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what are some apps you use?

what kind of apps/games do you use? if youre rooted, what are apps do you use?

http://bit.ly/rickysappbrain.

the orange bandit said:
http://bit.ly/rickysappbrain.
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Haha! I like it.
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I have most of the Android-Essentials...
But a couple of my personal favorites are WhitePages Caller ID (great for numbers I don't recognize), TeamViewer, DropBox, Tether Share Switcher, and Startup Cleaner.

Setcpu,shootme,system panel,& ledmeknow just to name a few.
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This is about the 10th thread I've seen asking about what rooted apps to use. I think people that are new to this get some crazy idea that when you root, there are tons of these crazy apps that only root users have access to. Its really just a small group of apps that expand the functionality of the phone, and chances are you probably have aquired a good amount of them along your journey to obtain root.
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the orange bandit said:
http://bit.ly/rickysappbrain.
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Can i just cheers, I noticed your using u torrent remote, didnt know it existed been looking for a replacement since torrent fu stopped working for me with utorrent v2.0
nice one

wayde187 said:
This is about the 10th thread I've seen asking about what rooted apps to use. I think people that are new to this get some crazy idea that when you root, there are tons of these crazy apps that only root users have access to. Its really just a small group of apps that expand the functionality of the phone, and chances are you probably have aquired a good amount of them along your journey to obtain root.
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Thanks for the flame
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[S-ON] remove/disable crap from htc

Seen on the main XDA page, edited it for Wildfire S: Cleantool
This tool disables HTC bloatware. It keeps taking space on internal memory (APK is still there) but the advantage is that there's more free ram, less background processes and a cleaner app drawer. This way, you should multitask longer and maybe a bit better battery life.
Also device will start up a bit faster.
It disables:
HTC facebook
HTC peep
HTC friend stream
HTC search app
HTC stocks
HTC greader
update version 2
Cleaned it furher up! If you use another launcher then stock, you can use option disable Sense.
download
Instructions:
- unzip to desktop
- be sure HTC drivers are installed, here they are.
- enable usb debugging: go to settings, applications, development and select usb debugging.
- connect phone to pc, select charging mode.
- run the cleantool.2.1.1.bat file.
- select first option, then second option.
- select then reboot and disconnect phone.
For going back to stock: go to settings, storage and choose reset data option.
Credits to scrosler
Hit thanks don't say thanks!
Post a comment to keep this thread alive!

This method delete the apk from /system/app permanently with s-on, too?
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ONeill123 said:
This method delete the apk from /system/app permanently with s-on, too?
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if you would just READ his post ....

And does it stay that way after reboot?
EDIT :Yes, I see.
Can we choose what to disable?
EDIT 2: Don't see any diference in phone memory.
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:s aren't most of those HTC apps less than 100Kb anyways? I wouldn't have thought removing them would save much space? :s

thanks!!!
just an update.
while i was on temp root i tried to install superuser.apk
and titanum backup.. i can now freeze apps!! this is exciting!

Why the double post Henry?

aperture said:
thanks!!!
just an update.
while i was on temp root i tried to install superuser.apk
and titanum backup.. i can now freeze apps!! this is exciting!
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I must try this, with temp root.
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Thanks
Its working fine, now more free RAM earlier in my WFS showing RAm usages 150MB after applying this tool 200+ MB available free RAM.

victorharsh said:
Its working fine, now more free RAM earlier in my WFS showing RAm usages 150MB after applying this tool 200+ MB available free RAM.
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Hmm, mine stayed the same. Before and after applying this tool, around 150 mb.
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No.12 said:
Hmm, mine stayed the same. Before and after applying this tool, around 150 mb.
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Guys, I am sorry but - do you have any idea how to use your phone ?!? 150MB free ?!? WTF dude
At the moment I have 258MB free with S-On Wildfire S, installed bunch of software and left with 35MB free phone memory, all home screens are full of widgets ...
The less I have ever saw is around 190MB free...
Could you please explain to me and the comunity how to NOT use our android phones please ?
P.S. - BTW I am using an antivirus software too which is permanently activated and checking, and now have 259MB free and 131MB used even checked through settings which consumes another 11MB RAM...
P.S. 2 - thats with DATA on, accounts - gmail(calendar, mail, contacts), live mail, contacts, htc sense, weather, twitter, fliker, facebook, google+ = all is set to sync, what else ?

Thanks for sharing this, Henry.
I don't really know if this tool will bring any advantage to me.
Actually I don't have any of those apps (bloatware) running in memory so I guess that it's just good news for some roms, not all.
On the 2.3.5 RUU those apps aren't loaded into RAM unless you use the widgets or open the apps at your will.
This should be nice for earlier/other ROMS that load all that crap on phone startup.
When my phone was branded to Vodafone I had stocks, peep, facebook for sense and other crap occupying memory.
Now without running the Clean Tool I have 267MB free memory for the system and 80MB free for apps.
Considering that I have installed a lot of stuff including: App Monster Pro, GPS software, Poweramp, musiXmatch, ES File Explorer, Google Goggles, Traffic Counter, Wikidroid, YouTube latest version, Battery Indicator Pro, Google Street View, Facebook, AK Notepad, Fast Discharge, History Eraser, Voice Search, Google Translate, Klondike, Gmail latest version, JuiceDefender Ultimate and other small apps I think I cant complain.

Almost 60 downloads keep on going!
Great to see it works!

Yes, I know how to use phone, thanks for asking. :banghead:
I have pretty the same app running, but again, only 130-160 mb available. And that's after using advanced task killer.
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No.12 said:
Yes, I know how to use phone, thanks for asking. :banghead:
I have pretty the same app running, but again, only 130-160 mb available. And that's after using advanced task killer.
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No.12, I strongly recommend you don't use any task killer on your phone. Since Froyo (at least) the O.S. keeps reopening apps all the time.
This is crap I know but that's the way to make some apps load faster.
The task killer will only kill your battery because the phone will spend lots of time closing and opening apps again and again.
Memory access drains battery at a very quick pace.
I know this from my own experience. When I stopped using task killers the battery started lasting much longer. Already happened on my defunct HTC Desire...

But won't I get to the point where memory usage will increase so much and phone will become slow?
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No.12 said:
But won't I get to the point where memory usage will increase so much and phone will become slow?
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Eventually that will happen if you don't restart your phone once in a while...
I had two HTC phones that had less memory than the WFS. A Tattoo and a Wildfire. On those memory ran out and made the phone slow.
That never happened to me on the WFS... but I have a habit of restarting the phone every week and clear app cache with History Eraser frequently. This helps for sure.
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Thanks for this Henry! I'm now Senseless. xD [Pun]
P.S. Wildfire (Buzz)'s screen is too small, sucks.

stocks app is still there why is superuser installed now on my phone? is something i can do with him?

zegi69 said:
stocks app is still there why is superuser installed now on my phone? is something i can do with him?
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Superuser is installed because you are temp rooted. You can always uninstall.
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[Q] Mobile AntiVirus - Is it recomended?

Morning,
I've been toying with the idea of installing an Anti Virus solution on to my phone but have a couple of questions.
Is it necessary? I know that most of the AV apps come with nice features like tracking and remote wipe but was wondering how big the threat of mobile malware actually is.
Will it prevent my device from going into 'Deep Sleep' and have a negative impact on battery life?
It is possible that I am going to install Vipre Mobile Security as we use a lot of GFI products at work. Do any of you have experience with this app?
Cheers in advance.

JimmyEatFood said:
Morning,
I've been toying with the idea of installing an Anti Virus solution on to my phone but have a couple of questions.
Is it necessary? I know that most of the AV apps come with nice features like tracking and remote wipe but was wondering how big the threat of mobile malware actually is.
Will it prevent my device from going into 'Deep Sleep' and have a negative impact on battery life?
It is possible that I am going to install Vipre Mobile Security as we use a lot of GFI products at work. Do any of you have experience with this app?
Cheers in advance.
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1) No it's not. Just install apps from the official google market and none of the chinese/russian ones and look at the permissions each app uses. Unless you are installing "big busty blonde" style apps you should be fine.
2)Most AV/Malware products have a negative effect on a phones performance and battery. Don't bother, just use your common sense instead.

animaleyes76 said:
1) No it's not. Just install apps from the official google market and none of the chinese/russian ones and look at the permissions each app uses. Unless you are installing "big busty blonde" style apps you should be fine.
2)Most AV/Malware products have a negative affect on a phones performance and battery. Don't bother, just use your common sense instead.
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Have to agree here as well. Do not bother with AV apps mate..Just use common sense on what you flash or install on your phone. Simple as that

I have never used Anti Virus on any of my phones and I've never had any problems.

Cheers lads. I was reading an article about Android Malware which prompted me to look into AV. Don't think I'll bother now though
Any recommendations for an app to locate and remote wipe the device if it is lost?
Sent as my GF gets angry at me for playing with my HTC One X....again.

Cerberus is excellent, does everything.
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animaleyes76 said:
[...] Unless you are installing "big busty blonde" style apps you should be fine. [...]
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Damn!

JimmyEatFood said:
Cheers lads. I was reading an article about Android Malware which prompted me to look into AV. Don't think I'll bother now though
Any recommendations for an app to locate and remote wipe the device if it is lost?
Sent as my GF gets angry at me for playing with my HTC One X....again.
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I suggest try AndroidLost I have tried most of the features like taking pictures, recording and GPS, it integrates nicely with your Google account and best of all its for FREE
I am yet to try its SMS capabilities and Sim notifications
http://www.androidlost.com

Cheers guys. I will look into the free app as I am a tight fisted Yorkshireman.
Sent as my GF gets angry at me for playing with my HTC One X....again.

I use free version of lookout. It don't cause any battery drains and is set to scan any new app get installed on the phone. You can also manual scan the whole phone.

You can install Avast Anti-Virus from the google play store, and if the phone has root access you can install Avast onto the ROM.
Once it has been installed you can set up theft aware for SMS text commands to remote wipe, lock etc.
The reason why the install it to the ROM is because if someone was going to factory reset through the bootloader or even from the settings menu the Avast will still be install but it will be disguised as another app (Which you can name) and they will not know that it is there.
Hope this was helpful.

Av only good for one thing and that's the tracking if its lost/stolen
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check out Kaspersky, I think it still comes with life time updates, it might not be necessary today but it's a good deal and might get useful in future...

JimmyEatFood said:
Cheers lads. I was reading an article about Android Malware which prompted me to look into AV. Don't think I'll bother now though
Any recommendations for an app to locate and remote wipe the device if it is lost?
Sent as my GF gets angry at me for playing with my HTC One X....again.
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Although not free, PhoneLocator Pro is the best I've seen,
It hides from your app drawer, adds un-installation security, takes an automatic photo of your thief and sends it you, along with his call log, also blocks the phone if the thief changes sim card, along with all the GPS tracking services that it emails you - you also get a web user interface too, aswell as the usual text commands.
Its good stuff, developer is very responsive and eager to add more features all the time too.
However, due to the way HTC have implemented multi-tasking, their pre-installed task manager app will kill it, along with anything else you may have running such as battery saving apps, antivirus, etc etc
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Task mannager

I found the Task Manager app in HTC Desire HD at 2.3.5 is really useful, it kills most of the apps I don't want to use, but leave those always running ones such as Lookout security, 3G watch dog, Viber, Weixin(Like Heytell) and Onavo.
After I switched to HTC One X, it seems it kills everything, and you can not put certain app in a exception list which is really annoying, so I have to either restart the apps or stop those unwanted ones one by one.
Any better solution for this?
Thank you.

guysabati said:
I found the Task Manager app in HTC Desire HD at 2.3.5 is really useful, it kills most of the apps I don't want to use, but leave those always running ones such as Lookout security, 3G watch dog, Viber, Weixin(Like Heytell) and Onavo.
After I switched to HTC One X, it seems it kills everything, and you can not put certain app in a exception list which is really annoying, so I have to either restart the apps or stop those unwanted ones one by one.
Any better solution for this?
Thank you.
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Yes, this one supports "an exception list" : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.james.SmartTaskManager

Thank you very much

guysabati said:
Thank you very much
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Np

[Q] HTC Apps?

Can you install the HTC Apps from Google Play?
Then disable the Google apps like: Calculator, Calendar, Chrome, Photos, etc?
And one more question, are the dialer/phonebook, messages, music, notes (Scribble), voice recorder and tasks google or HTC apps? (I hope HTC)
Anyway, if it doesnt. If you extract the apps from any M9 rom (maybe deodexed), could you install the .apk files?
Also, does it have the grid view on Recent Apps? (Please say yes)

I would like to know if this is possible as well. I prefered htc apps over Google...

From what I have seen and read you can do this yes.

Yes, this is possible.

My mind is a little blown that some people have these preferences, but yes, you can.

Ajfink said:
My mind is a little blown that some people have these preferences, but yes, you can.
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Different folks different strokes.
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People have different tastes.
Like some people prefer Touchwiz/Xperia/Optimus/Miui/etc over AOSP, because each of these skins add something new that appeal to a certain group of people.

The big advanatge of HTC apps is that they are not completly linked to all the damn google stuff. I want to use the playstore for apps, but the other stuff is mostly an invasion of privacy...

Ajfink said:
My mind is a little blown that some people have these preferences, but yes, you can.
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Well, I mostly prefer Google apps, but the HTC Music player is awesome, so yeah that's the first app I'll be installing when the 10 hit UK market

HTC uploaded Boost+ on Google Play.
Guess what was in one of the screenshots.
Sense 8 apps.
See for yourselves.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.htc.pitroad

Who's the say that isn't from an M8 or M9?
Anyway I believe if HTC makes it available you can get it from the Play store. If not then you may have to sideload it and hope it works.
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Most HTC apps can be downloaded from the Play Store on the 10. However, one that is not compatible with the 10 is the HTC gallery app.

Behold_this said:
Most HTC apps can be downloaded from the Play Store on the 10. However, one that is not compatible with the 10 is the HTC gallery app.
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Is there a work around for this yet? I hate using Google photos...
Tried extracting the Gallery.apk from a M9 rom but it kept force closing.

I don't mind Google Photos as an app to create and save my pictures, but it's absolutely not ready to be integrated into the camera app. It takes way too long after taking a photo to review and edit. And forget taking a burst of photos, you have to wait literally a minute or more to see them.

xx3rdwrightxx said:
Is there a work around for this yet? I hate using Google photos...
Tried extracting the Gallery.apk from a M9 rom but it kept force closing.
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3 choices:
-you could use Team Fulmics's ported apps
-you could download ICE ROM for M8 and extract some themed Sense 8 apps (but low chance for them to work... Althrough they are running on a Sense 8 rom)
-there was some thread on XDA where somebody actually ported some apps especially for the HTC 10
Imo, you should the second idea, because the Sense 7 apps would not quite fit with Sense 8, so better try some themes ones first.
If they dont work, just try the other things.

Tidbits said:
Who's the say that isn't from an M8 or M9?
Anyway I believe if HTC makes it available you can get it from the Play store. If not then you may have to sideload it and hope it works.
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Because of the status bar. Is the stock google one.
HTC One M9/M8 doensnt have that.
So... I think HTC has made new apps, but they are not releasing them for some reason. :/

I can deal with almost all of the changes that they've made but I'll tell you the one app that I'm really missing is the HTC music player. I found the APK file online but every time I install it the app force closes
I don't particularly care for the Google photos app because what it would like to do is upload all of the photos from my phone to my Google account and I don't necessarily want that to happen. I actually hate the way Google handles most of their data collection. So I've made it a habit of mine ever since I started using android to go into the sink settings and turn off everything except for my Gmail.
I'm pretty comfortable with the way things are now

I have slowly gotten used to the Photos app from Google...
I did try to side-load HTC Music Player, but it keeps crashing on me... if anyone has a stable version, please let me know. Google play subscription isn't available where I live, so casting is disabled and I can't use my wireless speaker system...

Good grief, can't use the HTC Music Player app and can't edit the quick settings so there's a huge amount of pap in there at the moment. No interest in using Google photos or most other Google apps, seems to me like HTC has sold a bit of its soul to Google and left out some of its good apps like the gallery. If i wanted a stock launcher and all that Google crud I'd buy a Nexus device.

Strange, HTC Music player crashes but not Htc Music widget.