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Originally posted by TinkerHaus
Get the Android SDK installed and you can pull the .apk 's from one device and batch install on another.
If you don't want to learn a little code you can instead get the app Titanium Backup, run the backup and pull the apps from the Titanium folder that will be created on your phone's SD card.
Any Android device can run ICS (including the original Android device, the G1) you just have to be willing to learn a few things and decide to own your phone.
If you want to learn about some of the amazing things you can do with a rooted Android device, check out www.xda-developers.com!
Oh, also it sounds like you guys really have some poor options for cellular.. Sorry to hear that. I have 3 phones on my family plan, unlimited minutes and texts, with unlimited 5gb bandwidth data on two of them.. And I pay about $160 a month (USD). I've speed tested on 4g at nearly double that 5gb transfer rate though. =D
The smartphones are definitely handy - they just come with too much crap preinstalled.
Virgin added 1 widget that I removed pretty fast, the samsung stuff is stuck there unless you root it, part of social hub is the system that pulls down your email, so you can't kill it entirely unless you are using a 3rd party email app...
I'm pretty pleased with ICS, they added in tethering right into the settings now, no need for a 3rd party app.
As for cell providers, we have more options now than we did back then, but virgin wins hands down on all accounts, plus not having to buy out the contract if I move is a very useful feature.
As "rooting" a device is in that grey area... are we allowed to talk about this? I still might do it myself, and similar to when I modded my wii, I'l probably document the entire process start to finish. Keep in mind, I'm not going to root my device to install pirated content, for two reasons.
First, I don't have to root the device to do that, there is a nift option in the settings to allow installing from non official sources. 99% of apks work fine that way.
Second.. I haven't seen anything I'd even consider pirating, and even if I did, certainly not on a cell phone with limited data plan, as they'd nail me with usage and probably premium sms .
Originally posted by phishyblankwaters
reply to post by Praetorius
Virgin added 1 widget that I removed pretty fast, the samsung stuff is stuck there unless you root it, part of social hub is the system that pulls down your email, so you can't kill it entirely unless you are using a 3rd party email app...
Any device "can" run ICS. This doesn't mean they will run it in a way that doesn't remind you of installing windows 2000 in a 486. Honestly, when it comes to the kobo, I just wanted to dump drawsomething on there for a bigger screen, other than that, it's just an ereader for me, it's too underpowered to be of any use really.
I'm pretty pleased with ICS, they added in tethering right into the settings now, no need for a 3rd party app.
As for cell providers, we have more options now than we did back then, but virgin wins hands down on all accounts, plus not having to buy out the contract if I move is a very useful feature.
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As "rooting" a device is in that grey area... are we allowed to talk about this? I still might do it myself, and similar to when I modded my wii, I'l probably document the entire process start to finish. Keep in mind, I'm not going to root my device to install pirated content, for two reasons.
First, I don't have to root the device to do that, there is a nift option in the settings to allow installing from non official sources. 99% of apks work fine that way.
Second.. I haven't seen anything I'd even consider pirating, and even if I did, certainly not on a cell phone with limited data plan, as they'd nail me with usage and probably premium sms .
ETA
The smartphones are definitely handy - they just come with too much crap preinstalled.
It's funny, it's through virgin, but they are on the bell network here, and the phone actually had 3 preloaded bell apps and only a single virgin widget. I found it funny, I was expecting more bloat myself, hell, samsung loaded more crap on there than anyone else.
edit on 22-5-2012 by phishyblankwaters because: (no reason given)
There is no "pirated" Android software. It's all open source, hence the name "Android Open Source Project."
I like to get rid of bloatware and customize my ROM.. Others are happy with the crap the carrier gives you. It's a choice you must make.
It's that ICS on older devices has "broken" stuff. No video cam, for example, is a Rom killer for me.