Default Live Wallpaper Battery Drain - Sony Xperia 5 Questions & Answers

The default Xperia live wallpaper is using more power than my screen! Anybody else experiencing this?

Use a different launcher and/or stop using stupid backgrounds which consume a lot of runtime. If you wanted to show a pretty animation on the screen you need a bigger phone and battery. A picture is enough to use as a backdrop. As soon as you start running video or 3D vector graphics you are running your GPU which will drain your battery.

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[UPDATE] Go Launcher 1.20

Go Launcher v1.20
Requirements: Android
Overview: Go Launcher is an amazing home replacement app for Android.
-Extremely smooth scrolling
-Convenient icon pop-menu
-Gesture supported
-Useful app drawer to uninstall apps and kill tasks
-Removable screen previews (Up to 30 screens)
- NOW SUPPORTS PUTTING APP ICON IN FOLDER
Keywords: launcher home desktop fast access uninstaller taskkiller recommended
Recent changes:
-New app drawer folder:Drag the icon overlay to create a new folder
-Supported scrollable widgets & resizable widgets
-Supported custom icons (test)
-Improved scrolling speed & response
-Fixed crash issues in Droid & Droid X (thanks Adam’s help)
-Fixed icon disappearance problem
-Fixed live wallpaper interactive response
credits : markinho
keeps getting better, thanks!
One thing I mentioned in email I wanted to bring up here for others feedback is that if I choose to not have the screen indicator at the top of the screen, and I hide the status bar, the few pixels reserved for the screen identifier should be given back/not used anymore.
I wont keep repeating how great work you guys deliver
1 point of improvement:
On my X10 it's impossible to resize the widgets...
Sorry, it works, this plonker forgot to enable it in settings
Cheers,
Arnold
I really like this launcher guys,great stuff. ill be honest, im still sticking with launcherpro FOR NOW, but im closely watching this app because its got great potential.
just a little suggestion: adding option to configure the press-icon highlight color...a lot of people are anal about their phone's appearance and the current yellow color can really counter-act with some peoples theme
just one mans opinion......keep up the great work!
I love your apps and this launcher is awsome.
Now i need a loooot of custom icons <----- any idea?
Add alphabet sorting in the app drawer folders
I really really like your apps
Actually I'm using all of them
Keep it up
BTW u got the best GUIs I've ever seen on an android apps
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How do I save the application settings??
Finally someone has done it!
Congratulation on this excellent home replacement. You are the first and only person to create in my opinion a better Home replacement than the default Galaxy S one. Doesn't need much improvement, maybe spring load the first and last app draw screens.
Very nice, and my thanks.
Add ability to choose custom docks and more homescreen rows x columns and im switching from lp.
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Nice launcher, really smooth. I've set the app drawer scrolling to portrait and I would really like the possibility to swype between all, recent and running apps.
Just a suggestion i'm already really appreciating your work!
Nice launcher and getting better constantly. However, I have had a problem of misplaced text label for the drawer taps for all the versions so far (see attached image). I have lcddensity=220 on Froyo, and have not tried on the standard 240.
It's a bit laggy for me at the moment and all widgets are gone after every reboot...
Too bad, because I love this launcher.
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The drawer's animation ruins all it's smoothness. Can you create an option to switch the drawers animation off ? Or change it with something smoother.
I really like this launcher, it's pretty clever.
I must say I do love this launcher, however after running it a couple of days it's showing up as a large battery consumer on my Droid Pro. (And unfortunanlty I can't afford to lose anymore battery on this device). LauncherPro normally runs 3-5% of my battery, and your launcher is pulling 10-12%.
Again, I'm a big fan, and definitely think this has potential, but until you guys can shave off some battery usage, I'm going to have to go back to LPro.
bwhite757 said:
I must say I do love this launcher, however after running it a couple of days it's showing up as a large battery consumer on my Droid Pro. (And unfortunanlty I can't afford to lose anymore battery on this device). LauncherPro normally runs 3-5% of my battery, and your launcher is pulling 10-12%.
Again, I'm a big fan, and definitely think this has potential, but until you guys can shave off some battery usage, I'm going to have to go back to LPro.
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I am in doubt going back to lpp too for the same reason. After setting go launcher as my defàult launcher, i lose around 8 till 10% an hour, which is way too much...
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How to disable the christman gift ?!
how to get out of christma theme!
steph-one said:
How to disable the christman gift ?!
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how to get out of christma theme?
go to dock setting for default style, and reset the wallpaper from preference menu.
Thank you
yeah it looks good
I'm having problems with my widgets not visually updating correctly on Galaxy Spica 2.2 (CM 6.1.1 alpha 8.2)
You can see an example here (look at the date of the calendar widget)
I have this on all my widgets, including the power widget

Launcher pro slug?

Anyone notice LPP not being as fluid as it usually is? its become very glitchy for me and widgets disappear (problem loading widget on waking the phone), just wondering if its happening to everyone or just me
The only time LP slows down for me is when I use a live wallpaper
I noticed it with Spark360, and SiMiClock, on my home screen, upon unlocking. Sometimes I have to remove and replace the widgets. I'm running LauncherPro on an Epic 4G.
shahm0nsterr said:
The only time LP slows down for me is when I use a live wallpaper
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yeah .... me to
For me it's lagging when I'm using 7 desktop screens. And of course with live wallpapers too. Running on a HTC HD2
I noticed that if the screan wall static - it is mint ....

[Q] How to maximize wallpaper on android

Hi!
I want to set maximized picture as a wallpaper, but now i must cut it before i set it.
What should I do?
How to maximize wallpaper on android
Hello ,
to maximise wallpaper on android actually it totally depend o n which type
device you use, your screen can be a huge battery consumer. Looking under your settings at ‘battery use’ gives you a breakdown of the biggest battery consumers. On my phone, the display is always number one, so I set it to automatic brightness, which works much better than using manual brightness settings via the Android Power Control widget .
Thank you,
try app "wallpaper plus"
OP, your Wallpaper needs to be 960x800, (providing your device is the usual resolution), to avoid the issues you are having.
I'm assuming up to now you've been trying to set one that is 480x800? The extra width is to take into account the Homescreens scrolling from side to side.
Hope that helps.
"Superwall Lite" will set any wallpaper without cropping, and scroll accordingly if needed. It is a live wallpaper, but it won't eat your battery the way most do because it's just showing an image.
I know that the original post was a while back, but just in case anyone else is curious. The app is especially good for using a vertical image, but you can also use really long images and the screens will move as such.
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Download andWobble2 as well as the live wallpaper add on for said program. You can use any picture with it, just select the one you want to use, load it, save it and use the live wallpaper to use that picture as your wallpaper. The weird android resizing won't take effect.
I'm using Wallpaper SlideShow, doesn't need to crop or resize image.

Scrolling wallpaper fix!

Ok I was annoyed about this as much as anyone else so I did some testing. Hold your homescreen, choose live wallpapers, choose Asus Myframe, choose settings, choose select folder or album, choose select photos, choose what folder you want to choose from, pick a picture, now while still in myframe settings choose effects static, slideshow interval 1 hour or whatever and check scrolling wallpaper.
Now you have scrolling wallpapers. I know it may use a little more battery since its a live wallpaper, but hey, works for me.
Thanks for figuring that out!
Not only did it make my favorite wallpaper image scroll nicely, but uses much more of the original than my ex-Prime's cropping method did. Couldn't figure out why Infinity's screen didn't use more of it with its larger resolution, but the regular wallpaper method used much less than on the Prime, plus it didn't scroll. Now in horizontal it uses the entire height of original and almost the whole width, in vertical also uses same/entire height but of course much less of the width, and both scroll perfectly.
I don't think the ASUS MyFrame will use any more battery than if it was regular scrolling wallpaper. All it will do is refresh the same image every hour but that's negligible. Great solution to a major (if only cosmetic) issue!
Dahenjo said:
Thanks for figuring that out!
Not only did it make my favorite wallpaper image scroll nicely, but uses much more of the original than my ex-Prime's cropping method did. Couldn't figure out why Infinity's screen didn't use more of it with its larger resolution, but the regular wallpaper method used much less than on the Prime, plus it didn't scroll. Now in horizontal it uses the entire height of original and almost the whole width, in vertical also uses same/entire height but of course much less of the width, and both scroll perfectly.
I don't think the ASUS MyFrame will use any more battery than if it was regular scrolling wallpaper. All it will do is refresh the same image every hour but that's negligible. Great solution to a major (if only cosmetic) issue!
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Glad I could help! :victory:
This is amazing, thank you! I missed my scrolling wallpaper from the Prime
How do i make it set the whole picture without scrolling along with the android pages. I just want to use my picture i took as a solid WP.
Awesome! I really missed this feature
I've been using projectM's live wallpaper instead of the static wallpaper, but that uses more battery I'm sure. Now I can have low battery consumption females again!
xPSYCHOTRONx said:
How do i make it set the whole picture without scrolling along with the android pages. I just want to use my picture i took as a solid WP.
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Use Picspeed wallpaper for that, choose what picture you want to use, then on the dropdown menu set as and use picspeed to set the wallpaper.

Theme Engine - Wake, Lockscreen and Desktop wallpaper Lag

Hi all
I've noticed from using the phone that when you set a custom Wallpaper or Lock Screen wallpaper, the phone lags on turning on, the lockscreen takes a second to come on (sometimes), and the same with the desktop wallpaper.
Seems to me the problem is tied directly into the theme engine.
Is there any way to get around this without having to use the Stock preset themes and not altering the wallpapers?
If there was an easy way to simply mod / add the wallpapers you want to use into the theme, or remove the wallpapers from the theme entirely then we may not get the lag any more?
Thanks for reading/
Xperia z3 wallpaper lag
Jonathan-H said:
Hi all
This doesn't happens when I use standard themes without additional wallpaper, mainly during pressing power key or waking phone after pattern lock, I think new lollipop upgrade may solve this issue
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