[GT540 Optimus General] nibras_reeza:
Hey guys,

So, I thought I'd put up a quick list. The special part of this list is that all the apps here are free and are often shadowed by their competitors and not that well known. However, they beat their competitors in many ways.

I'm assuming you are rooted and I'm providing this list as is with no gurantee.

1)

File Expert

This is a file browsing program. It's ad-free unlike Astro. It supports SMB. It supports a portable FTP/HTTP file server. It has root explorer capabilities. It also has a built-in zip/rar archive manager. I see Astro mentioned almost everywhere but people hardly notice this faster, simpler yet feature rich alternative.

Reviews:

http://www.androidrundown.com/app-rundown/file-expert-review/

http://www.androidtapp.com/file-expert/

Video Review:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDBpqsIYa5E&feature=player_embedded

Link: https://market.android.com/details?id=xcxin.filexpert&feature=search_result

2)

LBE Privacy Guard

This app provides real time alerts to what personal data and chargeable features apps are using and allows you to block them if you desire. This is a relatively new app but it's relatively stable.

Reviews:

http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile...roid-monitors-access-requests-guards-privacy/

Link: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.lbe.security&feature=search_result

3)

Link2SD

A lot of GT540 people use it but a lot of others don't. Link2SD allows you to link individual apps to the SD. It supports moving apk, lib and data files. This helps you leave some apps on internal memory so that you will have them at all times and move the unimportant ones to SD. Unlike Android's native App2SD, this doesn't require any support from the dev/app. Further, it supports moving to ext2/ext3/ext4 partitions which are faster than FAT32.

Link: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.buak.Link2SD&feature=search_result

4)

MyBackup Root.

Unlike Titanium Backup, this app supports online backups, multiple backups etc. in the free version itself.

Link: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.rerware.android.MyBackupRoot&feature=search_result

5)

Autostarts

This is a startup manager for Android. This app helps you prevent apps from starting automatically based on system intents such as startup, boot complete, media mounted and even widget updating. This app removes the startup permission so that the apps don't start in the first place unlike other startup managers which start up by themselves and then kill each app after it starts. This helps you prevent apps like RealPlayer or other media players starting up at system start. This would make the time it takes for your device to become to responsive after startup. Very useful if you use a lot of apps.

Link: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.elsdoerfer.android.autostarts&feature=search_result

The market version is €0.69. However, this app is open source. You can get the source from https://github.com/miracle2k/android-autostarts and compile yourself!

6)

YaffsExpert

Supports extracting/modifying/packaging img files from within Android. You could even flash recovery and boot without using fastboot or recovery.

Link: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.jiaofamily.android.yaffs&feature=search_result

I use all these apps regularly on my LG Optimus GT540. So, am posting it in the GT540 section. However, am sure most of these apps will work on all Android phones.