I haven’t timed it but it feels much longer.
Anyway, I too dislike the animation and have looked into getting rid of it. I remember early on after getting my G2 reading somewhere that the animation is a video file that can be replaced with an empty file to make it disappear. I didn’t disable it at the time and when I finally decided to get rid of the diamonds I couldn’t find that tip nor could I find an animation video anywhere on my computer. So no luck for me but I hope somebody gives us the answer.