Essential Android Apps

Richie · 3 Jul 2010 at 19:04

steinooo said:
anyone know if there's a way of making a different sound for an email, text and mention on twitter please?

I have this and its pretty simple to do but you will need Handcent for SMS and the official Twitter app for Twitter.

You then setup the notifications for SMS and Twitter within their respective apps. The default email client will use the default handset tone that you have set.

Means that Tweets, SMS and emails all have different sounds.

I have also used Handcent to set the LED to blue for sms so thats diff from emails as well.

SiD the Turtle · 3 Jul 2010 at 19:09

deadite66 said:
If you can see the cat picture dropbox works at uploading an image and making a direct link.

uploaded and sent from my milestone.

Did you do that via the 'share via' on a photo? I ask as it's a feature Dropbox touted on their blog, but I don't seem to have though I have the Dropbox app.

"andy" · 3 Jul 2010 at 19:10

makamiso said:
Whats the app that listens to a song and tries to find it for you?

someones mentioned shazam. i find SEs 'track id' stolen from sonys walkman series to be bloomin excellent though. just not 100% sure the .apk for it will work on other phones

deadite66 · 3 Jul 2010 at 19:17

SiD the Turtle said:
Did you do that via the 'share via' on a photo? I ask as it's a feature Dropbox touted on their blog, but I don't seem to have though I have the Dropbox app.

make sure the image is in public folder, long click the image, share..., copy a link.

SiD the Turtle · 3 Jul 2010 at 19:22

Ta, I was thinking of when you take a picture, you have share to Picasa, Flikr etc, Dropbox is supposed to be able to do that too.

TheKnat · 3 Jul 2010 at 20:41

Cheers, I'll try Photobucket and dropbox. Knew there were others, but couldnt remember the names of them!

reflux · 3 Jul 2010 at 21:53

gizmoy2k said:
Had mine a few weeks now and my only real annoyance is when texting i always hit . instead of space,

so.i.end.up.like.this.before.i.notice

Is there a solution to this ie a keybord or option to make the space bar longer?

Or will i just have to train myself to get used to it

cheers

Also do this all the time lol

BloomerzUK · 3 Jul 2010 at 22:05

With Swype.. I always hit ' :-)

'.. jarring me off..

TheKnat · 3 Jul 2010 at 22:33

Looks like the photobucket app is a winner. Get an option to upload to it when looking at pictures and it provides you with a direct link for forum spammage. Good times all around.

andi · 3 Jul 2010 at 23:01

Anyone got an app for uploading videos to facebook? Preferably one that works straight from the gallery.

And is there any way of the market remembering your payment details rather than enter them everytime you buy an app?
Edit: Set up a google checkout account now. Can't use debit card to buy switchpro though..

naknakkus · 4 Jul 2010 at 00:00

Anyone have any experience of running scummvm?

V4NT0M · 4 Jul 2010 at 00:04

naknakkus said:
Anyone have any experience of running scummvm?

On PSP and PC but not on Android, but you just reminded me I need to give it a go.

"andy" · 4 Jul 2010 at 01:44

i couldnt get it to recognise the games. even with the patches/plugins

Richie · 4 Jul 2010 at 10:18

Skyfall said:
On PSP and PC but not on Android, but you just reminded me I need to give it a go.

I only found this for Andorid 2.1 - http://anddev.at.ua/news/scummvm_port_in_progress/2010-06-02-1

Not sure if there is a better ScummVM for 2.1 ??

Not tried it as need to pop out so will try later...

spoony77 · 4 Jul 2010 at 10:43

Asked this before but got no response.
How can I see total outgoing call duration to stop me overdoing my monthly allowance and be able to reset the timer every month?
Regards

V4NT0M · 4 Jul 2010 at 10:52

spoony77 said:
Asked this before but got no response.
How can I see total outgoing call duration to stop me overdoing my monthly allowance and be able to reset the timer every month?
Regards

Think you can do that with Phonalyzr.

BoomAM · 4 Jul 2010 at 11:29

Alexrose1uk said:
Boom, what was your problem with Cubed?

Its not the fancy views that annoys me, its the text only views. WAY to much information, it took 4 screen swipes to view all the tracks on one album!

BloomerzUK · 4 Jul 2010 at 12:08

Is there an app, or widget that shows you the MB's you've uploaded/downloaded each day.. don't want to go over the 25MB fair usage and be charged £2 per MB.

stoke1863 · 4 Jul 2010 at 12:09

BloomerzUK said:
Is there an app, or widget that shows you the MB's you've uploaded/downloaded each day.. don't want to go over the 25MB fair usage and be charged £2 per MB.

You need a better contract 25mb?

netcounter works well

mrk · 4 Jul 2010 at 12:13

My dad's MCR 3.1 has owned itself, last night he said he installed and uninstalled some wifi management apps and now senseui's launcher keeps forceclose looping.

I think rooting his phone was a bad idea tbh as I'm now tech support for it ;/