I'm at 2%. Thats like what....15 seconds of battery? 
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2.1 ESE53 will be Official Release on the VZW Motorola Droid
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What confuses me about Helix is how fast it runs and I still have my three screens running all of my widgets on the stock screen...
When I was using Home++ I had to delete everything from the stock screen to get it to go fast enough. I guess Helix must do something... who knows what.
When I was using Home++ I had to delete everything from the stock screen to get it to go fast enough. I guess Helix must do something... who knows what.
The dev changed something in the scrolling. I'm not gonna knock it, its impressive. I actually deleted the stock launcher.
The scrolling couldnt be faster but when you go into reading an email or an app there is a slight lag.
How can you delete the stock launcher? Without that your phone shouldnt even work.
How can you delete the stock launcher? Without that your phone shouldnt even work.
The launcher is just a home replacement.
I am rooted, and running my own custom packaged ESE53. I've deleted a ton of things, that being one of them
I am rooted, and running my own custom packaged ESE53. I've deleted a ton of things, that being one of them
Ok but the base Home is what I'm talking about when I say I still have it running all the widgets and it's not slowing down Helix. You can't delete that.
The launcher is just a home replacement.
I am rooted, and running my own custom packaged ESE53. I've deleted a ton of things, that being one of them
What do you mean?
Helix is an entire home replacement. The stock launcher isn't used at all when Helix is bing used.
Helix is an entire home replacement. The stock launcher isn't used at all when Helix is bing used.
When everyone was running Home ++ we were told that we should delete all of the widgets off the stock launcher because they will run at the same time as the ones you add to Home ++.
According to them the stock launcher continues to update the widgets whether you have it selected or not because it's the stock launcher.
I could be incorrect but that's what everyone was saying.
Helix runs as an application over the stock launcher - doesn't it?
According to them the stock launcher continues to update the widgets whether you have it selected or not because it's the stock launcher.
I could be incorrect but that's what everyone was saying.
Helix runs as an application over the stock launcher - doesn't it?
No, completely standalone.
I think the Home++ advice was bogus. I read it too, but never took much credence.
I think the Home++ advice was bogus. I read it too, but never took much credence.
Wouldn't this be easy to test?
Load a widget on the default Home screen, and only on the default Home screen.
Set Helix to be the default launcher.
Reboot (just to clear memory). Now see what widgets are in memory. If the one that's only on the default Home screen is in memory, then we have our answer. Right?
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Go ahead. I'm not willing to invest the time 
If by voice activation included with keyboard is considered enhanced, yes.
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I've never had an iPhone, but I did own a jailbroken iPod Touch, and I can tell you that the iPhone community and the Droid community are so different that neither would recognize the other. (I often feel quite awkward having feet in both camps!)
The main issue is that jailbreaking is both far easier to do and far easier to screw up than rooting, so there's more or less a consensus in the iPhone world that people who can't figure out jailbreaking even with an illustrated guide should probably just stay away from it altogether. And Apple's requirement that all current-gen devices have their firmware installs signed by Apple every time the device is restored, combined with their dogged insistence on releasing firmware updates that do nothing but prevent jailbreaking (and refusal to sign older, jailbreakable firmwares) doesn't help.
And of course the iPhone community has a lower median level of technological ability than the Droid community. As a result, most jailbreak-related squabbling among iPhone users is between the "I did no research/am easily confused by the research I did and now my iPhone is screwed up" folks and the "You idiot, why would you not have looked into this more carefully; there's nothing that can be done" folks. And there's always a healthy contingent of "here's what you need to do: (completely useless, irrelevant, and/or harmful advice)" people.
And all of it can get much more vicious than anything I've seen in my (admittedly short) time here, especially since iPhone users tend to create new threads asking the same questions that have been answered dozens of times on the same boards, which wears on the patience of the handful of posters who know what they're doing. You guys don't know how good you have it
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