Or wales.

I'd get over to

http://forum.xda-developers.com/

Did you do it? I'd be too scared.

Yes, I've got one. Will have a look.

It's called Flashlight. Does morse code too, for that inevitable moment when you are lost, with a mobile phone but - curses - no signal, but are still near enough to some boy scouts.

Slightly more usefully, it has a strobe setting, which you can use to take some cool photos.

Thanks, @WorKid.

I think I'll grab Cyanogen Mod once I've got my unlock code through. (At the moment my new phone is basically a tiny tablet.) Any pitfalls I should look out for, @n0face?

@Blue Swirl, I don't claim to have any expertise but I found the guides on xda quite easy to follow. You have to root your device then install a boot loader and recovery then your kernel, radio and Rom. I'm pretty sure once you've got the boot loader on your mostly safe from bricking your phone. The thing I found hardest was understanding all the terminology but there is plenty of reading and guides on xda to get you started.

Play your android games with a Dualshock controller

Can't see me using it on the train, but, it's relatively cheap, and a good idea.

Blue Swirl wrote:

My phone has decided that connecting to the wi fi is a bit too much like effort. As far as I can tell, I haven't changed anything. It says it's connected, but only Firefox works; any other app that requires a 'net connection complains that I don't have one. The wi fi signal strength indicator has gone from green to white. It still fluctuates as I move around the house. Any ideas? I've tried forgetting the network, rebooting the phone, turning wi fi on and off, all that jazz.

No idea. I have a similar issue round my mum's house.
I can connect to 2 seperate wifi points at work, my own one at home, one round the in-law's, one round the brother-in-law's, and some public ones. But for some reason, it won't connect to my mum's wifi point.
It tries to obtain the ip address, then fails saying it protected me from a poor connection, despite my mum having a good virgin media connection, and me having a full bar signal from her router...

I've got this free £15 to spend in the Play store. Anyone got any recommendations for stuff that's compatible with my Nexus 7? Wanted Machinarium, but it hasn't been updated for 4.1 or something.

Pinball's a good shout, I'll check that out. Don't get the interest in Minecraft, though; particularly not the mobile, off-line one.

World of Goo is worth a punt at £2.99

I'm currently ploughing my way through Cut The Rope (I realise anyone else interested probably played it years ago) and finding it quite entertaining.

Pretty much everything pisses all over Angry Birds.  Anyway, I had my fill of direct-the-water games back with Enigmo, all those years ago on iOS; tried those two on iOS and they bored me.

Probably should have said before that really I'm looking for Android exclusives or stuff that's only available/ works much better on a tablet than a phone.

It doesn't have to just be games, either; if anyone knows a really good outiner and/or notes app, for instance, that would be awesome.  Tell you what, a decent sticky note widget would be good, too.

I did grab the latest Humble Bundle, after realising it came with Android versions, but that can't come out of the free credit.  Still, Uplink; yay!

Anyone got opinions on Great Litte/Big War Game and which is better?

Except it's impossible to control, which is kind of a big problem.

AJ_ wrote:

Pinball's a good shout, I'll check that out. Don't get the interest in Minecraft, though; particularly not the mobile, off-line one.

There's a demo of Minecraft if you want to try it out before dropping the moolah. Though I can see it not being much cop without friends, and the controls, while serviceable, were not a patch on a pad or keyboard/mouse combo.

Thanks for all the suggestions, here's some notes about them just because:

Thing about Minecraft is that it just doesn't look fun to play; it looks like all the enjoyment comes from building things and if I'm going to build things in my free time, there's plenty of "real" things I enjoy building, so am going to do that. Suppose cheching out the demo can't hurt though.

Fieldrunners was part of the Humble Bundle, so I have that. On the whole, I can't stand tower defence games, but it's not all that bad if you're watching telly at the same time or something.

Little Stars looks promising, I'll give the demo a shot, but NSS and GTA3 don't interest me in the slightest (due to, respectively, not being into football and thinking the game design is laughable).