WARNING: Be careful about changing the scale setting to 0 for both Window animations and Transition animations. On my phone, the options are now permanently grayed out and cannot be changed. I wanted to add this as a warning to anyone who might be tempted to change the settings mentioned below to "see if it works on my phone".
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Settings -> Developer options -> Animations (scroll down)
In this section, you can change the scale/speed of the windows and transitions animations. I am fairly sure that I'd initially changed the settings through all the permutations, to get a feel for what I preferred, including having both of the settings off. (Software version: O2 - UK - 1.26.xxx)
I just updated the system (O2 - UK - 1.28.206.9) the other night and along with changing other options, I re-visited these options and at some point, changed them both to 0/Off. At that point, both of the scale options became grayed out and the Animation setting un-ticked. Ticking the option does nothing (whereas I would expect it to re-enable both settings, at default values). [I suspect ticking the option attempts to 'enable' the other two settings, but as they are both still at 0, the options immediately disable and the animation option gets un-ticked.]
I'm currently stuck with a very 'snappy' phone and thankfully it is still completely useable, but I'm annoyed that:
a) this bug exists and I've just swallowed it
b) I can't find any information on the web of how to fix this
I have seen someone else post about this issue on some other forum, and they mentioned doing restarts, factory reset, etc., but wasn't able to resolve the issue, so I'm not planning on doing that myself.
Perhaps someone is aware of a settings app, launcher, etc., that might have these animation settings available and therefore, might allow me to reset the underlying system settings.
-Jim
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Settings -> Developer options -> Animations (scroll down)
In this section, you can change the scale/speed of the windows and transitions animations. I am fairly sure that I'd initially changed the settings through all the permutations, to get a feel for what I preferred, including having both of the settings off. (Software version: O2 - UK - 1.26.xxx)
I just updated the system (O2 - UK - 1.28.206.9) the other night and along with changing other options, I re-visited these options and at some point, changed them both to 0/Off. At that point, both of the scale options became grayed out and the Animation setting un-ticked. Ticking the option does nothing (whereas I would expect it to re-enable both settings, at default values). [I suspect ticking the option attempts to 'enable' the other two settings, but as they are both still at 0, the options immediately disable and the animation option gets un-ticked.]
I'm currently stuck with a very 'snappy' phone and thankfully it is still completely useable, but I'm annoyed that:
a) this bug exists and I've just swallowed it
b) I can't find any information on the web of how to fix this
I have seen someone else post about this issue on some other forum, and they mentioned doing restarts, factory reset, etc., but wasn't able to resolve the issue, so I'm not planning on doing that myself.
Perhaps someone is aware of a settings app, launcher, etc., that might have these animation settings available and therefore, might allow me to reset the underlying system settings.
-Jim
