Is there a way to disable apps restoring from the Play Store after a fresh flash?
Thanks!
i just go right into play store under my apps and cancel the whole lot of them. not usually a problem.
killerhonky said:
Is there a way to disable apps restoring from the Play Store after a fresh flash?
Thanks!
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Turn of sync. Apparently you have your device setup so that everything gets backed up and restored by Google. Next time you setup a ROM and go about setting up your Google account info, untick the checkbox for "Keep this device backed up on Google" or something similar.
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So my understanding of the Backup settings is that your settings, like ringtones and applications will be loaded onto googles server so they can be restored if you do a factory reset.
I just flashed the beta 2 Cyanogen ROM but none of my applications are coming back to me. I had the backup selected before, so i dont know if i just need to be patient or what. its been like half an hour, i expected to see at least something by now.
Can anyone give me more information about this feature? I haven't been able to find much.
I just found this from Google
http://www.google.com/support/android/bin/static.py?page=guide.cs&guide=27201&topic=27235&answer=168581
Back up my settings
Check to back up your phone's settings to Google servers, with your Google Account. If you replace your phone, the settings you've backed up are restored onto the new phone the first time you sign in with your Google Account. If you check this option, a wide variety of settings are backed up, including your Wi-Fi passwords, bookmarks, a list of the applications you've installed, the words you've added to the dictionary used by the onscreen keyboard, and most of the settings that you configure with the Settings application. If you uncheck this option, you stop backing up your settings, and any existing backups are deleted from Google servers.
I've had the backup settings checked and it worked perfectly for me. It reinstalled about 30 apps right after signing into google after flashing.
My only problem with it is that after it reinstalls everything I have no access to root. All my apps that require root hang at the SU request page and I never get the buttons to allow access.
Anyone else experience this? I haven't tried it with the new CM rom but it happened with enom's add on.
jessetbenton said:
So my understanding of the Backup settings is that your settings, like ringtones and applications will be loaded onto googles server so they can be restored if you do a factory reset.
I just flashed the beta 2 Cyanogen ROM but none of my applications are coming back to me. I had the backup selected before, so i dont know if i just need to be patient or what. its been like half an hour, i expected to see at least something by now.
Can anyone give me more information about this feature? I haven't been able to find much.
I just found this from Google
http://www.google.com/support/android/bin/static.py?page=guide.cs&guide=27201&topic=27235&answer=168581
Back up my settings
Check to back up your phone's settings to Google servers, with your Google Account. If you replace your phone, the settings you've backed up are restored onto the new phone the first time you sign in with your Google Account. If you check this option, a wide variety of settings are backed up, including your Wi-Fi passwords, bookmarks, a list of the applications you've installed, the words you've added to the dictionary used by the onscreen keyboard, and most of the settings that you configure with the Settings application. If you uncheck this option, you stop backing up your settings, and any existing backups are deleted from Google servers.
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I think flashing a custom ROM changes the identifier or signature of your phone, so you won't get that backed up information synching back with your phone.
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.
???
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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!
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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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When I do a full wipe from cwr and reinstall a rom, everytime I sync my google account it redownloads everything I had previously and loads all my old settings. How can I get it to stop loading all my previous settings, but still be able to load my google contacts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5XjF6sPef4
That is what I do to stop the auto setup. After by-passing screen, I sign into my google account either through market or gmail and then dl Titanium Backup and restore what I want to my new ROM.
hoppermi said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5XjF6sPef4
That is what I do to stop the auto setup. After by-passing screen, I sign into my google account either through market or gmail and then dl Titanium Backup and restore what I want to my new ROM.
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Yeah, but what if I don't want to do any titanium backup stuff. I just want to have the phone like new, except with GC flashed.
If I do all this bypass stuff, and sign in through gmail or market. I want still want my gmail and calender to sync but not settings or programs I had.
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Yeah, but what if I don't want to do any titanium backup stuff. I just want to have the phone like new, except with GC flashed.
If I do all this bypass stuff, and sign in through gmail or market. I want still want my gmail and calender to sync but not settings or programs I had.
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Go to settings->Privacy (notice at this point the automatic restore option is turned on but greyed out where you can't turn it off)->check "Back up my data", this will make the "Automatic restore" option become selectable. Now uncheck "automatic restore" and then uncheck "back up my data". You should get a message saying it is going to delete your backups off of the google server. (Now both options should be unchecked, the top one stays selectable but leave it unchecked of course but the bottom one is greyed out again.)
That's what you want. None of that will affect contacts, calendar, email, etc.....those settings only apply to apps. You can have a google account sync'd which will simply sync calendar and contacts, but the part above tells it if it is supposed to backup and auto restore your apps or not.
In the future, when you initially add your google account there is a check box that says "back up my data", make sure you uncheck it any time you set up a new device (like after doing a complete wipe to install a new rom), otherwise it will create a new "cloud" backup of your apps again. If you make sure thats unchecked at initial setup it will never get a chance to auto restore, then you can go adjust the settings like mentioned above.
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Go to settings->Privacy (notice at this point the automatic restore option is turned on but greyed out where you can't turn it off)->check "Back up my data", this will make the "Automatic restore" option become selectable. Now uncheck "automatic restore" and then uncheck "back up my data". You should get a message saying it is going to delete your backups off of the google server. (Now both options should be unchecked, the top one stays selectable but leave it unchecked of course but the bottom one is greyed out again.)
That's what you want. None of that will affect contacts, calendar, email, etc.....those settings only apply to apps. You can have a google account sync'd which will simply sync calendar and contacts, but the part above tells it if it is supposed to backup and auto restore your apps or not.
In the future, when you initially add your google account there is a check box that says "back up my data", make sure you uncheck it any time you set up a new device (like after doing a complete wipe to install a new rom), otherwise it will create a new "cloud" backup of your apps again. If you make sure thats unchecked at initial setup it will never get a chance to auto restore, then you can go adjust the settings like mentioned above.
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Thank You!!! This is exactly what I needed.
How to remove the applications you begin to install after each hard reset using Google backup&restore?
I'm not talking about the Contacts or Gmail being pulled in (that's fine),I just don't want the apps & settings
I've tried the various resets (with backup turned off), but nothing gets me back to a blank, clean phone.
Is there a way to remove?
Thanks.
Oddly enough, this never works for me anymore. Contacts and whatnot come back, but applications never self reinstall since about six months ago. I always assumed since I have to agree to the terms and conditions of the market, it won't start running until I've done so. No real idea though, if anything, don't add your Google info in the initial setup. Set up your settings and whatever else you need to do, then add your Google account info in Settings > Accounts. From there, if it starts to redownload everything, just cancel them before they have a chance to finish. You could also try force closing the market. I did that once when it started to download my apps, it got one app through and quit the rest.
I've checked the online market, there's no settings in there. Hope you figure it out.
When you add the Google account, at the very end, there is this option "Keep this phone backed up with my google account". Unselect that option.
Untick "Automatic restore"
This has been an ongoing problem for me across every ROM and each one seems to handle it slightly differently. On first boot after doing a clean install of any ROM, whether it's AOSP or TW, the Play Store will never connect properly. On AOSP, clearing Play Store and Google Services data and restarting does the trick. Right now I'm on JellyBeans 20, which on a clean install will only connect to play store after clearing data on Play Store and Google Services, restarting, and then adding my Google account again. This usually works. On any 4.3 TW ROM I've tried flashing, I've been unable to get the Play Store to connect, attempting every trick I've seen posted such as modifying/deleting the hosts file and clearing data.
The only thing I haven't done yet is restore to stock and start over. Is there a reason this is happening to me?
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This has been an ongoing problem for me across every ROM and each one seems to handle it slightly differently. On first boot after doing a clean install of any ROM, whether it's AOSP or TW, the Play Store will never connect properly. On AOSP, clearing Play Store and Google Services data and restarting does the trick. Right now I'm on JellyBeans 20, which on a clean install will only connect to play store after clearing data on Play Store and Google Services, restarting, and then adding my Google account again. This usually works. On any 4.3 TW ROM I've tried flashing, I've been unable to get the Play Store to connect, attempting every trick I've seen posted such as modifying/deleting the hosts file and clearing data.
The only thing I haven't done yet is restore to stock and start over. Is there a reason this is happening to me?
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If you have Titanium backup app, open up the app and see if it prompts you to restore your old ID? if it does, then select restore the old ID, phone will reboot and see if that works.