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Android Software Thread - Tasty Desserts, Tastier Apps
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zesty said:
Well I only have 9 contacts for my phone, so it wasn't that bad. It's basically just creating new "phone" contacts without anything but pictures (hi res ones) and linking them with your gmail contacts. It has something to do with the way gmail syncs contacts that fucks them up, apparently.
Although I flashed to a cyanogen rom (stock android) and this method wasn't working...so it may only be for Sense enabled devices.
jonnybryce
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Came across a handful of fun little games yesterday and wanted to share. All free.
Pixel Chaos
It doesn't look like much but that's the point. In the style of WarioWare, it's a (small) collection of simple, 8bit-ish minigames. I'm a sucker for this kind of stuff (I liked Hot Pixel on PSP if that says anything) so I'm thrilled. It's not amazing, it's not packed with variety, but it's free fun for a couple minutes.
Superhero Alliance
An online superhero menu-based mmorpg. Kinda cool, I'm not usually into these kinds of games but it seems pretty compelling and polished.
Speed Skater
Kinda like Catapult but on a skateboard. It's a keeper imo. Not much else to say, has some funny lines when you mess up.
Dropbox + OI File Manager. Pick the file, share through Dropbox. Dropbox is awesome, it's worth the few minutes it takes to setup and learn. It's killer for school and work.
Yeah. It got really, really bad. I'm not sure why but I was running all of his widgets. If that's the problem than that's a big problem, obviously I want to use them. But yep, force closes over and over again, the app drawer did 100 odd things every 30 minutes and it was slow as hell. I've seen some comments in the market and on his forum, I'm not alone, but not everyone is experiencing this. Sucks.
Droid-Life had a like to the Adobe Flash apk, I didn't see it in the app market yesterday for whatever reason. It works great, videos play like silk on Facebook and anywhere else such as Cnet. The app replacement life is finally over, no need for a cnet app to see cnet videos...the full web (I went there) is here.
Pixel Chaos
It doesn't look like much but that's the point. In the style of WarioWare, it's a (small) collection of simple, 8bit-ish minigames. I'm a sucker for this kind of stuff (I liked Hot Pixel on PSP if that says anything) so I'm thrilled. It's not amazing, it's not packed with variety, but it's free fun for a couple minutes.
Superhero Alliance
An online superhero menu-based mmorpg. Kinda cool, I'm not usually into these kinds of games but it seems pretty compelling and polished.
Speed Skater
Kinda like Catapult but on a skateboard. It's a keeper imo. Not much else to say, has some funny lines when you mess up.
sionyboy said:
Dropbox + OI File Manager. Pick the file, share through Dropbox. Dropbox is awesome, it's worth the few minutes it takes to setup and learn. It's killer for school and work.
Jayge said:
Yeah. It got really, really bad. I'm not sure why but I was running all of his widgets. If that's the problem than that's a big problem, obviously I want to use them. But yep, force closes over and over again, the app drawer did 100 odd things every 30 minutes and it was slow as hell. I've seen some comments in the market and on his forum, I'm not alone, but not everyone is experiencing this. Sucks.
hateful said:
Droid-Life had a like to the Adobe Flash apk, I didn't see it in the app market yesterday for whatever reason. It works great, videos play like silk on Facebook and anywhere else such as Cnet. The app replacement life is finally over, no need for a cnet app to see cnet videos...the full web (I went there) is here.
Anybody know of an app that will show me what is currently consuming the battery power? Rooted my EVO with simple root last night, put 2.2 on there, did fps fix, then setup my SetCPU profiles how it had been before. My battery under JuicePlotter is just steadily going down, and much faster than before. It'll probably still make it through the day, but I had been getting to where I'd be going to bed and having 40% left.
I disabled some of the auto updating that was there by default under accounts and sync or something under settings. Disabled everything but my Google account for contacts, emails, and calendar I believe, which is fine since it's by push IIRC.
I disabled some of the auto updating that was there by default under accounts and sync or something under settings. Disabled everything but my Google account for contacts, emails, and calendar I believe, which is fine since it's by push IIRC.
jobber said:
Yeah I was looking more for what applications. I tried that and it doesn't help much. Cell standby is at 46% which is very high, so something is using the radio and using way too much of it. I'm wondering if it's Facebook for Android, I checked it out because I liked the new update, it's set to update only when I tell it to. But I had problems with that app before taking too much juice.
Download Spare Parts and go to Battery History > (First Dropdown) Partial Wake Usage then wait for it to gather the data and update.andycapps said:
Edit: can anybody help me with my wi-fi problem? It randomly turns itself off at odd times and I can't seem to get it to stop. Usually when the screen is off or something like that. Very annoying.
Deadly Cyclone
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Jayge said:
Mine just stops working randomly while using it, I assumed a software fix would be coming as I believe others are experiencing this too.
Blindfutur3
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AstroLad said:
Try FeedR. Syncs with Google Reader and has an extremely customisable widget.
http://feedr.podzone.net/
LivetoFollow
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Jayge said:
Settings > Wireless and network > Wi-fi Settings > Menu Button > Advanced > Wi-Fi sleep policy > Never
Will drain battery, but if you're on wifi you may not be concerned. Doesn't bother me, I still get through the day on heavy use on my Galaxy.
balls.UltimaPooh
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I have an HTC Aria coming from AT&T...
So I'm curious about what games are good on the droid marketplace?
Also what are some pretty interesting music programs on there as well?
Appreciate any help you can give me.
So I'm curious about what games are good on the droid marketplace?
Also what are some pretty interesting music programs on there as well?
Appreciate any help you can give me.
Mercury Fred
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I love it!andycapps said:
I don't use it too often, but it's really handy if I'm looking for directions right before heading out. So awesome
mckmas8808
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Mercury Fred said:I love it!
I don't use it too often, but it's really handy if I'm looking for directions right before heading out. So awesome
Just installed it on my phone and browser. Love it already!
andycapps said:
Google talk has always auto-signed in for me, and I use it very often.. and I've never experienced the dropping battery until I installed the Facebook update, after which Spare Parts claims that the Facebook is constantly keeping the phone in a constant partial-wake state
tabsina said:
Ditto, I installed that last night and looked at my battery usage for the past 2 hours and it's been in partial wake state the whole time. Logging off that, and I'll only use the app periodically and sign out when I'm done. They need to fix that, but I'm probably asking too much for them to do another update within the next year. :lol
MarkMclovin
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andycapps said:
I get into the phones 'hidden' menu by typing into the call number screen : *#*#4636#*#*
Sometimes it's really helpful, sometimes not. I'm using a Hero though so not sure if it's the same command.
EDIT - nvm. Spare Parts does the same.
Apparently the updated facebook app might drain the battery quite fast...
http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/08/05/flipz-of-fresh-roms-facebook-1-3-eats-battery-hardcore/
http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/08/05/flipz-of-fresh-roms-facebook-1-3-eats-battery-hardcore/
MarkMclovin said:
Just as a note, that hidden menu (and many others called up similarly) doesn't work anymore for Custom ROMs for the Evo (and maybe for other phones as well, but I don't know). Apparently, EPST is a service that sits there, and listens for/captures those special dialing sequences to bring up the menu, but it is missing/not integrated in custom 2.2 ROMs. Or at least, it's not capturing all of them, because some still work. There's a thread on xda about it.
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So a few weeks ago I was harshin' on PacmanCE for running like bullshit.
Well lastnight I made the jump to 2.2 and it runs swimmingly now!
Well lastnight I made the jump to 2.2 and it runs swimmingly now!
ana said:
FUUUUUCK!!!
I have noticed the hit in battery life...and here I was blaming Pure Messenger, which I installed the same day the FB app was updated.
I will uninstalled the sucker if I have to. Right now I'm just going to Log Out and see if that works.
Edit: I'm going to uninstall the update instead. Going back to shittier version with no battery hit.
SimleuqiR said:
The hit is absolutely huge. I noted it above - my battery was being torched just as fast as if I was using it, Facebook was over 95% of the total sum of all idle/partial wake.
After an uninstall my battery life is back to very good - approx 1% (a little less) an hour during standby.
Miggytronz
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yeah i uninstalled the FB app.
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