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[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheMuffStuff:
Just got a new thunderbolt and my battery is decent, not horrible not bad, but extra juice doesnt hurt. I was wondering if its worth spending 20$ to buy a battery with 220 more mAh. Do you guys find good improvements?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jrocker23:
For $25+ taxes, you can get the extended battery. It doesn't add that much more weight or thickness to the phone really and it actually fits better in the hand with it on. Don't let what others say about it scare you off. The extended battery is the way to go & you can use the phone the way it was meant to be and the way you want...
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xs11e:
The Rezond battery will give you longer life than stock, results vary. I can usually get a full day out of the Rezound battery which is maybe an hour or so better than the stock. I'm pretty pleased with it but I do NOT get anywhere near the results that others have claimed and I do carry a spare battery with me if I go out in the evening.

I have a desk dock that I use at night, it has a slot for a spare battery. I charge the phone at night and have the second Rezound battery in the spare slot. If I'm going out for the evening I'll either change batteries before leaving the house or I'll put the spare battery in my pocket.
[General Questions and Answers] slelka:
Please advice, I'm using hd2 android - tosti v10. Need to get usb Internet from hd2 to big brother. I tried to use pdanet - no luck - writes no connection. Can you suggest what to do? And htc sync does not work either. wanted to ask this in the developer's thread but the number of messages is not enough. Please help, because I need it badly.
[General Questions and Answers] Xperiment2012:
Hows it going guys. I'm on these forums as well as many others constantly. I'm constantly trying new stuff (Tools, apps, mods, ROMS, Kernels, etc) and have always wondered what other people from the community used. So if you would post some apps/tools you would recommend for any purpose. Whether it be for games/mods/messaging/etc because I plan on going through and trying everything posted. I might find something very useful i havent before. Anyways thanks for taking the time :D

App:

Location to download:

Purpose:

Best feature about it:
[General Questions and Answers] slelka:
Well, it is all very individual. One person thinks his app is cool, another will not even look at it. I download everything from android market because several days age I caught a trojan while downloading from Internet:( - it was some live wallpaper or so. Beware of files where it's written that they may send paid sms.

As for apps:

I liked Explorer+ very very much. It is the best explorer because it's well organized and has a search button.

Next antivirus Avast is awesome. It has inbuilt antytheft and prevents the phone from sending paid sms.

GoldenDict helps me a lot. You may load there your dictionaries you need and use them.

I like Kaiten Mail email client as well. It is simple to use and everything is handy.

OfficeSuite is also nice. I came to android from wm and have windows xp at BB. So it opens all my documents easily without any dances.

Hope it helped. Waiting for your list as well.

PS. I need a substitution for my spb finance and need to convert my 3-year base to android. Can you suggest anything?
[General Questions and Answers] choliemelan:
Mobile: HTC Sensation

Rom: Elegancia ICS (actually v3.3.5) with Sense 3.6

Kernel: 1,5GHz - 3.0.16-gda3fdfc by SebastianFM

Favoured Apps:

Mail: K9 - in my opinion nice to use and to configure

Messenger: WhatsApp / IM+ (Jabber/XMMP-Support)

Navigation: Navigon Mobile (payed) - reliable/stable

Antivirus: Kaspersky Mobile (payed) - really high hit rate

Alarm Clock: Alarm Clock Plus - many features for alarmclock like caculation for shutdown alarm

File Explorer: EStrongs / ES - well-arranged/easy to browse

Webbrowser: Opera Mobile - dunno y :D

Maybe there are some suggestions for you :)
[General Questions and Answers] Android311:
I use esfile explore because its easy, free, clean looking and gets the job done, on cm7 roms or cm9 rom I delete the stock file manager..simply because its useless, and just taking up space, instead of having 2 file managers I just keep es and delete the stock. I use wifi tether, everyware I go I have my phone and my tablet, so if I need internet on my tablet or if my freind needs internet for his itouch then I just turn on my wifi hotspot. Apk manager is great for editing system images. Gimp is great for creating images or changing colors for my phone/tablet system. Opera mini is very fast for quick searching unlike most stock browsers, if you don't need flash then go with opera
[General Questions and Answers] Unbeatable Guy:
Explorer is also good for the users its more easy to use than es for me
[General Questions and Answers] SirMaggot:
My favourite apps are:

Swiftkey x

Bankdroid

Unified Remote

Screebl pro

Root explorer

Unified remote is the app i use most.
[General Questions and Answers] jodiskett:
App: Titanium backup

Location to download: Play store

Purpose: to help you to manage apps after reflash ro mor other

Best feature about it: works on any roms

App: News Republic

Location to download: Play store

Purpose: give you some synthetic news about your subject

Best feature about it: very quick and simple to use
[General Questions and Answers] Xperiment2012:
Thanks I've tried most of these but ill try the ones I haven't. Keep posting people and thanks :)
[General Questions and Answers] dmb219:
ColorNote is an app that I use all the time, if you haven't tried it, check it out. It's a good note app, check list, task list, etc. It is attractive and easy to use.

Another app that is good is Bing. I didn't expect to like it but if you are looking for just about anything, it will find it - local stuff, stores, services, movies, web searches, pizza, you name it.
[General Questions and Answers] Dark3n:
YEHAAA a little bit shameless self advertisement:

You should obviously try SD Maid, which will satisfy all your file handling needs.

And if you are the type that likes to put CPU/RAM etc. usage on his desktop computers wallpaper try Diagnosis.

If you have apps in the market, andlytics is pretty awesome.

Give this a try too, while you sleep.
[General Questions and Answers] giantflash:
Titanium backup is a very good tool for all who change there rom very often (like me because of CM9)

Also I like PlayerPro because it has advenatges like sleep timer etc.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] gatormatt:
I'm currently running Docs ICS V5 and was wondering if anyone has or would be able to port the Samsung clock app??? I prefer it to the stock ICS clock app so if anyone knows of its existence would you kindly point me in the right direction. Thanks
[Captivate Themes and Apps] capefearless:
+1

10 characters
[Captivate Themes and Apps] elwilson4:
I would like this also. I found a thread for the Galaxy Nexus where someone was able to port several TW apps to work with AOSP but when I install them they are not formatted for our resolution. Maybe someone will be able to port those from

this thread.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] Milo58:
+1

Stock ICS clock is bad, no Stop Watch :(
[Captivate Themes and Apps] Makster:
There is a stopwatch, but it is pretty poor compared to the Samsung one.

Inside the clock app, where you set the alarm, there is a sort of a title/tab on top-left that says "Alarms". If you click that, you'll be able to go to a stopwatch. Alternatively, you can go there through the menu button. I am on Doc's V4 and haven't tried other ICS roms, so YMMV.

What I don't like about that stopwatch is two things: It does not use a fixed width font, so the numbers keep "shaking". And it does not keep the phone from going to sleep, which pretty much makes it unusable to me.

So, a big +1 to the OP request.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] bravomail:
TW clock is ready

Search for Nexus TW Clock ICS. The only problem I have with it - font and buttons are too big. SOmewhere there is a scale - lcd density or something which is wrong.

There is one for Epic 4G - with perfect size and it does everything - World time, timer, stopwatch, but not alarm! Alarm FC'es.

WTF!

:confused:
[Captivate Themes and Apps] bravomail:
Mystery of apktool

I tried combining these two from Epic and Nexus using apktool and baksmali. The code is almost identical - only one class differs and it's Alarm related. The resources are vastly different in picture sizes and xml's with "dip" in Epic vs "pix" in Nexus. So anyway - I copied Nexus class to Epic, and copied Epic resources to Nexus. None of these two after smaling and apktool build (without errors) got recognised in Launcher - no icons in app drawer, no .odex file in dalvik.

Any experts to solve the mystery? :D
[Captivate Themes and Apps] bravomail:
Mystery is solved

New release is coming... Check out my ROM within couple of hours. :D

Just copied classes.dex from Nexus ICS clock to Epic 4G clock. And optimized it as usual.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] Makster:
I am patiently waiting for that update, but in the meantime just wanted to say "thank you" for the pointer to the epic clock.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] bravomail:
The wait is over

Try the ROM or rip the Clockpackage.apk from .zip.

I'm fine either way.

I'm checking Holo Calendar now. First try was disastrous - I had to wipe the data to restore calendar sync.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] elwilson4:
I pulled the clockpackage.apk from your rom. I copied to the system/app and rebooted. It didn't show up in my app drawer. So I rebooted into recovery and wiped cach partition, dalvik and fixed permissions. It still isn't showing up in my app drawer. Do you have any other suggestions? I'm running ICSSGS latest version.

Edit: Never mind. When I went into All Applications it was disabled. When I enabled it, it is working now.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] CNH320:
Smart Alarm Problem

Thank you so much for updating the clock in Nostalgia!

I can't get the smart alarm function to work, though. No matter which smart alarm tone I choose, the "Good Morning" alarm sound plays. Am I missing something, or is there a glitch in the apk?
[Captivate Themes and Apps] Makster:
Thank you!

I installed the app for now, and it works great.

I am thinking about trying out your ROM, though, once 5.3 is out.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] bravomail:
5.3 is out

so happy flashing! :D
[Captivate Themes and Apps] capefearless:
I am having the same issue as you were. I followed steps you mention (I copied to the system/app, rebooted into recovery and wiped cache partition, dalvik and fixed permissions).

When I go to settings/apps/all I do not see it there and so I can't enable it as you did. Am I missing something? What is the app named (maybe I missed it)?

I double checked the system/app folder and it is there.

I am running a Boogs latest CM9 Kang (clean) with Launcher Pro (free version).

Anyone have any suggestions?

TIA

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[Captivate Themes and Apps] Makster:
Thank you again.

I flashed it, and I like it, other than a couple of small problems that I can live with.

The Samsung Clock works great, and that makes me happy.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] elwilson4:
Here is a screenshot of what it looks like in the app list. Did you scroll all the way to the right and select all apps? Mine was at the bottom.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] CNH320:
I had a similar problem until I found another thread with a solution. The solution was to add clockpackage.odex to system/app. I can't upload odex files, so it is attached in a .zip.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] bravomail:
When you copy apk to /system/app - your permission on apk file get screwed up. Nice touch from FileManager writers. So you gotta fix them from the same Root Explorer or Browser to be 644 - read/write by owner, read by group, read by other.
[HTC EVO 3D] Royalfox:
I don't know what could went wrong. I flashed viperrom 2.5 rc2 by the following steps:

Flash image GUI > Recovery Image and wiped both caches and when prompted to reboot, went to recovery > twrp 1.1.1 wipe menu > wiped all options > flashed ROM.zip

I went all day fine, and even calibrated bat after charging to 100%, put alarm and turn off all data and WiFi for school, got back and turned on WiFi, some browsing, games and stuff. Wanted to reboot for a skin to apply correctly and there goes my battery from 23% to a weird 7%

I'm on hboot 1.5

PG86100
[HTC EVO 3D] bloodrain954:
Search its been covered a million times
[HTC EVO 3D] JohnM:
Hello sir,

Thank your for contacting XDA Customer Support. The battery meter in Android isn't completely accurate and off a bit most of the time. This is why rebooting will sometimes take you from a 23% to a 7% or vice-versa. Don't worry, though, you're not actually losing any juice - the 7% battery left showing will still last as long as it would if it said 23%.

*Please note that answers may not be 100% correct.

Just leave a reply if you have any further concerns.

-yousefak
[HTC EVO 3D] GrimReaper24:
Nothing to worry about man ... Sometimes it depends on the script a dev threw into a rom can cause that to other things...

Nothing to worry about... It may die pretty quick but after a few charge cycles you should be good to go....
[HTC EVO 3D] Royalfox:
Thanks for clearing this up, I was starting to get frustrated!

Thanks, yeah, its been only 1 cycle since I've flashed this

PG86100
[HTC EVO 3D] gilbydakid:
Yeah sounds about right.
[HTC EVO 3D] Royalfox:
Lol totally agree, but guess I could try searching more ;)

PG86100
[HTC EVO 3D] Scougar:
Or the good one is where even on stock rom's the battery indicator just stops updating... and so it's stuck on a particular value and you are known the wiser about your impending phones doom (accept that you may have that nagging feeling that it should be more drained....)
[Kindle Fire General] MDG420:
I wanted to buy a Game that was on sale for .50 but it kept saying purchased so I uninstalled and reinstalled the market and google frameworks after trying everything else but now my market app force closes everytime I try to open it :/ anyone had a similar problem and know how to fix it? I don't want to use pirated versions of my purchased apps because I can't access them legally :(
[Kindle Fire General] MDG420:
Sorry for the double post but the xda app wont let me edit - I forgot to mention I am running the latest cm7
[Kindle Fire General] burmjohn:
Did you try to flash gapps again?
[Kindle Fire General] MDG420:
Yes I uninstalled and reinstalled google frameworks and market but after linking my google account Market force closes the second I try to open it :( can anyone offer a possible solution to this it's really getting annoying since it tries to open itself while I'm playing games and pops up the force close window.
[Kindle Fire General] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
On cm7 you don't install the frameworks those are already. There the frameworks install is to get market on the rooted stock kindle rom

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[Kindle Fire General] MDG420:
What should I do then? Reflash the cm7 ROM?
[Kindle Fire General] soupmagnet:
There's probably no need to reflash. The market keeps track of purchased apps so you can d/l later. Try opening the Market app and press the downloads icon to see if your game is there. If the market says its purchased then it should be there.

As for your market app, just flash gapps again through twrp or cwm. The old files should be overwritten and the problem fixed...probably.
[Kindle Fire General] Vlasp:
Just login to google, go to play.google.com, and type in your games name. It happened to me, and it works every time.:o
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] fox689:
This flash contains an xml permissions file and the Tag.apk from the Canadian ROMs.

Once you've flashed this you will have the option to turn on NFC in Wireless Settings as well as be able to install NFC apps from the Play Market.

Obligatory Directions:

Reboot your phone into Recovery if you've already installed ClockworkMod Recovery. If you don't know if you have, you probably haven't. Go here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1526431

Make a Backup! This doesn't do anything fancy, but I'm not responsible if you lose everything when flashing. CWM is still technically a Beta build for this phone

Choose "install zip from sdcard"

Choose either "choose zip from sdcard" or "choose zip from internal sdcard" depending on where you saved it.

Find your file and install it

Restart. You now have NFC options.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] severinca:
nfc?

do our phones actually have nfc
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] fox689:
Yup, it's just disabled on the AT&T for some reason. If you take off your battery cover and look at it, the chip is built into the cover itself.

I tested transmission and receiving with a friend's Nexus. It works great.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] YellowGTO:
So what can this be used for.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] fox689:
NFC uses

http://www.pcworld.com/article/210861/what_googles_nfc_android_phones_will_mean_for_you.html

http://mashable.com/2010/05/06/near-field-communication/

http://www.nfcworld.com/2011/03/30/36757/nfc-task-launcher-android-tag-application/

TLDR: Potential Uses - secure payment, data transfer, product information, location check in, task launching with personalized tags (which the phone can write to), and lots of other stuff. There is even a company developing house door locks using NFC and newer cars with push button start already use it to detect if the keys are near the car.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] omniphil:
Will this work with google wallet?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] fox689:
Not yet. Google Wallet is a Nexus only app right now.

Edit: The app can be downloaded, but it does a check to see what the phone is. I'm just going to leave it installed so I can know when it updates.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Truaim:
Think this will cause us problems when nfc is legitimately released? And has anyone attempted a device change through build.prop?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] fox689:
As in changing the phone name in the build.prop to a nexus? I'm not really sure what that would do. I'll look up the model number and report back what happens when I change it.

As for flashing this, I doubt it will cause any more problems than the root kernel and bloat removal will. Unless AT&T has some spyware buried into the phone, they shouldn't know, nor should they care.

This flash literally just tosses in the permissions XML and adds the control program from the other phones to the system apps. EVERYTHING else was already in the ROM, including the Nfc.apk and libraries. Kinda annoying, but AT&T is wanting it locked out on phones until they're proprietary NFC payment system is released.

Personally, I wanted to play with launch tags, so I figured out how to unlock it, and then made a CWM flashable that does all the heavy lifting I figured out by tearing through the Rodgers and Telus ROMs.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] itsjdmyo:
just installed through CWM and works perfectly. are there any apps currently out there similar to "Google Wallet" that I can use in order to pay wireless? And the NFC tags are pretty cool, i will experiment with that as well.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] fox689:
I know the Paypal app allows for direct phone to phone interactions using it, but I haven't tested how it works. I just got it working this morning, so I haven't done anything other than build the zip for everyone else.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] fox689:
Ok, so editing the build.prop to say it's a Nexus S 4G didn't work. Wallet started force closing in the background. I'll put it on my list of things to research.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] kimocal:
I got my NFC tags from Amazon today. Using NFC Task Launcher it can trigger Tasker tasks. Pretty cool. Already got one set for putting my phone in "sleepy time mode" when I place it on my night stand. Next up is to route the audio streaming via Bluetooth to speakers in the bedroom. Will be nice for playing music in the shower.

Sent magically through the air from the mighty Note!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] fox689:
What tags did you buy? I'm wanting to do the same now that I have it working.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] kimocal:
See earlier posts. They are the mifare Ultralight ones. Really limited capacity. If you try to initiate a complex tasker task directly you won't have enough room. A work around when using tasker is to create the complex task, call it task 1. Then create another task that runs task 1. So it might be better to get the larger capacity ones. They're rewritable although you can "lock" them to make 'em read only.

You can leave NFC on all the time so you just tap your tag. Hopefully that doesn't kill the battery. But I created a simple tasker widget to easily turn it on and off when I want without having to go into settings.

Sent magically through the air from the mighty Note!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] littlewierdo:
Ok, I know the instructions posted are pretty cut and dry, Im wondering whether NFC can be enabled on stock & unrooted?

Im going to be making a few assumptions here, feel free to correct anything, I just purchased this phone 4 days ago and have not yet done anything 'hacky' yet, just been reading.

Im pretty sure the stock recovery (which I have not yet tried to boot into) is the 3e recovery which prevents unsigned code from being flashed (3e on the Cappy did the same thing). This would prevent just renaming this to update.zip and flashing yes?

And, 'if' you were rooted, would this affect the flash counter thing everyone has been talking about? I only ask because, coming from a Cappy, I never had to deal with this flash counter nonsense so Im a bit unsure what causes this counter to increase...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] alexige:
You need CWM for any flashing. I'm coming from cappy too and tried to keep up here since launch. It seems like the flash counter only goes up with Odin flashes.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] fox689:
If you never want to trip your counter, there is always http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=23229071&postcount=57
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] ukic:
^^^ This is what I followed, worked flawlessly.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] capite:
Will this work on SAUROM?

I've got the latest SAUROM and the ATT fix. Would this work on that? Is there any downside to giving it a try?
[Thinkpad Tablet General] gmtpt:
I am new to everything mobile, android, and tablet...

I tried to install some of the free apps from the APPS "shop", and after they failed to install, even purchased one (Quill) but that too failed to install. When I click "download"... I see a green line moving back and forth and it says "waiting to install" and then nothing happens for two hours. I tried several different apps, then gave up and started looking for a forum to ask... what am I missing?
[Thinkpad Tablet General] toenail_flicker:
Don't buy from the apps shop, buy from Google. Contact the app shop by clicking help, but they won't.
[Thinkpad Tablet General] gmtpt:
Thanks

Okay, thanks for the tip. Felt good to get the support!
[Thinkpad Tablet General] toenail_flicker:
Yeah, the app shop has been a fairly worthless and frustrating experience for me. They offered no help for the issue when I emailed them, despite multiple requests. I no longer bother.
[Thinkpad Tablet General] 2L84T:
Google market install problem

Hi, I'm not entirely sure if you are referring to the Lenovo app store or the Google one. Both are installed on your tablet. However I had the same problem with the GOOGLE app store, I would pick an app to install and a little animated green bar would appear for an age with the word "installing ...".

The fix for me was to open the app manager, go to the Google Market app, force close it, and clear its data.

I can install just fine now.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] maccboy2010:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.srrngames.ash1gold

It says not available yet but looks good. :-D