Essential Android Apps

Nexus18 · 13 Feb 2013 at 13:49

Not that I know of unless you are rooted, there might be a way with titanium?

Only way I know of for sure, is to just wait until they update the market version

You can get it to learn from your SMS, email, twitter etc. accounts though.

EDIT:

not noticed much difference in battery life with a live wallpape, currently using the built in phase beam one, can get it from the market here:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...llpaper.icsclassic.lite&feature=search_result

Pighardia · 13 Feb 2013 at 14:04

Completed broken sword at work the other night. Was great playing through it again on my tablet!

On to the 2nd one now...though I am still playing FFII atm as well.

cjgardens · 13 Feb 2013 at 14:29

frakker said:
Could be old news, but Simpsons Tapped Out is now available on Google Play in the UK/Europe.

Wasn't on yesterday. So not old news. I just downloaded the apk

Nexus18 · 13 Feb 2013 at 14:34

I personally found it rather boring after 30 minutes..........

EniGmA1981 · 13 Feb 2013 at 14:54

It has a notification system similar to that of an alarm app, it doesn't so much 'run' in the background, it just wakes up and shouts at you when a timed action finishes (like a countdown alarm I guess) it can be disabled by going into the app info for Tapped Out and just disable the notifications

simples

PiKe · 13 Feb 2013 at 15:02

Nexus18 said:
I personally found it rather boring after 30 minutes..........

Yeah it basically tells you what to do, when. You're just carrying out the actions, more like a chore than a game really :/

Theme Park whilst basically the same concept, was better.

Pighardia · 13 Feb 2013 at 15:07

PiKe said:
Yeah it basically tells you what to do, when. You're just carrying out the actions, more like a chore than a game really :/

How long does this go on for?...I have been doing this for about 20 minutes now! I assumed this was just a tutorial.

EniGmA1981 · 13 Feb 2013 at 15:12

you get guidelines to carry out certain tasks to meet different characters wants/needs

You can choose to ignore these though and send them off to do their own thing, though these particular 'missions' aid to open up the ability to build new buildings and give you more characters

- story progression, without the story lol

pepp77 · 13 Feb 2013 at 15:21

Been playing this on the ipad since around Christmas time and it can be annoyingly addictive. You can play as much or as little as you like by setting the characters to different length tasks and once you start building up a Springfield it gets better as you get more characters and buildings to build.

This is a good source of information on it - http://www.supercheats.com/guides/the-simpsons-tapped-out/

My world is currently Level 21 and the main thing I can advise is do not spend donuts during the tutorial just let the times they ask you to run fully as donuts are a premium and also when you can build a few extra Orange houses to bring in extra money to allow you to expand and build more later on.

mark43 · 13 Feb 2013 at 15:36

Mattey1 said:
It is sweet, Was linked on the last page.

How mine looks:

Wallpaper is sweet too cheers Skyfall!

I hope this isnt a hugely silly question, but mine always shows the keypad to enter my pin code, is there a way to hide this so it only appears when I press the lock symbol, without disabling pin lock completely?

I've been looking through the settings but can't see anything.

rogueblade · 13 Feb 2013 at 16:00

mark43 said:
I hope this isnt a hugely silly question, but mine always shows the keypad to enter my pin code, is there a way to hide this so it only appears when I press the lock symbol, without disabling pin lock completely?

I've been looking through the settings but can't see anything.

haha I was freaking out about the exact same thing...not sure if there's a way around it. :confused:

V4NT0M · 13 Feb 2013 at 16:01

Might be a stupid suggestion, but maybe use pattern lock?

mark43 · 13 Feb 2013 at 16:05

Thanks, but just tried that but then I just get the pattern thing on the screen, instead of the keypad. I wanted neither like the screen shot of Mattey1's. He just has a padlock icon, which I guess then brings up the number pad or pattern.

Matteysan · 13 Feb 2013 at 16:13

I don't use any security on mine. So I have no idea

mark43 · 13 Feb 2013 at 16:15

Ah thanks, that explains it then.

Its a shame though, would be nice if the keypad or whatever could be hidden until you clicked on the padlock.

G-MAN2004 · 13 Feb 2013 at 16:49

mark43 said:
Ah thanks, that explains it then.

Its a shame though, would be nice if the keypad or whatever could be hidden until you clicked on the padlock.

This is mine...

Which changes to this once I touch the screen:

Edit: Worked it out. Under lock screen options, make sure 'With swipe lock' is ticked.

rogueblade · 13 Feb 2013 at 17:07

mark43 said:
Thanks, but just tried that but then I just get the pattern thing on the screen, instead of the keypad. I wanted neither like the screen shot of Mattey1's. He just has a padlock icon, which I guess then brings up the number pad or pattern.

Yea, either it's the keypad or the swipe pattern filling 2/3 of the lock screen making the widget really small. I wanted to the swipe pattern/keypad to only appear after clicking the lock icon.
Like in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpN8Wyu_z6Y , the swipe pattern doesn't appear until he touches the padlock

G-MAN2004 said:
This is mine...

IMG

Which changes to this once I touch the screen:

IMG

Edit: Worked it out. Under lock screen options, make sure 'With swipe lock' is ticked.

Where is this option?

G-MAN2004 · 13 Feb 2013 at 17:19

rogueblade said:
Where is this option?

Settings, then:

Edit: I've been assuming you have a GS3. Not sure if it will be different.

rogueblade · 13 Feb 2013 at 17:34

Yea don't have that. Nexus 4

mark43 · 13 Feb 2013 at 18:10

Yeah sorry should have said, Nexus 4 here as well. Thanks anyway though.