List of apps that makes rooted droids superior than stock droids?
I've been lookin @ this forum for a while now and now i decided to join!
I was just wondering what apps (on rooted droids) make big difference than the stock droids??
also, is there any great performance upgrade on the rooted droids??
Last edited by foebux; January 22nd, 2010 at 03:12 PM.
Turns your Droid into a wifi hotspot by bridging the G3 and wifi together. WAY TO SWEET. I building a Droid sniffer, Cant wait for my alpha. almost done. Will throw it up on the market for rooted 2.0.1 only.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Android Terminal Emulator (FREE) (AVAILABLE IN THE MARKET)
A TERMINAL EMULATOR FOR COMMUNICATING WITH THE BUILT-IN ANDROID SHELL. EMULATES A REASONABLY LARGE SUBSET OF DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION VT-100 TERMINAL CODES
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Better Terminal Emulator Pro ($3.99) (AVAILABLE IN THE MARKET)
ASH SHELL WITH COMMAND HISTORY AND EDITING
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Terminal Emulator (FREE) (AVAILABLE IN THE MARKET)
THIS IS THE TERM APP WRITTEN BY GOOGLE. THIS APPLICATION ALLOWS YOU TO PULL UP THE LINUX COMMAND LINE ON YOURR PHONE
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Drocap2 (FREE) (AVAILABLE IN THE MARKET)
SCREEN CAPTURE UTILITY. TAP START BUTTON AND SHAKE THE DEVICE OR WAIT FOR TIMER TO CAPTURE SCREEN IMAGE. THIS WORKS WELL WITH "SUPERUSER WHITELIST" ENVIRONMENT.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Adfree Android (FREE) (AVAILABLE IN THE MARKET)
REMOVES MOST ADS IN THE BROWSER AND OTHER APPS IT DOES THIS BY NULLIFYING REQUESTS TO KNOW HOSTSNAMES SERVING ADS
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SU File Manager and Terminal ($1.99) (AVAILABLE IN THE MARKET)
ROOT FILE MANAGER WITH SU, TERMINAL, SEARCH, MOUNT, CHMOD, SYMLINK, VIEW/EDIT/SAVE FILES, SH/RC SCRIPTS, EMAIL, HOME/FAVS, DOWNLOADER, MULTI-SELECT, CREATE/EXTRACT ZIP, PC BROWSER.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Autostart (Root) (FREE) (AVAILABLE IN THE MARKET)
THIS APPLICATION RUNS /DATA/OPT/AUTOSTART.SH AS ROOT AFTER BOOTING THE DEVICE AND FINISHES. /DATA/OPT/AUTOSTART.SH NOT PROVIDED YOU NEED TO CREATE IT AND FILL SOME COMMANDS YOU WANNA RUN AT START UP.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Root Manager (€1.99 **$2.91**) (AVAILABLE IN THE MARKET)
ROOT MANAGER IS TOOL FOR ALL ROOT USERS. IT ALLOWS YOU TO EASILY REBOOT NORMAL, RECOVER, BOOTLOADER(WIDGET), REMOUNT /SYSTEM, WIPE YOUR DATA, REMOVE SYSTEM APPS, MANAGE DATA CONNECTIONS, MANAGE SD CARD MOUNT
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Android Scripting Environment (ASE) (FREE) (AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD: CLICK HERE)
THE ANDROID SCRIPTING ENVIRONMENT (ASE) BRINGS SCRIPTING LANGUAGES TO ANDROID BY ALLOWING YOU TO EDIT AND EXECUTE SCRIPTS AND INTERACTIVE INTERPRETERS DIRECTLY ON THE ANDROID DEVICE.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Root Explorer (File Manager) (UK£1.20 **$1.95**) (AVAILABLE IN THE MARKET)
THE ULTIMATE FILE MANAGER FOR ROOT USERS. ACCESS THE WHOLE OF ANDROIDS FILE SYSTEM (INCLUDING THE ELUSIVE DATA FOLDER!). INCLUDES MULTI-SELECT, ZIP FILES, EXECUTE SCRIPTS, SEARCH, REMOUNT, PERMISSIONS, BOOKMARKS, EMAIL, HOME.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Move Cache for Root Users (FREE) (AVAILABLE IN THE MARKET)
MOVE CACHE OF BROSWER, MARKET, MAPS, STREETVIEW, GMAIL, STEEL ON FAT32 SD (SDCARD/CACHE/NAMEAPP) AND REVERT. BACK UP AND RESTORE SMS AND APPS.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SetCPU for Root Users ($0.99)(AVAILABLE IN THE MARKET)
CHANGES THE CPU CLOCK (OVERCLOCK OR UNDERCLOCK) ON YOU G1, ADP1, MAGIC OR GALAXY TO GREATLY INCREASE PERFORMANCE OR SAVE BATTERY. DROID USERS MUST HAVE THE SPERUSER PERMISSIONS APP, WHICH WASN'T IN THE DROID ROOT BY DEFAULT.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Schedule Scripting App (FREE)(AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD: CLICK HERE)
SCHEDULE SCRIPTS TO RUN AT SPECIFIC TIME AND TIME INTERVALS
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CacheMate ($1.00)(AVAILABLE IN THE MARKET)
CLEAR CACHE FROM OVER 80 APPS WITH THE CLICK OF A BUTTON. CHOOSE WHICH CASHES TO CLEAR, AUTO-CLEAR, CLEAR SOME CACHES FROM SD CARD, AND BACKUP/RESTORE CACHEMATE SETTINGS.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bluetooth Fileshare - Bluex (€2.00 **$2.91**) (AVAILABLE IN THE MARKET)
RECEIVING FILES REQUIRE ROOT, SENDING WORKS WITHOUT IT. IT LETS YOU SEND AND RECEIVE FILES TO/FROM OTHER PHONES AND DEVICES THAT USE THE STANDARD OBEX PUSH PROTOCAL.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DroidRootHelper (FREE)(AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD: CLICK HERE)
I have made an app for rooted droids to assist in installing busybox,flash_image and such.To use the app though you must have root first found here and have the the folder named Tools on the root of your sdcard
Thanks for the info JOE/messenger13. I'm looking through your suggestions right now. By the way, in your signature you have an extra "AND". Thought you'd want to know.
Device(s): droid, rooted and overclocked to 1000mhz - koush cyanogen port
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apps are a big part of what i do on the phone, so yeah, i knew most of these, but some are great to know about. ps i am no iphone wanna be, just loves me some apps
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+100 for Cachemate, I have only had my phone for three weeks and when I cleared all the cache I gained 3% of my internal memory. I can only imagine if I had the phone all these months
Add to the list: Titanium Backup (backup/restore apps, data and market links) Dual Mount SD Widget (mount SD card and still have phone access at the same time)
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Neil
Currently hooked on GB (rooted, overclocked and deoxed). Tomorrow, who knows
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My Backup Root
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