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[Vibrant General] iheartdroid:
My list is a bit different than most as I'm connected to wifi most of the time, so keep data usage in mind. Ill only touch upon ones not already mentioned in this thread for the most part.

ES File Explorer

- Free version and donate. Mainly used to sync files over wifi from pc to phone.

TV Shows Stream

- Paid app with trial lite version. Huge library of tv shows up to date with current episodes. Multiple servers for streaming purposes and good quality images.

Also of notable mention are the free apps TV.Com and the Hulu fix found on XDA

Tune In Radio

- Free app. The best radio app ive found with a variety of categories and streams. Has alot of commercial streams unique to program and most of the college radio level crap not listed.

I mainly listen to uncensored comedy on that and use Pandora for music.

Aldiko

- Free and premium versions. Book reader with a large library of free books. Supports DRM and non DRM in epub format. Get free app Calibre for pc to convert just about any file into .epub and add it to your phone library.

MangaWhat

- Manga reader application with access to most online libraries. If you dont know what Manga is you dont need this app.

Wallpaper Wizardrii

- Free app that resizes any picture to fit as wallpaper for phone.

V Player

- Lite version and paid. Plays the most variety of formats of any video player out there that I've found. Get paid version of this app. Get free version of Rock Player instead of the lite version of this though if your trying to save a buck or 2. Rock player wont play .mkv though or support subtitles.

Games of note

- These games seem to always find there way back on my phone...

Alchemy - Combine items to create new things.

Robo Defense - Tower defense at its purest and most fun. Persistent upgrades and stats.

Dink HD - Clever, humorous, little RPG with plenty of save points so you can put down game when you need to.

Dungeon Defenders - Perhaps the best looking game available to Android devices. Its both a tower defense and 3rd person combat game built off the Unreal engine. Best of all its free! (for now...)

Galataxi - Pick up fares and take them to there destination planets. Simple controls, good graphics and smooth, addictive gameplay.

Shark or Die! - Youre a shark eating hapless vacationers. 'Nuff said.
[Vibrant General] Caticorn:
That's the truth. On my magic I could tweak things to get nearly 400, but on the settings where my phone was the snappiest in practical use, I got little more than 200.

Still, It's good for the epeen.
[Vibrant General] chris17922:
Movies- flixter

chomp sms- best sms

catch notes

windows7-dock

whatsapp
[Vibrant General] XPLANE9:
Try telling that to those other users who view their phones with ext2 loopback filesystems as the fastest.
[Vibrant General] N8ter:
Trillian is, IMO, the only IM app worth using on Android. It's not free, but it's more than worth the price. I've found BeejiveIM to drain too much battery, despite saying it's push. It also always keeps a service in the background even after you exit it. WhatsApp does the samething, and drains more battery than Trillian. One of the latter updates to it made my phone unstable. I got them to remove my numbers from their database. No one I know wants to use it, either...

Those weather apps IMO all tend to drain excessive amount of battery. I just use Beautiful Widgets. The weather is accurate in it. It doesn't drain too much, either.

Another thing I hate about the weather apps is the icon they keep in your notification bar.

Facebook/Twitter/Foursquare: App pretty much givens for Social Networking.

Google Reader: Following Blogs

Adobe Reader

Barcode Scanner

Fandango

Beautiful Widgets (has Weather and Toggle Widgets)

Trillian for IM (Pushes, not Polls)

Last Call Widget

IMDb

GasBuddy

UPS Mobile

XDA App

Worlds with Friends

Angry Birds

Amazon Kindle
[Vibrant General] Cartigan:
I'm not paying for an IM app. The Weather Channel app is an active app, it doesn't keep anything on notification bar or anything that I am aware of.
[Vibrant General] Trackstar996:
Angry birds!

I sent this from my Vibrant!
[Vibrant General] dougstoner:
Just wanted to add Jet Car Stunts. That game has awesome graphics and is totally addicting. It's my new bathroom time killer.
[Vibrant General] adamcooks:
GMOTE, for controlling PC. mine is hooked to my tv and use it for netflix and hulu

CardioTrainer, has both gps and pedometer for indoor training

JEFIT, has a great database for weight training with video

for system utilities

root explorer, great for exploring your root

titanium backup, a must if you flash roms

rom manager, for clockwork recovery and nandroid

for games,

angry birds, robo defense, rocket bunnies, spades, tetris

and because im a recovering dork. blizzard's battle.net authenticator

Tango for video chatting, if you install ffc

I use pandora and sirius app for my streaming music

Mixzing for my local music/video
[Vibrant General] S0NiX0928:
LauncherPro

Beautiful Widgets

GoSMS

Tweetdeck

RootExplorer

TubeMate

The Weather Channel

Angry Birds

MiniSquadron

Radiant HD

Snesoid (& the rest of the family of emulators with similar names)

Rom Gripper

GameFAQs Offline Reader

... to name a few ...

... & most of the Google Apps rated appropriately ...
[Vibrant General] droidfan77:
I keep on seeing people recommend root explorer. Is there a big difference between root explorer and astro file manager?
[Vibrant General] iheartdroid:
Kinda curious whats the draw to root explorer also. I use ES File explorer mainly to tranfer files from LAN over wifi, and dont seem unable to view root files. I personally have used Astro, Linda, and Super file managers and found ES Is the best with Linda being a less attractive second. Astro seemed too limited in functions and Super was a bit too clunky in the UI.
[Vibrant General] sLiKK:
Root explorer along with adv explorer (that's the name I think) are the only two apparently that let u see root files. Astro,linda etc aren't capable of doing that.

*** Sent from my Samsung Vibrant (Bionix-V-1.2.1) using xda app
[Vibrant General] iheartdroid:
Nope ES lets you see root files including hidden ones too. http://www.estrongs.com/en/products/file-explorer.html
[Vibrant General] MadNosf:
Totally agree..Nice list
[Vibrant General] Tophall32:
Restore Apps to screens

Ok, I'm still learning. I have looked everywhere I that think of.

I love the ease of flashing ROM's to my Vibrant. I enjoy using Titanium Backup to restore user apps and data. What I want is the ability to restore the App shortcuts to the screens as I have set up before I flash a new rom.

If TI can do it I need to know how.

I am running Team Whiskey Bionix-v and like the default Android launcher.

I would ask in that forum but since this is my 1st post I can't.

Thank you for your assistance.
[Vibrant General] N8ter:
I didn't say you should pay for it. I can care less if you do. I just know that Meebo and eBuddy can't even began to compare with Trillian when it comes to being a lightweight IM app that supports C2DM Push Notifications perfectly and does not drain an inappropriate amount of battery power.

While you're turning your IM client on and off during the day or staying tethered to a charger, someone with Trillian can keep it running all day with no worries. It pushes everything. You can use it all day with it draining hardly any battery.

The Weather app does put the Weather in the Notification bar, and it does use a service to update it at a prescribed interval. Not sure if it allows you to turn it off. Last time I tried it, it didn't. 90% of the major Weather apps on Android behave like this. One more thing to get burned into the top of your screen.

WhatsApp is good but it drains quite a bit of battery (for some reason it always has 1-2 services running in the background, but they claim they use Push (I'm assuming C2DM since it used to be limited to 2.2+ Android OSes). They support Group Chat now, but only 5 Max per group. If they expand it to 30+ it could be a real BBM killer, but being reliant on Phone numbers... Not many people I know want to use it (they don't want to give out their phone number to everyone they chat (i.e. Not SMS) with). I do like that it allows you to set up Pop-Up Notifications, though, which I find superior in implementation to rolling text in the Notification Bar personally...
[Vibrant General] Cartigan:
I don't know what "The weather" app is but "The Weather Channel" app puts nothing in the notification bar or at the top of the screen. The latest version has a service that continues to run after you quit the program, but you can kill it and it won't restart itself.
[Vibrant General] lqaddict:
Beautiful widgets puts the temp into the notification bar.

My list of the most useful apps:

Titanium Backup

Voodoo control and headphone apps - must have Voodoo and Voodoo sound enabled kernel

BLN control app, NoLED is an alternative if you do not have BLN enabled kernel

Google apps - no explanation needed :D

Chrome to Phone

Dimmer - dims your screen to 10% brightness

Beautiful Widgets

GoSMS

PowerAMP - music player

Rockplayer - video player

TapaTalk

Vlingo

Yelp

Pandora

NYCMate - if you live in NYC and rely on public transportation it comes handy

Dolphin HD - browser

Awesome Drop and Dropbox

Wolfram Alpha
[Vibrant General] BALivindream:
Very useful apps I haven't seen mentioned:

Setting Profiles

Setup your phone to do things based on your location.

Have it go to silent at work, Have wifi turn on when at home, have gps turn on when plugged in your car.

PlayOn

Stream Netflix and Hulu along with most other online media via your home computer.
[Vibrant General] Hill5:
Try this:

SMS popup and SMS backup & restore, both can use for unrooted phone.
[Vibrant General] Jefe21:
Screen Filter is a must!! Lowers the brightness lower than any app Ive ever tried. Plus you can adjust the brightness or the #s and letters. Also turn off soft key lights. Works great at night
[Vibrant General] Jefe21:
nevermind found them
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jamieross:
As the title suggests I have SPL 3.03 on my HD2, so without being able to put HSPL on, will I ever be able to get NAND?

Regards Jamie R
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Ezurius:
As far as i know u can't.

You have to downgrade the SPL-Version with an earlier Stock-ROM and Install the right HSPL.

Here you can find some stock builds. Choose a 1.66 or 1.72 rom and don't forget to flash the newest Radio. For example this one.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] LiFE1688:
Yes you can, you just have to downgrade the SPL to 1.xx or 2.xx

Download HTC HD2 Official ROM from HTC's website. Do not use 3.xx, try to find something that is 2.xx or 1.xx instead.

Extract from the EXE file using 7-zip, the RUU_signed.nbh file.

Rename the file to leoimg.nbh and copy this file to your MicroSD card's root directory. After that, power down your device, and then hold onto the Volume Down button, and power up the device. The bootloader will detect the leoimg.nbh file and recover from it, downgrading the SPL as well.

After that, you upgrade the RADIO to 2.15.50, then you can update the SPL to HSPL 2.08
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] erniepb:
How about the requirement for a radio that supports the 576MB RAM?? How do I know which radio actually supports the 576mb ram instead of the 448MB RAM??

And another one: Will I remove the hspl, when I extract the RUU_signed.nbh from a stock ROM, rename it and flash from SD card? SD card has to be 2GB, right??

Thanks!!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] LiFE1688:
Yes, it will remove HSPL if you have HSPL on, however, this method I am recommending it because some people have SPL 3.03 which you cannot install HSPL 2.08 on, and have to wait for HSPL 3.03

Your MicroSD card has to be 512MB or more.

To extract the RUU_signed.nbh file, I use 7-zip. I just right click the EXE file, select 7-zip on the tab, then extract or open the whole file.
[XPERIA X8 General] velnens123:
I have Xperia X8 with Eclair update. When I try to flash with X10 Flash Tool it always says Searching for Xperia... Yes I connected the phone in flash mode by holding back button and conecting with usb, I have usb drivers. Non-gui version says the same. I have tried to flash 1.6 firmware from "Going back to 1.6" thread. Please help me, fast!
[XPERIA X8 General] propc:
please post question at general section
[XPERIA X8 General] manivas:
Flash Tool help

Try connecting the phone in flash mode, when the flash tool displays "Searching for Xperia ......"
[XPERIA X8 General] velnens123:
Solved!

Solved! I just installed some drivers from some site. Yes i know i was telling that i have drivers, just i did not know i have incorrect drivers.

Now i am back to Android 1.6!

Can somebody sugest me way to root my Xperia X8?
[XPERIA X8 General] mzmz83:
Now, follow the Step by Step TUT.

Step by Step TUT
[XPERIA X8 General] velnens123:
Now Rooted 2.1. Thanks for help.
[XPERIA X8 General] k3ksik:
Next time it should help: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9510216&postcount=16
[XPERIA X8 General] SaNTi285:
How can I install the drivers?

I've downloaded the files with the i386 and amd 64 files but I don't really know what to do with them.

When the device is on the pc is ok with it but when I'm in flash mode the pc just doesn't recognize it and the flash tool says that it's searching for my xperia.

What can I do?

Thanks, Tal.
[XPERIA X8 General] velnens123:
Download automatic install from this link http://www.akshayy.com/sonyericsson/wp-content/uploads/SE_USB_Driver_installer.zip

Press the thanks button!
[XPERIA X8 General] SaNTi285:
I've installed the drivers you gave me and it still didn't work even though the computer recognized it now but still in device manager i have it under a yellow triangle sign.

what can I do now? maybe it's my computer that make the problem?

I'm really getting frostrated about it and don't know what to do.
[XPERIA X8 General] velnens123:
Full instructions.

This should really help!

1. On the yellow triangle right click and select "Update Driver..."

2. Download "Non-Gui" version.

3. Put 1.6 firmware on "firmware" folder.

4. Open "X10flash.bat"

5. Write "2" and press enter.

6. Write "y" and press enter.

7. Select operating system, but DONT PRESS ENTER!

8. Now connect USB to computer, but not in phone.

9. Turn off phone.

10. On phone hold back key and connect phone with USB, but dont relase key.

11. On flasher press enter while holding back key.

12. Relase it when it says "Sending Loader..."

This should fix your problem. This is how I done it!:cool:
[XPERIA X8 General] thomaszq:
Still not succeeded with flashing.....

I am still not succeeded with flashing my x8 to android 1.6 (now having 2.1) so i can root 2.1. I am a really noob, so i hope anyone can help me

What did you mean with yelllow triangle, and where can you download non-gui version? When i open the x10flash.bat i cannot write anything (there is nothing happened when i press 2 or Y.

I hope anyone can help me

(Sorry for my bad English)
[XPERIA X8 General] velnens123:
Explain for Noobs!

Yellow trinagle is located in device manager!(just look at other thread)

You can get non-gui version in Bin4ry thread "X10 Flash Tool...and so on"

You need to open x10flash.bat in non-gui folder.(not gui)
[XPERIA X8 General] kurry02:
Im still stuck on step 1. The yellow mark still wont disappear no matter what I have tried to reinstall/update the driver.

I have let the wizard to search the internet for correct driver, and I have point it to specific folder with the driver in it, I have tried several versions of the driver that I can find on the net.

I keep getting "the hardware was not installed because the wizard cannot find the necessary software" error.

I can use Flash Tool GUI to root my X8 and to install XRecovery. Those were done successfully. And we are talking same session same day here. Just straight after I rooted the phone and installed Xrecovery, did a backup, then I wanted to flash to 2.1 but then this happened.

Only when the phone is connected to the PC in flash mode.

Can anyone help point me in the right direction?

Forgot to mention: the driver I'm talking about is SEMC signed driver. That is the driver for flashing right? Or have I totally missed this point all together?
[XPERIA X8 General] kurry02:
I got it working now:). It was not SEMC driver that's needed. It should be the gordon's gate driver. For some reason that driver went missing. I have installed SEUS and managed to flash my phone yesterday using SEUS. So definitely it was installed, but disappeared today or sometime after I used SEUS last.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Desaf:
Which rom provides the best and longest battery life?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigdan35:
Now that all depends on what you want the rom for.

Do you want HTC Sense? Android Stock? AOSP?

Then the kernels you use have a dramatic difference, and the Radio which can be used.

Personally I'm on:

Rom - Oxygen 1.0.4 (AOSP)

Radio - 32.48.00.32U_5.10.05.30

Kernel - 2.6.35.9-vorkKernel adamg@talisker #1

And from all this, depending on how I use the rom.. On a busy day I'll get near 15 hours battery life, and on a quiet time, I can get around 30-40 hours, and all that,without using SetCpu.

So you've got to look at quite a lot of options. Also depends on what apps you use, and widgets, brightness etc.

Not much help but that's my setup and how it works personally for me.

Dan

Swyped from my Deoxygenated HTC Desire
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Desaf:
I have tried Miui and also defrost but i didn't know that the kernel was that important.

Could you sugest other rom's? It doesnt matter AOSP or any other
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigdan35:
If you keep to the radio which I mentioned in the earlier post.. I do suggest that you try sense roms: LeeDroid's rom, stable and fantastic, as is AuraxTSense tbh, though I'm not keen on the way that rom looks and can drain the battery quite a bit. Oxygen is also a fantastic AOSP rom, as is Cyanogen. DeFrost is good also, similar to Cyanogen mind.

I have never tried any MIUI roms so I can't suggest.

If you're willing to look on other forums, I suggest looking at http://android.modaco.com/ and go to the Desire section and have a look at some of the Sense and NO-Sense roms on there, they are also good for lack of drain.

Stick to the radio I mentioned and you won't go wrong mate :). Most kernels released with the roms have been made specifically for that rom and usually will be the best that there is already, so don't worry yourself about that too much.

Dan

Swyped from my Deoxygenated HTC Desire
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Desaf:
Thank you very much my friend.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Desaf:
Anyone else got ideas for a rom with good battery?
[Venue Pro General] tiesto51:
for users of this phone, do you know what is included language of origin?
[Venue Pro General] citrix80:
default language is english. it support system locale and browser & search language of all language in the world except chinese. I need chinese.
[Venue Pro General] tiesto51:
cool, thank you for your answer!
[Venue Pro General] xthing:
i am really dissappointed that the Dell Venue Pro only ships with English as keyboard language :-(

The Samsung Focus has English, Spanish, French and Portugese if i remember correctly.
[Venue Pro General] citrix80:
I just need english and chinese. is there a way to download language keyboards?
[Venue Pro General] tiesto51:
hello,

I have several opinions for and against the users of a dell venue pro came from t-mobile do you have the French language?

I want to dell venue pro came from t-mobile and I wonder if French is included...

thank you in advance
[Venue Pro General] Sensonic:
An old topic but I'll push it up a bit.

Recently bought a Dell Venue Pro and would like to add Finnish language to it.

So as a newby what comes to DVP, I'd like to ask whether I could add that aforementioned language by developer unlocking the phone first (I still have two slots available) and then add a Finnish language cab to it?

Or are there any other easier / more useful ways to do that? Or can it be performed at all???

Many thanks in advance!
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] takuhii:
Hi,

I am running Cyanogen 6.1 with APP2SD running, and have an 8GB SD Card with apps installed on it. I recently bought a new 16GB SD Card and was wondering how I duplicate the contents of my 8GB SD Card to the 16GB SD Card.

Any ideas would be VERY helpful.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkknight_:
I never tried, but I think it should be enough if you copy contents from the old one to the new one using a computer.

Sent from my HTC Hero
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vido.ardes:
Unless you are using the native Froyo Apps-to-SD and not the old solution, then you can't just copy the files on a computer. Using the old system the apps are stored on a completely separated partition to what is shown when you mount your SD Card.

You can probably access that partition if you are using Linux, but having never used the old Apps2SD I can't check it myself.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] takuhii:
I thought that might be the case. Linux laptop here I come!!
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Malismalis:
I recently bought a 16GB card and my Hero started to lag and restart SENSE randomly

Please reply to know if you have this issue
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] takuhii:
Hi,

I haven't put the 16GB in yet, as I have Apps installed to my 8GB SD Card and didn't know what to do (good job I have a linux based laptop really).

Sadly (not for me, but you know what I mean...) my ROM doesn't have SENSE. I am running CyanogenMOD 6.1.0.

What ROM are you running, I may know what the issue is?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Malismalis:
I am running the villainrom12 with sense and i have overclocked it to 352/652
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] takuhii:
I'm such a dumbass... what "class" is the SD Card? And which elements of the ROM are laggy?

I noticed that this is a 2.1 ROM...
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Malismalis:
I have a class4 memory card, and when i am launching some apps htc sense just force closes and the app i wanted to open just quits, after it is happened several times, htc senses starts to force close again and again until phone starts to lag and then hangs up.