[Q] Go Launcher Ex - taking up too many resources?

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I'm on stock GB, rooted.

Go Ex Launcher seems to be killing my resources. Even with their nice cleanup tool, it's basically shut down my phone.

Is this just me, or are other people having this issue? Any advice or help would be appreciated. Thanks!

I'm having the same situation, except mine is rooted. I've been monitoring my phones performance avidly lately to see if there's any other services or apps that could be removed to eliminate this problem. The little bit that I could gather with my limited knowing and ability to delve into the phone more is that the whole slew of GO apps, services, & add-ons are the culprate. They take up massive amounts of memory thus hindering the devices performance. The whole series of GO apps are demanding.

For GO Launcher Ex specifically though you can increase performance by using the default UI theme. The downloaded themes use up a bit more then the default UI. Don't forget that you can reboot the GO Launcher from the options button menu. Rebooting the launcher does a great job of clearing up space.

Overall though, I think the best thing to do is to just ditch as many of the extra GO add-ons. I find them to be bloatware for the most part.


What other apps and services from GO do you have though?

Originally Posted by delfinparis

I'm on stock GB, rooted.

Go Ex Launcher seems to be killing my resources. Even with their nice cleanup tool, it's basically shut down my phone.

Is this just me, or are other people having this issue? Any advice or help would be appreciated. Thanks!

I used ADW Launcher Ex and Launcher Pro and never let me down or slowing my phone...

Yes Go launcher is bad for Infuse , it drains battery and eats up too much memory (you can see that it is practically red in the task manager panel ) , i suggest that you dont use it , how ever there can be no harm in doing so. but then again good luck with the force closes and random reboots. alternatives are Roms with touchwiz or install widgets from market. i suggest remics ICS or AOKP

I went to xperia launcher...no res, smooth...

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1557091

Works on gb and ics..

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I717 using xda premium

hmmmmm.. ive used GO Luancher EX since day one, i never ran into issues like this even on stock firmware.
Try using a custom ROM. Any custom ROM seems to be ATLEAST 10X better than stock for me all the time
You'll benefit with increased performance and battery life. Give it a shot....

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Phone: Samsung Infuse 4G AT&T
Running Own Rom: JMP SERIES 2.3.6 UCLB3 ICS EDITION
Other Phone:
Wife: Samsung Infuse 4G AT&T
Custom Rom Running: JMP SERIES EXTREME EDITION 2012
Son: Samsung Infuse 4G T-Mobile
Custom Rom Running: AEON v1.4SL STABILITY AT ITS FINEST

@xxxSuperserieSxxx,
Damn i see the whole family rockin' INFUSES

Yea go launcher is a resource hog for sure!! I really wish the dev would have made it better but apex is ok

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I717 using xda premium

I've gone through a few launchers and finally settled on Nova. Seems to run quite well with the CM9 build since I can't remove extra screens on the stock launcher.
I have only 3 screens because I come from the days where we couldn't have resource-hogging apps due to low memory. If you could imagine trying to run Froyo or GB on something with about 1/2 the total RAM and ROM space as the LG Ally, you'll understand why.
I just got used to it being that way and I used ADW EX for the longest time until lately.