How to open hidden task manager to clear RAM and improve performance of your phone; Nokia Asha

Source- The Mobile Indian

Nokia Asha phones that run on the New Nokia Asha Platform comes pre-installed with a bunch of apps that uses much of its internal memory.There are ways to remove pre-installed apps in older Asha phones but no working method  has been found yet for the phones running the new Asha OS.  With the last major OTA update, Nokia has removed some of the useless games and has included many other apps. And these can’t be removed. Although this was a good move from their part but each users have their own tastes and preferences. The list of these default apps include Line, Wechat, Linkedin, Twitter, Nimbuz, OneDrive, NewsHunt and some utility apps like Pocket Word, Pocket Excel etc. Many users find these useless as for a normal person LinkedIn is not necessary. Many don’t use Whatsapp, Wechat, Line and Nimbuz at a time. Many don’t feel it good to view documents in a 3” inch screen and the Pocket apps(Word, Excel, PowerPoint) are not efficient enough to do their job. So all these factors make these apps useless and wastage of memory and makes the phone's menu look crowded.

The messenger apps eat up a lot of RAM in the phone and by 'Lot of RAM', i meant the limited 64MB RAM. With the last update, the software got pushed to 14.0.4 in which the RAM management in the phone got improved. Now a simple task manager pops up with the option to close the apps that are currently running in background. Apps like Whatsapp and Xpress Browser always run in background once opened. This will remain opened till you switch off or restart the phone. So while using some apps like Wechat, Nimbuzz or browsing in UC browser, the heap memory decreases after some time and the task manager pops up. In this situation, you must close all the apps shown there to clear memory. This prevents the phone from getting overloaded. But Its quite annoying as we were in the middle of something and now we need to close the browser. The task manager can't be opened manually. It opens itself when a situation arises. So we are not able to check what all apps are opened in the background.



The new TASK MANAGER app given an end to this problem. The app helps to open the hidden task manager in the phone thus enabling us to close all background running apps whenever we want. In my opinion, this is a handy and a must-have app in your phone. I recommend you to save the file in the phone memory of your phone so that app will still be there even if you remove the memory card. Saving in the phone's limited memory won't harm you in an way, because the app is just 16kb in size!
[ Please note that this is an app that runs only in Nokia devices running Asha Platform 14.0.4 or higher; Nokia 501, 500, 502, 503 and 230  ]
Download using UC Browser(recommended)
Source: Nokiaasha/S40 Experts


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Rooms, A new blog-inspired app from Facebook

The social media giant Facebook recently launched its new app, Rooms. The message board application is more similar to a blogging platform. It lets you create tiny message boards for posting  text, photos and videos. You can create your own username and identity in each room. These rooms are invite only and requires a special code [QR Code] that needs to be scanned with your phone. The unique codes can be shared anywhere via emails, forums, social networks or even through news papers for inviting users of a particular region. This lets them gain entry to your room. The room created is a bit like mobile forum inside an Instagram styled vertical feed.

 

The NewYork Times reported earlier this month that Facebook will be launching an app that allowed anonymity. This isn’t exactly right. You don’t need to connect with your Facebook account to reveal your details or friend lists as both the platforms are entirely different. The invite system helps you to build a community based on your particular interest. The creator of the room is the Moderator and has full control over the room. There can be more than one Moderator for a room and they do the role of administrators. They can ban the unruly members and those who don’t follow the guidelines. Once banned, the user is restricted to enter the room with his banned device. Not just this, they can change the room’s look, add a nickname to the room or a background image, or use an emoji instead of the like button. The moderator can even set the room to 18+, in case.

 

After the launch, Facebook is sued by Damien Rottemberg, developer of the app, Room which was launched before Rooms. Maybe a huge coincidence, both the apps offer very similar experience with an identical name(almost). Anyways, Room is more like killed now as the small company’s app has been buried in online search results. Whether the search tags are ‘room’ or ‘rooms’ it will now lead only to Facebook’s app, not the other one.

 

Just 24 hours after the app’s launch, The Facebook product manager, Josh Miller discovered that the users have hacked it. The main discovery was the hashtag search on Instagram (#rooms). Searching for the term, Miller found a room called VSCO cam, started by a college student in England which had 32 members. And someone in the room posted an invite to another room! In order to access a room user needs take screenshot or capture a picture of the QR code with the app. Miller wrote in a post “They have essentially ‘linked’ to another room in the same way forums, message boards and blogs used to link each other in the early days of the web ”

 

Rooms is the next after the release of Slingshot and Paper that didn’t created much hike in the stores. Available in US, UK and few other countries and is free to download from Apple App Store. No words yet on a Windows Phone release but an Android version is expected to be released in early 2015.

 

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