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[UPDATE][App Chat]Guide to useful Apps for SGS4G 6-24-11

UPDATE!
I found this in another thread. Thanks to Director_mr for posting this. Download Links
Essential apps for android
Andftp – A usefull FTP browser and file browser.
Andie Graph – A TI calculator emulator. You need the TI rom’s to use it.
Antennas – Find where the cell towers are in your area. Kind of cool.
AppSaver - Easy install apps from your SDcard, Quick save apps to SDCard, Quick uninstall apps you dislike.
ASTRO file manager – The file browser that did not come with your phone.
Battery Monitor Widget - monitors Battery Use in every possible way you can imagine and more.
ASTRO Bluetooth add on – share files via Bluetooth.
Audiogalaxy - Superb music streaming app. Install the server software on your PC or NAS and have all of YOUR music all the time. AG > Google Music for me, don't want to know what Google would charge me to host my 320g in the 'cloud'.
AudioManager/AudioManager Pro - Customizable audio control app. Set different levels for everything - ringtones, media, alerts, etc... then save profiles. Makes switching them up super simple with shortcuts on the home screen.
Barcode Scanner – Check if the prices are good at the store.
BASSWAR – check if your bass is in tune. Just a tone generator.
Blade Buddy - Blade Buddy Free (Ad-supported version) allows you go edit various system settings on your Android Device. Some functions don’t work if you haven’t rooted your phone.
Box.net - online storage (up to 5 gb free)
CamScanner – turn your phone camera into a scanner. Generates .pdf’s.
Craigslist Notification - Get notifications when stuff is posted to craigslist.
CSipSimple - High quality OpenSource SIP OpenSource (GPL) project for SIP on Android.
Car Home - The stock android car home - A car mode for your phone, makes it easier to use as you drive. Make sure you also download Car Mode Control. More details HTC Car Panel HERE (thanks GorillaPimp) Download HERE also
Car Mode Control - On HTC Sensation, you need this to launch Car Home.
ConvertMe - Utility for converting over 100 various units of measurement (distance, area, volume, mass, temperature, and many others)
CrossConnect Bible – Free open-source Android Bible. Many different versions.
Dropbox - Dropbox lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere.
DI.Radio - Digitally Imported streams the world’s most addictive electronic music. If you like digital music, this is the app for you.
Dice Player - Hardware Accelerated Media Player
Double Twist - Itunes for Android.
ES File Explorer - An alternative to andftp. File copier/explorer, windows/samba networking support
Extended Controls – Great way to have a widget that controls and toggles many settings (wifi on/off, vibrate/sound/silent, gps on/off, etc.) Too many options to list, great tool!
Facebook for Android - Facebook on your phone, I like it better than the widgets, but that is just me.
Firefox - If you just have to have a different browser from Opera
Fring - Group video calls and chat.
Gas Buddy – I like finding cheap gas. This helps.
Gmote 2.0 - Control your computer's media player from your phone.
Google Books – read over 3 million books on your phone. Some of them free.
Google Docs - You need to be online to do it, but you can edit office docs with Google Docs, and it is free.
Google Earth - Google Earth for you phone
Google Goggles – Use pictures to search the web.
Google Listen - Podcasts. Great settings to download new ones only while on WiFi and charging.
Google Sky Map - Point your phone at the sky, and Google Sky Map will show the stars, planets, constellations, and more to help you identify the celestial objects in view.
Grapher - Plot functions and trace their graphs with ease! This is a simple graphing calculator with graphing capabilities similar to TI-83 or TI-89 calculators.
GSpeedo – GPS speedometer. Tracks speed and distance travelled, also G-forces.
Gstrings - a chromatic tuner app for android phones.
Guitar Scales – a list of guitar scales.
Juice Defender Beta - Battery Saving Utility. Some find it useful.
KakaoTalk - Enjoy free group or one-to-one chats anywhere in the world. (both iPhone and Android)
Lookout - Lookout offers top rated Android security to stop malware, spyware, data loss and device loss.
Netflix - Reported to work with HTC Sensation. Another Link Here
Network Info II - All the network information you'll need. WiFi/Bluetooth/Cell/IPv6
Opera Mobile Web Browser - Great Web Browser.
Overlook Fing - the ultimate tool for network management: network
discovery, service scan (TCP port scan), ping, traceroute, DNS lookup.
Pandora – Internet radio station. Listen to your favorite music.
Photoshop Express - Edit and share photos virtually anywhere. Touch to crop, rotate, adjust color, and add artistic effects.
Picasa Tool - Picasa Tool Pro helps you to manage your Picasa web albums with simple yet powerful user interface designed specifically for Android powered smartphone.
Plex for Android - Plex for Android allows you to browse and play your video, photos, and music right on your Android device, streamed from Plex Media Server on your Mac or your PC
Polaris Office – Open, read, and edit Microsoft word, excel and powerpoint (No Android Market link anymore. Not sure why)
Quick Office – Open, read and edit Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint and .Pdf’s
QuickPic - Smaller! Faster! Clearer! The best picture viewer/browser/gallery!
RealCalc – Scientific Calculator. More powerful than the standard one.
RingDroid – Make and edit ringtones
Ringtone Maker – Make and edit ringtones
Robotic Guitarist – play the guitar on your phone
Run Keeper - Track your fitness activities (time, distance, etc.)
ShopSavvy – Barcode reader, price comparison app
Simi Folder - a Folder Widget with a horizontal/vertical scrollable Launcher.
Skyfire – browser that does flash
Skype – Skype for your phone
Slacker – Free Internet radio stations. Listen to your favorite style of music
Smartbar - Manage Apps/Tasks. Batch Install/Uninstall/Backup apps. Customize things.
SMS Popup - Quickly read and reply to SMS messages from a convenient popup window. SMS Popup provides a convenient popup dialog when a message is received that allows you to quickly read and reply to messages. It also provides in-depth customization of message notifications including contact specific sound, vibrate and LED settings.
SnowStorm – For some, htc’s sense weather app is not enough. For those people there is Snowstorm.
Spare Parts - allows you to enable some settings that are not found in the default setting menu
Speech Synthesis Data Installer - Installs the data files needed by the Android TTS for synthesizing in the following languages: English (US), English (UK), French, German, Italian, Spanish. (Need it for voice in Navigation)
Speed Test - speedtest.net for your phone. See how fast your data connection is.
StreamFurious - Simple streaming audio for your Android, browser link support. Free with no ads. Plays shoutcast/icecast mp3 streams.
Swiftkey X Beta – A nice replacement AI keyboard for you sensation. Not compatible with some hardware keyboards (works on HTC Sensation)
Swipe Beta - Swipe keyboard beta.
Talk to me Cloud – voice input translator. Capable of speaking the translation. Useful and fun!
Tap Tap App - Lock and unlock the screen with a double tap the proximity sensor. Also a widget that locks your phone with one click.
Taptu – Clever social news feed reader. Get the latest on your interests in one place.
Team Viewer - Remotely control your computer from your phone.
Tricorder – Mostly just fun. See what your sensors register on your phone. Supposed to be a star trek tricorder.
TuneIn Radio - Browse and listen to radio -- live, local and global. Listen live to your favorite radio stations, DJs and programs and find new ones on local, global and Internet radio.
Voice Dialer - although you can dial on your phone with voice search, if you want an explicit voice dialer it is here in this thread.
Widgetlocker - Powerful lockscreen customizing app. A lock screen replacement that puts you in control of the look, feel and layout of your lock screen.
Wifi Analyzer – see what wifi’s are around you, the strength of their signal, and what channel they are on, all in a great graphics interface. I love it!
Wifi Manager – Control your wifi access, and switch between networks easily
WordPress - Write new posts, edit content, and manage comments on your WordPress blog.
Zedge - Personalize your Android phone with the #1 wallpaper & ringtone app. Millions of free, unique and rare ringtones, notification sounds & wallpapers.

The imposible game its a lot of fun and addicting simple but fun (pay), Speed 3dx ( also a fun game and free), words with friends. If you like manga and anime: manga what (free), crunchyroll (somewhat free). To enjoy tv series: tv now (pay). Tools: Go sms pro, go launcher ex, both free and good I dont know if the best but at least im happy with it.
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Drag racing is like crack
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Games games and more games I'm talking Nintendo 64,psx4droid,and gameloft,snes,nes. I mean hell all I'm missing is PSP on android.hopefully it will be soon. Oh yea and love mp3 download u can find that in the market
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thats awesome, downloading now. anyone use any apps to monitor startup apps?
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fknfocused said:
thats awesome, downloading now. anyone use any apps to monitor startup apps?
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I just wait about ten minutes and let the phone situate itself then go into app manager and close down anything I won't be using for awhile and jump on a game or the internet also XDA app. I use the internet more than calls or messages.
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I had autostarts, but just uninstalled. I found an app called android assistant which looks pretty good. does quite a bit
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What would you recommended for taking screenshot I'm using shootme for now but if anyone knows of a better 1 let me know please.
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GDofWR420 said:
What would you recommended for taking screenshot I'm using shootme for now but if anyone knows of a better 1 let me know please.
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drocap is the most popular one. has the sshake to trigger option

Success100 said:
drocap is the most popular one. has the sshake to trigger option
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Thanks. Ill give it a go.
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Success100 said:
drocap is the most popular one. has the sshake to trigger option
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I had screenshot it, but now im checking out drocap2. lets see how that is.

ttpod for my music, Tunee to download tunage, voodoo control plus to enhance the tunage, tubemate for more tunahe, vimeo, and megaviewer pro.

App kiler is completly useless btw we have taskmangaer and a level 2 memory clear does the task better
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rickyy00 said:
App kiler is completly useless btw we have taskmangaer and a level 2 memory clear does the task better
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I use process monitor, works pretty good. Heres another app I just ran into, Elixir. Its kind of like power control plus but has more options for battery current, wifi signal strength, carrier signal strength, cpu, ram, and much more. check it out, its pretty cool.

I had drag racing it was fun but had to.deleted didnt run very smooth always lagging and stuff how is it running for you?
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yah, its lagging. not all the time but sometimes
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Yeah with every update I hope it doesn't lag.. it seems to be a galaxy only problem.. a friend has a Mytouch slide and it runs smooth. Tho I now have a Subaru finally
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Even though I use emulators (gba & psone), I am currently enjoying three simple android games that are a great way to kill time:
Yoo ninja;
Ninjump &
Irunner.
Like I said, they are simple, yet they do get challenging.
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Whitehawks deodexed kd1 & tw4
Drhonk's Bali kernel v1.1
Krylons CMW3 b3
Fknfosued' status bar mod
& robbbit's boot animations.
Thanks to all of you!

Have anybody tried the jenga game is it worth it? Btw just download it Majesty its a fun games they have a free version which is the one I have. Now I think the free version is not the complete game but its still fun.
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Hey guys, you mind telling me how drocap works? All I'm seeing is numbers flashing thru one by one. No clue how to take a snap shot. Thanks guys
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Best 3 apps you have

Wanted to start a thread where everyone could list 3 of their most useful apps with a quick description, idea is that there may be some great software out there that others are missing out on. I certainly would like to find more ways of making my device more useful or efficient.
Ill start off:
LLAMA - detects you location via cell towers and can toggle things like wifi bluetooth or sound profiles
CUBED or ³ - music player, but has a very cool and easy to use interface
UNLOCK WITH WIFI - when connected to your wifi you dont need to input the security pattern (handy at home)

Smart Taskbar Pro- Adds a little half circle (or square) to the edge of your screen which makes your apps accessible from anywhere. Even had a favorites list. Extremely convenient.
Widget Locker-A lockscreen replacement. Its customizable. And convenient for me because the sensation doesn't have a trackpad so now I can use my volume buttons to wake the phone and then the back key to unlock. Really a great program and you can still have pin code lock protection.
Launch Key-allows you to set the " hold search key option"to any app, shortcut, or system function.
I like apps that reduce multitasking time and these apps really do it for me.

Best 3 Apps
Spare parts - resizes the apps that don't seem to fit the full size of the screen, as well as other things.
Crackle - Legally stream movies and television for free.
Skyfire - The best web browser in my opinion.

Smart app protector- allows you to lock any app with a password
Awesome drop- easy to use wireless file transfer between computer and phone
Lightwell live wallpaper- wallpaper that displays the battery, time and date and more so you dont have to clog up homescreens with widgets
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Tasker - a lot more powerfull than LLAMA, but also not so user friendly
PowerAMP - music player (plays losless using cue sheets)
Dice Player - absolutely the best video player for Sensation

could you post links to said apps?

1: Pandora- Internet radio.
2: Netflix- I'm a huge movie buff.
3: Modern Combat 2: Black Pegasus- Great online fps game.

Where can you download that crackle app for streaming movies and tv? I couldn't find it on the marketplace.
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dosplunder said:
Where can you download that crackle app for streaming movies and tv? I couldn't find it on the marketplace.
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http://tinyurl.com/6cjy92w

xnifex said:
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Most of them you will find here:
Guide to usefull apps
If not, post them in the thread and I will add them later.

doplhin browser
spare parts
angry birds <3

Xda premium
Skype
Angry birds lol
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Launcher Pro (not really an app but cant live without it)
Dolphin HD (The only browser I use, not the smoothest but love the tabs)
Simi Folders/Simi Clock (love the look and super useful)
im gonna have a 4 because Launcher pro almost doesnt count.
Vignette, my fav cam app.

Tapatalk
Power Amp
Dolphin Browser Hd and Beautiful Widgets. (Tie)
Its a tie. Also. I am not sure if you consider Launcher Pro and Smart Keyboard Pro because I see them as tools and necessary lol.
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How could I have forgotten NewsRob. Use it everyday on the train.
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1. PowerAmp
2. Apparatus
3. Tricorder

1. Astro File Manager
2. Newsroom
3. PowerAmp

-Quick System Info Pro
-Es Explorer
-Battery Solo Widget pro

1.Twicca (twitter application)
2. Phandroid (android news)
3. 3g watchdog (let my says how many 3g I use)
All apps are free in android market
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1. FaceBook
2. YouTube
3. ADW Launcher EX

Music (through browser) while sleeping?

Are there any mods or apps that allow you to select which programs you would like to run in the background?
I like using dolphin hd browser to listen to music through different websites but when my phone goes to sleep it cuts them off from playing.
any ideas?
thanks
chris

are you sure the website doesn't have an app?
sorry about the not so good reply.

clk5068 said:
Are there any mods or apps that allow you to select which programs you would like to run in the background?
I like using dolphin hd browser to listen to music through different websites but when my phone goes to sleep it cuts them off from playing.
any ideas?
thanks
chris
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Use Miren Browser

Doesn't juice defender have some settings like that? May give it a try.
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First. This thread needs to be in general.
2nd. It makes more sense to use the android app associated with the website for streaming media. There are multiple apps that support shoutcast. There is the digitally imported app for streaming techno and trance. There is also slacker and Pandora. All of these Apps will stream audio while phone is in sleep mode.
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Folder based music player?

Hi guys,
I´m looking for a folder based music player. What I´d really like is something that would allow you to long press over a music folder and click "play"...something like that.
I was using Mortplayer but I got fed up with it.

Vanilla Music?

The best one I've used so far is FOLDER PLAYER by peter shashkin quite straight forward and really easy to use. I use it on my dx100 music player and its awesome
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Ubermusic seems to do the trick for me. Might be a fair bit old since the last update but is pretty stable compared to other players. Also uses the WP7/Metro theme look too.

PlayerPro can do this, but it isn't free (it's $5). If you long-press a folder you can get Play, Enqueue, Shuffle, Add to Playlist, etc., etc.
I don't use the folder feature (I prefer to use the metadata sort, usually by artist/band), but I have used it. It works good.

Best folder players
Poweramp .. not free but above all others
Mixzing .. has free and premium .. give free version a shot .. has lyric support too
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I fully suggest poweramp. Especially if your device supports DVC
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cooleslt apps you've discovered on this forum that aren't too popular

i've found a few...share them people
sendit- using google drive send a file to any phone/os in an sms
tasker- do it all through voice

Also give link with the app names
Thanks
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bump

OStream:Speed up your facebook.. Its awesome still in beta phase bt i love it!!
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touchretouch- edit photos after taken
pro hdr camera-excellent hdr camera
quick pic- excellent picture, thumnail, precaching of photos and videos. Excellent internal player too
photaf- 360 panoramic
powernzb-nzb downloader
bbc arabic

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People, I think the point of this was to post "Non- Play Store" apps, as in ones only found on forums on XDA.
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I think that the name and target of the thread is not clear enough.
It mentioned specifically "aren't too popular". So... wtf is 'What's up' doing with that?! And most of the rest.
Please only put apps that you found, use and not seen in the first pages on the forum. Do not make this a list with your apps... please!

okty2k said:
I think that the name and target of the thread is not clear enough.
It mentioned specifically "aren't too popular". So... wtf is 'What's up' doing with that?! And most of the rest.
Please only put apps that you found, use and not seen in the first pages on the forum. Do not make this a list with your apps... please!
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People, I think the point of this was to post "Non- Play Store" apps, as in ones only found on forums on XDA.
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The OP listed tasker as an app. Its on the play store. People can post whatever cool apps they use. If you don't like it, start your own thread.
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Streamlne said:
The OP listed tasker as an app. Its on the play store. People can post whatever cool apps they use. If you don't like it, start your own thread.
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This. And I mean seriously, how long until these apps hit market? It's the most available platform. A cool app is a cool app on xda or store

But we already have tons of "what's your favorite app" threads. It would be interesting to discover new sous that aren't already on the okay store. But it's whatever. Do as you please everyone.
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"coolest apps you've discovered on this forum that aren't too popular"
Maluuba
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.maluuba.android&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5tYWx1dWJhLmFuZHJvaWQiXQ..

ES file explorer: Holo Theme
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=32439406
And dSploit, but that one is pretty popular, i guess
Greetz
// j_dee
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New rule you have to put a short description for each app you mention
Aptoide uploader is really nifty. You make yout own private app store for your friends. I liked it over a competitor appsfire.
Appsaffinity- goof apps discovery app
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Xperia Launcher + Widgets, modded to work on all devices...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34823516
YouTube with screen-off playback and HD via 3G
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23243273
Greet
// j_dee
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Nice j dee! I hate it when my youtube shuts off in the gym. Can't leave the screen on and put it back in my pocket
Come on peeps keep em coming. I like the list so far. It's small and precise not large and burgeoning. Let's go over something very relevant: STREAMING from your HD
Jbeans 4.2 Camera- Full Screen Camera (compared to 4.1.2) and gallery you could flash for your 4.1.2 phone
Mediahouse Player- An organized app that collects all the shared music videos off of shared directories on your computer use in conjunction with. Allows you to favorite directories/devices. Really neat app
mx player- easy ui can easily disable/enable hardware software encoding for audio and video during play
v player- like mxplayer, could be better with UI, but unlike MX player allows you to set buffer to a whopping 8mb...so longer initial load for video but plays back perfectly otherwise
ES file explorer- save network drives
I usually make the default player for ES v player and for media house mx player. Good setup. Mx Player allows you to manage defaults for video players in-app too. Another neat feature. Well worth the money for that app.
From the computer end there are a lot of options to stream (I made a post about this a while back...search on me) but I like PS3 Media server 1.70.1 for my PS3. It allows for real-time transcoding for devices where your video format (ie mkv) isn't available. I also install TVersity server on my computer end and both servers as well as the raw files allow me to wirelessly stream every tv show except for planet earth which has a ridiculous bitrate.
Only other thing to worry about on the computer end is to make sure your sharing settings etc are set up as openly as possible. I have a homegroup password and everyone in it is allowed to at least read my directories

Hey zetsui,
sure, I love my HOX and GNEX phones (by now even more than my PC) and why not participate in sharing cool underdog apps?
Is that Mediahouse player the one you can download from the Play Store? Sounds pretty usable to me
Greet
// j_dee
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Yes you can dl it from playstore it is thr upnp dlna browser.
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Mi sound recorder
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28295194
Way better than stock audio recorder. Can record as mp3 at 128kbit/s, good enough for me. Of course, you can increase it. Can record as ogg too.
Solid explorer
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.solidexplorer
Might be popular, but worth a mention anyway. Fast, free, full of useful features, no ads... Did I mention the slick ui?
Cpu adjuster
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ryosoftware.cputweaks
Like setcpu, but free. You can have 3 profiles in the free version. Ought to be good enough for beginners.
Also worth checking out: servers ultimate.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.icecoldapps.serversultimate
These apps are in xda too, but play store linking is more convenient.

Advanced Touchpad Remote Control
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.arcoid.advancedtouchpad&hl=en
Turns the phone's screen into a multitouch touchpad.
Perfect for Laptops with short HDMI cables.