Non-game Android Apps Recommendations Catch-All

There's a free stand-alone version of SetCPU floating around the xda forum if that's your thing.

As Edwin mentioned above, the basic functionality seems to be built into CM. I found the options for CPU, lowering it for idle, and how high to raise it. Seems stable so far with 250/800.

CM mod through Rom Manager was a painless install. Nothing to report really. Click, click, let it restart and do it's thing... done, start using phone.

Taking a while to reinstall apps (didn't get a chance to backup the other day when they reset my phone), but giving me time to figure out what I really use and don't.

CM seems pretty snappy. Notice a few usability improvements... but the biggest changes seem to be when digging into the menu options. Just about everything is adjustable. Saw some stuff in there that I never even would have thought about changing until I saw there was an option. Should be fun to play with for a while.

Anything else I should definitely grab that requires root? I seem to recall that being asked before, but can't remember if it was this topic or the big Android one.

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Heh:

From the Launcher Pro guy, a WP7 media player knock off.

Just downloaded the app - that's brilliant

Genre tab? I'm downloading it now.

Wonder how long this will last. MS probably would be well within their rights to kill this.

Just got my Music Beta invite from Google. Anyone else?

I got mine. It didn't let me upload earlier, though.

Uploading without problems here, near as I can tell.

EDIT: Picking up all of my local podcasts on the phone, and not giving me a way to hide them, is a deal breaker. Ah well, it's a beta, I'll check back in when there's some way to deal with that.

General Crespin wrote:

EDIT: Picking up all of my local podcasts on the phone, and not giving me a way to hide them, is a deal breaker. Ah well, it's a beta, I'll check back in when there's some way to deal with that.

That's the reason I segregate my podcasts on my PC in general. Saves that hassle.

General Crespin wrote:

Just got my Music Beta invite from Google. Anyone else?

Still waiting.

MannishBoy wrote:
General Crespin wrote:

EDIT: Picking up all of my local podcasts on the phone, and not giving me a way to hide them, is a deal breaker. Ah well, it's a beta, I'll check back in when there's some way to deal with that.

That's the reason I segregate my podcasts on my PC in general. Saves that hassle.

Uh? I think it's more that it doesn't respect .nomedia.

Bill_Lewis wrote:
General Crespin wrote:

Just got my Music Beta invite from Google. Anyone else?

Still waiting.

+1

Just got mine this morning. So far the cloud service seems quite nice - quite comparable to Amazon's, but with more accessible metadata editing. On the other hand, until it's got a store hooked up, it's a nice tool, but not a winner.

I wonder if Google is going to give out an API for their music storage for other apps to use?

That would allow for much creativity I suspect.

MannishBoy wrote:

I wonder if Google is going to give out an API for their music storage for other apps to use?

That would allow for much creativity I suspect.

An API to music you own. Sir, you are a pirate.

Someone asked the same question at Google IO. Very vague answer was responded with.

taer wrote:
MannishBoy wrote:

I wonder if Google is going to give out an API for their music storage for other apps to use?

That would allow for much creativity I suspect.

An API to music you own. Sir, you are a pirate.

Someone asked the same question at Google IO. Very vague answer was responded with.

I can see legal getting involved somehow to prevent it to ward off any file sharing, but that's a shame.

Wow. I'm posting from my laptop, USB tethered to my Droid. Silly hotel that thinks it can charge for wifi.

Go Cyanogen!

Yeah, tethering is probably the major reason I picked out this semi-smart phone (a Sony Ericsson W760) -- with the unlocked, vendor-neutral firmware, it's crapware-free, has all the features (like a very nice GPS, surprisingly good for such a small screen), and works very nicely as a tether.

The native web browser doesn't even reach 'dismal', but in conjunction with the laptop, it's extremely useful.

I've set up OpenVPN back to my house. Originally, I did it because AT&T snoops, and I don't like sending unencrypted data over their network. But now that they're cracking down on tethering, I'm hopeful I'll be harder to spot through a VPN service.

If you use pre-shared keys (aka, "passwords") with OpenVPN, apparently there's no visible handshake process, and the traffic can't be analysed. It just looks like a stream of purely random bytes.

You can also use SSL certificates, which is much better for a larger deployment (you can issue and revoke specific certificates for specific people without shutting everyone else down), but apparently the SSL handshake is detectable if you do.

Like that Geico commercial with the mustache app? You can actual download that app for free from the market.

It's got really nice sound, too, via the headphone jack, and even the tiny little speaker isn't too terrible. One of the better phones I've bought, and I hope it lasts and lasts.

Yeah, W760 was nice. Sony Ericsson used to make feature-phones that were absolutely da bomb. Extremely robust bluetooth stack, tethering, SyncML, ActiveSync etc etc etc, with a simple but nice and streamlined UI and battery life that measured in days, not hours like now. But they totally dropped the ball on smart-phones. HTC is now what SE used to be.

taer wrote:
Kurrelgyre wrote:

Curious, Watchdog doesn't seem to think Grass at least is that much of a burden..

Awesome. I just found this thread and was gonna mention my app(Watchdog), but it's here already. It's used instead of task killers, so you don't just blast innocent apps and break them.

Another one is the ADWLauncher. Its what ships w/ cyanogen 5.0.8. Makes the home screen feel snappy compared to stock or Helix.

taer, correct me if I am wrong but i looks like your app is the free app of the day at Amazon today. If you don't mind me asking do you still get anything the day when your app is free?

I thought that sounded familiar when I was looking at it today.

I was just wondering how others read this forum on their androids? I have been using dolphin web browser but am less then thrilled with that. I really like the XDA app and use it all the time, is there any better app for reading and posting in the GWJ forums?

I just started using Go SMS Pro (its free). Soooooo goooooood.

boogle wrote:

I just started using Go SMS Pro (its free). Soooooo goooooood.

Will give it a try

I'm getting a tablet after payday and in anticipation of that I was checking out Thumb Keyboard only to see that Amazon has it on sale for $0.99. First Amazon Appstore actual purchase made. At first glance it even seems decent on my phone.

I have been greatly enjoying my transformer. I am using the newly available swype beta for honeycomb. That being said I am hooked on swype on my phone so it only feels natural...