Must Have Android Apps and Games?

Theimprover · 23-02-2012 8:24pm

Need an app that will translate pages for me like the way google translate gives you an option to translate from example french to english.

ED E · 24-02-2012 12:08am

Theimprover wrote: »

Need an app that will translate pages for me like the way google translate gives you an option to translate from example french to english.

Paste the url into translate.google.com...

kearneybobs · 24-02-2012 1:07pm

Patsy fyre wrote: »

Anyone download the Premier League goals app ?

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.bpl&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5icGwiXQ..

Not yet. Gonna wait until tomorrow and see if it works. otherwise, I'll be getting a refund. The two reviews from a few months back dont seem to help it's case.

Patsy fyre · 24-02-2012 1:32pm

kearneybobs wrote: »

Patsy fyre wrote: »

Anyone download the Premier League goals app ?

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.bpl&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5icGwiXQ..

Not yet. Gonna wait until tomorrow and see if it works. otherwise, I'll be getting a refund. The two reviews from a few months back dont seem to help it's case.

How do you go about getting a refund?

Atomic Pineapple · 24-02-2012 1:34pm

Patsy fyre wrote: »

How do you go about getting a refund?

Uninstall the app within 15 minutes.

Patsy fyre · 24-02-2012 1:37pm

kearneybobs wrote: »

Patsy fyre wrote: »

Anyone download the Premier League goals app ?

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.bpl&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5icGwiXQ..

Not yet. Gonna wait until tomorrow and see if it works. otherwise, I'll be getting a refund. The two reviews from a few months back dont seem to help it's case.

How do you go about getting a refund?

kearneybobs · 24-02-2012 2:04pm

draffodx wrote: »

Uninstall the app within 15 minutes.

Patsy fyre wrote: »

How do you go about getting a refund?

Yup, as draffodx points out, uninstall the app within 15 mins amd you can get a refund.

Benzino · 25-02-2012 2:47pm

Playing Triple Town of late, love it! Though I have missed 3 luas stops as a result of it

kearneybobs · 25-02-2012 5:44pm

Patsy fyre wrote: »

Anyone download the Premier League goals app ?

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.bpl&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5icGwiXQ..

Right, I tried it there. Bought it, downloaded it, opened it. No videos for any of the matches. Refunded it.

marcbrophy · 25-02-2012 7:27pm

kearneybobs wrote: »

Right, I tried it there. Bought it, downloaded it, opened it. No videos for any of the matches. Refunded it.

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.

kearneybobs · 25-02-2012 8:35pm

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.

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

lassykk · 25-02-2012 10:08pm

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.

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

marcbrophy · 25-02-2012 11:35pm

kearneybobs wrote: »

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!

Ste- · 25-02-2012 11:45pm

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

MagicMarker · 25-02-2012 11:54pm

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.

marcbrophy · 26-02-2012 1:19am

Ste- wrote: »

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

Damn it anyway!! :mad:

AntiRip · 27-02-2012 7:45pm

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

xxyyzz · 28-02-2012 10:02am

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.

chavezychavez · 28-02-2012 10:46am

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.

marcbrophy · 28-02-2012 10:53am

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!

AntiRip · 28-02-2012 11:39am

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

PogMoThoin · 28-02-2012 11:43am

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

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

omg a kitty · 29-02-2012 12:56am

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

29-02-2012 10:39am

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

Nolimits · 29-02-2012 11:37am

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.

killbillvol2 · 29-02-2012 4:47pm

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...

daz801 · 29-02-2012 10:43pm

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.

MagicMarker · 29-02-2012 10:46pm

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?

Headshot · 29-02-2012 10:48pm

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

rogieop · 01-03-2012 12:24am

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

what is it called? sleep as android?

Star Lord · 01-03-2012 11:09am

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)

rogieop · 01-03-2012 12:38pm

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?

Technophobe · 01-03-2012 1:52pm

G1032 wrote: »

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

Zagato · 01-03-2012 3:14pm

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)

marcbrophy · 01-03-2012 4:03pm

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:

budgemook · 01-03-2012 5:15pm

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...

madmoe · 01-03-2012 6:14pm

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!!

Professey Chin · 01-03-2012 6:16pm

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/

budgemook · 01-03-2012 6:48pm

Not sure if posted:

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

marcbrophy · 01-03-2012 8:27pm

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:

madmoe · 01-03-2012 8:40pm

LOL

Star Lord · 02-03-2012 1:28pm

Headshot wrote: »

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

Last night: "Don't worry, It'll be awesome"

budgemook · 02-03-2012 1:34pm

DamoElDiablo wrote: »

Last night: "Don't worry, It'll be awesome"

Wish I had it on last night, might explain why I woke up in a fit of laughter

SteM · 02-03-2012 2:28pm

Not sure if it's been mentioned here but it was on another thread.

box.com have an app in the android market, at the moment you get a free 50GB lifetime upgrade when you install the app and register for their cloud storage service (similar to dropbox).

hawkwind23 · 02-03-2012 6:11pm

another nod to box for the free 50gb.
well worth signing up for

wildwolf1 · 03-03-2012 11:22am

hawkwind23 wrote: »

another nod to box for the free 50gb.
well worth signing up for

@SteM & hawkwind23 - Thanks for the tip! Wasn't sure if i would be able to get extra storage, as I was an existing web user. But I downloaded app, logged in and immediately got the 50GB - nice one

madmoe · 03-03-2012 7:55pm

wildwolf1 wrote: »

Thanks for the tip! Wasn't sure if i would be able to get extra storage, as I was an existing web user. But I downloaded app, logged in and immediately got the 50GB - nice one

Great.... But what is the file size limit for uploads??

wildwolf1 · 04-03-2012 11:16am

madmoe wrote: »

Great.... But what is the file size limit for uploads??

100MB for this promotion

madmoe · 04-03-2012 11:29am

wildwolf1 wrote: »

100MB for this promotion

Bummer! Way too low for me...

ShaneU · 04-03-2012 5:24pm

Another kairosoft game, Dungeon village is out, if you've played game dev story you know the drill

https://market.android.com/details?id=net.kairosoft.android.bouken_en&feature=apps_topselling_new_paid

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