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[Galaxy S II General] majickal:
I dont have any particular problem with TW; It's not bad looking and i've never had any noticable performance issues due to it. The thing is, i really like control over customisation, so i use an AOKP rom with GOlauncher and it's great! (almost) all the customisation i could want. SInce switching to AOKP, i;ve noticed how much i miss some of the stock sammy apps which are not available on aokp... The clock, for example. Didn't relise how much i used it 'til it was gone. The samsung calendar app is lot better looking than the stock one too...

If it were possible to intergrate the TW framework into AOKP, i'd be all over it.

It certainly has it's strengths.

:)
[Galaxy S II General] keeganmccallum:
the touchwiz colour scheme has always thrown me off, too bright. also i find it very slow and unresponsive compared to aosp.
[Galaxy S II General] RS08:
I don't have anything against TW. It is simple and functional. But I am using SPB shell since my Windows Mobile time and as I bought the app also for my SGS2 I got used to it and don't want to change.
[Galaxy S II General] ritawb:
I like tw cause the apps are amazing, but i dont like the visual..
[Galaxy S II General] Skrilow:
I hate the general look of TW.Then,TW is not very fast on my phone,it jerks a lot.
[Galaxy S II General] MikeyMike01:
CheeseWiz has become tolerable, but it's not nearly as well put together as Holo.

Sent from my SGH-I777
[Galaxy S II General] Massa191:
I don't really dislike TW altogether. But I really have the need for control. Meaning if I want something else, I want to be able to.

Running BE ICS Resurection Remix 1.7 .

(will check if new version is available in a minute :D )
[Galaxy S II General] mustapharma:
I like the tw cause it have all wedget I need specially the digital clock and the weather wedget I never find a wedget better than them

So Anyone tell the best alternative so i can go for apex lancher

Thanks in advance
[Galaxy S II General] luminus:
Actually it doesn't matter if i like it or not and why, the OP has already decided for me that i just dislike it because everybody does.

So yes i do dislike it.
[Galaxy S II General] tgl0be:
I don't dislike TW, and didn't find any noticeable issues. IT might be better to have a choice though, because the whole Samsung TW package can be too much.

I recently moved to CM 9, and I have to say I don't miss TW, except for shortcuts in contact list (swipe to call/msg).
[Galaxy S II General] alvin551:
TW is just too boring now, its been out to long. If they just changed the icons to something new and fresh it would be more interseting.
[Galaxy S II General] T3rran:
it's a matter of personal preference. touchwiz is definitely not very configurable as other launchers I tested though. Apex Pro wins in my book...
[Galaxy S II General] Retardz N'Liarz:
The Touchwiz Launcher is quite awful.

It's laggy and doesn't have much qualities...

i prefer ADW EX Launcher or Nova.

Smooth as butter and very customizable.
[Galaxy S II General] welshbloke70:
Touchwiz launcher performance is very good, I don't see much (if any) improvement using other launchers.

Needs resizable widgets and a customisable dock.
[Galaxy S II General] shadowskorch:
The launcher itself looks terrible and is what everyone hates. The rest of touchwiz (notification toggles, sns integration, swipe to text or call) are all small quirks that make touchwiz generally okay. They just need to change the launcher. I use ADW EX, so I have all the benefits without the bad look
[Galaxy S II General] Lady_Chloe:
Looks too much like iphone, I quit iphone because the interface was ugly and obsolete. I am using the Spike pure ICS ROM to get stock Google ICS experience, which is much better.
[Galaxy S II General] kosmos2012:
I love touchwizz because its my first interface with a smartphone.

i had use a lot of others launchers but i finally ever return on touchwizz.

touchwizz is associate to the GS2 for me...

And one day when i change for an another phone i try and accept others launchers :-)

But now TOUCHWIZZ is my life

ENJOY

PS Sorry english isnt my favourite language to write a text......
[Galaxy S II General] RRhythmzxc:
Seem more like a hassle to me. So is just based on user opinion and likings.
[Galaxy S II General] vee4410:
Tw is okay but if it had more features like GO launcher it would be great.
[Galaxy S II General] scuzzbag87:
100% agree with the person. I freaking love touchwiz Idk why people hate it. I get mad every time someone says "get rid of tw and then its good" damn u people. I swear most people say it cuz its the cool thing to say so u could look like a big shot.
[Galaxy S II General] Bobblot:
I like TW but I prefer using CM9, I like some of the Widgets too especially the Calender and the weather. I wish I could have the weather widget with CM9 :D
[Galaxy S II General] MaKTaiL:
GS3 TW is looking awesome. I wonder if they will ever release it for GS2.
[Galaxy S II General] SwannyBhoy:
I've had my fair share of android phones with different launchers and have tried a few launchers from the market and from rom developers.

TouchWiz in my opinion is the best launcher for 2.3 and lower

Apex for 4.0 !
[Galaxy S II General] anotheran:
^ agree! TW added so many great features to GB like easy copy/paste, pretty useful task manager, folder capability, etc.

ICS just made so many UIs useless
[Galaxy S II General] scuzzbag87:
Touchwiz is not just the launcher ur well misinformed if u think it's just the launcher
[Galaxy S II General] littlebro:
There is nothing wrong with TouchWiz, just that other options are more attractive to some people. I am more comfortable with the MIUI interface. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
[Galaxy S II General] ferbulous:
I just think it looks too simple, not as cool enough like other launchers.
[Galaxy S II General] Akiainavas:
Touchwiz has nice functionality. It's the looks i really - and i cant stress it enough - really hate.
[Galaxy S II General] rossm1873:
For me touchwiz is so smooth, and scrolls through the pages the best, i also like how in the app drawer it still shows the dock icons. Its the only launcher ive came accross that does it. Unless anyone else has other suggestions? Its also the only launcher ive found that dispays dock icon names, which i really like :)
[Galaxy S II General] Jojotron:
The new Touchwiz from the S3 looks amazing too with its new functions.
[Galaxy S II General] norpan111:
You get mad..when someone doesn't have same taste as you? Must be hard...
[Galaxy S II General] dan1431:
TW is not bad, it is just sometimes too much.

I will go even as far as to say that under Gingerbread TW 3 was very well done.

What bothers me most about TW is that ICS is so well done that TW is somewhat redundant.

I have to give credit for the drop down menu toggles found in TW which is really well done.

Another ding against TW is the fact that Samsung decided to not include stock ICS keyboard which is about the best keyboard i have used to date.

Dan
[Galaxy S II General] PureLogic:
nice functionality but lacks in the looks department, in my opinion. ;)
[Galaxy S II General] Reno Skyy:
Stock ice cream sandwich looks the best! :-D
[Galaxy S II General] bartoloandre98:
Guys get ur facts straight,touchwiz is not just the launcher

Sent from my SGS2 powered by cm9 love
[Galaxy S II General] scayre32:
TouchWiz? No, thanks.

When I first got my phone I loved it. I thought TouchWiz was great, but then I saw how much youcould actually customize your phone if you used a custom ROM. I now use Resurrection Remix ICS and couldn't be happier with it. The AOKP team have got it right. The neatness of AOSP with the ability to change everything to my liking is perfect.
[Galaxy S II General] MaKTaiL:
Is Galaxy S2 ever getting the new Touchwiz 5.0?

It looks awesome on S3 and it is the true ICS experience.
[Galaxy S II General] bartoloandre98:
Who needs sgs3 when u have thishttp://opendesign.bbqdroid.org/features/?cat=1&feature=1
[Galaxy S II General] MaKTaiL:
I hate CyanogenMod, sorry. Touchwiz 5.0 is looking way better.
[Galaxy S II General] sahibunlimited:
You mad bro?
[Galaxy S II General] Deniska11:
Didnt like 4.0 because the screens would loop, pretty stupid reason to dislike it, but thats how i am. I then discovered Tw4.5, loved that because it had more customization, but had to get rid of it because most widgets didnt work. Its been quite some time and maybe TW improved....did it???

Im now with GO, it used to lag like crazy but they made it a bit better over time, still not amazing though. One thing i do LOVE about TW is the lack of lag, i used to have absolutely ZERO LEG no matter how many widgets i have. Youtube widget makes my GO lag like crazy, but ive never experienced it with my old black SGS2, but not on my white GSG2....really weird, same internals, same ROMs (even right after flashing it lags).
[Galaxy S II General] harise100:
If it had the swipe down for message bar and swipe up for home screen overview I would maybe use Touchwiz.

I don't hate it, it's just the lack of gesture control.
[Galaxy S II General] davidsgs23:
I like very much one custom rom, but i can't use it because of the custom launcher.

I like very much Touchwiz because it's very simplistic. I'd like the Touchwiz 5.0 on my S2 :D.
[Galaxy S II General] Sparksltd:
I do like touchwiz, its just such a shame its ugly.

I personally use cm9 which looks cool and also has the benefit of stability and speed. My wife uses stock (ics) and it seems a bit 'heavy' compared to cm9
[Galaxy S II General] beeboss:
I don't think it's too difficult to port it. However there is a wall here . TW Nature is designed for HD resolution so it seems like a dead end here for s2 . :( Looks like Note users are more lucky now . I'm sure they will get new TW (at least launcher ) soon after beginning of SGSIII shipping :)
[Galaxy S II General] bartoloandre98:
Sense 4 had to be ported to hdpi and not only images needed to be rescaled but the files were m10 type which was more harder
[Galaxy S II General] MaKTaiL:
The Samsung Dive feature from stock rom is something I use a lot and that's why I can't move to a custom ROM.
[Galaxy S II General] arunr14:
touchwiz is UGLY as all hell and clunky ( as mentioned by another user).

google vertumus ICS theme , he compares his theme to touchwiz and you will see why I think its ugly.

Also I find the launcher has limited customizability
[Galaxy S II General] lharp1977:
Don't care for TW at all with GB or ICS. On 2.3.6 always had launcher pro or adw. On the new 4.0.3 I use the apex launcher wife has a sgs2...

sliced by my razr 4.0.4
[Galaxy S II General] Remeniz:
I got bored of TW a few days after ownership.

It's just dull and doesn't offer much customization, a selling point of the Android platform.

I used ADW EX for a long time before plunging for SPB Shell 3D.
[Galaxy S II General] mtmerrick:
was led over here form the GS3 forum.

just thought i'd answer these....

*built in screen capture by pressing home+lock

ICS has built in screen capture too. its power+volume. nothing lost

*task manager built into long press

been proven to do nothing helpful on android.

*swipe left/right to call/text in contacts/dialer/texts

now this is nice.

*toggles in drop down menu

easily added to most any ROM

*amazing UI in camera/file manager/ music player

*ability to adjust display options, beyond what stock roms are capable of

can't comment on this, no experience with it.

*swype

wut? o_O swype is everywhere. i don't want it but if i did, easily installed, if it didn't come with my rom or stock phone already

*ability to adjust brightness by moving dropbar back and forth

i have that on my acer, so.... :P also, see Brightness Level

*the option to use the actual touchwiz launcher

most people don't like the touchwiz launcher :P

* Divx, Xvid, and .avi support out of the box, as well as other formats supported only by samsung

that is nice

*S-Voice

overrated siri clone? meh.

*Eye Tracking

*Smart Stay, keeps the screen awake while you're looking at the display

creeepy, and certainly seems like a battery drain.

*Popup Play

gimmic. also, see StickIt
[Galaxy S II General] bartoloandre98:
I never buy an actual phone due to its features I buy it due to its raw beastly power as as soon as I get a new phone I always install cyanogenmod
[Galaxy S II General] matttye:
Let's see. I appreciate that your thread is now five months old and ROMs may have come a long way since then, but: -

- The ROM I'm using has customisable toggles in the notification bar, not just ones that Samsung chooses for me. I've put a torch in there for quick access to the LED.

- The ROM has a screenshot feature in the power menu, which is just as simple to use as pressing home + power. Even more so in fact, as it only requires one hand.

- The ROM is faster and has much better battery life (I've undervolted the CPU and underclocked and undervolted the GPU).

- I am able to remove Samsung's bloatware (or any other apps I don't want on my phone)

- I don't like the look of Touchwiz but I love stock Android.

- I prefer the stock Android camera/music player and use Root Explorer for my file manager.

- Don't like Swype.

- The ROM has a slider in the notification bar for brightness.

- Don't like Touchwiz launcher.

- Don't need to view those video types.

Different people want different things. For me, the UI and speed of stock Android outweighs everything you posted as a "pro" for Touchwiz.
[Galaxy S II General] aceofclubs:
Correct aosp cm9 etc have come a LONG way in the last few months.

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GTI9100

HydrogenICS 12.05

fluxi xx.01_rc4
[Galaxy S II General] bartoloandre98:
I would always buy a nexus but the prob is that the nexuses produces are not how shall I put it ,the "beast of that tike" galaxy series are always flagships on the other hand and until Samsung will keep producing nexuses this will not change I guess
[Galaxy S II General] undersc0re:
touchwiz isnt cool
[Galaxy S II General] DarkStar851:
I know it's not cool to quote the OP on an older topic like this, but simply put - his statements aren't true, mostly.

La la la... hope this thread doesn't scare the noobs back into TW before they read the constructive replies. There's soooooo many better alternatives these days.
[Galaxy S II General] saywhatt:
TW is so not cool.. -.- it spells RESTRICTIONS all over
[Galaxy S II General] budi.hermawan:
pro :

- no nonsense

cons :

- no vertical scrolling

- no automatic apps sorting (have to install appzorter to this issue)

:) but after lot of launchers tryouts i always return to touchwiz because it just simply-simple..

I have no signature
[Galaxy S II General] manueljg:
Touchwiz is just awful on the Samsung SII, it makes ICS look like GB and its so UGLY!. I really just prefer the way stock AOSP looks.
[Galaxy S II General] Tricky103:
I just found this out, I went to settings> applications> twlauncher and cleared the data, now all of the applications are in alphabetical order.

Edit. My bad. It is 'system apps' 'data apps'
[Galaxy S II General] bahman123:
i just reckon the design consistency (and in some cases there lack of) is not to my liking with Touchwiz

Pre-ICS I could understand, but with ICS - Google/AOSP/Duate and team have done a great job.
[Galaxy S II General] bluefa1con:
as much as i love my aosp roms nothing beats samsung browser and media player

the hw acceleration works for every format

something thats missing in aosp based roms
[Galaxy S II General] FeuchtVonLipwig:
the new touchwiz ux from the sg3 looks freakin kool.

i was missing the widget tab like apex launcher had, but this one is smooth and clean

EDIT:

haha so many people define ics with apex launcher and gb with tw
[Galaxy S II General] Spunkynitro:
I've had no problems with TW before but when I started trying other launchers I never went back. Atm i'm using apex. I liked all the themes from GO launcher, but that felt laggy and now apex support themes aswell.

I am going to try the SGS3 TW port though
[Galaxy S II General] tom_asdelonge182:
I actually quite like TW however there are always small problems with it. I've tried the new tw for the sg3 on my sgs2. Seem quite good at the moment however I don't like how the homescreen is in a continuous loop
[Galaxy S II General] raffounz:
It's not touchwiz itself; I liked GB l&f of touchwiz. I'm upset with touchwiz l&f on ICS: It's too much different from stock ICS, I expected they receipt some of the beautiful new implementations (contacts, gallery, locksreeen)... I solved by myself, but I'm still upset with the phone / contacts part...
[Galaxy S II General] gavinch:
I wanted the stock ICS look which Samsung didn't have the courtesy to give us an option for..
[Galaxy S II General] gavinch:
stock ICS has flashlight option I believe in the notifications which Tw doesn't
[Galaxy S II General] calanizzle:
TW was fine for GB, but on ICS I def prefer a better ROM.
[Galaxy S II General] :
TouchWiz... hmm.

Launcher:

Pros: Very very smooth scrolling,very fast, transitions looks good, the layout of the app drawer looks good.

Cons: besides everything above... It's ugly, can't modify any layout or settings.

Theme:

Pros: let me see. wait for it... wait for it... nothing.

Cons: ugly, big and most of the appearence and effects are desnecessary

Conclusion:

ICS HOLO is much better :)
[Galaxy S II General] dodgypast:
No scrollable widgets on the home screens pretty much defeats the point of having an Android phone over iOS.
[Galaxy S II General] _Zabuza_:
Touchwiz has really poor folder management on homescreen! And unable to resize widget is dealbreaker for me.
[Galaxy S II General] NorrisCell:
I agree with the poor folder management, but aside from that TW is pretty solid as far as stock launchers go. Nothing compares to a good aftermarket launcher of course. I'm still amazed that Sense and TW don't have auto-rotate in the home screen.
[Galaxy S II General] wolfensteincmd:
Touchwiz is not so bad, but the other launcher offers more
[Galaxy S II General] UlbaWan-:
TW isn't jsut a launcher. It's an app suite, a system UI, drivers and options too.

I really really like touchwiz. Just one think : esthetic.

One totally black menu with colorated icons and a above a blue bar with the title... Not so beautifull ! I prefer the Google way on this point.
[Galaxy S II General] Odeira.Oloap:
OK, so I like TouchWiz and all, despite the overly cartoon like color and icon designs.

The widgets are very functional, even if sometimes I cannot resize some of them to my liking.

But after prolonged usage of Nova Launcher Prime on my Samsung Galaxy S II running Kies-supplied Android 4.0.3, scrolling between homescreens on the TouchWiz launcher is slower than before I used Nova Launcher Prime.

I can't use the TouchWiz launcher anymore as a result of the slowdown. :(

Current Devices

Samsung Galaxy S II™ 4G GT-I9100M, Stock Android 4.0.3

LG Optimus 3D LG-P920, Stock Android 2.3.5

T-Mobile® G2x™ with Google™ LG-P999DW, Stock Android 2.3.3

Apple iPhone (2G), iOS 3.1

Nokia N93

Samsung GT-E1080

Former Devices :(

HTC HD7 T9292, Windows Phone 7.10.8107.79 (from Nokia X6; to Samsung Galaxy S II™ 4G)

Nokia X6 (from Nokia 5530 XpressMusic; to HTC HD7)

Nokia 5530 XpressMusic (from Nokia E71)

Nokia E71
[Galaxy S II General] DigitalWarS:
I do like touschwiz...though my guess is that it may be respondibe for that huge battery drain...
[Galaxy S II General] kr1pt:
Folders are so ugly imo :)

But I love TWUX.
[Galaxy S II General] moffyboy:
I agree also, folders are awful. I prefer a sliding dock for my 10 essential apps.
[Galaxy S II General] 1sagain:
some people just came from other phones (ie. HTC HERO) where the design and customization (not even using Sense) is pretty awesome, minimalistic, sometimes really uniquely awesome, transparency and pretty colors working together.

basically some just like aesthetics (extreme. minimal. all affects the feel of course) over functionality.

touchwiz.. isnt the most pretty thing i have seen tbh compared to what many artists and creative people can come up with. (which can also be even created on top of TouchWiz)

and so perhaps its just the idea of certain aesthetics dominating the underlying advantages that touchwiz provides. most people (mostly consumer, user end etc) just like what they see so... and most (not just touchwiz) is functional enough as well.

People who say they hate touchwiz don't say it to make them look pro. that doesnt make sense no offense. (if there are people who do it for such means thats... wow.. no comment) they probably just dont understand the full picture as OP has presented in a clear and concise fashion.

then there are many others who view touchWIZ as quite beautiful as well so again this is just like the IPHONE VS ANDROID in a much smaller scale with many limiting factors.

You win some. you lose some. thats life.
[Galaxy S II General] bluefa1con:
Theme engine let alone is the reason I love aosp

There are a million more

Touch wiz was fine on gb but on ics it ruins the experience
[Galaxy S II General] Akatosh:
I really like touchwiz but i prefer htc sense even though it was massively bloated but i hate aokp, just isnt appealing enough for me. Touchwoz roms 4 me :D
[Galaxy S II General] Ironhide.dh:
Got to agree with that one.

I was a fan of the gingerbread touchwiz but ICS not so much
[Galaxy S II General] ArcticWolf91:
OP, what do you mean, "You people"?
[Galaxy S II General] Cookiem0sta:
i really love TW thats why i try to install a rom that is as close to that as possible but with better battery life options :D
[Galaxy S II General] vee4410:
Touchwiz is okay but imo i feel it is limited and not as much support such as other launchers.
[Galaxy S II General] Entropy512:
Because Android alternate UIs always wind up falling behind. They may be nice when they come out, but as Android mainline improves, they wind up being detrimental in multiple ways:

1) User interface, if not updated (see ICS TW leaks, also see Motoblur) winds up worse than newer Android mainlines

2) The customizations cause delays in updating to newer Android bases - ICS for the GS2 is getting delayed at least 2 to 3 months by Touchwiz compared to when it could have been released.

Also, TouchWiz is an epic storage and memory hog. This is why I9000 users are getting the shaft - Samsung won't release ICS without their Touchwiz crap, and while the I9000 is fully capable of running ICS, it is not capable of running ICS with TouchWiz bloat layered on top of it.
[Galaxy S II General] TheSniperFan:
I find it ugly, period.

While it certainly adds features to Android, I hate its aesthetics. In terms of the UI-usability I find it on par with CyanogenMod 7, but it doesn't even even close to MIUI. In my opinion that is.

As for the multimedia-support:

VLC will solve that problem. At the moment there are other media-players that do the job.
[Galaxy S II General] nathsgames:
It's slow and dated and almost impossible to find your apps. If it srted apps alphabetically it might not be so bad.

But we should have the choice to remove it and go vanilla.
[Galaxy S II General] liljom:
I simply don't like it because I had 3 HTC devices prior to this one.

I don't know how much experience do you have with other mobile OSes, but I have some. Sense is super easy to use.

I had to google to mount the internal storage!?! It's just stupid. It was a little after turning it on for the first time, when I realized, that the UI looks to much like iOS... Have some good features, but a lot less handy, than HTC Sense.

Going over 700 contacts to add a few to write them a text?!?

They have to learn a lot.
[Galaxy S II General] serialtoon:
For me its more about the ugly icons and color scheme that touchwiz represents. The features it brings are fantastic, but it breaks the beauty of ICS.
[Galaxy S II General] Kailkti:
I don't hate it, but there really just isn't anything that is overall better. I love the functionality it offers, but the UI/X is cliched.