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Posted 1 year ago #
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Just got a HTC widfire and are confused beyone belief to all these apps ....do i just download one on to my laptop and then plug in the USB and synch the app to my phone .....
Wot would you say the most important apps are to get me started ??
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Just got a HTC widfire and are confused beyone belief to all these apps ....do i just download one on to my laptop and then plug in the USB and synch the app to my phone .....
No need for the laptop, just click on the Android Market icon on your phone and search away.
For notes I use Springpad, synchs nicely with an external server which means I can check & add more notes when I'm using the main computer.
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As the minimum, i'd suggest:
Astro file viewer
Double Twist (music player, better than standard one by far)
Facebook (if you use it!)
Last.fm
Layar (if you think you need something like the yellow pages a lot)
Google Navigation
myPlayer (BBC Iplayer copy)
Photobucket (if you want to upload your phone photos online)
Rmaps (OS maps, but these cache to the phone so you can use it in weak signal areas)
Swiftkey (better keyboard & word predictions than standard)
Talk (used to convert text to speech)
Weatherbug
WiFinderI like Android Agenda widget too, shows your calendar for the next nn days on a homescreen page.
And when you go on the android market (however you get access to it), check for updates that are available for programs already installed.
Posted 1 year ago # -
Waiting for the Desire HD in a few weeks!
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Any riding/navigation suggestions?
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ADW launcher
Handcent SMS
Scandinavian keyboard
Opera mini
Data widget
Double Twist music player
Endomondo
Flashlight
LightswordDon't bother with a task killer, they can use as much power as the tasks they are killing!
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Bearers, still not managed to get my head round alpinequest, maybe I need to spend a bit more time on it unless you know of an absolute dummies guide?
FunkyDunc (or anyone else having a drama with AlpineQuest)
PM me (address in profile) and tell me where you have got to with trying to get it to work and I'll see if I can help.
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twohats comment about task killers using lots of power is right too, same goes for battery % monitors, i've gone through a few before I found one that was ok.
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Free adult moves
Sickipedia
parallel kingdoms - GPS based MMORPG
Last.FMPosted 1 year ago # -
Beamers - thanks for 'AlpineQuest'.
I now have a large, free 1:25,000 OS map stored on the memory card of my HTC Widlfire.
Posted 1 year ago # -
Speedx 3d
Cracking little game.
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TheFunkyMonkey - Member
I used an iphone once and found it to be crap in comparison to the desire
You used one once. Hey, way ta go, in-depth user experience there, then. There's nothing like full, hands-on user experience to get the strengths of something, and that's nothing like it.
By the way, how well does an Android phone work for blind users?Posted 1 year ago # -
So so
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CountZero - Member
TheFunkyMonkey - Member
I used an iphone once and found it to be crap in comparison to the desireYou used one once. Hey, way ta go, in-depth user experience there, then. There's nothing like full, hands-on user experience to get the strengths of something, and that's nothing like it.
By the way, how well does an Android phone work for blind users?I think TheFunkyMonkey's comment was in response to the comment above his original post......this one:
loddrik - Member
I bought a desire but found the apps were, in general, crap by comparison and now gone back to an iPhone.which your response would apply equally well too...
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@ fozzie
can you tell me how you downloaded alpinequest as i cant find it in the app store and i also have wildfire.Posted 1 year ago # -
Burt, the website is:-
http://alpinequest.psyberia.net/english/index
I could not get the 'market' link or the barcode to work either so I emailed my phone the following link and clicked it to install (easier than typing the link on the wildfire).
http://res.alpinequest.psyberia.net/AlpineQuest_1.08_free.apk
Posted 1 year ago # -
fozzie
that worked a treat but all sorts of warnings have come up saying not to install it etc. did you get this with yours?Posted 1 year ago # -
burt, I don't remember any warnings, alcohol may have been a contributing factor.
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any more recommendations?
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CardioTrainer
Sportypal
Glyder2
arcMediaPosted 1 year ago # -
Further to my last post re Rmaps. I've been using it for a few days now and, when used with Mobile Atlas Creator, it's fantastic and really easy to set up off line maps (google earth or OS, amongst others).
Just need to sort the battery life out now. And waterproof it
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is mobile atlas creator on phone or pc?
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You run Mobile Atlas Creator on your PC, select the area of map you want, the source data (Google, Open Streetmap, OS) and the zoom level "layers". That then downloads the relevant tiles and creates a file - transfer that to your phone, tell Rmaps to use it as custom offline map and voila - free and legal OS mapping even if you haven't got a signal.
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The Moron Test
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can anyone recommend a file manager? so i can swap pics around and create different folders for them instaed of all in one place in no particular order? ive used it as a usb drive to do this, but on the phone theyre still all higgledy piggledy.
and also a data usage app so i can see how many texts, calls and data ive used so far each month? (vodafone if that matters)
cheers
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Astro
PhoneUsageon appbrain.com
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Marvin zx spectrum emulator.
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Regarding RMaps:
You run Mobile Atlas Creator on your PC, select the area of map you want, the source data (Google, Open Streetmap, OS) and the zoom level "layers". That then downloads the relevant tiles and creates a file - transfer that to your phone, tell Rmaps to use it as custom offline map and voila - free and legal OS mapping even if you haven't got a signal.
Done that (in the same way that I made the maps for Alpinequest) however, RMaps isn't finding the maps even though I have put them in the right folder on the phone's SD card. Any ideas?
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sadexpunk - Member
can anyone recommend a file manager? so i can swap pics around and create different folders for them instaed of all in one place in no particular order? ive used it as a usb drive to do this, but on the phone theyre still all higgledy piggledy.and also a data usage app so i can see how many texts, calls and data ive used so far each month? (vodafone if that matters)
I used to use Astro File Manager until they added advertising. I resisted updating it as I didn't want adverts on it, but then one day it refused to work unless I updated it, so I uninstalled it and went for ES File Explorer which I find to be better.
I have recently started using 3G Watchdog for looking at how much data I'm using, but will probably uninstall that after a while as at the moment I only appear to be using a tiny amount of data, so am not sure there's much requirement to track it. This month I have so far used 52MB, but I don't really watch videos or download much stuff to the phone.
The above won't track your used texts and calls - I've not seen one that can do that, but I haven't really looked. I just check my T-mobile account every now & again.
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The move to sd app seems not to be on the android market. Am i looking in the wrong place?
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soops - search for App2SD.
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Don't bother with Advanced Task Killer etc. Android is perfectly capable of managing app killing on its own, and running an app killer will only waste battery life.
The Android philosophy is to run the memory full, and dump stuff that's not needed if extra memory is required. The development guidelines are strict and any popular app will be adhering to them.
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fbk - i have and cannot find it
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Tip for new users...hold down the home key and it will bring up your recently used apps. Invaluable when you are skipping between (for example) internet, google satnav and emails.
Whilst we are on the subject, how do I get swype? Does the Desire support it or do I have to trick it?
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