So for 5 bucks Quickoffice Pro SEEMS like a steal, but I have two main problems with buying it, and needed help or opinions.
First, how can I get the pre-installed app off my phone (running UnNamed)? Second, is it worth it? What's the best Office/Word Processor app you've found so far?
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autonomous-inc said:
So for 5 bucks Quickoffice Pro SEEMS like a steal, but I have two main problems with buying it, and needed help or opinions.
First, how can I get the pre-installed app off my phone (running UnNamed)? Second, is it worth it? What's the best Office/Word Processor app you've found so far?
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You should be able to use titanium backup to remove the one you are currently running. If not, having both will not cause a conflict.
As far as price... I use pro, and I do like it. $5? I dunno, it may be worth it. It is definitely worth the $0 you will pay for it if you get it from GetJar though.
http://www.getjar.com/mobile/276649/quickoffice-pro-android-for-google-nexus-one/?ref=0&lvt=1324539204&sid=4csp0047thj7huv4&c=607e8rc4mzgifc9g15&lang=en
I got Quickoffice and Documents to Go both from Amazon as FAOTD. I can't decide which one I should be using, though.
My 5 cents worth of wisdom: I used Quickoffice, Quickoffice pro, Documents to Go ( on the Blackberry, admittedly), and OfficeSuite Pro5 on my GS2. Quickoffice pro opens all files without complaining including PDF and PPT/PPTX and displays them correctly. Quickoffice also opens MS office 2010. I got rid of OfficeSuite pro when I found out it did stuff behind my back and caused wakelocks. Documents to Go on the BB was terrible, but I freely admit I cannot comment on the GS2. However, the free BB version would not allow for document editing or download, so I won't even bother getting reacquainted on android.
Thanks for the replies everyone. I went ahead and purchased it, as well got a free "SmartOffice" from the GetJar app store.
Atlan, your post told me more than enough. Glad to know the other Office providers were ****. It won't matter much to me until I have my bluetooth keyboard connected and my phone connected to an HD screen and i'm typing documents for whatever PA school papers I might have.
Gotta day, Quickoffice Pro seems pretty legit so far, just hope it doesn't crap out on me later on in the year.
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What is the latest and greatest shareware for grabbing mp3's using my desktop? I used WinMX back in the day, LimeWire, I have FrostWire now but searching doesnt bring up much, besides LimeWire court settlement crap. Leads me to think not many ppl are using it anymore. I really dont want to go the torrent route, unless thats all there is (that works good) right now. Yes I know, not E3D related, but it can be, watch. Also is there a app for p2p that will run on my E3D? If so cool, if not my PC is good enough
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What is the latest and greatest shareware for grabbing mp3's using my desktop? I used WinMX back in the day, LimeWire, I have FrostWire now but searching doesnt bring up much, besides LimeWire court settlement crap. Leads me to think not many ppl are using it anymore. I really dont want to go the torrent route, unless thats all there is (that works good) right now. Yes I know, not E3D related, but it can be, watch. Also is there a app for p2p that will run on my E3D? If so cool, if not my PC is good enough
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I use Tunee to get mp3s on my phone. The downloadble .apk from the market is here.
torrents, sir, are the way of the future. Swarm is amazing. It's a paid app, but I feel like it will pay for itself...
I use mediafire. They have an android app now too
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Just tried swarm in android market and it still works.A bit buggy.
For mp3 I get mine at mp3sale.ru. yeah its not torrent and you have to pay but at least all my songs are tagged correctly, decent download speed, only download what you want, great bitrate. Not sure what prices are now. I paid $50 for like 1500 downloads. Haven't logged in for a few years. Just did and my credits still there, account active. Plusu you can redownload anything you previosly downloaded for free.
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Right now Root Explorer is only $ 0.99 on Amazon. Get it while you can!
Sweet!
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Right now Root Explorer is only $ 0.99 on Amazon. Get it while you can!
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Great deal for some, that's .99 more then what i paid
root explorer vs file expert
I'm currently using File Expert, which is free, has root access, and sysro/sysrw. What, if any, would be the advantages of spending money on Root Explorer? Or is it simply personal preference and old habit?
Greatest deal I seen on the market lately! I choose root explorer because it's simplistic and yet still has a lot of customizations. If you purchase it for the $1 try it for the 15 minutes you got
Edit: so yes it's personal preference, to me.
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If you buy from Amazon, do you still get the google market updates?
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If you buy from Amazon, do you still get the google market updates?
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No, you get Amazon market updates.
Which are slower updates
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lilecho said:
I'm currently using File Expert, which is free, has root access, and sysro/sysrw. What, if any, would be the advantages of spending money on Root Explorer? Or is it simply personal preference and old habit?
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Here's a good reason:
Root Explorer DOESN'T export your personal information every time you run it.
File Expert....
(yeah, it does.)
Ever wonder how an app as 'popular' as File Expert managed to be free in the first place?
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If you buy from Amazon, do you still get the google market updates?
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It doesn't link to the market, so you have to got through amazon every time. This alone, is enough reason for me to shell out the extra $1.
I got swiftkey x for free, but haven't re-installed it because it I didn't back it up, and I don't feel like messing with amazon apps. Just earn the extra dollar at work -it the time spent will pay for itself
Thanks for the heads up, tor new comers about it long time ago , but now I'm no trusting the amazon app store , they rip off developers and i don't think is right
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XDA members don't care, they are so cheap there asses squeak when they walk. If they can't get it for free then they don't want it.
I tried the app mentioned earlier and found it more difficult to use. Root Explorer works and it works good. It has been around a long time and is well respected and is well maintained. I also tried a free app called Total Commander which is supposed to have rw abilities, but I found it confusing and hard to use, so I was like f it, I'm just gonna buy Root Explorer. Checked on the Android Market $2.99, then checked on Amazon Appstore and it was on sale for $.99 so I bought it from them.
Not all apps are updated slower on Amazon. I have several Amazon Appstore apps and some of them update faster than the Market apps.
To the guy that says he won't use the Amazon Appstore because they ripoff devs, what are your sources on this? I would be interested in reading where devs have been ripped off.
I honestly think this was one of the very first apps I bought. Can you believe I paid full price? CRAZY!
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I tried the app mentioned earlier and found it more difficult to use. Root Explorer works and it works good. It has been around a long time and is well respected and is well maintained. I also tried a free app called Total Commander which is supposed to have rw abilities, but I found it confusing and hard to use, so I was like f it, I'm just gonna buy Root Explorer. Checked on the Android Market $2.99, then checked on Amazon Appstore and it was on sale for $.99 so I bought it from them.
Not all apps are updated slower on Amazon. I have several Amazon Appstore apps and some of them update faster than the Market apps.
To the guy that says he won't use the Amazon Appstore because they ripoff devs, what are your sources on this? I would be interested in reading where devs have been ripped off.
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http://shiftyjelly.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/amazon-app-store-rotten-to-the-core/
It sucks for the free app of the day for developers but for the consumers I guess is good, but sometimes you have to think how much work they put into their apps
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Actually, for a good app, the free app of the day deal is really good for the developer. It's advertising. Imagine, you write an app that is marked $3.99 and hardly anyone buys it so you don't really get any reviews. It hits the free app of the day deal and you get about 200 reviews. If they are positive and talk about how great the app is, when it is no longer free, people are more prone to buy it.
So don't feel too bad for devs on that deal. Without it, their app may never be purchased otherwise.
The only part that pisses me off are the idiots that think any good review of an app *they* don't like means its fake, so instead of rating the app what they truly feel they decide it is their moral imperative to "correct the balance" buy giving a decent app 1-star to counter someone 5-star app they think is fake.
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Actually, for a good app, the free app of the day deal is really good for the developer. It's advertising. Imagine, you write an app that is marked $3.99 and hardly anyone buys it so you don't really get any reviews. It hits the free app of the day deal and you get about 200 reviews. If they are positive and talk about how great the app is, when it is no longer free, people are more prone to buy it.
So don't feel too bad for devs on that deal. Without it, their app may never be purchased otherwise.
The only part that pisses me off are the idiots that think any good review of an app *they* don't like means its fake, so instead of rating the app what they truly feel they decide it is their moral imperative to "correct the balance" buy giving a decent app 1-star to counter someone 5-star app they think is fake.
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Actually devs get a hefty percentage of the full cost of the app,paid directly from Amazon, when their app is chosen to be the daily free one. It's either 40 or 60 percent, but is usually a HUGE windfall for the developer. Personally, I get the free app every day, even if I have no plans to use them on any device of mine right now. I'm sure I'm not the only one who does that, and most of the time, they're apps I would NEVER have downloaded if they weren't free for me. The developers LOVE the free app system, 'money-in-their-pocket' wise.
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yang704 said:
why pay when you can get it free from 4share.com. Yes, is the paid version for free.
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And this is the reason why we have more ****ty apps in the android market , I like android a lot but my iPhone apps are better develop.and graphics too, and you are sharing a warez website dude
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Why not purchase the app then navigate to system, data, apps and copy the .apk to your sdcard go back to the market uninstall and get your refund...then go back and install the .apk from your card and voila you have the app. Thats what I do with root access!
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See, it's tactics like that that make me want to ***** slap some people. The whole purpose of buying an app is to support the developer and encourage growth. These are not major companies producing these products. They're regular people like you and me with an idea. ****in support them if you like what they're doing.
And their prices are equivalent to a cup of coffee or a beer at the bar. It's not that bad.
As for the .99 for Root Explorer, it's a steal. Go get it! An excellent program for the price of a candy bar.
Ten day 10 cent sale on selected apps in Market. I grabbed a couple so far.
Read It Later was one, looks very cool.
Check it out, I'm sure you'll find something worthwhile.
Btw... I think they change up the apps offered each day.
so glad they are doing this... i noticed it this morning
ADW EX is supposed to be .10 in the coming days. Their latest update brings some nice ICS elements. I have been going back and forth with Sense and Go Launcher ex and could use a change.
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Anyone know what apps are available each day? Is there a published list? I am not an app-a-holic so I am not going to just buy apps just because they are essentially free, lol.
Amazon has some apps for 10 cents as well. I came across it by accident and don't know how to find which ones.
I saw Paper Camera for 10 cents in the Market but when I clicked on it to purchase it said $1.99. So I searched for it at Amazon and they had it for 10 cents! It's a cool app, I like it, takes pics that look like a sketch plus other variations.
Read It Later is worth every cent! I use that App every day. The best part is that everything you save for later is synced to the Cloud. When I got my Rezound it was awesome getting everything synced back to my phone, as I have hundreds of articles saved
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"Amazon has some apps for 10 cents as well. I came across it by accident and don't know how to find which ones.
I saw Paper Camera for 10 cents in the Market but when I clicked on it to purchase it said $1.99. So I searched for it at Amazon and they had it for 10 cents! It's a cool app, I like it, takes pics that look like a sketch plus other variations."
I had that issue with another app, I just went back and clicked again and it worked fine in the market!!
I also noticed a bunch of apps for .10 on amazon.
I recommend Paper Camera and Spirit HD which are up for 10 cents today.
I thought I wasn't going to put any games on my phone but Spirit HD is kind of cool.
After having seen that I was asked for some intrusive permissions when installing Paper Camera downloaded from Amazon and googling about it and finding out that if you take the Amazon app off your phone you can no longer use the apps you downloaded from Amazon I decided to uninstall it and install from Android Market. They didn't ask for the same access.
I saw a comment from a developer in an Amazon review of another app that Amazon has DRM so they require more permissions. I don't like that. And I don't think uninstalling the Amazon app should cause me to lose the ability to use apps I paid for!
Office Suite Pro is on sale for 99 cents.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...pro-6-on-sale-for-0-99-until-may-10th-14-off/
I just purchased it for 99 cents.
Hope it works well.
Regards,
Howard
Thanks for the heads up on the deal.
I have Kingsoft Office (free) on mine, and seems to get the job done for how often I need to open Office files on mobile (not often). Any reason this one is better?
spitzaf said:
Thanks for the heads up on the deal.
I have Kingsoft Office (free) on mine, and seems to get the job done for how often I need to open Office files on mobile (not often). Any reason this one is better?
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Well...I have not used it yet, and I do not have any immediate need for it.
It is supposed to be able to open Microsoft Office files: Word, Excel, and powerpoint files and PDF files. I figure for 99 cents it might come in handy. If I wasted 99 cents, I won't fret over it.
My wife almost bought me a tablet last December for the holidays. I bet it will be much nicer to work on documents on a tablet rather than a rezound phone. So, there might be an android tablet in my future?
Howard
cool for 99 cents ill give it a go. thanks for the heads up.
Hi everyone
I finally bought this superb phone
But there is a problem
My phone doesn't include polaris office preinstalled
So i want to ask you guys a favoyr
Would anyone that have titanium bakup inetalled,bqckup his own polaris office and send it to me?
Thanks
Don't think so, buy it yourself.
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I also thought this was supposed to be included with the phone.
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I also thought this was supposed to be included with the phone.
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If it was included in S2/Note doesn't necessarily mean that it should be present in S3 too
If u install foxhound rom i think u have a chance to install polar office also just do the "custom install" with aroma. Im almost 100% sure i saw polar office there. Did not install it my self tho.
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When you open the polaris viewer on the sg3, you'll get a popup saying you can download the office version.
Haven't seen it anywhere tough
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im currently in xlite rom, surprisingly it does have full polaris office without any warning message.
the thing is in gsmarena when they reviewed the phone they said it had both polaris office and google books pre-installed
but i can't find non of them anywhere
still if anybody has pollaris office pre-installed,I would be thankful if he/she sends its backup
Here's the full version from the S2.
http://db.tt/dtXm0DgC
You might need to copy the apk to system/app folder and the two lib files to to System/lib The CMW zip seems to not be working right... but it works perfect.
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Just get Kingsoft Office on the market, it's free.
Polaris is a commercial software, so using a version on a phone it didn't come bundled with is a violation of the ToS and as such copyright infrigment.
Hey, Smart Office is now available as a free download in Samsung Apps, it's a full office editor.
d4fseeker said:
Just get Kingsoft Office on the market, it's free.
Polaris is a commercial software, so using a version on a phone it didn't come bundled with is a violation of the ToS and as such copyright infrigment.
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Lol! Are you kidding man? Can you imagine the cash Samsung would have forked out to have Polaris bundled free with 20 million SGS2's? Do you think they REALLY care if a few smart xda guys do a sneaky port? Lol! Google Play app purchases are for life and can used across device upgrades so really I'm just extending the life of an app I purchased when I forked out $800 for my S2.
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Hey, Smart Office is now available as a free download in Samsung Apps, it's a full office editor.
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Nope listing as $8 for me. And the S2 Polaris I posted is the full office edit version... shhhh don't tell anyone
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Can you imagine the cash Samsung would have forked out to have Polaris bundled free with 20 million SGS2's? Do you think they REALLY care if a few smart xda guys do a sneaky port?
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Just because none cares does make it automatically right.
I don't think anyone here is an angel but I still point out that it probably is illegal.
Google Play app purchases are for life and can used across device upgrades so really I'm just extending the life of an app I purchased when I forked out $800 for my S2.
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The point is that you never bought Polaris Office through the Play Market but it came bundled with the phone. While you can transfer the APK, the license -not in the pysical sense of serial number or file but in the sense of having been granted- remains on the original device.
However, owning a S2 MAY give you the right to use the APK on your S3 as long as you still own the S2, especially since afaik there are no security checks on the APK.
(It's the same as with backups of movies... you may have as many as you want as long as you have the original providing you don't bypass any relevant security features such as CSS [which according to some courts is not relevant anymore])
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Just because none cares does make it automatically right.
I don't think anyone here is an angel but I still point out that it probably is illegal.
The point is that you never bought Polaris Office through the Play Market but it came bundled with the phone. While you can transfer the APK, the license -not in the pysical sense of serial number or file but in the sense of having been granted- remains on the original device.
However, owning a S2 MAY give you the right to use the APK on your S3 as long as you still own the S2, especially since afaik there are no security checks on the APK.
(It's the same as with backups of movies... you may have as many as you want as long as you have the original)
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Oh yes you are correct, my Google play paid app story was more of an anecdote to how murky the Android world is in terms of digital rights.
You were pointing out the legal position mostly. True but really porting any Samsung stock rom apps to say cm9 is just as illegal in terms of rights, these apps come bundled with Samsungs rom.
I would argue that porting a bundled app to another device is not legally the same thing as using software which has a momentary vale (on Play say) and appropriate licence which is not paid for. So in the case of Polaris Samsung has bought the rights to a bundled version so sharing it around on XDA is no worse than any Samsung bundled app like S Voice. And certainly not as illegal as sharing Modded Samsung bundled apps.
I could be completely wrong on this one however I did get this Zip from XDA
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OEM apps are generally fair game unless the OEM states otherwise (Swype being the prime example), as you cant actually buy polaris office anywhere (I looked, if I missed something, let me know) and its only shipped as an OEM product on android so its fair game.
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OEM apps are generally fair game unless the OEM states otherwise (Swype being the prime example), as you cant actually buy polaris office anywhere (I looked, if I missed something, let me know) and its only shipped as an OEM product on android so its fair game.
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Agreed.
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Polaris Office 4.0 now available from Samsung's "More Services".