Essential Android Apps

Nexus18 · 2 Nov 2010 at 14:50

Hmmm, just tried out this app for setting my wallpaper and for some reason it seems to make the wallpaper look much sharper and just better in everyway possible and also takes away any colour banding from certain wallpapers as opposed to just using the stock wallpaper option (gallery 3D) :confused:

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http://www.appbrain.com/app/wallpaper-set-and-save/com.android.wallpapersetandsave

Grrrrr · 2 Nov 2010 at 15:17

Does anyone know of any apps for limiting 3G/Wifi speeds?

For example i might want to limit download speeds to 50kbps to avoid eating all the bandwidth at work.

Nexus18 · 2 Nov 2010 at 15:22

Here's a little something for all of us who are still on 2.1:

Youtube 2.2 App ported to 2.1:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=817526

Known bugs: If you log into your account, then on the next start of the app will Force Close. (If you don't log in, then the app works without problems)
Solution: Delete cache/data files in Settings/Applications/YouTube
If you really want to use your account: Make sure you sign out before quitting the application, so that you won't get any FC.

And the market 2.2 app ported to 2.1:

http://android.modaco.com/content/software/319798/updated-2-2-style-market-for-android-2-1/

Enjoy! :cool:

EDIT:

Here are some screenshots of it running on my samsung spica i5700 2.1 (rooted and on Samdroid turbo FE 9 beta 1):

Youtube 2.2 app:

Market 2.2 App:

kona786 · 2 Nov 2010 at 18:50

8pen has shot itself in the foot for charging for its app - otherwise i would have tried it.

MTA99 · 2 Nov 2010 at 19:21

kona786 said:
8pen has shot itself in the foot for charging for its app - otherwise i would have tried it.

Agreed. Even a 7 day trial, just long enough to get the hang of it. Will download and try for 24hrs anyway

5ingh · 2 Nov 2010 at 19:34

Is anyone able to play voice notes received via Pingchat? when I try to play any, the media player opens and says 'file type type not recognised (amr)'.

I'm using an HTC Hero, and the sender is using an iPhone 4 by the way.

benjo · 3 Nov 2010 at 11:44

Does anyone know if there's a widget to have a web page on the homescreen?

SteveOBHave · 3 Nov 2010 at 13:53

Interesting with PowerAMP - the dude is considering integrating Spotify Playlists into it. I love the interface - it's an App that I'll be paying for.

Russinating · 3 Nov 2010 at 14:27

What's the best app for realtime premiership football scores/incidents? I basically just want an app that's essentially the BBC's feed etc.

CliffyBiro · 3 Nov 2010 at 14:47

SteveOBHave said:
Interesting with PowerAMP - the dude is considering integrating Spotify Playlists into it. I love the interface - it's an App that I'll be paying for.

Been using that recently purely because of the equaliser.

chrisxuk · 3 Nov 2010 at 15:36

Russinating said:
What's the best app for realtime premiership football scores/incidents? I basically just want an app that's essentially the BBC's feed etc.

I used ESPN Scorecentre to check results for a Stoke game. I thought it worked well, had a minute by minute text commentary for each game.

Wossi · 3 Nov 2010 at 15:54

chrisxuk said:
I used ESPN Scorecentre to check results for a Stoke game. I thought it worked well, had a minute by minute text commentary for each game.

This is what I'm using now, used to use Google score centre, but waiting ~15 minutes for an update is crazy.

gumbald · 3 Nov 2010 at 16:24

Russinating said:
What's the best app for realtime premiership football scores/incidents? I basically just want an app that's essentially the BBC's feed etc.

I use Soccer Livescores. Or http://livescore.com website.

Russinating · 3 Nov 2010 at 16:50

gumbald said:
I use Soccer Livescores. Or http://livescore.com website.

Seems better for my needs. I see in the options the filtering preferences but I can't seem to add/remove a league or anything. I'm only interested in the Prem and Champions League (to a lesser extent).

Edit: Nevermind, worked it out (long press on league).

chrisxuk · 3 Nov 2010 at 18:42

Facebook for Android has just been updated to incorporate Places and Groups. Can be updated/downloaded from the market now.

_Jimlad_ · 3 Nov 2010 at 18:52

chrisxuk said:
Facebook for Android has just been updated to incorporate Places and Groups. Can be updated/downloaded from the market now.

cheers for the heads up

wellibob · 3 Nov 2010 at 18:58

Just applied this update, and it threw a fit at first, but seems ok now. Saw it first plastered all over facebook, virtually demanding i update FB now. Soon as its like the "cough" iphone version, ill be happy

Jongo · 3 Nov 2010 at 19:06

still no fb chat in the app yet

. Ah well least ebuddy does a good job of that.

vygec · 3 Nov 2010 at 19:47

im a newbie who needs help, my first android phone (desire hd)
i have some files on the PC, which i would like to transfer to my phone and the SD card.
ive tried using htc sync, but cant for the life of me work it out!
i downloaded an app called astro. from which i can tell, is an app which lets you manage the phone+sd card.
but i aint got a clue how to transfer files to the phone!
can someone shed some light on this.
ta.

sorn21 · 3 Nov 2010 at 19:48

Dropbox or use your USB cable and put the phone in harddrive mode.