Android rooted - now what?

[slackerinabox]

What are your favorite apps/uses for your rooted android phone? I'm really digging the rom hopping (now on cyogen) and wifi tethering is amazingly useful - any other suggestions? Keep in mind i'm more of an end user so things like ..setting up an ftp server or other techie linux stuff are less interesting to me .. thanks!

 

[rudeguy]

adfree
drocap
autokiller
setcpu

Start playing with different themes. I'm currently using Dark Haze and its even better than Cyanogen plain.

 

[slackerinabox]

adfree
drocap
autokiller
setcpu

Start playing with different themes. I'm currently using Dark Haze and its even better than Cyanogen plain.

Awesome - just installed all (other than drocrap) - adfree and autokiller are particularly awesome. Thanks!

Going to try dark haze. Is there a central location/installer for trying cy. themes on the phone itself? rom manager has a few but I'm wondering if there's something with more options, or is downloading on desktop and copying to SD the best bet?

 

[rudeguy]

meta morph supposedly lets you do that...but I haven't had good luck. But I didn't give it too much of a go.

Maybe I'll do that today. I'll download it again and mess with it. Lots of info on XDA developers forums on this kind of thing. I don't post there much but I get a lot of good info there.

 

[rudeguy]

also...download Astro file manager. It has a really great application backup program. Works great when you have to wipe your phone often.

 

[Bullhonkie]

also...download Astro file manager. It has a really great application backup program. Works great when you have to wipe your phone often.

Titanium Backup is supposedly pretty good for this as well. I've only made a backup with it so far, so I haven't actually tried restoring anything yet. But people seem to give it consistently high marks on forums that I frequent.

 

[FreedomGUNDAM]

thanks for the info, trying Autokiller right now

 

[Spoooon]

MinFree Manager <- adjust how Android manages memory, the only time I kill a task is when I reboot the phone

Root Explorer <- to write to folders on the phone, so you can put custom boot animations on your phone and so on

 

[vshah]

wifi tether