The Independent Free App Store For Boost Mobile and Sprint/Nextel iDEN Users
"The Universal App Loader" lets you send almost any mobile Java app or game on the web to your phone. Paste or the type the URL of a mobile Java game or app JAD or JAR file in the text box above, press the "Send To Phone" button and follow the instructions on the following pages.
Detailed Universal App Loader Help No PC? How to use the Universal App Loader without a PC
Have fun and let us know in the comments what works and any issues you encounter.
I know it's looked a little dead around here lately. If you are wondering whats going on a BoostApps, here's an update.
I've been working rather hard to fix several bugs with the Universal App Loader. The ended up requiring a re-write of major parts of the loader and taking a lot longer than I expected.
The bugs fixed are:
With these bugs out of the way I can finally start work on adding a forum to the site where users can share urls to good and useful apps and games that work using the loader and iDEN phones. If any of you have experience hosting a web forum I'd appreciate suggestions of good forum software. My requirement in order of importance are:
Please report any bugs with the new loader version here or on the loader post.
For Liz, who asked for a Pool game that would work on an i776, here's Simple Pool. It's not perfect, but it's the best of the five pool games I was able find. The main problem is that the bottom of the table is a little cut of making it hard to sink balls in the bottom pockets. Also, there's no opponent, you just try to pocket all the balls without scratching.
Rules:
Pocket all colored balls while trying not to pocket the white cue ball.
You lose one credit when
1) The white ball is pocketed;
2) No ball has been pocketed for three turns;
3) The white ball has not touched any other ball during the turn.
When three credits are lost, the game is over.
To shoot:
1) Use the direction keys to place the pointer (white triangle) where you want the white ball to go.
2) Press and hold for the Call key to specify the impact value.
Type: Freeware
Author: Evgenii Krivosheev
Data Connection Required: No
Supported iDEN phones: All Falcon Series (i776, i465, i9, i290, etc.)
Filesize: 21 KB
Alternate links for side loading and non-iDEN devices: ZIP JAD JAR
Requested by Louise, IQ Boost or IQB by Coremedia is a matching game that is supposed to test your IQ, stimulate your brain and make you smarter. You are shown a shape or math problem and have to pick the matching shape or right answer from three choices by pressing the 1, 2 or 3 key. The matching shapes are turned in different directions and you only have a few seconds to pick the answers.
Requires a 176x220 screen or larger (i9, i855, i856, etc). The answer row is hidden on smaller screens making the game unplayable.
Type: Ad-Supported
Vendor: Coremedia
Data Connection Required: Yes
Supported iDEN phones: All with 176x220 or larger screen (i855, i1856, i860, i9, etc.)
Filesize: 43 KB
Alternate links for side loading and non-iDEN devices: ZIP JAD JAR
Requested by piggy, this book by botanist John Dudgeon was published in 1903. It's a guide to all the fungi of the United States and includes information on how to grow mushrooms along with recipes.
Unfortunately, there is no way to include the over 200 illustrations of the original book in a mobile Java eBook. You can view the book with illustrations at gutenberg.org/files/26492/26492-h/26492-h.htm using a desktop browser or UCWEB 6.7 with "text section" = 100 K (in the "Set" -> "System Settings" menu). Bolt 2.11 and Opera Mini 3.1 and 4.2 were not able to open the very large HTML file on my i776.
Original eText by Project Gutenberg, mobile Java eBook created with Tequila Cat Book Reader.
Keys
Menu - main menu; OK - last menu
Up, 2 - line up; Down, 8 - line down
Left, 4 - page up; Right, 6 - page down
Zero - bookmarks; 7 - find text
9 - find next; # - cycle through small, medium and large fonts
5 - autoscroll on/off; 1 - show info
Tip: Press "menu" > "settings" > "wrap" and turn off "Justify by width" to turn off justification which looks ugly on small screens
Type: Public Domain/Freeware
Vendor: Project Gutenberg/ManyBooks/TCBR
Data Connection Required: No
Supported iDEN phones: All with Java (MIDP1)
File Size: 259 KB
Alternate links for side loading and non-iDEN devices: ZIP JAD JAR
Requested by reader Jimmy, this is a turn based artillery game in the style of Scorched Earth.
Description: There are 4 tanks on the map. The game is turn-based, the tanks shoot one after another. A random tank starts the game. When the turn of your tank comes, set the angle with th3 4 and 6 keys and the power with the 2 and 8 keys and shoot with the 5 key. Pay attention to the wind, its direction and speed change every turn. Try to eliminate the 3 other tanks before they eliminate you.
This game seems OK, if a little slow moving. There are a few quirks, you have to play all four tanks yourself unless you use the 0 key option. Although the wind varies there's no on screen indication of it's direction and speed. The same with the power setting, there's no way to tell what it's set at.
Keys:
1/3 - scroll the screen, 7/9 - scroll the screen by one half of the screen,
2/8 - set the power of the shot, 4/6 - set the angle of the barrel, 5 - fire.
Press 0 to let the AI control your tank for 1 turn.
Type: Freeware
Author: Pavel Smirnov
Data Connection Required: No
Supported iDEN phones: All Falcon Series (i776, i465, i9, i290, etc.)
Filesize: 13 KB
Alternate links for side loading and non-iDEN devices: ZIP JAD JAR
Nimbuzz released version 1.72 of their multi-protocol IM client for Java phones a couple of days ago. Unlike 1.7,which didn't install on iDEN phones, I had no problems running this latest version on my i776.
There are no new features in 1.72, just the always worthwhile bug fixes and performance improvements.
Supported networks are the same as in version 1.6, Windows Live Messenger, Skype, Yahoo, Facebook Chat, Google Talk, AIM, MySpace, ICQ, Twitter, studiVZ, shuelerVZ, Gadu-Gadu and Hyves.
Startup time, always an issue with Nimbuzz on the low spec i776, does seem noticeably faster. Other than that I don't see much difference. Off line Facebook friends are still listed in the buddy list as numbers instead of by name (their names do appear if they go online) and the OK button and the soft keys are still mapped incorrectly.
Because of the messed up key mappings you need to:
1. Use the green "Call" key as the "OK" key
2. Use the right soft key for the left soft key's action
3. Use the menu key for the right soft key's action
4. Exception : When entering text in native pop up windows, the soft keys (labeled OK and Cancel) work as labeled.
Type: Freeware
Vendor: Nimbuzz - Product Page, Online Help, Forum
Data Connection Required: Yes
Supported iDEN phones: All Falcon Series (i776, i465, i9, i290, etc.)
Filesize: 298 KB
Alternate links for side loading and non-iDEN devices: ZIP JAD JAR
Rhynn was updated to version 1.3.7 yesterday. This is a mandatory update. The Rhynn server was also updated and older versions will no longer work. There are no new features in this version.
To Update Rhynn (iDen users): Press the "Send To Phone" button below to send Rhynn 1.3.7 to your Boost iDEN or Nextel phone. Then highlight Bolt in the Java Apps menu, press the "Menu" soft key and choose "Update". Choose to "Keep existing data" when prompted and you won't lose your settings.
Rhynn is another MORPG (Multi Player Online Game). This version is the latest "Demo" version of the game, released 19-Jul-2009. The game's web site refers to a full commercial version to be released "in 2006". As far as I can tell the full version does not exist. This game seems to be a demo only in that the game's authors consider it incomplete. There do not appear to be any limitations to the game play and it is free. The game is be pretty responsive and playable on my i776 although it seems prone to getting server disconnection errors which require restarting the game! I'm hoping the server problems are temporary as this looks like it could be a great game
Type: Freeware
Vendor: AwareDreams- Product Page, Forum
Data Connection Required: Yes
Supported iDEN phones: All Falcon Series (i776, i9, i290, etc.) except the i465.
Alternate links for side loading and non-iDEN devices: ZIP JAD JAR
Also called Japanese Puzzles or Nonograms, Japanese Crosswords are mathematical puzzles. Each puzzle consists of a grid. The player fills in cells of the grid based on number clues to form a picture. This app has 17 different nonograms.
The clues look like this: Col=3:2.3.1 Row=7:1.1 which means that the column 3 has should have groups of 2, 3, and 1 colored cells and that row 7 has 2 solitary colored cells.
Keys:
1 - Zoom in, 3 - Zoom out
2, Up - move cursor up
4, Left - move cursor left
5, Call, Softkeys, Menu - Fill / Clear current cell under cursor
6, Right - move cursor right
7 - show date, time elapsed time
8 - move cursor down
9 - show crossword details including number of correct and incorrect cells
* - show / hide hint (cheat)
0 - change colors
# - enable / disable background animation
Down - show main menu (list of crosswords)
Type: Freeware
Vendor: mjsoft - Product Page
Data Connection Required: No
Supported iDEN phones: All with Java (i856, i776, i465, i9, i290, etc.)
File Size: 24 KB
Alternate links for side loading and non-iDEN devices: ZIP JAD JAR
By request, Jules Verne's classic science fiction novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea". Original eText by Project Gutenberg, mobile Java eBook created with Tequila Cat Book Reader.
Keys
Menu - main menu; OK - last menu
Up, 2 - line up; Down, 8 - line down
Left, 4 - page up; Right, 6 - page down
Zero - bookmarks; 7 - find text
9 - find next; # - cycle through small, medium and large fonts
5 - autoscroll on/off; 1 - show info
Tip: Press "menu" > "settings" > "wrap" and turn off "Justify by width" to turn off justification which looks ugly on small screens
Type: Public Domain/Freeware
Vendor: Project Gutenberg/TCBR
Data Connection Required: No
Supported iDEN phones: All with Java (MIDP1)
File Size: 275 KB
Alternate links for side loading and non-iDEN devices: ZIP JAD JAR
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