How to use installed File Manager app. on HTC Desire Eye?

If members are to post links, let's stick to the Play Store for Android since it gets the checks for malware.

Second, I don't see where the bugs noted at http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-airmore-cross-platform-android-t3112412 were cleared up.

I have it installed correctly bc it appeared on my home page.

When I searched the Internet I saw a menu of Astro File Manager that included "rename" and other options.

How come HTC does not have a File Manager already installed in the system to make it possible to manipulate the file names?? That's weird.
Anyway, I hope this link works. It's a screenshoot of Astro FM from the Net. http://android.appstorm.net/roundups/utilities-roundups/top-10-file-managers-for-android/]

Look into Root Explorer or Astro File Manager. Both have the menu with "rename" option".

The other file managers also have the menu with a "rename" option. But no one gives a good guide on how to get this menu.

You are thinking like a PC user. Android and iOS take a different approach. Apps present the content they work with. Diddling with files is more of a Windows PC idea.

This add is for Android only. So I supposed this should work with Android based phone. I don't understand...

I meant "This app".... Sorry about that.

You see different approaches to how things work. And with Android and the new thing is to not supply any user manuals.

But as I wrote, Android apps with the exception of file managers rarely expose the file system. With so many coming from Windows PCs they bring a lot of the ideas from Windows with them.

" ... And with Android and the new thing is to not supply any user manuals" << not good.

While I lament the passing of the written word, I've lost count where we supplied a manual and the owner called to ask anyway.

If the owner calls and asks anyway then probably the user manual does not satisfy them.
I often experiment myself. And if I learn things by myself and accomplish them I write articles on wikiHow.
I don't like using a video as a manual because I have to replay every step and it's annoying and time consuming. .
What works for me the best is a step-by-step written instruction.

Look at how Android is a moving target. Many devices arrived with one version and later changed to another or yet another. This is why those that want a written step by step often explode when they discover the exact steps vary depending on Android 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or later. Android's fragmentation is a big deal for those that want written step by steps.

I have many examples but how do I manage? By accepting that instructions are merely guides and no longer can be exact.

-> I've seen a lot of folk chuck Android and go get an iPad.

I understand what you're saying R. Proffitt ....
I have not tried any apps other then File Manager, but if I do in the future it seems like a lot of apps (if not all) may be useless to me if I can't get an explanation how it works.

I am not new with computers but new with Android.

....I don't see how that means "bulk rename" which is what you wanted. Android is derived from Linux and it has some file managers with bulk rename, but I don't know if any of them would work in Android itself. One in KDE that works great for renaming bulk files is "dolphin". You may need to move files to a PC, do the bulk rename and then back to the phone.

I see Total Commander is available and it's a good file manager. It also says "rename" but nothing indicating it does "bulk rename".

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ghisler.android.TotalCommander

Here's a bulk renamer. Check out the slide show, see if it's what you are looking for. Also watch the linked youtube videos on it's use, there are 8 of them listed.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.klangappdev.bulkrenamewizard

I am not sure what you mean by "bulk renames". On my previous (flip phone) I was able to rename EVERY photo that was in my Gallery individually to a meaningful name. .

Can't you save to a new name?

Are you talking about with File Manager or without? Without FM it saves automatically and I have no option to give it another name.

That's the whole point. I need some guide, some push. LOL

I am going to watch the video closely after I get back.. Hurrying out now ... Many thanks for your help, R. Proffitt. Much appreciated. I am sure nobody knows this thing.
I'll have to re-install FM again because I deleted it. LOL

I am not quite clear what and why I copy/paste, and then rename. He speaks too fast. I just need to only rename some pictures' names. For example, a picture is saved by Android as a bunch of characters like dgfjhfy586hlkjlj and I want to rename it into "Sandi at home". That's all. LOL

I have to watch again. I am too tired today. Tomorrow I will install ES File Explorer and will experirment.

Hi James, I am not familiar with html5player, and not sure how to use it.

Thank you all guys for trying to help. I give up. It's too confusing to me.

But something is really amazing to me - WHY it was so easy with a click of the button to rename a file on a flip "Breeze" phone (which is a primitive one) and it's so complicated on Android HTC.

Logically it should be the other way around, that such a small task as Rename should be really easy on the phone like mine, without having to install an app. This is odd to me.

Thank you all for your geniune desire to help. Much appreciated!

I think "rename" is more of an iconic Windows, Apple OS/X idea. With Android I rarely use a file manager. It's rarely needed.

But how one uses it is vastly different than a WIMP machine (Windows Icon Mouse Pointer.)

There are new skills one learns like tap, tap and hold, tap and drag and so on that has no same thing you would do on Windows.

Simple file managing tasks like Copy, Rename, Delete should have been included in OS when HTC was designed.

The basic Android operations with apps rarely and in fact never have us dealing with the underlying file system. Only when folk try to use it like a PC does this seem to come up.

This is a cell phone and I do not try to use it as a PC. I know it's a phone. I refer to the feature I'd prefer to have IN THE PHONE.

Like I said before in "Breeze" flip phone I had all that features I needed. I'd keep this phone if I did not have problems with that phone lines ...