Reinstaller helps you download apps and games to your Nokia Lumia

Published by Adam Fraser on October 22, 2012

Reinstaller on Nokia Lumia 800

When it’s time to upgrade from your current Lumia to the new Nokia Lumia 920 or Lumia 820, there’s one simple way to reinstall all your apps or games to the new device. Reinstaller downloads them all for you, saving you the time and energy.

Reinstaller is one of the first apps you’ll want to install when you get your new phone as you’ll want to spend all your time enjoying the actual phone, rather then searching through Windows Phone Store for all your favourite apps and games.

Reinstaller main screen Connecting Reinstaller to WIndows Live account

When you run Reinstaller, you’ll be welcomed by four tiles: Connect, Install, Review and Share.

Hitting the Connect tile asks you to log into your Windows Live account so that the app can trawl through your download history from Windows Phone Store. We tested it on a Nokia Lumia 800 and it took less than a minute to produce a Final App Count of 116. Installing all of the apps and games would obviously take longer, but its speedy retrieval impressed us.

If you want to install all of those apps or games there and then, pressing install will do just that.

Reinstaller app count Reinstaller apps and games list

Alternatively, if you want to pick and choose what you want to install, press back and cherry-pick the items by unticking the boxes, followed by install.

Unfortunately, the installation of all the content isn’t automatic from this point and you’ll be asked to confirm each install – which means that you can’t just press install and leave the app to do its thing. We’re hoping the developers are working on making this more automatic. Even taking this into consideration, this is still much easier than manually searching for all your downloaded content.

Whether you’re moving from one of the current Nokia Lumias to the new Nokia Lumia 920 and Lumia 820, or moving from one Windows Phone to another, Reinstaller app is a must-have.

Have you used Reinstaller, or do you think you’ll use it when you upgrade to the new Lumia smartphones? Let us know, in the comments below.

Comments

  • http://twitter.com/SlipKoRnSaad SlipKoRnSaad

    Why simply don’t install it as a stock application on every Lumia? This will be more accessible and known by consumer…

    • http://twitter.com/beranger_v4 Béranger

      Let’s rephrase it for Nokia: why not adopting it as part of Nokia Collection, if and only if the original author agrees?

      • http://twitter.com/SlipKoRnSaad SlipKoRnSaad

        No i mean, intergated on the system as a native app/assistante…it’s nearly useless as a standalone app…

        • http://twitter.com/dalydose Jeff Daly

          Well, I think “nearly useless” is an overstatement. I’ve used it and it’s been a HUGE help. It would be MORE useful if integrated, but it is still useful as is.

          • http://twitter.com/SlipKoRnSaad SlipKoRnSaad

            I insist, it’s nearly useless as a “normal” user won’t think and search for an application that’ll help him to reinstall previous apps !

            At least, nokia should prompt the user before a hard reset for eg to download the app (after), or after the hard reset (or new phone) or simply make it natve :)

            I hope you do get what i mean by “nearly useless” ;) (Look at the iPhone for eg how it handles this ^^)

            And yeah in the meantime, what’s the use of skydrive then? It should have the ability to do it in addition to other settings (iCould, anyone?) !

  • Philipp Suermann

    Why is this App not available in Germany?

  • Andi Jarvis

    Why not just put the functionality in the software, like on the iPhone. I had a broken Lumia 800 and it took me ages to reinstall all the apps. When it happened with my iPhone, it took me 2 minutes to plug in and walk away with all my old content – even text messages and caller history.

  • Daniel Mihailescu

    Reinventing what Nokia Store app is already doing on Symbian ?

  • http://mobilecrazies.com/ Anirudh Sharma

    New Lumia’s should have the ability to sync everything off over the air with windows live account. One should not rely on third party apps for the same. Just simply sign in with the live account and sync all your contacts, notes, messages, media, apps and more. Just like the Apple ID (if its not patented). Till then I feel this is a brilliant app. Kudos!

  • http://www.facebook.com/anton.g.106 Anton G

    Check out “The Nature of Life” by Anton Glotser, its very
    informative and covers lots of interesting topics.