Live Wallpapers

[jmg1975]

Anyone find that live wallpapers bog the Xoom down and greatly hinder performance? I found this is an issue even with the pre-loaded live wallpapers that came with the device. Kind of a disappointment considering the Xoom's specs. It is too bad because live wallpapers are a great way to show off the device. More so on a tablet than on an Android phone.

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[andxoomy]

I have been using live wall paper from day one and my xoom performs great. I use the live weather from beautiful widgets. Maybe it depends on witch wall paper your using,I didn't try any others yet.

 

[jmg1975]

Are you running a lot of Widgets also?

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[jsntrenkler]

I don't have any problems with live wallpapers, although I usually turn them off to converse battery power.

 

[andxoomy]

yes I do run widgets as well but I only have email updating on my main sreen.the other widgets are on another screen because they take up so much room.not sure if they are active unless I swipe over to that screen but they are live when I get there.

 

[gregg37]

It depends on the Live Wallpaper. I find some do bog down the Xoom, and some run perfectly. It's probably an app by app optimization issue that will clear up as developers mess around with Honeycomb more.

 

[LMO]

Anyone find that live wallpapers bog the Xoom down and greatly hinder performance? I found this is an issue even with the pre-loaded live wallpapers that came with the device. Kind of a disappointment considering the Xoom's specs. It is too bad because live wallpapers are a great way to show off the device. More so on a tablet than on an Android phone.

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Yes I have found that to be the case as well. So I am not using the live ones. It was not terribly noticeable in the overall operation, but I found when scrolling across the home screens, there was more of a lag when the live WP's were running. With a simple stationary wallpaper it was a little snappier. I think this just might be the nature of live wallpapers though, because when scrolling across screens, it must continually update the screens' background as you are scrolling them.

 

[thegunslinger1]

It depends on the Live Wallpaper. I find some do bog down the Xoom, and some run perfectly. It's probably an app by app optimization issue that will clear up as developers mess around with Honeycomb more.

I completely agree, it all depends on the LWP, some run for day without any issue, some bog it down, but they all look so cool, so when my Xoom gets a little slow I just change the LWP and I am back up and running.