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"Must have" apps for the Thunderbolt
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Jelly Doughnut
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Did it on my old phone. Worked fine.
They need to get NFL Mobile on here ASAP, if I'd known it didn't work I wouldn't have bought this phone. That's a deal killer for me. My Incredible was just fine...
So the question is what will come first NFL mobile or and end to the lockout ?
Byjum
Newbie
Lol good question.
Tryn2getaclu
Member
Ok, time for another Android Super-Newb question (sorry). I don't find simultaneous ring & vibrate for calls. I am using K-9 for email and that offers the ring & vibe option. Do I need an app to create better ringer profiles? Or, am I missing something in the phone native? If ringer profiles apps - which are best and why?
T.I.A.
T.I.A.
I am also just learning this too, so you are not alone! Go to: Menu > Settings > Sound. You'll see the Volume and the Vibrate segments. Just check the Vibrate segment (you toggle back and forth). For the Volume segment, you can move the bar to indicate how much volume yo want. You can also use it for notifications. I know vibrate and the ringtones work simultaneously b/c I programmed it that way on my phone. This is all native. Good luck!
The long-anticipated HTC Thunderbolt launches this Thursday, March 17. According to Best Buy, the HTC Thunderbolt is discounted until March 19, with a tag price of $249.99, and the regular pricing of $299.99 will be implemented on March 20, all with 2 year Verizon Wireless contract.
While waiting for its official release, we made the list of 10 apps, which are the best among Android Market for HTC Thunderbolt 4G. These apps will make your life easier in countless ways. To install these, click on the name of the app. This will take you to detail posts of those apps where there are detail guidelines for installing with market link and QR code.
1. Go SMS
Go SMS app with QR code
GO SMS is the best alternative SMS app on the Android Market, and it’s free. There are quite a few different skins available for the app, including one that clones the iPhone’s messaging view. GO SMS has all the features of the default messaging app plus many new features, including customizable fonts, customizable colors, and customizable backgrounds, as well as the previously mentioned skins. One of the greatest features of this free messaging app is the pop up window, which allows you to read and reply to messages without going to the app’s interface. You can then quickly text people back without losing your place while reading a blog article in the browser.
2. Springpad
Springpad app with QR code
Springpad is a wonderful organization and productivity tool. The Android app syncs with the service on a cloud, where you can access your items on a great deal of devices including your computer. Springpad is very customizable allowing you to organize things in many different notebooks. Notebooks can consists of tasks and notes. A task can contain a note, which can contain text, images, videos, links, files, or even other notes. Depending on how deep you want to organize your items, you could have a note within a note within a note.
3. Slacker Radio
Slacker Radio app with QR code
Everyone talks about Pandora, but Slacker Radio is where it’s at. With a much larger song library, you’ll get more songs you like, and hopefully some you haven’t heard before. Station creation is also much more customizable, as you can choose a starting artist, but then it also suggest other artists that you might like based off that artist right away, making sure there are more songs you like right off the bat, instead of having to go through many songs you don’t like until the station starts to only play songs you like.
4. Pulse News Reader
Pulse News Reader app with QR code
Pulse is a great free RSS feed reader that syncs directly with your existing Google Reader account, allowing for seamless reading between your computer and your Android device. With a grid based design, Pulse is easy to use and aesthetically pleasing. It even formats all items for reading on mobile devices, so you’ll never have to deal with words hanging off the edge of the screen in the browser again.
5. The Weather Channel
The weather channel app with QR code
The Weather Channel for Android adds new features – voice search, type-ahead and an all-new navigation bar among others – while still encompassing the enhanced features of its original version, including fully customizable weather maps, animated radar maps, detailed weather conditions and forecasts, severe weather alerts, and a notification bar with the current temperature and severe weather alert indicator
6. TuneWiki
Tunewiki app with QR code
TuneWiki is a Next Generation Social Media player; it promotoes a social network that allows users to add, edit and synchronize lyrics to audio and video files in all languages; and displays location based charts and maps of music played around the globe.
7. Silent Time Lite
Silent Time Lite app with QR code
Silent Time is a great app, but is still rather unknown. It comes in both free and paid versions, but the free version has basically everything you need. This app is perfect for students or business professionals. This lightweight app will put your phone into silent mode based on the time rules you set, which is basically like setting up your Google Calendar. You can also choose whether or not to have vibration enabled during these “silent times”. With this app, you won’t have to worry about your choice ring tone blasting off in the middle of class or a meeting.
8. Zedge Ringtones & Wallpapers
Zedge Ringtones & Wallpapers app with QR code
Zedge is a free app that allows you to browse and download all of the mobile wallpapers and ring tones available on Zedge.net. The library is huge, and it’s hard to find a search that won’t turn up any results. It is the best ring tone app and the best wallpaper app on the Android Market, and it’s all in one. With the favorites option, you can even come back later and download something you liked but wanted to use later. Downloads in this app are very fast, and you can set your wallpaper, ring tone, or notification tone right inside of it.
9. Movies
Movies app with QR code
Movies, a free Android app provided by Flixter, is the best app on the Android Market for finding movie times and ordering tickets. It does just what you would expect it to, providing showtime for movies for theatres near the location you specify. It also allows you to view high quality trailers for the movies. If you want more info, it even provide IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes links for reviews and more in-depth information.You can even see what movies are nearing release in theatres as well as those that have been recently released on Blu-ray and DVD.
10. Ringdroid
Ringdroid app with QR code
Ringdroid is great for anyone who wants a custom ring tone from a music file. By default, the Android Operating System allows for mp3s to be used as ring tones without any modifications, but you can’t choose when during the song they will start. Ringdroid allows you to cut up your music file, and choose which part will play for your ring tone, so now you can hear your favorite part of the song when your phone rings, where ever in the song that might appear.
While waiting for its official release, we made the list of 10 apps, which are the best among Android Market for HTC Thunderbolt 4G. These apps will make your life easier in countless ways. To install these, click on the name of the app. This will take you to detail posts of those apps where there are detail guidelines for installing with market link and QR code.
1. Go SMS
GO SMS is the best alternative SMS app on the Android Market, and it’s free. There are quite a few different skins available for the app, including one that clones the iPhone’s messaging view. GO SMS has all the features of the default messaging app plus many new features, including customizable fonts, customizable colors, and customizable backgrounds, as well as the previously mentioned skins. One of the greatest features of this free messaging app is the pop up window, which allows you to read and reply to messages without going to the app’s interface. You can then quickly text people back without losing your place while reading a blog article in the browser.
2. Springpad
Springpad is a wonderful organization and productivity tool. The Android app syncs with the service on a cloud, where you can access your items on a great deal of devices including your computer. Springpad is very customizable allowing you to organize things in many different notebooks. Notebooks can consists of tasks and notes. A task can contain a note, which can contain text, images, videos, links, files, or even other notes. Depending on how deep you want to organize your items, you could have a note within a note within a note.
3. Slacker Radio
Everyone talks about Pandora, but Slacker Radio is where it’s at. With a much larger song library, you’ll get more songs you like, and hopefully some you haven’t heard before. Station creation is also much more customizable, as you can choose a starting artist, but then it also suggest other artists that you might like based off that artist right away, making sure there are more songs you like right off the bat, instead of having to go through many songs you don’t like until the station starts to only play songs you like.
4. Pulse News Reader
Pulse is a great free RSS feed reader that syncs directly with your existing Google Reader account, allowing for seamless reading between your computer and your Android device. With a grid based design, Pulse is easy to use and aesthetically pleasing. It even formats all items for reading on mobile devices, so you’ll never have to deal with words hanging off the edge of the screen in the browser again.
5. The Weather Channel
The Weather Channel for Android adds new features – voice search, type-ahead and an all-new navigation bar among others – while still encompassing the enhanced features of its original version, including fully customizable weather maps, animated radar maps, detailed weather conditions and forecasts, severe weather alerts, and a notification bar with the current temperature and severe weather alert indicator
6. TuneWiki
TuneWiki is a Next Generation Social Media player; it promotoes a social network that allows users to add, edit and synchronize lyrics to audio and video files in all languages; and displays location based charts and maps of music played around the globe.
7. Silent Time Lite
Silent Time is a great app, but is still rather unknown. It comes in both free and paid versions, but the free version has basically everything you need. This app is perfect for students or business professionals. This lightweight app will put your phone into silent mode based on the time rules you set, which is basically like setting up your Google Calendar. You can also choose whether or not to have vibration enabled during these “silent times”. With this app, you won’t have to worry about your choice ring tone blasting off in the middle of class or a meeting.
8. Zedge Ringtones & Wallpapers
Zedge is a free app that allows you to browse and download all of the mobile wallpapers and ring tones available on Zedge.net. The library is huge, and it’s hard to find a search that won’t turn up any results. It is the best ring tone app and the best wallpaper app on the Android Market, and it’s all in one. With the favorites option, you can even come back later and download something you liked but wanted to use later. Downloads in this app are very fast, and you can set your wallpaper, ring tone, or notification tone right inside of it.
9. Movies
Movies, a free Android app provided by Flixter, is the best app on the Android Market for finding movie times and ordering tickets. It does just what you would expect it to, providing showtime for movies for theatres near the location you specify. It also allows you to view high quality trailers for the movies. If you want more info, it even provide IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes links for reviews and more in-depth information.You can even see what movies are nearing release in theatres as well as those that have been recently released on Blu-ray and DVD.
10. Ringdroid
Ringdroid is great for anyone who wants a custom ring tone from a music file. By default, the Android Operating System allows for mp3s to be used as ring tones without any modifications, but you can’t choose when during the song they will start. Ringdroid allows you to cut up your music file, and choose which part will play for your ring tone, so now you can hear your favorite part of the song when your phone rings, where ever in the song that might appear.
I know I am a total neophyte and have much to learn, but I am totally sold on Amazon MP3 and their handy dandy new cloud.
I frequently buy music from them, since they can be surprisingly cheap. Now you get 5GB of cloud storage and all new purchases are stored free. heck they are even upping it to 20GB for a year if you make a purchase. So far, it's been super easy to work as well.
I know some folks might find the idea distasteful, but I am sold on it.
I frequently buy music from them, since they can be surprisingly cheap. Now you get 5GB of cloud storage and all new purchases are stored free. heck they are even upping it to 20GB for a year if you make a purchase. So far, it's been super easy to work as well.
I know some folks might find the idea distasteful, but I am sold on it.
skinnhc
Well-Known Member
I am sold also. Been waiting for this since my OG Droid days. A "Dropbox" for my music!! No more Itunes slowing down my laptop!
Tech Addiction
Android Expert
Not sure if this is an app but Amazon cloud storage for Music should be high on your list. You get 5gb of free storeage but if you buy one MP3 album you get upgraded to 20gb for free. The best part is anything you buy from Amazon MP3 does not go against your 20gb of storage, it's automatically uploaded for free and you can get it starting today. Just saw this on Twitter.
Sorry for repeating from above, I guess we were typing these close together.
Sorry for repeating from above, I guess we were typing these close together.
McLabia
Android Expert
https://market.android.com/developer?pub=CurveFish
I really like his battery app, and Im trying out a few more of his other apps, but they all seem to be well written and working on my Bolt.
I really like his battery app, and Im trying out a few more of his other apps, but they all seem to be well written and working on my Bolt.
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TxGoat
Guest
Any good barcode reading apps? And by "good" I mean that don't lock up your phone?
ska.t73
Android Expert
Have you tried Shopper by Google or Shopsavy? Those seem to work nice.
Shopsavy has been working great for me. Haven't had it lock up my TB and I went through Safeway pretty much scanning all visible bar codes.
we need arrow keys on our keyboards because there's no other way to move back and forth, pointing doesn't work that well
UBRocked
VZW Nexus Please!!!
Just FYI, you can press and hold on most editable text fields and you will get a little magnifying glass that zooms in on the text and shows you where the cursor is.
While I still find a need for the arrow keys as well, this feature does come in handy for me quite a bit.
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TxGoat
Guest
Just downloaded Shopsavvy and it's just what I was looking for. Thanks for the heads up! I'll check out shopper by Google if ShopSavvy ever fails me, but thus far it's worked like a charm and it's good to see the items I have laying around the house with a barcode show the lowest prices where I purchased the items.
ahoogst
Well-Known Member
I just downloaded the Al Jazeera LIVE which is streaming awesomely on 4g. Anyone have any other streaming apps?
Tryn2getaclu
Member
FWIW - I loaded this the other day and tried it and it worked great. Then, yesterday, I tried accessing app history to re-poll the internet pricing on items I had previously scanned. Got a popup saying could not access their servers and I should try turning off wifi and using my cellular internet connection. Only problem was that I have Wifi turned off. I tried several times with same results. I restarted the phone this morning and the app works again. I have no idea why this happened but I am an Android newb. Perhaps one of the Android vets will chime in and advise how to avoid this problem or how to fix if it happens again. Otherwise, app seems awesome.
Nor*Cal
Well-Known Member
I'm still an android newbie so thought I would share this with other newbies to the Thunderbolt and android world.
Tonight I was searching for a good radio app so I can listen to my favorite local FM and AM radio stations. I know most stick with MP3's, Pandora and many of the other music apps but I still like to listen to local radio. Especially AM sport talk and news.
Anyways, downloaded TuneIn Radio and its awesome. Gives me all of the local FM and AM stations I was looking for. And the best part is the reception is perfect. Not to mention showing the logo's from each station as well, nice touch.
So, forget about rigging the headphone jack to get the stock FM Radio to play on the Bolts speaker. No need for that or that stock FM Radio app.
Now I'll have to see how the battery does with this app running...
Tonight I was searching for a good radio app so I can listen to my favorite local FM and AM radio stations. I know most stick with MP3's, Pandora and many of the other music apps but I still like to listen to local radio. Especially AM sport talk and news.
Anyways, downloaded TuneIn Radio and its awesome. Gives me all of the local FM and AM stations I was looking for. And the best part is the reception is perfect. Not to mention showing the logo's from each station as well, nice touch.
So, forget about rigging the headphone jack to get the stock FM Radio to play on the Bolts speaker. No need for that or that stock FM Radio app.
Now I'll have to see how the battery does with this app running...
dlt123me
Well-Known Member
I'm a Noobee to the Android world and recently bought the TB... You might find something in my list that appeals to you... I have them saved on AppBrain...
Here is my list.
Dennis
Here is my list.
Dennis
ska.t73
Android Expert
Not only that but when you buy an MP3 they upgrade you to 20gb of storage for one year. At the end of the year you can choose to buy the 20gb plan (20.00 per year), or simply not do anything that let it expire.
Looks like the storage plans are running 1.00 per GB per year, and they offer up to 1,000gb plans (for 1,000.00 a year O.O), however if you need 1,000gb of cloud storage that doesn't seem to be too much to pay.
Pretty sure I will be keeping the 20gb plan, when it comes up next year.
