What thing did you do when you first got your phone?

mrex · Jul 12, 2013

spman said:
Where did you go to turn off autosyncing?

oh no, i don't remember any more, it was almost year ago.. but i think at first i turned off the sync-properties from my gmail-account, from settings.. then different kind of applications which want to sync your whole life :mad:

am i the only one who hates these sync-properties? it's like a never-ending story, everytime you thought that you turned off syncs you still find some app that wants to sync (or share) everything to somewhere over the rainbow or most likely to the server of Evil...

Member243850 · Jul 12, 2013

spman said:
What thing did you do when you first got your phone? S4 newbie here, just wanted to know anything that you did... e.g. setup changed, settings configuration, apps installed...

Well I kind of (500 000 BILLION TIMES) did this when I got me 1st phone!

And this was me first phone!

And a true legend (and a bazzillion psycho / mad / insane trolly memories with this guy setting random stuffs on fire like a true Einstein!

) she be!

And when I was like super lucky to get this (brilliant at the time) phone and my psycho friends saw me with it and they thought this:

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LilBit · Jul 12, 2013

And immediately after that I was.

zuben el genub · Jul 12, 2013

Explored the whole phone settings just to see what was there, came over here and figured out how to root it.

unnamedny · Jul 12, 2013

It was friday night. I took it home. Stripped it down of all the useless things that was on it. Went to bed to have some RPG fun. Surprisingly it was still there next morning =)

huh · Jul 12, 2013

unnamedny said:
It was friday night. I took it home. Stripped it down of all the useless things that was on it. Went to bed to have some RPG fun. Surprisingly it was still there next morning =)

yikes!! I read that wrong..when I glanced at it the first time...hahaha

BigCiX · Jul 19, 2013

When I first bought my One X I immediately put Nova launcher on it.

NightHawk877 · Jul 19, 2013

First thing I did to any Android phone was root it.

jj2me · Jul 19, 2013

First app-related thing I do is get Folder Organizer Pro set up like on my previous phone. Same categories, same folder icons (if I can find them). It's tedious to find and assign the icons, but in the end I have over a hundred apps organized into about 20 folders, that fit on less than two pages and are located in exactly the same positions as on my previous phone.

There are similar organizer apps. I think I got that one free from Amazon.

rich2626 · Jul 20, 2013

Update the software. I had one arrive on thursday,it was running froyo!!! I had too update 3 times,i.e. froyo-GB-ICS-JB.

sfbloodbrother · Jul 20, 2013

My first smartphone with an iPhone 3GS the first thing I did with that phone was set up my Apple account to my credit card and download a few apps that play with on my lg android phone, I also set up my email connected it and sent my dad an email thank you for buying me a new smartphone.
now my sister lost that phone and she is paying me back $100, so I can buy a new Nexus 7 tablet when it comes out.

astroboi82 · Jul 29, 2013

used the samsung software to drag all my stuff across from the iphone backup

damewolf13 · Jul 30, 2013

I always change every possible thing about my phone short of rooting it.
Launcher, sms, dialer, keyboard, music player, widgets, etc.

jonbanjo · Jul 30, 2013

The first thing I was interested in was how the phone would play with my Linux network and finding apps (eg, ssh droid and ES File Explorer) that helped. I couldn't find anything for the network printing side that worked as I wanted so, perhaps unusually for someone completely new to Android, and certainly surprisingly to me as a) I'd expected something built on Linux would have what I wanted built in and b) I'd had no plans on trying to be a dev (beyond maybe dabbling once in a while at a later date for personal amusement), within the first week of ownership, I was looking into writing an app.

socrates0 · Jul 30, 2013

First thing I did was switch off 2G/3G, and then connected my phone to my desktop & imported my contacts/calendar from ‘My Phone Explorer’ (I was using this s/w with my previous phone a Sony Eriksson K750i too). So in effect this app (was my first app installed), gets loaded when you connect to your computer via cable. Then copied new ringtones on to my memory card. Its only much later almost the *** end of the warranty period I built up enough courage to root my phone & tinker around with it.

richard917 · Jul 30, 2013

Just play with it to know how the thing works.

netlinkz · Jul 30, 2013

Jumped up and down for joy! Rrrraced home to all show off my phone! Look everyone in the face, arise my phone and say, "take that bitchessssssssss!" Of course i was bummed later cause the s3 came out. I have the nexus.

Revenant Ghost · Jul 30, 2013

I rooted the phone, added a custom rom and a recovery in less than a week.

DragonSlayer95 · Jul 30, 2013

Revenant Ghost said:
I rooted the phone, added a custom rom and a recovery in less than a week.

It took that long?

:vroam:

Revenant Ghost · Jul 30, 2013

DragonSlayer95 said:
It took that long?

:vroam:

Radiance · Jul 31, 2013

Cried because of how laggy it was, then rooted it, then overclocked it, then grabbed a tissue.

lilC · Jul 31, 2013

Radiance said:
Cried because of how laggy it was, then rooted it, then overclocked it, then grabbed a tissue.

Haha what phone was it?

Radiance · Jul 31, 2013

lilC said:
Haha what phone was it?

The Fusion I have now.

I cried over TouchWiz on my S2 too. :eek:

starxpilot · Aug 6, 2013

Annihilate the Carrier-based 'first-time' setup, then root.

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