Rescan Media
Improved recognition of new media files is one of the advances contained in Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich but the rest of us are still occasionally left wondering where the heck those files we just added to our media library have got to. To solve the problem, just tap the Rescan Media icon and in less the blink of an eye all your pictures, videos and music files will appear.
Reg Rating 90%
Skip HTC Locations
For reasons best known to itself, HTC installs its own mapping system on its Android phones. That I can live with - but the fact that the HTC contacts app’s address search can’t be set to open Google Maps rather than HTC Locations, I can’t. Install Skip HTC Locations and the next time you want to see an address you will be asked which app you want to open. Choose Skip HTC and you get taken to Google Maps and you will never again be troubled by Locations.
Reg Rating 90%
Watchtower
Worried about how much memory or CPU resources all those apps you downloaded are using? Watchtower is a handy ad-supported app that lets you view application and process demands in real time, and ranked by either CPU or memory use. A third panel shows you recent system demand as an animated line graph. If for some reason your handset starts running slow or the battery life heads into the crapper, Watchtower will help you track down the culprit.
Reg Rating 85%
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COMMENTS
Apologies to Jim Coleman
I had him pegged as a disciple of Jobs, hence my iTunes reference. But looking at some of his previous posts it is apparent that Jim is a WP7 user.
Correction, Jim is *the* WP7 user.
hmm..
what are you critising?
that try paraphrasing your posible problems
"Phew! That sounds like a lot of faff...."
>and you work in IT???...faff is sometimes half the fun...maybe you work in marketing(shilsRUS maybe)
"apps to manage your apps?"
>or...apps that give you more option, to run the apps how YOU like it.
Should users really have to worry about caches and cpu utilization and all that? Wasn't this the whole problem with Windows Mobile?
>No, unless they want to of course and working in IT..I WANT to.
Shouldn't Android "just work"?
>Yep, it does.
Looking at these app suggestions just makes me want to never go within 10' of an Android phone.
Because.....? as you seem to not have been very clear WHY, maybe its the technical side you see on a technical site is overwelming your marketing brain?
Seriously. This is supposed to be a modern, consumer-oriented OS?
....that also has added flexibitiy.
i'll let the droidtards point out why (or if) these app dont exist on other platforms.
@ Jim Coleman again
"Come on, be realistic. The need was there, the apps were created."
Do you need any of the 400,000 fart apps currently on offer in iTunes?
Or do you just make do with listening to the sound of your own voice instead?
errr.. you don't
just as you don't need any of the suggested apps of the week. I don't ave any of those,and won't be installing any of them. Some people will. It's called choice, something some phones don't offer.
@ the AC Fanboy
The truth is that you DON'T need any of these Apps, but Android is open enough to allow you to install them if you want to.
Take your head out of your iArse.
