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Must Have Android Apps and Games?

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  • #2462
    kearneybobs
    Registered Users Posts: 3,923 ✭✭✭kearneybobs


    marcbrophy wrote: »
    I'm pretty certain that the videos for all 3pm Saturday matches cannot be shown until after they end, but all other games have live goals a few minutes after they are scored.
    :o

    Ah, forgot about that. Might be purchasing it again. I'll try it again tomorrow.


  • #2463
    lassykk
    Registered Users Posts: 3,596 ✭✭✭lassykk


    kearneybobs wrote: »
    marcbrophy wrote: »
    I'm pretty certain that the videos for all 3pm Saturday matches cannot be shown until after they end, but all other games have live goals a few minutes after they are scored.
    :o

    Ah, forgot about that. Might be purchasing it again. I'll try it again tomorrow.

    Can only get a refund for the same app once so be careful


  • #2464
    marcbrophy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,428 ✭✭✭marcbrophy


    kearneybobs wrote: »
    :o

    Ah, forgot about that. Might be purchasing it again. I'll try it again tomorrow.

    Haha, I think that's the case anyway, as that's the way espn goals works!

    Let us know how it turns out, I wouldn't mind dropping 4 bucks for it, if it actually works!


  • #2465
    Ste-
    Registered Users Posts: 4,751 ✭✭✭Ste-


    Bought it. Videos for the goals don't work. Refunded.


  • #2466
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    I uninstalled the Dolphin HD browser, the features it had were nice but after only a couple of weeks I found it had gotten far too slow. I'm using opera now which is lightening fast in comparison. We'll see how long that lasts.

    I also uninstalled the k9 email client and started using maildroid which so far is much better.


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  • #2467
    marcbrophy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,428 ✭✭✭marcbrophy


    Ste- wrote: »
    Bought it. Videos for the goals don't work. Refunded.

    Damn it anyway!! :mad:


  • #2468
    AntiRip
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,244 ✭✭✭AntiRip


    Came across Qloud yesterday evening. Any of you that know of AirVideo for iOS may like this. You can stream video, music and pictures to your phone or Tablet. Even streams mkvs :)

    Extremely easy to set up compared to VLC Convert and Stream. Just download and install server on your PC and add the folders.

    Only using it since yesterday but so far I find it brilliant.

    App


  • #2469
    xxyyzz
    Registered Users Posts: 2,168 ✭✭✭xxyyzz


    Does anybody know of an app to make text on websites more readable? iOS has a reader button when you visit a website with a lot of text and it enlarges the font and wraps the text so that you're not constantly scrolling across the screen.


  • #2470
    chavezychavez
    Registered Users Posts: 962 ✭✭✭chavezychavez


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    I uninstalled the Dolphin HD browser, the features it had were nice but after only a couple of weeks I found it had gotten far too slow. I'm using opera now which is lightening fast in comparison. We'll see how long that lasts.

    I also uninstalled the k9 email client and started using maildroid which so far is much better.

    Which Opera are you using? Mini or Mobile? I'm finding Dolphin to be getting very slow to load pages as well.


  • #2471
    marcbrophy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,428 ✭✭✭marcbrophy


    xxyyzz wrote: »
    Does anybody know of an app to make text on websites more readable? iOS has a reader button when you visit a website with a lot of text and it enlarges the font and wraps the text so that you're not constantly scrolling across the screen.

    If you have the Dolphin Browser HD on your phone, you can install the plugin called Dolphin Reader.
    It does a good job!


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  • #2472
    AntiRip
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,244 ✭✭✭AntiRip


    marcbrophy wrote: »
    xxyyzz wrote: »
    Does anybody know of an app to make text on websites more readable? iOS has a reader button when you visit a website with a lot of text and it enlarges the font and wraps the text so that you're not constantly scrolling across the screen.

    If you have the Dolphin Browser HD on your phone, you can install the plugin called Dolphin Reader.
    It does a good job!

    Yep, ReadItLater is good too


  • #2473
    PogMoThoin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,874 ✭✭✭✭PogMoThoin


    chavezychavez wrote: »
    Which Opera are you using? Mini or Mobile? I'm finding Dolphin to be getting very slow to load pages as well.

    Dolphin is fast, but it slows over time, but as someone who flashes different roms regularly it never slows for me :D

    The latest 7.4.0 beta is very quick, I'm on a fresh one week old ICS install
    http://mobile-apppz.blogspot.com/2012/02/dolphin-browser-hd-apk-740-beta.html


  • #2474
    omg a kitty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 447 ✭✭omg a kitty


    I need some help with the stock alarm app..
    If I put the phone on standby now with the alarm set for 7:00am, sometimes the time freezes. If I unlock the phone at 10:00am tomorrow(well after the alarm was supposed to go off) it will say 11:50pm for three seconds, change to 10:00am and then the 7:00am alarm will finally go off.

    Is there an alarm app that prevents the phone from sleeping?
    I know this is probably not the case because it works fine half of the time.
    Task Killer is ignoring alarm and network time updating is turned off btw

    Im trying Alarm Clock Plus tonight but it will take a few weeks to see how reliable it will be on my phone


  • #2475
    28064212
    Registered Users Posts: 10,454 ✭✭✭✭28064212


    omg a kitty wrote: »
    I need some help with the stock alarm app..
    If I put the phone on standby now with the alarm set for 7:00am, sometimes the time freezes. If I unlock the phone at 10:00am tomorrow(well after the alarm was supposed to go off) it will say 11:50pm for three seconds, change to 10:00am and then the 7:00am alarm will finally go off.

    Is there an alarm app that prevents the phone from sleeping?
    I know this is probably not the case because it works fine half of the time.
    Task Killer is ignoring alarm and network time updating is turned off btw

    Im trying Alarm Clock Plus tonight but it will take a few weeks to see how reliable it will be on my phone
    Uninstall Task Killer. It's totally unnecessary on Android apart from the (very occasional) need to manually kill a process, you should never have auto-kill turned on.

    Even if it's set to ignore "Alarm", it might be killing a process alarm depends on

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  • #2476
    Nolimits
    Registered Users Posts: 1,645 ✭✭✭Nolimits


    omg a kitty wrote: »
    I need some help with the stock alarm app..
    If I put the phone on standby now with the alarm set for 7:00am, sometimes the time freezes. If I unlock the phone at 10:00am tomorrow(well after the alarm was supposed to go off) it will say 11:50pm for three seconds, change to 10:00am and then the 7:00am alarm will finally go off.

    Is there an alarm app that prevents the phone from sleeping?
    I know this is probably not the case because it works fine half of the time.
    Task Killer is ignoring alarm and network time updating is turned off btw

    Im trying Alarm Clock Plus tonight but it will take a few weeks to see how reliable it will be on my phone
    28064212 wrote: »
    Uninstall Task Killer. It's totally unnecessary on Android apart from the (very occasional) need to manually kill a process, you should never have auto-kill turned on.Even if it's set to ignore "Alarm", it might be killing a process alarm depends on



    The only people I have ever herd saying they have a problem with the Android alarm clock are people that were (entirely unnecessarily) using a task killer.


  • #2477
    killbillvol2
    Registered Users Posts: 5,178 ✭✭✭killbillvol2


    28064212 wrote: »
    Uninstall Task Killer. It's totally unnecessary on Android apart from the (very occasional) need to manually kill a process, you should never have auto-kill turned on.

    Even if it's set to ignore "Alarm", it might be killing a process alarm depends on
    Nolimits wrote: »
    The only people I have ever herd saying they have a problem with the Android alarm clock are people that were (entirely unnecessarily) using a task killer.

    ^^^^^
    What they said...


  • #2478
    daz801
    Registered Users Posts: 1,159 ✭✭✭daz801


    If you want a good alarm though, get sleep as android. You put it on your bed and it detects when you move during the night. By doing this it can track when you are in a deep or light sleep. It will then wake you up within predetermined time period (between 10 minutes and 2 hours before your alarm) when you are in the lightest sleep. Makes you feel much more awake in the mornings. It also shows you a graph of you sleep movement and you can set it to record you if you start talking in your sleep. Theres a free 14 night trial and then it costs 99c.


  • #2479
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    daz801 wrote: »
    If you want a good alarm though, get sleep as android. You put it on your bed and it detects when you move during the night. By doing this it can track when you are in a deep or light sleep. It will then wake you up within predetermined time period (between 10 minutes and 2 hours before your alarm) when you are in the lightest sleep. Makes you feel much more awake in the mornings. It also shows you a graph of you sleep movement and you can set it to record you if you start talking in your sleep. Theres a free 14 night trial and then it costs 99c.
    Why would I want to wake up 2 hours before my alarm goes off? :confused:


  • #2480
    Headshot
    Registered Users Posts: 53,823 ✭✭✭✭Headshot


    lol that app has made me laugh so many times

    mg the stuff I say in my sleep

    "I do not know sir, I do not know"

    wtf like lol


  • #2481
    rogieop
    Registered Users Posts: 402 ✭✭rogieop


    sounds like a laugh, im always walking/talking in my sleep.

    what is it called? sleep as android?


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  • #2482
    Star Lord
    Registered Users Posts: 30,123 ✭✭✭✭Star Lord


    daz801 wrote: »
    If you want a good alarm though, get sleep as android. You put it on your bed and it detects when you move during the night. By doing this it can track when you are in a deep or light sleep. It will then wake you up within predetermined time period (between 10 minutes and 2 hours before your alarm) when you are in the lightest sleep. Makes you feel much more awake in the mornings. It also shows you a graph of you sleep movement and you can set it to record you if you start talking in your sleep. Theres a free 14 night trial and then it costs 99c.

    Tried that last night, and I gotta say, I really did feel fresher when it woke me (3 minutes before the set time)


  • #2483
    rogieop
    Registered Users Posts: 402 ✭✭rogieop


    is temple run available on android? was playing it on the missus phone last night and it was brilliant.

    Also with regards rooting the phone, what are the positives, i know you can choose which software to run etc but is it really that much better, considerung im not too much of a tech geek, would i actually know what i was doing? could i still use the phoe as it is pre root and,, if it all goes to pot how easy is it to get the phone back to factory settings?


  • #2484
    Technophobe
    Registered Users Posts: 1,039 ✭✭✭Technophobe


    G1032 wrote: »
    :confused:

    Think he/she maybe looking for someone to do all the hardwork for them..?

    As in list all the apps we recommend...

    >>>So, Keke, Read the Thread :D


  • #2485
    Zagato
    Registered Users Posts: 1,775 ✭✭✭Zagato


    rogieop wrote: »
    is temple run available on android? was playing it on the missus phone last night and it was brilliant.

    See the other active thread in this forum about Temple Run causing spam to appear in your notification bar (Airpush)


  • #2486
    marcbrophy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,428 ✭✭✭marcbrophy


    Zagato wrote: »
    See the other active thread in this forum about Temple Run causing spam to appear in your notification bar (Airpush)

    I'm certain that was a fake version though, as it hasn't been released for android yet according to wiki.

    I don't even know what it is, but people seem to want it badly!! :pac:


  • #2487
    budgemook
    Registered Users Posts: 3,822 ✭✭✭budgemook


    marcbrophy wrote: »
    I'm certain that was a fake version though, as it hasn't been released for android yet according to wiki.

    I don't even know what it is, but people seem to want it badly!! :pac:

    Looks to be just another running game like iRunner...


  • #2488
    madmoe
    Registered Users Posts: 4,364 ✭✭✭madmoe


    marcbrophy wrote: »
    I'm certain that was a fake version though, as it hasn't been released for android yet according to wiki.

    I don't even know what it is, but people seem to want it badly!! :pac:

    Saw the Airpush stand at Mobile World Congress today and was tempted to go over and give out to them for how intrusive their app is!!


  • #2489
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    Highly recommend a look at OnLive Desktop if you can.
    Free cloud Windows 7 for your tablet
    http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/03/01/fascinating-onlive-unveils-onlive-desktop-a-free-instantly-available-windows-7-cloud-instance-for-tablets-complete-with-ms-office-media-streaming-and-more-hands-on/


  • #2490
    budgemook
    Registered Users Posts: 3,822 ✭✭✭budgemook


    Not sure if posted:

    http://gizmodo.com/5889435/the-new-essential-apps-february-2012#android
    http://gizmodo.com/5739420/the-best-android-apps


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  • #2491
    marcbrophy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,428 ✭✭✭marcbrophy


    madmoe wrote: »
    Saw the Airpush stand at Mobile World Congress today and was tempted to go over and give out to them for how intrusive their app is!!

    You should have hurled a brick at them!! :pac:


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