Android Apps/Mods

[CentralMOBuck]

Halo Reach Live Wallpaper

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[SloopyHangOn]

Looks like a pretty limited keyboard there, dawg.

"m"

-Sent from Moto Droid

 

[CentralMOBuck]

The full version of angry birds is available for download now(add version) for free, the paid version is supposed to come later on. The website that is hosting the game is receiving tons of traffic and you can't download it. Here's a list of sites from where you can download it.

http://www.multiupload.com/22YV6Q3P0Y

 

[jwinslow]

http://gizmodo.com/5665033/vplayer-for-android-is-your-new-play-anything-app

Player is an Android equivalent of VLC—that most wonderful of media playback programs that will take almost any file format you throw its way and chew through it with ease. And a free alpha version is now available. VPlayer offers support for virtually any video format you're likely to want (or need)—DivX, Xvid, FLV, MKV, and WMV, just to start. As mentioned, it's only an alpha, so might be on the crashy side, but you've got nothing to lose if format diversity is part of your life. [AppBrain]

Note: a lot of the comments seem to prefer RockPlayer to this.

 

[scarletandgrey]

Anybody know of a way to unlock the mobile 3g hot spot with out having to pay Verizon for the added services?

 

[CentralMOBuck]

Anybody know of a way to unlock the mobile 3g hot spot with out having to pay Verizon for the added services?

I think rooting might be your solution. What phone do you have? The mobile hot spot feature worked out of the box on my Nexus One.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Kept the phone--too much that I like about it.

Synching the calender is pretty easy. Just set up Outlook to synch to a gmail calender, and your phone to also synch with gmail. It's a seemless, two-way synch.

Contacts is more of a challenge. Even the $40 dollar outside app that I tried on a trial basis, would not--despite its claims--sync changes on the phone back to Outlook. It was purely one-way. Luckily, I didn't drop the money before finding this out.

Personally, I don't think this is oversight on Google's part. Their long term strategy is to kill Outlook and all the rest of MS Office and replace it with their cloud based (cough...cough SKYNET) office apps. It's in their strategic interests to make their phone customers have a hard time with Office.

 

[CentralMOBuck]

Does anyone ever listen to Sirius radio? They have an app for both the android and iphone platforms. If you are new to the service you can get a 7 trial.

http://shop.sirius.com/edealinv/ser...78842&catParentID=7870&scId=7870&oldParentID=

ORD_Buckeye, I'm sure you've seen this link.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=0a51a28ab366a8fd&hl=en

 

[scarletandgrey]

I think rooting might be your solution. What phone do you have? The mobile hot spot feature worked out of the box on my Nexus One.

The Incredible. If I try to use the hot spot on this phone it wants me to sign up for the service through Verizon.

 

[jlb1705]

Does anyone ever listen to Sirius radio? They have an app for both the android and iphone platforms. If you are new to the service you can get a 7 trial.

http://shop.sirius.com/edealinv/ser...78842&catParentID=7870&scId=7870&oldParentID=

ORD_Buckeye, I'm sure you've seen this link.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=0a51a28ab366a8fd&hl=en

I looked into the Sirius app for iPhone. I'm already a Sirius subscriber, and once upon a time streaming over the internet used to be included for free in the standard subscription. After the merger, they started charging extra for streaming and nobody was grandfathered in. I won't pay extra for streaming now on principle.

Besides, I don't know what all the options are for Android, but iPhone apps like Pandora and Slacker Radio are free and blow Sirius out of the water.

 

[CentralMOBuck]

The Incredible. If I try to use the hot spot on this phone it wants me to sign up for the service through Verizon.

I'd check around on XDA and see what your options are.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=635

 

[jwinslow]

This is a very good, free keyboard, ported over from the droid x.

Android 2.1:
http://www.mediafire.com/?lumzzhdjnij

Android 2.2:
http://www.mediafire.com/?1s0k376mjlpzqq1

 

[SloopyHangOn]

Besides, I don't know what all the options are for Android, but iPhone apps like Pandora and Slacker Radio are free and blow Sirius out of the water.

...and Last.fm is, in my experience, greater than all of the above.

 

[CentralMOBuck]

I haven't tried either of these two apps, I just saw them over on XDA and thought some people might be able to use them.

Winamp Music App

PowerAMP - see the link for how to get this.

Supports:
-MP3, MP4/M4A,loseless ALAC,FLAC, OGG, WAV, TTA, WMA
-Has own codecs
-Widget
-Choose music from SD card
-Tegs, lyrics
-Skins, 2 in beta version
-Fast scan of files ( in 1 second 1000files, depends on phone speed)
-EQ

I'm glad people are starting to implement equalizer's into their music apps. That's the main reason why I still carry my ipod with me.

Add this into the reason why I love android and the people who build custom roms. This custom ROM takes various bits and pieces from different phone OS's and other Roms and uses for their rom. I can make my phone look and damn near act however I want. I was hesitant to root my phone and install a custom ROM at first and now I'm glad I have.

Desire Super Hybrid ROM main features:
*720p Desire Video (with mod)
*Super Battery Circle
*Droid 2 Keyboard
*IntersectRaven Kernel
*Apps2Ext+
*Cyanogen's Live Wallpapers
*Cyanogen's Mms
*Cyanogen's Contacts
*Music Equalizer (fully working)
*Music Lockscreen
*SuperUser
*Spare Parts
*Trackball Alert
*Trackball Wake
*Gallery 3D
*FM Radio
*Astro
*Titanium Backup
*Quickboot
*Long Press Power Button (Reboot, Recovery)
*WiFi Hotspot (Working)
*Flash LED Flashlight (3 settings)
...much more...

Sorry for the long post.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Apparently, garmin is offering an upgrade to android 2.1 (think the garminfone is 1.6) Is this worth the hassle of upgrading? It's free.