'droid Users

[fullyautomatix]

If youre switching phones anyway, try a factory reset. all your contacts will comeback when you login to Gmail. so nothing to lose.

Done it. No joy. Looks like a hardware fault. Even upgraded to Gingerbread.

[TheFaQQer]

Any good free android apps/widgets? I'm only doing free at the moment, but I suppose really good paid-for ones might be of interest too.

GPS test - shows satellites being locked on
Wifi analyser - nice graphs
Skype
Winamp
Google Earth, and Sky. Amazing to turn you device to the heavens and see the stars or planets shwon on-screen, runs off-line too
Osmand, Locus Free, MapDroyd - All for off-line mapping use, pros and cons to each. Google Maps off-line is still in the Labs stage and their cached maps disappear or don't work for me after about a day, otherwise would have sufficed.
Sleep Time. So I can go to sleep watching or listening to something.
Offline dictionaries
920 & Joto text editors, & Android Web editor. Not used any of them yet.
Adobe reader
Barcode Scanner. A bit of fun. Works though.

Games for planes: Super Sudoku, Solitaire, Air Control Lite, Four in a Line Free, Angry birds, Defender.


Most of my apps work off-line as my smartphone isn't a phone.

Which browser do you use? I've got Dolphin and Firefox installed, but mainly use the installed one by default. No idea what it is.

And what about the dizzying array of social networky things available, Google Chat, Social Hub, Talk... what seems like an endless list of things I haven't explored yet... I expect the young 'uns will be in to all that soon, if not already.

Here's my app list:

Games: Crime Story, Paradise Island, Angband, Trap!, Flying Chicks, Words Free, Angry Birds, Angry Birds Backup, Angry Birds Rio, Angry Birds Seasons, Dope Wars, ThrottleCopter, Top Eleven, Air Control Lite, Alchemy, Checkers Free, CHess Free, Contract Killer, Fruit Slice, Hearts Free, Jewels, PLumber, Reversi Free, TapFish

Stuff: IMDB, QR Droid, ScanLife, Shazam

Camera etc: Flickroid, Camcard, JustPictures!, Night Vision Camera, Photo Illusion, Retro Camera

Stupid stuff: Lighter free, Whoopee Cushion

Utilities: Crashplan, Instant Heart Rate, NHS Direct, Spirit Level Plus, iPlayer, ESPNcricinfo, TuneIn Radio, Antivirus, Expensify, Linda Manager, 3g Watchdog, TeslaLED, Battery Indicator, XE Currency, Data Enabler, Advanced Task Killer Free, Ring Toggle, Amazon, Amazon Kindle, App 2 SD Free, Convert Pad, DiskUsage, Dropbox, Google Earth, eBay, Evernote, Firefox, Flickr Companion, Google Sky Map, Google+, GReader, LinkedIn, London Transport Status, MyBackup, ShopSavvy, Skype, Google Translate, TripAdvisor, Wordpress

Social: Facebook, Seesmic, Twitter, Tweetcaster (best of those last three)

I only use the inbuilt browser - I had Opera as well at some stage, but I can't stand it.

[TheFaQQer]

If you have Samsung Kies set up on the PC, it syncs the contacts, calendar with Microsoft Outlook.

I have had a Samsung Galaxy for 16 months and for past month or so it has started to just turn off when I use any app. Its okay if I use it to make calls and recieve calls. But any app usage causes it to shut down. This seems like a known issue with Samsung phones ( google screen of death ).

I am going to try a Nokia Lumia next, at least Nokia phones go on forever without the need to throw away after a year.

Ring customer services for your operator - when my HTC Desire died, T-Mobile has a replacement couriered out to me the next day.

Three times

[Joeman]

Done it. No joy. Looks like a hardware fault. Even upgraded to Gingerbread.

Drop in bath, claim on house insurance...

[AtW]

Drop in bath, claim inheritance...

[TimberWolf]

Here's my app list:

Games: Crime Story, Paradise Island, Angband, Trap!, Flying Chicks, Words Free, Angry Birds, Angry Birds Backup, Angry Birds Rio, Angry Birds Seasons, Dope Wars, ThrottleCopter, Top Eleven, Air Control Lite, Alchemy, Checkers Free, CHess Free, Contract Killer, Fruit Slice, Hearts Free, Jewels, PLumber, Reversi Free, TapFish

Stuff: IMDB, QR Droid, ScanLife, Shazam

Camera etc: Flickroid, Camcard, JustPictures!, Night Vision Camera, Photo Illusion, Retro Camera

Stupid stuff: Lighter free, Whoopee Cushion

Utilities: Crashplan, Instant Heart Rate, NHS Direct, Spirit Level Plus, iPlayer, ESPNcricinfo, TuneIn Radio, Antivirus, Expensify, Linda Manager, 3g Watchdog, TeslaLED, Battery Indicator, XE Currency, Data Enabler, Advanced Task Killer Free, Ring Toggle, Amazon, Amazon Kindle, App 2 SD Free, Convert Pad, DiskUsage, Dropbox, Google Earth, eBay, Evernote, Firefox, Flickr Companion, Google Sky Map, Google+, GReader, LinkedIn, London Transport Status, MyBackup, ShopSavvy, Skype, Google Translate, TripAdvisor, Wordpress

Social: Facebook, Seesmic, Twitter, Tweetcaster (best of those last three)

I only use the inbuilt browser - I had Opera as well at some stage, but I can't stand it.

Nice list. I downloaded App 2 SD, which might come in handy when my SD card finally arrives, assuming it ever does. It's now officially the longest delayed item I've bought from Amazon. Notified as shipped on the 29th, 6 days ago.

[Freamon]

A few more:

ReadItLater
Tesco Groceries
SoundHound
CamScanner
BBC News
FBReader (to read .mobi and .epub files)
Google Goggles
barcode2file
Google Listen
NetCounter
WhatGas Petrol Prices
Dilbert
NatWest

[darmstadt]

Well got MobileGo working eventually with Android 4.0.1. Had to download the USB driver from Samsung and install that as their version was too old plus it will only work in the USB port that I used originally but managed to backup all data, contacts exported to vCard (and CSV) format and imported into Gmail.

Apps:

T-Mobile HotSpot Location - logs me automatically into T-Online hotspots
Data Enabler
Camera Illusions
Colornote
Linkedin
Xing
Facebook
Twitter
Windows Hotmail
Google Mail
Yahoo Mail
MSN Messenger
Firefox
Opera
System Z
n-tv
DW News Portal
ARD Tagesschau
TV Spielfilm
Program Manger
Mobilbox Pro - voicemails stored on central server and retrieved via Internet
Winamp
Realplayer
Premier League
Bundesliga
UEFA
UK & World News
Guardian
License Plate Prefix
Wetter.com
Astro
Springpad
Hoot Suite
CamSam - shows real time speed traps
barcoo - barcode scanner (using it to scan all my books into a database)
Solitaire
Stupid Zombies
Jewels
Bubble Blast
Angry Birds Rio
Öffi - public transport timetables (Austria, Germany, Swtizerland)
RMV - local public transport
Adobe Reader
Das Örtliche - like yellow pages
Gelbe Seiten - yellow pages
Klicktel - yellow pages
Hamburg - a folder (you can create them under Android 4) containing Hamburg info apps
Kingsoft Office
Photoshop Express
Lotus Symphony
TK-Lex - my healthcare provider
Wiki
all the Google ones such as maps, latitude, Google +, Youtube, Earth, etc.

[Halo Jones]

Have you got all your contacts already synced with outlook?

Yep: was just trying to work out what was best software to connect phone to pc for easy transfer

[milanbenes]

Halo,

good job I've got the S Galaxy SII too


FaQQer,

these games,

'Games: Crime Story, Paradise Island, Angband, Trap!, Flying Chicks, Words Free, Angry Birds, Angry Birds Backup, Angry Birds Rio, Angry Birds Seasons, Dope Wars, ThrottleCopter, Top Eleven, Air Control Lite, Alchemy, Checkers Free, CHess Free, Contract Killer, Fruit Slice, Hearts Free, Jewels, PLumber, Reversi Free, TapFish

'


are they all free ?

I don't want to pay for any

Milan.