Essential Android Apps

tom_e · 31 Jul 2013 at 16:05

panthro said:
Anyone know a good SMS app?

Handcent, even better since the update last week.

benjo · 31 Jul 2013 at 16:37

Myshra said:
Incompatible with all my phones, this is really the first time I've seen this, I have about 8 devices registered from old to new, US only by chance?

Not compatible with my S3 either.

I can remember on the old Play Store, it used to say whether it was incompatible due to your location. Not sure if they removed that since updating it?

Cosimo · 31 Jul 2013 at 18:43

Catch Notes service shutting down after August 30:

https://catch.com/

Kreeeee · 31 Jul 2013 at 19:23

No great loss, Google Keep is a great alternative.

mattyfez · 31 Jul 2013 at 20:15

Anyone know any good 'lost phone' software?

I have cerebeus but it doesn't seem to offer really close proximity, for example, your phone's on silent and it's slid down the back of the sofa?

benjo · 31 Jul 2013 at 20:53

mattyfez said:
I have cerebeus but it doesn't seem to offer really close proximity, for example, your phone's on silent and it's slid down the back of the sofa?

You could make cerberus sound an alarm?

mattyfez · 31 Jul 2013 at 21:01

benjo said:
You could make cerberus sound an alarm?

I didn't know it could do that (I'm not rooted if that makes any difference?) I know it's got limited function if you're not rooted?

Its the full paid for app, if that makes any difference?

Cheers

Cyclone · 31 Jul 2013 at 22:59

panthro said:
Anyone know a good SMS app?

I use GoSMS Pro. Get spam messages now and then from the developers but very customisable.

tals · 31 Jul 2013 at 23:05

I use handcent, like the app and you can set it to pop up over apps which is useful to see messages on the go

photoshop · 31 Jul 2013 at 23:09

Sliding Messages is a good one with loads of themes and customization.

Philtor · 1 Aug 2013 at 00:23

Speaking of Cerberus... I have rooted my phone and made it a system app using Titanium backup. Do I need to do anything else to avail of the extra features once rooted??

benjo · 1 Aug 2013 at 01:13

Make sure it's got SU access. If you go into Cerberus and disable then enable system administrator then it should prompt you.

Liquid_Entity · 1 Aug 2013 at 07:02

Does anyone use Tweetdeck, if so do you know if it's been removed from Google Play or if there's a bug.

My tweetdeck app does not verify my twitter account but it works fine for my Facebook account.

I have uninstalled/reinstalled app several times but still does not like my twitter account and says unexpected error.

Both accounts work fine using HootSuite or Seesmic but I can't get on with their apps.

I emailed the apps contact address through Play store but came back as undeliverable

Montala · 1 Aug 2013 at 08:22

Cosimo said:
MS Office Mobile for Office 365 subscribers has arrived:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.office.officehub

Myshra said:
Incompatible with all my phones, this is really the first time I've seen this, I have about 8 devices registered from old to new, US only by chance?

Could well be... when I checked it out on my PC this morning I received the message "This app is incompatible with all of your devices."

this_is_gav · 1 Aug 2013 at 08:25

Liquid_Entity said:
Does anyone use Tweetdeck, if so do you know if it's been removed from Google Play or if there's a bug.

TweetDeck to stop working 7 May, disappear from Google Play

Last I saw it hadn't been updated since 2011 and I started using TweakDeck instead (an interface copy of TweetDeck), but it too died when Twitter updated their terms a while back.

Now I use Falcon Pro, but it's not on the Play Store any longer as it hit Twitter's idiotic 100,000 user token rule. To be fair it's better than any other Twitter app I've seen yet, providing you can log in to your Twitter account on it (again, blame Twitter for this).

Twitter's new API rules are nuts, really forcing out the possibility of a successful rival to the official Twitter app.

Steve_bullockuk · 1 Aug 2013 at 08:28

Just out of curiosity, What are peoples issues with the official Twitter app? I have tried Falcon Pro multiple times to try and "force" myself to like it but the UI is just horrendous in my opinion. I know the official app has its minor niggles but the UI is unrivaled.

this_is_gav · 1 Aug 2013 at 08:37

Things such as displaying pictures in your timeline and inline websites, keeping your position in your timeline (which the Twitter app wouldn't do the last time I looked).

Nexus18 · 1 Aug 2013 at 11:57

Does anyone know how the htc one on the left has got smaller bubbles on the phase beam wallpaper as opposed to the standard bigger ones on original phase beam live wallpaper? i.e. like the htc one on the right but using the sun beam orange live wallpaper instead.

http://cdn.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/nexusae0_wm_IMG_6387.jpg

benjo · 1 Aug 2013 at 12:27

The phase beam on aosp looks like the one on the left. On my S3 CM10.1 at least.

Nexus18 · 1 Aug 2013 at 13:04

hmmm, mine is nothing like it :confused: