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Alucardis666
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Default Top Must Have Apps

And what do they do?

What apps can you absolutely not live without on your phone?

1.) Twitter - Social networking that needs no explination
2.) Facebook - Social networking that needs no explination
3.) Titanium Back Up - Backs up all my apps
4.) Chrome 2 Phone - Streams PC chrome pages to phone's browser
5.) Shazam - Music Tagging app
6.) Polaris Office - Best office client I've found for a mobile device
7.) Set-CPU - Allows overclocking of your device if your kernel supports it.
8.) SystemAppRemover - Removes bloatware embedded into the phone
9.) Word With Friends - Fun crossword puzzler with friends
10.) Google Music - All your music with none of the space.... *To the cloud!*

I hope this thread will unearth some hidden gem apps and make users more aware of how they can take advantage of their hardware and get more use out of their phones.

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*BTW... sorry to the mods if threads like this exist already for this phone.*



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•Facebook + Messenger - socialize from my couch
•Paper Camera - Takes awesome sketchbook style photos
•Tapatalk - keep track of forums
•Amazon App Store - Free Paid App Of The Day
•Stock Video App - Plays my movies
•Stock Music App - 5.1 Dolby sounds amazing with nice Skullcandy headphones, otherwise pretty basic.
•Cover Art Downloader - gets album art pretty effectively.
• Audio Tagger - let's me edit mp3 files. I'm really ocd about my music being organized.
•Plants vs Zombies - really fun tower defense style game
•News/Weather widget - gives you weather and news topics of your choice, nice 4x1 layout.

That's basically it for me. Really need to invest in Ti Backup still.

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Ones that I can't imagine not having.

XDA APP- I'd have nothing to do if I didn't :)
Pure breeze launcher - this above all, seriously
Miren browser
Glympse
Lcd resolution
Astro file manager
Titanium backup
Swipepad
Swipeswitcher

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A few I haven't seen mentioned yet :

Zedge- great app for ringtones, wallpapers, and notifications, complete with a search bar!

Xbox Live statistics- pretty solid app for Xbox live friends. Notifications and messages work and has a dev support.

Vlingo- beats the Google voice search.

PicSayPro- awesome photo editor ...awesome!

Google+ - circles are better ;)

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Titanium Backup pro
Astro file explorer
XDA app
Email
AutoCad WS
PayPal app
Wells Fargo app
Documents To Go pro
SwiftKey
Juice Defender Ultimate
Angry Birds (all of them)

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get friendcaster to replace facebook app
it's so much better

somehow my facebook app is really buggy and slow
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Plus 1 on Ti Backup. Its a lifesaver when it comes to apps with a lot of data.
 
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get friendcaster to replace facebook app
it's so much better

somehow my facebook app is really buggy and slow
yeah, i hate the facebook app for andoid. the next version will be a lot better. facebook gives the new stuff to ios first and then android. the new version is a lot better. ill prolly try that app out till the next app comes out

@og post

im not a big person on tons of apps, so dont mind the small list

facebook (once updated, till then ^^what he said^^)
netflix
shazam
pandora
dropbox (great for backing up your sd card backups... just encase your phone is lost or stolen)
kjv bible
skype
whatsapp (best app ever)
chrome2phone
speedtest
myatt (best way to pay a bill when you forgot to at home)
music online lite
xda app

the list got longer when i looked at my sexy phone im still missing an rss reader and a reddit app though. hoping someone here mentions a good one
 
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Most of my installed apps are must have . Here's a link to the extensive list I provided someone else with.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...48&postcount=2
 
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I wish people would just post 1 or 2 apps, as huge lists with no explanations are kind of pointless.

With that said, I just got a GS2 and have been trying out some new apps I never bothered with on my Droid 1.

I'm using Plume for Twitter. It seems like the highest rated twitter client, and I can see why. It's really smooth and slick and has a pretty intuitive interface. I'm liking it a lot and see no reason to ever try another Twitter app.

Llama- Ever wanted to try tasker or Locale, or jealous of the Razr's 'smart actions' app, but didn't want to spend money on any of them? This is a free automatic settings manager and so far it seems really powerful. I'm just getting it set up today, so I don't know how well it works in practice, but it seems to be able to do anything the paid apps do if not more. I always wanted to see how one of these apps really worked but didn't want to pay 6 bucks for one like Tasker so I'd say this is worth trying out if you're looking for something like this.

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