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And what do they do?
What apps can you absolutely not live without on your phone?
1.) Twitter - Social networking that needs no explination
2.) Facebook - Social networking that needs no explination
3.) Titanium Back Up - Backs up all my apps
4.) Chrome 2 Phone - Streams PC chrome pages to phone's browser
5.) Shazam - Music Tagging app
6.) Polaris Office - Best office client I've found for a mobile device
7.) Set-CPU - Allows overclocking of your device if your kernel supports it.
8.) SystemAppRemover - Removes bloatware embedded into the phone
9.) Word With Friends - Fun crossword puzzler with friends
10.) Google Music - All your music with none of the space.... *To the cloud!*
I hope this thread will unearth some hidden gem apps and make users more aware of how they can take advantage of their hardware and get more use out of their phones.
Thanks
*BTW... sorry to the mods if threads like this exist already for this phone.*
•Facebook + Messenger - socialize from my couch
•Paper Camera - Takes awesome sketchbook style photos
•Tapatalk - keep track of forums
•Amazon App Store - Free Paid App Of The Day
•Stock Video App - Plays my movies
•Stock Music App - 5.1 Dolby sounds amazing with nice Skullcandy headphones, otherwise pretty basic.
•Cover Art Downloader - gets album art pretty effectively.
• Audio Tagger - let's me edit mp3 files. I'm really ocd about my music being organized.
•Plants vs Zombies - really fun tower defense style game
•News/Weather widget - gives you weather and news topics of your choice, nice 4x1 layout.
That's basically it for me. Really need to invest in Ti Backup still.
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Ones that I can't imagine not having.
XDA APP- I'd have nothing to do if I didn't
Pure breeze launcher - this above all, seriously
Miren browser
Glympse
Lcd resolution
Astro file manager
Titanium backup
Swipepad
Swipeswitcher
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A few I haven't seen mentioned yet :
Zedge- great app for ringtones, wallpapers, and notifications, complete with a search bar!
Xbox Live statistics- pretty solid app for Xbox live friends. Notifications and messages work and has a dev support.
Vlingo- beats the Google voice search.
PicSayPro- awesome photo editor ...awesome!
Google+ - circles are better ;-)
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Root Explorer pro
Titanium Backup pro
Astro file explorer
XDA app
Email
AutoCad WS
PayPal app
Wells Fargo app
Documents To Go pro
SwiftKey
Juice Defender Ultimate
Angry Birds (all of them)
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get friendcaster to replace facebook app
it's so much better
somehow my facebook app is really buggy and slow
Plus 1 on Ti Backup. Its a lifesaver when it comes to apps with a lot of data.
honghsien5 said:
get friendcaster to replace facebook app
it's so much better
somehow my facebook app is really buggy and slow
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yeah, i hate the facebook app for andoid. the next version will be a lot better. facebook gives the new stuff to ios first and then android. the new version is a lot better. ill prolly try that app out till the next app comes out
@og post
im not a big person on tons of apps, so dont mind the small list
facebook (once updated, till then ^^what he said^^)
netflix
shazam
pandora
dropbox (great for backing up your sd card backups... just encase your phone is lost or stolen)
kjv bible
skype
whatsapp (best app ever)
chrome2phone
speedtest
myatt (best way to pay a bill when you forgot to at home)
music online lite
xda app
the list got longer when i looked at my sexy phone im still missing an rss reader and a reddit app though. hoping someone here mentions a good one
Most of my installed apps are must have . Here's a link to the extensive list I provided someone else with.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19278748&postcount=2
I wish people would just post 1 or 2 apps, as huge lists with no explanations are kind of pointless.
With that said, I just got a GS2 and have been trying out some new apps I never bothered with on my Droid 1.
I'm using Plume for Twitter. It seems like the highest rated twitter client, and I can see why. It's really smooth and slick and has a pretty intuitive interface. I'm liking it a lot and see no reason to ever try another Twitter app.
Llama- Ever wanted to try tasker or Locale, or jealous of the Razr's 'smart actions' app, but didn't want to spend money on any of them? This is a free automatic settings manager and so far it seems really powerful. I'm just getting it set up today, so I don't know how well it works in practice, but it seems to be able to do anything the paid apps do if not more. I always wanted to see how one of these apps really worked but didn't want to pay 6 bucks for one like Tasker so I'd say this is worth trying out if you're looking for something like this.
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I wish people would just post 1 or 2 apps, as huge lists with no explanations are kind of pointless.
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At some point, people just have to give it a closer look and try it themselves. Anything in my list without a brief explanation is self explanatory.
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Some of my favorite, less know apps:
MobiReader Pro: a picture OCR, done completely on your phone. Turns the text in the picture to a text document, where I then use...
CopyPaste Pro: to copy that text and move it to QuickOffice, and use Evernote, and bam! Document for my computer.
FourTracks Pro: for the mobile musician - it allows you to record four tracks much in the same way GarageBand allows you to, and using a couple other programs, I can mix, edit, and produce all on my phone.
ROMToolbox: amazing program. It combines many programs into one. Just look it up on Market. It's worth every penny.
WifiKill: a fun, trolling, but useful program. Kills any other devices connected to your wiring. So say your wife or children are using the internet, downloading movies and whatnot, you can use this app to cut them off, and get all that bandwidth back for yourself.
Finally, N64oid: a great N64 emulator. Nuff said.
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get friendcaster to replace facebook app
it's so much better
somehow my facebook app is really buggy and slow
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Will look into that. ;-)
autonomous-inc said:
Some of my favorite, less
WifiKill: a fun, trolling, but useful program. Kills any other devices connected to your wiring. So say your wife or children are using the internet, downloading movies and whatnot, you can use this app to cut them off, and get all that bandwidth back for yourself.
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Couldn't find wifikill
Its not wifi killer is it?
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hussarfilms said:
Couldn't find wifikill
Its not wifi killer is it?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1282900
i think he's referring to that app.
Tasker - Control everything
Minimalistic Text - Great widget tool
Ti Backup - Who on this forum does not use this?
g+ - Love it
ES File Manager
World of Goo - Fantastic game
honghsien5 said:
get friendcaster to replace facebook app
it's so much better
somehow my facebook app is really buggy and slow
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can you remove the 'take photo' icon/app from friendcaster that installed automatically?
polobreaka said:
can you remove the 'take photo' icon/app from friendcaster that installed automatically?
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i don't think so.
i have no idea why friendcaster has that app but i usually just ignore it.
btw, facebook is going to update today so i'm gonna check it out and see if it's better now or not.
honghsien5 said:
i don't think so.
i have no idea why friendcaster has that app but i usually just ignore it.
btw, facebook is going to update today so i'm gonna check it out and see if it's better now or not.
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the new update of fb looks the same as ios version.
http://lifehacker.com/5866050/faceb...-boost-plus-notification-and-interface-tweaks
edit: i dont see the updated fb in market.
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the new update of fb looks the same as ios version.
http://lifehacker.com/5866050/faceb...-boost-plus-notification-and-interface-tweaks
edit: i dont see the updated fb in market.
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Should be out soon.
I just downloaded this game to play against my wife (she's got an Iphone), because there aren't many cross-platform head-to-head games.
Problem is, my wife gets immediate notification when its her turn, I get none; zero.
For those of you familiar with IOS, their phones have a notification hub under general settings where they can manage all their installed apps' notifications. In other words, they don't have to go into an individual app and manage notifications on the "micro-level", whereas with Android, micro-level app notification is our only built-in option.
Well, this began to annoy me because while IOS doesn't hold many competitive advantages over Android anymore, this is one functional item that I frankly felt blew Android out of the water.
However, I found the app called "Iphone Notifications" on the market (Google Play now, I guess) which essentially serves the same function as the IOS notification hub. I tested this app on some basic apps where I get notifications regularly to make sure it works (SMS, Gmail, etc), and sure enough, it worked perfectly.
The moment of truth though was setting it to work with "Draw Something" which I then did, and unfortunately, nothing; no notification. I went into the app itself (Draw Something), checked again for any settings to be changed, but the in-app notification setting was already turned "on".
Does anyone know if I'm doing anything wrong here or if there are work arounds??
Please advise as it annoys me to have to check the actual app itself to see when its my turn to play, but it annoys me even more to think that IOS still functions more reliably than Android at a level so basic as this....
Thanks in advance-
Ryan
It has nothing to do with iOS functioning better.. the app is poorly written for Android. Games by zynga are cross platform and they let you choose your notification interval but Draw Something has never given me a notification either. It also crashes a lot.. three stars on the market for a reason
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From what I can tell there is no notification option in the app itself...hopefully in a update.
MrDSL said:
From what I can tell there is no notification option in the app itself...hopefully in a update.
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Right, but the "Iphone Notification" app should alert me in the app's place, shouldn't it? I mean that's the only reason I downloaded the notification app to begin with.
After all, iOS apps all notify you on an Iphone through the notification hub, regardless of the individual app's native notification settings.
I am guessing then that there are API's or something similar that iOS has with apps that push-notifies the user which Android may not have (with all apps).
In any case, this sucks out loud because now I have to admit to my wife that there's still something iOS does better than Android, even if it's a small issue and even if the issue is primarily in this particular app, because even if the app is not up to speed yet, and even if it doesn't have much if any of its own notification settings, it still push notifies on iOS but not Android.
I realized you can't use the back key to go back once you're in a game with someone. Fun game but it feels like they rushed a bit too much.
I miss the iPhone Facebook app.. Posh notifications were nice and the app it self it so much better than the Android counter part...its pathetic
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ahjdmarchi said:
I miss the iPhone Facebook app.. Posh notifications were nice and the app it self it so much better than the Android counter part...its pathetic
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I just switched from an iPhone 4. I HATED the iOS Facebook app; Android's is far, far better IMHO. On iOS I would only occasionally get a push notification about posts, and never for incoming messages. So far on Android, I'm getting a notification every time I receive a message. Not sure about posts, I haven't had any yet.
The other problem I had with the iOS Facebook app is the data was always old. Especially with picture comments. Even manually refreshing still showed the old messages, and none of the new ones. I'd have to wait a couple days before it would finally show up. I haven't had any such problem on my Note so far, everything seems to be perfectly synced with the website.
EDIT: Oh, and the only notification I've ever gotten with Draw Something is when the other person guesses my drawing - it plays a sound. No visual notification. It was that way before I made the phone switch as well. It's quite frustrating, I'm always having people text me "MAKE YOUR MOVE!"
EDIT 2: Yup, I'm receiving notifications for Facebook posts and comments as well. In fact I get them only a fraction of a second after it appears on my desktop. Soo much better than what I was used to on iOS...
Install noled and use that to monitor whatever apps you want. Its pretty handy
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iphone notifcation will only display the banner or alert when there is a toast on your notification bar.
Does anyone else notice that the spen is basically useless on this game?
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The pen works great on mine while playing. My wife tried it on her iPhone to no avail lol.
CreekDirt said:
The pen works great on mine while playing. My wife tried it on her iPhone to no avail lol.
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same
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andersco said:
Does anyone else notice that the spen is basically useless on this game?
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what you mean?
mine works flawlessly
Yeah it works fantastically for me, although I usually have to calibrate the pen before I play a round.
Back to OP.
If the app has no notification feature on Android, what does the IOS Notification app have to grab to give a notification? I would not think that the app can just create a notification for an app that does not have this function.
I wrote the Dev and asked for this feature to be added to the Android App. I suggest everyone else do the same.
I DO agree with you 100% that this is annoying as all hell though.
Talderon said:
Back to OP.
If the app has no notification feature on Android, what does the IOS Notification app have to grab to give a notification? I would not think that the app can just create a notification for an app that does not have this function.
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agree wholeheartedly
that part from the OP stumped me
SayWhat10 said:
agree wholeheartedly
that part from the OP stumped me
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Don't know the x's and o's of why iOS gets notifications and Android doesn't for this particular app, but the fact is that it happens. I saw it with my own eyes.
Just saying...
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For those who wants to get help with this game, there is a tool for you at drawanswer.com It's pretty cool!
How do i calibrate the pen?
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Hi all,
is there an app or some funky cables that allow you to use the Tablet as an additional screen?
thanks
Mr_Maz said:
Is there an app or some funky cables that allow you to use the Tablet as an additional screen?
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There is an app called Air Display that works for both Windows and Mac and allows you to use an android or apple device.
http://avatron.com/apps/air-display
nathanhd123 said:
There is an app called Air Display that works for both Windows and Mac and allows you to use an android or apple device.
http://avatron.com/apps/air-display
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I'll give it a go, Many thanks!:good:
I got an app called iDisplay, nice apply but word of warning, it doesn't (yet) work properly on Windows 8.
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alias_neo said:
I got an app called iDisplay, nice apply but word of warning, it doesn't (yet) work properly on Windows 8.
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Thanks, i'll try them out tonight
As others have mentioned, there are a handful of apps. In my experience they are all garbage though. Off the top of my head there is:
Air Display
Screen Slider
iDisplay
And each of them has some combination of the following issues:
500+ ms lag
Disables Aero/DirectX
Apps freeze when moved to tablet (expecially browsers)
Not compatible with 64 bit OSs
Can't set size or relative position of the tablet display
I have heard of good results from setting up VNC to stream a second monitor to an Android device, but I've yet to try it. If you find a good solution to setting up your Nexus as a second monitor, let us know. I'd love to use my Nexus and an extra touch monitor for my PC.
Sycobob said:
As others have mentioned, there are a handful of apps. In my experience they are all garbage though. Off the top of my head there is:
Air Display
Screen Slider
iDisplay
And each of them has some combination of the following issues:
500+ ms lag
Disables Aero/DirectX
Apps freeze when moved to tablet (expecially browsers)
Not compatible with 64 bit OSs
Can't set size or relative position of the tablet display
I have heard of good results from setting up VNC to stream a second monitor to an Android device, but I've yet to try it. If you find a good solution to setting up your Nexus as a second monitor, let us know. I'd love to use my Nexus and an extra touch monitor for my PC.
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AirDisplay is struggling.
My main goal is to be able to move Football Manager across to the tablet and use the touchscreen to interface
Mr_Maz said:
AirDisplay is struggling.
My main goal is to be able to move Football Manager across to the tablet and use the touchscreen to interface
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Personally I think you will struggle to find an app that will allow you to play games like this without noticeable lag or other problems.
Mr_Maz said:
AirDisplay is struggling.
My main goal is to be able to move Football Manager across to the tablet and use the touchscreen to interface
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While using a laptop I've had success "creating" another display in the Windows resolution menu, then simply connecting with Splashtop and using that. It works well for me, running games, apps, etc all in windowed mode
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Use Team viewer and remote into your desktop.
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dmwagner said:
Use Team viewer and remote into your desktop.
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I've always found TeamViewer hard to use for anything substantial due the lag and slow loading times of everything on my screen - of course that could just be my slow connection.
nathanhd123 said:
I've always found TeamViewer hard to use for anything substantial due the lag and slow loading times of everything on my screen - of course that could just be my slow connection.
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Splashtop works....kinda, have to drop the display from Sharp to Smooth to get rid of annoying green line across the screen.
Like eall so far, there is considerable lag. A cabled solution would be great for my needs for now.
omac_ranger said:
While using a laptop I've had success "creating" another display in the Windows resolution menu, then simply connecting with Splashtop and using that. It works well for me, running games, apps, etc all in windowed mode
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Can you give step-by-step instructions on how to do that? I've tried creating another display but it doesn't work.
Sort of.
I bought my gear fit yesterday and messaging notification, including 3rd party apps, like whatsapp, work. I need to install Google calendar to get calendar notifications. All you need to do is download gear fit manager apk and pair. I can also use the media controller to skip tracks and control volume.
The watch can sense your wrist motion, and screen will switch on when you raise and turn your wrist to your face. Screen is super nice. Built is plastic but don't feel cheap at all. You can change wall paper. There are different home screens that allow you to customize to show the time together wirh different information, such as next calendar activity (which I use), or pedometer data, or weather.... Etc.
S health doesn't work. But I used to use pebble, and can say gear fit is much better as it can show emotions, , or whatever they are called. I can still use the heartbeat sensor, pedometers, exercise measures, but data just can't be sync to phone without s health.
Since Samsung released the sdk, I am hopeful that the exercise data will be supported by 3rd party apps eventually.
Let me know if you have any question. Oh yeah, the control is smooth, and based on my experience, the battery should last around 4 days.
Great watch... Anyone wants my pebble?
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Here is a wrist shot
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Great good to know thanks for the info!
Shame they designed it 90 degrees off...
I have seen the latest firmware that allows portrait mode. I don't have that option yet.
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yatbond said:
Great watch... Anyone wants my pebble?
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I'll take it :fingers-crossed:
Is a usb cable or something to connect with a pc included to the deilvery contents?
This is really good news to read! Thanks for the info.
Scrib'd on my OG2
The usb cable came with it. It has a normal micro USB charger that connects to a small adapter which connects to the watch.
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Strava works?
yatbond said:
Sort of.
I bought my gear fit yesterday and messaging notification, including 3rd party apps, like whatsapp, work. I need to install Google calendar to get calendar notifications. All you need to do is download gear fit manager apk and pair. I can also use the media controller to skip tracks and control volume.
The watch can sense your wrist motion, and screen will switch on when you raise and turn your wrist to your face. Screen is super nice. Built is plastic but don't feel cheap at all. You can change wall paper. There are different home screens that allow you to customize to show the time together wirh different information, such as next calendar activity (which I use), or pedometer data, or weather.... Etc.
S health doesn't work. But I used to use pebble, and can say gear fit is much better as it can show emotions, , or whatever they are called. I can still use the heartbeat sensor, pedometers, exercise measures, but data just can't be sync to phone without s health.
Since Samsung released the sdk, I am hopeful that the exercise data will be supported by 3rd party apps eventually.
Let me know if you have any question. Oh yeah, the control is smooth, and based on my experience, the battery should last around 4 days.
Great watch... Anyone wants my pebble?
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Are you sure weather can work on lg g2
Yes, except all the health functions. The other thing is though you need to install the latest gear fit manager with the gear fit being updated with the latest firmware. You can do that if you have another Samsung gs4 or 5.... If not, then go to your local electronic store to connect your gear fit too update firmware. Then disconnect it and leave.
I am still using both g2 and gear fit.
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Auto rotate frequently gets in the way when I'm using my device. I never want it on until I'm trying to view something meant for landscape. Instead if there was a module to enable it automatically while using certain apps and have it disabled for others would make much more sense. I don't want it always on or off.
Here's an example;
Enabled when using gallery app.
Disabled when using Textra. I never use landscape keyboard.
If anyone wants a new project I know this would be a very useful module I would use everyday.
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BennyBenjaman said:
Auto rotate frequently gets in the way when I'm using my device. I never want it on until I'm trying to view something meant for landscape. Instead if there was a module to enable it automatically while using certain apps and have it disabled for others would make much more sense. I don't want it always on or off.
Here's an example;
Enabled when using gallery app.
Disabled when using Textra. I never use landscape keyboard.
If anyone wants a new project I know this would be a very useful module I would use everyday.
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Use "Tasker"
BennyBenjaman said:
Auto rotate frequently gets in the way when I'm using my device. I never want it on until I'm trying to view something meant for landscape. Instead if there was a module to enable it automatically while using certain apps and have it disabled for others would make much more sense. I don't want it always on or off.
Here's an example;
Enabled when using gallery app.
Disabled when using Textra. I never use landscape keyboard.
If anyone wants a new project I know this would be a very useful module I would use everyday.
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