How To Download Games and Apps
Downloading games and apps can be confusing. Here’s how to do it:
- Be sure your phone supports Java ME (also called J2ME) apps. Check your phone’s manual or contact the phone’s manufacturer if you don’t know.
- iPhones, Android, Firefox and Windows phones do not support Java ME apps and can not run the apps on BoostApps.
- Free Basics blocks downloads using free data so be sure you have sufficient paid data to download the app.
- Visit boostapps.com with your phone’s browser
- Find a game or app you want.
- Click the “DOWNLOAD (jad”) link below the app’s description. The phone will download and install the app.
- Not every app works with every phone. Check the “Reported working on…” and “Reported not working on…” lists on the app’s download page to see if the app has been tried on your phone>
In addition to BoostApps, Java ME games are available from several other sites. The procedure varies a little from site to site but is generally something like this.
- Go to a mobile download site (see below for a list of ones that work) with the phone’s built in browser
- If it asks you to pick a phone and yours isn’t listed pick one with the same screen size, for example:
- Use Motorola V300 for phones with 176×220 screens.
- Use Motorola V190 for phones with 128×160 screens
- Use Samsung A707 for phones with 240×320 screens
- Find a game you want and click the download link or button
- Don’t expect every game or app to work. Typically only about half of them do
Download sites that work: I’ve successfully downloaded and installed games from these sites to my Boost CDMA Motorola Rambler:
GetJar: getjar.com If GetJar says it doesn’t recognize your phone choose Samsung, Motoroloa , LG or Java. It doesn’t seem to matter which.
Mobileratedmobilerated.com/wap/
Is there any site where I can get free ringtones and/or wallpapers to download on my Juno? I can’t find a single one that will work for a Sanyo Juno. 🙁
I don’t have a Juno but http://Myxer.com has been reported to work with other Boost phones. Worth a try if you haven’t tried it already.
Also if I send an MP3 music track to my Motorola Rambler from my PC or another phone using Bluetooth the phone lets me use it as a ringtone. Again no guarantees but worth a try. As a last resort you can buy ringtones from Boostmobile.com
Dennis, your wit cracks me up! So, I have a Sprint Innuendo phone and I’m a complete idiot with all things technology and mobileville… All I really want to do is get pretty wallpapers from myxer & have the download fit my screen. The ones I download are 26KB (don’t even know what that means), & the only one that I got from some other site is 66KB. I would also like to have the option to save these “pics” in my pictures folder in phone. And one last thing; I’ve tried everything to download pics from my fb albums to my pics & can NEVER find them on the “media mail” site or in the “SMS” msgs in Yahoomail. Could you possibly show me/give me idiot’s guide directions? I don’t have a memory card at the moment, but my 16-yr old son is going to have one for me very soon, if that makes a difference. Thank-you so much! I love this site, page, tutorial, whatever it is.
I don’t have that phone so I can’t speak from experience. There are several Innuendo users who comment regularly here so maybe one of them will chime in.
Here’s what I can tell you.
The Innuendo has a 240 x 400 px screen so you want to download wallpapers of that size. The size in KB is irrelevant.
I don’t know about the Innuendo, but most of Boost’s non-smartphones only allow you to save pictures, etc to a memory card, not the phone’s internal memory
I don’t think you can save pictures from Facebook with the phone’s built-in browser.
Opera Mini or the UC Browser should allowing image downloading to the memory card.
According to the phone’s manual:
To view photos on the memory card use Menu > Photos & Videos > My Photos & Videos > On Memory Card.
To assign an image on the memory card as your screen saver use Menu > Tools > Memory Storage > File Manager > Memory Card > Select a Photo > Options > Assign > Screen Saver.
CAN I GET RAIDO ON SANYO JUNO
i need to know if i cant see videos in my sanyo mirro
The Mirro is not capable of displaying video.
how do i get handler for sanyo juno from boost
You can’t. The built in browser displays a “no handler” message for any type of content or action it can’t handle, like videos and when uploading a photo to Facebook. However there are no handlers that you can install.