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Just a heads up, I've found compcache to actually impact negatively on performance over time (at least, it did on my Hero). The phone would just become more and more unresponsive when it came to loading things until I rebooted it, then it'd be snappy all over. IIRC the ROM dev said it might have had something to do with how the compcache would get fragmented over time because of it's implementation, so he started releasing future versions of the ROM with compcache disabled.
I'm not sure if things have changed, but I've been running without it enabled ever since. Not sure if the same issue affects the G1, though.
ok, that makes more sense, i'm not sure if my current plantronics headset qualifies.
Joe's Stream.
If you have the 2.2 upgrade, you can download the MMS plugin from the app store. It's kinda shit, honestly, but you at least have MMS that way.
I think I just won't bother and SMS instead. Everyone else here's getting softbank anyways.
Yeah, it just came out Friday with the 2.2 update.
I really like Fruit Ninja.
And Speedx 3D.
And the Transformers G1 game.
http://www.fjsoft.at/en/highlight.php
Yes, but tell us how!
What does Device Manager say when the phone is plugged in?
recommended. Goes right into the root OP section
Device manager isn't showing anything. This is the strange thing.
Edit: Fixed it. I had to change the settings from "Mass Storage" to "ask me" and then select it from the menu that came up when I plugged it into USB. Also: Lots of restarting phones and computers.
At one point the phone wouldn't boot, then when I finally got it to by buggering about some more, it wouldn't connect to network, wouldn't connect to internet, wouldn't make calls / messages, couldn't see the SD card, couldn't use the onscreen keyboard and kept on resetting. Amongst other things...
Oh yeah, and Nandroid had failed to work after I rooted it.
Somehow managed to fix it by using an executable RUU but the experience has really put me off rooting.
For the record, I used Unrevoked and tried to change my Desire from 2.1 to 2.2 (I'm with 3) and followed a guide to the letter, up to Nandroid failing.
Wish 3 would hurry up and put 2.2 out for all it's users.
newone757's thread - The first, I think
h_zee13's thread - Widgets and stuff
Wheezy_be's thread - more icons and widgets in 7 colors
http://www.appbrain.com/app/shortyz-crosswords/com.totsp.crossword.shortyz
AND SHE WOULDN'T GIVE IT TO ME
Wipe data/factory reset from system recovery will put it back to day 1 with any bloatware that came installed, non-rooted access, and all contacts and associations to my google account will be removed? So basically as long as I can get to recovery I can make my phone dead stock?
Apart from not losing the hours of work a person's put into rooting and customizing their phone, is there any advantage to SPRecovery's nandroid backup/restore features? Will it recover a phone that system recovery couldn't?
Agreed. So many hours have been devoured by that app. The cleanup option is a nice touch, as well.
Adobe AIR is up on the marketplace. Apps using AIR are also popping up.
Got into the App Inventor beta over the weekend. I haven't had the chance to check it out yet, though. Looking forward to diving into it this week.
Thanks!
God DAMN the android is awesome. The stock app market has more variety than the jailbroken iphone market. There are just so many apps available. By far my most used app thus far is AndroZip. The idea of being able to unzip files from my phone is incredible. This feels far more like a PDA than the iphone, which impressed me mightly when I first got it.
So what are some most-have apps? I've already installed dolphin, androzip, yaairc, and the pdf reader.
EDIT: incidentally, I went into the store yesterday with the idea that I was gonna walk out with an HTC Evo 4g. But the fact that the epic's CPU rates higher in reviews, and that it had a physical keyboard (which is a major perk in my book) sold me on it.
it's a much better way to browse the market and find stuff than the vanilla app
Thanks, the default market is pretty slow.
So the epic uses touchwiz 3 as its interface. I don't want to root my phone just yet, but is there another way to change the name or icons on the home screen?
Also Google Sky Maps and the Amazon Kindle thing,
There's a bunch in the first post of this thread
It could use with some updating though.
TSR, I too went from a crap phone to an Android about a month ago and here are a few apps I've found useful that haven't been listed yet:
Spare Parts: Lets you tinker with settings that are tough to find. Stuff like not having Wi-Fi shut off if the phone is idle, tinkering with some of the animations, etc.
Quick Settings: Lets you turn a variety of settings on and off from one easy menu. Stuff like phone volume, wi-fi, bluetooth, the ringer, etc.
Google Shopper: Lets you use the phone's camera to scan stuff like book covers to find reviews online.
Astro File Manager: A better file manager than the stock one.
Aside from that, there are various useful reference apps. I like waepedia better than the quickpedia linked in the OP, find the weather channel's app to be my weather app of choice, have a Reuters app for news, a dictionary.com app for that stuff, and the Movies app to access rotten tomatoes reviews. Most of my other apps have already been covered in the OP or in the last few pages.
Steam Profile
Bump is fantastic for sharing contact info (and it works between iOS and Android phones!)
Ringdroid is a must have for making your own ringtones on the go
if you like going to concerts, pick up Gigbox, also last.fm if you have a last.fm account
The epic actually includes a built in utility to do all the wifi and volume stuff Steel Angel mentioned. Is there any advantage to the third party apps?
I have AT&T's Captivate, so it might be a little different, but it still runs tw. You can mess with all of it except your dock. Anything you don't want just long press and trash it, then you can put your stuff up. If you want to get into some customization and make so you can't really see all the bloatware they won't let you remove I would get LauncherPro from the market. That also will let you cusomize your dock and give you up to, I believe, five docks you can cycle through. Also each dock will have five shortcuts instead of four. LauncherPro will let you hide apps you don't want by going into the General Settings in the Preferences. Some other cool things we've been using (which I copied from Allforce) are Apps Organizer, which lets you tag your apps into categories, and Desktop Visualizer which will, among other things, let you access your tag categories from your home screen.
Then there's all sorts of cool widgets you can get. I find audio manager is a really useful app because it lets you adjust all of the different volume settings in the phone, and I use Smooth Calendar to pull things from my Calendar to the home screen. Some people here will probably have clock recommendations, but I can see the time either from my lock screen (I put a gesture code in because I actually bought an app from in my pants pocket - something about handcent turning my screen on when I got a text message even though I told it to pop up under the lock screen) or on the top bar, so I haven't really needed a clock widget. I use the Weather Channel's app right now but its widget is ugly. I wish I had a transparent background widget but Snowstorm (another popular one) doesn't work right for me. I recommend (as others have) Handcent SMS. I like to keep all of my texts and when I told the stock messanger to put no limits on how many I keep it popped up a message five times a day about "wouldn't you like to put limits on your texts?"
http://www.appbrain.com/user/mareimbrium/apps-on-the-phone (though keep in mind I have downloaded more apps than I have actually used yet)
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widgets drain the battery, no? Is there a place you can get more widgets? I actually have 2 screens set up for various widgets (we get 7 screens on the epic), despite me trying to limit their use due to battery drain.
I guess the only major difference is that the epic actually uses a custom version of touch wiz, which was made to work in landscape and vertical mode. As I understand it, touch wiz doesn't support landscape mode, but since the epic has a keyboard, they had to kinda hack it in.
Which is why I'm holding off on rooting the phone, actually. I want to make sure that any rom I put on here is built specifically for the epic 4.
Wii: 4521 1146 5179 1333 Pearl: 3394 4642 8367 HG: 1849 3913 3132