Help Newbie App question

[Vorbis]

Greetings,

Yesterday my wife got an LG Optimus One on the 3 network (we're in the UK) and it falls down to me to try and teach her how to use it. Unfortunately I've never owned an Android phone before (I currently have a Blackberry 8900), and I'm pretty clueless!

She registered her Gmail account and then went onto the Andriod Marketplace and downloaded Angry Birds to see what all the hype is about. It appeared to be downloading the app onto the 2gb SD card that came with the phone, but once the app had finished downloading we could find no trace of it. What are we doing wrong? Any tips or advice would be muchly appreciated.

 

[ardchoille]

Greetings,

Yesterday my wife got an LG Optimus One on the 3 network (we're in the UK) and it falls down to me to try and teach her how to use it. Unfortunately I've never owned an Android phone before (I currently have a Blackberry 8900), and I'm pretty clueless!

She registered her Gmail account and then went onto the Andriod Marketplace and downloaded Angry Birds to see what all the hype is about. It appeared to be downloading the app onto the 2gb SD card that came with the phone, but once the app had finished downloading we could find no trace of it. What are we doing wrong? Any tips or advice would be muchly appreciated.

If she downloaded the game from the market, it was installed on the phone and she can play it. Are you certain it was downloaded to the SD card and not the phone's internal memory? I asked because paid apps are usually installed to the /data/app-private directory because it is a protected app.

Paid apps are linked to the google account that was used to pay for and install the app/game. She will be able to reinstall that app/game on any android device so long as she's using the same google account and she won't be required to pay for that app or game again. upgrades to the app/game are also free if the same google account is used. I have been using a paid app on 3 different android phones over a couple of years.

As far as backups go, she won't be able to backup a protected app/game unless the phone is rooted and a root-friendly file manager or backup app is used to perform the backups. Backups of paid apps/games aren't really needed anyway since they are linked to the google account and not the phone itself.

I hope this information was helpful.

 

[apsychedelic]

Regarding the teaching... I don't know if all phones just come with a quick guide, but member ginn7 linked to this PDF guide, in case she doesn't have it, it could be useful to familiarize a bit more with the system.

 

[pankaj16]

Hi Vorbis, Welcome to forum and to Android

I too got my first android few months back and the very first App I downloaded was Angry Birds
I have downloaded quite a Apps from Market till date and all of them were downlaoded flawlessly. Irrespective of its location of stroarge (Phone memory or SD Card), it shows up in the "Download" section in the applications screen - "Downloads" is located at the bottom of applications screen and its easy to miss for a newbie.

Alternatively, download the app again and check. It hardly takes moments.

If you are moderate tech geek, android is a fun platform to explore by yourself

 

[Vorbis]

Thanks for the replies guys. We tried downloading the app again and this time it worked. Hurrah!

I do have another daft question though:

Both her sister and father also have an LG Optimus One. On their phones the symbol at the top of the screen with the two arrows pointing up and down (that indicate data in and out) have the letter G. On the wifes it's the letter H. What do the letters stand for? The wife is on a different network (they're on T-Mobile and my wife in Three), if that makes a difference?

 

[apsychedelic]

Hello.
I know not much about networks, since down here in Colombia we are years behind.
Anyway, I'm on a 3G network and always get an "H" icon, which stands for HDSPA. I think G stands for GPRS, which, if I recall correctly, is slower than EDGE?
You're better off googling or wikipeding it

PD: Oh great, check this sticky, very handy.

 

[Vorbis]

Thanks apsychedelic.

What a great community you have here. I can't wait for the contract on my Blackberry to expire so I can get an Android of my own and stop drooling over the wifes. It's going to be a long 3 months! (I'm too poor to pay it off early)

 

[apsychedelic]

Hahaha I feel your pain.
I had a mid-range Nokia, and paid off early just to get the Optimus One... and also had like three months left for the contract to expire.
Guaranteed, even with a low/mid range phone like the Optimus One you will be enjoying a much better experience than RIM or Nokia could offer you, in my humble opinion.