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Brksy86
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Default Best apps for the Rooted Revo

This is my first rooted phone and I have been looking browsing forums and sites for the past couple hours on great apps that need a rooted phone. It seems there are some pretty good ones out there but more than a few that I have tried do not support the Revolution yet, like flashing clockworkMod Recovery in rom manager. Since that one doesnt work what is the next best app to do it with and in general what are some good apps that you have to root your phone to use and work on the Revo.
 
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Titanium Backup, Root Explorer and some type of terminal emulator. I use Better Terminal Emulator Pro.

Those are the first apps I installed after rooting and installing Superuser.

[Edit] Forgot to mention AdFree.

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this is also my. first rooted phone. Thanks to xda-developers. i love the freedom it gives me. thanks again guys.

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I'll second Ad-Free, and will throw in something to edit clock speed (of course with a kernel to allow it).

I like CPU Master for this. The free version does a good job.

I use the RevoToolkit to get CWM. There is a downloadable around here somewhere for it, and it is included in the one click I believe.
 
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Default My suggestions

Ad-away over AdFree (Ad-Away is opensource, adfree is not, and had some issues with adree's dev not releasing release notes etc).

WIFI Teather (Use the beta version from the site, and not the release ver. from market).

EZExplorer (has a SU option, and mount /system in rw/ro options).

Volume+ (Free on XDA, paid in market) - really good to increase the speaker volume past the stock limit

AndroSS - open source screen shots application

ChainFire 3D + Pro (if you want to play tegra games). Trust me it is really worth paying for this

CF.lumen - Great for reducing eye strain (you need to buy ChainFire 3d pro first)

CPU Tuner - open source CPU over/under clocking.

Quick Boot - reboot to recovery from a shotcut on home screen

Script manager - For running scripts (superchargerv6 et. al.)

Teather GPS - used in conjunction with wifi teather, to get GPS navigation on my 7" nook color

TB Pro - You always need Titanium Backup

That should get you started.
One thing I would suggest when searching root apps, is search if there is an open source alternative. Don't like giving root access to closed source apps. Quite a few apps I have mentioned are indeed open source.

All the best
 
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ES File Explorer - just like root explorer except free
Antek App Manager - back up apps, freeze
AdAway - one of the best apps ever
CPUtuner - free with profiles and more customization than SetCPU
ScreenshotER - good for screenshots, especially if into theming
 
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Ad-Free
Autostarts
CSipSimple
File Manager (recently got rid of File Expert, which seemed to have issues with root features)
Root Toolbox
wifi-tether

I've used all of 'em from V4 (Froyo) to V7 (Gingerbread), except File Manager which I recently got to replace File Expert.
 
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AnTuTu benchmark and AnTuTu CPU Master
 
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Titanium Backup, Root Explorer and some type of terminal emulator. I use Better Terminal Emulator Pro.

Those are the first apps I installed after rooting and installing Superuser.

[Edit] Forgot to mention AdFree.

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Okay... what is Terminal Emulator Pro?
Is the Skyrocket the best phone on the market? No. Does Seanz make it a ton better? You damn well better believe.
 
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GScript is very handy, particularly for enabling / disabling apps so that annoying apps (not listed in AutoStarts app) don't keep running themselves.

I've heard all kinds of BS about how background apps don't execute code, how Android is so great at managing them so they don't affect foreground app performance, etc, but I know very well that it's not true... not to mention some apps are very persistent in nature to begin with.


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