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Xperia Play Essential Apps

what are the essential apps that should be installed in the xplay in general?

Root explorer
Fpse
Google earth
Applanet
Appbrain
Flash 10.2
Adobe air
This list could go on all day lol
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I would recommend the whole assortment of gaming console emulators. I have seen them running gorgeously and... well, let's face it, the phone was made for them.
If you have root, Root Explorer and Titanium Backup are quite the asset, and if CWM comes to the phone, ROM Manager will be an important tool as well. 3G Watchdog if you have a cap on your data connection. My other recommendations are more sectorial: Cool Reader for ebooks, Dropbox, Firefox and GPS Aids.

AndroHero said:
Root explorer
Fpse
Google earth
Applanet
Appbrain
Flash 10.2
Adobe air
This list could go on all day lol
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your "asking" from trouble using applanet full of virus's and programs that send out premium SMS's that and the fact it's pure piracy.

waz000000 said:
your "asking" from trouble using applanet full of programs that send out premium SMS's.
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Fixed it for you ^^

waz000000 said:
your "asking" from trouble using applanet full of virus's and programs that send out premium SMS's that and the fact it's pure piracy.
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I dont use applanet, but i know a lot do. Android drm is evolvolving to an extent where any dev worth his wack can protect an app from pirates anyway, so the majority off apps on applanet wont work anyway
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thanks for the great feedbacks. this is my first android phone and i'm really excited in tinkering with it. i would agree on the emulators currently have almost all of them but lack sd space. i'm having problems running the tiger mame emu though

Chainfire 3D

Ive downloaded the pro version, along with the plugins. No matter which plugin i use, I never notice any different games in the market. NOVA, Modern Combat etc. Are still not showing up. Yes i pressed the 'fix market' button still to no avail. Has anyone gotten this to actually work with their device?
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go to default opengl menu and select nvidia as the plugin then go back nand click fix market settings and reboot ur phone then try

I had chainfire3d on my captivate and loved it.
I am having all kinds of trouble getting it to install on my skyrocket tho.
I have tried downloading from the market and from the www page. directly to the phone and transferred from usb.
NO matter what I cant get the pluggins to install. I am root. so doesnt make any sense.
I remember needing to punch some code into terminal emulator with the cappy and i have searched and typed a few different commands into VrE again to NO avail. Getting kinda bummed about it now as its been 24 hours since root..I also installed the 2.3.6 rom on our forums last night.
SR was delivered wednsday with 2.3.5 stock from the Amazon . penny sale.
Anyone kn ow what I am doing wrong?

reinstall your phone and try again. I have it installed on my i727r and it works perfect

arberthebarber said:
go to default opengl menu and select nvidia as the plugin then go back nand click fix market settings and reboot ur phone then try
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Just did that. Still didnt make a difference
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Global Swag said:
Just did that. Still didnt make a difference
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Can you side load the app, and use whichever plug in necessary to run properly?

Gonna try that now, still wondering why fix market still wouldnt let them show up. Anyway, will report back
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Been browsing all over Google trying to find a list that displays which plugin plays with which game, is there any way to tell?
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Global Swag said:
Been browsing all over Google trying to find a list that displays which plugin plays with which game, is there any way to tell?
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You google the game and find out which device it was made for. Also many of the gameloft games aren't on the market. Search for shadowgun.

Why are guys even using chain fire? I switched to the skyrocket from a Dell streak 5 with the original snapdragon processor and all my old gameloft games work and most others as well, even shadow gun runs flawlessly from the market with no mods at all. I'm completely stock, not even rooted on 2.3.6
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ThinkinBig said:
Why are guys even using chain fire? I switched to the skyrocket from a Dell streak 5 with the original snapdragon processor and all my old gameloft games work and most others as well, even shadow gun runs flawlessly from the market with no mods at all. I'm completely stock, not even rooted on 2.3.6
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Because we have games that need it.

You should atleast root it so you have CPU controls and app.controls because it saves on battery
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ThinkinBig said:
Why are guys even using chain fire? I switched to the skyrocket from a Dell streak 5 with the original snapdragon processor and all my old gameloft games work and most others as well, even shadow gun runs flawlessly from the market with no mods at all. I'm completely stock, not even rooted on 2.3.6
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Galaxy on Fire 2, Pinball HD, and better versions of Fruit Ninja, Backbreaker, and others. Also, even though it's not a compatibility thing, installing Chainfire 3D made the textures in Riptide GP load at a much higher res.

What are your settings for galaxy on fire 2. Mine crashed to home when loading the campaign
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will it work on x10
will chanfire 3d work on xperia x10 2.3.3

princeofpersia1992 said:
will chanfire 3d work on xperia x10 2.3.3
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I don't know about you, but... it doesn't say xperia x10 2.3.3 up on the top there.
(hint) It says AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket Themes and Apps.

[Q] ICS launcher hack?

The launcher seems not support more than 16apps in one folder..
Is there any hack to increase it to infinit??
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kevinngck1 said:
The launcher seems not support more than 16apps in one folder..
Is there any hack to increase it to infinit??
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I doubt anyone's done that, at least so far.
The general idea is to group together apps that have a common theme, etc.
I'm just poking harmless fun, but do you have more than 16 apps of the same type or function?

nickmv said:
I doubt anyone's done that, at least so far.
The general idea is to group together apps that have a common theme, etc.
I'm just poking harmless fun, but do you have more than 16 apps of the same type or function?
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I do. I was annoyed at this limitation earlier today when I tried to group games for my 3yr old together.

this was the very reason why I downloaded the source. One would think enabling this would be easy. Someone tell me how to compile only the launcher. Compiling the entire source takes me over 5 hours.

kevinngck1 said:
The launcher seems not support more than 16apps in one folder..
Is there any hack to increase it to infinit??
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Step 1: Take a hammer & smash your Android Device.
Step 2: On your PC desktop, right click & choose make a new folder, store as many "infinit" aka infinite apps as you wish.
WHY would you have more than 16 apps that have the same function? Kind of redundant/retarded don't you think???
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Cm9 will probably have it
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mobile_sensei said:
Step 1: Take a hammer & smash your Android Device.
Step 2: On your PC desktop, right click & choose make a new folder, store as many "infinit" aka infinite apps as you wish.
WHY would you have more than 16 apps that have the same function? Kind of redundant/retarded don't you think???
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Someone is upset today. He said games for his kid
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Solution:
Use the first 2 dock spaces for 16 games a piece, then use the other two spaces for your own stuff.
I'm sure this will come in time, or buy your kid a Nintendo DS...

mobile_sensei said:
Step 1: Take a hammer & smash your Android Device.
Step 2: On your PC desktop, right click & choose make a new folder, store as many "infinit" aka infinite apps as you wish.
WHY would you have more than 16 apps that have the same function? Kind of redundant/retarded don't you think???
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ka24e said:
Solution:
Use the first 2 dock spaces for 16 games a piece, then use the other two spaces for your own stuff.
I'm sure this will come in time, or buy your kid a Nintendo DS...
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You guys sure you're in the right forum? The "suck it up and deal with it" attitude belongs in the iOS forums, this is Android. In Android we don't ask "why?" but "why not?"
BTW: An actual temporary fix to the problem is to use Folder Organizer.

You could also use simi folder temporarily. Free in the market. I am sure there are other alternatives, too.

mobile_sensei said:
Step 1: Take a hammer & smash your Android Device.
Step 2: On your PC desktop, right click & choose make a new folder, store as many "infinit" aka infinite apps as you wish.
WHY would you have more than 16 apps that have the same function? Kind of redundant/retarded don't you think???
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Its for his kid. And diferrent people have different needs. You should take that hammer and smash your own head.
OP: it should be implemented in cm9 or something probably through a scrolling folder.
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mobile_sensei said:
Step 1: Take a hammer & smash your Android Device.
Step 2: On your PC desktop, right click & choose make a new folder, store as many "infinit" aka infinite apps as you wish.
WHY would you have more than 16 apps that have the same function? Kind of redundant/retarded don't you think???
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somebody angry

This desperately needs to be included in ROMs and stock ICS... For now you have to stick to Market apps. I'm using App Organizer
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LordPhong said:
this was the very reason why I downloaded the source. One would think enabling this would be easy. Someone tell me how to compile only the launcher. Compiling the entire source takes me over 5 hours.
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To build the Launcher from source, use: make Launcher2 to build the generic Launcher. To build it for a specific device (i.e. to incorporate device-specific settings and overlays), you should run lunch and select your device before running make. The path to locate the APK will be specified on the last line.
I've never tried to build the Launcher without precompiling the rest of the source prior to, so I don't know if it needs to build some additional components beforehand, which would add some more time for the initial build, but far less than doing the whole system. Make sure to sign your APK to match the rest of your system before pushing.
Hope that helps.
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The maximum number of folder items is defined by: res/values/config.xml (for those building from source) or res/values/integers.xml (if decompiling) in Launcher2.apk. The integer values for folder_max_count_x, folder_max_count_y, and folder_max_num_items define the maximum number of items permitted in the folder, where the value defined in x multiplied by y equals the value in max_num_items.
I modified the y and max_num_items values and I was able to include more than the default 16 icons, but...
The folder does not include scrolling capability, so once the number of items exceeds the available screen space, they are cut off. If it's possible to incorporate scrolling into folders, we're good to go, but that's beyond my capacity...

Looking for root app opinions

I simply have a couple questions I'd like to get advice on. Rom Toolbox and Titanium Backup.
I already got Titanium but I'm inquiring whether an app like Rom Toolbox is useful.
I am rooted but running the stock Rom. I'd like to keep it simple and get used to learning about being rooted before getting into flashing.
Any other root apps from the Play store I should load? I'd prefer to avoid useless apps. Searching the Internet doesn't always yield the results I'm looking for. Everyone has been so helpful here I'm looking for good friendly advice.
Thanks,
Jon
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Rom toolbox is not useful for us for the most part... Good root apps are : set CPU or any of.the CPU apps. titanium . CPU spy.. Erm I can't think of the others that I use....there are some fun ones like WiFi kill but.keep away from Rom toolbox

Be careful. Most root apps are harmless but there are a few that can brick your phone. Stay away from stuff like Rom Manager and Rom Toolbox. Apps that let you take shortcuts with flashing are likely to put you in a boot loop if they don't brick you. I'm not aware of any that work with this phone beyond Goo Manager.
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omario8484 said:
Rom toolbox is not useful for us for the most part... Good root apps are : set CPU or any of.the CPU apps. titanium . CPU spy.. Erm I can't think of the others that I use....there are some fun ones like WiFi kill but.keep away from Rom toolbox
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Good info!! It sounds like it fits under the statement, if it's too good to be true it is.
Thanks for your opinions.
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AdAway is brilliant, get's rid of ads. I'm all for app developers getting their dues, but I struggle to avoid clicking the ads acidentally with my oafish fingers. I buy the pro versions of the really useful apps.
Droidwall is great, it let's you set which apps can use which network interfaces to get the internet (if at all). You can stop streaming video apps from using all of your data plan by setting them to only use wifi.

codeprimate said:
AdAway is brilliant, get's rid of ads. I'm all for app developers getting their dues, but I struggle to avoid clicking the ads acidentally with my oafish fingers. I buy the pro versions of the really useful apps.
Droidwall is great, it let's you set which apps can use which network interfaces to get the internet (if at all). You can stop streaming video apps from using all of your data plan by setting them to only use wifi.
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Thanks for this advice! Already installed and applied it!
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A app idea

How hard would it be to make a market style app with like no experience lol..
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Market style?
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Like a market for apps. Like play store it apples app store
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Well that's what I thought but I imagined that u would have more than that?
What would be the point?
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Well I thought it would be a cool idea for a root store type thing, like a market for root apps only. And I thought maybe I could give it a go at at least making a template app and maybe I could get other people to join in or something idk.
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App isn't the problem it's getting devs on board also storage server space etc etc a better idea would be a xda app market
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Like what do you mean a xda one? And wouldn't I need xda's permission too?
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Wait your the one making it I thought it was a request sorry by xda 1I meant a xda app market that could feature devs apps
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Well I would like too make one but I don't know jack for android code, but either way if that type of app existed it would be cool.
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You mean like Cydia for iOS right? I can't tell if you mean a type of Cydia Store, or a just an app store. I also had an idea for this a couple weeks back.
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I don't know what that is but like what I had in mind was a app that has categories etc for apps, and it would be like for root stuff, like root apps or apps from people on here and other forums, to kinda localize everything into a easy to navigate spot so you don't have to search a huge forum for a download to someone's app or have to search play store to find the right root apps, because to me finding root apps on play store can be a pain.
But lime I said its really just a idea and it would be a little difficult to get going and make actually happen.
Also a app where its like daily/weekly updates about peoples stuff, but drippler kinda does that.
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Cydia is the ios jailbreak app place
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Oh well then yeah
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I might make this app this weekend. The UI would probably be terrible though. If I made this, it would have a ROMs section, tweaks section (mods to system and stuff), an apps section (root apps only), and an App Developers section (apps that started on XDA or another Android Forum, or just apps that I think are cool but are not on the play store. Once I know that the app works and can successfully download and install apps, I will work on the UI to look like the Play Store, except with the Holo Blue accent instead of the green one. It would be my first app, too. I'm also learning Android Development by Team Treehouse, and they show how you can make an app access the internet and pull things from it (which is saving the apk, and then installing).
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PenguinxEnjoi said:
I might make this app this weekend. The UI would probably be terrible though. If I made this, it would have a ROMs section, tweaks section (mods to system and stuff), an apps section (root apps only), and an App Developers section (apps that started on XDA or another Android Forum, or just apps that I think are cool but are not on the play store. Once I know that the app works and can successfully download and install apps, I will work on the UI to look like the Play Store, except with the Holo Blue accent instead of the green one. It would be my first app, too. I'm also learning Android Development by Team Treehouse, and they show how you can make an app access the internet and pull things from it (which is saving the apk, and then installing).
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u would need permission from xda and it's better that they make it.
xda devs don't only make root apps also having roms would be expensive and unnecessary because they'll have to handle a boatload of downloads and space to store all the roms when file-sharing sites work just fine what would be better is u subscribe to a Rom and get updates and links etc from there...
Anyways
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u would need permission from xda and it's better that they make it.
xda devs don't only make root apps also having roms would be expensive and unnecessary because they'll have to handle a boatload of downloads and space to store all the roms when file-sharing sites work just fine what would be better is u subscribe to a Rom and get updates and links etc from there...
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I started learning 2 months ago, and where I started learning was at my school. I can stay in my schools library after school for 2 and a half hours and that's when I learn android development. I have Eclipse and the Android Emulator working fine on the computers over there (with permission of course). I found team treehouse when watching a tech video on YouTube, it was an ad and I clicked on it.
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Treehouse is this like a series or something if so hot many vids they got
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Wasn't the Cyanogenmod team working on just this last year?
https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z12guz3rqzb5djp5f04cffsgfmzdcfgi4co
Might want to see how far they got, or why they stopped.

PenguinxEnjoi said:
I might make this app this weekend. The UI would probably be terrible though. If I made this, it would have a ROMs section, tweaks section (mods to system and stuff), an apps section (root apps only), and an App Developers section (apps that started on XDA or another Android Forum, or just apps that I think are cool but are not on the play store. Once I know that the app works and can successfully download and install apps, I will work on the UI to look like the Play Store, except with the Holo Blue accent instead of the green one. It would be my first app, too. I'm also learning Android Development by Team Treehouse, and they show how you can make an app access the internet and pull things from it (which is saving the apk, and then installing).
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Yeah this is like what I was thinking, I mean it doesn't have to be xda it'd probably be better if it wasn't because they would have to be involved and then it would be limited to xda also
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Would I need permission from xda-developers, if Instead I just got permission from the developers of the apps and ROMs instead?
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