Help apps for android

[Stoney62]

PandaHome has bricked several phones.....beware!

It works great on my phone! I haven't read anything anywhere else about it "bricking" a phone.

 

[jen8112]

It works great on my phone! I haven't read anything anywhere else about it "bricking" a phone.

There has been quite a few people say that it bricked their phone on here.

 

[Gizmodo]

Thanks for the heads up on Quick Settings. Just installed it. GREAT!! Now I can delete a # of smaller widgets as QS has them all in one place!

 

[CriticalCritic]

Round 2

Games:
Project INF (free)- multiplayer 2D shooter! Surprisingly fun.
Jewels (free)- A free knockoff of Bejeweled.
Phit Droid (free)- Geometric Puzzles. Not bad.
GeoQuiz - kinda like a Geographic Jeopardy.

Tools:
Countdown Alarm (free)- I am BLOWN AWAY that this it not default in the phone.
Scan2PDF (about $6)- Turns your phone's camera into a PDF scanner. I know that you could just take a normal pic, but for professional needs, this does the trick... kinda... because it does not utilize the flash, and will not utilize it until we get the 2.0 or 2.1 upgrade. But in the mean time it has saved my ass, I just had to make sure that I had good light.
Locale (free)- Better than Timeriffic because it can be programmed with geographic specific triggers. But it's also slightly troublesome b/c of the Moment's current GPS shortfalls.

Others:
Cherry Rplayer or StreamFurry (both free)- Two of the best online streaming radio apps while awaiting the release of iheartradio for android.
Shop Savvy (free)- THIS THING IS AWESOME! Pkt auctions is great for eBay, but ShopSavvy is great for everything else! ESPECIALLY if you are buying textbooks. Just go to you bookstore, scan the barcode, and this thing checks all the main online book sellers.
ShakeIt (beta) (free)- Shake your phone awake, and/or flip your phone screen down to activate speakerphone. Still a few issues but the developer is extremely active and responsive.

 

[BenHoltz]

Here is my Personal List of favorite apps:

* Widgets:

Brightness Level (Free) - Adjusts Brightness Free
GPS OnOff - Displays current State of GPS and switch on/off Free
WiFi OnOff - Displays current State of WIFI and switch on/off Free
Bluetooth OnOff - Displays current State of Bluetooth and switch on/off Free
DigiClock Widget - Digital Clock widget with date & time w/ customizable colors Free
Battery Status – free - Battery desktop widget with nice functionality Free
Audio Manager - Sound level display widget Free

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* Tools (Paid):

Advanced Task Manager - Very Nice task manager, worth the money Paid
MyBackup Pro - My choice for backups, other free apps that do backups, this one does auto backups and stores them for you Paid
Tipper - Tip Calculator with nice GUI. Paid

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* Tools (Free):

Spare Parts - battery and usage statistics Free
Bubble - a bubble level like used in construction Free
aTrackDog - An alternative tracking of app updates Free
No Signal Alert - Displays notifications of loss of signal. Free
Wifi Analyzer - Great for setting up wifi networks, it gives useful stats about what networks are on what channel. Free
Speedtest.net Speed Test - Speed test reports for your Data connections Free
GPS Status - Great GPS Status tool showing the different satellites and strengths Free
SMS Popup - Pops up sms's in a window. Free
Phonalyzr - Application to help you track minutes used. Free
Remoid - RDP Connection Client Free
Barcode Scanner - Scans bar codes Free
Cell Finder - Locate distance between you and the cell tower you are using. Doesnt work well on the Moment, but is very nice when you have AGPS working Free
Flashlight - Turns screen white depending on how much light you want Free
Google Sky Map - Neat application to help you look at the stars Free
My Tracks - Tracks GPS, Nice to use for racing or tracking jogging times Free
Ringdroid - Crop parts of your favorite song to use as ringtone Free
ShopSavvy - Compare prices of things on the internet via a barcode scanner or search Free
TimeTracker - Very useful for contractors or anyone who needs to track timecards Free
Twidroid for Twitter - Nice twitter app for android Free
Ultimate Stopwatch - Neat stopwatch application Free

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* Games and Entertainment:

Last.fm - Streaming internet radio Free
Listen - search for podcasts and listen to them. Free
Movies - great for finding local shows, reviews and trailers. Free
2 Player Reactor - Great Trivia and knowledge game for 2 people with some time to burn Free
Backgrounds - Has a huge gallery of nice backgrounds to choose from Free
Dock It! - Manage a space port and dock the ships without collisions. Free
Doom - classic doom emulator with downloads Free
Free Bubble Defense - Pop the bubbles in this tower defense type game. Free
Live Football Scores - Easy to use football, basketball and baseball scores app Free
Pandora - Streaming Internet radio Free
PhoneFlicks - access your neflix que's Free
PicSay - Add props and modify pictures. Free
Places Directory - Google's Phone book Free
Pong - Classic Pong Game Free
Robo Defense - The best game on android, a tower defense game. Free
Shazam - Identify songs on the radio or from recordings Free
ThrottleCopter - fly a helicopter through a tunnel with only the throttle Free
Toddler Lock - good app for letting children play with your phone Free
WikiMobile - Wikipedia application Free
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[CriticalCritic]

Here is my Personal List of favorite apps: PhoneFlicks - access your neflix que's Free

Does this work very well? I didn't get it because it seemed pointless from the reviews.

 

[BenHoltz]

Does this work very well? I didn't get it because it seemed pointless from the reviews.

It works, isn't super pretty, but works.... however it is not my first choice to access my netflix account...

 

[dkjones96]

Does this work very well? I didn't get it because it seemed pointless from the reviews.

It's really nice for adding movies to your queue when you are away from a computer. I see movies i want to netflix all the time and end up forgetting them. This helps curb that.

Shazam is super nice for songs you want to get later too.

Doom - classic doom emulator with downloads

Who made the one you have? Mine wouldn't work with the optical pad

 

[BenHoltz]

Who made the one you have? Mine wouldn't work with the optical pad

You have to use the keyboard and also need to set the key mappings in the "settings" within doom.

 

[dkjones96]

You have to use the keyboard and also need to set the key mappings in the "settings" within doom.

The one I had always crashed when trying to do that... I'll try again.

 

[Thefoodman52]

Games:
Themes:
Beautiful Widgets and Open Home (both for purchase)
I like the clock that comes with Beautiful Widgets. It makes it easy to set alarms, and the weather display, with 1-touch 3-day weather is nice too.
So far I have found a couple themes that I like, but I hate the side-sliders. I can't figure out for to get rid of them.

Sorry to sound nooby, but how much is Open Home? I can't find the app in the market, only skins. >.<" A link maybe so I can visit this page on my Moment and go buy/ d.l it? Thanks in advance.

 

[BenHoltz]

Sorry to sound nooby, but how much is Open Home? I can't find the app in the market, only skins. >.<" A link maybe so I can visit this page on my Moment and go buy/ d.l it? Thanks in advance.

Its called "Open Home - Full" and its $3.99 USD

 

[agent0014]

Sorry to sound nooby, but how much is Open Home? I can't find the app in the market, only skins. >.<" A link maybe so I can visit this page on my Moment and go buy/ d.l it? Thanks in advance.

It's a real PITA to find when you're looking for it, I just had to do the search and keep scolling slowly. I feel like the app store could have a more comprehensive advanced search... would make finding things like this much easier.

 

[masbirdies]

I am on my second go-around with open home. The first time, I seemed to have problems and dumped it. But I gave it a second chance and love it. Love the app tray and the search function.

 

[condor12]

Open home "bricked" my moment so beware.

 

[itmike]

For those that like flashlight apps, and want the led to be the light. You can download the momentflash app from the market. It is much better than the screen light apps.

 

[jennn]

abcOrganizer lite - This is the free version. It shows me all my apps (some widgets too) in a list. I can label them to look up by category or folder and also have the folder as a shortcut to the home page. From the list you can also choose your own icons for the folders, launch and uninstall. It also has a list for bookmarks and contacts.

Any Cut - Another program that let's you create shortcuts for the home page. I use this mainly for speed dialing / speed texting to my most used contacts.

AsciiCamera - Camera app that allows you to take a picture in ascii style. It's just a novelty thing and has that nostalgia thing going.

Battery Left - Widget. I can't find this in the Market anymore for some reason. At any rate, it gives you the actual time you have left on your phone in hours/minutes, not just the percentage. And it works perfect. Takes a few days to calibrate an accurate time. Comes in two different sizes.

chompSMS - Breaks your text messages up more like a conversation with colored bubbles. Just easier to follow, more visually pleasing.

Droid 411 - Widget. Gives you a list of 4 Toll Free 411 directories to call. You click the one you want and it automatically calls them.

FlashNotify Settings - Basically you can set up your phone to flash the home screen when you've missed a call, text, etc. Many settings.

FoxyRing - Widget. Calibrates the ambient noise around you and then controls how loudly your phone rings.

HeroLock - I use PandaHome and I installed the Hero Lock screen. There's also an I phone one. You can pick your own picture.

Instant Search for Google - Widget. Fast google search. You don't wait for a page to be downloaded. Works for web, phonebook, video, news, blogs...

K-9 Mail - I have all my gmail, yahoo and ymail set up on this program.

Launcher Dock - Widget. Love! This uses 1 icon on your homescreen that holds up to 8 seperate apps. So press the icon and a pop up screen appears with the 8 apps. Saves a ton of space. You can change the icons.

Notification Notes - Puts a note in my notification status bar. Easy to use and perfect for a person like me.

OneWeekCalendar - Widget. Shows the current week and one week only. If you have an event on that date on your normal calendar it shows as a mark on that date. When you hit it it takes you to your normal calendar.

OpenSearch - This is an app on your phone that can replace the big Google search bar. Press the icon and the search bar appears (it saves space). The cool thing is is once the bar appears you'll see a little icon to the right of the status bar. Touch that and you can now select to search instead of google the android market, wiki and many others that you can install from the dev's website. Love this tool. Plus, if I've already got a search going on in the market and don't want to loose my place I just hit the home key, hit the market open search, type it in and get the new results. When I'm done I hit the home key again, market app and it takes me back to the original search.

RemoteDroid - This is a trial. Set up your phone to be used as a wireless keyboard, mouse on your computer. I haven't used this yet so don't know how it works. Comments seem positive though.

Slide Keyboard by Koku - I LOVE this keyboard. It is not like Swype or Slide It (which I can't stand). It gives you 12 big keys and each key accounts for up to 5 characters. You slide your finger in the direction of the charcter you want on each key. It takes a bit to get used to but once you do it's fast. It's not for everybody but I highly recommend it, espically if you have big fingers or constantly seem to be hitting the key next to the one you intended. Be sure to download the dictionary in your language for spell check and suggestions. You can read my other post about it here with a screen shot: http://androidforums.com/android-applications/31444-slideit-android.html#post351545

Sound Manager - This lets you set up multiple schedules for the volume of ringers, notifications, etc. Many settings and easy.

SpellDial - You can start typing in a name and it starts to pull up associated contacts by spelling. Very handy.

 

[nogaro]

Who can send me the full link to get ambient time home

 

[pattonthegen]

Does anyone have a good suggestion for a app that will let me see what is using my battery. I know a few have suggested a app called spareparts, but it does not have very good reviews so i have never tried that app.

I would like to see what is using what % of my battery.

thanks

 

[gillweb]

For those that like flashlight apps, and want the led to be the light. You can download the momentflash app from the market. It is much better than the screen light apps.

Been looking for this since i bought the phone! Awesome, thanks!

 

[igotitiscool]

Hey i have a 10.2 epad and it did not come with the market place, is there another app you can download for the android? so that i can download apps without using the computer?