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Friend tracking software?

I was wondering if there was any programs that you can use to track your friends? I dont want to do it without their consent though, so they would need to dl the program too. Anything thats free and uses google maps?

mroneeyedboh said:
I was wondering if there was any programs that you can use to track your friends? I dont want to do it without their consent though, so they would need to dl the program too. Anything thats free and uses google maps?
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My Tracks. Its in the Market. I don't use it, but my brother plays with it all the time.

bring up google maps, click menu and then click "join latitude"

illogic6 said:
bring up google maps, click menu and then click "join latitude"
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That would be my suggestion.

Thanks guys. How do i track them?

mroneeyedboh said:
Thanks guys. How do i track them?
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If they have an android phone and are using latitude. You will see their position in google maps. If you want, I can show you, just PM me.

durhamite said:
If they have an android phone and are using latitude. You will see their position in google maps. If you want, I can show you, just PM me.
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Doesn't even have to be Android, they have it for BlackBerry, WM, and Apple as well. I track poeple on all three.

latitude is built into maps

Im digging this up. How do i add someone? I did menu add friends but it didnt show anyone. I dont know why. It wont let me actually search through my contacts. Do i have to use their gmail accounts, or can i use their phone numbers.

mroneeyedboh said:
Im digging this up. How do i add someone? I did menu add friends but it didnt show anyone. I dont know why. It wont let me actually search through my contacts. Do i have to use their gmail accounts, or can i use their phone numbers.
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U use their gmail accout, add their email and it will send them a confirmation link and they set it up to what level of information they want to share with u. Ive noticed that other android handsets are more accurate as they are always updating, iphone bb and wm have to actually run google maps i think.

Apps that you CAN/CAN'T remove

I was wondering, can you remove the gtalkservice.apk, Talk.apk, Mail.apk, Gmail.apk? Because I never use them and they are causing problems with EasyTether. Thanks

KyleIsTheBeast said:
I was wondering, can you remove the gtalkservice.apk, Talk.apk, Mail.apk, Gmail.apk? Because I never use them and they are causing problems with EasyTether. Thanks
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Do a nandroid and try and see what happens............

dont rm gtalk, itll break the market.
i have suc rm gmail and provider

mountaindont said:
dont rm gtalk, itll break the market.
i have suc rm gmail and provider
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I removed gtalkservice and my market works fine, I do get a google.process.gapps fc once in a while tho

chfields said:
I removed gtalkservice and my market works fine, I do get a google.process.gapps fc once in a while tho
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1 in a 1000
congrats

mountaindont said:
1 in a 1000
congrats
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That bad huh?? Guess I got lucky (knock wood)

KyleIsTheBeast said:
I was wondering, can you remove the gtalkservice.apk, Talk.apk, Mail.apk, Gmail.apk? Because I never use them and they are causing problems with EasyTether. Thanks
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You can only remove Mail.apk from the list you've stated.
The others you cannot remove (correct me if I'm wrong). Gmail verifies your Email so you can access the market, so deleting that is out of the question. Gtalkservice and Talk go hand in hand, as they both represent the Google Talk chat application and I'm more than positive if you delete that, your phone with present you with FC's.

pseudoremora said:
You can only remove Mail.apk from the list you've stated.
The others you cannot remove (correct me if I'm wrong). Gmail verifies your Email so you can access the market, so deleting that is out of the question. Gtalkservice and Talk go hand in hand, as they both represent the Google Talk chat application and I'm more than positive if you delete that, your phone with present you with FC's.
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ive removed gmail with no fc's or errors of any kind.
+1 on gtalk, only had issues after rming those

mountaindont said:
ive removed gmail with no fc's or errors of any kind.
+1 on gtalk, only had issues after rming those
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Why would you ever want to remove Gmail though? Gmail is amazing, no other Email service even remotely compares when it comes to functionality, stability, and features.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=581976&highlight=apps+safe+remove

you can remove talk.apk but not the provider as well with gmail.apk

Friendstream.apk

Does anyone happen to have it? I want to run it on CM6 so i can get pictures from facebook for my contacts.

backdown said:
Does anyone happen to have it? I want to run it on CM6 so i can get pictures from facebook for my contacts.
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Use the official Facebook app, it works better than friend stream. You can do the same with the official Twitter app.

I don't get how to do it with the facebook application. I messed around with it for a bit, but no avail. Any help?

backdown said:
I don't get how to do it with the facebook application. I messed around with it for a bit, but no avail. Any help?
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Go to settings and make sure you have sync contacts enabled. The names /emails have to be similar, but you can always go the contact app, edit a contact and then use the join option in the menu to manually connect contacts.
Edit: this works better than Sense because now all apps that use contact syncing will now have that popup menu when you click on a contacts photo.

Award Tour said:
Go to settings and make sure you have sync contacts enabled. The names /emails have to be similar, but you can always go the contact app, edit a contact and then use the join option in the menu to manually connect contacts.
Edit: this works better than Sense because now all apps that use contact syncing will now have that popup menu when you click on a contacts photo.
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Sweet, thank you!

backdown said:
Does anyone happen to have it? I want to run it on CM6 so i can get pictures from facebook for my contacts.
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Sorry man, but Friend Stream is for HTC Sense frameworks, and won't work in CM6. But, if you purchase Launcher Pro Plus, then that launcher has a widget similar to friend stream (puts facebook + twitter stuff in one widget for ya).
Good luck

Also as an fyi- you can go to any OTA rom, download and rip out any apk's you may want to try. All you need is winrar and you can extract the friendstream.apk file from system/app/ yourself

backdown said:
Does anyone happen to have it? I want to run it on CM6 so i can get pictures from facebook for my contacts.
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Use Launcherpro (http://www.launcherpro.com/. It has a widget that is the same as Friendstream.

18 apps running at the back

ok, so basically, turned on my phone and just by curiosity tried to clear OUT RAM using the program monitor widget and it most of the time closes about 18 apps...
is there a ways to know what those apps are and if they are needed to be running in the background?
the second thing is,I'm trying to know which App i need and not, so i listed what i see from the apps list of FitDroidv2.0... can you tell me which of there i need and which i don't?
thanks...
Note: the list are on the attachment...

I have uninstalled the following system apps-
Calculator-Many better alternatives in market.
HTML Viewer- Already have opera and dolphin to view html.
News and Weather
Samsung Home- Use ADW and Go Launcher
Samsung keypad
Social hub
Email
Yahoo Finance
and a few more

chelsearulz5 said:
I have uninstalled the following system apps-
Calculator-Many better alternatives in market.
HTML Viewer- Already have opera and dolphin to view html.
News and Weather
Samsung Home- Use ADW and Go Launcher
Samsung keypad
Social hub
Email
Yahoo Finance
and a few more
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in this case, email is for gmail right? won't you have problems with market?

Those are just stock apps.....
They should not slow down the phone that much.....
You can always remove those apps using Root Explorer app....
Or you can disable them from starting at start up using a third party app....
I use "Android Assistant".....

No email and Gmail are seperate.I use titanium backup to uninstall all this bloatware
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how would i know what those 15-18 apps running?
is there a way to know?

reikableu said:
how would i know what those 15-18 apps running?
is there a way to know?
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Use a third-party Task Manager app..... :/
See the processes running in it....

[email protected] said:
Use a third-party Task Manager app..... :/
See the processes running in it....
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ill try that, thanks...

Official google calender, dialer, sms client have been removed?

i like google official stuff, where can i find the apk of them?

sunny7day said:
i like google official stuff, where can i find the apk of them?
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Would certainly be nice to have the stock calendar app... not to fond of this one. Somehow i just find adding new appointments way more cumbersome...