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A Great Android App Review Site – androidmarketapps.com

HowIFixedIt — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:13:26 +0000

Here’s a great site i found for Android application reviews. http://www.androidmarketapps.com/ is one of the few sites I’ve seen out there with honest reviews about Android applications. It looks like its just starting out but it’s being updated constantly with some pretty useful apps. I use quite a few on there already like Yelp, ChompSMS, and Astro File Manage but have found a couple apps i didn’t know about like Bump and Checkers for Android. For each review the author gives a pretty thorough rundown of its pros and cons and then gives it a star rating. It also allows users to make their own comments about the review and their own star rating as well.

One of the really neat things is the QR codes the reviewer puts with each review. If you like the review and think its an app that you can actually use, you can scan the QR code on the screen with your phone using bar code scanner and it will take you directly to the Android Market so you can purchase it or download it for free. Here’s what a QR code looks like:

So if you’re looking for some new apps for your G1, Nexus One, or any other type of Android device i seriously suggest you check out this site. I have the RSS feed book marked myself so I can see the new apps as they’re reviewed. you can do the same here.

Force Close and “android.process.acore has stopped unexpectedly” On Home Rotate

HowIFixedIt — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:08:14 +0000

i was getting the following error on my Android based G1 with the Cyanogen 4.2.15 ROM whenver i rotated the view from the home screen: “The process android.process.acore has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again” and “Force Close”.

The fix to the problem was removing one of the desktop widgets. In this case it was the TasKiller widget, i did a long tap on the widget and dragged it to the garbage can. Problem solved. Apparently this is a common problem with desktop widgets when you upgrade to a newer ROM.

G1 Locked! “Too Many Pattern Attempts”

HowIFixedIt — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:55:36 +0000

The first time this happened my phone was in my pocket and it locked itself out (I was running RC33 version of JFv1.41). I had pattern lock enabled so i was getting “Too many pattern attempts. please login”

No matter how i put my information in username (by itself), username@gmail.com, username@googlemail.com it wouldn’t authenticate me.No matter what i did i was not able to get in so i just reflashed the phone. After a reflash the authentication worked fine. At that time I was using one of JFs ROMS so i figured that may have been the issue.

Recently the problem happened again. This time i was using one of Cyanogens ROMS. This time instead of flashing the phone i followed haykuro’s thread to defeat pattern lock:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=485988

once i did those adb commands and rebooted the phone it asked to authenticate again but this time it worked! After it authenticates it will ask you for a new unlock pattern. And you’re all set!

This is a really annoying problem and im surprised more people aren’t having it. I hope this helps somebody.

Everything Android

HowIFixedIt — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:51:48 +0000

Since getting my Google G1 I’ve done my fair share of tinkering. I’ve rooted the phone and have tried many different ROMS, the best previously being JesusFreke’s and now Cyanogen’s. I want to share all the android related material i come across as well.