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App Recommendations: What do you like on your phone? + Games too.

(added october 7th, 2011)
This thread is filling with some great app and also a bunch of game recommendations.
When / if / as I have the time to do so i'll start moving things back up to this first posting. I'll maybe get some here and there, or a chunk at one shot, or whatever.
Meantime, or as usual, browse through the thread and find hidden treasure in all the replies
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So what do you all like to run on your phone?
I'll kickstart it off with some things I use, tell me what you like so I can see what i'm missing!
-File Expert - Free - Geek Software Technology Inc.
-Dual File Manager XT - Free - Medieval Software
-Root Explorer - Paid - Speed Software
File expert I keep for the FTP/web server capabilities. I use it or Root explorer back and forth. I like Root explorer better, I couldn't edit the keylayout file with File Expert. Dual file manager makes it so easy to copy things around I keep using it - call me lazy on that one but it works well.
-Android Terminal Emulator - Free - Jack Palevich
-Absolute System (Root Tools) - Paid - canvs2321
Fantastic suite of tools for use after root.
-Android Music - Free - JRTStudio
I love it more then other music players, call me old fashioned but i'm just used to this one. Simple, easy, no extra BS to worry about.
-Mobo Player - Free - Mobo Team
Simple, easy to use, and supports .avi files amongst others. My favorite video player.
-Realcalc -Free/Paid - Quartic Software
Superior calculator. I use the donate version - the doubleshot stock calculator is garbage, I was not very happy with it. I'd already been using this one before getting the doubleshot, so swapped it right in.
-ezPDF Reader - Paid - Unidocs Inc.
-Scan to PDF - Paid - Nym Computing
-Open Signal Maps - Free - Staircase 3, Inc.
This one shows me all the cell towers I connect to, and maps them out for me. Other handy stuff in it, it works well and I use it all the time.
-XDA Premium - you should probably have this by now if you're reading this here.
What are you all playing with?

I'll add to this list:
SweetHome Image Upload - kinda like Google+ Instant Upload for pictures, except it uploads to my local PC instead of into the Google+ cloud, as soon as I connect to my home network.
Tasker - great app to automate almost anything
RemoteLauncher - Allows you to launch programs on your PC remotely from your phone, I use this in combination with Tasker to automate things, ie. when I'm connected to my home network, I trigger the Windows Start Menu, so that my monitor will wake up from sleep mode. This way, I don't have to move the mouse or start typing on my keyboard to get my monitor to wake up (yes, I know, I'm lazy).
XBMC Remote - if you aren't already using XBMC (www.xbmc.org) to play/browse your media, stop reading this, download it now, and thank me later! XBMC is the slickest media centre software I've seen, and the official remote app for Android is pretty nice too.

If you came to this thread from the bloat removal thread, then here are my suggestions: (some from my first post above, again, but with links this time. I'm tired of typing now and don't feel like editing it at the moment.)
1 - Stock Browser = Opera Mobile
2 - Stock Gallery App = Gallery3D - I really like the version of this app found in the Nook Color (encore) version of CM7 (latest stable release)
3 - Stock Notes App = ColorNote
4 - Stock Polaris Office = Documents to Go 3.0 + Paid Unlock ( expensive, I know, but worth it - I do a ton of office stuff for work on this phone, and this app is fantastic. You may want to keep the stock office app. )
5 - Stock Music Player = Android Music
6 - Stock Calculator = Realcalc - not even a question here. Donate is worth it to me, because I do a lot of conversions. Free version is awesome too.
I am pissed about the stock calculator app we get on this device. This is an expensive phone, practically the best piece of hardware money can buy, and our stock calculator doesn't even fit the numbers on the buttons right...really? WTF HTC - bad, bad form. (Alternatively, IF you replace it right, the stock app from the encore version of CM7 is pretty awesome - simple, elegant, fits the screen very nicely.)
Elixer is the only thing you'll need if you're missing any of the widgets you lost in dropping the sense launcher - really. Fantastic app.
and last but not least Digitally Imported is more up my alley as far as radio goes, especially when i'm sitting around on the computer. It's just continuous mellow background noise...but the radio thing is all a matter of personal taste anyways.
So what do the rest of you have to say as far as apps for this thing?

My eyes have been opened to Opera Mobile, now a must have on my phone.
I guess besides that, I don't really have any apps I absolutely need on my phone.
As for the calculator, Algeo is pretty awesome.

New list, see post #33

What about games? I'm on the bus a lot so it would be nice to have something that I can pass the time with.

Homerun Battle...best game ever!

Sweet. Anything else? All I have so far is Robo Defense and Pocket Soccer. I'm not used to having games on my phone hahaha

I just got this game called third blade today.. It's pretty awesome so far.

Frankasaurus said:
I just got this game called third blade today.. It's pretty awesome so far.
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Third blade is pretty sweet. good call

Wow been missing out on Opera Mobile!

How does Opera Mobile compare to Dolphin HD?

Games?
If you like tower defense...
In the pre-selected path way of playing:
Sentinel 3 just came out on Android. The sentinel 1 & 2 games on my iPod Touch were simply amazing, and were the one thing I missed the most when it broke.
Now that the game dev. ported it to Android, and brought a whole new version, there's really no other tower defense game that can top it. Our device really makes it shine, because of the TV out. If you play this game through your device on a TV, you will be blown away.
I've been playing it for a few days now, and it's freakin' amazing. Everything I missed and so much more.
Also, GRave Defense HD is a great tower defense game. It was the best one of this type on the market until Sentinel was ported. ( In my opinion...)
In the open-field type of play:
Robo Defense as mentioned above is pretty good, and Fieldrunners HD isn't bad either.
Still think Sentinel is the cream of the crop, though.
For games, generally:
Samurai 2 is absolutely fantastic, and has been updated to work with the sensation, which is basically our phone. Great game, plays well on the phone, looks and plays like a console game when hooked up to the TV off the phone.
I've had people call me a liar to my face that the game was playing on the TV through my phone, even though they were watching me do it - it's that good.
Guerrilla Bob is a pretty fun game, and a good one to waste time on. It's well made and good fun, also on a half off sale right now so probably a good time to pick it up.
The two games by Mika Mobile are good too:
Zombieville USA is a side-scroller where you just shoot up a whole bunch of zombies. If you liked Guerrilla Bob, then you'll like this one too.
Battleheart is a pretty nicely done RPG type game, take a look at it if this kind of game is fun for you.
Also, some old favorites:
Jet Car Stunts is an old favorite, i'm sure everyone knows what this is by now...if not click the link and come out of your cave! lol...
Minisquadronand Minisquadron Special Edition are two old favorites of mine as well. Side-scrolling plane combat, with lots of planes to unlock and play with.
That should be a couple to get you started with, there are some others I play that I haven't listed yet - fighting for time on-line right now with all the stuff I have to get done off-line. I'll post up more when I get a chance.

try Pocket Legends, pretty rad

Blue6IX said:
Games?
Sentinel 3 just came out on Android. The sentinel 1 & 2 games on my iPod Touch were simply amazing, and were the one thing I missed the most when it broke.
Now that the game dev. ported it to Android, and brought a whole new version, there's really no other tower defense game that can top it. Our device really makes it shine, because of the TV out. If you play this game through your device on a TV, you will be blown away.
I've been playing it for a few days now, and it's freakin' amazing. Everything I missed and so much more.
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I can only find this as a pay game, is there a trial or am I not finding it?

zygut said:
I can only find this as a pay game, is there a trial or am I not finding it?
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Not sure, honestly never looked. If you can't find it it probably doesn't exist.
Edit: http://www.origin8.com/android/sentinel3/ Here's the developers website about the game, might help you in deciding if you want it or not.
I knew the developers previous games - part 1 and 2 were my hands-down favorite games way back when on my iPod touch. I really, really wanted this game ported to android, and as soon as I saw it I just purchased it. Didn't read any reviews, or anything - just click, buy, play.
Game play is awesome, the difficulty levels are scaled right, and you get to choose from a whole mess of weapons to play with, shipboard weapons that can be used from an orbiting spacecraft (that's the limit of your interaction with it)...and a commander 'mech that you can move to specific points in the battlefield to help your cause.
'Mech can be upgraded between levels as the game progresses, and it has both campaign and 'endless' modes for each map.
Weapons can be upgraded to a few different levels in each combat scenario, and as you unlock things progressing through the campaign mode you really get some firepower to play with.
Very visually appealing game, and i've been playing it in any spare few minutes I can whip out my phone and go at it. Haven't had any force closes, discovered any bugs, or anything. Very well done.
Oh, and if you hit the home key or just exit the game, it saves right where you were when you left the app. Next time you run the game you can pick up right where you left off - perfect. You can just quit the game and do something else with your phone immediately or put it away and not lose any progress.
Remember, though, that this is a pre-path type tower defense game. That means the waves of enemies can only travel over specific areas of the map. Something like Fieldrunners or RoboDefense is a different type of game, where the whole map is a potential path for the enemies.
If you like tower defense games, and thought GRave Defense was a decent game, you'll be blown away by how awesome this one is. Grave Defense is the same type of pre-path tower defense game, so it's a good one to look at to kind of get a feel for what Sentinel is like.
If you were gonna burn $2 in the android market somewhere, and you like tower defense games, this is a good place to do it. You may end up hating the game, and if so i'm sorry. Try the free version of GRave Defense, and if you can get into it, take it to a whole other level with Sentinel.
In case you couldn't tell, this is my favorite android game. Lots of re-play value...especially with the endless modes.
Now if I could only find a port of my second favorite game from apples store, Alive-4-Ever...

+1 on Sentinel3...thanks for the recommendation Blue6IX, I agree with you, this game is by far the best playing and looking tower defense game I've tried..

Robotek is a great game.
Root Explorer is a must have.
Go SMS Pro
Since this is media phone I definitely recommend PicSay. Fun, fun, fun!
Friendcaster is better than the HTC facebook app or the official facebook app. If you spend time on facebook you should look at it.
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_atlien_ said:
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Since this is media phone I definitely recommend PicSay. Fun, fun, fun!
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I second PicSay, i've had a lot of fun with that one.
Toonpaint is fun to play with too - but don't expect it to work on every, or even most, pictures. After you play with it for a little while you'll figure out what pictures will probably convert, and how to take pictures that will convert well.
Toonpaint takes a lot of playing with it to get the results to come out good, so don't get it unless you have a high level of patience.
It's fun though, and if you play with PicSay, Toonpaint goes hand-in-hand to turn life into a comic. Toonpaint to generate the comic frame, and PicSay to put the word/thought bubbles into place.
Pho.to Lab is another fun one to play with, i've had a lot of fun with it and it's about the same ease of use as PicSay.

[GAME] qb - 3d puzzle game

today me and pavethem released qb.
qb is a free 3d puzzle game for android, windows, mac and linux.
market: https://market.android.com/details?id=de.redlion.qb
website (with a pc version): http://bompo.github.com/mgcube
Guide the sphere to the exit. Only a block can stop it once the sphere moves. So use the blocks wisely to reach the exit. But it won't be as easy as that! Portals, switches and even movable blocks will challenge your brain. The game features 24 mind-bending levels along with local highscores and a time attack mode. Create your own levels with the ingame editor. Enjoy the 3d graphics and a soundtrack written by bitbof.
credits: bompo, pavethem
music by bitbof
powered by libgdx

Free? Oh, going to try, thanks.

Thanks I will try it out also.

So, what did you think of the game? Any recommendations for future updates?

Thanks, I really like the game, performs good on my galaxy 3.
Maybe the sphere could be a little faster sometimes.

I actually downloaded this last night without seeing this thread. I liked the game, the only frustrating part was once in a while I'd launch a ball to its death and I'd have to start over from the beginning.
Any reason why you couldn't start from where you last were? Did you guys try that and decide it was too easy?

sfand said:
Maybe the sphere could be a little faster sometimes.
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Could be that the game runs to slow on your phone. The sphere moves slower if you don't reach 30fps (Otherwise it would fly through blocks because our collision detection isn't good :/). Disabling the bloom effect in the options should help to increase the fps.
Bygones said:
Any reason why you couldn't start from where you last were? Did you guys try that and decide it was too easy?
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If you take a wrong path, the level could become impossible to solve. That's why it always starts from the beginning.

Cool, I will try

thanks thanks thanks

Sounds awesome, I'll give it a spin on my PC for a while and will download it on my phone later.

I love it!!

Thanks, rate if you like it!
Is anyone using the level editor?

Looks like a fun game

Anyone interested to get their custom levels included into the next update? If so then we could add a option into the next update to share your custom levels.

If anyone wants to have a look at the source code, the code is available here. It's cowboy coded so don't take it as a starting point if you are a beginner...

Cool game reminds me of the old dos game with the snake, was in dos editor i think. brain fart cant remember the name of it. Oh well thanks

[Game] Evolution of Tower Defense (Beta)

Hi 2 Everyone,
I have successfully launched my first game for Android.
The name is Evolution of Tower Defense
But i haven't a possibility to test it on different devices.
And i hope that you will try this game and will write some feedback.
All Programming done by me, through 4 months
It's free version so it has only half of all content.
-1 large Map
-13 units (foot and flying)
-34 towers
-3 directions to build towers
-- Military (High damage, massive weapons, slow/normal attack speed)
-- Magic (Normal damage, unique skills, normal/fast attack speed)
-- Lightning (Hight damage but have a lot of space between min and max damage [1-150], fast/very fast attack speed)
- Tower skills
-- Critical Strike (deal increased damage)
-- Shock (hold unit for some period)
-- Poison (deal damage for some period)
-- Type Destroyer (deal some damage to all units, which are same type with unit currently attacking)
-- Fear (force unit move back to start point)
-- Slow (reduce target speed)
-- Flame (put bad curse on unit, which increase damage of all next attack, for some period)
-- Instant Kill (tower has chance to kill target instantly)
- Many different upgrades such as
-- Treasure hunter (you have a chance, get double reward for a killed monster)
-- Nightmare (increase fear effect duration)
and many others
NO ADS
Marketplace:
FREE (I can't post direct link here, but you can find this game on market, searching for 'Evolution of Tower Defense')
Please, if you will find some problems during the game, leave a comment here or in market. Anyway, leave any feedback.
Thank you,
Best Regards

Links plzz
Accidentally typed with my x10 mini pro u20i using my fingers

Thanks, I'll give it a try, looks promising. Good job for not requiring any permissions .
Link for the game here.
Trimis de pe Defy CM9

I tried it, but draging towers to the field didn't work in two ocasions. Galaxy SII, Darky ICS.
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Nice game will try it thanks dude.

Gives a Force Close everytime I exit the game (using a Motorola Defy CM9 - ICS 4.0.3).
I would suggest to implement, as an option at least, a mini-map, so you can see where the enemy is headed without moving through the whole map. I'd also like to be able to Pause/Resume/Fastforward in any situation (example: if the game is paused I cannot put it on fastforward directly, first I must resume it). But good job, this game has potential .
Edit: Freezed my phone, had to pull battery out. Rebooted, started the game again and surprise: the waves are not shown. They're counted, but they do not appear and the health stays at the same level. It's as if I would play without an enemy. But now it's not Force Closing when I exit the game.

Thanks for your comments.
All wishes will be applied to make it better.
Some problems with forceclosing will be removed with next update.
Due to the fact that the application trying to load many images at one time and sometimes it leads to OutOfMemory problem, but it will be solved soon.

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Let other users to see this topic.
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Xperia x8.. ook!!
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vap_66 said:
I would suggest to implement, as an option at least, a mini-map, so you can see where the enemy is headed without moving through the whole map.
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I will increase the resolution , it will solve the observe problem.
vap_66 said:
I'd also like to be able to Pause/Resume/Fastforward in any situation (example: if the game is paused I cannot put it on fastforward directly, first I must resume it). But good job, this game has potential .
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Fixed.
vap_66 said:
Edit: Freezed my phone, had to pull battery out. Rebooted, started the game again and surprise: the waves are not shown. They're counted, but they do not appear and the health stays at the same level. It's as if I would play without an enemy. But now it's not Force Closing when I exit the game.
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Fixed. Except forceclosing...
So check this out.
Many thanks to everyone for yours feedbacks. It's very helpful for me, to find and solving the problems.
PS The full version of this game will contain 73 towers and 34 unique monster with BOSSes. But i need to solve all problems in current version before

Hi 2 ALL,
I hasten to inform you are, that the problem with WAVES is SOLVED.
It's wasn't kind an usual fix. It was really problem related to the build of final signed APK file. Build wasn't correct and the final APK do not work even on my HTC.
But now everything is alright. Please do update or download it again and check this out.
Thank you,
Best Regards

Great! Exciting atmosphere of fallout-like world

Now it works great on my Defy CM9. The map is easily visible because of the resolution increase, waves appear and attack, tower upgrades work.
As it was said earlier, it does have a Fallout atmosphere, which is awesome .
Trimis de pe Defy CM9

A good implementation of Tower Defense!

my last up to this thread
hopes it's not break the rules.

You should avoid auto-translating the market presentation (unless this has been done by Google automatically without you knowing it).
I have it in French and it really is poorly understandable. I prefer having the raw english presentation.
Other than that, the game looks interesting, I'll try it.

Can't download on galaxy s. Stuck on starting download. Did you translate the text into German? It'd be better to let the text English if you don't want to read comments like "lol noob translation".

thanks its fun
i hope next ver graphics better than now

New Updates
Hi 2 everyone
There are many new updates in this game. Enjoy.
CLICK

I'll give it a try, thanks.

Game Guardian

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Game Guardian was upgraded to 5.1 to help stop the sprite from being killed out.

game guardian is a very useful app.however, i couldn't find the address for the coins in temple run.do you know a solution for this?

vricsi94 said:
game guardian is a very useful app.however, i couldn't find the address for the coins in temple run.do you know a solution for this?
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Go to the forum, and we will be happy to assist you.

Update: We have upgraded our host, so now the url is: gameguardian.net

The app has been updated to 5.2 to avoid detection.

I am having trouble with Game Guardian 3.0 on Samsung Tab 10.1 running ICS. I can't get it to work anything in the world. Can someone try to see if they can get Empire Defense 2 to work please.....

Either upgrade to 5.2 or you are using GameCIH 3.0. GameCIH doesn't work on ICS very well. The programmer is working on it.

hack undo?
anyway to undo game guardian hack? i was rank 86 and wanted to get the throwing knife but for this i hacked it to rank 90. I love using the knifes but now my leaderboard ranking is stuck at 86. I was really going up that rank. Anyway i can go back to 86?

aacs90 said:
anyway to undo game guardian hack? i was rank 86 and wanted to get the throwing knife but for this i hacked it to rank 90. I love using the knifes but now my leaderboard ranking is stuck at 86. I was really going up that rank. Anyway i can go back to 86?
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You can always attempt to reverse your hack, find the value that put you at 90 and put it back to a level 86 value. This will most likely not work well with anything that uses an online scoreboard.

Help please.. i tried to hack plants war's leaf. I currently have 45leafs. When i searched on the gameguard, there was 30,000ish results. How can i change the 45leaf into 250+? .
The cheat engine works for me with the specific number, like 914,555,216. That's easy to change. Coz there's only 1~3 results. But with 30k? Lol

Today I needed GameGuardian and checked the Play store and the program is not there anymore. Why? GameCIH is missing too.

dareas said:
Today I needed GameGuardian and checked the Play store and the program is not there anymore. Why? GameCIH is missing too.
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Download from here (without space ) :
www . gameguardian . net/forum/files/

I downloaded it already, but I was just curious about that
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I must say, this tool is impressive. I was able to cheat the #@%^ of Dead Trigger in just a few minutes!

New download link: http://gameguardian.net/forum/files/file/2-gameguardian/

I notice Game Guardian is detected by Plants War now.. any suggestions?

GameGuardian v6.0
Game Killer v2.5
Game CIH v3.0.0
Enjoy :fingers-crossed:

Rule the Kingdom version 4.0
using game guardian v6
gamecih v3
I kept searching until i got 2 entrys(only by using game guardian. gamecih just shows 1 when there should be 2 or more) with the value i was searching for, and changed both. With that I was able to stabilize the numbers on screen, but when trying to buy something that´s worth more than what gold I originaly had it shows me that i don´t have enough and keeps showing me the original sum. So I assume there is another kind of reminder or entry that I can´t find.

florin_x01 said:
using game guardian v6
gamecih v3
I kept searching until i got 2 entrys(only by using game guardian. gamecih just shows 1 when there should be 2 or more) with the value i was searching for, and changed both. With that I was able to stabilize the numbers on screen, but when trying to buy something that´s worth more than what gold I originaly had it shows me that i don´t have enough and keeps showing me the original sum. So I assume there is another kind of reminder or entry that I can´t find.
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Is your game an RPG? and what about Game Killer?

[GAME][2.1+] Lexigon 1.1 - FREE Word Game!

Hello Everyone!
I've spent a year writing a cool word search game, and I've just ported it to Android.
My Game is FREE and is in Google Play -
(if I wasn't a noob a link would be here) Google Play - Lexigon
Have a play with the game and let me know what you think!
thanks!
andy
PS: There is some proof that this game was enjoyed as far back as the 15th century, but don't listen to me read on...
( well if I wan't a noob, another amusing link would be here. search for 'LazyBrush', 'Lexigon' and '15th Century' for those will a will)
PPS: Maybe a kindly soul can post these two links in a reply?
PPS: Version 1.1 removes 'Read Contacts' Permission. Thanks for Comments!

I will check the game out..
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Looks interesting... link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.lazybrush.example
sinkster©

Cool game! Do you get more points for longer words?
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Is there a reason for the app to read contacts?
Sent from my PG86100 using xda premium

Hello again,
Thanks for downloading and for the feeddback!
I use 'Scoreloop' for the online high score and it requires access to contacts. I know it sounds scary but I think that is standard for any online high score server isn't it? (I tried using GREE but it seemed very alpha when I did the port and so didn't compile!)
Yup, longer words more points. Later levels more points. Nice coloured Lexigons more points, blue and green. Bad coloured ones less points, black and red. You can tap to select letters and double tap to submit word, or much faster just slide and release to submit word makes the game very fast.
Glad you all liked it, all I need now is more downloads. I feel like Agent Smith from Matrix....MORE....
Thanks again,
Andy

will try +1 download )
but why strange permissions are required?

scoreloop read contacts
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but why strange permissions are required?
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I've done a little more digging why Scoreloop require, or should I say, in the integration guide said I needed to include access to contacts.
This article, (I'm still a noob - so URL changed to not be a URL), talks of another developer using scoreloop asking the same question.
http support.scoreloop.com discussions/questions/78-read_contacts-permission-for-android
Seems I can remove the permissions for contacts read without a problem. I will do that promptly.
Thanks again,
Andy

really fun game, thank you! Works perfectly on MM2.

Update
Hi,
So I've update this game without the Read Contacts permission. Game still works fine! Thanks again for trying the game and all the comments!
Have Fun,
andy

Great game, very addictive!
However, the game/server doesn't seem to be logging my scores...
When I start the game, it says my high score is 2800... despite having gone over 50,000 a few times. In fact, I just did 65,000 (? - not sure of the exact score now, since there is no record), it didn't appear on that game server.
How about a game pause/resume option, as well as a highscore chart on the phone itself (by playerID: points & level)?
And while I'm thinking , how about adding a different dictionary? I'd love to play this in Spanish too!
I'd also like to understand how to maximise the score, do the letters have an implicit value like in Scrabble? And how are they multiplied/(divided?) by the different colours? I see that getting a 6 letter word generates a lot of points, so is 6 much better than 5, which in turn is much better than 3, etc?