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[Q] Launcher Pro on Hero

So I am now making Launcher Pro my new Home application. The only issue with this is every so often my icons and widgets on my screen will disappear and re appear. Also maybe like twice a day I get a force close while using the phone. My question to all that use Launcher Pro on the Hero, does any of this happen to you? Also is there a way to fix this?
Rom - NfiniteX45 deoxed.
OC - HoneyBunV3
Did other mods like 270 Degree rotation.
Just putting what I have done on my phone because I do not know if this is the reason why this is happening. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

Hit menu > preferences > advanced settings > memory usage settings
there are a lot of settings here to tweak for you problem. first, try the bottom setting "prevent force-closes".
Read these 2 posts to understand what the settings mean:
http://www.launcherpro.com/?p=74
http://www.launcherpro.com/?p=93

Also make sure you save launcher pro as your default home. If you're not sure how, download home switcher from the market.
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Thank you both on your advice. I already had prevent force closing on. As for setting it as my default home, I made sure that was the first thing that I did. I will try to tweak the settings to a lower memory usage. After reading the 2 links it seems like it may help on a lower setting. This whole time I thought leaving it at a moderate setting would make it perform better. I will let you know my results after a day or so on my new settings. If you guys don't mind, can you give me your memory settings since we all have the same device? I know each device can vary but just to give myself a heads up on the scenarios.

While we all have the same device, I doubt we share the same number of homescreens, active widgets, large sized widgets, and shortcuts on the homescreen, if we use the scrollable dock, and if we choose a dock background... all of these affect how much memory LauncherPro takes up, and the more memory it takes up the more likely it is to force-closing / having to reload all icons.
I have 3 homescreens and the following widgets: calendar, music control, digi clock, weather channel (small), some dazzle control widgets, some Apps Organizer widgets, and a few shortcuts to apps. About 50-55% of my availalbe home screen area is full.
I also don't have a scrollable dock or dock background, and I don't use scrollable widgets.
Memory usage preset: medium
Checked: Use homescreen caches and Build caches as needed
Homescreen cache type: normal

I'm running a pretty minimal setup with 3 screens and only 4 widgets, with 1 dock, and sometimes I do get the thing with the screen refresh. I don't see force closes but occasionally do have to tell it to wait for launcherpro. Probably only happens a couple times a week though. I'm currently on the latest nightly 2.2 build, and previously on dd 2.8, and saw this on each. The refresh does seem to occur after closing out of memory intensive things, but comes back quick enough that it doesn't bother me.
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dpeeps74 said:
I'm running a pretty minimal setup with 3 screens and only 4 widgets, with 1 dock, and sometimes I do get the thing with the screen refresh. I don't see force closes but occasionally do have to tell it to wait for launcherpro. Probably only happens a couple times a week though. I'm currently on the latest nightly 2.2 build, and previously on dd 2.8, and saw this on each. The refresh does seem to occur after closing out of memory intensive things, but comes back quick enough that it doesn't bother me.
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Thanks for the reply trying all diffrent settings now. I am thinking about making the jump to 2.2 now that I have launcher pro as my home. I was just waiting for it to have everything working before going to 2.2.

Ever since installing 2.2 I don't get any of the issues I was explaining.

I'm on 2.2, have all the memory settings on launcher pro at maximum performance, with 5 home screens, lots of widgets, etc., with autokiller at strict, and I always have 40-50mb of ram free and no slowdowns/force closes. Just so ya can compare.

GoTo Lockscreen

Had never heard of this app until today and I love it... Thought I'd give it a mention.
It's a complete lockscreen replacement.

does it feel as smooth as the standard lock screen? or does it cause some lag?

decalex said:
does it feel as smooth as the standard lock screen? or does it cause some lag?
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I haven't noticed any lag.
The only downside in my opinion, so far, is that the gmail icon counter only shows the count of your primary account. Hopefully they enhance that to show counts of multiple accounts soon.

The biggest down side about apps like this is its not a true replacement for the lock screen.. It is just an app that runs over top of the default one.. I bought widgetlocker and now dont use it. I will sometimes see the stock lock screen or it wont have lag when locking it.. I tried GoTo and its about the same..
I came from the iPhone and used intelliscreen which just added stuff to the default lock screen.. Was amazing.. Wish someone could come up with the same type of mod for the android lock screen.. =[

pyrotech said:
The biggest down side about apps like this is its not a true replacement for the lock screen.. It is just an app that runs over top of the default one.. I bought widgetlocker and now dont use it. I will sometimes see the stock lock screen or it wont have lag when locking it.. I tried GoTo and its about the same..
I came from the iPhone and used intelliscreen which just added stuff to the default lock screen.. Was amazing.. Wish someone could come up with the same type of mod for the android lock screen.. =[
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Testing more, the only time I ever see the normal lockscreen is if I enable the option to disable the volume/camera buttons. I reported it, not sure what they'll do about it.
That said, I don't actually want that option enabled so I never see the normal lockscreen in my real use.
I also still have not run into any lag, but I guess that will vary based on a zillion different factors from person to person.
You're right though, I wish that things like this could be true replacements.

Theres a way to disable the lock.screen on htc devices but that's cause its a .apk with some digging around I'm sure someone can disable the tw lock screen. Doing so would allow you to use the app without the stock lock screen showing up. Not to sure about lag thought
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mysteryemotionz said:
Theres a way to disable the lock.screen on htc devices but that's cause its a .apk with some digging around I'm sure someone can disable the tw lock screen. Doing so would allow you to use the app without the stock lock screen showing up. Not to sure about lag thought
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That'd be cool... I'll have to search around.

I need to use the phone for a bit longer and test more, but I went into Titanium and froze TWLauncher and I am no longer getting the normal lockscreen, even if I disable GOTO, so I think it is gone.
I do see the normal lockscreen very briefly if I reboot the the phone, but it goes away in a split second and I don't see it again unless I reboot again.
Perhaps that is all that is needed.

This app is the bomb
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dmarden said:
I need to use the phone for a bit longer and test more, but I went into Titanium and froze TWLauncher and I am no longer getting the normal lockscreen, even if I disable GOTO, so I think it is gone.
I do see the normal lockscreen very briefly if I reboot the the phone, but it goes away in a split second and I don't see it again unless I reboot again.
Perhaps that is all that is needed.
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Nevermind... that SEEMED to work for a little bit, but now if I have the disable volume/camera option enabled I see the normal lockscreen for a split second again. It goes away quickly, but it does appear.
That said, I still never see it at all if I don't enable the disable volume/camera option.

Ok, I installed NoLock (free in the Market) and disabled the lockscreen with it and that works. I see the normal lockscreen very briefly upon a reboot, but never again after that.
I tested a bit longer this time before saying so, lol.

This thing works flawlessly for me. Sometimes my fat fingers have a hard time stopping on the text message one, but that is user error.

Goto is awesome... it even ran with no lag on my hero
Traced with Ultra Keyboard from my *Epic*

So I've been using this for a day now and I love it. Can change the shortcuts to similar apps, can unlock, doesn't make phone lag and it's only .99c
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I've also been using it for a day now, and it's a really nice app!
Been seeing the regular homescreen quite a few times though, will try to disable the "enable the disable volume/camera option"' option...

yeah as someone else said you have to use nolock (market) with any lockscreen app but i've heard that it does make it pretty flawless

You can do this and it's probably easier to change your lockscreen over and over, but you can navigate the system, or apply a new theme which either way can change the system files. Someone more knowledgeable than me can chime in as to what you need to do, I'm not sure if you can delete it and disable it that way or if it just puts something else up instead, but I definitely know you can theme the lockscreen because I have seen different ROM's have different lockscreens.

Thanks for.posting this app. Its pretty good.
Sent from my Evo Killer!!!

ive been using goto for roughly three months now.....
thats all i gotta say lol

What about the power consumption?
After 7 hours the battery is completely empty. This is not normal, right? ( HTC DESIRE HD )

[Q] Anybody have issues with ADW or LauncherPro getting knocked out of RAM on GRI40?

I just updated to Gingerbread. I used ADW and LauncherPro without issues on FRG83, however, in GRI40. It gets knocked out of memory (I think) everytime I open an app. So when I click home and choose one or the other, it has to always redraw the screen and the app drawer, taking atleast 2 to 5 seconds. I have used the same settings I did on FRG83 (system persistant, prevent FCs) and it has not helped.
Can anyone provide some suggestions?

Try to reset adw...
Or do you have the adw's keep in memory setting on?
I'm using adw too, and updated to gingerbread also without any problems.
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I'm using Launcher Pro and haven't had any issues with it on GRI40 so far.

Yes I have the keep in memory setting for both those apps checked.

Launcher crash

So its starting to annoy me. Does anyone else have an issue with whatever launcher they use it kind if restarts when hitting the home bbutton from an app? I've noticed it with GB launcher adw, xperia launcher. Its annoying because I hit the home button it freezes for a second and I have to wait for my app drawer to load. Does anyone else have this issue? I've come across it in all roms froyo and gingerbread alike.
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Not an issue for me with LP+

Yup... happens to me on any launcher but not after every app-it seems random. I am assuming that Android is killing it to manage memory and then I restarts when home is pressed or I back out of an application to the home screen. Btw, I am running GR-11.
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DaveyBB said:
Yup... happens to me on any launcher but not after every app-it seems random. I am assuming that Android is killing it to manage memory and then I restarts when home is pressed or I back out of an application to the home screen. Btw, I am running GR-11.
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Thats what I'm thinking. Yeah its not after every app close. Is there anyway we can change it so the os doesn't kill it off?

I have the "prevent force-closes" options checked in launcherpro and it usually doesnt close off the homescreen. In the off chance it does close, the launcher needs to rebuild the app drawer etc etc.

Did some more research.
It fixed it for me completely just go into the terminal app (if you don't have one get it from the market), Continnum 5.4.1 came with it.
use this command.
su {hit enter}
echo ro.HOME_APP_ADJ=1 >> /data/local.prop {hit enter}
reboot {hit enter}

I found what you taught is quite useful. I am not sure whether the script affect all the launcher or default one with OS?

[Q] Menu Delay

I noticed that there is a delay in scrolling in the app menu (using 'page' layout) from ticking the "Applications" Icon to scrolling. for me it takes about 1-2 secs before the page starts moving. I
Is this true for everyone? I'm waiting on CM7 tho.

What rom do you use & what launcher?
2 seconds to response is way too long. Try to reset factory settings first or too many running apps can eat up your RAM space & slower overall performance.
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Im using stock rom, rooted...its weird really, when i use other layouts, other than 'page', theres no delay.

You might wanna try out using different launchers?
To name a few, there are Go Launcher, ADW Launcher, Launcher Pro.
Give it a try..