A few days ago I installed the froyo aospmod from this thread: link, and I just love it as it does everything I need it to do and it's fast as hell, but the thing that is bothering me is that the launcher doesn't have any animations. For example when scrolling through homescreens or opening the appdrawer everything is instant and not as smooth as other third party launchers or the htc sense launcher. gingerbread launcher 2.3 works like I want it to with smooth transitions and effects but it has the new grey dock background and I really like the froyo (glass) background. So my question is there a fix for this or is there something missing? I really hope there is as I'd like to keep my phone as stock as possible and the gingerbread dock just doesn't seem right to me.
I have an HTC Sprint Hero in case that helps any. I've tried mixing the xml files from the anim folder from the 2.3 launcher to the launcher 2 but that didn't help any. I've been searching for a fix for the past two days so any help is appreciated.
Try more launchers. My favorite is adw ex. Launcher plus pro is nice. Go launcher is nice. Etc, etc, etc.
Thanks I'm using launcher pro at the moment, I just thought maybe there was a fix for this as I've seen other people with the same ROM and launcher but with the nice scrolling and transitions. Maybe its a hero issue? Hopefully someone does know a fix for this instead of replacing the launcher completely.
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Hello!
I've updated my phone to the official JP6-ROM from Kies. I like it, it's quite fast and feels better in actual use than the stock 2.1 I had when I bought it.
But, as with 2.1, TouchWiz is sooooo laggy. I'm glad they've added a 'glass' dock background to the homescreen for your basic icons, but it seems as if the lag / animations have remained unchanged (possibly gotten even worse).
Is there any way to fix this? Searched the forums but didn't find anything.
I use LauncherPro now, but if it wasn't for the lag, I would use TouchWiz Pro because I actually like its look.
Thanks in advance!
P.S.:
If there isn't any fix available, would someone be interested in optimizing it for JP6?
First I thought the same. Ohhh feels fast. But when you have many programms from the market and look in the helicopterview... omg...
Didn´t they test it with some more apps? I´m work with launcher pro. Look at it. It is better! You have many options to play with. In the paying version you have also some nice widgets. Give it a try.
I have 6 pages of apps. If I slide fast between pages it acts so laggy.. (this issue is not present in eclair). Also pinch to zoom out in app drawer it's extremly laggy.
Tried Laucher Pro (was a fan of this app before)... yeah, it's faster. But I like more the touch wiz launcher..
Problem is that when i use the latest version of LauncherPro after a few hours of usage i get.a really stupid but very sad bug. My notification bar won t get down when I drag it. Only menu > notifications. Darn stupi.
On 2.1 launcher pro was the only launcher i used. Ao nice so fast, and niw so buggy. Sh1t
Sent from Galaxy (No pun intended)
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Right now, I'm running CM 6 and I had launcher pro plus, loved the widgets but i found it was using up quite a bit of my battery. I'm trying to switch back to ADW launcher but I cant find anything close to the widgets that Launcher pro offered(i.e. bookmarks, messaging scroll widget). I've looked at beautiful widgets, pure messenger, and some other ones but can't quite find anything like it.
Is there a way to get sense widgets on cm6 other than launcherpro? Even the clock widget that has alarm+timer+stopwatch when you click it(i have weather widgets so it looks identical). And also the bookmarks4x4 and messaging scrollable widgets.
No you can not get sense widgets unless you are running a 1.5 ROM or Sense its self because the apps need to be ported along with the corresponding framework, which was done on some 1.5 ROM[look it up]. If you really want them search for a stable sense ROM idk if 32A has any but i know 32b does have a stable one by Xillius . Use Launcher Pro or Pro Plus and find a battery optimization apk as-well..
If you want sense... use a senseui rom. Simple as that.
Thread closed.
I've got a bunch of launchers loaded on my EVO, but my favorite ones for the G-Tab are ADW.launcher and ZEAM (XDA developed launcher).
I like both of them because they're snappy and offer a high degree of customization (e.g. being able to specify the number of columns and rows for both the workspace and the apps).
ADW.launcher seems a bit more customizable since it supports themes, but Zeam is nice because it gives you an app bar on the workspace that you can load up to 8 quick apps.
I still have a soft spot for Launcher Pro. I know that ADW has themes, but LP is fast and does what I need it to do. I have not found a reason to change, yet.
+1 for launcher pro. I liked the themes on ADW but I like the customizable buttons, configurable columns and rows and the widgets with LP.
Perchance I will try Zeam at some point, but in general I am happy with Launcher Pro.
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zeam cause its lightweight.
Launcher Pro here too.
I'm still playing with Sweeter Home. I like to completely customize the screen layouts. It isn't flawless in operation, but it does provide me lots of time to fidget.
LauncherPro. I like the features and being able to save/load my screen layout/setup is fantastic after flashing ROMs and reinstalling apps.
I prefer GDE but can't get it to work properly (menu's pop up flaky) on the GTab so I'm using LauncherPro.
Launcher pro. Light weight and fast.
Allways been a fan of launcher pro on my android devices it just works how i like
Do any of the themes allow more than sixteen icons per page? There is a LOT of space that more icons could go in.
Is this one of those "phone & portrait" os design constraints?
i'm an ADW fan on my Droid 1 and i tried it on my gtab but i found zeam to be better. its faster and smoother, more lightweight, and actually resizes wallpaper properly. i love adw's themes but i rather go with speed than with custom icons. also love zeam's dock, has tons of space for icons. only thing i don't like about it is that you can't save your configuration.
launcher pro i never liked. probably cuz i can get most of that stuff for free on other launchers. gotta pay to resize a widget? cmon now. also live wallpaper is really sluggish for some reason on launcher pro. keeps stuttering when i turn on the screen, no matter what live wallpaper i try.
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'm an ADW fan on my Droid 1 and i tried it on my gtab but i found zeam to be better. its faster and smoother, more lightweight, and actually resizes wallpaper properly. i love adw's themes but i rather go with speed than with custom icons. also love zeam's dock, has tons of space for icons.
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Same here. Zeam Launcher + MultiPicture Livewallpaper.
thats really cool! The light effects of that background are live?
I like gde but no icons with all the the themes. But... +10 on launcher pro
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Iam I weird for not running a launcher? I always feel like they slow the system down a bit. I might have to start because all these cool looking home screens are making me jealous!
Launcher Pro... but I think I might try zeam after reading this thread.
I prefer Tap n' Tap for my launcher... OK, who am I kidding
Actually, I use Launcher Pro as well, but I also noticed the live wallpaper stuttering and always thought it was because every app seemed to want to reload itself upon wakeup. However, with all of the love out here for Zeam, I'm going to have to give that a try as well!
has anyone tried the go-launcher?
SInce there are several launchers around I'm curious what the pro's and con's are for each... I think tis thread is going a long way to that. Maybe once we managed to get all the info together we could start making a sticky with pros/cons for each launcher...
Just a thought
For those of you who are Miui fans out there, I ran into a Miui Launcher. And it's as close as it gets to the official ROM's launcher. From no app drawer, to the dock, to the widgets, to the themes. After editing my build.prop and changing my VMheap and Maxperseconds or whatever that one is, I went back to the Stock Launcher and there were no redraws or any problems. I love Miui icons so i installed custom shorcuts from the market to add my Miui icons to my frequently used apps on my stock launcher. I love the blur effect when switching from screen to screen. Then Unfortunately, i ran into a problem. I found this Miui Launcher and man it is pretty amazing! Now i don't know which launcher to use so ima sleep on it and hopefully I can make a decision based on your feedback but check it out. I left the link to share with ya'll!
http://www.4shared.com/file/CNv35JyZ/MIUI_Launcher_21_by_Vipitus.html
http://www.redmondpie.com/miui-home-launcher-apk-download/
Yours truly,
Trenton
Miui seems cool to me, and that theme looks good, but I personally have no problem with the stock one (yet, As I'm still new to android devices). Only thing I'm trying to change is the notification bar.
How do I remove this launcher and revert back to stock?
Just go to settings applications then manage, and uninstall the miui launcher
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I tried this out the other day, a few apps are in chinese as well as the clock widget.
Hello!
I noticed, that in apex launcher i don't have some widgets that i do have in stock tuchwiz. For example the weather widget or s planer widget. I got really used to apex but I would like to use that widgets to. Is there any fix to this problem?
Btw, I'm using latest alliance rom (LSA leak).
Thanks
I was searching for a solution to this as well. This is a known issue currently without a fix.
The stock widgets comes from the Touch Wiz UI, therefore you can't find it in other UI. It is not totally impossible to make it available in other UI, but most users wanted to use another UI because it has better widgets and mods, so it is unlikely that you will find stock widgets in other UI. I personally prefer the SPlanner widget, so I am still staying on TW.
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