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Help The laggy Live Wallpaper glitch

dabomb224

Android Enthusiast
Jul 20, 2010
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So as many of you may have noticed by now, Live Wallpapers (with the exception of the default Phase Beam LWP) are extremely laggy on this phone. It is impossible for this to be due to the hardware, as most of these LWPs run twice as fast on my old, stock Droid X as they do on the G-Nexus. Examples include both stock LWPs (Water) and downloaded LWPs (City at Night).

Clearly, there is a software issue at work here. My first question is, has anyone already figured out a fix for this? My second question is, is there anyone here with enough coding know how to explain why every LWP, both stock and dev created, would run at half the speed as my Droid X (with the exception of the Phase Beam LWP)?
 
Kill live wall paper and save yourself some battery. Turn it on to show off to ifruits only.

Straight black wallpaper...

Wow... I just switched to normal wallpaper & this phone is flying. The only problem showing live wallpaper to ifruits now is they would want to hold it and most likely everybody skips through homescreens & with the live wallpaper it sucks so much lag :(
 
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Wow... I just switched to normal wallpaper & this phone is flying. The only problem showing live wallpaper to ifruits now is they would want to hold it and most likely everybody skips through homescreens & with the live wallpaper it sucks so much lag :(

Apologies, but please try to keep the discussion on track. This is a thread for raising awareness and looking for a solution, not for bashing other phone companies or for discussing how we shouldnt use LWP.

Could someone possibly link me to the Google LTE Nexus defect tracker/bug reporter?
 
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Apologies, but please try to keep the discussion on track. This is a thread for raising awareness and looking for a solution, not for bashing other phone companies or for discussing how we shouldnt use LWP.

Could someone possibly link me to the Google LTE Nexus defect tracker/bug reporter?

Really? I didn't see it as bashing if Live wallpaper is useless right now no point in showing off... That's all I was just trying to say as reply back to the other person.

I have no problem in using LWP if it actually works ....this has noting to do with battery saving and etc...

The link you are looking for: Issues - android - Android - An Open Handset Alliance Project - Google Project Hosting
 
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I really hope this can be fixed! Its really upsetting that my gf's 2 month old sgs2 on sprint doesn't even flinch with the same live wallpaper that brings my gnex to its knees :-(

Good thing it's a Google experience phone. Otherwise, you'd be waiting 6 months or more for an update. That is why the Droids just don't interest me anymore. Google direct updates FTW!
 
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