NOVA or Apex Laucher vs TouchWiz - Please Help

[534n]

Personally I like ADW over the other launchers the best. I have only had a little experience with NOVA and Apex but I have tried them. It is streamlined pretty well but can also be fancy if you desire.

If your phone is rooted you can actually shut down Touch Wiz and free the memory/cpu time in favor of your own launcher.

 

[Tkbredx]

Personally I like ADW over the other launchers the best. I have only had a little experience with NOVA and Apex but I have tried them. It is streamlined pretty well but can also be fancy if you desire.

If your phone is rooted you can actually shut down Touch Wiz and free the memory/cpu time in favor of your own launcher.

I'm rooted. How do I do that? And what happens when apex force closes and won't open? Will I be stuck with no launcher?

 

[534n]

I'm rooted. How do I do that? And what happens when apex force closes and won't open? Will I be stuck with no launcher?

You can freeze TouchWiz home <version> with Titanium Backup or another root tool that allows that kind of thing. Before you do it though, just make a CWM backup in case something happens, but it should never be that bad because good launchers have FC protection and will restart after they close, and worst case is just that a reboot is required, but if things totally go to hell you can use the CWM recovery to get your other launcher back.

 

[Tkbredx]

You can freeze TouchWiz home <version> with Titanium Backup or another root tool that allows that kind of thing. Before you do it though, just make a CWM backup in case something happens, but it should never be that bad because good launchers have FC protection and will restart after they close, and worst case is just that a reboot is required, but if things totally go to hell you can use the CWM recovery to get your other launcher back.

Okay thanks. I never really knew what freezing did. And yes I've had apex just keep closing repeatedly before lol. Not fun. I was able to pull down notification and click songs though to force stop and open touch wiz. Lol. And I'm using twrp but I'll be sure to back it up

 

[534n]

Okay thanks. I never really knew what freezing did. And yes I've had apex just keep closing repeatedly before lol. Not fun. I was able to pull down notification and click songs though to force stop and open touch wiz. Lol. And I'm using twrp but I'll be sure to back it up

You should try out ADW Launcher. Freezing basically just disables the execution of a given app or service, without uninstalling it. Freezing is not "permanent" on some phones esp with Verizon, where certain frozen apps will come unfrozen with each reboot. Freezing is great because sometimes if you uninstall a core app, you cannot put it back and have to rollback or do a clean firmware upgrade.

 

[dfb8085]

the latest nova prime update slowed my galaxy s3 down so much it made it unusable. had to uninstall. too bad

 

[funkylogik]

nova prime is fine for me.... zero lag, nice n snappy

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