Hey XDA,
Romit Metha (@theromit) started a Google doc that is keeping track of some of the most popular and big name mobile apps out there and whether or not they are available for WP7.
Here is a link to the list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Atl58J-8ikdwdHpVOTJzTjhGSHBTeVUyRlNjVHRsX0E&hl#gid=0
Do you want me to list them in this post too? Or just refer to the link?
Tweet suggestions to him (@theromit) or post them below and I'll pass the message on to him to update the list accordingly.
What apps do you want to see on Windows Phone 7 that are available on iOS, Android or BB?
I'm looking forward to a Wells Fargo application or Mint.com, as well as Nike+, and Instagram.
Sam
PS:
We are looking for suggestions for apps that are officially on iOS (iPhone) and Android (Smartphones not Tablets). Maybe a thread for the tablet versions of apps can be appropriate in the Windows 8 forum once it launches later this year. In the meantime lets focus on mobile!
Edit: To reduce duplication, here are all the apps so far.
Whatsapp (In Marketplace)
Tom Tom
Square
Pandora
Words With Friends
Instagram
HippoRemote
Starbucks
WebEx
LogMeIn
GoToMeeting
Citrix Receiver
Wells Fargo
Chase
PayPal
American Express
Mint.com
Citi
CNBC
e*trade mobile pro
ESPN Radio
Yahoo Fantasy Football
CNN app
Viber
TeamViewer
My6sense (In Marketplace)
BB&T
Voxer
Dropbox
Camera+
Spotify (In Marketplace)
Soundhound (In Marketplace)
Cinch
Picplz
shopkick
Safari Books Online
Cut The Rope
Tumblr (Official)
Google+
Golf Shot
Univision app
Remote Desktop
Tweetdeck
File Explorer
Microsoft Sharedview
AirVideo
Waze
ComiXology
GoodReader
Bump
Vonage
Ooma
VuDu
ESPN Cricinfo
Sonos
Photosynth
Scottrade
Nike+ GPS
Hyundai Bluelink
SiriusXM Player
LinkedIn
XDA Suggestions:
Viber (Being worked on apparently)
Aweditorium (It is only on iPad that I saw. We are looking for iPhone and Android apps for Windows Phone not Win8)
Flipboard
Dragon dictation
Hamachi (Not on iOS as far as I could find)
Family Feud
Chipotle
Panera Bread (Nothing official on iOS either)
PNC
Better Best Buy app (Since the current one sucks so bad)
Sams club
Jaxtr (Now in Marketplace)
Torrent Client
Comcast Xfinity
Draw Something
Words with friends and family feud. I don't want them but I know so many people that wouldn't ge a windows phone without them.
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Drag racing by creative mobile. There is on similar in the marketplace but it suvks.
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Voxer (you can tweet them @voxer I've been bugging them)
chase bank
Words with friends
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What i would like to see -
team viewer
logmein
Citrix
Cut the rope works fine via the browser www.cuttherope.ie just change settings to touch to cut rope instead of swipe
Freakin' Skype!
A scan program that will scan a document as a Word Doc. I don't understand why we don't have this.
Thought I would point out WhatsApp is available in the marketplace already and has been for quite some time. I am glad it made quite an early entrance to the WP7 market as all my friends use it.
Chipotle
Panera Bread
PNC
Better Best Buy app
Sams club
Our apps should be quality equivalent to iOS, ours shouldnt slack because of a different OS
Words With Friends
Viber
iKiLLM0RE said:
Words With Friends
Viber
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Viber is curently being worked on
http://helpme.viber.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/83/15/viber-for-windows-phone
Code:
Spotify
Soundhound
Are already in the Marketplace for a while now...
And Nokia has a Univision app (don't know if its official).
People also want a YouTube app and a Google Maps app (all official, arguably more wanted/needed than Google+)
+ 1 for teamviewer - that would be amazing.
Skype obviously. Also Aweditorium, Flipbook, dragon dictation, and most importantly a UK version of the Amazon app.
What's missing the in the list (ordered by importance) :
1) Hamachi, HAMACHI , HAMACHI!!!!!!!!!!!
P.S. LogMeIn is different from Hamachi. LogMeIn let's you remotely login (a sort of VNC client/server), Hamachi creates fast and easy peer 2 peer VPN (even behind firewall).
2) Jaxtr !!!!!!!!!! JAXTR !!!!!!!!
3) a proper Console/cmd for moving, rename files, ping and similar
4) torrent client
5) a java virtual machine (even an emulated one would be good enough)
6) ssh/ftp/http/php server (3 different apps)
otherworld said:
+ 1 for teamviewer - that would be amazing.
Skype obviously. Also Aweditorium, Flipbook, dragon dictation, and most importantly a UK version of the Amazon app.
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Flipboard would be amazing, both on Windows 8 and Windows Phone. I feel like it could translate nicely with the metro design language.
Keep the suggestions coming XDA! I'll work on updated the first post in this thread and keeping it clean and organizing it better. I'm also going to send our suggestions to Romit too.
Sam
I would really like a really good Comcast Xfinity app. I was pumped when I saw this a while back.....http://pocketnow.com/software-1/windows-phone-7-app-concept-comcast-xfinity
It may be a reality after seeing this.....http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/comcast-confirms-microsoft-deal-xfinity-coming-to-xbox-360/59853
I'd like to see:
Words with Friends
Square (credit card processing)
thank you very much for useful info
samsabri said:
Flipbook would be amazing, both on Windows 8 and Windows Phone. I feel like it could translate nicely with the metro design language.
Sam
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So true. Flipbook looks and feels like it should have been an app designed specifically for metro. They both quote a 'celebration of typography'. It will really shine on a windows 8 tablet, but I could easily see it working on wp7 too. Fingers crossed.
Skype and a Port of the Android App "Quizoid" ( I have the Database with the Questions, so I can port it, but alone is not so easy ) ...
Opera browser with flash support.
Just visited and realized the rendering at the twitter mobile site is bad again. Anyone with the same experience or just me?
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It was on me a few days ago, it was living in the 90's lol.
Cant believe I used the mobile twitter just to see pictures, until I bought Carbon.
Also I wonder if twitter has a touch friendly website.
I wonder when Twitter will release a decent app for Windows Phone. iOS and Android users have push and the most basic and important features. Us WP7 people don't even have a live tile or notifications. It's the official Twitter App. They should have some respect for us the users.
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I wonder when Twitter will release a decent app for Windows Phone. iOS and Android users have push and the most basic and important features. Us WP7 people don't even have a live tile or notifications. It's the official Twitter App. They should have some respect for us the users.
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I agree with this, although Microsoft and Twitter (and also Facebook) should all do something.
The OS itself doesn't do native push notifications with facebook and twitter, with live tiles, these are just display feeds that refreshes about say 30minutes to 1hour.
Twitter does have an official app for WP7, but its laggy and feels like its using a lot of memory.
Facebook doesn't have an official app but the one from Microsoft is cool, they still should consider improving the app (like remove game requests and like comments) as a 3rd party application and leave the basic functions to the OS.
Back to topic, the twitter mobile site doesn't like IE9 very well.
Obviously none of you guys have tried the recent update to Rowi Twitter client. At the moment they update notifications every 2 or 3 mins & are going to bring instant updates in the near future. The app. feels almost native as its so fast & buttery smooth. It has all the functions I need in a Twitter client. It is also going to sync with Metrotwit desktop client in the very near future as well as add more features. If you haven't yet tried it I can recommend it & a free trial version is available on the Marketplace.
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I think most people are kinda miffed that it's the official apps that are lacking. Sure third party solutions are good and currently on WP7 clearly superior to the official ones (personally use mehdoh).
But twitter and facebook half arsing their apps just makes them seem to not to care.
They should know good apps are part of a good OS experience
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shardnet said:
I think most people are kinda miffed that it's the official apps that are lacking. Sure third party solutions are good and currently on WP7 clearly superior to the official ones (personally use mehdoh).
But twitter and facebook half arsing their apps just makes them seem to not to care.
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Some examples:
4th & Mayor > foursquare
YouTube Pro > YouTube (the microsoft app which is just a shortcut to the website)
Although I do like having the MSN emoticons and emojis integrated in Windows Phone.
Twitter users on Android have been waiting for this day for a long time now but it’s finally here. After being teased for almost a year, the developers of Carbon have finally released the Twitter client on the Play Store.
The app was shown off on Twitter last year and then an early alpha was released for a few users. After that the app was delayed indefinitely because the developers could not release it as a paid app on Play Store as it wasn’t supported in their region. After that it was announced that the app would be released as a free app but even that got postponed indefinitely.
So now, several months after all that happened and people almost forgot about the app, the developers released it on the Play Store. It’s free, just as they promised, and does not contain any kind of advertisements or revenue model within the app.
Some of the features in this v1.1.3 include:
Tilt Timeline to Refresh
Power Scroll: Scroll/Swipe up or down using Two fingers to jump to top or bottom of Timelines
Tap+Hold on Tweets to make everything clickable right on the Timeline
QuickTimeline, home screen quick Timeline for Lists, Searches, Trends, etc…
Rich Timelines with full inline images and videos
Rich and HD style for User Profiles
Rich and fun Conversation View
Threaded Direct Messages
Background updates with quick actions for Jelly Bean, per account
Username Autocomplete
Filters for Hashtags, Users, and Keywords
To download Carbon for Twitter, click on the link below.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dotsandlines.carbon
Code:
#include <std_disclaimer.h>
/*
* Your warranty is now void.
*
* I am not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards,
* thermonuclear war, or you getting fired because the alarm app failed. Please
* do some research if you have any concerns about features included in this kernel
* before flashing it! YOU are choosing to make these modifications, and if
* you point the finger at me for messing up your device, I will laugh at you.
*/
In an effort to learn how to correctly use Aroma, I decided to write a tool that will assist you in removing the suffocating amount of bloatware my beloved Note 3 is cursed with. It is nothing more than an Aroma script which will let you select what apps to remove, and then it removes them.
FEATURES
Removes 200+ apps considered to be bloatware.
Works with all variants of the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 (SM-N900T, SM-N9005, etc.)
Can apply the screen rotation fix, if you uninstall Samsung Hub.
Clear Dalvik cache.
...And more!
REQUIREMENTS
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 (duh?!?!)
Root
TWRP, CWM, or PhilZ Custom CWM installed.
A burning desire to strike down bloatware with the force of a thousand suns! Optional, but highly recommended!
NOTES
I strongly recommend you do a full backup before using this script.
After removing bloatware, clearing Dalvik cache would be a good idea, so they can be rebuilt at boot.
My device is a SM-N900T (T-Mobile SGN3), so obviously I can't determine what other apps another carrier has added. If you would like to list their names and filenames (including path), along with the carrier and I'd be happy to add them to the list. I have downloaded stock images from all of the different variants of the SGN3 and will determine what other apps are installed.
If I missed any apps that you would consider bloatware please let me know, and I'll add them as well!
REMOVABLE APPS
Stock Apps:
Code:
Action Memo 1
Action Memo 2
Action Memo 3
Action Memo 4
Accuweather Widget
Adapt Sound
AllShare Cast Dongle
AllShare Control Share
AllShare File Share
Alarm Widget
ANT HAL Service
ANT Radio Service
ANT+ Plugins
Backup (Samsung)
Beep'nGo (Beaming Svc)
Bloomberg+
Blurb Checkout
ChatON (Samsung)
ChocoEUKor (Fonts)
Cloud Agent
CoolEUKor (Fonts)
Digital Clock
Direct Connect Manager
Direct Share Manager
Dropbox
Dual Digital Clock
Easy Chart
Epson Print Service
Evernote
Favorite Contacts Widget
Flipboard
HP Print Service
Idea Sketch
Kids Mode Installer
Knox (BE CAREFUL!)
Mobile Print
Mobile Print Svc CUPS
Mobile Print Svc Backend
Multimedia UI Service
Music (Samsung)
Music FX (Samsung)
My Files
My Magazine
My Magazine - Here & Now
Nearby Devices (Media)
Nearby Service (Media)
Page Buddy Service
PEN.UP
Picasa Uploader
POLARIS Office
RakeIn
RoseEUKor (Fonts)
S Finder
S Health
S Health Sensor Service
S Note
S Pen SDK
S Planner
S Pro Audio Monitor
S Translator
S Voice
Samsung Account
Samsung Apps
Samsung Apps Widget
Samsung Billing
Samsung Calendar Sync
Samsung Content Agent
Samsung Group Cast
Samsung Hub
Samsung Hub Updater
Samsung Keyboard
Samsung Link
Samsung Print Service
Samsung Push Service
Samsung S Browser Sync
Samsung Setup Wizard
Samsung S Note Sync
Samsung Sync (Data)
Samsung Video
Samsung Watch ON
Samsung Watch ON Video
Samsung Sans (Fonts)
Scrapbook
Share Music
Share Video
Sketchbook
Story Album
Story Album Widget
Tags
TalkBack
Trim (Video)
Trip Advisor
Video Clips
Video Player
Voice Recorder
VPN Client
Weather Widget
WFDS Print Svc Plugin
Wi-Fi Direct (Client)
Wi-Fi Direct (Server)
Yahoo! Finance
Google Apps:
Code:
Chrome
Drive
Earth
Google+
Google Mail (GMail)
Google Play Books
Google Play Games
Google Play Movies & TV
Google Play Music
Google Play Newsstand
Google Now (Search)
Google Search Widget
Hangouts
Maps
Wallet
YouTube
AT&T (SM-N900A) Apps:
Code:
APO (Not Sure)
AT&T Code Scanner
AT&T Hot Spots
AT&T Messages
Beats Music
Digital Locker
Drive Mode
Family Map
ISIS Wallet
Lookout Security
My AT&T
Ready 2 Go
Skyfire Toolbar
Smart WiFi
Telenav
Wild Tangent
Yellow Pages Mobile
International (SM-N9005) Apps:
Code:
Interactive Tutorial
Pickup Tutorial
Polaris Viewer (PDF)
Remote Controls
User Manual
Sprint (SM-N900P) Apps:
Code:
Chameleon
Skyfire Toolbar
Sprint Android Extension
Sprint Installer
Sprint Touch
Sprint Voicemail
Swype
Voice Over WiFi
Visual Voicemail
WiFi Calling
T-Mobile (SM-N900T) Apps:
Code:
Customer Wireless
Lookout Security
T-Mobile My Account
T-Mobile Name ID
T-Mobile TV
Visual Voicemail
Verizon (SM-N900V) Apps:
Code:
Amazon App Store
Amazon Audible
Amazon IMDB
Amazon MP3
Amazon Shopping
Amazon Widget
Kindle
LTE Test
My Info Zone
My Verizon
NFL GameCenter
Slacker
Swype
Visual Voicemail
Verizon Cloud
Verizon Navigator
Verizon Tones
DOWNLOAD
Download Here!
XDA:DevDB Information
SGN3 (SM-N900x) Bloat Removal Tool, Tool/Utility for the T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3
Contributors
crackpot
Version Information
Status: Stable
Current Stable Version: 1.1
Stable Release Date: 2014-07-11
Created 2014-07-11
Last Updated 2014-07-27
CHANGELOG
2014-07-19 Version 2.0
Added apps from AT&T (SM-N900A), International (SM-N9005), Sprint (SM-N900P), and Verizon (SM-N900V) versions of the Note 3.
Reordered the app lists, broken them down into pages of 30.
Removed fix_permissions script (it wasn't really needed with what this does).
Added option to clear Dalvik cache and apply screen rotation fix after debloating has completed.
You can select which variant of SGN3 you have, so you won't see apps from other devices.
2014-07-13 Version 1.1
Added Beep'nGo app.
Added S Pen SDK (careful removing this one).
Added Samsung Group Cast app.
Fixed number error in updater-script.
2014-07-11 Version 1.0
Initial release!
LICENSE
Code:
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2014 Adam Koch aka crackpot
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
THE SOFTWARE.
Nice work, thanks. That said, I use Titanium to freeze things first, to see if any problems crop up or if I unexpectedly miss something.
Apps on the bloat list that I like:
- RakeIn: used by one of the pop-up pen functions. Maybe the screen capture/edit.
- Voice Recorder: a nice app
- S Health: nicely done and useful
- Samsung keyboard: one of the best
- Samsung video: solid, use it a lot (have to keep "Video Player" as well)
- T-Mobile My Account: useful for me anyway, with 5 lines
- S Note: I use this a lot. What is the pen really otherwise good for?
ytj87 said:
Nice work, thanks. That said, I use Titanium to freeze things first, to see if any problems crop up or if I unexpectedly miss something.
Apps on the bloat list that I like:
- RakeIn: used by one of the pop-up pen functions. Maybe the screen capture/edit.
- Voice Recorder: a nice app
- S Health: nicely done and useful
- Samsung keyboard: one of the best
- Samsung video: solid, use it a lot (have to keep "Video Player" as well)
- T-Mobile My Account: useful for me anyway, with 5 lines
- S Note: I use this a lot. What is the pen really otherwise good for?
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The list I've compiled are the apps that I personally remove as being bloat. You can select which apps to remove before beginning the removal process. That way you only remove the apps you want.
Good to have tool. It definitely save time, comparing to manually doing it with TB.
Thx.
I was thinking of going back to TW (I'm using SlimKat right now) but I was dreading having to deal with all the bloat. You just made up my mind.
Now do I want to go with stock TW or a ROM... hmm...
gardobus said:
I was thinking of going back to TW (I'm using SlimKat right now) but I was dreading having to deal with all the bloat. You just made up my mind.
Now do I want to go with stock TW or a ROM... hmm...
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That was the very reason I wrote this script. While I love Samsung's phones, they load them up with far too much bloat, so I figured I'd try to help out!
downloading now. lovely. will be trying on my s5 port also. does it have assert script?
"Can apply the screen rotation fix, if you uninstall Samsung Hub." I always wondered what's Samsung Hub has to do with screen rotation? Good job.
HappyPlato said:
"Can apply the screen rotation fix, if you uninstall Samsung Hub." I always wondered what's Samsung Hub has to do with screen rotation? Good job.
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it removes a lib when uninstalled via Titanium Backup required for rotation to occur.
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it removes a lib when uninstalled via Titanium Backup required for rotation to occur.
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If you're curious it removes /system/lib/libgnustl_shared.so, which evidently breaks screen rotation.
HappyPlato said:
"Can apply the screen rotation fix, if you uninstall Samsung Hub." I always wondered what's Samsung Hub has to do with screen rotation? Good job.
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Samsung Hub shares a lib file with the system. When you uninstall Samsung Hub, it uninstalls this shared lib file. That lib file is also responsible for screen rotation
SuperSmashedBro said:
Samsung Hub shares a lib file with the system. When you uninstall Samsung Hub, it uninstalls this shared lib file. That lib file is also responsible for screen rotation
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Well said!
I've found a couple of additional apps that I neglected to add, so I'll do that and drop version 1.1 sometime later today. Also I'm going to post threads on the different variants of the SGN3 to get the carrier-specific apps added to this besides just T-Mo. If you know of any, let me know. I think I'll start by downloading ROMs from those various variants.
EDIT
I'm going to dig a little deeper and see if I can find all of the files associated with an app, so there aren't any orphaned files after removal. Also going to add Google Apps for those that prefer their Android Google-less.
Okay, as promised (though a day late, oops!) here is version 1.1. I have added 3 more apps, and fixed a numbering error in updater-script. You can grab it HERE!
Enjoy!
For the next version I am rewriting this to have pages of apps instead of one long list, to keep things more organized. I have downloaded ROMs from all of the different variants to find carrier apps that can be removed.
I hope to release version 2.0 sometime this week.
Thank you just what Ive been looking for going to give it a try
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I tried both V1.0 and V1.1. There is some scrolling problem, once you're close to bottom half. It can be difficult to select from the list, when it auto scroll all the way to bottom or top.
Great addition to my note 3. It has definitely helped me by saving a lot of manual time on titanium backup!
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I tried both V1.0 and V1.1. There is some scrolling problem, once you're close to bottom half. It can be difficult to select from the list, when it auto scroll all the way to bottom or top.
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I think it has to do with one or two things (possibly both). The first being Aroma's screen calibration, and the other being the sheer number of apps in the list. That is part of the reason I am splitting them up. So far I have 3 pages for "stock" apps, one for each carrier variant (5, I believe), and then one for google apps.