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    Private fitness app for Android phone - does it exist ?

    I'm fed up with being tracked, spied on, monetized and exposed to whoever wants to buy my data. My health and fitness data and my whereabouts are my business and no-one else's. I want a fitness app which doesn't feed my data to a third party, i.e. which simply captures the data from my various...
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    Help ASUS TF700T dock keyboard decides system language - aaargh !

    On the ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity TF700T it is not possible to change the user language to one other than that of the keyboard dock. This is most annoying for me. I have a Swiss-German keyboard dock so as to have the wide range of accents that I use for my work. I want the system menus and...
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    Help Android handsets 'leak' personal data

    BBC News - Android handsets 'leak' personal data tells us that "More than 99% of Android phones are potentially leaking data that, if stolen, could be used to get the information they store online. The data being leaked is typically used to get at web-based services such as Google...
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    How to search People for an item in Notes

    I have an HTC Desire running Android 2.2. It has what I would call a Contact database which came with the phone but HTC calls it People. I want to be able to search this database for items in the Notes field or other fields but the Search facility (bottom right button) only searches on the Name...
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    Help Desire: Geo-tagging photos with GPS

    My Desire has a GPS and takes photos but I haven't been able to find out how to get it to include the geoposition data in the photo metadata, i.e. include the geoposition info in the EXIF metadata. How does one get it to do this ?
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    The best (most credible) encryption app ?

    Am very impressed with my Android Desire but leery about what the various apps are doing with my data. In circumstances like this I fall back on encryption so if someone burgles my computer (or smartphone) and steals sensitive files they just get gibberish. An encryption app should be from a...
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    Android Desire: Need simple text editor and can't find it

    My Android Desire is a superb device and will do almost anything I want. Even cleans up around the house and makes coffee and feeds the cat. However, there is one simple thing I cannot get it to do: provide me with a simple text editor like Wordpad so that I can write little texts on the go...
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    Trying to buy app - "Credit Card" greyed out

    I'm trying to buy an app (NavDroyd) for my HTC Desire but when I hit "Buy" it comes up with two buttons, "Credit Card" and "Cancel". "Credit card" is greyed out so all I can do is hit "Cancel" and go back round in the circle. This is the first time I've tried to buy an app. Can anyone tell me...
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    How to delete all Contacts from Desire in one fell swoop

    Just bought a Desire and synced my Contacts with Outlook but result is not to my satisfaction. I want to start over again. How do I get rid of all my Contacts (they seem to be called People in Desire-speak) in one fell swoop. I know that I can go into the list and select contacts to delete but...
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    Google Earth on Desire needs my Contacts - why ?

    Just got my HTC Desire and went to install Google Earth and Google Maps and up pops a warning that both will access my Contacts and one of them (I can't remember which) will have full access to my SD memory. Why on earth is this (excuse the unintended pun) ? I'm privacy-oriented and see no...
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