Today I noticed an annoying bug in the Android Market application: it showed only 3 applications under the "my apps" section in the market, even though I have over a couple of dozen installed.
Rebooting the device or removing the SD card didn't help.
Being rather new to Android, I was tempted to remove the market application, and reinstall it. But Android is much like Linux, and much less like Windows, so reinstalling an application would probably retain the old settings.
And then it hit me - the settings. Why not reset those?
Simply go to: settings -> applications -> manage applications -> market -> clear data
That's it. The next time the market app launches, it will rescan the installed applications, and everything will be fine again.
That's pretty robust, even though it's in a geeky way, since I don't expect most people to do that.
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ReplyDelete"That's pretty robust, even though it's in a geeky way, since I don't expect most people to do that."
ReplyDeleteAnd thats why most users are probably better off with an iphone. BUT, geeks feel right at home with an Android. I know I do.