How many widgets is too many?

[altimax98]

How many widgets do you have on your home screens... Im using ADW launcher now (just started) and im hoping it will run my 14 widgets on 5 screens Helix 2 couldnt handle the pressure

How many do you guys have running at one time?

 

[empyreandance]

How many widgets do you have on your home screens... Im using ADW launcher now (just started) and im hoping it will run my 14 widgets on 5 screens Helix 2 couldnt handle the pressure

How many do you guys have running at one time?

Hmm never thought of that, I have

Screen 1: EnGadget, News Widget, Audio Manager, Scoreboard

Screen 2: Beautiful Home Large, Earth Rotation Live Wallpaper (Not quite a widget, but it updates regularly like a widget so I'll include it)

Screen 3: Power Toggle, SetCPU, CacheMate, Titanium Backup, Pure Messenger

So, 11 on my end and my droid handles it smoothly, running at 900 MHz. Battery life is great too with profiles.

 

[xmr405o]

Dang that's a lot of widgets. I only got 5 widgets haha. I'm also using ADW with the NexBeast V1.0. Let me know how it goes.

 

[droidftw]

12 on gde and runs very smooth at 1 ghz

 

[gwwjpd]

23

Home - Beautiful Widgets (Beautiful Home)
Left - Power control, TasKiller widget-(just to see available memory), BatteryLife, CacheMate, LEDs Hack and MotoTorch
Right - Pandora, Music, YouTube
Top - Calendar
Bottom - Weather Channel, News and Weather Genie, 3Banana, and 9 RSS widgets.


This setup is running smooth and fast for me:
NexBeast V1.0
P3Droid 1.2GHz
Sweeter Home 2 - SweeterHome - Start - sweeterhome.com

 

[YankeeDudeL]

I'm using NexBeast OCed to 1.2GHz w/ Helix 2 and a custom live wallpaper. I have 14 widgets up and I experience no lag. Majority of those, however, are inactive widgets (such as toggles). If I go to "Manage Applications", there's only 6 using memory.

 

[MisterMixelpix]

I have the clock, power, Pandora, Facebook, Twitter, Calendar, and maybe one or two others. Any more and I just wouldn't ever use 'em. The two screens on either end of my Inc are bare because frankly I don't like scrolling that much.

 

[nightfishing]

113 would be too many. At least on the Inc

Mine:
-3:Friend Stream
-2:K-9 data killer, Battery Left, wifi,bt,mobile,gps,air,mylock
-1: Agenda
0: WB, Profiles, BW, Handcent
1:none
2:Bookmarks
3:none

So, 15 (ha,ha,ha) 15 widgets for me.

 

[Roze]

-2: SMS Unread count, Gmail unread count, youtube, astrid tasks
-1: My Days Mini
0: all widgets: power control, info widget, smooth calendar, music (stock music player)
1: none (game apps screen)
2: Google search, FB

So 11 widgets, running on HelixLauncher 2...which has some issues with maintaining widgets...FC a few times I only use 5...7 home screens are just way too many!! lol

 

[Lukehluke]

I think it depends on the phone but 10 - 20 should run fine

 

[altimax98]

lol alot of you run the same as me lol

HOME: Beautiful Widgets (Smaller home), Messenger Widget (love it) K9 Email widget, BW Vibrate, BW Silent

NEWS: Engadget (worst widget known to man), News, Weather Channel, Titanium Backup, Set CPU

OTHERS: Facebook, Music, Calender, Picture Frame

Ive been running ADW on BBV1.0 OC to 1ghz and its running great

 

[blackvyper]

I'm running 12 widgets on 3 screens with ADW... altogether I have 25 program shortcuts and widgets on these screens.

 

[KlaymenDK]

On my Galaxy (running stock JC6 rom) I have:
Left: No widgets, but 12 shortcuts to Apps Organiser categories (I almost never use the apps drawer).
Home: CalWidget, JuicePlotter
Right: stock Power Control, MomentFlash, Toggle APN from Juice Defender
... so 5 widgets (and 12 shortcuts) total, and my phone is lagging all over the place - not just in Home but in all apps, all the time (going back to Home easily inludes 5-10 seconds of black screen and maybe a Force Close notice). This ROM is getting replaced tomorrow, when I'm again near my USB cable!

[Edit: It seems that JuicePlotter was the speed culprit. Once that was disabled, everything flowed nicely again.]