Ultimate VOIP Android Phone Guide

The goal of this post is to educate new Android owner's on getting the most out of their device. Also, we'll go over turning your Android phone into a dedicated VOIP WiFi phone without signing up for any service contract.

Turn your Android phone into a Google Voice Phone - GrooVe IP will turn your phone into a full blown VOIP phone by using your Google Voice number to make and receive calls. As long as you have WiFi access, you'll have a fully functional phone to make and receive unlimited calls free to the U.S. and Canada. To kick it up a notch, download the Google Voice App for unlimited free text messaging.
$5 GrooVe IP App


ROMs
Visit XDA Developers Forum to learn more about ROMs, and why they're useful. You'll find many ROMs developed by talented and creative developers and also by the developer community. Within the sub-forums, there's all the information you'll need to root and change your phone's ROM. If you want to supercharge your phone with some advanced modifications, you will need root access.


Battery Tips

1. Turn off Live Wallpapers as they eat batteries like the cookie monster eats cookies
2. Lower the brightness of your screen.
3. Airplane Mode Wi-fi App disables the radio to your service provider while giving the option to enable WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS use thus saving a considerable amount of battery power. This is especially helpful for VOIP only phones that don't need Sprint/ATT/Verizon network access. My extended battery can go for 2 days of heavy use and still have some juice to spare.
4. Disable 4G and mobile radios
5. More battery tips: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1141221&page=5

Useful Free Applications


Browser (Install Adobe Flash 11 first)
Dolphin HD browser plays flash natively after installing the Flash plugin. On my EVO 3D, I'm able to watch 720p HD flash on Youtube without any issues.
Dolphin HD Browser App
Dolphin Companion Battery Saver

Video Player
MX Video Player App

File Sharing between PC and Phone
WebSharing Lite App

RSS Reader
gReader

Offline GPS Navigation
Navfree USA

For All Rooted Phones
Boost your phone's speed and RAM management
-=V6 SuperCharger=- FIX RAM & Launchers by zeppelinrox

How to: Install Ubuntu 8.10 to a USB Stick

Yes, there's a LiveUSB stick install included in Ubuntu 8.10, but that's NOT what we want to accomplish here. What we do want is a full blown USB Ubuntu installation, and it turns out the solution to this is pretty simple:

Just install Ubuntu straight to the USB stick as you would for a hard drive installation! As long as your computer BIOS can boot off a USB stick, then you should be okay.

My installation went on a 4GB stick leaving me with about 1.2GB of free space.

1. Boot off a Ubuntu LiveCD
2. Choose the location of your USB stick to install (I chose guided, use entire disk)
3. Wait until it's finished installing
4. Reboot and remove CD
5. ENJOY!

To limit writes to your USB stick, you can follow the guide here: Click

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