Essential Android Apps

[biron_w]

Fail.

You can get it to text you the gps coordinates of the phone.

Doesn't Where's My Droid just work when you text your number?So presumably if they put their own sim card in it won't work?

 

[subbass]

Is there a widget to disable the vibration when typing?

 

[Psypher5]

turn off haptic feedback?

 

[gizmoy2k]

Anyone have an app or method for hiding "special" photos from prying eyes in the gallery, I've read about some .Nomedia file method but can't get it to work , instructions aren't great

 

[deadite66]

its a .nomedia folder, you place it inside the folder you don't want to show up, if the images are already in the gallery you need to reboot to clear it.

 

[Richie]

If you use a file explorer like Estrongs then just rename the folder with a "." at the start e.g. instead of pr0n, put .pr0n

This will hide the folders from everything but a file explorer....

Thats about as simple as it gets



Edit: you will need to reboot the phone or use an app lke SDRescan which mounts/unmounts the card and refreshes the file list without rebooting....

 

[BoomAM]

whats the app to recieve/write sms wireless to pc?

Android Web Desktop.

 

[Plunk13]

Anyone have an app or method for hiding "special" photos from prying eyes in the gallery, I've read about some .Nomedia file method but can't get it to work , instructions aren't great

HideNSeek.
The widget appears as a flashlight. You run it and press the menu button 3 times then enter a password. You then select which files to hide. It basically adds ".hide" to the extension.

 

[Azza]

Ringtones? Specifically message & notifications.


Any decent packs I can download?

 

[Locke]

Ringtones? Specifically message & notifications.


Any decent packs I can download?

Did you manage to find Twitter in the end? forgot to say that I managed to search for it fine on the market

Anyway, to answer your question, I think most people just download the MP3 and assign it as a ring tone? it's easily done via Youtube in conjunction with a music ripping program

 

[Azza]

Did you manage to find Twitter in the end? forgot to say that I managed to search for it fine on the market

Anyway, to answer your question, I think most people just download the MP3 and assign it as a ring tone? it's easily done via Youtube in conjunction with a music ripping program

Yeah I've got it now since I've updated to CM 5.x No idea why is wasn't coming up in the Market for me on 4.x


OK, might as well give Ringroid etc a go again.

 

[Locke]

^^ Ah right

BTW the latest Launcher Pro is sweet, the new bookmarks widget which is added, is amazingly hawt. ^_^

 

[Danger Phoenix]

^^ Ah right

BTW the latest Launcher Pro is sweet, the new bookmarks widget which is added, is amazingly hawt. ^_^

Ooo, I hadn't noticed that in the update. It is quite nice, but I still prefer to use Smart Shortcuts to group all my applications and bookmarks. If you have not tried it yet, I recommend that you do

 

[Neodite]

PSX4Droid

Oh yeah

 

[[SKR]Phoenix]

Also in LauncherPro - Hide apps in the app drawer!

In preferences/general, you can choose what to display. Bye bye load of crap I don't use!

 

[Danger Phoenix]

Anyone know how to turn the notification icon off for juice defender?

At the top of the JuiceDefender UI, there is an option for notifications... just turn that off

 

[Locke]

Ooo, I hadn't noticed that in the update. It is quite nice, but I still prefer to use Smart Shortcuts to group all my applications and bookmarks. If you have not tried it yet, I recommend that you do

Smart Shortcuts used way too much CPU time and memory for my liking and it did make my phone slower. Since uninstalling it, my phone has been noticeably faster...

I just use the app drawer now for loading apps, since I'm kinda addicted to the animation when you first go into it ^_^, and since there's a feature to hide all the stuff you don't use with Launcher Pro, it's awesome

 

[Cesar67]

PSX4Droid

Oh yeah

Yaaaasssssssss