Android apps

[pokerfan]

Apols if already posted in here but any recommendations on a payg android phone ~£100 pls.

[Longines]

http://shop.orange.co.uk/mobile-phones/san-francisco-from-orange-in-grey

[david3103]

It shouldn't do that very often at all, unless you're really hitting it with some memory/processor-intensive apps.

What version of the OS is it running, and I'm assuming you haven't 'rooted' the phone and applied a modified version of the OS (which actually run far better than the stock OS as they make better use of storage space and processor capacity, etc.).

My Galaxy also does this - it's still on the old Android and I haven't rooted it due to a lack of understanding of what this entails and how to do it.

Any helpful links?

[kinboshi]

http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Samsung_Galaxy_S:_Rooting

and then:

http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Samsung_Galaxy_S:_Flashing_CyanogenMod

Worth doing some reading about the pros and cons first to decide if rooting and flashing is what you want to do.  Some of the android forums are a good place to start.

[RED-DOG]

http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Samsung_Galaxy_S:_Rooting

and then:

http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Samsung_Galaxy_S:_Flashing_CyanogenMod

Worth doing some reading about the pros and cons first to decide if rooting and flashing is what you want to do.  Some of the android forums are a good place to start.

I knew a bloke that used to do a lot of rooting and flashing. Until he got arrested that is.......

[DaveShoelace]

Sup everyone

Just got an Android phone for the first time and quite pleased with it, two app questions:

Whats the best app for watching videos I have downloaded from t'internet

Are there any apps for improving the quality of the video camera? The first impression of the camera on my phone is that it films videos 'a bit choppy'

There are so many apps out there its overwhelming

[Robert HM]

A bloke called Carter on FB just got one, ask him

[DaveShoelace]

Whats the best app for watching videos I have downloaded from t'internet

bump, anyone?

[maldini32]

Got the update for my galaxy s and its a massive difference. So much better, quicker and no lag and all the apps work super quick!

[RED-DOG]

Google calendar lost all my data. Need a new calendar, preferably one that stores data locally rather than online.

 

[Linux]

Google calendar lost all my data. Need a new calendar, preferably one that stores data locally rather than online.

 

is it not backed up automatically on www.google.com/calendar ?

[RED-DOG]

Google calendar lost all my data. Need a new calendar, preferably one that stores data locally rather than online.

 

is it not backed up automatically on www.google.com/calendar ?

Yes but the data has gone from there too.


http://www.google.com.bz/support/forum/p/Calendar/thread?tid=0b53870a0bdf1bac&hl=en

[kinboshi]

The problem if you use another calendar that is just on your phone - you lose your phone and it's all gone.

Obviously, what's happened to your google calendar is a bugger - and it shouldn't have happened.  It shows that even if you have your calendar in two locations (one being your phone, and the other being the 'cloud' in this case google's servers), if something goes wrong with the sync, you can lose both sets of data.  There is an option in Google calendar to export your calendar entries, and it looks as though doing that on a regular basis is the answer, and then storing that data on your PC and wherever else as a backup.

Unfortunately, it doesn't help you this time - and I'm sure your confidence in Google calendar is shot as well.

[jizzemm]

The problem if you use another calendar that is just on your phone - you lose your phone and it's all gone.

Obviously, what's happened to your google calendar is a bugger - and it shouldn't have happened.  It shows that even if you have your calendar in two locations (one being your phone, and the other being the 'cloud' in this case google's servers), if something goes wrong with the sync, you can lose both sets of data.  There is an option in Google calendar to export your calendar entries, and it looks as though doing that on a regular basis is the answer, and then storing that data on your PC and wherever else as a backup.

Unfortunately, it doesn't help you this time - and I'm sure your confidence in Google calendar is shot as well.

Thats such a shame tom, i have been using google for god knows how long (probably when boshi told me google were going to rule the world) and have never lost a single bit of data/entries

[kinboshi]

The problem if you use another calendar that is just on your phone - you lose your phone and it's all gone.

Obviously, what's happened to your google calendar is a bugger - and it shouldn't have happened.  It shows that even if you have your calendar in two locations (one being your phone, and the other being the 'cloud' in this case google's servers), if something goes wrong with the sync, you can lose both sets of data.  There is an option in Google calendar to export your calendar entries, and it looks as though doing that on a regular basis is the answer, and then storing that data on your PC and wherever else as a backup.

Unfortunately, it doesn't help you this time - and I'm sure your confidence in Google calendar is shot as well.

Thats such a shame tom, i have been using google for god knows how long (probably when boshi told me google were going to rule the world) and have never lost a single bit of data/entries

I've never had a problem either, but this has made me rethink my complacency and I'm now in the process of backing up all my gmail (45GB worth in 55,000 emails!) to my hard-drive using Thunderbird.

It's going to take a good few days though