Motorola Droid :: New Droid Owner / Must Have Apps?
Jan 17, 2010
I just got my Droid yesterday and so far I'm loving it! I just didn't like my old phone (Samsung Omnia) so decided to upgrade even though it would most likely require me to pay full retail as I'm not that near my contract anniversary and used my NET upgrade last year. I deliberated for a while about waiting for the Nexus One but after reading all the customer support issues with Google and HTC and the mysterious cracked screen issue I decided to go with the Droid. At least that way I know I can get my phone insured and I know I can get good support with a Verizon issued phone.
So I popped in to my local store yesterday expecting to shell out full retail and they gave me the 1-year renewel deal plus I got a little corporate discount from work AND a $100 rebate so ended up only having to pay $229 for the phone, so I was very pleased. That is until when I left the store and did the install for 2.0.1 and the phone wouldn't get past the boot animation. :P So back I went and she got a new one and it decided it only wanted to do setup in Spanish and wouldn't switch nor go past setup so out comes the third phone and all worked fine so now I'm a happy camper! So, now I need to know... what are the must-have applications for this phone? I'm reading through the apps forum for ideas but thought I'd ask here thinking it'd be quicker than poring over tons of posts.
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Jun 18, 2010
Any leaked manual yet?
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Oct 30, 2010
My mom wanted an Android phone and decided to go with the Droid X. She really likes the phone so far, even though there is a bit of a learning curve. The problem that is frustrating us both is that in order to sign into Google's Android Market place you must enter/confirm your gmail account. We enter her account information, which is 100% correct, and then it brings us to a captcha box. I've entered about 30 different captcha's and each time it starts to connect to Google's servers and then brings us right back to another captcha. There will be clear captcha's and I will be very careful I'm entering the correct characters and then it will still not work.Does anyone have a solution to this? Should I chalk this up as a server problem and wait and try it again tomorrow?I understand this isn't necessarily a Droid X issue as it is an Android 2.2 issue.
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Feb 3, 2010
This app allows people to see your contact info in case you lose your phone. Seems like kind of a necessity if you're using the security lock. Otherwise how will people know how to find you?But before you set it up it says the app may cause a crash if you're on an HTC android phone. Question: Has anyone tried this one on the Eris? Do you have any other suggestions for a similar app?
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Apr 20, 2010
Is there any real benefit for pushing apps to the system/apps in terms of speed/stability?
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Jul 31, 2010
I do not recall one of my apps (Places) ever being there before and its not in the manage app area so i can delete it. Does anyone else have this app?
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Aug 6, 2010
I want to have my apps stored on my SD card by default when I download them. Can anyone tell me how to set that up?
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Oct 22, 2010
From the same dev that brought you Easy Root, you can now enjoy some minor overclocking on your DX or D2 with DX/D2 Overclocker.
See this article
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Nov 25, 2009
Are there any of these apps that will work for the Droid.
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Feb 4, 2010
How do you delete something like Car Home or Gallery or Maps especially dont ask why oof your droid i am rooted...
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Aug 1, 2010
Has anyone noticed that when you install an application manually vs a downloaded one from the market it doesn't update when a newer version comes out?
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Nov 16, 2009
I know the "cool kid in school" thing to do is make fun of the iPhone market for having 1,000's of 'Fart apps'
But let's be honest at the end of the day it's really not true, and now coming from being a previous iPhone owner and now a Droid owner i can honestly say, the iPhone app market wins by a TON.
This is just a general QUALITY of apps comparison as well.
NO i'm not switching back... but man do i miss the iPhone apps...
Especially facebook.. and others..
You can REALLY tell the difference between the quality of iPhone apps vs Android,
So why am i starting this thread?.. Well i'm hoping maybe a developer could chime in and enlighten us on why this is...
Things i'm curious about-
Is programming in android worse then in the iPhone OS? is that why apps are WAY less in quality?
And you can't give the excuse that it's because things are new, when the iPhone market came out the apps were quality at day 1, many of them were.
So what's the difference? i guess software...
Well i'm sticking with android even though this exists.. in hopes that maybe future Android OS updates and SDK's will improve this very obvious difference.. right now i'm not impressed at all... the apps are all Slow, and they look horrible.
And for twitter? holy crap... iPhone owners back me up here, but the iPhone twitter apps are lightyears ahead of android twitter apps.
Just take a look at Tweetdeck for iPhone, and compare to to what i guess is the best android twitter app, twidroid?
Compare those and you'll see what i'm talking about.
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Nov 12, 2009
I have A LOT of apps on my Droid. Way too many, but that's a subject for another day. Getting to them on the default menu is impossible, its WAY to much scrolling. My home screen space is very limited - the left side is a full screen calendar, and the right side is a nearly full screen task list. The main home screen loses some space to a clock widget, so I end up with only a 4x3 space on my center screen to work with. Given all of the apps I have and all of the functions they do, this doesn't work. I need direct & instant access to at least a dozen things on the home screen, Plus much more a few clicks away. I have thus far found TWO decently sound organizational options for my Droid, but neither quite do it for me. Hopefully you guys know of another one that I have not yet found.Folders on the home screen. Put things in folders.Problems: Despite ability to name folders, Grey folders all look the same, making it harder to quickly grab the one you want when there is a screen full of them.impossible to nest folders (this feature alone would solve my problems)Folders don't auto close, pressing the home button takes you back to the home screen with the folder still open (yet one more button to hit to close it).Great app on the marketplace called "Apps Organizer"Pros:makes a list of all your apps, then lets you assign label(s) to them (like gmail). Then you can create shortcuts on your home screen to a specific label.Lets you select a unique Icon for each label.
Problems:When you click on the shortcut to open up that category, the tray of Icons is TINY. Significantly smaller than normal. This makes reading text labels of the apps "legible", but only with good eyesight.No nesting.No shortcuts to gmail labels, direct dial, direct messaging. So those groups of icons all have to go in the folders the plain grey indistinguishable folders.Temporary workaround:Create a folder for gmail labels, direct messaging and calling "folders" on the home screen.create 1 "reorganized" apps menu folder on the home screen that would link to ALL the apps, organized by labels into 6-8 categories. No more endless scrolling for the "occasional use" app.Create half a dozen labels for HIGH use applications and place those on the home screen for direct access to those categories.None of the options presented REALLY get the job done. grey indistinguishable folders remain, I still have to launch everything out of the TINY icons and text used by Apps Organizer, direct message, email, calling, labels still needs some work. Any suggestions? Am I missing any options in the above, or other ideas that would enhance this spit and duct tape organizational system?
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Oct 13, 2010
Got my warranty replacement droid yesterday. Re signed into my google account.Went to market, went to my downloads, saw large list of my apps that should have been downloaded. Went to bed. Woke up this morning, and none of my apps are on my home button.Went back to market, has about 2/3 of my apps saying 'starting download', another 1/3 saying 'installing'.But this has been 8 hours and nothing is actually installed. If I go to an app that says starting download, I can cancel it, then hit install button, and it installs. But I don't want to do this for like 30 apps if I don't have to.Also have tried a reboot, but so far, nothing better.I am connected to home wifi, so good speed. Before I got replacement phone I wiped my bad phone to see if it would help, and apps came back within an hour.
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Apr 14, 2010
It will be awhile before I get my next Android phone, but am curious, when that day comes, is there an easy way(or any way) to migrate all apps from my current Droid to whatever I get next??
Best bet at the moment is it will be a HTC Android phone. But, who knows what will be out then, it's at least 7 months away.
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Apr 29, 2010
I've been trying to portion my sd card but the only programs i found are difficult and require cynogen mod (i think).
but i have smoked glass (freaking awesome, my first ROM) is there a apps2sd program on smoked glass or do i have to go to cynogen?
so I'm trying to portion my sd card so i can put apps there therefore making my droid faster...however i dont know how. anyone have links
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Aug 1, 2010
i have seen some app transferring threads but my issue is a little different.I have my droid x already on my line and activated, my droid is just sitting on a shelf.I want some of he apps from the droid onto my droid x. These apps i want are no longer on the market though or now have restrictions on them like shazam and music junk How can i transfer the actual app?
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Feb 19, 2013
how to delete owner picture. I tried few times but I couldn't delete it. I use Nexus 7, Jellybean 4.2.2
There is shown a picture on notification bar even People app doesn't have any picture
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Jan 28, 2009
I want my application to send emails.
The user can pick arecipient from the contacts.
Then I generate the body text of the email and send it to the email app ( using something like http://androidguys.com/?p=3100#comment-5168).
The email body looks something like :
------------------------- Hi {recipientname}!
Please click the following link :
[url]
If you click that like, you will live forever.
{sendername} ---------------------------------
"{recipientname}" is replaced by the name of the recipient that I get from the Contacts via Contacts.People.
For convenience, I'd like to replace "{sendername}" with the name of the sender, that means the name of the owner of the phone. (As stored in the email app, under Account Settings -> General Settings -> Your name) So, obviously that name is stored somewhere, ...
My question:
Is there any way to access this name via a content provider ? Or is there any other way to get a string (e.g. "John Doe" ) with the name of the owner/user of the device ?
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Sep 27, 2010
Any way a rooted inc owner can disable the joystick?
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Sep 11, 2009
I have an rooted Galaxy. I want to change owner to my application with chown command. I have a FileBrowser and I want to see files in /data directory (for example). Which files I have to change permission?
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Aug 10, 2010
Is there a way to get owner info on the lockscreen? For example, I'd like it to read "If found, please return this phone to MyName. Phone: xxx-xxx-xxxx, Email: MyName@gmail.com". Can this be done with the stock HTC lockscreen?Are there others that are as secure, but provide this extra functionality? I'm rooted, if that makes a difference.
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Jan 26, 2010
I'm considering to develop owner drawn EditText widget. So, what do you think I should read or refer, firstly? Or, could you give me some good examples of both owner drawn widget or custom widget?
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Mar 31, 2010
I have android.permission.READ_OWNER_DATA but I can't find any reliable code that would explain how can I read email address of device's owner. And please don't turn this into 'why you wanna do that' thread.
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Nov 16, 2009
Just a poll to see how many apps people have downloaded and currently have in their Droid! I got 20! Can't see going too far beyond that number, but let's see yours This is ONLY for downloaded apps currently in your phone , NOT total apps.
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Jul 12, 2010
Now Google is working on App Inventor, a program that lets pretty much anybody piece together their own apps:
Android App Inventer Makes Average Joe a Developer | These are the Droids
I foresee the Android Market being flooded with DIY apps, some good, some junk. What say you? Good thing for Android or a disaster in the making?
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Aug 23, 2010
has anyone found any apps that crash or cause random reboots? i know of twitter and TiKL, whenever i try to use it, it bogs the phone down and restarts.
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Feb 6, 2010
Do you guys have problems with missing icons that just get replaced by the default android icon? 2 apps I have, are missing their icons. Nav Launcher and Pandora. Any idea why or how to fix it?
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Nov 30, 2010
so im a huge fan of android and especially the Droid X. Im here to help those of you who are newbies to the Droid X or really any Droid. So here are some apps that have really made my Droid X a very great machine:Non-rooted phones: Astro file manager- simple app that lets you take a look into your phone and sd card memory and its free. Beautiful Widgets- a very nice clock widget similar to htc's stock clock but comes with other widget buttons like wifi and bluetooth etc. Costs about $1.50 but i stole my copy. Cherry Rplayer- a free satellite radio app. ChompSMS- a free txt message app that lets you totally customize how u send and read texts. Gtunes- free mp3 search engine where you can search and download music. HistoryEraser- erases history from your browser and even the market place.Yahoo! Mail- if you got Yahoo! this free app will let you know if you have a message in your yahoo! mail like Gmail does.PdaNet- free tethering app to give your computer internet thru your phone. It is free but you can not access private web pages but you can pay a one time fee to unlock all features. Power Control Plus- instead of the lame stock power control widget that came with the phone you can get this for .99 cents or steal for free and customize your own power control widget. Ring droid-free app which lets you customize your music into ringtones. TiKL touch to talk-if your on a strict calling plan get this..its a free walkie talkie type app that will let you talk to friends anywhere for free as long as your friends have it too. Wheres my droid?-if you miss place your phone and have it on silent this free app will make your droid ring untill you find out where its at.Lancher pro- there are tw versions of this home replacement app there is the free launcher pro and the paid version..paid version gives you access to your facebook and twitter on a single widget so you can update your status or post something on your wall all at once. It also has other widgets such as: twitter, facebook, calendar, friends and others. Free version does not have any of that. Now for you out there wanting to root your phone i have only a couple of apps that are really worth the download: Z4root- free rooting app that gives you the choice to temporary root or permanently root with one click. You can even un-root with one click. Droidoverclock- .99cents gets you this great overclocking app that can make your droid x go from 1000mhz(1ghz) to 1450mhz(1.45ghz) or even underclock if you wish. DroidX Bootstrap- $2 app lets you go into recovery mode to install themes and or ROMs. Well i hope i did some good for you newbies who are looking fir good apps to get the best out your droid x's. Stay Avid!
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Oct 6, 2010
Rooted running LFY 1.7 and I am wondering how to remove a few apps that I dont need...Trying to remove stuff like car/home, corporate email, facebook, news and weather, twitter, etc...Do I need an app?
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