment.
-The icons look childish. Wish Google would truly allow customization and let us change the icons like other launchers do.
-Still no ability to add custom shortcuts to the home screen (like ADW Launcher can). Unless I'm mistaken? How do I make a direct dial icon?
-Long pressing Home button for the app switcher feels slow and clunky. It takes a while for the list of apps to show up.
Well, that's all I can think of for now. Still getting the hang of it. Again, overall, I'm really enjoying ICS. The UI is so modern and sleek looking.
You can add direct dial shortcuts through the widget section dude
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Search cap. button works here
I noticed that the quality of the panorama pictures is terrible. It looks like a Polaroid.
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Search cap. button works here
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On the main home screen? Pressing it once brings up search? It doesn't for me.
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On the main home screen? Pressing it once brings up search? It doesn't for me.
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Yes it does for me.
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onthecouchagain said:
On the main home screen? Pressing it once brings up search? It doesn't for me.
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i can confirm the button also works for me
I'm loving ICS on the Nexus S, too. However, my battery life is atrocious since the upgrade today. I went from 100% to 4% in less than 6 hours. It wasn't that I was using it or playing with it that much, either. All the settings were similar to what they were on 2.3.6, e.g., low backlight, GPS/WiFi/Bluetooth off, push email on, account sync on. I was getting 12+ hours with up to 20% left on Gingerbread with these settings. According to the battery app, it looks like "Android OS" might be the culprit, as "keep awake" is listed as the highest-ranked battery usage over everything else, including screen, voice calls, cell standby, etc. I've read on other forums about a possible Android OS bug with the SGS II. I'm thinking it might be so with ICS on the NS. Anyone else have this issue? How do we report it to Google so we can get a bug fix?
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-The icons look childish. Wish Google would truly allow customization and let us change the icons like other launchers do.
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icons are still customizable, as they are with any rom. The launcher my not let you do it as easily as other launcher aps from within android.. but you can still do it externally by editing the icon files from the flash able rom file.
One small issue I found: Lock sound never plays even when the option is checked. Besides that, I'm really liking ICS. I wish the default widgets were more customizable. (e.g., calendar widget is one row too long, GMail widget is one column too wide) As a person with a severe visual impairment, I find the "Larger" text option a nice touch.
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I'm loving ICS on the Nexus S, too. However, my battery life is atrocious since the upgrade today. I went from 100% to 4% in less than 6 hours.
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This couldn't be a battery calibration issue with the upgrade could it? I'm experiencing the same at the minute. I seem to recall there is a way to clear the battery stats but I can't remember where I read it.
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One small issue I found: Lock sound never plays even when the option is checked. Besides that, I'm really liking ICS. I wish the default widgets were more customizable. (e.g., calendar widget is one row too long, GMail widget is one column too wide) As a person with a severe visual impairment, I find the "Larger" text option a nice touch.
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You can easily resize them by a long press on a widget without delete it, you will see the widget outline get blue with diamond which you can hold too resize.
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You can easily resize them by a long press on a widget without delete it, you will see the widget outline get blue with diamond which you can hold too resize.
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Oh wow, thanks! By the way, I found my issue for the lock screen: it got switched to None. I guess I forgot to switch it back after looking for the Face Unlock feature.
Speaking if which, looking at other threads it seems this feature was dropped for the Nexus S due to poor front-facing camera resolution. Oh well.
PS: I wish the custom message you can put on the lockscreen was more customizable than one scrolling line.
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search button working for me too
and you can hide search bar In preference
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How about you guys give it about a week and then start complaining BC now you just sound like some whiney brats.
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One thing I noticed is it gets rather sluggish at times. UI is smooth but there are very bad lags. Noticeable with even just the a live wallpaper, you can see it stutters every ten seconds or so.
Also, some apps won't work, Viber for example. It installs but it doesn't work, it just won't start. Black screen.
Maybe I should wait until the official OTA comes available for me, in Italy, through Software Update, and see if things are better? I have an i9020T, though- isn't the update going to be the same exact file?
if your battery life is really bad try turning off NFC and see if that makes a difference. From the Alpha I managed to get about 25 hours (once..) but cannot remember what I changed to get that.
the two complains I have : auto brightness doesn't work as well as it used too.
and google talk signs me out after a while without telling me.
Face unlock didn't seem to make the cut on the Nexus S.
Posted this in the ICS link section... this seems like a better place for it.
Anyone seeing any issues with the completely stock ICS on the TMo version of the nexus S?
Issues I am seeing so far:
Delayed scrolling when I swipe in the web browser. Seems as if the browser is trying to determine if I meant to click a link or scroll and the delay for the OS to decide is MUCH longer than it was on GB. (Maybe that was intended but maybe they over compensated).
The browser exits (doesn't even force close), just exits on certain websites when trying to scroll.
I hear reports of it being "buttery smooth" and honestly mine feels like it is slower than GB.. maybe that is because of my perception that the scrolling is slower...
Curious to see if this is happening to anyone else...
Hey guys.
For who already updated to v20a,
Have you guys found that the famous new ambient display is missing from our LG ROM.
and the lockscreen that lg made out of 5.0 is too busy to be used.
the unlock area takes almost half of the screen, and can not be hidden, all my notification has been squeezed to the upper half which makes my lock screen very messy. and the lock screen can not simply just using the same live wall paper as my home screen is using.
So my solution for now is still using my ACdisplay as my lockscreen to get all my app notification, but this app hasnt been optimize for 5.0 and it became the most battery consuming app, it takes almost 25% of the battery which is so annoying.
and i dont get heads-up notification for most of my apps, is this just me or you all dont have this?....................
any suggestion? or better alternatives to be using?
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Hey guys.
For who already updated to v20a,
Have you guys found that the famous new ambient display is missing from our LG ROM.
and the lockscreen that lg made out of 5.0 is too busy to be used.
the unlock area takes almost half of the screen, and can not be hidden, all my notification has been squeezed to the upper half which makes my lock screen very messy. and the lock screen can not simply just using the same live wall paper as my home screen is using.
So my solution for now is still using my ACdisplay as my lockscreen to get all my app notification, but this app hasnt been optimize for 5.0 and it became the most battery consuming app, it takes almost 25% of the battery which is so annoying.
and i dont get heads-up notification for most of my apps, is this just me or you all dont have this?....................
any suggestion? or better alternatives to be using?
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Heads up works fine for apps that actually use this feature - most apps have not been updated to work with heads up yet, its not something that every app automatically does.
Your comments on the lock screen are correct, but sadly this was always going to be the case, we had the same problem when jellybean first introduced lock screen widgets, it took a very long time for everyone to change their own UI's to properly accommodate that feature.
I am not sure I know what you mean by ambient display feature?
Edit: Ah the wake up feature - yeah, that is kernel dependant so it is something we could probably put back in with mods etc but it might impact battery life if not done properly - this might be why LG decided to not include it (that and it might be seen to be copying a Samsung feature).
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Heads up works fine for apps that actually use this feature - most apps have not been updated to work with heads up yet, its not something that every app automatically does.
Your comments on the lock screen are correct, but sadly this was always going to be the case, we had the same problem when jellybean first introduced lock screen widgets, it took a very long time for everyone to change their own UI's to properly accommodate that feature.
I am not sure I know what you mean by ambient display feature?
Edit: Ah the wake up feature - yeah, that is kernel dependant so it is something we could probably put back in with mods etc but it might impact battery life if not done properly - this might be why LG decided to not include it (that and it might be seen to be copying a Samsung feature).
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hey man thanks a lot for all the answers,
and your patient to read my crappy English haha
umm i guess i will go back to acdisplay for now, hopefully they will optimize the app for 5.0 soon.
now my battery usage seems weird.
Acdisplay 32%
hangout 22%
google services 13%
others
and now screen only takes 3%.........
guess this is all due to optimization of the apps?
Remember that percentage is a zero sum game. As other things use less power, other things will use a greater percentage of the total, even if not more actual power.
Hey guys new problem.
My g watch is not showing any notification card. All apps
Any suggestions?
Ambient Display, like on the Moto X?
It's not very smart on the G3, as it uses a IPS display. Moto X uses AMOLED, which only lights up non-black pixels, so the Active Display consumes very little battery, while ours consumes almost the same whether it's full black or bright white.
Yeah, why does LG choose to remove features that we could use in their Android L editions? Also the features like L's new battery saving seems to be missing. Idk why they don't just leave all the features in there.
I totally miss having exposed framework.
I have the DS Bat saver, greenify, boot manager and toast notification.