• After 15+ years, we've made a big change: Android Forums is now Early Bird Club. Learn more here.

Favorite App so far.... Developers please see link to Announcements above.

Twitdroid - Nice clean interface and has never let me down.

Astro - Great idea well executed.

CoPilot Live - Good value for money sat nav.

White Noise Lite - Simply a must have for tinnitus suffers.

Astrid - Brilliant task manager and cute little widget.

My Tracks - Pretty accurate and has kept me fit!

BBC News - Just fantastic, love the widget and separate news/sport feeds
 
Upvote 0
My favorites are:
SweeterHome 2 - Awesome Home replacement. Highly customizable.
Shapewriter - Keyboard replacement that has sped up my texting.
Acrobible - excellent bible for those that have faith.
Advanced Task Manager - seems to be an all around great task manager.
Barcode Scanner - mainly use it to quickly find links to android programs on the internet
gTasks - works great for syncing Google Tasks.
Google Voice (except its force closing at start)
Handcent - A great messaging program. Very pleasant to the eye.
ICE: In Case of Emergency - great for 1st responders that are helping an unconscious YOU.
K-9 Mail - very decent email program.
Lookout - will be even better when they add remote wipe.
PDAnet - This is a great USB tethering app. Wish it provided wireless tether to OS1.5
Phonebook - the best available, but still not awesome.
PhotoVault
Rmaps - Great offline topo map program. Not perfect but works well.
Seesmic - My favorite twitter client.
SetCPU
Fresh1.1
Gumbo Custom Kernel
Total Control Software - very awesome program for monitoring security cameras.
VideoVault
Wireless Tethering
 
Upvote 0
does anybody know of a camera app that has a landscape feature where it takes multiple pictures and sticks them together to make a landscape?

The iphone has a great app for this. Also my old samsung phone has a basic version of this, where you take 3 pictures in a row and it merges them together to make a long landscape picture.

hopefully there is one?
 
Upvote 0
Ok, so the fact is that many of my favorite apps have appeared here already, so here is a very useful one that I don't see. It's called "Call Caddy" and it solves the problem of not having a proximity sensor on your phone. It is especially useful for HTC phones and it works by unlocking and locking your screen when you make or receive phone calls. The iPhone does this automatically, and it used to drive me nuts that my HTC didn't. Kudos to the guys that finally fixed this annoying issue. Def worth the buck.

I just got an HTC Hero. I previously had the HTC Touch Diamond. For the life of me I don't know why HTC can not incorporate a sensor to make the screen go black when you bring the phone to your ear when making a call. I tested the Palm Pixi briefly before deciding on the HTC Hero and I was amazed it had that function since I'd struggled with the problem with the Touch Diamond.
I downloaded the Call Caddy program because I'm having the same issues when making calls on the HTC Hero. My ear is constantly pressing the heat senstive call buttons. Incredibly annoying. I hoped the Call Caddy would solve the problem, but it did not. First problem I had with it is that it does not know what to do if you are calling a phone number via a calling card, which I do frequently. Calling the calling card number triggers the proximity sensor and causes the screen to go black before you can enter the number your calling. You have to kind of shake the phone around to get the screen to display again. Then when you make that second call the screen no longer goes to black when you place it to your ear.
But the bigger problem with Call Caddy is that it does not just work for the phone function. It is activated in other programs too. For instance, I was attempting to use Shop Savvy, but as soon as I move the phone around the screen goes black. It activates in too many other programs to make it useful for the phone. I had to delete the program after one day.
If HTC can not get that this is a problem with their phone, then I love the idea of a program that will perform that function, but Call Caddy just isn't there yet.
Does anyone know how I could get in touch with the company that created CAll Caddy? I'd like to give them some feedback so they can hopefully work some of these bugs out.
 
Upvote 0
does anybody know of a camera app that has a landscape feature where it takes multiple pictures and sticks them together to make a landscape?

The iphone has a great app for this. Also my old samsung phone has a basic version of this, where you take 3 pictures in a row and it merges them together to make a long landscape picture.

hopefully there is one?

Believe there's an app called Photostitch that does just that. There may be more.
 
Upvote 0
Robodefense is the best game out there...so simple yet addicting

Picsay pro-i love editing my photos

Ringo pro-allows me to assign ringtones to every specific contact including individual sms & call notifications for each contact

Astro-is great for managing files

Task Cleaner pro-beats Any task killer, any day...love it

Chomp sms-ummm i just like it due to the blacklist feature...

Find big mac-helps me find mcdonalds :)

i music-good for downloading music(although it's limited)

Any more apps you can recommend?

I love anything free lolz

Dont we all
 
  • Like
Reactions: jUsT2eXy
Upvote 0
Hi:

Wallswitch, free, allows you to point the program at multiple image folders on your sd card and set it to switch wallpaper at any interval you wish. I have it set to crop so it puts the image on all screen views. It cuts off a few images but is dead-on most of the time.

I have several thousand Chinese posters so it's a lot of fun seeing the wallpaper switch to a random image every couple of hours--keeps things fresh.

Tom
 
Upvote 0
Wallswitch, free, allows you to point the program at multiple image folders on your sd card and set it to switch wallpaper at any interval you wish. I have it set to crop so it puts the image on all screen views. It cuts off a few images but is dead-on most of the time.

Seconded. I have 40-some astronomical wallpapers that switch every 3 hours. It's a set-it-and-forget-it app, so I'd kind of forgotten about it. :)
 
Upvote 0
QUESTION: Does anyone know an SMS app that will allow me to SCHEDULE sending messages -- like write it at 3AM but it doesn't go out until 8AM?
I'm surprised no one answered this...

There's "SMS Scheduler" and "SMS Wishes" that do just that. I tried both and kept "SMS Wishes" (though now I don't remember why :p). You can schedule one-time messages, or repeat certain days of the week. VERY useful app :)
 
Upvote 0
I just got an HTC Hero. I previously had the HTC Touch Diamond. For the life of me I don't know why HTC can not incorporate a sensor to make the screen go black when you bring the phone to your ear when making a call. I tested the Palm Pixi briefly before deciding on the HTC Hero and I was amazed it had that function since I'd struggled with the problem with the Touch Diamond.
I downloaded the Call Caddy program because I'm having the same issues when making calls on the HTC Hero. My ear is constantly pressing the heat senstive call buttons. Incredibly annoying. I hoped the Call Caddy would solve the problem, but it did not. First problem I had with it is that it does not know what to do if you are calling a phone number via a calling card, which I do frequently. Calling the calling card number triggers the proximity sensor and causes the screen to go black before you can enter the number your calling. You have to kind of shake the phone around to get the screen to display again. Then when you make that second call the screen no longer goes to black when you place it to your ear.
But the bigger problem with Call Caddy is that it does not just work for the phone function. It is activated in other programs too. For instance, I was attempting to use Shop Savvy, but as soon as I move the phone around the screen goes black. It activates in too many other programs to make it useful for the phone. I had to delete the program after one day.
If HTC can not get that this is a problem with their phone, then I love the idea of a program that will perform that function, but Call Caddy just isn't there yet.
Does anyone know how I could get in touch with the company that created CAll Caddy? I'd like to give them some feedback so they can hopefully work some of these bugs out.

Have you tried an app called 'proximity sensor'? It makes a very good, er, proximity sensor. If you can't find it in the market you can find it at XDA-developers.
 
Upvote 0
My Favorite applications are:
Shazam-Let's ya identify songs by listening to them
ChompSMS- Better Texting App than Hancent, more customizable.
pdaNet- Without this app, I wouldn't be typing this on my computer, allows your computer to go online through your phone.
Where- Find stuff.
Meebo IM-Sign into everyone of your IM accounts at once...
There are more, I'll think of next time.
 
Upvote 0
I'm new xD but i want to post my fave apps.

PDAnet - tethering must have for all androids
Phonemypc - control and view my pc where ever i go
Goaruna - I can use phonemypc to transfer files into this site and use the app on my phone to get a file i need
websharing - so i can charge my phone in a wall outlet and add/remove files to my phone over wifi
phoneportal - i can read/reply/compose sms txts from my phone on my computer
 
Upvote 0

BEST TECH IN 2023

We've been tracking upcoming products and ranking the best tech since 2007. Thanks for trusting our opinion: we get rewarded through affiliate links that earn us a commission and we invite you to learn more about us.

Smartphones