Essential Android Apps

iMacMart · 23 Apr 2013 at 07:55

Gents

I have the HTC One and the GF has an iPhone 4s, what's the easiest way to setup a shared calendar? We used to have it via iCloud before I changed handsets and it worked very well

Any ideas please?

Thanks

Siliconslave · 23 Apr 2013 at 09:45

iMacMart said:
Gents

I have the HTC One and the GF has an iPhone 4s, what's the easiest way to setup a shared calendar? We used to have it via iCloud before I changed handsets and it worked very well

Any ideas please?

Thanks

get a google account and use that for the calendar on both devices, pretty easy to setup

benjo · 23 Apr 2013 at 10:14

Siliconslave said:
get a google account and use that for the calendar on both devices, pretty easy to setup

You can add a calendar to your existing gmail account, and then share it

No need to share a whole gmail account.

Siliconslave · 23 Apr 2013 at 10:19

benjo said:
You can add a calendar to your existing gmail account, and then share it No need to share a whole gmail account.

can you share with editing rights though? You can have multiple accounts on either device so not really a problem either way

Simian · 23 Apr 2013 at 11:04

Yep The Wife and me share each others Google Calendars (and Outlook.com Calendars) with Full Administrative Read/Write permissions on both (all 4) calendars on all devices we log-in too!

iMacMart · 23 Apr 2013 at 11:38

Hi guys

I have a .gmail.com account I have shared my calendar which send the GF a link to her email address, I'm assuming I need to make some changes on her iPhone 4s to link into it....

Nearly there

Thanks

Nexus18 · 23 Apr 2013 at 12:05

EniGmA1981 said:
Finally, one for Nexus18

I don't really like doing full backups and restoring them as I always encounter some annoying problem(s)!

Happened a lot on my spica with titanium :mad:

Better to start fresh

Although this is great as it means that I can backup games and save data now, got so fed up with having to redo all the game levels again if I did a factory reset, in fact I haven't bothered reinstalling some games as I CBA with it! i.e. star wars angry birds

Pc-Gamer12 · 23 Apr 2013 at 18:00

Does anyone play Pokemon on their phone if so how and what is it like ?

benjo · 23 Apr 2013 at 18:32

Don't think we can talk abour roms on here, but it works well

Pc-Gamer12 · 23 Apr 2013 at 18:35

Have you got it on your phone ?

iMacMart · 24 Apr 2013 at 08:50

Gents

On the stock mail app I always have to hit the "Display Images" button before it will show the content, I've changed the mail size to full, is this a bug or a setting I've overlooked

Thanks

mrk · 24 Apr 2013 at 08:53

There are two bits to choose to click, one to always display images from that sender or one to just display images. I assume you've clicked the latter?

ES File Explorer update is amazing, much faster at loading FTP directories and now have thumbnails for images as well. Really nice file management interface now.

MeMeMeMe · 24 Apr 2013 at 09:01

Siliconslave said:
has anyone tried this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.goddchen.android.easyapptoolbox

seems to be able to backup apps and data(?) without root access which would be nice

I just backed up a game on my tablet and restored it on my phone, and it not restore the game data.

Is there any app that allows you to save and restore a game's data without root?

iMacMart · 24 Apr 2013 at 09:08

mrk said:
There are two bits to choose to click, one to always display images from that sender or one to just display images. I assume you've clicked the latter?

Yes it is the latter mrk, have I missed something

Thanks

mrk · 24 Apr 2013 at 09:16

As in this bit: http://robbiekhan.co.uk/root/temp/Screenshot_2013-04-24-09-14-48.png

Click it once where it says "Show Images" and then it changes to "Always show" - You need to do this for each sender though.

iMacMart · 24 Apr 2013 at 09:39

mrk said:
As in this bit: http://robbiekhan.co.uk/root/temp/Screenshot_2013-04-24-09-14-48.png

Click it once where it says "Show Images" and then it changes to "Always show" - You need to do this for each sender though.

I only get the first prompt, then it shows the images, not the second?

I'll have a play and see why

Thanks for the reply

mrk · 24 Apr 2013 at 09:40

What version of the gmail app are you on? Mine is 4.3.1.

iMacMart · 24 Apr 2013 at 09:55

mrk said:
What version of the gmail app are you on? Mine is 4.3.1.

GMail? I'm using the default Adroid app on my HTC One? I have a domain account and hotmail sync'd to that and Gmail is looking after my gmail.com address as I rarely use that account, certainly not to send or receive

mrk · 24 Apr 2013 at 10:00

Ahhh! Now it makes sense. Why not migrate acocunts to Gmail instead? (much better).

Cosimo · 24 Apr 2013 at 10:10

BBC iPlayer Radio:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/posts/BBC-iPlayer-Radio-app-on-Android-devices

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...widWsuY28uYmJjLmFuZHJvaWQuaXBsYXllcnJhZGlvIl0.