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Desire Z

Monday, June 13th, 2011 by

Finally got my desire z, so I’m trying to set up and tune it up …

Rooted it, and have Virtuous Doubleshot 1.0.1 with Unity V5 kernel.

Amazon Kindle – access to kindle from android
Angry birds – tell me you don’t know what it is…
Antennas – nice tool showing distance to nearest satellite antenna. Could be handy if you in the zone with low reception and need to figure out where to go
Authenticator – google account authenticator
Bar code scanner – the name speaks for itself…
Brightness toggle widget
bubble – level
BusyBox
CamCard – tool to take a photo of a business card, recognize it and put it into your contacts
Citrix Reciver
ColorDict Online and offline dictionaries.
ConnectBot ssh client
Cool Reader book reader. Seems to support just about every format I need.
Docs Google docs
DocumentsToGo (used it on WinMo) – great office package and still looks good. The only one I’ve found that can mark changes in the document.
Dolphin Browser HD + AdBlock Very good browser – the only one used at the moment
ebay
Es File Explorer
Google Googles
Google Reader
Google Sky Map – If you don’t have it, do have it.
GPS over BT – use your phone as bluetooth GPS
GPS status – gives you the status from GPS receiver
GPSTracker lite to trace and record route, time and speed during sporting activities.
Group ringtones
IM+ Had issues with imo.im loosing connection and eating out tremendously lots of traffic. Switched to IM+ seems to work somewhat better.
KeePassDroind Keeping passwords
LinkedIn – very convenient and useful tool for LinkedIn users unlike LJ client which is total garbage.
LiveJournal
Make your clock Widget
MoboPlayer – multiformat video player. Seems to work very well on both dezire z and iconia a500. with ARM V7 codec.
Mort Music Player
MP3 ringtone maker
NetCounter – the only counter I’ve found to store data after reboot
NoteEverything – A note organizer capable of taking typed, audio or drawn notes
Notpedad by Chen Fei – just a simple notepad when I’m not bound by Word files and can TeX
OsmAnd – free map and navigation with online/offline capacity
Photaf panorama creator
QR droid private – yet another barcode scanner
Russian Keyboard – need it to use hardware keys with russian
Skype well, skype. Now with video!
Soundhound get the name of the song playing
SMS Backup and Restore use it to read sms from old phones from PIMbackup. Decided not to import them in – just read when need them.
Traffic Monitor excellent traffic monitor and process killer
Terminal Emulator
Translate

Software installed after rooting (that’s why I rooted it in a first place):
Titanium Backup
Rom manager
Droid wall
Still testing:
iMapMyRun+ Nice app but it seem to take forever to connect to satelites…

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