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dkaufman1 said:
Jim - I don't use any desktop replacement software. So just native Android OS. I do use Wallr to change out my wallpaper on a regular basis. But the issue of the delay occurs no matter if Wallr is installed or if it is not on the device. In answer to your question then, when I press the home button it takes me to "center" home screen (eventually). Make more sense?
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OK, sorry I dont know why I was thinking you were using aHome...

Then Have you tested it with like one of the default wallpapers ?
 
Jim - wallpaper is really not the issue. But I can surely try that. My issue is after the wallpaper renders (2-3 seconds, which I can handle) the icons don't show up for 15-25 seconds.
 
dkaufman1 said:
Jim - wallpaper is really not the issue. But I can surely try that. My issue is after the wallpaper renders (2-3 seconds, which I can handle) the icons don't show up for 15-25 seconds.
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Well, i thought it might be possible because you said you had a 3-5 second delay before the wallpaper showed up ... ?
 
I wonder if there is any way of capturing the output of top while this "slowdown" is occuring to see if anything is hogging the CPU

edit: I do not mean dxTop, but the command line app called "top" which shows CPU and memory usage of each running process
 
Ageless Stranger said:
I wonder if there is any way of capturing the output of top while this "slowdown" is occuring to see if anything is hogging the CPU

edit: I do not mean dxTop, but the command line app called "top" which shows CPU and memory usage of each running process
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Walk me through it and I will try. I am sure there is something slowing it down.
 
dkaufman1 said:
Walk me through it and I will try. I am sure there is something slowing it down.
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Considering that top is a command line application, you will need to use "terminal emulator" from the market. Once you have installed terminal emulator, run it and you will be presented with the command line.
the command "top" is the one we are most interested in, type

top -n 1 <press enter>

after a short delay you will be presented with typical UNIX process information

PID CPU% S #THR VSS RSS UID Name
2110 4% R 1 908K 268K app_30 top
.... .. .. .. .... .... ..... ....
.... .. .. .. .... .... ..... ....
.... .. .. .. .... .... ..... ....
.... .. .. .. .... .... ..... ....

By default the application that is using the most CPU is at the top
top -n 1 will show 1 refresh update before exiting, changing the value to 2 (top -n 2) will refresh twice, experiment with this value. If you want top to keep running and refreshing just type top <enter>. If you do this and want to exit, hold the ball down and press the c key.
 
Ageless Stranger said:
Considering that top is a command line application, you will need to use "terminal emulator" from the market. Once you have installed terminal emulator, run it and you will be presented with the command line.
the command "top" is the one we are most interested in, type

top -n 1 <press enter>

after a short delay you will be presented with typical UNIX process information

PID CPU% S #THR VSS RSS UID Name
2110 4% R 1 908K 268K app_30 top
.... .. .. .. .... .... ..... ....
.... .. .. .. .... .... ..... ....
.... .. .. .. .... .... ..... ....
.... .. .. .. .... .... ..... ....

By default the application that is using the most CPU is at the top
top -n 1 will show 1 refresh update before exiting, changing the value to 2 (top -n 2) will refresh twice, experiment with this value. If you want top to keep running and refreshing just type top <enter>. If you do this and want to exit, hold the ball down and press the c key.
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When you do all the steps, which work, the last step of holding the trackball and hitting "c" results in a ^C stopping the process. If I just hit the home button it keeps running.

I will have to "catch the home icon issue" since right now it is loading as expected. Of course.
 
dkaufman1 said:
When you do all the steps, which work, the last step of holding the trackball and hitting "c" results in a ^C stopping the process. If I just hit the home button it keeps running.

I will have to "catch the home icon issue" since right now it is loading as expected. Of course.
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yes sorry, I forgot to make it clear that ^c terminates the process, otherwise it will keep running. I hope you find what it is you are looking for. I was hoping that top had the correct switch to pipe the output to a file so you could monitor it on a pc via USB.
 
dkaufman1 said:
I have been using Wallr to change my wallpapers a lot and I love it. I can't wait until non-rooted phones get the option to skin.

BTW - any change in the home screen time delay with themes? With my current non-rooted phone hitting the home button often has a 15-25 sec wait time until the home screen icons appear. A bit embarrassing when showing it off to iPhone users.
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Are you using a home alternative? Mine does it every now and then with a home alternative, think it just takes a few seconds to load. Haven't had problems with themes yet.
 
Raidersram said:
Are you using a home alternative? Mine does it every now and then with a home alternative, think it just takes a few seconds to load. Haven't had problems with themes yet.
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I tried a few of the home alternatives and have removed them, they along with the normal "home" as Rainer Wolfcastle says, "do nothing" and I still see the long delays. JustJim has 190 apps and doesn't see this so I really don't know why/how this is happening.

I know that in the past 5 days my battery is now lasting less than 8 hours with all high connectivity off (gps,3g,bt) and screen on dimmest setting. I might have a bum device.
 
I saw this infamous loading lag over the weekend, I was using aHome at the time and going from steel back to the desktop. I didn't have much else running at the time (I had rebooted an hour before hand), but had done quite a bit of surfing. I can only imagine that the OS was paging memory while the desktop was trying to load.
 
Ageless Stranger said:
I saw this infamous loading lag over the weekend, I was using aHome at the time and going from steel back to the desktop. I didn't have much else running at the time (I had rebooted an hour before hand), but had done quite a bit of surfing. I can only imagine that the OS was paging memory while the desktop was trying to load.
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I am using aHome and have only 7 to 8MB of free memory (195 apps)... and I am assuming that the stack/heap or whatever its name is for android gets full at times ... the last app ran doesnt seem to matter ... so when returning to the desktop aHome has to totally reload the pages ... but it does seem to take longer than if i went in and swapped to a different theme ...
 
punyweakling said:
Here's one I've been working on. Image caching is fixed in the new (unlreleased) version of Sweeter Home so I'll drop this theme the same time 0.16 is released in the market.
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Sweeter Home is definately sweet looking .... may give it a try after a few more version updates.
 
So aHome is the "pro" version? I am still a little lost on the different "home" replacements. Great video.
 
aHome is the paid and SweeterHome is the free right?

I think SweeterHome is a great name and was surprised that it was the free version. Confusing too that it's not a "lite" version.
 
I really dig the sweeter home stuff. I use dark rising 2.1 with my own background. It was far easier for me to tweak the skin than to make my own. I don't have those skills.
 
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