Help Nova Launcher Redraws

[PhilosoRaptor]

Anyone else seeing a lot of redraws with Nova Launcher? Esp. after playing a being in almost any app for a considerable amount of time. It seems when I'm in the browser, market or any game for more than a few mins and hit home, it takes the phone at least a 5 secs or so to redraw all my home screens. Sometimes it's OG Droid slow, which I find very excessive for a phone with 4 times more RAM than my old Droid.

I'm rooted, so I tried doing the old 'edit the build.prop' trick (forgot the whole command, but it has something like "adj=1" in it), but it didn't change anything. Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this and found a fix. I don't know why the phone would have to purge the launcher from memory in any situation, it should take the most priority out of any background app, IMO.

Thanks for any help.

PS. Mods, I know I said I was rooted and I'm on a Verizon Nexus, but I would like to keep this in the root Nexus forum for more visibility and for the fact that this issue could easily pertain to stock and GSM Nexus phones too. Thanks

 

[jbdan]

Are you by any chance using the latest beta I think its 1.02? I actually went back to v15 (pre v1.0 release) as overall it is much smoother and more responsive. Just my experience.

 

[Tim K]

I'm on a rooted VZW Nexus. I had some redraw problems with some of the early beta versions but nothing like that on the late beta or production versions. Do you have a lot of widgets running?

 

[dhworph]

Are you by any chance using the latest beta I think its 1.02? I actually went back to v15 (pre v1.0 release) as overall it is much smoother and more responsive. Just my experience.

do you have a link for v15? I thought it was smoother too...

I get redraws from time to time, and yes probably mostly after being in an app for a long time.

 

[jbdan]

do you have a link for v15? I thought it was smoother too...

I get redraws from time to time, and yes probably mostly after being in an app for a long time.

I don't sorry. What I did is just reflash aokp b27 as it comes with nova 15. I'm sure you could also extract the nova apk out of the rom zip as well.

 

[cbeng]

It's a bit of a process to set up the first time, but I would recommend the latest V6 supercharge script with a modified services.jar (assuming you're rooted). All but eliminates launcher redraws.

Sorry I don't have the links handy.

 

[RichSz]

I found the redraws happen when the phone has been up for a while (no reboot). Rebooting stops them for a time. I recently got the version from the Market and haven't seen those redraws yet.

I suspect a memory leak or something similar.

 

[gapi]

I found my life has been a little less complicated since I uninstalled Nova Launcher.

 

[PhilosoRaptor]

I found my life has been a little less complicated since I uninstalled Nova Launcher.

Yeah, the only big reason I stay with it now is so I can easily backup and easily restore my home screens after I switch ROMs. Every other launcher backup I've seen doesn't restore widgets and that's about half the stuff on my homescreens. The stock launcher on Codename Android pretty much has the rest of the features I want.

 

[Tim K]

I uninstalled it early on when I was getting a lot of lag and redraws, but the later versions have been solid. I can't go back to the stock home screen though. The ability to customize icons is too valuable to me. Plus I like being able to change the number of home screens (I currently only rock 3 but I like the option). I'm not willing to shell out $4 for the premium version though. I'd really like the feature of hiding icons in the app drawer, but its not worth $4 for me. $2 I think I'd pay.

 

[PhilosoRaptor]

Well I just fixed it by installing Apex Launcher. Seems to be considerably faster and has all the features that Nova has while adding to it still. Haven't seen a redraw yet with it . Though I literally just got my home screens set up and have only been playing with it for about a half hour. Great first impressions so far though.

 

[99problems]

i found my life has been a little less complicated since i uninstalled nova launcher.

+100

 

[PhilosoRaptor]

Well a day later and I see multiple re-draws in a row on Apex Launcher . I am disappoint. Why don't devs have the option to lock the launcher in memory like LauncherPro does/did? I don't know why it's an issue in the first place though with a device that has 1GB of RAM at its disposal.

 

[Brianray14]

Well a day later and I see multiple re-draws in a row on Apex Launcher . I am disappoint. Why don't devs have the option to lock the launcher in memory like LauncherPro does/did? I don't know why it's an issue in the first place though with a device that has 1GB of RAM at its disposal.

If you're to look in the APEX settings (i know there are a ton,) you'll find "keep launcher in memory." I'd point you in the right direction, but i'm using nova currently with no issues. What I've found that seems to help reduce redraws is to make sure you have a good amount of available RAM after app restoration before sticking with any ROM you flash. If you install all your apps and find 80-100MB only of free RAM, redraws are inevitable

 

[bassdelux15]

I'm running 1.1.4 (with Prime), haven't ran into any problems with it at all. Though I'm also using AOKP + Franco Kernel, so that's probably a factor.