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[WIN] Galaxy S Black Leather Wallet!

Hey Guys
I got some of these cheap, so im going to be giving one to a random member of the community. But then that would be just TOO easy giving it away. So, i'm asking you to post your favourite modification or application for Froyo 2.2 JPH firmware.
Post An:
- Application
- Game
- Theme (For TouchWiz)
- Modification
or anything else you can think of that I would like. This is open to UK members only because I ain't shipping to outside countries that would cost me alot of money to post. Other members can still participate as I will be giving one person £2.00.GBP on PayPal to another member that is not in the UK. Picture of the case below!
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What a VERY nice gesture, well done!!
It makes such a NICE change to read something like this post instead of the normal stuff that goes on.
If Im honest I could never post a favourite ANYTHING!! theres just so much and its all good.
Keep up the good work and once again, well done for doing this.
TrOjAn

Think of it this way, if you had your JPH firmware, and you could only install ONE third party app, mod or things like that, what would you install? And i'm giving one or two of these away because I have learned alot here, made my phone awesome (Just like I did my Nokia 5800), and now giving something back!

Go on then, Ill have a go
So I go and look at my phone, on there are the things I cannot live without like:
Android Manager
Audio Manager
Beautiful Widgets
Dropbox
Handcent SMS
London Tube Live
National Rail
Home Switcher
Screen On
Shazzam
SMS Backup and Restore
Simply Lockscreen
Tweetcaster
WiFi Analyzer
There all the apps I ALWAYS install on any rom I have installed...
Think Beutiful Widgets is the top??
Maybe SMS Backup and Restore 2nd, I like to have my SMS backed up when messing with roms.
There ya go.. if I chnage my mind Ill edit it LOL
TrOjAn

not the most productive suggestion but the only app/game i seem to use on a daily basis is:
Lets Golf from gameloft.
it really is good fun and very addictive - and i also purchased this phone on its gaming potential over anything else.
i also play superheroes alliance daily but thats more of a thing to do when i have 5 mins free (add me jtjih)
also very nice gesture

Home Screen App - Launcher X Pro
Game - Angry Birds

3/4 repilies, leaving it until tomorrow night to decide!

Adam if it helps decide I love you lol.... could swap you a child even choice of 2, both make tea <jk>
TrOjAn

(when it's released) New version of MyPhoneExplorer with Android support.
Imagine Android Manager, but 1000% feature complete with an insane amount of polish.
Now just the waiting game.
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ignore me - should have read it properly

Great games that anyone would enjoy:
Robo Defense
GalaxIR
Unblock Me

Android System Info ?

Recently, I found that the "Android System Info" app below is using Flurry Agent to send data / report via 3G/internet whenever I start using it. At least, it came out in the logging.
Do you know any alternative that does not use Flurry Agent?
I hate that thing because it uses 3G/internet and it cannot be disabled
I know Astrid is using Flurry Agent as well, but it can be disabled.
Android System Info
by ElectricSheep
>250,000 downloads, 15332 ratings (4.5 avg)
Free
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i believe that is for the download of the ADs to sustain their income & development
use Adfree perhpas?

Well, I think that is not ads ... Ads should be the AdMob SDK or something in the logging.
Flurry Agent is about analytic:
http://www.flurry.com/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=673146
To be honest, I don't mind with ads ... Especially if that can support the dev and the app is good.
But, I don't like sending usage pattern, statistical data, usage analysis, that kind of things.
AllGamer said:
i believe that is for the download of the ADs to sustain their income & development
use Adfree perhpas?
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Many devs find analytics to be important information to them.
You could edit your hosts file manually to block any flurry.com urls...

Not rooted, you cant do that.
Good developer will add an option to disable this, like Astrid.
distortedloop said:
Many devs find analytics to be important information to them.
You could edit your hosts file manually to block any flurry.com urls...
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gogol said:
Not rooted, you cant do that.
Good developer will add an option to disable this, like Astrid.
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Your last sentence doesn't quite sit right for some reason, but I agree overall.
Something in the back of my mind tells me there's a revenue stream to the developers who include this. Like flurry pays them a royalty for data collected. That needs confirmation, but while many devs put stuff out for the love of the device, many more need to get some income off the app to stay interested in developing/maintaining it. We all want "free" apps, but we're going to have to get used to either paying up in cash, or paying up in seeing ads, or paying up by having some analytics collected on us.
I don't want my phone spied on either. Best thing you can do is uninstall the apps that spy on you without the feature to turn it off, give the app a 1-star rating on the market, and leave a comment that it collects analytics on you and you don't like that. Kind of lousy thing to do an app that's otherwise top-notch. If enough people uninstall and bad rate these apps, the devs will get the hint and stop doing it.
As for not rooted, there's no reason not to root the Nexus S. There are hundreds of reason to root, though. Blocking ads and spyware is just one of them.
You don't even have to unlock the bootloader to do it, easy instructions here; no loss of data with that method.

[APP][1.6+] Root Validator

Root Validator checks your root setup.
Permissions explained:
WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE - To store&export results
INTERNET & ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE - For ads and crash reports
Google Play
Direct APK download
Screenshots:
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https://github.com/d4rken/rootvalidator
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Bump
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v0.3 is on the market, fixed crash when taking screenshot.

Put v0.5 on the market which now includes checks for Chainfire's SuperSu app and improves detection for cases where root is available, but has been denied.

v0.7 is now available and allows you to upload results to dropbox or mail them and additionally display the su binary version.

v0.8 offers improved information incase of a busybox being available, but path can't be determined

tnx for the app

Oops. Wrong forum

Just uploaded v0.9.
Small improvements and added support for Koush's app.

I completely rewrote the app "Root Validator". It now comes in Material Design and has new tests that are better suited for the current "root situation".
Sadly there now also is an ad banner. The ads are from Google's AdMob. I really don't like adding ads, especially to apps that were previously without ads, but it was either that or unpublish the app.
Direct download:
http://darken.eu/stuff/
You can create the following file and the ads will be gone:
"/sdcard/Android/data/eu.thedarken.rootvalidator/files/no_ads"
I'm contemplating to upload the whole thing to github. There really are no secret here and it's a nice small project that shows both material design and root use.

Dark3n said:
...especially to apps that were previously without ads, but it was either that or unpublish the app.

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Thanks for the update.
But of course I have issue with a 100k-ish app become megabytes monster because of ridiculous ads sdk inclusion. Particularly this one, which I don't actually use but recommended to hundreds of people because its just slightly larger than a simple shell script for the same task. I despise the other 99.9% similar apps, because of their size, or ads. So I hate to 'unpublish' this one from recommendations too.
Of course its your code and I respect your decision but you're welcome to reverse this (I call it ill-fated) decision. And sorry if this displeased you, I don't mean to hurt a good dev's feelings, but I need to say this so thats it.

I totally get that and expected feedback like this.
The apk size grew mostly because of Material Design (support down to GB), not only the Ads SDK.
RV needed an update to stay up to date with Android 5.0+ and without motiviation/fun, it was at that point just exhausting (complaints/mails). So either I make it somehow interesting for me or unpublish it. Money is always a motivating factor so ads provided that, additionally i got the chance to redesign an existing simple app in Material Design which was also fun.
I still intend to offer the most straight forward solution in contrast to other apps and add more checks in the future (next up: --context switching availability).
I will however not revert the design to save space. Possibly the ads at some point, depending on how much it actually brings in. Currently it's enough to buy a nice coffee every day, if it stays that way, I'm gonna enjoy my coffee .
What is more likely is that in a month or so i will publish the source code on github (i tend to enjoy that lately) and people can build their own minimalistic fork. If you raise the minimum API level to 21 (no need for support libs) you could probably keep the design and still have it below 300KB or less.
For older devices the previous RV version is probably fine. I have attached the previous to this post, feel free to share it.

The sourcecode is now available on GitHub: https://github.com/d4rken/rootvalidator

[APP][2.1+] Cooling fan - Pocket Fan killer!

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We made this app to be THE Pocket Fan killer. Both of these apps are simple one-screeners with rotating propeller, but our is simply that much better.
Here's an extract from our app description:
This application creates a high-quality sound that operates on certain frequences providing you an effect of an actual chilly air coming from your speakers!
Two speeds: normal and fast
Also works great if you have troubles with sleeping! Let your screen go into sleep mode and have a comfortable noise coming out from the fan to make falling asleep process easier!
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Don't wait anymore. Grab your own cooling fan today!
Cooling fan in Google Play
And our profile link.

It looks kind of interesting I think I will review it on my blog in the category of funny android apps.

Just wrote a short review about it, you can find it right here.

Instant remove after your notification ads.

interesting idea...

Ads are ads and they are very important if you plan to release few apps in order to actually get some $ from it. It's simple as that and if there was a better solution, we'd take it. With that being said, I believe that free apps even with ads are better than pay-only apps that you rather see on iOS market.
Thanks guys!
@sharonlewis Cool. Appreciate it!

*snort* Right. So, push advertisements and probably even some nice malware, mh?

I think Leadbolt is a quite legit service and nobody has ever accused our apps of malware. Unless real proofs are there, no actions shall be taken except a smile when I read your message. If someone really has such a problem with push ads [damn, that one notification a day] there's an adblock available.

Ads are OK, but in the notification bar is not cool. That's involuntary, and that's a problem for the users.
I'm a dev myself, so not meaning to be rude .
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werg said:
I think Leadbolt is a quite legit service and nobody has ever accused our apps of malware. Unless real proofs are there, no actions shall be taken except a smile when I read your message. If someone really has such a problem with push ads [damn, that one notification a day] there's an adblock available.
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So your telling me the app access my call log and GPS location for "harmless reasons"?
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Quote from Leadbolt site:
Security & storage
We take reasonable steps to protect all information which we hold from misuse, loss, from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. All personal information is kept on a secure server and protected by firewall security systems to keep information secure and safe on our servers. Where we store information, we shall only store the information for as long as necessary in order to provide our services to you
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sharonlewis said:
Just wrote a short review about it, you can find it right here.
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Might want to review a spell check app sometime soon.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

bassie1995 said:
Ads are OK, but in the notification bar is not cool. That's involuntary, and that's a problem for the users.
I'm a dev myself, so not meaning to be rude .
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But they provide the best income,
right?

Looking for apps that use notification bar ads and your horrible experiences w/ them

I'm a developer who distributes free and paid apps on the Play Store, and have recently been seeing accusations that my apps use notification bar advertising.
MY APPS DO NOT USE THIS TRASH AND NEVER WILL.
I actually have avoided advertising altogether, (I'm using the free-lite-version/paid-full-version model).
I want to put some apps on a test phone that actually do use notification bar ads to determine if this is simply random chance or if perhaps these apps are doing more nefarious things like waiting for other APKs to be installed before pushing ads, or waiting until other app-processes are in the foreground before pushing ads. This may be difficult as I believe the push rate is fairly infrequent.
My wild guess is that these apps aren't that evasive, though their design is still to disassociate the advertising from the app that is its source. I imagine they simply delay a week or more before firing the first ad, and probably only do so if the device is asleep.
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Edit: if you do know of any apps that do this, please post links here (on the Play Store or off). I have no idea what apps actually do this, and so far haven't run into any myself.

Thanks for your dedication. I will follow this thread and try to spread the word.

On my Samsung I long press the notification and i can see the app info of the app that actually sent the notification, maybe you can use this to know which apps are messing with yours
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nanogi said:
On my Samsung I long press the notification and i can see the app info of the app that actually sent the notification, maybe you can use this to know which apps are messing with yours
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Thanks, but I actually don't have any such apps on my devices at this time...this is all coming from user reviews, so I don't actually know which other apps they have installed that might be firing the push ads.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/mjva1/list_of_known_airpush_enabled_infested_apps/)
BTW, I personally have a Tasker profile I enable/disable on need. It just logs all notifications with the notification's title and app, allowing me to detect airpush apps.
EDI: I remember some game kept sending chinese ads to my notification bar, and if I remember correctly, I had it for quite some time before it started doing so.. and it only started doing so after I installed another app. I'm not entirely certain about it as it happened a few months back, but now that you mention it, it might have been the same scenario.