Inside the Sound & display settings menu is section to turned down the animations used throughout the system. I find that turning them all of really makes the phone feel snappy, but it comes at the cost of some of the nice animated transitions between screens and apps. The settings allow three different options: completely off, some animations, or all animations turned on.
What I really want is all of the animations, except for the opening application one. This is the animation that occurs when you launch an application from one of the home screens or the launcher and it looks like the application window grows out from the center of the screen until it fills the entire screen. I think this one looks bad, especially when you have a bright colored background and when it is turned off applications feel like they open much quicker. Selecting 'some animations' from the settings will turn this one off, but it also disables the sliding transition that occurs when traversing through menus and pages in an app, which I actually really like.
So does anyone know of a way to disable animation one at a time?
I normally just set the animations to fast from the 'spare parts' application that is in most roms.
evilkorn said:
I normally just set the animations to fast from the 'spare parts' application that is in most roms.
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I tried that but it's still not ideal. I guess it can't be done at this point...
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How many widgets do you have total on your home screen?
Lately I have been experiencing some lag in my phone and I think it may be caused by having so many widgets on my home screens. I currently have 7 widgets active. THey are the following:
Beautiful Home Widget (Hero Time/Weather)
BT Toggle
WiFi Toggle
Silent Mode Toggle
AutoRotate Toggle
Lock Pattern Toggle
Battery Life Widget
Does having too many widgets cause the phone to lag? In Advanced Task Manager I don't see any extra running processes and it says I have 30MB free, which I am not sure is a lot or not.
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How many widgets do you have total on your home screen?
Lately I have been experiencing some lag in my phone and I think it may be caused by having so many widgets on my home screens. I currently have 7 widgets active. THey are the following:
Beautiful Home Widget (Hero Time/Weather)
BT Toggle
WiFi Toggle
Silent Mode Toggle
AutoRotate Toggle
Lock Pattern Toggle
Battery Life Widget
Does having too many widgets cause the phone to lag? In Advanced Task Manager I don't see any extra running processes and it says I have 30MB free, which I am not sure is a lot or not.
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Yes, the more widgets you have the more it will lag
Hmm okay thanks -- I guess its time to get rid of some.
the number you have running should be effecting your performance.
I have the following widgets running all the time without noticing any perceptible lag:
Call Log
Koxx's Weather
Digital Clock
CNN
FML
Brighness Toggle
BT Toggle
GPS Toggle
Wifi Toggle
SD Memory
Internal Memory
Mute
To benchmark, I started the phone, went to the dialer, called voicemail (a process which takes quite a bit of time as the phone is starting up). The time difference between having all of those widgets active and having none of them active was less than 1/2 a second (0.429 seconds).
Instead of using a widget for bluetooth and wifi, why not use togglewifi and toggleblu from the market (both by Andrew Schwimmer). They look excellent, and the wifi one has some extra features. They have the exact functionality as your widgets, without the burden of being a widget.
This will cut down on the home screen redraw times.
Widgets slow down the phone in two ways. First, by having to be loaded up when you press the home button. They take about 2-3 times as long to draw as an APP icon can take, so that can lag the phone.
But, the most common lag-producing widgets are ones that run in the background because they need to refresh data. Those widgets are great for hogging resources in the background, and sometimes even your toggle widgets can do that too.
Cutting down on widgets always gives you more speed, it's a balance .
I find weather and clock widgets to be battery and resource killers. Tried practically all of them, and without fail I can see a noticeable difference right away. Some really bad, some ok, but still noticeable.
Too bad, some really nice looking weather and clock widgets out there. But they seem to go after the battery on a feeding frenzy.
I've found that any networking widgets especially drain the battery and make it lag. I get extremely upset when my phone lags when I try to use it, so that's no good for me.
Weather widgets require networking, as do the news, Twitter, and FML widgets.
Sticky note widgets don't take up too much resources, and sometimes they can compliment the theme if you can change their colors.
Click widgets also lag it from what I've observed, especially if they are 4x3 like the Hero clock (although it looks so pretty!).
To me, this creates a setback on CyanogenMod firmwares. The one I'm on has 5 home screens and I don't know what to put on them, because I want a pretty layout and no lag. I can't have my (cup)cake and eat it x[
I upgraded my Nexus One from the stock 83G build to GRI40 and everything seems to work well, but I don't have the screen off animation where it looks like an old CRT TV turning off and when I'm scrolling through my apps and hit the end the yellow light doesn't come on. The funny thing is that I get the yellow light on other scrolling dialogs like my list of applications in the setting menu. Anyone else have these issues?
Go to Settings - Display - Animations and choose No animations then back to All animations. Then try again. It seems to be a quirk with some upgrades.
Thanks. This fixed the screen off animation, but I still don't get a yellow bar when hitting the beginning/end of my Application screen.
the application screen doesn´t have the yellow halo
As above, try scrolling something else, like the Settings.
Wondering if some of the bright developers around here would be interested in creating a configurable wiget to make things like turning WiFi on or off a one click operation - vs scrolling to settings, clicking to open it, clicking Wireless Networking, clicking WiFi to turn it on or off. Same thing for turning on/off 3G/4G, etc.
Even having a one click shortcut that would take you automatically to the Wireless Networking configuration screen would be a big improvement. Kind of like the ability to send a shortcut from the Wireless Networking Utility in Control Panel to the desktop in Windows.
Or is there already something out there to do this?
Try widgetsoid.. thats what I use on my Streak..it pretty nifty, you can add a lot of shortcut settings on the widgets.
Android also has a shortcut for indivual settings. Just add shortcuts>select shortcuts>settings>pick settings you want to appear on your screen..
One thank you point for ramtix...
Zeam Launcher does a lot of what I wanted, but I'm still willing to try wigetsoid...
In the last day or two, I've noticed that my Sense Launcher animations are abbreviated or non-existent. System animations are fine, but the Sense animations seem turned off entirely. The Developer Options setting for Animations doesn't make a difference, either.
Some of the animations I've noticed this for:
Opening the app drawer
Unlocking the phone
Adding widgets
Did I accidentally flip a switch somewhere? I'm still running stock everything.
So...I fixed this. Somehow. Still not sure what happened or what fixed it, but I did the following:
Installed Nova Launcher
Realized the app drawer animation still wasn't playing
Enabled Animations in Developer Options
Shut down the phone completely
Turned the phone back on
Everything was groovypants again
No idea what happened, but at least it's better now. :good:
Okay, just one more post. It looks like the Developer Options Animations setting is the key, but it doesn't fully-stick until after a reboot - though maybe it's not the actual reboot that's causing it, but rather the re-starting of the launcher.
Anyway, that's a whole lot of talking to myself, but I figured if I answered my own question it might help someone in the future.
Hey,
not sure if this is a Pie problem or not, it could be by design, I'm trying to change the lock screen wallpaper, sounds easy enough, I've changed it but after a few screen switch on's, the background just stays black, everything else shows, clock, notifications, just the background goes.
I'm not sure if its designed to do this as I'm going from AOD to the lock screen, I've tried various photos, different ways of changing it, different launchers, nothing will enable it to hold the background.
Any advice is greatfully appreciated...