I've taken the plunge!

CailinGaillimh

So after two long years of carrying a charger around with me constantly, I went and upgraded myself from an iPhone 4 to a Samsung Galaxy S5 this evening. Haven't owned a Samsung since the Tocco was first released so I was wondering if anyone would be willing to give advice re: apps etc just to start getting my head around this new (huge) phone!

droidman123

I cant give you any real advice on apps because I don't really know what type of thing you are into, but what I can say is.....welcome to android:)

hallo dare

You haven't taken the plunge. If anything you've ascended higher on the ladder!!! ☺☺☺

CailinGaillimh

Let's hope so! Is there any app similar to find my iPhone for the android market?? I seem to need to use that app fairly often!
Apps wise: sport, games... Any interesting ones at all?

gingernut79

Look up all the apps you had on your iphone and install those first. Give you something familiar to work with. then check out the top free chart and see if you're missing anything that you fancy in the top ten. After that, you may be all set!

CaSCaDe711

https://play.google.com/store

CailinGaillimh

Thank you guys!! :-) can anyone tell me if there's much of a difference in the use of the newer Samsung phones and the iPhone?:-)

gingernut79

Install Google keyboard or Swype to make you wonder how you ever wrote anything on an iphone. Sharing is generally much easier.

D_BEAR

CailinGaillimh wrote: »

Is there any app similar to find my iPhone for the android market?? I seem to need to use that app fairly often!

Android device manager download the app then use the web address to find/ring/wipe device- Web www.google.com/android/devicemanager
App https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.adm

CailinGaillimh

Phone arrived this morning. Very happy with it! Can already see it'll be miles ahead of the iphone...when I figure out how to use it that is :P

Dumb question: I've only been able to find & download Viber from the Galaxy Essentials app.... Does anyone know how/where to find Facebook/Snapchat/WhatsApp etc and download them? Feeling very lost at the mo!

droidman123

CailinGaillimh wrote: »

Phone arrived this morning. Very happy with it! Can already see it'll be miles ahead of the iphone...when I figure out how to use it that is :P

Dumb question: I've only been able to find & download Viber from the Galaxy Essentials app.... Does anyone know how/where to find Facebook/Snapchat/WhatsApp etc and download them? Feeling very lost at the mo!

Google play store. Little shop of wonders

PrzemoF

https://f-droid.org/

"F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device."

CailinGaillimh

oh you great and lovely people I was feeling rather technologically challenged for a few minutes!

PrzemoF

When youl feel more comfortable with your phone come back and ask for rooting. Then you'll be able to use real android gems like those:

FasterGPS https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=fastergps&fdid=org.fastergps
NTPSync https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=ntpsync&fdid=org.ntpsync
AdAway https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=adaway&fdid=org.adaway

jgbyr

I'd highly recommend ES file Explorer from the play store. Makes managing downloads, documents, files etc so much easier.

daytob

Sign into amazon and get the amazon app store from them, install it onto your phone. They offer 1 free app a day or various deals where you can install several picture apps and store up some coins, allowing you to use the coins to buy a game or so.
The amazon app is not on the google play app store but check it every day and purchase the free app of the day if you want. There has been expensive apps for free. And the great thing is once you buy the free app once they get stored on your cloud so you will always have it with any android phone you have

Mr. CooL ICE

A complaint I've heard before from people switching from iPhone to Android is that they get annoyed with the sheer amount of notifications. On iPhone, you can turn them on/off from within Notification Centre in Settings, but on Android, you have to turn off notifications individually from each app that is making them.

Not sure if that's the case with the S5 though.