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[Q] what apps are you using?

I was just wondering what apps everyone is using.. Like everyday use.. How is the app performing and stuff like that.. Im only wondering so I can learn some cool apps to download lol
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XDA-developers...works perfectly
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kvswim said:
XDA-developers...works perfectly
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+1 I use it like 10 times a day...legit
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kvswim said:
XDA-developers...works perfectly
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+1
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I was on my computer when I saw this thread. Grabbed my phone and opened xda just to agree haha.
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Xda like everyone else, weather bug elite, tech buzz, amazon app store, google music beta, poweramp, avsforum, zedge....those are my most used
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In all seriousness the best Apps I couldn't live without would be SwiftKey x, handset sms, dolphin hd browser, quadrant(lol), xda, rocketdial, all my emulators and lastly beautiful widgets although it's not totally necessary if you run eclipse since its got gs2 Apps like accuweather which look better imo.
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stupid question, with handset sms, how do i stop messenger from running?

hockeybpr25 said:
stupid question, with handset sms, how do i stop messenger from running?
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hockeybpr25 - First off, you may want to try ChompSMS instead of Handcent. They are both good, though. In the TW Messaging app, turn off "Auto-retrieve" and "Notifications".
blarrick said:
In all seriousness the best Apps I couldn't live without would be SwiftKey x, handset sms, dolphin hd browser, quadrant(lol), xda, rocketdial, all my emulators and lastly beautiful widgets although it's not totally necessary if you run eclipse since its got gs2 Apps like accuweather which look better imo.
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blarrick - +1 on SwiftKey X! Been using SwiftKey ever since they started the beta a couple of years ago. [email protected] near telepathic, it's scary!
Regarding the Dolphin HD Browser, I used to <3 it a lot, but I've moved on now to the Miren Browser. Miren is free, and it seems like their UI is much better thought-out. I seem to get stuff done easier in it. You should give it a shot!
rand4ll said:
Xda like everyone else, weather bug elite, tech buzz, amazon app store, google music beta, poweramp, avsforum, zedge....those are my most used
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Hey, rand4ll - I was curious about Weather Bug Elite. Does it support a scrollable widget for multiple cities? I'm really looking like crazy for a weather app that supports a scrollable widget. The only ones I know about are wrapped in various manufacturer's UI (like HTC Sense and MotoBlur).
Now, on to my apps:
Agenda Widget, Awesome Drop, Barnacle Wifi Tether, Beautiful Widgets, Bloat Freezer, Calendar Snooze, ChompSMS, EasyTether, FlightTrack Pro, Happy Hours, KeePassDroid (KeePass is on everything I own with a CPU), Miren Browser, Mr. Number Caller ID, MyBackup Pro, Note Everything Pro, Our Groceries, PhoneMyPC, Plume, Pure Messenger, RealCalc, ROM Manager, Root Explorer, Remote Notifier, Sipdroid, Shazam, StayAwake, SwiftKey X, TapaTalk Pro, Team Black Hat, TripIt, WinAmp, and uTorrent Remote.
Whew.
Cheers!

hockeybpr25 said:
stupid question, with handset sms, how do i stop messenger from running?
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You could also just do this
1) Open Handcent
2) Hit the menu button
3) Select Settings
4) Application settings
5) Default Messaging Application.
6) All(SMS & MMS)
Both work though

Favorite/best dialer

OK, I've tried all the big ones, go contacts ex, dialer one, and TouchPal Dialer. Each one seems to have a unique feature or coolness to it, mostly go contacts or TouchPal, but they seem to be lacking or be incomplete... For example when using go and trying to edit a contact... You can't join multiple contacts together... If i was going to use a third party dialer I would want to freeze at the least the stock... With a third party sms app, i use handcent, i don't lose any functionality save for maybe the green dot.. But who uses that? Haha, so what in curious is, is out of all the dialers what is everyone's personal recommendations?
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Check out contapps
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Checked it out, kinda liked it hahaha, I'm torn though, lol... I'm the most indecisive android user ever... Hahaha
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I'm still looking too.
My dialer has to be efficient to work with a large contact list (good search). I don't need integration with anything else than Google Contacts (no Facebook, etc). But I'l like some management tools, like 'call back tomorrow' with alarm, integration with a todo list, etc.
trillonometry said:
Check out contapps
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Contapps looks like a toy to me. Too focused on contacts with pictures.

thronnos said:
I'm the most indecisive android user ever... Hahaha
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that's what Android is all about. What's it lacking?

What i use.
Light weight, fast, has themes.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.youlu&feature=search_result

kedlun said:
that's what Android is all about. What's it lacking?
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Well it seems that either some apps lack any editing or joining capabilities... Others seem to lack integration with certain things... Its small things but things that I as a whole always use... Its the one up the HTC sense launcher/dialer had compared to stock android... Sigh
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[Q] Widget to tweet

I'm looking for a widget to allow me to post to twitter. All of the twitter apps that I've tried have widgets that show timelines. I just basically want a box to type in and post. Any suggestions?

Plume..
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I've actually been using Plume, but somehow I missed the 2x1 widget, which has the status post button. Thanks!

Anytime. That is the only twitter app i use.
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Could've sworn go twitter widget did. Not sure
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Android Pro Widget is the best social network widget on the market. It's better then Plume. You can use apw for twitter, facebook and more. It also have different themes that you will like. Try it out.
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Tweetcaster.

kwes said:
Android Pro Widget is the best social network widget on the market. It's better then Plume. You can use apw for twitter, facebook and more. It also have different themes that you will like. Try it out.
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Bah you name stealer! Jk
Haha cant help but derail since ive never seen you around. But im about to try the app you suggested. Even though 12 posts in 3.5+ years isnt impressive. Maybe you speak from experience.
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I tried out all of the suggestions and decided to stick with Plume. Even though it doesn't show you the tweet entry box until you click on the widget's icon, it works out to be the same number of clicks (or I guess I should say "taps") as when you want to type in the text area of widgets that do show you the entry box. So, I like Plume's the best and, of the ones that I tried, I liked Android Pro Widget the least.

Lol. That been my nickname sense I was lil. I thought I was the only Kwes. I like your work so I'm not mad we have the same name.
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jschultz76 said:
I'm looking for a widget to allow me to post to twitter. All of the twitter apps that I've tried have widgets that show timelines. I just basically want a box to type in and post. Any suggestions?
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Yeah tweetcaster is the best one cause you can posylt both to fb and twitter
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Calender Widget

Anybody know of a good calendar widget that's something like the stock Calender widget? I'm looking for one that just doesn't show the calender but one that shows upcoming events. Pure calender widget sucks.

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Anybody know of a good calendar widget that's something like the stock Calender widget? I'm looking for one that just doesn't show the calender but one that shows upcoming events. Pure calender widget sucks.
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i use business calendar works great even syncs google calendar
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I use CalenGoo. Works well overall.

Thanks, I will be checking out both of them.
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I tried several and liked Touch Calendar the best. I paid for it though.
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I like smooth calendar, which I believe was free. Doesn't take up too much space on the screen and is easily customizable.

jslanger said:
I like smooth calendar, which I believe was free. Doesn't take up too much space on the screen and is easily customizable.
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+1. I use this too and it works great.
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Are there any calenders that will import Google calender's event colors? So annoying seeing all my events the same color, gets confusing.
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TASL said:
Are there any calenders that will import Google calender's event colors? So annoying seeing all my events the same color, gets confusing.
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Calengoo. That is one reason that I went with it, as I too got annoyed at trying to make sure the colors stayed consistent.

I like Agenda Widget.

I use CalWidget, does what I need it to do. Just displays whats coming up, you can also use custom colors and such.

CZ Eddie said:
I tried several and liked Touch Calendar the best. I paid for it though.
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Thanks for the tip. Best one I've used so far.

jslanger said:
I like smooth calendar, which I believe was free. Doesn't take up too much space on the screen and is easily customizable.
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+1
I've been using smoothcalendar for over a year ... works great. Also the dev is awesome if you have any issues or feedback.
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I use colorize... great calendar. Android pro Widgets is very good also.

jslanger said:
I like smooth calendar, which I believe was free. Doesn't take up too much space on the screen and is easily customizable.
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+1 for me as well. I think it also does custom colors.

Quick Agenda or Agenda Widget all day. http://quickagenda.me/?page_id=20

Facebook App that's worth a crap?!

Official Facebook app won't post a status/pic, rarely posts my comments.
Fast Pro has too many bugs
Flipster is half ass, doesn't show everything, SLOW
Friendcaster Pro wants to show me everyones games more than statuses and such.
Everyone uses something different, what's a quality Facebook app youd recommend??
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Plume
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Isn't that just twitter?
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try fbm for facebook,it has only 1-2mb is much faster and most stable.for me the best.:good:

CALIBAN666 said:
try fbm for facebook,it has only 1-2mb is much faster and most stable.for me the best.:good:
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Love it! Thanks!!
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Official Facebook app is fine on a modern device. It is quite big (~20MB) and uses a big chunk of RAM (~45-50MB) so on older devices, it can be quite painful to run. Simply go to facebook.com in your mobile browser, you get the same interface.
Flipster is the best of the alternatives, but the problem with the alternatives is that 1) if you post from it (and this is anything but the website or the official app), Facebook doesn't share your status with all your friends. It's posted to your Timeline, but almost nobody will see it. And 2) it won't show you all your friends' statuses and photos. Their game activity will always show up, though, as well as anything sponsored.
Most likely the fastest is TweetDeck, or maybe TweakDeck (the former, only... tweaked). The interface looks like straight up ass, but it's fast, even on crappy phones. Tested and verified on Samsung Acclaim (800MHz ARMv6, 160MB RAM, ~20MB app install space, Froyo).

Tried "Scope"? It's an all-in-one social app.
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Dark Reality said:
Official Facebook app is fine on a modern device. It is quite big (~20MB) and uses a big chunk of RAM (~45-50MB) so on older devices, it can be quite painful to run. Simply go to facebook.com in your mobile browser, you get the same interface.
Flipster is the best of the alternatives, but the problem with the alternatives is that 1) if you post from it (and this is anything but the website or the official app), Facebook doesn't share your status with all your friends. It's posted to your Timeline, but almost nobody will see it. And 2) it won't show you all your friends' statuses and photos. Their game activity will always show up, though, as well as anything sponsored.
Most likely the fastest is TweetDeck, or maybe TweakDeck (the former, only... tweaked). The interface looks like straight up ass, but it's fast, even on crappy phones. Tested and verified on Samsung Acclaim (800MHz ARMv6, 160MB RAM, ~20MB app install space, Froyo).
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I'm running it on a Note with cm10, so I shouldn't have issue
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I have just tried FBM and so far I am liking it as well. Thanks.
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Try flipster only have a few details
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Chivamarco said:
Try flipster only have a few details
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Used it. Its slow as hell and all the post problems someone listed above, no thanks
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I am very with Friendcaster Pro. Works well on my RAZR, syncs well with my phone book. So far no problems at all.

FBM! I love it but its simply a mobile version of Facebook. still its easier to navigate, and it has Compatibility Mode options which it'll load "Opera Mini" Facebook interface (good for slow connection)
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For anyone like me wondering what/where FBM is: here

Honestly, Tinfoil For Facebook is the best.
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