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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Souai:
hmm, my note should arrive either later this week or early next week. i might try out shell3d to see if it works well with the note.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] clubtech:
Try zeam launcher and disable wallpaper scrolling in the settings. The smoothest launcher I was able to use on the note.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] ajoshi:
What's your opinion on QQ launcher?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] daoutlawz:
Seems like it'll run good only problem for me is that the icons don't seem customizable otherwise I would have made it my default.

QQ Launcher is laggy as well for me :(

I've removed elasticity from GoLauncher and it seems better then before.

I have noticed one thing and that is most apps besides games don't seem to utilise graphics card acceleration..
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] mircury:
I use GoLauncher and froze touchwiz and the accuweather stuff. I'm coming from a custom ROM Infuse and the UI seems just as fast. No lag. With a swipe up on any icon in the tray I can put custom apps, direct dials, direct txt....
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] fards:
none of these should be lagging..

can some get some logs from when you're trying to use them?

I guess the 2d UI isn't hardware accelerated, but still it shouldn't be lagging.

is there a build.prop about anywhere ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] daoutlawz:
Which rom are you using and where did you get it from? Couldn't find any custom ones in the dev section..

I would also like to kill alot of these euro apps I'm not using
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] mircury:
I'm using rooted kj4. I was just saying that I'm coming from a custom rom ATT galaxy infuse. I used Titanium backup to freeze the bloat.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] faxe78:
Right now adw launcher ex i tried a lot of settings and it is working fine now.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Thehu:
Plus 1!

It works flawless:):)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] bergixx:
I use SPB Shell 3D in "Tablet-Mode"
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Techvir:
Found that the lagging is gone when phone is connected to charger.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Souai:
hmm, my spb shell 3d works... but the problem is, i can only choose between tablet and phone interface.

phone interface will revert to the 4x4 grid...

tablet interface gives me like a 16x16 ish grid... which looks kinda odd on a 5.3inch screen... ah well, maybe they'll give more options in a future update...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] dannstarr:
This 'what laucher' this is doing my head in. The ones which I can customise to my liking are full of lag, and the silky smooth ones I cant get them how I want them.

Launcher pro I have set up to perfection (well, almost... I always used adw launcher, and I had it set so that a downward swipe would open my app drawer... I liked that)

But now that its set up, there is too much lag for me. I keep going back to TW, but then I remember why I look else where.... WTF is with the app draw, they are just all over the place. I have enough trouble locating the app that I want when they are in alphabetical order, let alone just randomly thrown in
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] clubtech:
For ADW, try to disable the scrolling wallpaper and then it should a little better.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] mdalacu:
I am using Go Launcher EX. I have a little lag but i can live with it. The only problem is that in GO Switch Widget i can not choose what toggles to use, it does not work in edit mode, i can't drag the icons...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Souai:
its touchwiz, you can rearrange the app drawer manually. just do a page for certain apps, like games, etc.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] rolphez:
Will give spb shell 3D a try...

By the way from your screenshot it seems to me that you're a Christian... It's great to see that there are still some out there who are not ashamed of their faith and by revealing the Bible software clearly installed on their device.

God Bless you.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] RashaMatt:
I don't care what you believe. Good bless you every one :D

We are the 100% !
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] daoutlawz:
Back on topic! I noticed that changing the Density to 240 seemed to increase the speed of GoLauncher

Edit -- Correction 240 density with ADW Launcher Ex is the absolute bomb! Now I'm finally enjoying the note! Zero Lag
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] goofy584:
Best launcher

Hi,

tried most of the launchers and for me the best (no laggs, stable, ...) is ....

ADW Launcher Ex!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] wonsanim:
Fixing or without fixing the screen density?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] uvz:
I agree with you

I'm using at 240
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] asci:
How to fix density?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] goofy584:
without for the moment :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Keethos:
I've tried out Launcher Pro and it's working relatively fine, I can feel a slight lag compared to TW but it's only slight so I can live with it. The thing is....I've been using a Dell Streak for just over a year now and I've pretty much always used the Streak in Landscape mode....but for some reason now I'm finding myself using the Note more and more in Portrait mode.

The annoying thing is that my layout will be fine in one orientation but then skewed or stretched in the other.....anyone know of a launcher that will just rotated the icons/widgets as they are located/sized instead of shifting them and then stretching/skewing them?

Also, anyone know how I can use the Widgets from TW in other launchers like Launcher Pro? I really like the Calendar and the Application Monitor is pretty handy too.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] goofy584:
+1

would be fine
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] wonsanim:
+1 I also like the idea:D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Keethos:
Alternatively, is there a launcher that has 2 separate setups for landscape and portrait? I.e. you set your layout in landscape and then you set a different layout for when in portrait?

I was using a Calendar app called Business Calendar on my streak and the widget for that was fairly similar to the new S Planner but didn't look as nice and I find it annoying that I have a perfectly decent Calendar but can't fully utilize it because of the widget being tied to TW :(
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Guitarfreak26:
How do you guys run adw ex? Mine keeps going weird, as if its the wrong density... the menu is off screen etc.. and im on 320
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] daoutlawz:
I found without changing screen density adw ex was terrible, once it was changed though it for some reason flew! And left the others to shame.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] uvz:
root note

install lcd density on the market

(or manually midify the build.prop file)

I think that it is impossible for now to have two different configuration for portrait and landscape desktop

in fact tw is only in portrait

try others launcher and set the grids in square 4x4 5x5
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] ccristal:
I bought SPB Shell 3D from the Market, and I find it an absolute delight to use. It's smooth as butter, but it's not without drawbacks:

as previously reported, the grid is not customizable. It's either 4x4 (phone mode) or 16x16 (tablet mode);

widgets are not resizable;

4xn widgets, with n=1, 2, 3 or 4, get rendered as 3xn. This is a bug that has been reported to SPB, but with no answer so far.

there's no free version, so to try it you will have to buy it, and it's not cheap. It's about £9.

And here's the reasons why I eventually discarded all the other launchers that I have been using:

Go Launcher EX: the most customisable one, but laggy when scrolling;

LauncherPro: very good performances and good customisability. A solid player in the launcher arena, but no "Wow!" factor. Also, the updates are not very frequent;

ADW Launcher: not 100% sure, but I don't think this is actively being developed anymore.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Kangal:
I've been thinking the same thing. Maybe we can squish a 5x5 grid on there, and the icons just tilt 90' as you go from Portrait<->Landscape mode.

I know what you mean about the widgets, its a part of android's "fragmentation". Don't worry someone might retrieve it later, just dont hold your breath.

Can anyone test the MIUI Launcher (three versions v2.1 v3 v3.1):

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1220695

It was buttery smooth on my Moto CLIQ (which used a crappy gpu and 700MHz ARM11 compared to SGNote's Mali400 and 2x1400MHz ARM Cortex A9)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] tenko7:
Screen shoot pls...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] bergixx:
thx u2 :-D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] daoutlawz:
Check out the other thread about post your own home screen i've got one in there with that density ;)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] tenko7:
Ok... Thks...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] iBrummie:
Gave the following a try:

ADW Launcher EX: Worked well but a few crashes with some widgets being incompatible

Go Launcher EX: Working a dream.

All the extra GO widgets are slick and smooth hence the reason I'm sticking with it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] holgalee:
Customising dock icons with Zeam

I use Zeam by default for both my SGS2 and the rooted NookColor. To customise the icons on your dock, you can use Desktop Visualiser (DV), then long press on the screen and add a shortcut, then choose DV to customise your icons. After that, drop this customised icon shortcut onto the dock. Do not use DV as a widget as the customised icon cannot be dropped onto the dock. The only thing you can't customise is the app drawer. To get around that, I have customised one of the action bindings e.g. swipe down, to open the apps. Problems solved!

Learnt these tricks the hard way and from other forumers, so thought of sharing them. Zeam is really speedy for both my devices and doesn't suck up battery, if you can live without bells and whistles such as in-drawer folders. If you must have folders, the SiMi folder app is great, especially when coupled with Swipepad.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] mig1401:
So far Launcher Pro looks the best. I use it with Htc Sense theme widgets
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] antoniomistretta:
Is on line the last version (16 november), (good for Note) of GoLauncher ex, on market!:)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] entaro:
Anyone found out how to do this? I really like the s planner, would be awesome if it can be used in adw launcher... Thanks.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Greenarcher707:
SPB 3D looks great and works fast on the note.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Jamez007Bond:
Sense 3.5 baby! :)

Sent from my manly device.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Army92:
That's not possible, because the widgets does only work with TW4.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] loonsy:
I was using Go Launcher EX and Lunched Pro previously but was experiencing intermittent lag, now i'm the latest Regina 3D Launcher and works great although took aim getting used to due to it's lack is not having more than 2 apply shortcuts in the dock.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] robdee102:
I thought the note was gonna absolutely fly. Im running launcher pro, seems the best so far. I'm a little dissapointed though. Not sure i wanna root, as i dont know if it will affect the ice cream sandwich upgrade. Its a shame about these launcher problems and the green hint to the screen sometimes and the red splodge on the camera in low light when pointed at a white wall. I dont wanna be dissapointed with the note but the problems r gettin me down about it. I came from a hd2 running american android, and believe me that device absolutely flew with less than half the power of this note.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] goofy584:
I flashed the abyssnote kernel 1.2 and I have no more lags! It is much faster now and go launcher ex works great!

Thomas
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] dawabz94:
AppZorter Lite for TouchWiz allows you to sort apps in TW launcher

Hope this helps :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] barabba85:
try touchwizz 4.5..work great
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] rcs1000:
GoLauncher and 240dpi

= happiness
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Oneiricl:
It's weird that people say Go Launcher is laggy...

I found ADW Launcher very laggy and Go Launcher works like a dream... There are some transition effects that seem to lag, but I use wave and in-cube for the app draw, neither of which lag.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] daoutlawz:
That's exactly what people are referring to when they say 'lag'
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Goodm7sn:
Experience with different launchers

I have tried all 3 launchers on the GNote , here is what ive found so far :

-ADWlauncher EX : is unusable , not scaling , menu cutoff at the buttom , couldnt make it scale without root to set the 240 dpi (im not rooted)

-GO Launcher EX : Lag , lag , with screen transitions (elasticity & speed reducing didnt help but a tiny bit) , no s memo notes widgets nor s planner . i have also noticed a weird discoloration of widgets and backgrounds (see attached pictures) which makes it very ugly !

-LauncherPro : again , lag , lag , with screen transitions (memory usage and transition speed lowering modification didnt help but a tiny bit too) ,no s memo notes widgets nor s planner . and again , i have also noticed a weird discoloration of widgets and backgrounds (see attached pictures) which makes it very ugly !

conclusion : back to the incomplete touchwiz which at least doesnt have that 16bit like discoloration on gradual color change , and it doesnt lag like all the others i used.

i have no idea why they lag , neither that colour halos! isnt this supposed to be an HD device with such great resolutions??! this device has the most powerfull hardware on android ever made! its really making me sad :(

if anyone have some feedback or tips on how to improve those launchers (make them non laggy at least) , please dont hesitate to post and help eachother out , afterall its this community that makes those devices glorious if their manufacturers fail.

P.S , as u can see in the attached files , Touch wiz has the highest quality image there , i didnt manipulate any , just annotated them.

Cheers.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Cruao:
You can use the s-planer in go launcher? I really love it.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Oneiricl:
The widgets for s-planner are not available though...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] uschi002:
I can really recommend the Zeam Launcher. It works very smooth and fast. Unfortunately it doesn't support themes and the possibility to set the dock icons is not very good.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] dawabz94:
Gave up

Kept SPD Shell, ADW EX, GoLauncher,ZeamLauncher and some other launchers to be notified abt updates but my current default is TWLauncher

And must be granted best smoothness !
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Goodm7sn:
yeah i did quite the same , kept golauncher to get notified when its updated , i also mailed golauncher developers and got this reply :

golauncher@goforandroid.com

7:07 AM (5 hours ago)

to me

Thank you for the information.

Your question already record, will be submitted to the relevant departments for the follow up, thank you for your use.

so hopefully they will resolve this issue
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] graysson:
I tried spb-launcher, go launcher ex, adw launcher and launcher pro.

Now im using zeam launcher.

I switched off wallpaper scrolling and it looks fine for me.

But i missed only 2 things with touch wiz:

landscape mode and changing the apps in the dock.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] faxe78:
You can change the dock icons in touchwiz. Just search in Google its a builtin feature.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] SquirtingCherry:
or you can go to the appdrawer and hit the menu button and select edit, you can remove and place icons in the dock.

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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] smood74:
I agree TW is the best launcher right now - butter. I've also played with the rest and it's been nothing but lag and dpi problems.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] defraguk:
Still not getting any lag issues with ADW, tried GO, that was laggy. I would stick TW if it did landscape, that is the only killer for me.

But having said that, I am having notification issues with ADW, anyone else seeing this?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] robmeik:
SPB Mobile Shell update

This launcher has been updated and now you can alter the size of the Android widgets!! It is a great alternative and it seems to make the Note even snappier all round, from responsiveness to opening and scrolling through the screens - a great alternative to TW!! :)

Some of the SPB widgets are excellent too!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] pjm77:
VTL Launcher. Not perfect but smooth enough for me and 3 very customizable docks are exactly what I need on the phone of this size.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] OpenMinded:
go launcher is able to scale for example fancy widget, which tw cannot.

I like Go Launcher Ex best, I do not use the nice graphics and have no lag.

I like the landscape mode.

I miss the Calendar Widget from Samsung, although the Go 1 is nice too.

There is also a strange behaviour when publishing a created drawing, it ends op on the Samsung launcher instead of Go, while Go supports the widget.

For now I hope fr0ggor's TW hacks will be applied.

I hate the lack of sorting in TW :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] thering1975:
I'm using tw 4.5 which has loads themes for it active apps and swipe to kill in draw etc

Gonna try and mod it as only issue is it's 5 rows when six is needed but it's snappier than original tw even if saving settings can cause a fc but restarts with settings saved
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] asci:
Where to download it?

THX!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] thering1975:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1061883

Again the only thing is it will give you 5 rows of apps not 6 no biggie tbh for me at the mo but decompiled to see what needs to be done.

Beta 22 allows for down swipe of app in app draw to close, you can also assign swipe up commands for all of the dock items.

Themes are downloaded in the tw4manager app itself.

To install 21 direct first download tw4manager on front page and install, then in the app click get latest version then when asked to install as system app click yes and configure how you want. when you select themes in tw4manager app its blank create a folder on your main internal memory called .TW4themes go back to app in themes section click on menu and refresh, and all the themes appear

you can try an activate landscape mode but its hit n miss, and as mentioned it crashes when trying to save but recovers imemdiately with the saves intact

root required obviously. however in the app DONT download the cm version option obviously
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] RASTANIUS:
New Launcher TFS

Waiting for this - looks auspicious:

TFS Shell PRO

Greetz H.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] tytung2020:
How to set the dpi? from inside Go Launcher? Or need root?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] eliashadow:
Needed root and one app that can change destiny.Im using LCD resolution from market.

One launcher pretty good without lugs is Zeam Launcher.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] knights.JayTana:
TW4.5, hardware accelerated or not?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] biggerswede:
LauncherPro

Hey all (my first post ;)

I've tried all of the above but the only one that rocks and gives me the fastest feeling of the Amazing note is the LauncherPro.

Baseband: N7000XXKK5

Rom: 2.6.35.7-N7000XBKK4-CL726587 root@DELL129 #2

Compilation: GINGERBREAD.XBKK4

Carrier: Sweden 3G

With speed setting to 10 everything is even faster than TouchWiz default. My friend also have the Note with exactly same information as me above and hisTouchWiz don't lag. Mine even lagged with animations and live wallpaper off. This lag almost had me ROOT but when I tested LauncherPro I didn't have to.

Proberbly will Root anyways but still ;)

Opera for web

Handcent for SMS/MMS

Swiftkey for keyboard

Estrong file manager

Regards,

Biggerswede
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] kanej2006:
Now THIS launcher is worth trying. It's the ONLY launcher that is silky smooth & VERY quick.

I tried every other launcher and the result was lag or bugs...

After trying SPB Shell 3D it looks absolutely fantastic, very very fast and 100% smooth...

Hell you can even resize icons making them bigger or smaller, taller, shorter, wider, etc...

I have just a few questions to ask you bergixx with regards to the SPB Shell.

1 - With the main menu, it allows me to scroll up/down only. Is there any way to change this to side scrolling as well as other scrolling effects?

2 - With the default home screens, I am not able to remove/delete them. There are a total of 10 homescreens, some of which have the calculator, G Note, etc. How can I remove a homescreen or simply remove the widget on the screen?

Apart from this, a great replacement homescreen that I would highly recommend.

I'm even willing to bet this launcher will be faster than ice cream sandwich when it's released, that's how quick it is.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] Criketj:
I use Adw launcher EX, is smooth except a few transition like "cube" :)

I love his folders
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] kanej2006:
I just tried MX Home Launcher, BEST launcher so far.

It's super quick, buttery smooth & best of all looks great...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] BenF1:
I bought ADW in the sale but it's way to laggy on the note at the moment, when it's more optimised I may go back to it. At the moment I'm liking touch wiz as it's fairly smooth.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] dawe94:
I use Go Launcher ond my rooted Note with ROMOW v3.5 with AbyssNote Kernel 2.3, governor set on ondemandx. So far no lags, only folder opening a bit slow.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] gothvell:
If you suffer scrolling lags, try in a terminal emulator:

su

renice -20 16

expect instant effect, if it works for you, you can add:

renice -20 16

in any script in /etc/init.d/

Tell me if it works for you, I can run Go Launcher EX & ADW Launcher EX very smooth on Rocket Rom v10.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] mdalacu:
Don't you have to specify the PID of some process?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] tytung2020:
Just use Spare Parts + to turn the animations to fast. Unrooted.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] jeromepearce:
Tris SPB, not impressed

Tried SPB, but it was a bit laggy. It was also pretty uninspiring for the Note as you cannot set the grid size. I tried 8x8, but it was too small for my old eyes. It may be OK for some. 4x4 wastes too much valuable space, and native widgets size poorly.

I tried Go Launcher, and it does the job very well IMO. I have set the grid to 6x6, and it seems perfect to me. Most Go widgets also size and re-size extremely well. No lag noticeable.

The best bit is I can use my app drawer to sort apps into folders much more easily than with the native launcher. That one was a PIA. Now I can use my app drawer properly at last, and leave my home screens for widgets and immediate shortcuts (which is what it should be for IMO, not a menu system).

I will try others when I get bored, but this works fine for me.