Android phones, apps and tablets

Last time I went for something I liked I was forever behind on updates via Sony Ericsson. So was being cautious this time...

How on earth do I get my Swiftkey to be THE default setting for all keyboard writing stuff?
I've already been to settings > language and etc and made it my default but it would only show swiftkey when Im texting but everywhere else it's the HTC's default.

Nevermind, sorted!

anybody using https://www.htcsense.com ??

You can remotely locate your phone if lost and also lock it or wipe all data.

Another useful feature is that you can divert all messages and phone calls if you leave you phone at home!

Wish I'd done this I think mine had a little to much personal information on it.
One I get around to replacing the £4.95 emergency phone I brought I'll set this up straight away.

It's awesome the sensation offered that already when I first put it on. Impressed.
Bf is pleased as punch with my Xperia 10 haha. But I suppose anything's better than the Galaxy Europa for him.
Really impressed with the camera seems tons better as well. I need to play about with it more, but had company tonight.

N64oid is ACE!

Mariokart 64 actually lends itself to a touch screen pretty well. Trying to think of other games which will work.

/geek

caustic is fantastic - thanks for posting here. first app I'm considering paying pennies for full version #tightwad

it also seems in caustic that the desire hd can go louder than the music player allows, is there a way to unlimit that, or a better music player?

I really rate Power Amp and paid for it after demo expired

http://www.appbrain.com/app/poweramp-music-player-(trial)/com.maxmpz.audioplayer

How long till Smoozy offer their app and product outside of the USA, and for other network providers other than T-Mobile?

This app allows web-browsing without a data-plan! Seriously! It works by sending the web-page request to the Smozzy servers via SMS, and the web-page is repackaged and sent back via an MMS. I'm not sure, but the pages might be static and not interactive, but viewing web-pages for free, is pretty impressive. So, if one has an unlimited message plan, web-pages can still be available, with no charge. This is very cool tech.

This is their own bumf:

***Smozzy is an Android app that allows you to use your T-Mobile unlimited messaging plan to browse the web.

It works just like your Android phone's built-in browser, but the content is requested and delivered entirely via the text messages (SMS and MMS) included with your unlimited messaging plan!***

I was looking into "unlimited" tests a while back, and got someone to call various network companies for me, apparently unlimited... isn't really unlimited, it's capped at around 3k texts... because of the fair usage policy or something like that.
Is this correct or has it changed?

Unless you pay per unit, everything that says "unlimited" will have a fair use policy.

Otherwise you could chuck that SIM into a machine to machine network, and send 300,000 texts with it.

The networks have to be able to turn these things off if they start going beyond certain limits- unless they are charging per unit, when they are laughing of course

Well am on Vodafone still like you, and that's what they told me/the person calling on my behalf for my contract down the phone.

Modaco's released new DHD roms with Sense 3

anybody using https://www.htcsense.com ??

You can remotely locate your phone if lost and also lock it or wipe all data.

Another useful feature is that you can divert all messages and phone calls if you leave you phone at home!

Does anyone know if this works with the original HTC Desire? I've still got one but I don't think it's compatible.

Not as far as I know. It might work with a custom rom but I've never tried.

Whats the best way to increase your internal phone space ?

I usually just clear the data of all my applications + I have the phone to SD app, but the memory is still low plus its annoying that I have re-sign into facebook gmail etc all the time...

I currently have 9.95MD of free space and cant really instal anything and sometimes I cant even access my photo gallery due to low memory...

I have HTC desire and Im running on 2.2.

And also, I have an upgrade comming very soon, whats the best android phone to go with ?

Cheers !

Remove some apps.

Whats the best way to increase your internal phone space ?

I usually just clear the data of all my applications + I have the phone to SD app, but the memory is still low plus its annoying that I have re-sign into facebook gmail etc all the time...

I currently have 9.95MD of free space and cant really instal anything and sometimes I cant even access my photo gallery due to low memory...

I have HTC desire and Im running on 2.2.

And also, I have an upgrade comming very soon, whats the best android phone to go with ?

Cheers !

No idea why that would be the case. Are your pictures saving to the memory card?

I tried to get the free app from amazon and they said that i was in the wrong country... Bastards, its a piece of software to be sent over the internet.

No idea why that would be the case. Are your pictures saving to the memory card?

You can also move most of your apps from the phone to the SD card.

Menu > Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > Select Angry Birds (or whatever else you have installed) > select 'Move to SD card'

Should clear up loads of starage.

Looks like a decent DLNA app (something I've struggled to find so far):
http://www.reghardware.com/2011/09/13/android_app_of_the_week_skifta/

Haven't used it yet though.

Installed earlier but yet to try it out... Looks interesting :)

It's great, for audio/pictures. Video is temperamental though and you can't skip forward.

I'm finding it useful as a remote using it paired with Serviio(PC end), for some reason Skifta doesn't pick anything up from my PC on the network unless its through Serviio

It's great, for audio/pictures. Video is temperamental though and you can't skip forward.

I'm finding it useful as a remote using it paired with Serviio(PC end), for some reason Skifta doesn't pick anything up from my PC on the network unless its through Serviio

Cool. Thanks for the info. I've had limited success with DLNA so far. I'll try this Serviio, perhaps it'll fare better than XBMC.

Eh? Screens use way more power than the CPU.

You are right, but screens are more or less the same across all of the latest devices. That leaves you with CPU, WIFI, 3G (in that order). I was just trying to point out that Android is a CPU hungry OS and this contributes a huge amount to your power usage.

Blackberry CPUs are low because they don't do anything.

That's because they were not designed to do anything apart from email. Which they do great.

Did you consider that the tablet battery life is better because the battery is much larger than the size of the one in your phone and the phone is out and about trying constantly to maintain a connection to cell towers whereas your tablet is probably in your lap for 10min whilst youporn serves up the freshest of fresh?

You are right, did not think of that. My Nexus S has 3300mah and the tablet is 6000.Oh, and tablets are not practical for youporn activities.

Android and the underlying linux kernel have power management facilities in place. Andy might be right in saying it's not the most optimised (it wasn't designed and built ground up for mobile) but to say "Android is not designed with CPU/power usage efficiency in mind" is bollocks.

I meant to say not as much as the other 'pure' mobile OSes. Android was built on top of Linux kernel and includes a lot of shit to make it easy to develop for.

qwe

Does anyone know if this works with the original HTC Desire? I've still got one but I don't think it's compatible.

I have been using https://www.mylookout.com/ on my personal Android phone and work Blackberry.
Don't know what www.htcsense.com can do but Lookout allows you to locate, lock, wipe you phone remotely. Runs in a background and acts as a spamware and malware detector. Backs up you contacts and call history for free. Premium version has more features.