Thanks to all XDA members that already put all effort to xperia user. I feel very satisfy after my X10 able to be rooted,flashed,xrecovery,change to custom rom. But I think, may be X10 can do more. May all experts suggest what else can I do to maximize the xperia?thanks.
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gunawan-1 said:
Thanks to all XDA members that already put all effort to xperia user. I feel very satisfy after my X10 able to be rooted,flashed,xrecovery,change to custom rom. But I think, may be X10 can do more. May all experts suggest what else can I do to maximize the xperia?thanks.
GN Multimedia - X10i
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Smartphones can do huge amounts, try to round it down a bit mate.
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Personally I run a FTP Server on my phone, I've given a bunch of pals access to my SD Card's wallpaper/music folders. I also routinely connect to my Home PC with Wyse PocketCloud to check on my downloads, virtual machines etc. Then there's Connectbot to telnet into routers erc. for quick troubleshooting on the go.
I think i'm already using some additional capabilities, I suggest you try and look to do the same as and when required. You never know how handy having such stuff is! Except Wyse, almost all apps are free from the market - and you can use any otjher client of your choice for RDP/VNC.
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Personally I run a FTP Server on my phone, I've given a bunch of pals access to my SD Card's wallpaper/music folders. I also routinely connect to my Home PC with Wyse PocketCloud to check on my downloads, virtual machines etc. Then there's Connectbot to telnet into routers erc. for quick troubleshooting on the go.
I think i'm already using some additional capabilities, I suggest you try and look to do the same as and when required. You never know how handy having such stuff is! Except Wyse, almost all apps are free from the market - and you can use any otjher client of your choice for RDP/VNC.
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Thanks.will try.
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Hi,
I am new on this forum, and I am happy I joined to this forum.
I have Xperia mini ST15i with android 2.3.4
I downloaded a version of skype raider(v. 2.5.0.160), but when i sign in i notice it does not show all contacts and all groups correctly.
So i installed IM+ to run skype, but it costs a lot on GPRS in my country.
I am wondering if anyone can give me a clean free version, and weather it will cost less than IM+ or not on GPRS.
BTW, I rooted my mobile, and I installed Droidwall, but IM+ still costs a lot.
Thanks in advanced.
most apps will cost the same as im+... i use e-buddy only through wifi tho. i have mobile data off. so either get an unlimited data plan or use wifi only, regardless of the app you're using.
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Thank you for the quick response. Actually I need to use skype on 2g and as I told you that's the reason of why I rooted my phone
i.e. installing Droidwall and control the data plan on gprs. So now I just need a recommended version of skype, besides I think skype app gives us more services not existed in IM+.
Have you tried imo.im?
Thanks, iI tried imo, and I found it costs more than IM+, but imo takes less time to sign in rather than IM+
There is new skyp in market!
I use it and it's perfect ;-)
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Other than a rooted Nook tablet I don't have much experience with Android. I'm coming from an iPhone4 and looking forward to something new.
What are the must have utilities and apps?
Any tips or must have, must do things?
I've seen doubletwist mentioned and Samsung uses Kies.
Looking forward to Note...
See the Guide for NOOBS sticky at the top of this forum ^^^^
thinguy said:
Other than a rooted Nook tablet I don't have much experience with Android. I'm coming from an iPhone4 and looking forward to something new.
What are the must have utilities and apps?
Any tips or must have, must do things?
I've seen doubletwist mentioned and Samsung uses Kies.
Looking forward to Note...
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I have never used kies with either my captivate or infuse. Don't see the need with other apps, as well as the fact that you can just drag and drop files onto your phone's storage. Syncing reminds me of an iphone, and is stupid in my opinion. Drag and drop allows you to only add the files you need/want, and is much faster in the long run.
I suggest using Google Music for your music, it automatically uploads up to 20,000 songs automatically from your itunes or windows media player to the cloud so that you can access them wherever.
If you use grooveshark at all, check out Dood's music streamer. Allows you to use grooveshark on the go without paying for premium service. If you have not used grooveshark before, check it out on your computer.
Google voice provides a simple, visual voicemail system, though I think I have read somewhere that the note has visual voicemail built in? Could be wrong.
XDA app is a must, though I assume you use that on your Nook already.
Dropbox is useful for documents, as well as google docs.
The note comes with S Note and other various apps that make use of the S pen.
Dolphin Browser HD is a great replacement browser that I have used with all of my androids.
Evernote is useful for taking notes that can be accessed on your phone or any computer. I hope the S pen can have some functionality with this app.
Root explorer is definitely worth the few bucks it costs to have access to all of the files on your phone.
Titanium backup is a must if you are into ROMing your devices, as it will allow you to restore your apps after every flash with ease. The free version works, but you have to approve every app install. I suggest buying the full version, as the restore process is fully automated and can run in the background or with your screen off, making the process much less cumbersome.
Other than that, we will have to wait and see if apps such as rom manager and such will be of any use to the flashing process once the devs get their hands on the device and start pumping out custom roms.
OP, i'm also as green as you on the Android platform. I have an iphone 4s and got the Note just to explore Android.
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See the Guide for NOOBS sticky at the top of this forum ^^^^
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Have you read it? Its just Android definitions and reserved spots for future use. No specific info on tips, advice or apps.
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I have never used kies with either my captivate or infuse. Don't see the need with other apps, as well as the fact that you can just drag and drop files onto your phone's storage. Syncing reminds me of an iphone, and is stupid in my opinion. Drag and drop allows you to only add the files you need/want, and is much faster in the long run.
I suggest using Google Music for your music, it automatically uploads up to 20,000 songs automatically from your itunes or windows media player to the cloud so that you can access them wherever.
If you use grooveshark at all, check out Dood's music streamer. Allows you to use grooveshark on the go without paying for premium service. If you have not used grooveshark before, check it out on your computer.
Google voice provides a simple, visual voicemail system, though I think I have read somewhere that the note has visual voicemail built in? Could be wrong.
XDA app is a must, though I assume you use that on your Nook already.
Dropbox is useful for documents, as well as google docs.
The note comes with S Note and other various apps that make use of the S pen.
Dolphin Browser HD is a great replacement browser that I have used with all of my androids.
Evernote is useful for taking notes that can be accessed on your phone or any computer. I hope the S pen can have some functionality with this app.
Root explorer is definitely worth the few bucks it costs to have access to all of the files on your phone.
Titanium backup is a must if you are into ROMing your devices, as it will allow you to restore your apps after every flash with ease. The free version works, but you have to approve every app install. I suggest buying the full version, as the restore process is fully automated and can run in the background or with your screen off, making the process much less cumbersome.
Other than that, we will have to wait and see if apps such as rom manager and such will be of any use to the flashing process once the devs get their hands on the device and start pumping out custom roms.
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Thanks, I forget that it can be handled like a normal usb device/storage.
I need to try Dolphin, using Opera on Nook now and it's better than the default but still lacking. The firefox app seems terrible/incomplete.
thinguy said:
Other than a rooted Nook tablet I don't have much experience with Android. I'm coming from an iPhone4 and looking forward to something new.
What are the must have utilities and apps?
Any tips or must have, must do things?
I've seen doubletwist mentioned and Samsung uses Kies.
Looking forward to Note...
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I use a captivate and have used froyo and gingerbread. I suspect you will find the gingerbread used on the g-note okay but not as polished and as smooth as your iOS. That said, the new android ICS (using cm9 alpha, build 16) is is incredible. Smooth, clean, powerful and intuitive. A pleasure to use, I believe It offers the best of both worlds. The ease of apple and the configurable power of android.
Since you have a nook you can try it out, the nook ics rom is very usable and will give you a hint of the g-note goodness to come with the ics operating system the xda guys will cook up. I have a nook to, and if you have rooted it, the ics install will be relatively simple.
The following list are some Apps you might find worth looking at, and depending on your interest, might even be worth paying for.
Music; I use Power Amp, paid app. clean seductive interface, lots of audio magic for the music lover, and great developer support.
Files; Webdav; paid ver. Nice little app let's you wireless mount your android as a drive so you can cut/paste files and folders as you would to and from any other drive on your PC. Great for lots of audio book files, movies, or just cleaning up your phone. You can use 3g instead of wifi but I've never tried it.
Podcasts; Dogcatcher, paid app. simply the best. Its biggest competition is Mypod. I used it for over a year, but never was able to get comfortable with its interface. Dogcatcher....you can just start using it, and it has lots of options.
Sling player, TV goodness, paid app and home box. Watch anything straight from your home cable, sat., or ota tuner, perfect if your a sports nut.
Launcher; Nova , free app. I am still testing but it is just so sexy and free so I figured I give it a mention.
Radio; Tune in , free app. music sports news radio stations with easy search presets. It is to good to be true but I haven't found a downside yet.
Browser; Dolphin HD, free app. I can't get excited about this one. It works, the speed is good, and it is not going to choke on flash. I would like to recommend Opera but it has been very buggy lately, I don't think it is playing nice with ics.
Google chrome is getting great reviews but it doesn't support flash. Then there is Boat browser and Quick Ics browser both show great promise but not sure about them yet.
I've got a G-note on order, for the lte and its monster screen. The thing is, since I got ics, my captivate is such a pleasure to use and play with I don't know how I'll survive waiting for a ics port.
Oh, and samsungs kies program might have some use but I've never found it.
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Browser; Dolphin HD, free app. I can't get excited about this one. It works, the speed is good, and it is not going to choke on flash. I would like to recommend Opera but it has been very buggy lately, I don't think it is playing nice with ics.
Google chrome is getting great reviews but it doesn't support flash. Then there is Boat browser and Quick Ics browser both show great promise but not sure about them yet.
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I'm very disappointed to hear that Opera is buggy with ICS--it's my favorite browser by far. <sarcasm>Fortunately</sarcasm>, we probably won't have a working ICS ROM for I717 any time soon. For the OP, this is Opera Mobile, not Opera Mini--the latter handles all traffic through opera's servers and compresses images to speed up browsing for slow phones or phones with poor connections, but the result is that many webpages with active (javascript or flash) content just don't work right.
Also a word of warning for the OP: if you choose Dolphin, make sure you are rooted and block en.mywebzines.com (and maybe some other related URLs) through your hosts file. The spyware seems to be removed in the latest update, but I still won't trust a browser that, at any time in its history, forwarded essentially all of your web activity to a third party server. There's a long thread around here that discusses these issues in more depth.
Browsers are very much a matter of personal preference though; also, if you use a browser that matches your desktop browser, it makes syncing the two much easier--firefox, opera, and chrome all have great sync capabilities between their desktop and mobile counterparts.
Thanks for the link, a very disturbing read regarding the Dolphin Browser HD. I took aggressive data mining for granted, but damn the DB-hd boys are into strip mining personal data...... thanks again for taking the time to post...
OP, please forget i even mentioned Dolphin
(i going to.. ; ) and give Opera a shot. He is right were not gonna be on ics for good stretch, and by the time we are any quirks will be ironed out. It is a great overall program with lots of features. It has usually been my daily driver since the long gone days of windows mobile.
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root question?
Since ICS is a ways off, If we root for TiBU, or Root explorer to remove certain system apps, will we get ICS FOTA, or will we not get it without unrooting and replacing all bloat we removed?
So my question is -any advice for those of us who root but want the OTA ICS when it comes out?
Should have put this out first- will the method for the international version for root work for the ATT one?
I saw another thread about hiding apps in some guy's wife's phone to track her. I'm looking for something similar with my wife, but it does not need to be hidden. Mainly to be used because I commute quite a distance and this would let her know how close I am to home (rather than having me text while driving). Similarly for her when she's travelling.
Just an app that would:-
1. Allow me to see where she is (and vice-versa)
2. Use GPS if on, otherwise fall back on net information
3. Not use SMSes (some sort of internet-based communication between phones)
I could probably hack something up using Tasker but her phone isn't rooted like mine is so the capabilities for GPS etc are a bit more limited (and time is limited, of course).
Thanks!
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ngoonee said:
I saw another thread about hiding apps in some guy's wife's phone to track her. I'm looking for something similar with my wife, but it does not need to be hidden. Mainly to be used because I commute quite a distance and this would let her know how close I am to home (rather than having me text while driving). Similarly for her when she's travelling.
Just an app that would:-
1. Allow me to see where she is (and vice-versa)
2. Use GPS if on, otherwise fall back on net information
3. Not use SMSes (some sort of internet-based communication between phones)
I could probably hack something up using Tasker but her phone isn't rooted like mine is so the capabilities for GPS etc are a bit more limited (and time is limited, of course).
Thanks!
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You can actually do this with the built in google maps application. It's called local/latitude. You can share where you are and control who sees it an when. Go ahead and look into it. Much better then downloading another app IMHO.
See here: Google search latitude android
Thanks, yeah I know about latitude features but it seems to lack a way to "ping" the other party with the equivalent of "hey, I've reached road X"
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Use an app called Backitude from the Play Store. Latitude updates pretty arbitrarily on its own. This app allows you to control how and when it updates, and also let's another person force an update on your phone by sending an SMS. It's all Internet based except the update triggering part. You can also use the tracking features of Cerberus, another app in the Play Store.
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First off: If this kind of request is not allowed on XDA, or if I have this is posted in the wrong area, or if there are any other problems I haven't thought of, please let me know and/or delete this thread!
I would like to request that someone with the skills and know how please make a very small modification to a free android app for me... I know a little bit about coding, but I don't have the know how to decompile, edit, and recompile and android apk, but I know enough about coding to know that the actual change I would like to make should be fairly quick and easy to do.
The apps (two actual, since there is one phone and one tablet version), (SlingPlayer Free for Phones) and (SlingPlayer Free for Tablets), is a video streaming app for a device called a Slingbox which hooks up to your home cable box to allow streaming of all your home cable TV channels. The app has a feature built into it that allows you to check a box in the settings to limit the bandwidth used over mobile cellular internet connection to 1024 kbps so that it doesn't burn through all your mobile data really fast.
Basically what I want, is the exact same option but for limiting bandwidth over WIFI connection (by adding another check box to the settings, or even just making the current check box apply to both cellular and wifi if thats easier).
The reason being, is that when I use the app on my wifi only tablet via Mobile Hotspot from my phone, it sees the connection as wifi (of course) which allows it to stream at full speed which burns through my data way too fast, while not really providing any noticeable difference in streaming quality. I know there are apps out there that allow you to limit bandwidth at a system wide level, or even on a per app basis, but I've tried almost all of them and for whatever reason they just don't work as intended and cause the video stream to get choppy and buffer all the time. The cellular bandwidth limiting built into the app doesn't ever do that when enabled.
Also, just is case anyone is curious, I actually do own the paid version of the phone app (which I bought at a price of $29.99 back when it originally launch on Android! It's only $14.99 now). I'm only asking for a modified version on the free app because, though I'm not 100% sure on this, it just seems wrong to ask someone to hack and modify a high priced paid app, even though you'd be adding a feature, not removing anything... And I have also contacted the makers of this app repeatedly asking for this feature to be added, amount other things and bugs I'd found in the app, and they refuse to even respond, so I can't get any help out of them. Been trying for almost three years now.
I may be able to make a small donation to the person that adds this feature for me, if desired (and/or if allowed?)
Have you tried contacting the author of this app? What he said?
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