Recently got the Captivate- What are the best apps to start downloading? I need something for office documents. Some free games and things like that.
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Quickoffice seems to be a good office app, and it was free in the past. I don't know if it is always free, but it was free through Samsung for captivate owners.
Thus, killing all but the essential apps (or telling Android to kill apps more aggressively with the "autokill" feature) is generally unnecessary. Furthermore, it's actually possible that this will worsen your phone's performance and battery life. Whether you're manually killing apps all the time or telling the task killer to aggressively remove apps from your memory, you're actually using CPU cycles when you otherwise wouldn't
After doing some research on ATK and similar programs I'm fairly convinced that you shouldn't use apps like that anymore.
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I haven't rooted mine yet. I am still learning Android and was planning on rooting after the froyo update. That said, I am one of the few that likes the Touchwiz launcher would like to keep it.
What is Touchwiz launcher?
I believe Captivate comes with office app.
First thing to do is rooting your phone get the superuser permission, then uninstall some useless AT&T apps with "Titanium Backup"
Once that's done, get "Advanced Task Killer" to kill background Apps to save battery. After that everything goes ( A list of programs I have ):
Alarm clock plus
Angry birds (game)
Color Flashlight (exactly what it does)
Text to speech
Weatherbug
Temperature / currency converter
Landscape on / off switch
Totally disagree with both of those bolded statements. Simple answer to both is: DON'T. Especially for a new user
I recently read about this too and as I was totally new to Android, I didn't have any kind of bias for or against a task killer. The sales rep installed ATK before I even left the store and I have been using it regularly (manually though, nothing killed automatically). I didn't have complaints with lag or battery while using this. I then read the other day that we shouldn't be using task killers so I decided to try going without one for a couple days.
Turns out that my phone started getting laggy and I seriously did notice battery life suffering. One of the surest signs of lag that I NEVER experienced before this test was lag within Angry Birds!
After I noticed the battery seemed to be draining quicker than usual, I checked the battery usage available in the phone info and the Browser had used 65% of my battery! Incidentally, one of the times I would definitely use ATK was after browsing. When I used ATK regularly, the screen was always my largest battery use percentage.
So, lets get some discussion going here about task killers. I feel I understand the argument for why they shouldn't be used but my real world experience shows the exact opposite. What have you all found?
I recently got my captivate about 2 weeks ago and I've been loving it. However, I have a question regarding a recent app I installed. I installed Opera Mini and Opera Mobile. Whenever I open my stock android browser and click a link, a window ALWAYS pops up asking which app I'd like to use to open the link. Either Opera Mini, Opera Mobile, or stock browser. It's quite annoying, and I didn't want to have to un-install opera mini as it does a great job in compressing websites. Has anyone else ran into this problem?
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