Tired of ADW EX redraws? Try "Mr. Home" launcher...

[Teegunn]

interesting, I am using Widgetlocker, and using GoLauncher. now i have ZERO apps on my home screen. 3 screens,18 widgets total. i am using desktop visualizer and some custom icons for everything on my home screens. and after doing the system/local.prop fix, i still have ZERO redraws.

went into spare parts, and dont have a an option for the task killer.
not using a task killer either.


Do you have your home screen set to rotate? i know that can cause redraws.

No I keep my display in portrait. Spare parts I believe has a cache manager and mine was set to aggressive. I changed it to normal. I have zero redraws at this point and the phone is faster overall after making the build.prop and other changes I mentioned above. Overall I am now very happy with ADW EX and the phone in general with GB on it.

 

[mahers]

Blur does have the ability to resize widgets. In fact, Im pretty sure blur did it before LPP, ADW and GoLauncher.

Not quite, my friend. Blur can resize Moto widgets only. It won't let you resize other app widgets.

I also followed Teegunn's suggestion in Spare Parts to change the Task Killer to Normal. Oddly, nothing was checked when I went in. I picked Normal, and PRESTO! No more redraws!!!!

P.S. Looks like SP was updated to SP+ if you want it to work with GB. OPtions are limited unless you are rooted, and no more Task Killer option!

 

[zeppelinrox]

Try V6 SuperCharger... you will forget what a redraw is...
[Script] V6 SuperCharger !! HTK & BulletProof Launchers! FIX MEMORY FOR ALL ANDROIDS!

 

[chmodx]

I recently installed Go Launcher and uninstalled it about 2 hrs later.

Before running it I got rid of all widgets/icons on my original home screens.

Go looked great and ran fine at first, but eventually became horribly slow. Scrolling from one screen to the next resulted in a redraw every time, programs not even launching when tapping on their icon repeatedly. Horrible.

 

[md88]

I recently installed Go Launcher and uninstalled it about 2 hrs later.

Before running it I got rid of all widgets/icons on my original home screens.

Go looked great and ran fine at first, but eventually became horribly slow. Scrolling from one screen to the next resulted in a redraw every time, programs not even launching when tapping on their icon repeatedly. Horrible.

It's funny how phones act differently. That was why I left lpp and went to go launcher and haven't had nearly the redraws I had with lpp.

 

[mac16]

Interesting how different phones respond to apps. Go Launcher is the ONLY launcher that doesn't lag on my phone!

Im in agreeance with this. Specifically go launcherex for me. It is perfect and honestly since I put it on from froyo to gb I have never seen any lag at all on my screen.

Also you have to remember redraws are more then likely because you have a lot going on your screens. i would consider eliminating the one you don't use as much

 

[MutantCheese]

redraws are usually NOT launcher specific. if it happens to one launcher, it will happen to the others as well.

there is a fix tho. did this a while ago and haven't had a redraw since.
using root explorer navigate to system
mount r/o
longpress on build.prop
open in text editor
scroll all the way to the bottom
enter the following text:
ro.HOME_APP_ADJ=1

press the hard back key and save the document
mount system again
reboot.

basically what is happening is the launcher is an app, and it gets kicked out of memory when memory gets low (hence why it happens to all launchers)...this is b/c the launcher is at priority 6, which is pretty low. the above hack puts the priority at 1, so it is the last thing to get kicked out of memory by the built in memory manager....

I have not had a single LPP redraw since applying this. Thanks again.

 

[givver]

I was just having the same problem with Go Launcher Ex redrawing a lot whenever i unlocked my phone using widgetlocker. I have an Atrix and it worked great on Froyo with no redraws. But as soon as got the ota update to Gingerbread i started getting lots of Redraws.
This drove me crazy for a few week until i decided to contact the developer of widgetlocker. They were very helpful and helped me figure out what the problem was. As it turned out it had nothing to do with widgetlocker but had to do completely with Gingerbread and it's aggressive memory management.
I was using a Task switcher (AppSwitch or Pre Home) and had it assigned to my Home button and was having it load Go Launcher. This setup worked fine in Froyo but in Gingerbread i got Screen Redraws a lot.
The fix was simple. I assigned Go Launcher Ex directly to my home button and moved my Task Switcher to the Long Press Search button.
I have not had a redraw since. It appears that Gingerbread will keep whatever program is assigned directly to the Home button in memory but not the real launcher. It was keeping Pre Home in memory instead of Go Launcher.

Fix: Make sure your launcher is assigned directly to your Home button and not being launched by a Task Switcher or similar app.

 

[B360155]

The fix was simple. I assigned Go Launcher Ex directly to my home button and moved my Task Switcher to the Long Press Search button.
I have not had a redraw since. It appears that Gingerbread will keep whatever program is assigned directly to the Home button in memory but not the real launcher. It was keeping Pre Home in memory instead of Go Launcher.

Fix: Make sure your launcher is assigned directly to your Home button and not being launched by a Task Switcher or similar app.

I'm not following your fix. Do you have to be rooted to perform these changes? If not, can you provide more detail on how to assign GO Launcher to the home button rather than launching it via a task switcher app (I use Home Smack). Thanks!

 

[bigbadwulff]

Only time a get anything like a redraw on Go is when I turn the phone off and reboot. If I leave the phone on or just shut the screen off, it works PERFECTLY. Rooted Froyo here.

 

[varaonaid]

redraws are usually NOT launcher specific. if it happens to one launcher, it will happen to the others as well.

there is a fix tho. did this a while ago and haven't had a redraw since.
using root explorer navigate to system
mount r/o
longpress on build.prop
open in text editor
scroll all the way to the bottom
enter the following text:
ro.HOME_APP_ADJ=1

press the hard back key and save the document
mount system again
reboot.

basically what is happening is the launcher is an app, and it gets kicked out of memory when memory gets low (hence why it happens to all launchers)...this is b/c the launcher is at priority 6, which is pretty low. the above hack puts the priority at 1, so it is the last thing to get kicked out of memory by the built in memory manager.

did this when i was on apex 2.0 (based on GB 591) when i was getting horrible lag coming out of pretty much ANY app. did the above hack, and haven't had a redraw in since then....so maybe 4 weeks or so. so amazing. even after using a heavy app like Plants vs zombies (thanks amazon appstore) it snapped right back to the launcher.

I know this is an older thread but I'm having redraws with any launcher and wanted to try this fix. I follow everything exactly but when I get to actually editing the text file, nothng will type into it. I can backspace and get rid of lines of code but not add any. I tried changing permissions so anyone could write to the build.prop file, I made sure I was in the correct R/O vs R/W mode. And, I tried two different text editors. Any other ideas how to up the priority of an application?

Thanks for the info!

 

[evltwn]

I know this is an older thread but I'm having redraws with any launcher and wanted to try this fix. I follow everything exactly but when I get to actually editing the text file, nothng will type into it. I can backspace and get rid of lines of code but not add any. I tried changing permissions so anyone could write to the build.prop file, I made sure I was in the correct R/O vs R/W mode. And, I tried two different text editors. Any other ideas how to up the priority of an application?

Thanks for the info!

Just a question for you....are you rooted? You have to be rooted in order to use Root Explorer.

 

[bigbadwulff]

Once I switched to Go, I never looked back. Works great for me. The Go keyboard? Well that is another story. It sucked. It's version of Swype was horrible.

 

[varaonaid]

Just a question for you....are you rooted? You have to be rooted in order to use Root Explorer.

Rooted? Definitely, of course. Makes for a happy phone.