Free and useful Android apps

1jim

DCFC79 wrote: »

Anyone come across an app that will allow you to add information to a place name eg you find a restaurant and you add information like good food

Trip advisor?
Google places?
Use both and find them pretty good

1jim

has anyone seen the iphone add where the iphone is held up against a menu in another language and it translates it into english still in the menu/picture format? has anyone seen this app work on iphone and does it work like it shows on the ad? is this app available for android? is there a similar one that works like this... have google translate which is ok but not great (unless I am doing it wrongly)

wolvesinwales

bignred05 wrote: »

anyone recommend a decent app for blocking texts/calls etc


have just put a new rom on my SF, and I've lost all my app's have managed to reinstall all of them but can't find/recall the one I had for blocking texts/calls etc, I'm looking for the one I used to have as no doubts there's so many out there, I can recall the picture from it, but not what it was called

any recommendations would be appreciated

Thanks

I use EASYFILTER

colinicky

Does anybody know of an App for the Samsung Galaxy that will "root" the phone ? Have tried the rooting guides on sites like XDA & get totally lost !

MoneySavingUser

bbc has official app now: https://market.android.com/details?id=bbc.mobile.news.uk

JJ_Egan

colinicky wrote: »

Does anybody know of an App for the Samsung Galaxy that will "root" the phone ? Have tried the rooting guides on sites like XDA & get totally lost !

Galaxy S2 i9100 NO rooting app yet .

Z4root i
works on older firmware versions of SGS 1 but not later firmware.

Might be of use on SGS1 does not work on SGS2 .

http://shortfuse.org/

Rooting voids your warranty ref Samsung letter to all service centres .



jje

T_T_2

JJ_Egan wrote: »

Galaxy S2 i9100 NO rooting app yet .

Z4root i
works on older firmware versions of SGS 1 but not later firmware.

Might be of use on SGS1 does not work on SGS2 .

http://shortfuse.org/

Rooting voids your warranty ref Samsung letter to all service centres .



jje

I would have thought that universal androot would work.

JJ_Egan

I would have thought that universal androot would work.

No idea as it was dropped from the market last i heard it was beta and is not for SGS 2 .

jje

rolstherat

I was looking at all the free apps for viewing and editing Microsoft office docs and came across OliveOffice Premium which so far looks realy good for a free one. Its the editing function which I like

hannoja

My kids love Angry Birds so I don't want to remove it, but I stupidly let it upgrade this morning, as we were rushing out of the door (well, youngest was dawdling as usual but hey ho :rotfl:). I thought I'd cancelled it, but later noticed it had successfully upgraded.

So what? Well, for those who may be interested, Angry Birds has increased it's permissions. It now wants(/needs?) access to:

Permissions

This application has access to the following:

• Your locationcoarse (network-based) location
  Access coarse location sources such as the cellular network database to determine an approximate device location, where available. Malicious applications can use this to determine approximately where you are.
• Network communicationfull Internet access
  Allows an application to create network sockets.
• Phone callsread phone state and identity
  Allows the application to access the phone features of the device. An application with this permission can determine the phone number and serial number of this phone, whether a call is active, the number that call is connected to and the like.
• Storagemodify/delete USB storage contents modify/delete SD card contents
  Allows an application to write to the USB storage. Allows an application to write to the SD card.

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• Network communicationview network state
  Allows an application to view the state of all networks.
  view Wi-Fi state
  Allows an application to view the information about the state of Wi-Fi.

Greedy birds!!

Don't know if/how to undo/rollback the upgrade, so guess I'll have to remove it.. boys won't be pleased.