SweeterHome

Much to my chagrin, the market version does not include that option. I am running BB v0.6 OC to 800 mhz and the native home is blazing fast. I love how I have my homescreens now, but I may need to dump this if the lag can't be resolved. Please fix the lag !!! (Not you TRS, the developers :-)

I'm having the same sort of problem. When I go back to my home screen I have so much lag the beautiful home screen I've built is barely worth it. One thing I noticed that really sped up everything, I removed some large pictures. I had a image on the top and bottom screens on the bottom layer acting as the background, once I removed those extra images everything sped up quite a bit. It seems that SH is drawing all the screens at once, so if you have large pictures acting as backgrounds or something, they're slowing everything down (and probably giving you bitmap exceeds... errors). My homescreen is pretty much complete, I'm just making revisions here and there, check it out it's called MusicMan.

Yeah, that long resume is caused by a current app eating memory and Android releases background apps to free memory. I think JIT will possibly solve a lot of this, but until that becomes widespread this will be a prob that effects a lot of low powered phones, like the Magic etc.

One thing I've noticed is that a lot of Sweeter Home users go CRAZY with widgets. Some people have like 10-20 running in a theme which is just mental to me. I barely use even 1... Widgets eat the shit out of your memory.

For me, using SH on a stock Magic, the only time I get SH closing in the background is when I use the browser - Steel seems to work better but still about 90% of the time I use the browser SH closes in the background and has to resume when I return to the homescreen. When I just use a twitter app, and even most games I can return to the homescreen in about 1 second.

So...Black Droid's new ROM Ultimate Droid v8 has the Cyanogen version of spare parts that allows the home screen to be kept in memory. This has made a huge difference! I will be the first to admit that my main problem is the overuse of widgets, I went a little overboard (17 total. I need to work on something like springboards to open apps directly, which would eliminate the need for so many widgets. But in the mean time spare parts has done the trick. Not sure why the market version did not support that option?

17? JESUS.

decreasing your bitmap image will divert more memory to widgets, this reduces crashes and swipe lag situations (although still occur regularly) to a functional level

I'm currently using 6 widgets and the system is stable and functional; I intend on adding one more