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[Q] How do I stop restored apps?

I setup my new TF and was bewildered for a moment when I see extra apps installed. Turns out it was the market restoring all the apps I had loaded on my Nook onto the TF. I uninstalled all the apps and then did a factory reset.
They just got restored all over again.
I can not uninstall them from the Nook since I have already restored it back to stock in preparation of handing it off to the wife.
So how the heck do I clean up my installed list of apps from the android market? They were all free apps but I want to start with a clean slate not with Nook apps and my Touch Pro2 apps.
???
MBK

MrBigKid said:
I setup my new TF and was bewildered for a moment when I see extra apps installed. Turns out it was the market restoring all the apps I had loaded on my Nook onto the TF. I uninstalled all the apps and then did a factory reset.
They just got restored all over again.
I can not uninstall them from the Nook since I have already restored it back to stock in preparation of handing it off to the wife.
So how the heck do I clean up my installed list of apps from the android market? They were all free apps but I want to start with a clean slate not with Nook apps and my Touch Pro2 apps.
???
MBK
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Maybe in Settings>Accounts&Sync? Try unchecking Auto-sync. However, I've never tried it. In my case, the free apps never automatically sync

when you do a reset on the screen after you put your google user name and password in untick the thing that says "back up my account with google" or something similar to that.
This stop google restoring your apps
You can turn it back on later in settings to back up your new settings/apps
Hope this helps
Al

Thanks everyone for your replies. I ended up uninstalling them, turning off auto sync, (this forces it to delete all data on the Google server!) and then I waited 30 minutes before doing a hard reset.
All trash gone! yay!
MBK

Settings>>Privacy>>uncheck "automatic restore". If your doing this on a fresh setup then skip the Google login at first, unchecked this setting then open up market and login to your Google account.
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Lost some contact info after factory wipe, need some advice.

I tried to flash to a different ROM and it either bricked, or I was just impatient(waited almost 2 hours), but I stopped it. And then the infuse wouldn't boot up, was just stuck on "samsung". So I used the Odin unbrick method found on these forums.
After this, it booted up, but most of my apps wouldn't work properly, and I couldn't dl anything from the market, so I factory reset.
So now it works, but I've lost some contacts that I recently added, and all of my texts. All of the contacts from my old phone are still there, so I guess only the ones on the sim card are saved. Can anyone advise me if its even possible to recover any of the stuff I lost?
Also, how can I make sure that the contacts are being saved to sim, so that there's no risk of losing them?

Sync with Gmail account. Its better.
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ATT offers to back up your contact lists on their server at least they do mine. not sure of if there's a charge or not. I have mine set to auto sync everynight. good thing about that is if you brick or get a new phone its just a dl away

what is the lesson here... BACK TO GMAIL ACCOUNT!

Optimus-Prime said:
what is the lesson here... BACK TO GMAIL ACCOUNT!
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Yup. My contacts are always synced to my Google account, so I can wipe all I want.
SMS Backup and Restore works for texts, same for Call Logs Backup and Restore for call logs, but be careful - a full-blown factory wipe in Settings will nuke your SD card and that's where the backups reside by default. Copy them off your device before doing any significant changes.
Another option is to do occasional Nandroid backups in CWM.

Android restores apps, but sometimes doesn't

My phone is rooted, on jellybean (CyanogenMod 10). I always do a fresh wipe on my phone before installing a new rom and kernel. The weird issue I come across is sometimes after you finish the first setup steps, all the apps start restoring by themselves in Google Play, but other times I have to download System Tuner and restore all the apps I backed up. A few times also after wiping my phone and setting it up again, the apps complete settings were backed up and the login information is already filled out and my preferred settings.

Bump.

There's a feature built-in (available in the settings) where the apps & settings are backed up to Google's servers. I'm not sure exactly how much data is backed up, but, obviously, sideloaded apps & their data are not backed up. Personally, I've never flashed a new ROM & had my stuff magically restored before my eyes, but I suspect that if you waited long enough, the restore would take place.
The closest I've had is when I did a dirty flash & didn't clear my dalvik cache. Strange things can happen, then.

Yes in Google play there is a setting to restore apps automatically. For some reason it is intermittent on when it chooses to work. If your looking for a way to backup and restore your apps I would use titanium backup. It works great.
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[Q] flashing new roms, wireless setup gets skipped

Ok so I've been flashing a few roms lately, and ive made sure to flash the latest gapps too. Usually my experience in initial setup is: plug in my google account, and then wifi setup. Then when it loads completely, it starts auto-downloading all my apps.
But lately, it skips the wifi setup and I have to wait till I'm fully loaded, and then go in and connect to wifi. And there is no auto app download from play like it use to. i have to manually re-install any apps.
Is there something I'm forgetting??

You might not have auto backup and auto restore checked. I usually uncheck them as I often don't want all the apps restored. I think it gives you the option when you log onto Google but I don't render for sure where it is.
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jd1639 said:
You might not have auto backup and auto restore checked. I usually uncheck them as I often don't want all the apps restored. I think it gives you the option when you log onto Google but I don't render for sure where it is.
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Thanks.
I do have those checked.
I just wiped and flashed again and here's the process:
1. Welcome - US
2. Got Google? sign into google account. It shows 4g connected
3. Backup and Restore - check "Restore from Google account" and check "Keep this phone backed up with my account"
4. "Restoring"
5. Google Location
6. Setup complete
Still never any wifi setup.
I must go to settings to connect wifi myself.
I Go to Play, and it asks for my google account AGAIN.
Sign in, go to ALL APPS, but I have to install manually
confused!

It's probably the gapps package. I flash a lot of different roms and it seems it's a little different each time. I don't pay that much attention to it any more, but just go with the flow.
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It's probably the gapps package. I flash a lot of different roms and it seems it's a little different each time. I don't pay that much attention to it any more, but just go with the flow.
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Ok I'll try a different package and see if I get lucky

the reason is because with gapps it will pull in network detection and bypass WiFi because the restore option normally put your WiFi password in automatically ... my suggestion would be to
1 once phone boots try to get yes gmail without data connection and that will prompt the WiFi
2 install without sim card
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[Q] Cannot turn on automatic Backup from Settings

Hello everyone, I am stock and non-Rooted.
During the initial setup I skipped the backup&restore setup, and now I wanted to let it backup again in case I want to unlock the bootloader or something.
Now if I go to Settings > Backup & reset and tick "Back up my data", the button below "Backup account" is disable and grayed out and says "No account is currently storing backed up data".
There is no way that I can setup the account.
I even read somewhere that I should have restarted the phone, I did and my account appeared automagically... but later the same day or the day after it disappeared again!
I have no clue and it really looks like a bug in the system.

Sorry - I do not know what would cause that option to be grayed out (assuming you have set up a google account, and selected that as the backup account on that screen)
But just so you know, this backup will not backup all your data (or even your app data).
It (currently) backs up a very limited set of data (like WiFi settings/app list from playstore/)
It will not backup your pictures (assuming you don't have auto-backup enabled in dropbox/G+), game progress (for games that do not have google play integration), personal files, SMS, call logs - all of which will get wiped if you unlock bootloader.
You may want to look at helium backup as an option to backup all data. (If you were rooted, titanium backup would be my recommendation)

Thanks for the tip.
In fact, I think I prefer an on-demand solution rather than a background process which uses battery and network.
I installed Helium and activated using the desktop application.
I now only have a couple of doubts...
Where does the backup get stored when I save on local storage? I would of course like to transfer those files over to Dropbox instead of leaving them on the same phone.
Do the local settings, like WIFI passwords and such also get saved? It's not clear from the UI.
Thanks again

Alright... I googled around a bit and found out there's actually no way to save my stored WIFI passwords without ROOT...
This pretty much sucks as that was one of my most wanted...
The only option I have is really the Google-own backup system, so if anyone had an answer on how to make it work (my first post) that would be great.