Must Have Android Apps and Games?

mass_debater · 02-07-2016 02:28PM

Patww79 wrote: »

I've to go on to all my accounts first and reset them all to the one password and then I might take a look. I couldn't see anything for 2-step on Facebook via the app settings menu, do you need to be on desktop for a full range of settings?

No idea, I don't use the Facebook app, I use 3rd party as the app drains my battery.

It'd be really stupid setting all your accounts as the same password, even with 2 factor. If one site gets hacked they'll have your password. They should all be different, with Lastpass you can make them random, but change them on a pc with the browser add-on so Lastpass can offer the random password and remember it.

OldMrBrennan83 · 02-07-2016 02:45PM

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mass_debater · 02-07-2016 02:55PM

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But even if I were to post up my password on my facebook news feed right now, with the 2-factor nobody can use it without the SMS code. I've just got so sick of having to reset my password every time I go log into something that they really need to be the same one.
I keep my Google, PayPal, and Amazon different to the rest as the latter two don't have 2 factor but have a route to my money. The rest are the social media which I have now activated SMS on (facebook is really slow to send the text, I don't use the app either), Microsoft and Dropbox but the latter two are fine as I don't use them to cloud sync so there's nothing there for anyone to get.

I just don't like the idea of lastpass (or any password manager) as it means they have all my passwords and have them stored somewhere that I have no control over. When I was more open to the idea I just never found one that I liked.

Then you need a system, use your head. Say password + site specific code. Your site specific code could be something like the first two consonants, then first two vowels or something like that so facebook would be fcae, Amazon would be mzaa, Twitter would be twie. Your passwords for these sites would be your password and this code giving you unique for each site.

_Tombstone_ · 02-07-2016 04:23PM

2FA is easy to get around. It's been bypassed with a phonecall.

Didn't someone lose access to their social media accounts during the week aswell cuz some imposter sent Support false documents.

Nothing is secure in any way, if someone wants in its nearly trivial at this stage.

OldMrBrennan83 · 02-07-2016 05:19PM

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mass_debater · 02-07-2016 05:54PM

Patww79 wrote: »

A quick word of warning to anyone considering LastPass, don't do it if you use the stock broswer on a Samsung. I'm after trying the app again in an attempt to getting some solution to my password mess and I'm now 14 quid lighter and have to change all my accounts all over again. Chrome and you're ok, but it won't prompt on the Samsung one so it's a real mess if you've auto-generated.

If you've paid for Lastpass the Dolphin browser has a Lastpass add-on which has much better integration than Chrome or any of the others. You can also download the Lastpass app and quickly multitask out, search for the site and copy password and then go back to previous app (long pressing back brings you back to previous app).

Blacktie. · 02-07-2016 06:00PM

mass_debater wrote:

(long pressing back brings you back to previous app).

I did not know that that's a very useful tip.

OldMrBrennan83 · 02-07-2016 06:04PM

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mass_debater · 02-07-2016 06:11PM

Patww79 wrote: »

Unfortunately not on a Samsung. Long pressing back brings up the apps pop out menu, and long pressing the other brings up that useless split screen mode. Thankfully Nougat seems to have a proper Alt+Tab function built in with double tapping square.

I need a Nexus.

That's multitask, use that, it's an extra key press

OldMrBrennan83 · 02-07-2016 06:14PM

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mass_debater · 02-07-2016 06:28PM

Patww79 wrote: »

It doesn't on a Samsung, not with the Good Lock UI running on it anyway though I don't think it did on standard Touchwiz anyway. Maybe it'll come if it ever sees Android 7.0.

It's years since I used a Samsung but when I had one I never used Touchwiz always used a third party launcher and browser. The Nova launcher will give you that previous app on the back button. It's a default Android function Samsung have fcuked about with

NTC · 04-07-2016 10:46PM

Question.

Is there any app that can be used on a rooted phone to hide the fact that the phone is rooted from an app?

Allyall · 04-07-2016 10:49PM

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=hidemyroot&hl=en

Some work better on different apps than others. Hidemyroot is good for many.
There's another on XDA-Developers forum but I can't remember the name of it.

mass_debater · 04-07-2016 11:13PM

Allyall wrote: »

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=hidemyroot&hl=en

Some work better on different apps than others. Hidemyroot is good for many.
There's another on XDA-Developers forum but I can't remember the name of it.

Rootcloak? Think it needs the Xposed kernel though

jozi · 04-07-2016 11:23PM

mass_debater wrote: »

Rootcloak? Think it needs the Xposed kernel though

Which is worth installing anyway

Amalgam · 06-07-2016 11:05AM

Poweramp is just 50 cent to unlock at the moment.

I don't think I could tolerate Android without it. Great audio player.

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Poweramp App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.maxmpz.audioplayer

Poweramp Unlocker: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.maxmpz.audioplayer.unlock

Mantis Toboggan · 06-07-2016 01:10PM

Never got the fascination with poweramp

OldMrBrennan83 · 06-07-2016 01:13PM

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Amalgam · 06-07-2016 01:24PM

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I rarely use it for music. I convert various spoken word formats from YouTube to .mp3, along with audio books, ASMR etc..

Having said that, Poweramp handles lossless formats, such as .flac, .wv, .ape, .alac, just fine.

I store my own audio as a .flac (image) and cue file, which the player handles without issues.

_Tombstone_ · 06-07-2016 02:59PM

Amalgam wrote: »

ASMR

Ah now, you go round listening to that?? hahaha

Throw up links to your ones.

Great that it finally got a name, I :eek: when I saw the BBC article on it few years back.

Mad variety of triggers, it'd be great to be able fire it on Q:pac: should nearly be doable for easy trigger like a voice?? Hair cut common trigger aswell -

There are ASMR videos of polished fingernails tapping on a plastic surface, of someone scrunching up plastic packaging, of people being given massages, of performers whispering to camera. There are people pretending to be doctors giving the viewer a "cranial nerve exam", and others pretending to cut your hair, pretending to give you a job interview or pretending to be a hotel receptionist at check-in (that one lasts 41 minutes, and has had 460,000 views).

The ASMR search term also throws up clips from a 1980s US television series in which the artist Bob Ross teaches the viewer how to paint, dabbing his brush on to the canvas as he quietly explains what he's doing.

People triggered by those vids are lucky.

Deise_vixen · 06-07-2016 03:26PM

Bit of advice needed please........

Just bought a Vodafone Prime 6, it's my first android and only bought it as I don't want to bring my work iPhone on holidays with me. Switched over the sim and added my favourite apps, contacts etc. - so far so good. The problem is that the memory is already half full so I'm going to add an SD card to save my photos to when I'm travelling.

The problem is that you cannot select to automatically save the photos to the SD card, they have to save to the phone and I won't have a laptop with me to download them from the phone. I asked Vodafone about it and they recommend getting an app to move the photos to the SD card so my question is..............

Q: Can anyone recommend a good app for moving/saving photos from the phone to the SD card? I've seen lots of apps with bad reviews in the Play Store so would really appreciate some advice from the folks on Boards.

Thanks!!

OldMrBrennan83 · 06-07-2016 03:29PM

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Allyall · 06-07-2016 03:33PM

Google Photos will also allow you to free up your phone storage and move all your photos to the cloud (your google account)

ShooterSF · 06-07-2016 03:34PM

This camera app supposedly lets you chose where to save photos to. Could use it instead of the stock camera?

Amalgam · 06-07-2016 06:36PM

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ES is broken, the developers know this, stay away from the Pro version. They have nothing but contempt for the users.

I use Root Explorer myself. No fancy UI, if you want blinking lights and frosted glass bevels, Root Explorer isn't for you.

Free: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.speedsoftware.explorer

Paid: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.speedsoftware.rootexplorer

OldMrBrennan83 · 06-07-2016 07:01PM

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mass_debater · 06-07-2016 07:22PM

Patww79 wrote: »

I have ES Pro on my Pixel (never use it as a file explorer but it's the handiest way to get APK's across to a Nexus Player) and never have any problems with it for ad or dodgy content.

There have been reports of it being malware, that it continually sends info to some Chinese server. Have a Google, it's got a very bad name. I dumped it long ago

OldMrBrennan83 · 06-07-2016 07:27PM

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toby2111 · 06-07-2016 07:31PM

mass_debater wrote: »

There have been reports of it being malware, that it continually sends info to some Chinese server. Have a Google, it's got a very bad name. I dumped it long ago

What would you recommend using?

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