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hello all, looks like i am going to enjoy this site very informative.
anyway i am a new htc desire owner (iphone convert) and have as yet not found out everything about the phone.
little things like the market search, is there away to remove/clear previous searches from the list?
are there any real must have apps that should be on the desire by default but are not? i did notice there was no default "note pad" or did i miss that
thanks in advance
Hi welcome to the comunity, as far as clearing your market search history you may want to try history eraser its free on the market and cleans ur market search history and much more and as for must have apps. Theres so many i wouldnt know where to start lol i think you can use quick office as a notepad app btw
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I wouldn't be so brave to name must-haves, cuz don't know what is you use your phone for. But can give you the apps which stayed on my Des (and I really tried and uninstalled a lot):
- TuneWiki for medai play
- the weather channel (love the widget)
- kindle
... thats all. For all the other functions I still use the bundle apps.
(very specific, but worth to mention: World of Warcraft authenticator. Its very easy to install and use, free, and despite of this you still get your pet )
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are there any real must have apps that should be on the desire by default but are not? i did notice there was no default "note pad" or did i miss that
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For must have apps. You could make a start in this thread, it'll give you an idea of what other members are using.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=676109
here are few app suggestions
system utilities: Astro file manager, Uninstaller, Quick Settings, Androzip, aBTC, Titanium Backup full, MyBackup Pro, Quick System Info, Rom Manager...
ebook/doc readers: (besides PDF Reader and Quickoffice): iReader, Aldiko, Documents 2 Go...
mp3 player: tunewiki
video player: demoplayer (rock divx player)
sms app: Handcent
others: wifinder, barcode scanner, google earth, soundhound, google translate, google goggles
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here are few app suggestions
system utilities: Astro file manager, Uninstaller, Quick Settings, Androzip, aBTC, Titanium Backup full, MyBackup Pro, Quick System Info, Rom Manager...
ebook/doc readers: (besides PDF Reader and Quickoffice): iReader, Aldiko, Documents 2 Go...
mp3 player: tunewiki
video player: demoplayer (rock divx player)
sms app: Handcent
others: wifinder, barcode scanner, google earth, soundhound, google translate, google goggles
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Dang thats a long list,,, having converted back myself i wonder how i lived so long without Google Goggles caught it on an advert the other day and thought 'It's a must!'
For file management and maintenance I recomend Es Explorer and Es Task Manager
To clear your market search history just open up the market, press menu (hard key), settings, clear search history.
Done.
Titanium backup, my backup root, go sms pro, file expert, jota text editor, poweramp
TouchPal-d from my Desire running Starburst Classic Rom - 450 apps and counting. .
Just curious about which apps everyone is using on their TP2/Tilt 2 and how often do you use those apps?
Main application is SXRadio2 to listen to Sirius, works great!
Opera.
Nothing else really.
BeyondPod for audio/video podcasts (No Espn Radio app yet)
Treesizze free mobile (disk space allocation)
Fring (IM)
Google Maps
AP MObile News App
Facebook
I used to use a ton of others but recently the Tilt2 with seems to struggle with this new HTC messaging overlay and is slow potatoes. Just me?
I use lots
Clean RAM, S2P, Bing, Google Maps, DynaInk, Sprint Football, Chess Genius, Light Saber, Doppler Radar, Deluxe Moon, Amazon it, Stopwatch, APOD, Daily News, IMBD Mobile, Animation creator, Batt line sync, Registry Editor, and a few more, but I forget. There's just so many.
Edit (oh the Overclock app! Thats a great one!)
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BeyondPod for audio/video podcasts (No Espn Radio app yet)
Treesizze free mobile (disk space allocation)
Fring (IM)
Google Maps
AP MObile News App
Facebook
I used to use a ton of others but recently the Tilt2 with seems to struggle with this new HTC messaging overlay and is slow potatoes. Just me?
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you need OCT(overclock tool) I was having a case of the slows after implementing HDWALLs and she's running rock solid stable dynamically overclocked from 115mhz to 652mhz and it even increased my battery life.
I listen almost 3-6 hours music on my phone per day. But everytime I start another app, e.g. navigation/dolphin HD music stops even using alternatives(poweramp,mixzing). When using stock browser and listening to music the browser is killed. I've heard that this it because of gingebread killing apps intensively, when starting my device i've around 130MB free ram. My rom is InsertCoin nightly v51. I don't want to change rom because is like rosie 3.0 a lot and it's very smooth as well, any app to lock apps into memory or like that?
or any other solution?
Do you use Advanced Task killer or any such task management software? If yes, add the music or browser apps to "ignore list". Then the apps will not be killed.
Did that, same problem, after that I uninstalled every taskmanaging app. Still same problem? Isn't there an app which locks apps into the memory?
Some of you will know me from the Developement thread...
I have created a theme for touchwiz that matches my rom theme
this is so people using my rom can use the theme manager in TouchWiz to update the icons etc to match the applications they download so the themed icons carry on.
Problem is i need a list of apps that people always download with a new rom
That is where you all come in - please tell me the apps you use most from the market.
My rom can be found here if you want to have a look - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1292900
Many Many thanks in advance for all your help.
whatsapp manager, BLN, calculator, messaging icon, angry birds, cut the rope, man the list goes on....but anyway its a great idea and thumbs up to you for doing this
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whatsapp manager, BLN, calculator, messaging icon, angry birds, cut the rope, man the list goes on....but anyway its a great idea and thumbs up to you for doing this
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cheers buddy for that, I know I wont be able to do all that people use, but eventually i will be open for requests, and the icon themes take a while and using CatLog to find the direct paths to the app....if you know what I mean.
BAtteryCalibration, Chrome to Phone, ColorNote, Documents to Go, Endomondo Pro, Friendcaster Pro, Fruit Ninja, All angry birds, Gmail, Google Goggles, Google+, JuiceDefender Ultimate, Lane Splitter, Mega Jump, Minus, Mx Video player, PoweAmp, RealCalc, Rom Manager, Root Explorer, Set Cpu, Titanium Backup, Viber.
Some of them
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BAtteryCalibration, Chrome to Phone, ColorNote, Documents to Go, Endomondo Pro, Friendcaster Pro, Fruit Ninja, All angry birds, Gmail, Google Goggles, Google+, JuiceDefender Ultimate, Lane Splitter, Mega Jump, Minus, Mx Video player, PoweAmp, RealCalc, Rom Manager, Root Explorer, Set Cpu, Titanium Backup, Viber.
Some of them
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Thanks matey, thats quite a list, lol
It's not very important with games because i have them in folder anyway. The tools too.
ColorNote, Documents to Go, Endomondo Pro, Friendcaster Pro, Gmail, Google Goggles, Google+, Minus, Mx Video player, PowerAmp, RealCalc,Viber. Those r more important.
Someone said to place all new music in internal and then it will be recognized.
Another way is to clear app's data.
Really? No refresh option? Cmon Samsung.
Well I had started the phone over at the time of my prev post..right now thats 3+ hrs ago and that shutdown / startup was after a total data clear in the apps settings Samsung Music app storage, and a unmount of the ext sd.
I just think it is interesting to see the difference in the Samsung indexing compared to the vlc indexing for my music. VLC takes upwards of a half hour. Samsung however has taken over three hours and is not nearly done yet. Of 7 or 8 newly added music folders, still only 3 have showed up (folders tab allows for sort by recently added).
It looks like a 6 hour indexing job or at the very least 4. Probably 6 as I just happened to look down and saw the tail end of some kind of toast notification of passing the first 10000 song point of loading.
Pretty tarded app. REALLY needs a refresh button if it is this slow to index.
But it does look good scrolling thru all the albun covers.
Just had a thought...hope it isn't screwing with my custom created artworks. That would be totally uncalled for.
No checking on a jpg file it remains at its original shape and size.
I have been watching this indexing of the music by the Samsung Music app, very closely.
It returned both positive quantities and negatives so far.
I consider this to be one of the best sets of native apps of any phone so far, but the music app being the only AOD enablable app for lockscreen music has me baffled and disappointed. Though not entirely.
On one hand it is really blows it in that it has taken over 6 hours so far and only 3 of 8 of my newly added folders have been loaded.
Additionally it misses the ball on SEVERAL of the artwork configurations which VLC (not supported in AOD) picks up easily.
First the pro column, it looks good in album view and scrolls real smooth, without using 7 GB for APP Data (which is what vlc takes to run my music collection) (where is it storing the data? is my question here); refer to screenshots 1, 3 &4 &8.
However, there is a small number of album arts missing, and more than expected albums in the 'Unknown Album' position of the 'U's in the alphabet. Which indicates to me that there could be some id tag misrecognition or unrecognition someplaces;
refer to screenshot 15 &16.
Finally the Samsung native music app sees the artwork as different in albums where different songs have different artworks, but only in instances where those arts and songs are nested in separate folders. Such as my version of the Pulp Fiction soundtrack.
In cases where the artworks were embedded separately in the songs of a compilation to show their original album arts, which is how I did the Word Of Mouth compilation, (which I also screenshotted here from the Samsung file manager which displays that in the file manager we can see the individually embedded songs embedded arts in its little file manager thumbnail) there is no individually embedded artwork recognition in the AOD enabled samsung music app. The lockscreen displays show that VLC will have these Word Of Mouth albun arts as different.
Seen in the remaining screenshots:
It's not the only AOD enabled music app. Good play music works just fine as do others.
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It's not the only AOD enabled music app. Good play music works just fine as do others.
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I am of course speaking of the following always on display as seen in the following screenshot
(though I haven't tried those other apps) ...and not the screenshots in my prior post which are lockscreen shots.
Meanwhile after a decharge today from 100% down to now 44%, it has still not indexed my music files completely as at least one folder is still not seen atop the latest folders list. Most of them just showed up in the last hour or two though. About 24 hours so far since it started.
Presumably it must be storing all these artworks in the system, they are all there as I scroll the lists.
As my sd isn't formatted to the phone but only external.
Man, just buy a better sd card and dont blame the phone for this or atleast try to format this one and try again.
Man. Maaaaan haha. Don't tell people what to do. Aggression indicated stupidity thats just stupid you know. Literally. Loser. I bet you don't even keep any music on your phone. Probably using Spotify. Not me I'm from a different generation. We used to buy physical copies of our music albums, and carry them around with us. The music then was better too.
The phone must be using some sort of sdcard block by block scan eh. It still finding items on the thing. Not exactly a normal method to find files. I'm guessing it locates the head folder, but in my case it's a complex tree.
So if it is the sdcard being 500 GB card. That's a pretty good sized card anyway.
But it is still finding stuff screenshotted it then left it over night (after charge and restart) and it added some 10 more albums or so to the list.
It's not about size of card, but read/write speed, the slower the card the longer it takes for the phone to update the album arts.
I have no problem with this app. I have 6 GB music files in my SD card and it loads all albums and album arts immediately when I open the app. My SD card is Samsung Evo+ 128GB.
Slowly now. Latest rate appears to be finding about 1/hr. Samsung card. Singly written. Couple months old. EVO.
Also it is really fast to load those arts once it finds the absolute block in the SD cards file system.. VLC has always been ultra slow at loading all the music. If one were to attempt to enter an artist heading in VLC or album heading, it could take minutes to resolve the artist or album.
This app has its negative points, but it also has its positive points. I am not here to criticize the app. I am here making a point to observe it. Really pleased with the Samsung apps as I said in the op. The keyboard and the file manager I especially like. The points where the music app slips in finding some arts are probably gonna be repairable by changing out the few non functional music files on a case by case basis.
Seriously fast app for loading the musics and arts. real time jump anywhere in the list by track or albun. Very pleased.
VLC vs Samsung data usage stat for 300 GB of music. this app is like a window to my SD card.
Samsung s native music app is trash honestly.
I would recommend a alternative like vinyl player or black player.
Not pleased again. Used Smart Switch to do a phone backup, took out the sd card, put back in, restored the backup, and now it is re-indexing the music again. So once again my latest added folders are not here. Once again can't listen to my newest adds like Madonna's GHV2 for example, if I wanted to (with the Samsung music app, at least). Which blows.
I thought once it built its music index it would store it in the permanent. now back to square 1.
I'm glad i don't mess around with this stuff any more. I uploaded all my music to Google Play Music and never looked back. Available anywhere, on any device with internet and i can always download music from Play Music if i really need to. I don't have any need to carry thousands of albums in my pocket.
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I'm glad i don't mess around with this stuff any more. I uploaded all my music to Google Play Music and never looked back. Available anywhere, on any device with internet and i can always download music from Play Music if i really need to. I don't have any need to carry thousands of albums in my pocket.
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That's cool. is that a sharable playlist or what? I can't say as I've heard of that one how does it work? You pay a subscription fee or what?
I have purchased a few albuns off of Google play store but I don't like the feeling of staying connected to the internet. So I can't rely on the internet.
Really ridiculous this app is slowly reloading those folders again. This all started cause I heard from the Samsung store that they could replace my carrier version of the software with something from Samsung. Which they then failed to do. Not something I would do very often.
Massive deceleration curve for this indexing thing. Been screenshotting the progress over the past several hours. The window over thr albums holds it's viewpoint above the list. Say it was started in the 4th quarter of the Alphabet (by albun population) at album number 1200, after 400 albums are added it enters the third quarter by going through first the T's backwards from Tzolkin Date to T Rex.Then on into the S's rising towards the top but staying at a viewpoint of album #1200 in the list, which now would have over 1600
While the population happens over a graph of time on the x axis. The y axis charts the speed of albums added. The curve is hyperbolic deceleration over time.
Last time the indexing was being completed, I saw a few albums still being added. (before the restart happened today).
Between 5 or 1 (guestimated but def. odd numbered amount) entries appeared sometime after noon today as shown in the following two screenshots. Seen by the shift of the Title on the upper left into the right column. This happened around 60 hours after the start of indexing Tuesday evening.
I think send feedback to developer of app and till they fix the problem try another app , i use Poweramp for years for all my music needs