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Which apps do you stay away from?

scatterd

scatterd

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I'm just curious. I've found a few that messed with my settings or wouldn't work correctly.


So which apps would you recommend to never install?

Personally, I haven't found any that really messed up my phone... yet.
 
The mobile network widget switches. I currently use the ones from beautiful widgets with no problems tho. But many of them screwed up my phone to the point I had to hard reset.
 
The Weather Channel. I complained about it in another post... it automatically launches at startup, checks for severe weather alerts every 5 minutes, sends you a system notification whenever there is an alert, continues sending you more alerts every 5 minutes if you try to clear them, and none of these settings can be changed. The only option is to uninstall.

There are lots of options for weather. I just use Beautiful Widgets, but surely there are other weather apps that don't screw with your system as much as The Weather Channel.
 
I personally avoid task killers that can not be used in a manual only mode. Even when configured to ignore particular programs I have run into problems. Android does a good enough job on its own in juggling memory.
 
barnacles: I've always used the stock ones from HTC (under settings). I haven't seen a problem with those.


Apparently Beautiful Widgets is really awesome according to you guys then... I'll keep that in mind :-)
 
I've had issues with Proximity Sensor, Remember the Milk, and Toddler Lock but since the update & talking with the developer, they've all been (thankfully) worked out.
 
Mama Luigi said:
The Weather Channel. I complained about it in another post... it automatically launches at startup, checks for severe weather alerts every 5 minutes, sends you a system notification whenever there is an alert, continues sending you more alerts every 5 minutes if you try to clear them, and none of these settings can be changed. The only option is to uninstall.

There are lots of options for weather. I just use Beautiful Widgets, but surely there are other weather apps that don't screw with your system as much as The Weather Channel.
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On the flip side, I've had no problems with the Weather Channel at all. It runs really well on my phone.

I had issues with Weatherbug it always made my phone very laggy.
 
bluenova said:
I had issues with Weatherbug it always made my phone very laggy.
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I had to uninstall the Weatherbug app because it was causing my GPS to be off by several miles. Once uninstalled and rebooted, the GPS was dead on again. Not sure if this happens with the "elite" paid version.
 
Mama Luigi said:
The Weather Channel. I complained about it in another post... it automatically launches at startup, checks for severe weather alerts every 5 minutes, sends you a system notification whenever there is an alert, continues sending you more alerts every 5 minutes if you try to clear them, and none of these settings can be changed. The only option is to uninstall.

There are lots of options for weather. I just use Beautiful Widgets, but surely there are other weather apps that don't screw with your system as much as The Weather Channel.
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Did you have your home location set? I noticed I was seeing similar things when I had my home location set. Now, I leave it blank and manually entered the city I live in. After that no problem.
 
More Icons. It worked quite well for some time, but a few weeks back I had problems with my Droid resetting at random. After a reset, the widget would immediately force close on me, even after I stopped using it (though it was still installed). The problems largely went away after I got rid of it altogether. I'm hoping the Dev gets it fixed.

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Just top to updatet this thread, I got ahold of the Dev over the weekend, and the update to the widget seems to have cured the problem. I can now recommend More Icons again. :)

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bluenova said:
On the flip side, I've had no problems with the Weather Channel at all. It runs really well on my phone.

I had issues with Weatherbug it always made my phone very laggy.
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vbhokiefan said:
I had to uninstall the Weatherbug app because it was causing my GPS to be off by several miles. Once uninstalled and rebooted, the GPS was dead on again. Not sure if this happens with the "elite" paid version.
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I had problems with Weatherbug too. I've had no problems with TWC widget. I set it to receive severe weather alerts also. It seems to be the most up-to-date widget.

I stay away from all task killers.

Phone runs great!
 
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