December 2011
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436 pages
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English
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Managing, Sharing, and Uninstalling Apps
AFTER AWHILE, YOU MAY suffer from app overload: You’ve downloaded so many apps you don’t know what to do with them. It’s time to get them under control.
There’s a single location for doing that. From the Home screen or a pane, press the Menu key and select Settings→Applications→“Manage applications.” You see a list of your apps, including their names and file sizes, categorized in four tabs:
Downloaded. These are apps that weren’t on the Galaxy S II when you started using it, but that you’ve downloaded and installed.
Note
Some apps show up on the Downloaded tab even if they were pre-installed, such as those you’ve updated. But even some you didn’t update show up there…go figure!
All. This is the mega-list of your Galaxy S II apps—every single one on the phone, including those built into it and those you’ve downloaded.
On SD card. Normally, apps install to your Galaxy S II’s main memory, not to its SD card. But as you’ll see in a bit, there’s a way to move some of them from the Galaxy S II’s memory to its SD card.
Running. These are apps that are currently running on your Galaxy S II.
Tip
The list of apps is arranged alphabetically. You can instead view them by their size (biggest first), or can filter them by just seeing those apps that are currently running, or just those apps that you’ve downloaded. Press the Menu key, and then choose “Sort by size” to list them by size order.
Tap any app and you come to a screen chock-full of information about it—its ...
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