General plist alternative to Slow Factor in Hidden Settings

[dasx]

Hey all.

I'm one of those who like to avoid installing tweaks, as long as I can do the same thing editing a couple of files with iFile, SSH or whatever.

One tweak I installed was HiddenSettings7, in order to speed up animations a little bit. (Set it at 0.65).

Once the Slow Factor is modified, I have no further interest in the settings, so it bothered me a little to have access to them right in the control center.

Well, it turns out that there's a plist file that controls this. It's located in var/mobile/Documents/com.apple.springboard.settings/RootSettings.plist.

There's this pretty at the top:

<key>slowAnimations</key>
<integer>0</integer>
<key>slowDownFactor</key>
<real>1</real>

In HiddenSettings7, you set Slow Animations to "ON", that would be slowAnimations to 1, right? And then, slowDownFactor would be the value of the speed, right?

Well, after trying several combinations I can't get the animations to speed up. If I do that, and set slowAnimations to 1 and slowDownFactor to 0.6 for instance, after a respring the animations are incredibly slow.

So it works, I just don't understand how exactly.

Maybe someone else can figure it out!!

Cheers.

 

[dcrumbaugh]

Err I believe you have to set Slow Animations to OFF.

I just looked at my plist with HiddenSettings7 on and active. In that section Slow Animations is set to 0 and the rest are all around 0.65.

So try that?

 

[dasx]

Err I believe you have to set Slow Animations to OFF.

I just looked at my plist with HiddenSettings7 on and active. In that section Slow Animations is set to 0 and the rest are all around 0.65.

So try that?

Yes, that was one of the things I tried. Speed doesn't change if you don't put slowAnimations to 1. That's why I can't understand how this works.

 

[navodwickra]

Yes, that was one of the things I tried. Speed doesn't change if you don't put slowAnimations to 1. That's why I can't understand how this works.

<key>slowAnimations</key>
<integer>0</integer>
<key>slowDownFactor</key>
<real>0.58473283052444458</real>


This is what I have after the tweak. It is now smooth and snappy just like 7.1 beta 2

 

[dasx]

<key>slowAnimations</key>
<integer>0</integer>
<key>slowDownFactor</key>
<real>0.58473283052444458</real>


This is what I have after the tweak. It is now smooth and snappy just like 7.1 beta 2

I had that too with HiddenSettings7, so decided to remove tweak and do it myself. Those same settings manually entered do actually slow down the animations A LOT, like if the actual value was 4 or so.