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Best apps for noobs

Hi all, I'm new to this forum. A friend just got his first android phone (hero) & asked me what apps he should download first. I gave my suggestions. It just made me want to ask what you guys suggest to noobs who aren't superusers. My first suggestion was barcode scanner. Others?
Thanks
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Maybe Uninstaller, lookout, task killer, goaruna, bump?
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I assume they don't ship yet with 2.1 - that you have to update that still?
If so, make sure he roots it and finds a better rom than the Sprint one.
I haven't kept up the last month or so, but I'm not sure if you can root the Hero once you update to 2.1

klopinator said:
I assume they don't ship yet with 2.1 - that you have to update that still?
If so, make sure he roots it and finds a better rom than the Sprint one.
I haven't kept up the last month or so, but I'm not sure if you can root the Hero once you update to 2.1
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If there's an official 2.1 rom why would you bother rooting it at all?

rpimps said:
If there's an official 2.1 rom why would you bother rooting it at all?
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You root it for not use the official 2.1, but using a custom-rom, and having more benefits.
But the point of the thread is "what apps". Well, below is my list. The base of any Android that i use (used).
- Task Manager: ES Task Manager, Advanced Task Manager (has uninstaller included).
- Some toggles for switching between 2g and 3g and for turning data off.
- IM apps, like Nimbuzz or ebuddy, if he uses such things of course.
- A Notes app, best i've tried is "Notes" from Yuli.
- A file manager: Linda or Astro, but Linda is faster.
- SysTray Monitor, for monitoring battery level or ram amount etc.
- Audio Manager, a simple widget to monitor system sounds intensity.

Itjil said:
Maybe Uninstaller, lookout, task killer, goaruna, bump?
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I still haven't figured out the point of an Uninstaller. You can uninstall via Applications, via the Market, or via most launchers by dragging to the trashcan....

khaytsus said:
I still haven't figured out the point of an Uninstaller. You can uninstall via Applications, via the Market, or via most launchers by dragging to the trashcan....
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some apps dont show up in the uninstaller in application..
anyways...i have...
launcerpro
better terminal
ebuddy
es file explorer
rmaps
spare parts
swapper2

thanks y'all. I doubt he will root. what are your opinions of task killers?
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Allow Automatic Updating

Is there a way to batch enable/disable this for all apps WITHOUT having to manually click each app?

There was a root app called Market Autoupdate Bulk Toggle but it was taken down from the android market due to obvious reasons. I'm not so sure if it works anymore yet a simple Google Search may help you find a download link.
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Paul22000 said:
Is there a way to batch enable/disable this for all apps WITHOUT having to manually click each app?
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Titanium Backup has such function hidden under Menu / More / Market Updates.
Not sure if its active in the free version, definitely works in Pro.

[APPS] What are your top 5 favorite cant live without apps

How is the community doing?
With so many apps available in the android market (google play) I thought it would be a good idea to start a thread with peoples top 5 cant live without favorite apps.
You can include any app with the exception of games there is a separate thread for that already, just make sure to note free or paid after the app name. Maybe we can bring apps to light that not many people dont know exist but are great!
Ill start my top 5 cant live without apps are:
1. Teamviever - free - productivity app that allows me to remotely connect to computers and help others diagnose issues
2. Work shifts free - free - app that keeps track of worked hours, pay days, etc
3. eBay - free - app that allows me to buy, sell on ebay
4. Dropbox - free - great for backing up files or just having extra storage
5. XDA premium - paid ($1.49) - keeps me connected to xda while mobile

xda premium
Root explorer
System Panel
ICS Browser +
Chrome to Phone
Forgot about Titanium Backup! It is indispensable!
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Golf Shot
Endomondo
PLEX
Radarscope (yea im a nerd)
Google Plus (more specifically messenger since all my friend are on it)

TapaTalk
Root Explorer
Titanium Backup
Google Voice (when it works...)
SMS Backup & Restore

Forum Runner
Root Explorer
Flipboard
Twitter
Chrome

Root Explorer
Chrome Beta
Chrome to Phone
aDownloader (torrents )
Apollo/DSP Manager combo

rohan32 said:
Root Explorer
Chrome Beta
Chrome to Phone
aDownloader (torrents )
Apollo/DSP Manager combo
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Adownloader nice had no clue that existed!
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I can live without any apps.. but these are the ones i use most often:
twitter
facebook
kakao talk
play store
chrome
coming from iphone 4, man.. it's very hard to find good games on android world..

eraste said:
Adownloader nice had no clue that existed!
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Yeah I love it also, it makes downloading ... stuff ... quite easy on the go to watch on the bus later or something

Twitter
Facebook
Ebay
PvZ (great replayability)
GLWG

Dolphin Browser
Google voice
Root explorer
Titanium backup
Swiftkey X (can't believe nobodies mentioned swiftkey yet. I don't know how to type without it anymore.

MLB at bat 12
chrome
PowerAMP
A hiit timer
FM radio/TuneIn
Must haves: Titanium backup, dropbox, Adaway, SwiftkeyX

[LIST] Favorite Root / Non Market Apps

Two completely different categories I know. But here's my list, if there are good suggestions I'll add them.
Non-Market Apps
Faceniff (Hijack Facebook/Twitter sessions, this has a high douchebag rating. Use it to educate your friends about https setting on social networks)
WifiKill (Does what it sounds like, again very high douchebag rating)
SMSBomber (again, not on the market for a reason)
Root Apps:
SD Maid (cleans stuff)
AdAway (blocks stuff)
Titanium Backup (backs up stuff)
ROM Toolbox (whole bunch of stuff)
ROM Manager (not as much stuff)
Six Axis Controller (hook up a ps3 controller via bluetooth and stuff)
Undelete (undelete stuff)

Root Apps:
Titanium Backup (paid version.....every flash-a-holic like me should pop for the paid version)
ES File Explorer
System Tuner
PC Apps:
adb (necessity for any modder/developer )
APK Tool (also necessity for any modder/developer)
Personally moved away from Root Toolbox for System Tuner and ES File Explorer. I've learned enough now to replicate most you can do in Rom Toolbox, but it was great in the beginning.

Favorite non market app: Network Sniffer. Its hilarious to redirect all website traffic on your network to a single website. Or change all the pictures to troll face. Definitely high on the mischievous list.
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eagle0042 said:
Favorite non market app: Network Sniffer. Its hilarious to redirect all website traffic on your network to a single website. Or change all the pictures to troll face. Definitely high on the mischievous list.
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Where can I find this app. I did some searching but couldn't find it

Edmlaser said:
Where can I find this app. I did some searching but couldn't find it
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Heh. I know why you couldn't find it....I got the name wrong. Its Network Spoofer. My bad. Here's a link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1692921
That'll teach me to post late at night...
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Could be my new favorite app....
This could be my new favorite app...
Installed today... looking good!!!
It allows for multiple users on JB...
I created a user for my wife and so far its clean. She has her own homescreens, etc...
It is the first generation of the GUI but it is basically just doing command lines stuff that is already built into JB...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1824066
Update: Another iteration of this is also called SwitchMe which can be found on the play store...
:cyclops:

i was reading your post and wondered where you find the apps like Faceniff, WifiKill and SMS Bomber....
they look interesting to try out..

dhalker said:
i was reading your post and wondered where you find the apps like Faceniff, WifiKill and SMS Bomber....
they look interesting to try out..
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Just do a quick google search. All three are pretty easy to find.

Great apps guys. I will be checking back to see more great apps revealed to me.

Faceniff was great on my HTC Aria. Oh how I screwed with somebody on Facebook using wifi in a hotel...
I'm on CM10 and Faceniff just FCes. I think the drivers don't work with it.
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Any alternative to faceniff ?
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Droidsheep should do the same as faceniff
PM if you need link
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best apps
SD Maid
AdAway
Airpush
Root explorer
Set CPU
Titanium Backup
ROM Toolbox
ROM Manager
Audio manager
System tuner

We do not condone warez on XDA. This is a site for developers and we support them here.
Reported.

mrfeuss said:
We do not condone warez on XDA. This is a site for developers and we support them here.
Reported.
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Pardon my ignorance, but where in the this thread has there been any discussion regarding/promoting warez?
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He said everything is the Pro version and never pay for anything (torrent)
I think that says Warez all over it...
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robcore said:
Pardon my ignorance, but where in the this thread has there been any discussion regarding/promoting warez?
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onealvideo hit the nail on the head.
onealvideo said:
He said everything is the Pro version and never pay for anything (torrent)
I think that says Warez all over it...
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Ah that guy. Thanks guys : )
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Nonmarket aps for hacking on my Thread
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Airdroid
Clean master
Titanium backup
Goo manager
Set CPU
Root explorer
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[App] Greenify *Root*

Note: This is not my app. This app is by Oasis Feng
Update: I think the link to the app thread by developer would be this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2155737
There is a new app in play store called Greenify. This app is only for rooted users. This app is similar to the freeze option we find in Titanium Backup Pro, but does the job in a much better way - it puts the app to hibernation.
Key features include:
1. You can add the apps to list which you want to hibernate
2. After the app is added to list, Greenify does the rest of the job.
3. No need to manually hibernate and de-hinbernate (like we manually freeze and unfreeze in TB Pro)
To use Greenify follow the steps below:
1. Open Greenify and give SU permission
2. Add the app to list in the built in recent app list or if you want to add app manually then choose more and open the desired app from list and tap on Greenify in notification bar.
3. In the main screen of Greenify you will see the apps that are currently running under "pending" category.
4. Now turn off the screen and wait for 2-5 minutes. Open Greenify again and you would see that, all the apps added to list are movee to "hibernated" category. All these apps are as good as frozen/uninstalled.
When the apps are in hibernated, they don't run in foreground nor in background. This will help in saving the battery and also increase the performance of the device.
I could test this by adding WhatsApp to the list in Greenify and later when WhatsApp went to hibernation mode I did not receive any of the messages in it (as good as the app not running). Then once I opened Whatsapp, it was our of hibernation and I received all my pending messages. Voila!
Note 1: you cannot add the system apps to the list. Greenify gives a message stating "Sorry, system apps are impossible to be greenified due to safety reason". Who wants to hibernate system apps anyways.
Note 2: Like the app description says in play store, it's not advised to put IM, Alarm clock apps and other apps that you rely heavily on for it to be running in background.
Note 3: You can send the pending app to hibernation immediately by tapping the app in list and tapping the pause icon.
Suggested list of apps that to be hibernated:
1. Facebook (take that FB!)
2. Google Maps (install as user app)
3. Any other rouge app which you wish to keep but keeps on popping up as background process. You tell me.
Weirdly I could think of only two apps! So share your list here. Thanks.
So this is really a very useful app which I feel would increase the milage of the device in long run. Kudos to the developer!
Play store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oasisfeng.greenify
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Great APP. Thank you.

I often wondered what it took to be a recognized contributor.
Now I know. You have to spam an irrelevant forum with an advert for an app.

oinkylicious said:
I often wondered what it took to be a recognized contributor.
Now I know. You have to spam an irrelevant forum with an advert for an app.
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I in no way advertising this app. I found the app to be useful and worth sharing it. And I did not develop this app, nor did anyone pay me to advertise it.
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oinkylicious said:
I often wondered what it took to be a recognized contributor.
Now I know. You have to spam an irrelevant forum with an advert for an app.
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We got a bad ass over here. Perhaps this is the wrong forum but the app is damn useful.
I has a sig

Thanks for sharing with us all. :good:

I tested it, and it works well.
Maybe excepted for Google Maps which keep coming in running apps even if put in the 'hibernated' list.
But that's a great app, I'll give it a try the next couple of days.

i know you said this app works better than freezing/unfreezing via TiBu but how is it better? This apps sounds like its the same thing. Just curious...

nyydynasty said:
i know you said this app works better than freezing/unfreezing via TiBu but how is it better? This apps sounds like its the same thing. Just curious...
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The OP said that it automatically do so (freeze/unfreeze) which makes it unique. In TB you always have to do this manually whenever you plan to use an app after freezing it.
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If i greenify, no more push notifications right? Would be nice for Facebook, i could get rid of them if i could just use the app without it eating all my battery
EDIT: How about keyboards?

nyydynasty said:
i know you said this app works better than freezing/unfreezing via TiBu but how is it better? This apps sounds like its the same thing. Just curious...
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Testing this, I'm fed up freezing apps then un freezing them when I need them. Play store doesn't show updates for frozen apps. Could be promising as apps are hibernated and run only when you need them. Best of all worlds of it works.
Pressing more exits the app at the moment
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So far, i hibernated whatsapp, facebook and twitter. I don't care about push notifications, but this works real nice! They are not running (background, cache, anywhere) so it gives me more RAM (specially you, facebook) and i can open em with no problems, no errors or nothing. Great app!

How's your increase in battery life?
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gsw5700 said:
Testing this, I'm fed up freezing apps then un freezing them when I need them. Play store doesn't show updates for frozen apps. Could be promising as apps are hibernated and run only when you need them. Best of all worlds of it works.
Pressing more exits the app at the moment
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Pressing more exit the app so you can choose whichever app you wanna hibernate. You can see in the notification
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Initial impression is that this is very promising, can't wait to test further.

AW: [App] Greenify *Root*
I'm using the ViperS rom on a HTC Sensation and greenify doesn't ask for root so I can't hibernate maps. I get a error message there.
ViperS uses a special superuser app, how can make it work?

Sprint82 said:
I'm using the ViperS rom on a HTC Sensation and greenify doesn't ask for root so I can't hibernate maps. I get a error message there.
ViperS uses a special superuser app, how can make it work?
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You can try installing SuperSU app from market.. Then give SuprerSU su permission with special superuser app. From this point on you SuperSU app will be used to grant su permission. Greenify will support SuperSU.
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Loving it! Don't have to defrost the app every time I want to use it, but can still stop it from running when not using it.
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Hi dev. Please, could you add a option to ignore the fact that some apps are system ones? Sony has some apps that are media related, and even Facebook, that comes with software, that ate safe to hibernation.
Cheers.
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Felimenta97 said:
Hi dev. Please, could you add a option to ignore the fact that some apps are system ones? Sony has some apps that are media related, and even Facebook, that comes with software, that ate safe to hibernation.
Cheers.
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Dev won't be following this thread AFAIK. You can contact him at [email protected]
About hibernating system apps, since you are already rooted you can convert few apps like Facebook and other Sony apps which are media related to user apps with help of a titanium backup. This will enable you in hibernating them.
Take due care when converting Sony apps to user apps though.
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