Top Free Android Game Beach Buggy Blitz Review

Beach Buggy Blitz is a gyroscopic game which is a combination of end less running and racing.
If you are a fan of games like Subway Surfers then you will love this game.

Rating 4.5/5

Game Play
Use your beach buggy to go as far as possible. You will start with 30 seconds and there are different check points on the way which will extend the time.
There are various obstacles on the way like giant Crabs, huts , birds and so on. Though it is kind of cool to hit these , it will slow you down from reaching the next check point.

Positives

• Good customization and controls.

            It is possible to control the vehicle through 

1. Tilting the device
2. Touching the edges of the device.
3. Using the Game Pad.
4. Controls for break

• Customized for Tablets.
• Customized version available for tablets to make use of the full potential. 
• Graphics is good.
• Integrated to Google Play Game Service.
• One of the early applications to do this.
• All together one of the best free games available in Android market.

Negatives

• Graphics can be still improved.
• Even though Graphics is good and enjoyable , at some times it clearly shows the need for improvement.
• For example, the way the birds move , behave when they get hit is not good. Some times the birds just sync in to the sand.
• The time gets added in each check point is too short for the children.
• Children try hitting the different obstacles on the way, so even reaching the first check point is difficult for them.
• Other riders are not collecting the gold coins. 
• It will be more interesting if other riders (CPU) also collect the available gold coins.

Other Details
Description from Google Play Store

Drive your hot-rod beach buggy as far as you can into the uncharted depths of a mysterious tropical island!

Swerve and smash through a gorgeously detailed and completely destructible world packed with Tiki statues, grass shacks, giant crabs, lava monsters...even yetis! Explore sun-swept beaches, secret caves, fog-shrouded swamps, ruined temples and erupting volcanoes in this action-packed quest of discovery and mayhem!

Build a performance-boosting collection of upgrades and powerups! Unlock new vehicles like the Lightning muscle car and Rock Stomper monster truck. Upgrade your cars and customize their paint jobs. Collect wacky new characters. Unlock and upgrade amazing powerups like the fire-spitting Boost, the coin-tastic Coin Bubble, and a Shield that turns you into a unstoppable smash-everything force of destruction!

Developer Website
http://www.vectorunit.com/

Screenshots

Google Play Store containing Adult Content

What is more difficult than convincing your wife that you don't need a haircut?  It is finding a good application  easily in Google Play Store!

To top the difficulty , there are enough adult content freely available in the play store.
Now imagine , browsing the Play Store with your four year old daughter to find her favorite puzzle game and finding the adult games with nude pictures listed as the 'top free' apps.

Check the screenshot below, this is taken from the 'Top Free apps'

I do understand that , people of all age groups use Google Play Store. But being a responsible company, why cant Google set the default content filter to avoid showing the adult content?

Until Google realize this, we will have to explicitly set the content filter to avoid adult content.

Open Google Play Store
    Go to Context Menu
    Click on Settings

Click on 'Content Filtering'

Select 'Every one'/ 'Low Maturity'

Click on 'OK' and provide a PIN when asked for.
This should prevent the adult content from appearing.

Samsung Galaxy Tab is Sluggish and Hangs after JellyBean Upgrade

My Samsung Galaxy Tab2 10.1 started behaving weirdly all of a sudden.
Symptoms

• Applications are not responding
• Accessing settings options hangs or not responding for a long time.

The main events which happened before this issue are

• Online upgrade to JellyBean from ICS.
• New micro SD card is added

Ideally none of the above should cause the device 'Sluggish', But the fact is that my tab became unusable.

After a quick internet research , I was 'happy' to realize that there are many unfortunate souls out there who faced the same issue after JellyBean upgrade.

'Factory Reset' seems to be the only solution for this issue.
But before that I decided to try other options like -

1. The data in the tablet was getting back up to Google server. This could be a costly service So disabled it from the Settings -> Backup And Restore.
2. Installed AVG anti virus for tab : In the first scan it identified and disabled an unathorized service which was performing Network access.
3. Uninstalled all applications.
4. Removed SD card.

Restarted the tablet (Press and hold the power button), and it started working normally.
But the happiness was short lived, after some time I inserted the micro SD card again. And the hang issues started again!

With this I agreed that Samsung won and I lost and decided to go ahead with the 'Factory Reset'.
For doing this- select the option from Settings-> Backup and Restore-> Factory Reset-> Erase all data.

This operation takes only couple of minutes.
After this , the devices is back to normal state.

Note:

1. Backup all the data before performing the factory reset.
2. Try other options mentioned above before executing Factory reset, it may solve the problem.

Moving Apps to External Storage in Samsung Galaxy Tab

After updating the Samsung Galaxy Tab2 to JellyBean, I realized that it is no longer possible to move the applications to external storage.

Application like 'App2SD' is giving the error message -
"the device does not have a real primary external storage, or the primary external storage is emulated"

The reason is -Android removed the support for moving the apps to external storage in the newer releases of the OS! So if you are using a device with Android version later than 3.0 then moving apps to SD card is not possible.
There is no easy and reliable app or workaround which will help you to do this.

There are different theories why this happened -

1. Google in general trying to kill SD cards.
1. Remember, google devices like Nexus does not support external storage.
2. Any thing to do with the Patent issues with Microsoft?
1. Android is said to be the most successful mobile operating system of Microsoft, as Microsoft gets $$ for each Android phone sold. 

Read about Google's explanation for the lack of SD card support in Nexus devices here. 

May be the basic users will not even notice the lack of SD card support, But this IS a disadvantage for the advanced users. With the new games increasing in size it will be pain to decide which ones to uninstall before installing a new one.

Looks like experts at Google are telling that 8Gb/16Gb in a mobile device is enough for any one.

I hope they will remember another famous quote by Bill Gates 

"640K ought to be enough for anybody "