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Top Jar Apps

Can we get this stickied once more people post. Have one thread with all the top or apps people think others should download from www.GetJar.com or another place. Since the new Haykuro's Hero can download them.

Well I'm running the youtube jar on JACxROM and it works great, high quality works as well. I did install the jbed apk from the hero rom and it installs but it doesn't load just force closes. For people wondering if they need hero rom the answer is probably yes for most of them but this one works without it.

i second that this get stickied. i'm about to download the market eBuddy to compare to the java version.

to quote opasha indirectly, he said in the new haykuro hero thread that if there is an android market version of a java app, then get the market version. it is better. for eBuddy, performance was nearly identical. but the market version had infinitely better notifications.

grandomegabosses said:
to quote opasha indirectly, he said in the new haykuro hero thread that if there is an android market version of a java app, then get the market version. it is better. for eBuddy, performance was nearly identical. but the market version had infinitely better notifications.
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I thought that it was meant that if there is a version of the java game that you're trying to run in the market to download that, not that actual java app itself

sorry for being a noob guys! why jar apps over regular apps? any reason?

Jrbourque said:
I thought that it was meant that if there is a version of the java game that you're trying to run in the market to download that, not that actual java app itself
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that's the jist of it. the java version of any market app is inferior to the apk.

hpanimalpak said:
sorry for being a noob guys! why jar apps over regular apps? any reason?
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More apps out there. The more options you have always the better don't you think?

imbonez9 said:
More apps out there. The more options you have always the better don't you think?
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That is true, but they do not always work and the controls are crappy... I am not sure if its worth the time when you have much better apps on the market + along with the emulators for gaming.

I agree just this way we can just have one thread instead of the 5 billion you may have saying OMG just dl'ed XXXXX.jar you gotta play/use it. This way more orginized.

I can't get any jars to actually run. I get a whitescreen every time. What phone do yall have yours set as.

3d games on G Tab

I've done all the market hacks and tried all the tricks but im wondering why most of the actual 3d games i want to get to show off the muscle that this great little tegra 2 tablet can flex.
it seems like the games i want on here right now "pocket legend" and "rocket bunnies" don't show up in the market and I was looking forward to "dungeon defenders"
I think there needs to be a big push of actually finding a way to get the full market that my Nexus One gets...
This is mostly why i bought the tablet, and thanks to all the great devs here we've been able to get "almost" everything working (Thanks roebeet, et all)
maybe we can make a nice thread with some different market fingerprints and post market results? (or any other suggestions)
I am currently running the latest Vegantab beta4 fyi.

no-success said:
I've done all the market hacks and tried all the tricks but im wondering why most of the actual 3d games i want to get to show off the muscle that this great little tegra 2 tablet can flex.
it seems like the games i want on here right now "pocket legend" and "rocket bunnies" don't show up in the market and I was looking forward to "dungeon defenders"
I think there needs to be a big push of actually finding a way to get the full market that my Nexus One gets...
This is mostly why i bought the tablet, and thanks to all the great devs here we've been able to get "almost" everything working (Thanks roebeet, et all)
maybe we can make a nice thread with some different market fingerprints and post market results? (or any other suggestions)
I am currently running the latest Vegantab beta4 fyi.
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Well, as the guy who has tried all the market fingerprints and build.prop stuff and wrote the thread on the "full" market fix, I can tell you with some confidence that Pocket Legends and some of the other 3d games are a known issue - I have tried changing every build.prop setting to match that of my Nexus One (which finds those apps with no problem), and there are still a handful of 3d games that will not show up. I have also found that if you change too many of the settings in build.prop, you will eventually bootloop your G Tablet because Android itself gets confused about what it's running on.
You can find my notes on the subject in my posts on my thread in this forum on Full Market Fix.
In summary - the issue seems to be more than just using a different Market Fingerprint. That does not solve the problem, though it may make a few addition or a few less items show up. Right now, by most of my metrics, we have at least 95% of the items in Market showing up.
BTW, I have seen posts stating that the work around for Pocket Legends has been to download directly from their site, though I have not done so myself.
My understanding is that the CyanogenMod ROM for G Tablet does not require the Maket Fix and has no issues with missing items in Market because of the way the ROM image is built. I think the person to ask about this is bekriebel who built CyanogenMod for G Tablet - he can explain the concept of release-keys better than I can and how Market supports it out of the box on the CM ROM.
Unfortunately, it's a bit outside of my time availability right now to work much more on this, having already spent a day or more figuring out what I figured out. But please keep me in the loop if you figure anything else out!

I just thought it would be good to have a good constructive conversation about why else it might not be working... so the build.prop isnt the thing then.
its sad that 3d games are not showing up when this device was built for 3d gaming!

Pocket legends shows up on mine. got it installed...lemme try the other one..
EDIT: Strange they arent showing up anymore. when i was on Cyanogen 6.1 i Had them showing up. then again I didnt have the new market that looks like xbox live. strange...

HorsexD said:
Pocket legends shows up on mine. got it installed...lemme try the other one..
EDIT: Strange they arent showing up anymore. when i was on Cyanogen 6.1 i Had them showing up. then again I didnt have the new market that looks like xbox live. strange...
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this is what I'm refering to its so spotty. there is this great drawing app that i purchased that id love to use on the tab called "sketchbook mobile" but its not showing up for me either.
I know there have been lots of people working on it but it would be great if we could somehow compare market search results on some of them to find the best?
also if cyanogenmod has more working downloads is there anyway that the market from cyanogenmod can be rolled into Vegantab?

Dungeon Defenders is amazing its based on the unreal engine and really shows off this hardware.
If we are patient I am sure there will be many amazing games in the future for this CPU/chipset.
I had originally intended to only use the gtab until a good windows7 tab was released but after seeing Dungeon defenders on this system I seriously doubt any windows based tab will be able to come close to this tab for some time and I am sure the cost of a system like that will be much higher.
U need to check out this game to understand what I mean.

Wyngnut said:
Dungeon Defenders is amazing its based on the unreal engine and really shows off this hardware.
If we are patient I am sure there will be many amazing games in the future for this CPU/chipset.
I had originally intended to only use the gtab until a good windows7 tab was released but after seeing Dungeon defenders on this system I seriously doubt any windows based tab will be able to come close to this tab for some time and I am sure the cost of a system like that will be much higher.
U need to check out this game to understand what I mean.
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Agreed, DD plays perfectly on the gtab. Hopefully this is just the beginning of things to come once Honeycomb is in place and developers start making apps with tablets in mind.

Replace Stage UI

Does anyone use LauncherPro as a Stage UI replacement (on Froyo 2.2.2)?
Or can anyone help with replacing Stage UI - I'm rooted but I don't really want to install an entire new ROM just to change the launcher?
TIA

docfreed said:
Does anyone use LauncherPro as a Stage UI replacement (on Froyo 2.2.2)?
Or can anyone help with replacing Stage UI - I'm rooted but I don't really want to install an entire new ROM just to change the launcher?
TIA
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You have quite a few options out there, LauncherPro being one of them. All you need is a home replacement app. I'm currently running Zeam. It's smooth, free, and very configurable. I have it set for 6x6 rows x columns, and it scales perfectly for the Streak 7. It doesn't have a lot of frills, but I don't like frills so it's great! (I prefer to just install 1000 widgets of my choosing.)
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There's also LauncherPro, ADW Launcher, Regina (only works in portrait mode, though), etc. Lots and lots of options, out there; none of which require root.

Ah, Thanks But...
I've used Zeam on my rooted Nook Color - unfortunately, the link (or rather the market) will not let me install Zeam on my Streak. IDK why - How did you get it installed? I do have the Zeam 2.95 apk - is that the version that you use?

docfreed said:
I've used Zeam on my rooted Nook Color - unfortunately, the link (or rather the market) will not let me install Zeam on my Streak. IDK why - How did you get it installed? I do have the Zeam 2.95 apk - is that the version that you use?
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Yes, that's the version I use. I gave the market link for the in-browser market; just search for "zeam" in the Market app on your Streak and you'll find it. I installed it from the Market app on my Streak 7.

Using launcher pro mainly because I already paid for it for other devices.
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nrfitchett4 said:
Using launcher pro mainly because I already paid for it for other devices.
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It should be easy; when I installed it, the first time I launched it the system asked if I wanted it to be used as the shell. There was a checkbox for always use, and that was all there was to do.
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Z4nd4r said:
You have quite a few options out there, LauncherPro being one of them. All you need is a home replacement app. I'm currently running Zeam. It's smooth, free, and very configurable. I have it set for 6x6 rows x columns, and it scales perfectly for the Streak 7. It doesn't have a lot of frills, but I don't like frills so it's great! (I prefer to just install 1000 widgets of my choosing.)
Market Link
There's also LauncherPro, ADW Launcher, Regina (only works in portrait mode, though), etc. Lots and lots of options, out there; none of which require root.
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That link says that Zeam is not available for my streak 7. I use it on my streak 5, and love it. Any chance you can post the apk file for Zeam for streak 7?

rvbarton said:
That link says that Zeam is not available for my streak 7. I use it on my streak 5, and love it. Any chance you can post the apk file for Zeam for streak 7?
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That's bizarre. I just launched the Market, searched for ZEAM, did a download and install, launched it, clicked the "always use" checkbox, and VIOLA' - no more Stage UI (I hated that thing...)
Thank you points for Z4nd4r!

RCounts said:
That's bizarre. I just launched the Market, searched for ZEAM, did a download and install, launched it, clicked the "always use" checkbox, and VIOLA' - no more Stage UI (I hated that thing...)
Thank you points for Z4nd4r!
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I'm on the wifi only version running honeycomb. Maybe that's the difference.

It might be because he's replying to a year old thread, zeam likely fixed compability with HC a long time ago.

TheManii said:
It might be because he's replying to a year old thread, zeam likely fixed compability with HC a long time ago.
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Hence my original post.... Do you have threadlike, pecan you link to it?

TheManii said:
It might be because he's replying to a year old thread, zeam likely fixed compability with HC a long time ago.
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Actually I was replying to a 3 day old post by rvbarton - who is obviously still having problems getting Zeam on his Streak. I just finished installing it on mine 10 minutes before replying to his post...

Oh whoops, i misred the date on his first post, thought it said jan 2011 and not jan 2012.
Checked it on market and it's not compatable with my S7 on HC either, are you still on 2.2 RCounts? That might be why
Though the screenshots show it works on ICS, perhaps they simply dont support tabs,
(in the eyes of the market, S7 with HC = tablet, S& with froyo = sorta-phone)

Yeah, I'm still on Froyo. I just got mine and its a t-mobile. So far all I've done is unlock it , and at this point I'm not confident enough to try the HC upgrade...

if you update you wont be able to auto update zeam afterwards as its not compatible with HC, but I doubt it'll auto uninstall it

TheManii said:
if you update you wont be able to auto update zeam afterwards as its not compatible with HC, but I doubt it'll auto uninstall it
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Not sure that I will bother with the update to HC. Zeam got rid of that horrible Stage UI for me, and that was one of the main advantages to HC IMO. Is HC even worth the trouble? Especially now that the Stage UI is dead, and there are so many more apps that are compatible with Froyo that aren't with HC (Zeam being one example)?
I know you are really knowledgable about HC since you wrote the udate guide. If I inderstand it correctly, in order to install HC on my t-mobile, I first have to install a recovery.img file for a non-t-mobile 4G, THEN the update.pkg for HC, and if I skip the restore.img step the update will fail with a FOTA mismatch. Is that correct?

Yea and yea on the update part. Someone on 2.2 must use the recs provided on the 506/7 update page, they cant boot a stock 5xx/3.2 recovery because of the changes in 5xx
There arnt many people that actively choose to remain on 2.2, but everyone's allowed their own opinion.
Mine is that the s7 wasnt worth buying until HC, and incidentally I just happened to get mine days after official HC. Going to update to ICS and try and break stuff now.
I've had the S5 and I can more or less guess what the S7 would feel like without HC and I know I wouldnt have liked it. But just as much I dont have any apps that only work on 2.x and not hc, so I dont have to worry about that.

TheManii said:
Yea and yea on the update part. Someone on 2.2 must use the recs provided on the 506/7 update page, they cant boot a stock 5xx/3.2 recovery because of the changes in 5xx
There arnt many people that actively choose to remain on 2.2, but everyone's allowed their own opinion.
Mine is that the s7 wasnt worth buying until HC, and incidentally I just happened to get mine days after official HC. Going to update to ICS and try and break stuff now.
I've had the S5 and I can more or less guess what the S7 would feel like without HC and I know I wouldnt have liked it. But just as much I dont have any apps that only work on 2.x and not hc, so I dont have to worry about that.
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My biggest concern is with the potential to brick it. I'm especially uncertain about the first part of the process - setting up the fastboot and installing the non t-mobile recovery.img. Is there any way to make it a recovery.pkg or otherwise put it on the device itself so that it will install from the SD card like the update.pkg file?
What are the other benefits of HC? What makes it so much better than Froyo? Is the battery life that much better? If its really worthwhile I might be persuaded to do the update...

I would say to make a nvflash and you'll always have something to restore to, but you cant really make a simple guide out of it, you pretty much MUST learn how to use it to correctly use it.
The biggest difference is the UI, HC is designed around 120 dpi (which the S7 uses) and makes much better use of the space allotted.
HC native apps do not even use the menu button and long pressing stuff is rather rare. It's nearly night and day UI/UX wise.
Even the little things like the new notification tray is completely different from the tray in 2.x (or 4.0 using the phone UI)
The S5 @120 dpi nowhere near compares as 2.2/2.3 are not very efficient with their space, there's plenty of room for a lot more buttons, but you're still forced to access everything from the menu button or long press stuff.
Battery wise, I believe it's slightly better then 3xx/2.2, but it's still not amazing.
It's not a perfect upgrade, as you've seen with zeam and the like, but for me it's benefits far outweigh the drawbacks.
The majority of apps are still not HC/ICS native either, but once more ICS devices roll out they'll automatically be able to take advantage of the tab UI much better. (Anything with ICS and supports tabs automatically also support HC)

Nook Color CM7 Unecessary Packages?

Forgive me if this is ignorant but does the CM release for encore really need to come packaged with the phone, camera, texting etc apps even thpigh its not a phone? I understand you can remove them through ADB so my question is, why is it part of the release in the first place? Also, (all of this is judt out of curiosoty) after looking at the nightly changelog, why are nightlies with changes that dont apply to the NC released as a NC nightly???
Thanks,
Moriarty

Moriarty, I have to agree. It looks like bloat-ware and when you see the phone icon in the launcher I was all confused at first being only a nook owner for 1 week. After looking around, I found Phiremod faster than CM7, but to be honest, being a noob, i havent found a singly package that comes in a .img file that is "awesome" for the nookcolor.

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Moriarty, I have to agree. It looks like bloat-ware and when you see the phone icon in the launcher I was all confused at first being only a nook owner for 1 week. After looking around, I found Phiremod faster than CM7, but to be honest, being a noob, i havent found a singly package that comes in a .img file that is "awesome" for the nookcolor.
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I highly doubt Phiremod is faster than CM7 considering it's a themed CM7 with a few preinstalled apps....

B_Moriarty said:
Forgive me if this is ignorant but does the CM release for encore really need to come packaged with the phone, camera, texting etc apps even thpigh its not a phone? I understand you can remove them through ADB so my question is, why is it part of the release in the first place? Also, (all of this is judt out of curiosoty) after looking at the nightly changelog, why are nightlies with changes that dont apply to the NC released as a NC nightly???
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They are there, because they allow us to see most of the apps on the market. As it is, i am not sure why so many people fuss over these apps; they don't effect us, use battery, etc.
And Phriemod.... pff... all Phridemod was (since it isn't really active anymore) is just a CM7 with a theme. If it were faster, it was luck...

Divine_Madcat said:
They are there, because they allow us to see most of the apps on the market. As it is, i am not sure why so many people fuss over these apps; they don't effect us, use battery, etc.
And Phriemod.... pff... all Phridemod was (since it isn't really active anymore) is just a CM7 with a theme. If it were faster, it was luck...
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Words of wisdom lol. You need those to get all the market apps to show.
Maybe someone could write up a quick app to remove them though, I can't myself (and don't care to learn your something like that) but I'm sure it wouldn't be to difficult.
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SCrid2000 said:
Words of wisdom lol. You need those to get all the market apps to show.
Maybe someone could write up a quick app to remove them though, I can't myself (and don't care to learn your something like that) but I'm sure it wouldn't be to difficult.
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You can remove them with Titanium Backup (but they will reappear if you flash a new ROM).

bigbob23 said:
You can remove them with Titanium Backup (but they will reappear if you flash a new ROM).
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What I meant was an app that would delete them all with just one click but yes, Titanium is great for that job. Root Explorer can do it too.

B_Moriarty said:
Forgive me if this is ignorant but does the CM release for encore really need to come packaged with the phone, camera, texting etc apps even thpigh its not a phone? I understand you can remove them through ADB so my question is, why is it part of the release in the first place? Also, (all of this is judt out of curiosoty) after looking at the nightly changelog, why are nightlies with changes that dont apply to the NC released as a NC nightly???
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I believe that is because CM7 is one large development project that attempts to push Gingerbread to the limits. The various tablet/phone modders then take it and tweak it to run smoothly on the unit (Nook). If they stripped out all the camera, phone, etc apps, they would have to spend time doing that each time the main CM7 was updated. In addition, some of these apps at some point actually might work with the Nook, such as the camera app when, when additional hardware is found such as web cams, microphones, etc.
Having said that, it would probably make a lot of sense to strip them all out when a stable release is posted so that people who have no need can install that release and others can continue with the nightlies.

patruns said:
Having said that, it would probably make a lot of sense to strip them all out when a (device specific) stable release is posted so that people who have no need can install that release and others can continue with the nightlies.
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I know we're in Nook Color subforum, and it's implied that that's the device we're talking about, but that should be pointed out since the Nook Color isn't the only device running CyanogenMod.
I have a feeling this will always be an end user activity, however, because including the apps apparently opens up apps in the market you wouldn't otherwise see. I would think the people releasing the Mod would lean towards giving you all the options they can get away with, and leaving it up to you to close whatever doors you don't want to walk through.
Until someone makes, (or makes known an existing) market fooling application that will enable the apps you wouldn't see without having the .apks installed.

A really quick "fix" is to use something like Launcher Pro. I have had it installed since basically day one, and I have used it to hide those applications. Seriously, until this thread, I really did forget they are even installed.
I have hidden:
Camera
Car Home
Email
Latitude
Messaging
Phone
Sound Recorder
Voice Dialer

Nburnes said:
A really quick "fix" is to use something like Launcher Pro. I have had it installed since basically day one, and I have used it to hide those applications. Seriously, until this thread, I really did forget they are even installed.
I have hidden:
Camera
Car Home
Email
Latitude
Messaging
Phone
Sound Recorder
Voice Dialer
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Yeah, this.. Plus a bunch of other apps that insist on having launchers, like some Live Wallpapers, widgets, etc.. Because users are idiots and give 1 star if they can't "open" a Market download.

Divine_Madcat said:
And Phriemod.... pff... all Phridemod was (since it isn't really active anymore) is just a CM7 with a theme. If it were faster, it was luck...
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Why do you knock phiremod that much? Is it really that bad and not worth considering? I have used it and thought it was cleaner than CM7 but there are other releases that I wouldn't mind trying like muiu something similar to that name.

It's just CM7 with some theme. Not like some great development like DM's and DB's Honeycomb, CyanogenMod's CM7, etc. Plus, it's basically been abandoned.

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Why do you knock phiremod that much? Is it really that bad and not worth considering? I have used it and thought it was cleaner than CM7 but there are other releases that I wouldn't mind trying like muiu something similar to that name.
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Because it has caused such confusion for devs here, and it is just silly. People looked at it like it was a different rom, when it was nothing more than a few nightlies that got themed. There is no actual work on the rom.. its all cosmetic. Even worse, is because of the delay in "releases", it really fell behind while CM7 was gaining steam (to the point where they were even using different kernels).
Perhaps i am too.... "mean", but i just call it like i see it at times. I apologize for urking some people; its just the way I am. I think people have a much better experience using CM7 and theming it as they want, rather than the pre-made stuff.

Divine_Madcat said:
Because it has caused such confusion for devs here, and it is just silly. People looked at it like it was a different rom, when it was nothing more than a few nightlies that got themed. There is no actual work on the rom.. its all cosmetic. Even worse, is because of the delay in "releases", it really fell behind while CM7 was gaining steam (to the point where they were even using different kernels).
Perhaps i am too.... "mean", but i just call it like i see it at times. I apologize for urking some people; its just the way I am. I think people have a much better experience using CM7 and theming it as they want, rather than the pre-made stuff.
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FWIW, I'm not a big fan of the rom either. I don't like it when folks replace all strings matching "CyanogenMod" with their custom name, slap on a different theme and bundle a few apps available in the market and then ask for donations.
I'm not going to try to stop anyone from doing it and I'm not going to get upset about it but I don't necessarily like it.

Since Phiremod himshelf decided to move away from this forum for his own reasons, I dont think its nice to listen only one side on this matter.
Anyway, its a matter of free decision.If U like Phiremod and its look, go with it.Or if U like other Roms, free to go.

UPDATED: Google Play (Market) App v3.5.15

Sup Nation,
I am assuming this has been posted in other forums, but I bet there are people like me that only look at the Vivid, Raider, Velocity section of XDA.
But I thought I would post up a link to get the new Google Play app.
Google have renamed the "Android Market" to "Google Play"
It has a slightly different UI on the phone, and the Google Play Website has been updated too.
Here is the UPDATED VERSION link
The main improvement to the app: under the My Apps menu, you can see Installed and All Apps in a separate tab. This allows you to re-download any app you've previously tried and deleted, or paid for and uninstalled, bringing the functionality more in line with the desktop portal.
Enjoy people!

I liked the sound of Android Market better, but they both serve the same purpose so w/e
Im guessing this is only on ICS?

no.. I ran into it today on my stock vivid.. scared the crap out of me.. thought I DL something that will cost me.. haha
Its cool though.. I'm new to all of it.. but on their site it will tell you what program will work for your phone and it will send it to your phone and install it.. without any connection to your PC or home network.

A rose by any other name is still a rose.

DjSpunz said:
I liked the sound of Android Market better, but they both serve the same purpose so w/e
Im guessing this is only on ICS?
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Nope, it's a market update. I'm running Gingerbread and just got it the other day. Anyone have any idea why they decided to do this? It seems a bit unnecessary, and personally, I liked the Android Market a lot better. This just makes it seem like a game store for kids or something. I don't like it.