TouchWiz question

**DJSgalaxy** · 07-12-2012, 07:28 PM

So I tried Nova Launcher free and I love it. Quick, adjustable, everything. Problem is I love the TW clock/weather widget and I can't pull it up with Nova. Talked to a Nova dev and he said Samsung sometimes block their widgets from use for 3rd party apps.

Anyways, are there any settings changes I can make to TW to speed it up? It slightly lags when changing screens and such.

Thanks in advance for the insight.

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**scorpiodsu** · 07-12-2012, 07:32 PM

Setting>developer options>turn animations and transitions from 1x to .5x or off. That will speed it up for you.

**mikesmith** · 07-12-2012, 08:38 PM

You could look into Beautiful Widgets. They have plenty of clock/weather options.

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**richardpandy** · 07-12-2012, 09:14 PM

Originally Posted by mikesmith

You could look into Beautiful Widgets. They have plenty of clock/weather options.

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This - been using Nova Launcher for some time now with Beautiful Widgets Smaller Clock Home. Love it.

**Sabban** · 07-12-2012, 09:19 PM

+1 for beautiful widgets small home

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**ansextra** · 07-12-2012, 09:45 PM

Fancy Widgets is another alternative. For some reason I like Fancy Widgets on my phone and Beautiful Widgets on my Galaxy Tab 10.1. Go figure.

**DJSgalaxy** · 07-13-2012, 10:12 AM

Originally Posted by scorpiodsu

Setting>developer options>turn animations and transitions from 1x to .5x or off. That will speed it up for you.

That helped. Thanks for that!

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**DJSgalaxy** · 07-13-2012, 10:13 AM

Thanks for the ideas everyone. Now I gotta decide which direction I want to go! Haha

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**OWybPPgO** · 07-13-2012, 11:00 AM

Originally Posted by scorpiodsu

Setting>developer options>turn animations and transitions from 1x to .5x or off. That will speed it up for you.

What exactly does this do?

**InkedAdrenaline** · 07-13-2012, 01:41 PM

Originally Posted by OWybPPgO

What exactly does this do?

It speeds up your animations to make it seem your phone is running faster

**Principal Skinner** · 08-16-2012, 08:40 PM

I really like the Touchwiz weather widget. However, with Beautiful Widgets you could set it so if you touched the time, then the clock app would launch, touch the date, calendar app launches, or touch the temperature and the weather app launches.
Haven't been able to find this with the stock weather app. Am I missing something or does it not have this capability?