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How make make my phone better.

Anyone have any tips that I could use to make my Android/Atrix experience better.
Any tips?
*Sorry if this is in the wrong section.

Oh sorry, didn't see it. Don't need to swear at me.

Here is my tip from my shallow experience with the phone and android.
1. do factory reset after your phone has been fully charged to 100% for 4hours-ish while its turned off
2. get before update root
3. update to 1.57
4. do the post update root
5. get titanium backup pro and go to the freeze the applications under the safelist.
6. get an launcher (I bought launcherpro plus, but i think just launcherpro is just as good... because the only major perks i've noticed was the launcherpro widgets and widget resizing)
7. freeze the motoblur home(after installing another launcher like lpp)
8. download screengrabber app (it works on rooted phone and I like using it, you may not need a screen capture program)
9. do the webtop mod if you want to try it. you need android sdk first to do adb commands. (I tried it to see how lapdock would feel like and I found it pretty good)
I love launcher pro, as it looks so nice!!! 3d app drawer and home screen flipping animations, and overall so many settings you can customize. (# of app row, column etc)

hungryeel said:
here is my tip from my shallow experience with the phone and android.
1. Do factory reset after your phone has been fully charged to 100% for 4hours-ish while its turned off
2. Get before update root
3. Update to 1.57
4. Do the post update root
5. Get titanium backup pro and go to the freeze the applications under the safelist.
6. Get an launcher (i bought launcherpro plus, but i think just launcherpro is just as good... Because the only major perks i've noticed was the launcherpro widgets and widget resizing)
7. Freeze the motoblur home(after installing another launcher like lpp)
8. Download screengrabber app (it works on rooted phone and i like using it, you may not need a screen capture program)
9. Do the webtop mod if you want to try it. You need android sdk first to do adb commands. (i tried it to see how lapdock would feel like and i found it pretty good)
i love launcher pro, as it looks so nice!!! 3d app drawer and home screen flipping animations, and overall so many settings you can customize. (# of app row, column etc)
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thank you so much!

Haven't used the phone, but just look around under the forums and find some guides. Atleast you will be able to find a guide to root it and such which will make life much better and more open for improvement best of luck.
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That was pretty pointless...
no need to cuss...
I was in the same boat as the OP and it was hard for me to search through the massive massive amount of info on this forum.
No need to be so hostile... There has been alot of hate on the forum lately. I know it gets annoying when the new users start asking questions that can be found by searching. But, you have two sensible choices: 1. give them some tips so they know what to search for, or 2. don't reply to thread and let the thread die off...

Dude, You better calm down! I just got banned a couple days for fighting with somebody and cursing and you have a ****load of posts just like this! I had 2 posts then banned! You've been lucky so far but all someones gotta do is report you and then here comes the ban hammer!
No ones even starting with you! This guy just asked a question! Calm down!

if you dont need stuff like email, calendar and contacts updated to the minute its a good idea to disable this feature in settings and with titanium backup. theres a big thread in the dev section about what apps from att that are safe to freeze with titanium. this alone will significantly increase your battery life.

neotekz said:
if you dont need stuff like email, calendar and contacts updated to the minute its a good idea to disable this feature in settings and with titanium backup. Theres a big thread in the dev section about what apps from att that are safe to freeze with titanium. This alone will significantly increase your battery life.
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thanks
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and if you're feeling real brave??.... You could root the **** out of it and flash gingerblur or gladiatrix or the newest rom greyblur!! Im about to flash greyblur right now!

If you want a gingerbead look to your phone, as well as getting rid of the hideous white notification bar, you should try out GingerBlur, a pseudo-rom for the Atrix.
GrayBlur has also been released, which I'll be trying out shortly.
Get a launcher. If you have the money (15$) I would buy SPB Shell. That is one amazing launcher. Or just get one of the many others like ADW, Launcher Pro, Go Launcher, etc.
If you want to tether (data plan required), go to the dev section to get the tethering APN for mobile hotspot.
Install Tenfar's custom bootstrap recovery. Allows you to flash ROMs.
Install the Amazon App market. A free paid app a day (games too).
And last but not least: check out the themes section. Lots of cool themes and boot images.

PixoNova said:
If you want a gingerbead look to your phone, as well as getting rid of the hideous white notification bar, you should try out GingerBlur, a pseudo-rom for the Atrix.
GrayBlur has also been released, which I'll be trying out shortly.
Get a launcher. If you have the money (15$) I would buy SPB Shell. That is one amazing launcher. Or just get one of the many others like ADW, Launcher Pro, Go Launcher, etc.
If you want to tether (data plan required), go to the dev section to get the tethering APN for mobile hotspot.
Install Tenfar's custom bootstrap recovery. Allows you to flash ROMs.
Install the Amazon App market. A free paid app a day (games too).
And last but not least: check out the themes section. Lots of cool themes and boot images.
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I didn't see the Amazon App Store on the Android Market. Where can I get it?

Chubby_Skunk said:
I didn't see the Amazon App Store on the Android Market. Where can I get it?
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You'll have to side load it. you can enable that by running glad root.
Then, download the apk from amazon, put it on your phone, and install
Definitely worth it
http://www.amazon.com/mobile-apps/b?ie=UTF8&node=2350149011
Theres a link there to input your email to download it
Swyped from my Motorola Atrix 4g using XDA Premium App

PixoNova said:
You'll have to side load it. you can enable that by running glad root.
Then, download the apk from amazon, put it on your phone, and install
Definitely worth it
Swyped from my Motorola Atrix 4g using XDA Premium App
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Alright thanks for the info. So I get one free app every day?

Chubby_Skunk said:
Alright thanks for the info. So I get one free app every day?
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Not of your choosing
But it'll tell which app will be for free. I got sham encore, zenonia 2, and trillian for free.
Swyped from my Motorola Atrix 4g using XDA Premium App

Chubby_Skunk said:
Alright thanks for the info. So I get one free app every day?
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Yeah but one thing you gotta know is you can never uninstall amazon appstore or your free apps will stop working which kinda sucks!

Gutterball said:
Yeah but one thing you gotta know is you can never uninstall amazon appstore or your free apps will stop working which kinda sucks!
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Hm wasn't aware of that. I do know that every single download oas considered a purchase, so if you ever want to switch devices, you can just redownload them like ever normal market.
Swyped from my Motorola Atrix 4g using XDA Premium App

PixoNova said:
Hm wasn't aware of that. I do know that every single download oas considered a purchase, so if you ever want to switch devices, you can just redownload them like ever normal market.
Swyped from my Motorola Atrix 4g using XDA Premium App
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Yeah as long as you reinstall amazon appstore all the time with it and I was reading that the appstore is kind of a form of spyware and require too much info from the user.
Uninstall appstore and you'll see. I had angry birds rio and a few others for free. I uninstalled the appstore and then my apps just stopped working! I heard this would happen but didnt believe it! But it is 100% true! Which like I said sucks!

How do I disable MotoBlur using TiBu?
Never live in the past but always learn from it.

Get GO Launcher EX. It's so much smoother than stock, you'll love it. I just returned to it after using LauncherPro Plus for a few weeks. Features on LauncherPro are great, but it had some stability issues for me, and GO Launcher is MUCH smoother and consistent for me. There are a lot of themes for it as well.

new market for tablets - download

This is the new market rolled out for the zoom the other day.
Enjoy
Post - is it any better?
MJ-12

Thanks for posting. I find it much better and much faster. The old market was very slow for me
Sent from my A500 using XDA Premium App

Works great for me an dit can be used in portrait mode
Wysłano z Acer A500

Finally, portrait mode. I like this version thx
Sent from my A500

Does this require root? Can someone post some screenshots? I am at work and won't have the tablet for a couple hours.

This new Market version looks exactly like the phone version.
Why have they changed the interface.
The previous one looked great.
Previous version - 1.0.27

this looks just like the new market on the android phones. i dont really like how it looks..... i wish there was a way to hide the movies/books from the market because i doubt i will ever buy/rent a book or a movie from the app store. i noticed no difference in performance. im sticking with the old market for now, but thanks for the download

bwassef said:
this looks just like the new market on the android phones. i dont really like how it looks..... i wish there was a way to hide the movies/books from the market because i doubt i will ever buy/rent a book or a movie from the app store. i noticed no difference in performance. im sticking with the old market for now, but thanks for the download
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I too hate the phone market app.they are pushing crap in your face that you did not ask for.When you do a search it brings up two also and a link to movies and books.as if your going to buy them.grrrrrrr.

erica_renee said:
I too hate the phone market app.they are pushing crap in your face that you did not ask for.When you do a search it brings up two also and a link to movies and books.as if your going to buy them.grrrrrrr.
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Precisely the reason I renamed marketupdater on my phone, and will probably be doing it on my tab too.
Sent from my A500 using Tapatalk

I tried out the new Market app but had to remove it. It caused Earth and Legend to crash on load and I read a report that it causes Dungeon Defenders to crash too. I'm guessing these apps may have some type of protection that calls the Market app?
Sent from my A500 using Tapatalk

I'm now running this new market on my a500. I must say that the old market feels cumbersome and clumsy.this is way more suited to hc and is feels streamlined...
I love it on my DInc2 it took a while to get used to but I can't stand the old market anymore.
I haven't run into any problems with crashing apps. Earth runs fine. I'm using honeyvillain's rom.

Does this improve any problems with the Honeycomb Market, like reviewing apps direct from the tablet?
Sent from my Sensation using xda premium

Portrait mode is sweet although the market is really crying out for a customized view, wierdly though the old market is still available alongside the new market on my tab 10.1(overcome rom). Accessing app details is not very intuitive, clicking the icon for the selected app shows details but there is no visual prompt to suggest this(could be a BOB issue). No issues launching any apps so far.

What's the best way to install this? I would think to remove Vending.apk from system/apps, rename this file to vending.apk and put it into the apps folder...is that right?
Update: Nope, don't need to do all that. Just download and install
Update: I LIKE! Portrait mode, FINALLY able to click a screen shot for a larger image, everything flows very well, seems like this market version is even better suited for a tablet than a phone. Thumbs up!
Thanks for the download MJ-12!

3.1.6 is over here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1284647

Do you need to have the 3.2 OTA to make the new market work? Because I have 3.1 still and it does not work on my Iconia

jakmayhopher said:
Do you need to have the 3.2 OTA to make the new market work? Because I have 3.1 still and it does not work on my Iconia
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3.1.6 is working on 3.1 for me.
Need to work on upgrading one day. lol

redbullcat said:
Does this improve any problems with the Honeycomb Market, like reviewing apps direct from the tablet?
Sent from my Sensation using xda premium
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yeah you can review apps from that tablet now

Definitely a better market than what was built in. It is a lot faster than the old one, which is especially impressive considering the very limited internet I have access to right now.
Havn't ran in to any problems with it so far.

Downloaded this And I still have old market and new market. 2 different icons.
Sent from my SGS2E4GT aka That's a mouthful.... That's what she said!

List of safe to remove bloatware

I was lucky enough to snag a TF101 on Black Friday. Stood in line for 3 hours with all the other nuts.
Anyway, I quickly rooted and flashed a new kernel to overclock. I'm loving this tablet so far. I haven't tried different roms yet, I'm aware of those which remove the bloatware Asus puts on. At the moment I'm still content with stock rooted. I want to remove the bloatware though. I searched but couldn't find a list of what's safe to remove and what's not. If someone can point me in the right direction I'd appreciate it. Thanks.

Theres alot of the devs now removing all apks they can and putting them in a zip incase people want them maybe look at whats i them and you will know what is safe to remove
Or look at the dev threads they usually list what they have removed although some dont so have a proper look.
Sent from my tf101 using xda premium 1.54Ghz

cesjr02 said:
I was lucky enough to snag a TF101 on Black Friday. Stood in line for 3 hours with all the other nuts.
Anyway, I quickly rooted and flashed a new kernel to overclock. I'm loving this tablet so far. I haven't tried different roms yet, I'm aware of those which remove the bloatware Asus puts on. At the moment I'm still content with stock rooted. I want to remove the bloatware though. I searched but couldn't find a list of what's safe to remove and what's not. If someone can point me in the right direction I'd appreciate it. Thanks.
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3 hrs? were you at Best buy in Commack NY? lol I waited 3 hoursto pickup mine... that was nuts..

I waited 6 hours in line then a hour and half to pay for it but it was worth it.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using xda premium

cesjr02 said:
I want to remove the bloatware though. I searched but couldn't find a list of what's safe to remove and what's not. If someone can point me in the right direction I'd appreciate it. Thanks.
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Have not really seen a list posted, but personally I have deleted
-MyLibrary
-Press Reader
-Zinio Reader

What about?
Vibe 2.0 - (what is it?)
Asus Facebook Poster
Asus PC Launcher
MEar
MyDictionary 1.0
PixWe
Splashtop Remote

cesjr02 said:
What about?
Vibe 2.0 - (what is it?)
Asus Facebook Poster
Asus PC Launcher
MEar
MyDictionary 1.0
PixWe
Splashtop Remote
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Splashtop is amazingly usefull if you have a desktop at home you can use it through the tf with this app (it is safe to delete tho if you will never do that)
Mydictionary id keep that its small anyway
pix we i deleted
facebook poster deleted i use friendme or browser
Pc launcher i think you need that
Vibe 2.0 im pretty sure thats linked in with other stuff ill double check and post back

Thanks for the info. I'm slowly learning what all this stuff is. Any idea about MEar?

cesjr02 said:
What about?
Vibe 2.0 - (what is it?)
Asus Facebook Poster
Asus PC Launcher
MEar
MyDictionary 1.0
PixWe
Splashtop Remote
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Why would you delete PC Launcher? Dont plan on connecting to a computer and copying stuff?

Oyeve said:
Why would you delete PC Launcher? Dont plan on connecting to a computer and copying stuff?
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I use this for my iMac and MacBook Pro. Works like a charm and don't have a need for Asus PC Launcher.

Danzano said:
Splashtop is amazingly usefull if you have a desktop at home you can use it through the tf with this app (it is safe to delete tho if you will never do that)
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Can you launch Splashtop without going thru My Cloud?

Danzano said:
Theres alot of the devs now removing all apks they can and putting them in a zip incase people want them maybe look at whats i them and you will know what is safe to remove
Or look at the dev threads they usually list what they have removed although some dont so have a proper look.
Sent from my tf101 using xda premium 1.54Ghz
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Where can I find these .zip?
EDIT: Nevermind. I downloaded the system dump with all apps.

F. Gacrux said:
Can you launch Splashtop without going thru My Cloud?
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Not in Asus' version, but you also don't get updates in that. Just buy it on the market if you want it; it's cheap and you'll get proper updates, rather than having to wait months for bug fixes.

I removed all of the stuff asus loaded on it and the only problem I've had was trying to install an official build from Asus since the files were modified. Other than that, it runs just fine.

BB Launcher or 3rd party?

Anyone planning on using the default launcher with the Hub and the other BB apps or are you planning on going straight to NOVA/ Now launcher out of the box? I think the BB Launcher looks pretty clean, so I'll be giving it a chance. Can't be any worse than touchwiz, right?

I'm probably going to use the BB launcher unless I can use the Hub with the Now launcher.

The Hub is supposed to be an apk, so theoretically we should still be able to use it with other launchers. The only question that lingers is whether or not there are BB launcher-specific features not usable by other launchers (like widgets or something)

Hopefully other launchers can use BB specific apps. I really like Nova!

It's has any offline download

tekan12 said:
Hopefully other launchers can use BB specific apps. I really like Nova!
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nova is the best bro... :good:

Has anyone yet extracted the apks out of blackberry priv, would love to try that keyboard.

jassalmithu said:
Has anyone yet extracted the apks out of blackberry priv, would love to try that keyboard.
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Still being worked on. So far, people have tried sharing from Priv models already in people's hands, but they get errors. Also, many have tried disguising their device ID to the Priv to direct download from the play store with no luck.

Im switching from WP if I do get it and wondering if there are any WP Like Launchers out there that can be used that WORK.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-v10/themes-apps/bb-priv-lg-v10-t3243429/post63708602#post63708602
It's posted in the LG v10 forum, but works flawlessly on my nexus 6p. Love the keyboard

Anyone know if you can get the option to work where you slide up or down from an app to open a widget on other home screen apps?
I really like that option, but in Nova premium it is not available (presumably a BB launcher thing)

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Anyone know if you can get the option to work where you slide up or down from an app to open a widget on other home screen apps?
I really like that option, but in Nova premium it is not available (presumably a BB launcher thing)
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Action Launcher had it before Bb Priv. Latest version of Action Launcher 3 is excellent, I'm using it with a Priv, productivity tab still works as does hub.
Sent from my Bb Priv using Tapatalk

Can you load non-amazon content onto 2017 Fite HD8?

They're dirt cheap today but if I can't put my own ripped films on then I'm not going to bother and will just get an Android tablet for a little more. I've seen there is currently no working root method.
Primarily will be for the kids for films so if I have to put up with a tablet on Marshmallow it's not the end of the world.
TIA

You can load anything with a USB connection to your computer. Whether or not you have an app that can access said content is a different story.
However, thanks to this thread, you can install Google Play on it https://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/general/how-to-install-google-play-store-fire-t3486603 make sure you head over there to thank the OP

I picked one up on the Prime sale - its a well built little tablet for the money. The Prime OS is pretty ugly, though. Left it stock for maybe an hour before I installed the Google store, LaunchHijack and Nova. I know the Prime stuff is still there, but hiding it under the launcher makes a world of diference.

Taypo2k said:
I picked one up on the Prime sale - its a well built little tablet for the money. The Prime OS is pretty ugly, though. Left it stock for maybe an hour before I installed the Google store, LaunchHijack and Nova. I know the Prime stuff is still there, but hiding it under the launcher makes a world of diference.
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Just to clarify, I think the app you are referring to is called:
LauncherHijackV2
and there is a 2.1V

johnjingle said:
Just to clarify, I think the app you are referring to is called:
LauncherHijackV2
and there is a 2.1V
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Thank you for the correction. That's correct.