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Live wallpapers: would you use them?
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I already use live wallpapers via vWallpaper on my jailbroken i4. Unlike winterboard, with vWallpaper the live wallpaper only plays while you're on the homescreen. My current wallpaper makes it appear as if the homescreen is floating through clouds (if you have Weather HD, you have seen the clip). It's very minimal and not distracting to me but it has a stunning effect for those who haven't seen a live wallpaper before.
I'm a heavy user and my phone has at least 30% battery when I plug it in at night. The misconception of battery drain and live wallpapers is completely false if one uses the app I mentioned.
I'm a heavy user and my phone has at least 30% battery when I plug it in at night. The misconception of battery drain and live wallpapers is completely false if one uses the app I mentioned.
I had this wallpaper http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMQZzJyk6y4 it was nice but killed the battery so I took it off. If I could use a video wallpaper I liked that didn't drain the battery I would use it again
+1 ... battery killer
it doesn't even kill the battery on android so I don't even know why u said that.
he's telling the truth. I own an EVO and the live wallpaper doesn't even touch my battery...other things do. Also if you friend is charging his Evo every 3 -4 times a day that's his problem. Not everyone that has an Evo have to do that. I charge mine once a day and I talk a lot on my phone. Anyways the Live wallpaper on Android sucks because all it does is slow the phone down. I don't like my phone getting slowed down when web browsing on my phone already hurts my ass for the horrible scrolling lag.
Since I've had them on my Droid for over a year I can say I would absolutely not use them.
The idea is novel enough, but in reality I find them to be pointless, a little distracting, a waste of precious CPU cycles, and overall they tend to detract from that clean feeling.
It's all personal preference, but I'd rather have a good background, and dock my Phone/SMS into the bottom and put a few folders w/ my appsb etween and have almost nothing on the actual screen but my BG picture. Super clean.
The idea is novel enough, but in reality I find them to be pointless, a little distracting, a waste of precious CPU cycles, and overall they tend to detract from that clean feeling.
It's all personal preference, but I'd rather have a good background, and dock my Phone/SMS into the bottom and put a few folders w/ my appsb etween and have almost nothing on the actual screen but my BG picture. Super clean.
you're not staring at your iPhone? OMG, you don't have the one with Retina display?
would love to have the little snippet of of video 'waves rolling in to the beach' that I took on summer holidays. that would be lovely to look at, and much better than the still shot I'm using now.
what about for those users that are in the office all day with their iphone/ipad/ipod charging or whatnot?
Static wallpapers are a gimic too. Not needed. Pointless. So...how many iPhone 4 owners here still use a black background? Go ahead, raise your hands.
*crickets*
I expect animated backgrounds to be adopted by users just as quickly.
you're not staring at your iPhone? OMG, you don't have the one with Retina display?
nope, i got an iphone 4.
you don't see the background while texting, while on the phone, while on facebook, while using safari, while using reeder, etc. if you look the background any more than you need to while you're looking for whatever app on the home screen, you're doing it wrong and you're putting more stock than you need to in your phone. the only time when i think it would be cool is on the lock screen for the first time as a "wow" factor, but that'd get stale in about a minute. plus i have a classy Arsenal on wood wallpaper, so why bother.
why bother? how hard is it?
ha ha, I wouldn't gret bored with that for ages, I must be easily amused
Love Live Wallpapers on my G2. There are some nifty Star Wars ones and I currently have the streaming code from the Matrix.
Wirelessly posted (iPhone 4: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8F5166b Safari/6533.18.5)
I used one when I had an HTC desire and it looked really cool. The only problem was it killed the battery life so I turned it off. If apple could give me a full day's use with them on, I'd use them but otherwise I wouldn't sacrifice my battery to have them again.
I used one when I had an HTC desire and it looked really cool. The only problem was it killed the battery life so I turned it off. If apple could give me a full day's use with them on, I'd use them but otherwise I wouldn't sacrifice my battery to have them again.
Please tell us the point.
We could substitute "3G" or "MMS" or "front camera" or "hi-res display" or "multitasking" or a bunch of other things, in every sentence... along with the Jobsian OMG-it-uses-battery excuse... and this thread would look just like a lot of previous threads about currently missing features.
+1. Live wallpapers aren't battery killers (*). You'd have to stare at the screen for a long time to take a battery hit.
I just checked. I have a live wallpaper that fades in a different photo for each homescreen. Visually very helpful, and honestly sometimes I flick around just to look at it. Even so, it only used a total of 9 minutes of CPU time over a month.
Also tried everyone's favorite rotating Galactic Core live wallpaper for something more active. It used about 20 seconds of CPU over 2 hours of normal phone usage, which mostly consists of launching apps.
Regular apps and browsing and video playing etc all use a heckuva lot more battery for CPU time and network comms.
(*) Unless they do something like go out to the web to get pictures every few minutes. But then, that should be self-obvious that such a feature would use more power. User's choice if that's what they like.
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If Apple implemented live wallpapers I'd probably use them for a bit. But, just like with vWallpaper, I got sick of it and stopped using them. And unless you have your phone set to never auto lock, there isn't going to be an enormous amount of battery drain.
I hope Apple puts this feature in the iPhone (they might as well).
I'll probably use it if it doesn't rape battery too much. I don't leave my phone K ON, on the homescreen so I'm thinking it wont be a big deal. My phone is either on an app, or its on standby. I don't purposely let it stay awake on the home screen
I'll probably use it if it doesn't rape battery too much. I don't leave my phone K ON, on the homescreen so I'm thinking it wont be a big deal. My phone is either on an app, or its on standby. I don't purposely let it stay awake on the home screen