Essential Android Apps

jubei · 3 Feb 2013 at 13:03

Grrrrr said:
AdAway is the best ad-blocker I've tried on Android. Are you sure you enabled it after downloading?

yeah definitely enabled, maybe just doesnt block ads in this app. If you want to do me a favour and test it you coud download the guess the movie app, its a good app anyway so worth a go for anyone into movies.

But after every 2 or 3 that you guess it opens up an advert.

EniGmA1981 · 3 Feb 2013 at 13:26

Oh I see what you mean... yeah those kind of ads are a total PITA! Can't block those I'm afraid

I get the same problem with Subway Surfers - annoying, but at least they're easy to click off, not like you have to watch a ten minute advert clip before you can click it off

Be thankful for small mercies lol

photoshop · 4 Feb 2013 at 18:10

Anyone here use Astro File Manager?

Is it possible to remove Box and Drop Box links in locations (as i dont use them). Cant find a way of doing so....

photoshop · 4 Feb 2013 at 19:50

IGNORE

smokedog · 4 Feb 2013 at 19:58

photoshop said:
Also,

is there anyway to stop Picasa stuff appearing in the Galley App?

Google Photo sync is off but they are still showing up :/

Clear the cache for gallery in mange apps.

photoshop · 4 Feb 2013 at 20:03

smokedog said:
Clear the cache for gallery in mange apps.

Thank you. Google said the same thing

DoubleCheese · 4 Feb 2013 at 20:43

Best Twitter and Facebook Aps to use on a Nexus 7?

smokedog · 4 Feb 2013 at 20:55

DoubleCheese said:
Best Twitter and Facebook Aps to use on a Nexus 7?

A lot of people seen to use falcon for twitter.

Skillmister · 4 Feb 2013 at 21:30

Falcon pro for twitter is great.

There is also this but i haven't bothered to try it because well, i've already bought falcon and it's ace.

tbz_ck · 4 Feb 2013 at 22:35

smokedog said:
A lot of people seen to use falcon for twitter.

Tweetcaster is good

benjo · 4 Feb 2013 at 23:15

Carbon just got released for Twitter. A lot of hype over the last few months, but I don't use Twitter so I haven't got a clue

EniGmA1981 · 5 Feb 2013 at 07:49

I'm a tweetcaster pro and friendcaster pro man...

I'm open to trying other programs, will give falcon and carbon a shot, but I've not found anything better for farcebook than friendcaster

this_is_gav · 5 Feb 2013 at 08:34

Just bought Falcon Pro. Go to log in to Twitter and a little circle flashes in the top right corner before disappearing and nothing happens. So that's a refund happening already.

I'll stick with Tweakdeck

DoubleCheese · 5 Feb 2013 at 09:41

Is Friendcaster better than the Stock Facebook Ap? I find it atrocious on my Note1,slow to update status or navigate around my Feed.

DoubleCheese · 5 Feb 2013 at 10:08

DoubleCheese said:
Is Friendcaster better than the Stock Facebook Ap? I find it atrocious on my Note1,slow to update status or navigate around my Feed.

WOW,Tweetcaster is SIGNIFICANTLY better than the stock Facebook Ap! Why did I waste so much time before!??

rossk26 · 5 Feb 2013 at 10:41

Need some recommendations for home screen widgets...

photoshop · 5 Feb 2013 at 13:08

Guys,

When i go into Settings -> Apps -> All i notice there's apps on there which i dont use...apps which are part of android.

Apps Like:

Sound Recorder
Picasa Uploader
Phase Beam
Photos Screensavers
Market Feedback Agent
Magic Smoke Wallper
TalkBack
talk
Movie Studio
GooManager
Google+
Google Search
Currents............etc

I dont use any of these.
Can these be uninstalled or disabled without screwing up my phone?

benjo · 5 Feb 2013 at 13:11

photoshop said:
Guys,

When i go into Settings -> Apps -> All i notice there's apps on there which i dont use...apps which are part of android.

Apps Like:

Sound Recorder
Picasa Uploader
Phase Beam
Photos Screensavers
Market Feedback Agent
Magic Smoke Wallper
TalkBack
talk
Movie Studio
GooManager
Google+
Google Search
Currents............etc

I dont use any of these.
Can these be uninstalled or disabled without screwing up my phone?

Yep, if you're rooted. I've disabled/deleted so many system apps from my S3 before and it was still stable

Bloomfield · 5 Feb 2013 at 13:18

The only one of those I'd say not to delete is "Market Feedback Agent" as I don't know what it is and it might break the Play store

.

The rest you can delete though. "TalkBack" is the thing that reads stuff to you, so deleting that will stop that from working (I only mention this one as it's the only other non-obvious one, although thinking about it the name is pretty obvious :shrug:

).

Edit: I'll just add that now that Android lets you disable system apps that it's probably best to do that first to make sure everything still works. Some like "Email" can't be disabled though so I just delete it

.

TheVoice · 5 Feb 2013 at 13:37

For any Sky customers, the Sky+ app has been updated now so you can mange your Sky box's planner and use your device as a remote control.