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Munkyb0y Grand Master

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copilot doesnt work on 2.2 afaik, unless theyve fixed it. Ndrive is a good replacement for it.

ES File Explorer (estrongs) is a must. File browser. Can install apk's for you. opens media. does all sorts of shit. has a task killer incorporated in it too if you get the extra files. do it.

app2sd - for moving all moveable apps to sd. I know you can do it manually, but this finds them for you. lets you know if new downloads can be moved, etc.

zedge - for free ringtones, notification sounds etc.

jetVD - for downloading youtube vids to your sd card in mp4

rockplayer - for playing divx plus most formats.

camera 360 - for some really cool camera effects

ebuddy - for chat (msn etc)

angry birds (beta) - game. good stuff

amtalee - a real headfuck of a puzzle game. i love it.

shoot U - good game

W0rp3D Grand Master

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The co pilot i have works on 2.2, im running 2.2 modaco rom http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5725927/Co...aps_Included%29 Just got ndrive and will see how it compares tomorrow.

I use astro for installing apk's, i have rockplayer for playing divx.

Will give zedge jetVD and camera 360 a go.

mad082 Grand Master

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as tony said, jetvd, co pilot, ebuddy and camera 360.

all the apps i use are:

apn droid (for turning off data to save battery)

3g watchdog

ebuddy

facebook

trapster (tells you where speed cameras are)

mileage (tracks fuel usage/economy)

ringdroid (can cut bits out of mp3's to make ring tones)

calculator (my 2.1 ROM i installed didn't have a calulator)

compass (so i had a compass)

OI shopping list (shopping list app)

K9 mail (was having issues with the stock email app so got this one)

speedtest (speedtest.net app for android)

flashlight (torch app)

dictionary.com (good app for if you like doing crosswords)

mytracks (gps app that uses google maps but will cache them if you don't have data connected)

titanium backup (app backup)

my backup (data backup)

estrong file explorer

astro file manager

IMDB (internet movie database app. good for finding out actors names and what else they have been in if you just can't remember)

barcode scanner (good for getting apps of the computer if they aren't in market)

and a few games such as hangman and solitaire

mad082 Grand Master

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there is no point having it. it can slow things down. unlike a windows computer system, when apps are running in the background they are idle. they don't take up any processor speed. if you kill required background apps that are used by other apps then when you use that app it will go slow while it opens up the closed app, or it will not work.

also having an app running all the time to keep other apps closed is somewhat counter productive.

funkymonkey Grand Master

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yeah don't use taskmanager apps. on an android phone having a full memory is a good thing. just make sure you don't have shit apps that are poorly coded and ping the internet or poll your GPS etc when not in use.

high memory usage - good, high processor usage - bad.

W0rp3D Grand Master

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You learn something new every day, i assumed it was same as windows and kill the apps all the time.

Task killer dosnt run all the time, when it kills all the other apps it kills its self as well.

mad082 Grand Master

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You learn something new every day, i assumed it was same as windows and kill the apps all the time.

Task killer dosnt run all the time, when it kills all the other apps it kills its self as well.

a lot of apps that are killed by task killer simply start straight back up after they are closed. i think some task killers keep them permanently closed, but to do this they have to stay running in the background.

i have a performance manager on my phone (was part of the 2.1 rom i installed). it shows the RAM and CPU usage of each app. there are plenty using 5 or 6mb of RAM but 0% CPU. system at idle with widgets on screen and plenty of background apps currently running is about 2%

HEKT1K Grand Master

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how come every 'best Android apps' site on the net recommends task killers?

i am getting shitty battery life out of my xperia x10 (32% last night at midnight, put it on sleep when i went to sleep, and 8 hours later it was dead)

W0rp3D Grand Master

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Has anyone used a2sd and partitioned there sd card so it adds extra internal space?

Its doing my head in trying to find a tutorial that is easy to follow and works, every one is different, and most are written by someone who knows exactly what there doing for people who have donw it before and have progamming experience.

W0rp3D Grand Master

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depends on whether you actually need it or not. i have a reasonable amount of apps installed and i have nearly 87mb left of the 512mb of internal memory.

I have f**k all apps and i have had to delete some to get back above 4meg left.

mad082 Grand Master

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I have f**k all apps and i have had to delete some to get back above 4meg left.

what sort of phone do you have? do you have a lot of emails and texts on your phone? i think they get saved to phone memory and not the SD card, so if you have emails with attachments you don't need, delete them. it should only delete them off the phone and not from the email account itself. also may be worth making sure that the camera isn't saving pics to the internal memory (don't think it can, but worth checking).

yeah that's not on my phone.

fully charged just after midnight, got up 8-9 hours later and it was 94%. Much better than before

apparently the xperia battery life gets better after a few chrages. it also appears that as you pointed out they don't have the battery manager like some others do. there is also one major app that seems to be common amoungst people talking about causes of poor battery life, and that is Moxier. it's mentioned in this link (number 2) so it appears that in your case an app killer may actually be beneficial to battery life

http://www.xperiax10.net/2010/04/14/improv...0-battery-life/

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