Smart Phones for Dummies

**kenro23** · 03-24-2012, 10:27 AM

There is also an app called tunein radio. You can put whatever radio station you want in there and listen on you device. Works very well. Im in hawaii and can listen to my Houston stations. Fairly up to date with times as well.

**Y2KArcticSS** · 03-24-2012, 10:55 AM

Pandora, you can create stations based on an artist, song or genre and it will randomly play songs that fit in similar categories. If you have more than one station you can shuffle them too. And you can thumbs down songs you don't like and it will never play them again.

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**Y2KArcticSS** · 03-24-2012, 10:56 AM

Originally Posted by kenro23

There is also an app called tunein radio. You can put whatever radio station you want in there and listen on you device. Works very well. Im in hawaii and can listen to my Houston stations. Fairly up to date with times as well.

This one is good as well

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**kenro23** · 03-24-2012, 11:26 AM

At home im ALWAYS playing either of those. On an ipod touch though. Not my phone but same same

**pajeff02** · 03-24-2012, 12:26 PM

I have the Tune in Radio app that Kenro mentioned.

**allbaugh_04** · 03-25-2012, 05:33 PM

I heart radio is another radio station ap.

Slacker is like pandora, with more fine tuning for variety.

**1MileCrash** · 03-25-2012, 10:34 PM

flashlight app is always worth it.

of course nerdlinger...i have all the angry bird apps.

also have the google sky map app (just badass), the autozone app, and a few golf apps (which i haven't had a chance to try out yet unfortunately). had the daily garfield app but needed room for angry birds. also have the combadge app for my text and voicemail tabs as well as some soundboard apps from star trek and top gun . also have the ls1.com app, the weather channel, facebook, yahoo, and yahoo mail.

that's about it really.

**jiveass** · 03-26-2012, 04:01 AM

gauge battery is a good widget to use....
go weather
rainy days
mp3 search and download

**jiveass** · 03-26-2012, 04:01 AM

to extend battery life, i always keep my background data off.

**pajeff02** · 03-26-2012, 08:35 AM

Originally Posted by jiveass

to extend battery life, i always keep my background data off.

Explain please.

**jiveass** · 03-26-2012, 08:50 AM

background data is used for things like the android market and other applications...i turn it off until im ready to use those apps. go to settings, then accounts and sync, then turn off background data....saves battery a great amount.

**SteveCZ28** · 03-26-2012, 11:26 AM

i love the app called "shazam" you use it when a song comes across the radio, or anywhere youre at for that matter, and it tells you what the name and artist is of that song

**allbaugh_04** · 03-26-2012, 07:48 PM

Yes, you can turn off background data usage if you wish to save battery, also turn off wifi when not in use and gps etc.

***SMWS6TA*** · 03-27-2012, 10:31 AM

Jeff thanks for talking about Google Sky app. I down loaded it and have been out the last week showing my kids the constellations and planets that we can see.

**Schmalgar** · 03-27-2012, 12:27 PM

Originally Posted by SMWS6TA

Jeff thanks for talking about Google Sky app. I down loaded it and have been out the last week showing my kids the constellations and planets that we can see.

I've been hearing about that one. I'm guessing you like it so far? I'm gonna have to try it too...

**35th-ANV-SS** · 03-27-2012, 12:29 PM

OK Smart Phone Guru's.

On the DROID Bionic, and probably every DROID phone for that matter, there is a 1,000 text limit set as a maximum. After 1,000 text messages any incoming texts deletes existing texts.

How do you get unlimited? Is there an APP you can download and use?

Enlighten me.

**Schmalgar** · 03-27-2012, 12:35 PM

Yeah there's a limit on my Sony Ericsson also. May be an Android thing and not just a Droid thing. The only thing I know of is to backup the messages or extract them from the phone. Dunno if you can increase that limit on the phone...

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Got me curious now, doing some quick searching. Most of the threads I see say that you can't increase that limit. Here is a quote about an app I saw, perhaps you will like it...

You could try SMS backup+ in the market. it backs up you sms mms threads to your gmail account so you can keep all your messages and even restore then to a new phone if you change

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Ok found a thread on a Droid forum, these guys talk about there being a limit per sender, and that it is adjustable. One guy said he had it set to 2,000 per sender. I don't see anything like that on my phone, maybe that's a Droid thing. If you haven't already gone through all your settings, you might want to check and see if you have anything like that...

**35th-ANV-SS** · 03-27-2012, 12:53 PM

I saw that also. There used to be a feature to de-select the delete text option so it would not force the texts to delete old ones. That is now gone on this new OS upgrade.