Force your launcher to stay in memory
If you use ADW, Launcher Pro, or Zeam, you most likely have encountered the dreaded home screen redraw problem. We dove into some tips on stopping Launcher Pro from redrawing a while back. That seemed to have helped a few people, but some didn’t see any improvement.
I recently saw a post on the Launcher Pro forums that showed a way for rooted users to force your launcher to stay in memory.
The below steps are written for Terminal Emulator usage. I assume it can be adapted for use with Root Explorer or something similar.
- Switch user to root by typing su
- Output the contents of this file: cat /data/local.prop. If you get an error about file not existing, then proceed to step 3. Otherwise, jump to step 4.
- Echo (add) the following line to your local.prop file: echo ro.HOME_APP_ADJ=1 > /data/local.prop. Reboot your phone and you are all set.
- If step 2 produced the contents of the file, check to see if you have the ro.HOME_APP_ADJ=1. If not, use a text editor to add it in at the end of the file. Reboot and you are all set.
Hopefully this will stop the annoying redraws that occurs not only in Launcher Pro, but other replacements.
Holy cow, this did the trick on my Droid! I’ve been suffering through these redraw / reset issues of LauncherPro on my rooted 2.2 for weeks now. I tried different launchers and various tweaks, but to no avail. I hate to use anything except the awesome LauncherPro, so I’m really glad this worked for me. My phone is now silky smooth, and I don’t feel like throwing it against the wall anymore. Thanks for the tip Droid Hype! I got my phone back. Now, if I could only find a way to get my battery to last longer after rooting and overclocking… 🙂
Grab the D2 extended battery if you want some extra hours. Its surprisingly awesome.
http://www.droidhype.com/2010/08/21/motorola-1820mah-bp7x-extended-battery-for-the-droid/
Awesome suggestion. Didn’t even know that existed. Thx.
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