Motorola Droid :: What Are Your Favorites Must Have Apps?
Nov 19, 2009
I love shopping on the Android market for great apps =) share with us your favorite apps on this thread =) Mine:Credit to androidforum for many of these app suggestions. See here: Helpful Links and Info for Motorola Droid Users My favorite Droid apps (3 tiers):
Tier 1: On my home screen (most useful/most potential):
Gdocs notepad (syncs with google docs, others use ak notepad)
Gtasks (syncs with google tasks on gmail)
LockPattern OnOff (careful, don't forget your pattern, can brick your droid this way - google login to override pattern lock does not work on some droids including mine. Hopefully they'll fix this soon)
Shopsavvy vs barcode reader
Keyring
Pandora (or last.fm if you prefer)
Weather (that's the full name, i like their widget better than all others)
Power manager full (may want to wait till they fix the bluetooth toggle to buy, but i like having dif power profiles to switch to for home vs out and about - i place shortcuts to the profiles on my home screen and oneclick to activate. Alternative is 'locale' but locale doesnt work very well for droid)
Bluetooth toggle for droid (using this till power manager fixes itself for bluetooth)
Advanced task manager (i like that there's auto-end on the full version...saves me the trouble of closing programs manually. Is also a great easy interface for uninstalling programs)
Gps status (i use this for remembering where i parked my car, free and better than other parking apps. Just go to 'radar' view and click 'mark')
Meebo IM (better than IM+ lite, free, create a meebo acct and just sign into one acct and you'll have all your IM including facebook chat!)
Google navigation (included, it takes a while to get used to, but the key is making a 'my maps' on google maps on your computer, hitting 'layers' on google nav and 'more layers' and choosing your 'my maps'. Easier to get places this way than thru 'contacts' in my opinion. Also try mounting the droid vertically for gps use, i like it because you see forward more rather than to the sides - i wonder why other gps dont do that, it makes so much more sense!)
Buzzlock
Where
Google voice
Quickpedia (wiki reader, better than the rest bc font size adjustable)
Gmote (havent tried yet but looks promising)
Funny jokes (heh heh)
Easy dialer (my go-to for making calls to family and friends quickly)
Battery widget (this is the exact name)
Cardiotrainer (better than andando i think)
Bff photo (facebook photo albums of friends)
Instant lyrics
World weather (i use mainly the widget x 2 to see the time in asia so i know when i can call family and weather in chicago so i can gloat at my freezing friends =)
Facebook (from facebook inc)
SportsTap (best sports app. Period.)
Tier 2: Not on home screen but good to have:
Owner
Saymyname donut (talking caller id, make sure to get donut version, not the old one)
Ringdroid (make own ringtones)
Tone picker (set anything as a ringtone)
Where's my droid
Tier 3: Other useful apps:
Shazam
Places directory
aCar (mileage, maintenance, etc)
Astro (file explorer manager)
B-folders (for keeping sensitive data, can't speak for security, but better than nothing)
Backgrounds
Bible (all Bible versions, but needs data connection)
Dockrunner
Documents to go
gStrings (great free guitar or other instrument tuner)
Guitar chordz
Mabilo ringtones (a team, airwolf, stargate...need i say more? =)
Movies
My coupons
Prayers to share (share and pray for requests anonymously)
Poke a mole
Robo defense
Amazon
Amazon mp3
Motorola media link (program for your pc, havent used yet but looks to be best solution for syncing music)
View 22 Replies
Aug 16, 2010
Can anyone give me information on importing internet favorites from PC to my Droid X phone?
View 12 Replies
View Related
Jul 27, 2010
Can you do this on the phone?I don't see a way to add contacts to a group.
View 2 Replies
View Related
Dec 3, 2009
Anyone using A Online Radio wondering how to delete stations from the favorites tab? There have been multiple posts about this on the developers site.I read their instructions multiple times on their forum post and after 2 days of thinking about it, I finally figured it out.They say that you're supposed to scroll through the list, and as you scroll, the entries will highlight. Then you can select delete from the menu you get from the droid's menu button.After many failed attemps at normal drag scrolling with my finger, I finally thought of trying to scroll with the direction pad on the hard keyboard.Open up to the keyboard and scroll down with that dpad, and items will highlight. You can then delete from the menu.Not hardly the best interface. check boxes and a select all would be much easier. But hey, at least now I can manage the favorites tab.
View 4 Replies
View Related
Dec 22, 2009
I have yet to find a good Bookmark/Favorites widget. I have tried all the ones in the market that I can find and haven't found one with all the features I am looking for in a single app. Anyone know of a good one or working on one?
Basically I am looking for one that can do the following:
-show bookmarks in list form (icons take up a lot of room)
-allow editing of names and tags- AND have the changes take effect in the native browser
-have an entry in the program list (not just a widget or browser integration) so that a shortcut can be placed in a folder instead of just on the home screen
-import/export compatable with Firefox
If you don't know of one, feel free to add to the list of features incase any devs decide to take on the project.
View 2 Replies
View Related
Dec 20, 2009
I am looking for a very good app on android mark that will allow me to view video podcast such as phonedog and Geekbrief, gadget pron and a few others that I religiously watched from my ipod touch on a nightly basis. Of course the touch had itunes which was great, the only thing it lacked was being able to save your favorites without downloading them. I know they have a few things out there on android market that seem to do this, looking for the easiest and the best.
View 3 Replies
View Related
Dec 27, 2009
I Want ot delete favorite ans still leave it in contacts how do I do that . It is also adding some contacts into favorites that I don't want in favorites.
View 2 Replies
View Related
Jan 14, 2010
The Droid lists every call I get or make as a "favorite". Really annoying. How do I stop this?
View 7 Replies
View Related
May 18, 2010
So i was having issue with my favorites disappearing. It was a pain with my Favorite People widget.It has to do with your sync. To fix it, you have to go to the gmail website and add your favorites to the website. If you don't it will keep syncing your favorites with the site, thus the disappearing. I would think it should be a 2 way sync, but I guess not. Either that or this is a syncing bug
View 3 Replies
View Related
Aug 24, 2010
I am developing an Android application where you should be able to browse restaurants.
Im retrieving the information about the restaurants from a service, they are not stored locally on the device. But I want to allow the user to add a restaurant to his/her favorites.
What is the "best" way to store that kind of info on the device? Should I use Shared Preferences or Sqlite db? Or any other suggestions?
View 2 Replies
View Related
Mar 6, 2010
Has anyone noticed the favorites icon with the heart missing in 2.1? It used to be on the call screen and i thing the contact screen?
View 5 Replies
View Related
Aug 7, 2010
A friend of mine has the HTC Incredible and asked me, since I have the Eris and they are pretty similar, how to change the default action in Favorite people. When he set up his wife as a favorite, he accidentally chose to "send text" as the default action. He wants to change it to dial her cell number. I read the instructions for my Eris on how to do this.It tells me "To change the default communication method for a favorite contact, press and hold the contact, and then tap Change default action."When I do this, I do not get an option to change default action. Same for him.
View 4 Replies
View Related
Jan 5, 2010
The first screen to the right from the main screen is where favorite contacts go. I was trying to figure out how to delete one of those contacts from my favorites and I sent the whole screen into the remove box and deleted it (I've since figured out how to remove a singe contact). How do I get that screen back?
View 11 Replies
View Related
May 7, 2010
I actually noticed this on V2 leak as well when I set up my favorites list, and then select that person for the first time, I'm prompted to set up a default action - that default is never saved, and I have to repeat those steps in order to dial a number - anyone have this problem? Is there a step I'm missing?
View 9 Replies
View Related
Mar 29, 2010
I have had the Eris for 3 days now and I mostly get the hang of it. I'm running 2.1 (newest build).
Last night I linked all the contacts in "people" with Facebook (for people that are on FB). When I press "phone" now it lists nearly all my facebook friends. I did not add them. How did this happen? Oddly it did not do all of them. It stopped half way through the Ts. As much as I like all my "friends" there are least 200 of them I do not want listed on my "phone" list. How can I remove them from the phone list? There does not appear to be any way to delete them. When I do the "people" program they are not listed there. Is there anyway to remove these friends from the phone list and if I do will the phone try to put them back there?
Is there any way to have multiple phone numbers for the same person in favorites? I want to have my wife with her cell number and her work number there. It appears that I can only have her once in favorites with one number. It would also work if I could select which number when I pressed her button. It does not look like this is possible. Any ideas?
View 7 Replies
View Related
May 16, 2010
Whenever I sync my Google Contacts, I lose my Favorites on my phone. How can I fix this?
View 3 Replies
View Related
Apr 20, 2010
Is there any real benefit for pushing apps to the system/apps in terms of speed/stability?
View 4 Replies
View Related
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?
View 3 Replies
View Related
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?
View 3 Replies
View Related
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.
View 9 Replies
View Related
Jul 12, 2010
I have only been an Eris owner for a few hours and I already need a helping hand. I trashed the "Favorites" by mistake. I thought I was deleting one entry and lost the whole page. Anyone know how to retrieve the page. I will be eternally grateful.
View 2 Replies
View Related
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?
View 1 Replies
View Related
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
View 28 Replies
View Related
Nov 25, 2009
Are there any of these apps that will work for the Droid.
View 19 Replies
View Related
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...
View 10 Replies
View Related
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.
View 18 Replies
View Related
Jul 15, 2010
I like the UI much better for launcher pro but I do miss some sense widgets like favorites. With launcher pro, I have to keep going through my phonebook or recent calls list to try to find people. It does get tedious. Is there any app/widget that is similar to the sense favorites?
View 1 Replies
View Related
May 7, 2010
For the favorites widget, is it possible to have just the phone numbers associated with the favorite person pop up as an option. I know you can set the thing to pop up all of the contact info or one number or an email or whatever, but it doesn't really work well for driving. I'd like to tap the person and have a list of their phone numbers show up from which, one can be selected and dialed. Is there another app or widget that might do this?
View 3 Replies
View Related
Oct 19, 2010
I have one GMail account synced to my EVO. When I open up 'People' all my contacts I added through GMail are there. Looks great.
However, when I go to the Favorites widget and click + to add a contact to the widget, I get a list of pretty much everyone I've ever sent an email to through my GMail account. I only want my real contacts to show up there, I don't need the dude listed there that I sold my blender to on Craigslist from 5 years ago.
View 7 Replies
View Related
May 18, 2010
On one of my pages i have a favorites tab thing and whenever i click to add a contact it cant find no one. I have people in my contacts list so i don't get it.
View 5 Replies
View Related