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Got an Android phone. What are the essential apps to install?
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Got an Android phone. What are the essential apps to install?

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>>51682226
Clover, Craigslist, flashlight, chrome. That's all I use.
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>>51682257

> flashlight

but 5+ has a torch by default
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>>51682226
>phone
>essential
dialer, contacts and sms; that's all there's "essential" for your "phone", you fucking muppet
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MX player
Dolphin Browser
APUS
Internet Speed Meter Lite
macropinch Battery
takke CPU Stats
Clover
Superbeam
Nova Launcher
es File Explorer
Zmobie Gunship
Camscanner
Autodesk Sketchbook

For root:
Drivedroid
No-Frills CPU Control
Terminal Emulator

Paid:
Camera FV-5
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>>51682562

>takke CPU Stats

For your phone? Holy shit, are you a virgin bro?
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>>51682682
Knowing if your CPU is under load or not can help diagnose problematic apps especially ones that hog the CPU in the background. I find that a very useful feature.
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>>51682226
install gentoo
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Retrica no ads is free now
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>>51682562
>All this botnet and bullshit software

Except for MX player, the stock apps do the job because its just a phone, not a laptop. I can't believe people are so autistic that they rice their phones and produce benchmarks for shitposting.
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>>51683610
Half of those are actually very useful. I've never needed a scanner ever since I discovered camscanner.
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>>51682226
iOS
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Dildroid
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Remove gapps. Flash Paranoid Android, CM, or Replicant. Download fdroid.
Not necessarily in that order.
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>>51683431
> 4.44, 5.77, 5.00
>Those load tho

is it running on a vm on your android phone or is it just an ssh install ?
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>>51682257
>Craigslist
Do you have fun dogging at the local park at midnight?
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Twilight has been pretty useful since I use my phone before going to bed and the default lowest brightness on my phone was hurting my eyes at night.
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>>51682682
See >>51683188

@51682682
I think that answers your question.
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>>51682226
Tumblr
Clover
RedReader
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>>51682562
>botnet
>botnet!
>botnet!!
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>>51685671
Everything is a botnet to you isn't it? I bet fruit is a botnet to you as well.
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>>51685176
rekt
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>>51682226

I have a Samsung Note 4 (N910P trltespr)

Best ROM is AICP
Flash whichever Gapps package you prefer

Installing Emotion kernel allows you to go full rice if you want the ability to OC or control/monitor your cpu, RAM, etc.

Apps?

Titanium Backup Pro (or kill yourself my man)
ES File Explorer
Wallpaper Changer
1Weather
Skype
Mycelium
Clover
PicsArt
Speedtest

That would be the basic core utilities that I would recommend everybody have, everything else depends on your personal tastes and interests.
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>>51682226
If you want good recommendations then read fucking wiki you worthless crossposting trash
Otherwise you get garbage recommendations like this >>51682562
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>>51683188

Allow me to repeat the questions. Are you a virgin anon?
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>>51683610

>produce benchmarks for shitposting.

kek
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>>51685787
>he is implying Apple is not a botnet
Shit eater please go
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>>51682682
only virgins call other people virgins as an insult
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>>51684772
I wish I could but I love the S Pen usage on my Note 4 and CM has no equivalent stylus driver
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>>51682226
might be worth checking /spg/ too
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>>51686046
Are you?
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>>51686624

Question answered, thanks, also lol.
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>>51686503

Are you a virgin anon? It's not bad or not but I would make that assumption from having an app to take cpu stats.
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>>51685898
ES File Explorer gas added ads and botnet. I no longer recommend it. Cabinet seems all right.
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>>51686692
You sound like a homo
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>>51686822
*has added

Fucking phone keyboards
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>>51684921
neither directly on the phone, installed on the /data/gentoo directory and made some magic and you can access the android filesystem and gentoo binaries at the same time
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>>51682226

1st Gen Moto G (XT1039) with CM13 reporting in. Here's my list:

Non-Root stuff:

- MX Player Pro
- GoneMAD Music Player
- Nova Launcher
- Cabinet (or Amaze File Manager)
- F-Droid
- Lightning Browser
- MTG Familiar
- MiMangaNu
- Dashchan
- Ehviewer (https://github.com/seven332/EhViewer)

Root:

- Adaway (on F-Droid)
- Xposed Framework

Xposed Framework Modules:

- MinMinGuard
- Youtube Adaway
- Youtube Background Playback

Pretty comfy setup desu senpaitachi.
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>>51687027
have a 2nd gen, still holding off on cm13
is xposed functional? what about the apps that use it?
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>>51687191

Initially, there were some Open Gapps issues with my device, but they have been ironed out since and CM13 can be used now as a daily driver. Xposed has always worked too, so if there's not any serious issues being reported for your device on XDA, I say go for it. Just don't forget to make a backup and wipe everything before flashing and you will be good.
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