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    Streaming video from one phone to another over WiFi Direct?

    Is there an app for that?
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    Android data security best practices?

    The full phone encryption as currently implemented on Android is inconvenient because you have to enter 6+ chars every time you want to unlock your phone. Since most of the time you want to do something unimportant, it quite kills the usability. Knox seems to have nice approach to that by...
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    Funkey video about the galaxy family (opinions)

    Here is something little and kinda cinematographic i made, I just uploaded it so will appreciate some honest opinions :) Samsung device for everyone - YouTube
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    decent calorie counting app?

    Is there a decent app that allows you to FAST and EASY input your meals by the weight of each ingredient, allows you save meals so you can re-enter them and provides break down statistic on each nutrition (protein, carbs, fat) you've taken for the day?
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    Funny (and hardcore) S3 scratch test

    If you own an S3 you might want to see this, you will be much more relaxed about your S3 Military Grade Scratch Test of Samsung Galaxy S3 - YouTube
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    I'm turning an S3 into home multimedia center/DLNA device, help please

    Ok I have a spare S3 which i'm not going to use, so i plan to plug it to a TV via HDMI and use it as a multimedia center. So from what i can see I need 2 things. 1. good app to wirelessly sync files between PC, Tablet, Smartphone and the S3 (option to stream media from the PC would be great...
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    Users with encrypted phones, help please

    From the online articles and the encryption description i was left with the impression that i will need to enter the password only on boot. Well appears that once encrypted the only active unlock options become, face unlock, pin and password. All take too long for my daily use, and since you...
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    Help My nexus hangs on the booting animation

    This morning it didn't want to wake up from stand by, so i restearted it by pulling the battery out. Ever since then it hangs on the booting animation forever, i restarted it few more times, the same thing. Entered recovery mode with the power button and volume down, it says "Downloading..."...
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    Music app to stream to a bluetooth receiver?

    I'm looking for app than when finds a specific bluetooth device in range automatically to start streaming music to it. If it has power saving options and voice control or at least to be able to start next song from the volume rocker, even better! :)
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    How to advertise on the homepage of Google Play?

    I can't see anywhere an option to pay for advertisement on the homepage of google play. Clearly not everythig there is staff picks, but the bigger thumbs are probably paid advertisement. So does anybody know how and where we pay for placement there?
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    It doesn't sync my apps and stuff between devices.

    I've got android 4.0.2 phone and android 3.2 tablet. Both i'm using with the same google apps account, but it synced only the paid apps between them. All the free ones that i have installed on the phone it doesn't even show them under my apps in the market on the tablet. So the on the cloud...
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    Outputing subtitles on the TV when hardware encoding is used?

    I'm using NHL adapter to play HD movies via HDMI on my TV from my galaxy nexus. The thing is that when the movie requires hardware decoding the subtitles show on the phone but not on the TV. When i switch to software decoding they do show on the TV but it doesn't play smooth. So seems like...
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    ICS doesn't support files bigger than 4gb?

    When i tried to download 6gb movie today the torrent application said that android doesn't support files larger than 4gb at the moment. I believe this was the case with the fat32 file system, but i'm with galaxy nexus with 16GB build in memory, so i find it hard to believe it's still with the...
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    How big files we can save on the android filesystem.

    Ok since i have hdmi out on my galaxy nexus i tried downloading some 720p movies to it. The download for the 3 and 6gb ones didn't even started, the only one i managed to download and save was under 1gb. Are there some limitations of the file system or other problem with big files?
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    No led notification for missed calls on galaxy nexus?

    Ok it blinks in blue when i have facebook notification but when i have missed call there is no outside indication what so ever. I was so used on my nexus one the trackball to pulse in red when i have missed call, why there isn't built-in option for that here? Any 3rd party software to solve...
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    Showing the time even when the phone is off like on the nokia lumia?

    I was told that amoled displays have no problem (and doesn't take much energy) to show for example the time even when the phone is on stanbdy. Would be pretty cool to have all black screen and just the time in white when the phone is on standby. Is there something that does that already?
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    Looking for a modern personal database kind of software

    I'm looking for something like MyBase or TreePad, it's basically a personal visual database with tree structure of the documents, where you can organize and save stuff in any way, structure and organisation. It's like having many documents in folders and sub-folders but in one centralised piece...
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    [Q] Using your phone as google TV?

    Ok, from what i understood good TV is basically android based device with hardware similar to an average android phone and the Google TV app on top. If that's the case can't we use our android phones with HDMI out and this app just like google TV? I tried to download the app from the...
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    Help downloads from the market hang forever as of yesterday

    As of yesterday i can't download from the market, the downloads hang on "Downloading" forever I cleared the cache of the Market in the app manager and rebooted, still the same. Anyone else?
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    Help SMS memory full on a high end phone, lol? :)

    Ok i missed coupe of SMS already because of "Full memory". I've got nexus one with 8GB storage, but ocasionally my phone memory is full for a while, when i try a lot of new apps. And before move them to the SD card or uninstall. If i get SMS during that period, it gots rejected because of...
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    adsense client app with widget?

    Wouldn't it be nice to be able to see your adsense earning right on the screen of your phone? I see that there are few apps that retrieve stats from your adsense account, but neither of them seem to have an widget. Have you stumbled upon any?
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    No vibration when at home or out of the pocket?

    Would be nice if you can set your phone to not vibrate when you are at home (makes terrible noise when vibrates on a wooden table, it scares the hell out of me) or simply when it's out of the pocket (light) So i guess, it will need to base that on either a location or even the more universal...
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    Help Recording the calls on nexus 1?

    Is it software possible to record the calls (both sides, no loudspeaker) on nexus 1? There was similar problem for windows mobile before where the OS won't let it, but was later solved. Now i see that there aren't really programs offering that as a feature. Is it disabled again on OS level?
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    Can't read ebooks in cyrillic!

    When convering a cyrillic doc/rtf file to epub via calibre it opens unreadable in the ebook readers. When i go ahead open the epub with notepad and change the encoding to UTF and re-save it, then it breakes the file and can't open it at all! So, my question is how to properly convert to epub...
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    Aldiko doesnt import my epubs

    I've placed them on sdcard/eBooks/import as the program says, but when i click to import them it says that nothing is found So basicly i cant import them Anyone else with that? Are there other ways to import them or other readers good as Aldiko?