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[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Oxirane:
I'd say Go SMS is the best (real) sms app out there right now, however I am planning to try the whole wifi texting thing soon.

Widgets in general. Colorize Widget and Android Pro Widgets (?) make great alternatives to LP+ widgets, I personally can't do without some form of calendar widget.

Pageonce. Great way to keep track of bills and multiple bank accounts. I have a personal account, a school account and a savings account and it's great to be able to see them broken down or just all the money summed up (and all my bills to keep track of).

Soundhound (or Shazam). I prefer the first, I don't use it much, but when I do I'm glad to have it :D

Business Calendar is great if you need a feature rich calendar. It has a really nifty preview on the month view of any give day's events, among many other improvements.

Evernote. I love that one for grocery lists and general reminders.

Goggles for QR codes.

Convertr and Andy 86 for the students and math geeks out there, they save time like crazy.

For college students: Search your school in the market. One guy from my school made an app that logs us into school wifi automatically and provides shortcut links to commonly used school sites.

A flashlight app. For obvious reasons.

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Most people who read this will have no need for root things like Root Explorer and Titanium or Voodoo control. I say leave them out.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] VeryCoolAlan:
Wow I have most of those apps plus about 100 more. I'm a crazy teen that likes to play games
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Blars1206:
I use most of these apps, but I just came across a good one. Gemini App Manager, it's similar to Titanium Backup but free. Every rooted user should check this one out.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Oxirane:
Wow... Forgot probably one of my favorite Apps of a time. SwiftKey x. Nothing beats that keyboard.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] s15274n:
^ it made my list :)

Good suggestions by the way!
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] serendipityguy:
Must have for any phone, re-install after ever flash

Barcode Scanner - If you are in some store and want to find the cheapest prices or just want to down load files or view data, this puppy reads the bar codes and so much more, a must have for every phone

Color Flashlight - Ever drop your keys at night?

Gentle Alarm - nifty alarm clock with too many features

GPS Test - tests the GPS functionality on your smartphone

My Atlas Google Maps Works - hand and hand with Navigator... Address book with address, phone , email, web url & notes when out in the field takes you where you need to be & has a nice back up feature for those flashers that do not want to lose all of those important address. Also allows to pull your google maps locations and allows to save as contacts. Best app ever paid for!

Movies - cant decide what to see, need show times and locations or just want to view trailers and reviews

Action Snap (Free) nice camera that takes multiple images in a contact like photo also with Filters

Evernote - Sync up notes from PC to Smartphones and stores notes online, never lose any data, with microphone to record memos as well, great for comparing products at REI or Boarders so save when you are back online to shop a cheaper Amazon

Netflix - no explanation needed

mp3Tagger Pro - writes meta data to MP3 or Podcasts, adds music art to music

News & weather (Genie widget) Great topics, allows you to select your topics and stay in the know, news papers are thing of the past.

Sound Hound - ever in a borders and want to find out what song is playing? This app finds it for you with media details

Google Translate - multiple languages and sends to email or text

Launcher Pro - no brainer

Weather Bug Elite - Weather forecasts and for any region with day, week forecasts, also wether cams

Google Chrome to phone - sends pages to and from PC & Smartphone

Yelp - often find myself in a new location and want to find that perfect Mexican burrito, or that casual coffee shop, this puppy does all that and allows for tagging and users share review so that you never find that ugly restaurant with awful service.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Oxirane:
Just tried Mint today... I like it more than Pageonce. I suggest it more highly, especially with the desktop widget.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Kwaii49:
For alternative texting and pic messaging solutions TextFree and TextFree plus unlimited.

For voip calling that's absolutely free after you buy the app or get it, it's Groove IP.

The easiest file manager that is feature packed out there is efile manager.

Already mentioned swype beta, my main everyday use keyboard.

Moboplayer plays all the video formats the stock video player won't.

Font changer allows you to change your density thus making the text and graphics looks cleaner and more crisp resembling a higher resolution.

that's all I can think of for now. great thread!
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] xriderx66:
I don't see how Go SMS Pro hasn't made the Messaging app.

I switched to it about 4 months ago i think and haven't gone anywhere from it. It fits in perfectly with Go launcher EX
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Abu-7abash:
TweetCaster

Tapatalk

Android Assistant

SetCPU

Advanced task killer (say what you wanna say, its the best at what it does).\

Market enabeler
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Rayn1328:
+1 cnet and engadget
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] s15274n:
I don't doubt its great... I have not used it yet.... I can't have a list that makes everyone happy. I'll add it later on.

edit, updated the post and my blog.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] buckshotfacelift:
If rooted you MUST have "AdFree". No more annoying ads on your "Ad supported" free apps, or anywhere else for that matter.

Barnacle wifi tether.

"Droidsheep" is fun! Install it and go to somewhere with free wifi. Trust me. Just try to not ruin anyones life with it, ok?

Zedge. Must have zedge. Best ring tone app ever.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] rakishaj:
Pulse - Best news reader

Score Mobile - Best news info and scores

Amazon app store - free premium app everyday

Easy Filter - block unwanted people and blocked numbers

WeatherBug Elite - obvious reasons

Mighty Grocery - Best app to keep grocery list

TV Guide - quick reference guide to what's on tv

Yellow Book - need a number quick

Last but not least

XDA
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] dinjo_jo:
The skyfire is amazing able to watch lots of videos, whats the fastest browser i use skyfire for video watching only
[General Questions and Answers] Falkner09:
So i'm getting a little impatient with the compromised version of android that my phone has (infected with Samsung's "custom" crap) and I want stock android bad. and there's no adequate phone on the market that offers this.

so I was thinking that I'd post a monetary reward for the first to accomplish my goal, to be paid by paypal or something. I just wasn't sure whether this is allowed by the forum rules, was hoping the mods or someone would let me know if so/not.
[General Questions and Answers] Dark3n:
As there are BOUNTIES offered for things like Android on HP Touch etc.

I see no reason why you should not be allowed to offer a bounty for the creation of a rom for your specific android device.

Some mod might be able to confirm this.

What device are we talking about?
[General Questions and Answers] chongyixiong:
I mean if the reward money offered is even able to get you some other phones (like a Nexus 1), why not get that instead and have the stock Android experience? Unless your phone is some obscure model that is not supported on these forums, I guess it's hard for other developers to have access to the relevant hardware as well, right?
[General Questions and Answers] Falkner09:
because the phone I have (Sidekick) is currently the best phone on the market that has what I need. which is, first off, a keyboard. a real one. which neither of the Nexus phones (or likely, even the next one) has. also, I need the face buttons to be real, tactile, clickable buttons, no those capacitive substitutes. and minimum 1ghz. only other phone on the market with this is the Mytouch 4g slide, which is infected with Sense, a hacker mod so invasive and compromising i was actually disgusted. not to mention a worse keyboard.
[General Questions and Answers] lowandbehold:
You should probably get a phone with better dev support. Have you even looked at the ROM's available under the sidekicks dev section? I glanced and there is at least one AOSP like ROM...which you know as stock android. Same for the MT4G Slide...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Yanivel1:
I own Samsung galaxy S. by mistake I used the wrong ROM files (odin) and now its running "AT&T SGH-i897 (Captivate) ROM". the home screen is not working and the phone restarting every ~ 2 minutes.

I've tried to update using ODIN but the computer doesn't recognize the phone (not a drivers issue).

On the recovery mode it failed to use the update.zip files.

I tried to format everything, full wipe and factory defaults - didn't help.

Any ideas ?

Thanks,

-Yaniv
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] merk88:
if odin doesn't recognize your phone its probably a driver issue, use samsung lies to install drivers ( even if soft bricked), then get into download mode and odin should recognize your phone
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jay_993:
had nightmares with stupid odin.

i know what the problem is. it is the computer. get another computer and try. preferably on XP. i went through 3 computers till the damned odin would listen to me.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] big problem:
Hello guys ,,

i installed a ROM using USB flasher and didnt like it ,,

i tried to change the ROM using sd card but an error occurred (cache error)

I changed many things in the options and now i cant install any ROM and have no idea how to install the radio and magdlr again (those things...etc ),,,

ps. i tried returning to windows in order to use ActiveSync ,, but is seems like my phone doesnt have it !!

Can any body help me with steps of installation ? :(
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] casemandan:
This will explain everything to you

It even has a video tutorial

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=893948

The procedure is the same for every nand rom

The only thing that varies is the system partiton and thats easily changed with the hd2 toolkit

Main thing is to turn on your phone holding the volume down button.

From there you can flash task 29, Magldr, or a new radio
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] big problem:
ThankQ casemandan ,,

I tried to flash task29 but there is an error ,,

the error : cannot open C:\task29.exe

cannot open C:\EnterBootLoader.exe

cannot open C:\ErrorBattery.fig

cannot open C:\ErrorUSB.fig

cannot open C:\modelID.fig

cannot open C:\rapitool.exe

and 3 more

I tried another 1 ,, but there is the same problem

what 2 do?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] casemandan:
Make sure to run it as administrator first.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Sinaptik:
Don't hesitate to use HD2 NAND Toolkit.

Some times ago, I was unable to flash any rom, this tool save me.
[LG Revolution] revo_65:
I unfortunately have the update on my Revolution and am still iffy on performing the downgrade as seems people are having issues. I was curious, if the RUMORED Gingerbread update comes out, will developers have easier access to create a root method with out having to perform a downgrade?
[LG Revolution] RootedUser:
I'm sure they will, but it will prolly take time.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] molnartibor:
Hi, I am getting a weird problem on my Xperia Neo using the latest firmware (4.0.A.2.368). Sometimes I get a notification on the homescreen about several missed calls. However these missed calls are not listed in the call log, nor there is an icon in the top status bar. It seems to me as if the homescreen would have agreggated the missed calls from the last several hours and put them on the homescreen at once....

Did anyone of you experience such behavior? Any ideas how to fix it?

Thanks a lot
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] electricbluejase:
Nope never seen this on my neo.
[HTC EVO 3D] fearbasel04:
So I am on the nj side of the Hudson river. I can walk a long block and reach the water. Anyways what is a fail is I get no service but i get good 4g lol I would think both services should go hand in hand if one works.
[HTC EVO 3D] r0cky0790:
It does seem like it should go hand and hand but you have different components in your phone. 4g radio being one of them, it has nothing to do with the actual phone service.

My "DU4L C0R3 SH00T3R" shot you down in 3D! Screw Tupac. "A,O,S,P BACK!" >_<
[HTC EVO 3D] Genjinaro:
It's different towers, your 4G is coming from a Clear WiMax tower, your Sprint Voice & 3G is coming from a Sprint Cell tower.
[HTC EVO 3D] themuffinman:
Hmm, that got me thinking. Is it possible to roam while still having a 4g signal?
[HTC EVO 3D] Chuki82:
Don't see why not. Your 4g radio is a completely seperate radio, kinda like wifi.
[HTC EVO 3D] Smac7:
also wimax is a higher band, meaning it will travel further distances than your 3g, but have less building penetration.
[HTC EVO 3D] fearbasel04:
Still sucks... I would think that sprint would have upgraded or add the 4g towers aside the service ones Idk. I just hope it gets better
[HTC EVO 3D] Product F(RED):
Sprint is upgrading their towers to be all-in-one (they call it "Network Vision"). I work in a Sprint store here in NYC and we have a Network Vision tower on our roof right now. According to my manager, we also have an [inactive] LTE tower as well.
[HTC EVO 3D] stanglifemike:
I thought we were getting that at the beginning of 2011. 2012 is right around the corner now and Sprint hasn't added many 4G locations at all....
[HTC EVO 3D] Product F(RED):
I'll prove it to you. In the back we have the boxes for some of the equipment. I haven't got a shot of the 3G box, but here's a shot of the WiMax box:
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] philsss:
thanks first
[Nexus S General] meso100:
Strange happenings going on with my Nexus S.

It has been rooted for a while and have been running Genexus S 2.0 ROM which was fine to start with but I have recently been getting lag issues with the screen, issues with character selection on the keyboard etc.

However, I have had a few crashes when the phone has been charging and the phone is being not just hot, I'm talking boiling to the touch!

I have rebooted into recovery but....recovery img and boot img have disappeared. They have been present in recent weeks but for some reason they have disappeared.

I have reinstalled clockworkrecovery via ROM Manager a couple of times but there is still no change. TBH I'm sick of the issues I've had with the phone since rooted and it's not for me so plan on going back to stock whenever I can, however, I need recovery!

Can anyone point me in the right direction to sort this out and if possible not by plugging my phone into a PC. I am away with work and don't have my own computer for a while.

Thanks
[Nexus S General] AllGamer:
you can always flash the boot recovery back into the phone, just follow any of the how to root guides
[Nexus S General] simms22:
its because you installed your recovery via rom manager. you want to reflash your clockwork recovery through fastboot so that it will stay permanently. look in the development section for instructions.

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i got to say that youre the only xda mod, that i know of, that also helps out people with issues and not just xda/site stuff. thank you!
[Nexus S General] meso100:
Thanks for your help guys.

I flashed the cwm recovery via fastboot and loaded up cm7 but each new ROM I used (that had been there previously) didn't boot into a fresh version, it had elements of the previous versions I had run such as MIUI (the clock), the Genexus S 2.0 drag and drop lock and wallpaper and some elements from The Infinity ROM. Very strange.

Prior to the latest mix up the phone had become very unstable, especially the touch screen and I am not exaggerating when I say the phone just wasn't usable. I even considered getting a BlackBerry Torch 9810!!! I mean wtf?! ;)

Anyway, I have reflashed a stock nandroid backup via CMW and relocked the bootloader. I had a few permission errors but when I rebooted that seemed to go away. I'm now quite happy I'm back to standard because of the reliability issues I experienced.

When I reboot to recovery it comes up with a White box with an arrow coming out with the android at the side of it. Is this normal or should there be a standard recovery img? However, I have noticed if I press the volume up and power again it goes to a purple recovery screen with wipe cache partition, factory reset etc.

Also, all my ROMS and Titanium Backup files are still viewable from recovery, is that usual? Would I be ok to mount as USB and delete those individual files?

Thanks
[Nexus S General] Rem3Dy:
When you switch roms you MUST wipe data factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvic cache. Then flash the new rom.
[Android Apps and Games] coachclass:
Hi,

I'm a newbie to Android phones. After installing a few apps, I was wondering if there is a way to:

a) keep apps from running on start-up

b) have better control over which apps run in the background

For a), I couldn't find that option at all. I have a few apps (Amazon app store, TeleNav Navigator, podcast client, etc...) that all start up on boot, and they don't get used most of the time.

For b), there is a "Auto-end List" in the task manager, but it doesn't seem to do what it's suppose to do. Either that, or the apps that it kills are some how resurrecting themselves during the day, even when I've made sure I didn't run them. It's true even if I kill them manually via the task manager.
[Android Apps and Games] URINUDNK:
Hmm.. Im using Startup Manager.. I think it works?

It's just a weird thing, really.. Why on earth couldn't they just implement something in Android that easily lets you control something as basic as what starts up with the phone?
[Android Apps and Games] coachclass:
I could understand that Android devs didn't want lay people messing up stuff that need to run...but at least let us stop Amazon App Store place from running all the time.
[Android Apps and Games] BenKranged:
"Autorun Manager" is the best I have found. Use the advanced, not basic mode.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jolle-pe:
Hello,

i just updated the Cyanogenmod 7 on my SGS.

After the installation, i wanted to play some music from my external sd card,

but the card was not available.

How can i mount the external sd card?

I tried to mount it via recovery mod, but it didnt work.

What else can i do, to see and use the things on the sd card?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shenry:
Hopefully you noted that the external sd card is found under /emmc.

You have to configure your music app and point it to the correct path.

Good luck.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jolle-pe:
Ok i found it.

But when i want to update my navigon map data, the program show me a message, that the internal sd card is not available.

I avoid this situation, by copying the old map data to /external_sd instead of /emmc... But how can i handle it with new map data in future?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] taiwanesefbi:
maybe you can use gscript for change route
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] AMoosa:
Has anybody managed to make the Sony apps available for other tablets yet. I'd be very keen to use the ps3 apps on my motorola xoom.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] officeman:
What apps are you talking about? Ihave a tablet s and have yet to see any PS3 app!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] AMoosa:
the Sony website talks of an app to connect to a ps3 and to a sixaxis controller to play ps 3 games on the tablet....
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skeletonboy:
hey all,so i am on rooted sgs running froyo 2.2,it all works like a charm and blablabla..then today i was reading some feeds thru colorize widged and of course it opens opera to read webpages. all ok 'till i notice that the adds on the webpage were in "polish". i am in germany,my device it's set in english and my google page it's in english too. i tought - well it may be just some random add.. -

then i go to read stuff on Gizmodo,which usually redirects you to the website version of country you connect from (so if you are in germany you get the german version of gizmodo and so on) and..

it redirected me to the freaking POLISH version of Gizmodo! :eek:

so my question: how this is possible? maybe some app? (i can write you the list but i only use legit apps and i watch no porn usually)

or even worst: did i get hacked?? did this happen to anyone of you already? please enlighten me :(

UPDATE: i tried now with stock browser and it redirects normally to the german website. so it happens only with Opera mobile. anyone has an idea about why this happen?

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UPDATE 2

so basically i had opera turbo activated,that was the reason. it looks like that their servers used for the "turbo" function are located in Poland :rolleyes:

so then if you use opera and see something strange don't jump from your chairs/go in paranoia-loop/pull off hairs/reset device.

just check if turbo is active :D
[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mimmoc10:
I am looking to update from stock Nodo tmobil us to Mango. I seem to have spl 3.1 on my phone. I am confused about some of the posts I have read. Do I need H/Rspl or will that brick my phone? Can I flash the Schubert Europe and then change the radio to US? Thanks for your help!
[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sh4d0w86:
the simplest way to get to Mango RTM would be here.

i would first update to latest TMOUS ROM to get latest Radio and OEM drivers then use that method to update.

the downside to using that method, though, would be no future updates via official Zune channels.

if, in fact, you want to go the official Europe update way...

1) RSPL your TMOUS HD7.

2) flash RUU_Signed.nbh from Europe Mango RTM.

3) flash SPL_Signed.nbh from whichever TMOUS ROM.

end result should be Mango RTM with TMOUS Radio.

all HD7 Shipped ROMs can be found here.

sh4d0w86.
[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mimmoc10:
Has anyone tried this?

http://senseapplied.com/index.php/t...e-to-windows-phone-mango-on-t-mobile-htc-hd7/

This method seems easier, but too easy.

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Is there a way to get mango but still be able to flash the official update? Can you down grade later and flash official?
[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sh4d0w86:
that is the way i had described...

the Europe Mango RUU leaked by Football is official update for Europe version HD7.

so, when Mango is OTA released... no update to get.

if you have a TMOUS HD7 and flash to Europe Mango then you must flash an 'older' TMOUS RUU later to get official TMOUS Mango, unless a TMOUS Mango RUU is released.

sh4d0w86.
[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mimmoc10:
Excuse me for being a noob. The Web site I posted didn't say anything about flashing h/RSPL. Do I need to flash that so I could get the radio? Also, your post with the "here" had a whole bunch of steps. Are these two diff roms? This all seems a little different to me I'm coming from a hd2 I broke. I currently have the correct radio but if I flash the Euro Rom I am assuming it would change my radio, correct?
[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sh4d0w86:
they don't use the word flash, but they do indeed say to RSPL.

once you have the EURO ROM is flashed, you won't need RSPL for the Radio.

use RUUWrapper for HD7 to flash Radio.

sh4d0w86.
[XPERIA X8 General] proadi96:
Hi after installing that rom i boot it and it was soooo laggy and ram was only 30mb free .. why? How to get it not lagging ? :P
[XPERIA X8 General] Chris95X8:
I always get aprox 40 mb RAM free and it's super fast.
[XPERIA X8 General] dsaklein:
Im using it right now and its fast and smooth and has no laggy at all......try to reinstall it and try to do full wipe after you install....it should help..