A long time ago, I wrote about a an app called MySword.  Well, I have gotten to the point that I use that program exclusively for my Bible on my phone.  Let me walk you through how I use it, and please let me know if you have any suggestions.

You can install it from here:

Android Market: MySword from Riversoft Information System

Here are some of the advantages of using my phone like this over a regular Bible:

• I mostly have it with me all the time — no need to carry something additional
• Search — if someone mentions a verse without the reference, I can find it.
• Commentaries, Strongs, etc.
• Taking notes all in the same place

So, here’s what I do.  On one of my screens, I put the MySword on my desktop with BuzzOff.  (The BuzzOff allows me to turn the ringer off easily.)

The first thing you will want to do is get all of the Modules that you want to use.  First, open the menu and choose the more option:

On the more menu, you can choose to Download Modules:

From the Download Modules Screen, you can get the different modules that you want:

Another thing that took me a bit to figure out was how to get rid of the Strongs numbers.  I finally determined that you can switch them on and off by changing between KJV and KVJ Lite:

Looking up versions works fine.  I like the way Virtue Bible works where you can see all of Bible Books at one time, but this works.  Maybe I could recommend that as a new feature — different verse selection options.  Here’s what the verse selector looks like:

When I take notes, I use the Journal:

There are different types of Journals, and I am using the “My Church Notes”.

Here’s the New button and Edit button for creating notes:

The one issue I found is that I can’t view a verse while editing the notes.  So, when the pastor makes reference to a verse, I have to Save the notes, go the passage, then go back and edit again.  So, there’s another feature request.

I still need to figure out how to:

• Sync my “Journal”/Church Notes back to my computer/Xiphos
• Convert my Sword modules from Xiphos to MySword

All in all, I really like the program, and I would recommend it as a Bible program for anyone.

This is a nice Christmas present: the camera now somewhat works on Tytung’s ICS Rom.

Here’s a screenshot just after I took a picture:

The preview doesn’t work.  As you can see, it is just black.  You can see the tiny thumbnail of the Christmas tree picture that I took though.  When I select the thumbnail, it comes up like this:

Unfortunately, the phone keeps rebooting with the Camera application.  I still not exactly sure what causes it.  I tried to capture a log, but the app/phone wouldn’t cooperate.  EdJones88 posted a work around to keep it from rebooting, but it is kind of impractical as far as I am concerned.

You can checkout my list of ICS Roms and watch as the ROM developers get things working.

I read on Engadget that Swipe was having some troubles on Android 4.0/Ice Cream Sandwich.  Of course, they are talking about the Galaxy Nexus, and I am running it on my HD2, so maybe that is why it is different.  Here’s what it looks like:

I installed the Swype from their beta website.  If you want to get your own you can head here:

Swype Beta

Here’s a few more screenshots:

And here’s the actual settings for Swype.

I have seen a flurry of activity on the XDA Forums for development of Ice Cream Sandwich/Android 4.0.  So, I wanted to create my own little list of ROM threads.

Here’s a list of what I have found so far:

• Tytung’s ICS ROM
• Michie’s spin off to fix HW Acceleration
• Ankuch’s ROM
• SportsStar89’s ROM
• CyanogenMod Alpha 1

If you want to watch the fun with me, check out this list of ROMS:

HTC HD2 ROMS

Note: I found an article on Engadget that suggests that we need to wait until January for ICS on Cyanogen.

On a side note, Engadget pointed out that my old phone (the G1) now has ICS, too!  ICS is getting around!