Essential Android Apps

[Nexus18]

yup, which is why I will probably never use them even if I could, but they do look pretty cool

 

[deadite66]

dont live wallpapers also drain the battery pretty quick?

depends on how long the home has focus, when an app is on the screen the wallpaper stops.

 

[Psypher5]

Haven't tried a live wallpaper, don't think the I5700 supports it (my mobile isn't rooted).

Yeah read quite a few comments about people complaining about that, once you put a live wallpaper on, it laggs etc.

mine did lag for a bit but it "snapped" and is fine now :/

 

[CliffyBiro]

Pure Music Widget is quite a good replacement for the HTC music widget if you're using LauncherPro.

 

[413x]

I take it you loose all the black background stuff tho if you root... ie. The top info bar goes to white?

 

[Mekrel]

Mozilla have started to do nightly builds for Fennec!

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Platforms/Android

 

[413x]

Mozilla have started to do nightly builds for Fennec!

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Platforms/Android

Unfortunately It erl be useless to us unless asps to sd comes around as its going to end up around 20 mb

:/

 

[insane200]

That sound good mate, I'm just missing an app to turn mobile internet on/off now. Maybe a decent calendar. I don't use much else from sense UI

apn droid is a free mobile switcher widget.

 

[Mekrel]

Has anyone who's using Launcher Pro, found it has increased drain on their phone? I've not really used my phone much today and I've used 60% from full charge. Battery info in the about phone sector only lists cell standby, display and android system being the main drains.

So I'm guessing Launcher Pro will come under the android system for battery drain?

The widgets I've installed due to losing the sense ones have been configured to update at the same interval as the sense widgets I was using. So don't think it's that, unless the widgets I'm using aren't as battery efficient as the stock sense ones.

 

[mrk]

It will likely be something else. The launcher wouldn't have any drain on the battery any more or less than any other launcher, if anything Sense would use more battery due to the extra resources SenseUI has and the added widgets it loads I'd have thought.

My battery has been the same as it was when using Sense. My report for today is:

 

[Kreeeee]

When I receive an SMS and open it via handscent I still get the classic HTC notifier at the top of my screen. this happen to anyone else?

 

[ShakenNstirred]

When I receive an SMS and open it via handscent I still get the classic HTC notifier at the top of my screen. this happen to anyone else?

i used titanium backup to uninstall the standard messaging program from my magic as i didnt use it and it stopped that, as i was getting 2 notifers every sms like you

 

[413x]

Just turn it off in the settings of messages app

 

[Kreeeee]

Cheers, hope that fixed it

 

[V4NT0M]

Is there an app that does the same as the 1.6 built in battery status? I moved to a phone that only has 1.5... Also when I had my G1 it always seemed that the display had taken up 30%+ of the battery life even when I wasn't using it that much, it was always at the top of the list.

 

[Rimsy]

how are you guys taking screenshots from your desire?

 

[mrk]

Via the Android SDK.

 

[mohawk]

Would having multiple Twitter apps drain battery quick? (finding one I like)

 

[mrk]

No it would not, background scheduled apps won't drain the battery. You can see for yourself using the ever more useful battery usage meter.

 

[413x]

Via the Android SDK.

I never managed to get it to work personally