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[Q] missing apps after switching from Captivate to Skyrocket

I upgraded from the Captivate to the Skyrocket last week. I went to re-install my apps from the market, but it only showed about 3 of the free apps I had and all of 6 of the apps I paid for.
Any idea how I can get all of the apps I previously downloaded to show up in "my apps" as available for install? Or do I have to go through and re-install all of these 1 by 1?

Sometimes the market can be goofy like that.. you can wIt about 24 hours to see if they pop up. Or try and push menu settings applications manage applications... find market and clear the data then check. Or yes go find them one by one

silver03wrx said:
Sometimes the market can be goofy like that.. you can wIt about 24 hours to see if they pop up. Or try and push menu settings applications manage applications... find market and clear the data then check. Or yes go find them one by one
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tried both of those, but no luck. cleared the data multiple times, too.

Your gona have to find them each then. But hey if your rooted use titanium back up for future refrence

The market will limit your access to apps that will run on the version of Android you're using if the developer has specified it in the market listing.
What apps are you missing? I moved from a Captivate to a Skyrocket a well and I'm loving the speed upgrade.
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Sometimes your hardware/processor and the app are not compatible.
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benebrady said:
The market will limit your access to apps that will run on the version of Android you're using if the developer has specified it in the market listing.
What apps are you missing? I moved from a Captivate to a Skyrocket a well and I'm loving the speed upgrade.
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I had about 160 apps or so D) prior to the switch. I have so far manually restored about 80 that I use all the time.
The Skyrocket has 2.3.5 on it right now, and I'm fairly positive that all the apps previously on my cappy supported Gingerbread.
also, I did use Titantium backup to backup all apps on the cappy as well as nandroid it. But I can't transfer them over to this phone I don't think... maybe?
The market "Should" have shown me everything that I had previously downloaded/installed (except for the APKs that I sideloaded.). It's annoying, but oh well. maybe this will force me to weed out some unwanted apps...
And yeah, the speed/performance difference between the cappy is HUGE. Also, I'm getting close to 24 hrs of moderate use on the SR, which dominates the cappy's 10-12hrs I was getting.

I'm loving the new SR over my old Captivate too. And the battery life is amazingly so much better as is the GPS!
However, when I go to check for software update I get that there is no update and I'm still on 2.3.5 on ATT. Not sure why it thinks I'm on the current version with all the talk about 2.3.6 up here...

aspexil said:
I'm loving the new SR over my old Captivate too. And the battery life is amazingly so much better as is the GPS!
However, when I go to check for software update I get that there is no update and I'm still on 2.3.5 on ATT. Not sure why it thinks I'm on the current version with all the talk about 2.3.6 up here...
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same. Didn't see the update available for OTA.
Try kies.

you absolutely can transfer Titanium Backups over to the new phone. i do it all the time among all my devices. the only thing you have to remember is that you cant restore ALL apps, just restore MISSING apps+data

Pirateghost said:
you absolutely can transfer Titanium Backups over to the new phone. i do it all the time among all my devices. the only thing you have to remember is that you cant restore ALL apps, just restore MISSING apps+data
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awesome. I have done this between similar versions using Titanium backup, just wasn't sure about going between 2.2-2.3 versions.
Haven't rooted yet, so guess I'll need to do that tonight to get 'er going.
I'm annoyed that the market didn't just take care of this for me. I believe it worked the last time I flashed, my captivate, but it has been awhile.

How to REMOVE bloatware from your Galaxy S4

Hello all, while messing around trying to root some Chinise tablets I have been buying thu Aliexpress.com I came across this program callled MOBOROBO. It can be found at www.moborobo.com. It is a free program and I use it to manage all my android devices. I allows full management of almost any android device that I connect to my pc.
Just received my 32Gb S4. After finding out about the space issue and found out the 32GB was coming, I marched right in the ATT store and swapped. Had to pay the restocking fee but felt it was worth it. I have already rooted the phone and was thinking of disabling the bloatware while I wait for recovery ROM.
I just came home from work and connected my phone to the pc because while out today I decided to bite the bullet and took the OTA from ATT. Update went well, did not see any difference to nothing on phone except that it killed ROOT. I connected my phone and moborobo came up. I minimized it while I re-ROOT-ed my S4. I then went back to mess with moborobo to do a backup (I use it sometimes even though I have TiBU.) I then clicked on the apps tap at the top and noticed it listed all the apps on the phone. The was also a list of system apps. Went to the list and decided to uninstall some of the bloat. I figured maybe they won't be deleted, no prob if they don't I could then "disable".
To my surprise moborobo UNINSTALLED ALL the apps I threw at it. I was very cautious, I did not uninstall everything, only the ones I was sure of. Now I can always go back and do the others when I am sure I need to. Please check it out.

i just tried it and it works on att apps i just delete all this att crab.but this program doesn't know my phone name.

alibox87 said:
i just tried it and it works on att apps i just delete all this att crab.but this program doesn't know my phone name.
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do u have a list of all the att apps that are safe to remove?

alibox87 said:
i just tried it and it works on att apps i just delete all this att crab.but this program doesn't know my phone name.
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If your drivers are installed it will show your device name. While the program is running try disconnecting and reconnecting your phone. I have used it with my S4 (SGH-I337) my wife's S3 (SGH-I737) my older S2 (SGH-I777) and last night a friend came by with an S3 from t-mobile and when I connected it it came up (SGH-I339) I think. I don't have the most updated version of the program ( was not sure about keeping it) but mine starts up as soon as I connect my phone and sometimes it does not readily show my phone name.

Titanium Backup is my fave app to remove bloatware and back up all my apps and call history & text mssgs:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...mNvbS5rZXJhbWlkYXMuVGl0YW5pdW1CYWNrdXBQcm8iXQ..
ROM Toolbox is another good one and offers a lot of other features as well:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...EsImNvbS5qcnVtbXkubGliZXJ0eS50b29sYm94cHJvIl0.
Both require root, of course.

twinky112 said:
do u have a list of all the att apps that are safe to remove?
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I just deleted the AT&T apps along with yahoo and that yp stuff. Since I just got the phone I wanted to check out everything and decide what I want to get rid of. I read somewhere in this forum, someone posted a long list of all the apps including the Samsung ones. However I am going to be cautious so nothing gets messed up before we have some good ROMS coming from the great xda-developers kitchens. Some of the apps are not easy to identify from their apk, example: ATT navigator, the apk says telenav....apk.

CZ Eddie said:
Titanium Backup is my fave app to remove bloatware and back up all my apps and call history & text mssgs:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...mNvbS5rZXJhbWlkYXMuVGl0YW5pdW1CYWNrdXBQcm8iXQ..
ROM Toolbox is another good one and offers a lot of other features as well:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...EsImNvbS5qcnVtbXkubGliZXJ0eS50b29sYm94cHJvIl0.
Both require root, of course.
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I am with you on those apps being good apps, I am not sure however if TiBU actually remove the apps or just freeze them. I have used it to freeze apps the I could not delete or wish to return to at a later time.
In all of this though, one thing has come to my mind. Even if we remove all the bloatware, we still do not have more space because all of this reside in the special partition that we do not have access to until it is re-partition or allowed access in a recovery ROM. With all the removal that I have done I did not see an increase of space available. Going back to moborobo I can see that my system file list have been greatly reduced but my available space have not increased. I have therefore concluded that removing bloatware will only console me to the fact that all that junk is not on my phone. The 6.5Gb used for system files and bloatware is a partition that was set aside. I could be wrong on this so if necessary please teach me.

Yep, with Titanium backup you can either freeze or permanently uninstall any app or system app.
My S4 is still in FedEx' hands so I haven't had a chance to see the file system yet.
Speaking of FedEx. I'm in Austin, Texas. FedEx picked up the phone from AT&T in Ft Worth Texas. Now the tracking shows it is in Memphis, TN for some reason.

CZ Eddie said:
Yep, with Titanium backup you can either freeze or permanently uninstall any app or system app.
My S4 is still in FedEx' hands so I haven't had a chance to see the file system yet.
Speaking of FedEx. I'm in Austin, Texas. FedEx picked up the phone from AT&T in Ft Worth Texas. Now the tracking shows it is in Memphis, TN for some reason.
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Yeah, returned the 16g ver for the 32g yesterday rooted that sucker using my new and improved S4-Chopper, rom toolbox uninstalling apps & backing it up using titanium pro then started tweaking it... I would suggest making a list delete 4 apps then back-up del 4 mo then back-up. That way you can get this monster the way you want it... mine is pumping out Slightly over 13000 on quadrant so im happy!!

It goes to Memphis because that is FedEx's main hub. So all packages go though there first
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I accidentally deleted a system app. It was yellow pages so it's not a big deal but I would like to have it backed up with my other system apps. If I factory reset it will I get it back, or do I need to find a apk for it? Or would I have to go to the extreme and flash the stock TouchWiz rom

Randallel said:
I accidentally deleted a system app. It was yellow pages so it's not a big deal but I would like to have it backed up with my other system apps. If I factory reset it will I get it back, or do I need to find a apk for it? Or would I have to go to the extreme and flash the stock TouchWiz rom
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Try downloading it from the play store or Samsung store.
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CZ Eddie said:
Yep, with Titanium backup you can either freeze or permanently uninstall any app or system app.
My S4 is still in FedEx' hands so I haven't had a chance to see the file system yet.
Speaking of FedEx. I'm in Austin, Texas. FedEx picked up the phone from AT&T in Ft Worth Texas. Now the tracking shows it is in Memphis, TN for some reason.
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Memphis is FedEx's Hub. Everything goes through there, even when it means going from Texas to Memphis and back to Texas. The Postal Service does similarly if I mail a letter to someone in town. It goes to the regional hub (30 miles West from home and back to home.
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Rooted Pixel on 8.0 updated today to 8.1, whaaaa?

(Background: non-VZW Pixel, running Android 8.0.0 on Verizon, unlocked, rooted, SuperSU, AdAway, Titanium Backup etc. Otherwise stock ROM and it's never asked me if I wanted an update. All the changes I made, I made when I first got the phone almost 2 years ago and the system has been stable since then.)
OK, I don't get *at all* why this happened. Today I got my phone out and it was *finishing* an update (despite not saying anything about an update when I had the phone out several times over the hours leading up to that -- and data is slow where I live because the cell service is marginal). Phone was generally acting funny about hotspot and data, even by the somewhat iffy standard it normally sets here. Rebooted it, and -- oh, we're in 8.1?? Interface is noticeably different in little ways (so, I'm not misremembering the 8.0 part). I also lost root, so there was definitely a major change with the OS. Bootloader is still unlocked.
First off, how did this happen? I'm positive that I never said yes to an update. I'm also positive that I was rooted and bootloader unlocked (since, again, AdAway and Titanium Backup wouldn't have worked if I weren't). Bootloader is still unlocked, but I definitely am not rooted anymore, checked with SuperSU, and also Titanium Backup doesn't work anymore.
Second, why did this not bootloop the phone? I know accepting an update with unlocked bootloader and rooted is asking for trouble.
Third, is there any reasonably straightforward way to downgrade? I liked 8.0, I don't like the Google search bar that 8.1 wants to put at the bottom of the screen, and I'd like to go back to what I'm used to.
Thanks in advance!

i dont get *at all* why you talk *like this* here -- whaaaaaaaaaaaa?
also you probably have automatic updates enabled, what i dont understand is why you would be using supersu in ****ing october 2019, that **** died years ago and has been generally recommended to avoid.

sudoxd said:
i dont get *at all* why you talk *like this* here -- whaaaaaaaaaaaa?
also you probably have automatic updates enabled, what i dont understand is why you would be using supersu in ****ing october 2019, that **** died years ago and has been generally recommended to avoid.
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Sorry my setup did not meet with your approval. It worked very well for almost 2 years, and during that time never attempted to do an automatic update. That's why I was so baffled: why, after 2 years of no auto-updates, did it insist on doing one now? (I was so surprised that I even got out some extra asterisks and asked *why*?

norwood7 said:
Sorry my setup did not meet with your approval. It worked very well for almost 2 years, and during that time never attempted to do an automatic update. That's why I was so baffled: why, after 2 years of no auto-updates, did it insist on doing one now? (I was so surprised that I even got out some extra asterisks and asked *why*?
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1. use magisk, supersu got bought out by some chinese company a while back and probably contains some really fishy ****. it also leaves a mess on your phone if you ever need to remove it. you can also pass safteynet with magisk.
2. if automatic updates isnt disabled in developer options, it is very possible that is what had happened.

September update broke my camera, N986BXXU1ATI2

My phone is the Exynnos Note 20 Ultra 5G SM-N986B/DS and it was working fine so far, but 2 days ago I received the software update for September N986BXXU1ATI2 and the camera has some purple/green colors but after a while inside the camera app fixes itself, but if I switch camera modes it goes back to that.
Things that I tried so far:
1. Wipe cache partition
2. Test other camera apps (same outcome), so I guess is more of a camera firmware.
The update does mention camera improvements so that is why I think is not hardware related. What do you guys think?
Is there a way to make a full phone backup?, wanna try flashing a complete room.
I have attached a YouTube video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37pvCTjwa0A

Go to galaxy apps, update your camera. Problem solved
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thank you for your quick reply, i did receive the update for the app, and i thought that it was gonna fix it but nope. Did that happen to you?

juanyunis said:
thank you for your quick reply, i did receive the update for the app, and i thought that it was gonna fix it but nope. Did that happen to you?
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Try clearing the cam app data?
Clear system cache again afterwards.
Hard reboot (not reset!) might get it.

blackhawk said:
Try clearing the cam app data?
Clear system cache again afterwards.
Hard reboot (not reset!) might get it.
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No luck, I think I might have to go wipe/flash route. Quick question I have a long time without rooting or modding phones, does samsung still uses ODIN? or is there another software? Is there a way to make a full backup of the user data without losing it?

juanyunis said:
thank you for your quick reply, i did receive the update for the app, and i thought that it was gonna fix it but nope. Did that happen to you?
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juanyunis said:
No luck, I think I might have to go wipe/flash route. Quick question I have a long time without rooting or modding phones, does samsung still uses ODIN? or is there another software? Is there a way to make a full backup of the user data without losing it?
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I'm not the one to ask about flashing. Probably be on a stock 10+ until it dies.
If it's not already rooted there's no way to save most of your app settings.
Poweramp and PD MDM are two of the few apps that provide exportable backup copies for settings/db.
Data can be transferred to the SD card but I would also back that up on the computer. Make sure your contacts, texts, pics, movies, music and documents etc are backed up.
I use ApkExport to save copies of all my apps and updates for faster reloading
I use my SD card like a data drive.
If you're going to go all nuke about it might as well try a hard reset and see if a clean load solves the issue

@blackhawk thanks man. I guess i will have to go hard nuke, I wish that there was a way to copy stuff smart switch way. I transferred everything from my old Note 10+ to this one using smart switch. It sucks that i sold it 1 week ago.

juanyunis said:
@blackhawk thanks man. I guess i will have to go hard nuke, I wish that there was a way to copy stuff smart switch way. I transferred everything from my old Note 10+ to this one using smart switch. It sucks that i sold it 1 week ago.
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Smart switch didn't work very well for me... it was a time consuming mess.
After a couple reloads if you streamline your data storage it's pretty easy. About a day to get it 90% back plus you learn a lot by playing with it.
I generally wait a while before during firmware updates... especially if it's running well.
If the phone is under warranty and a hard reset doesn't fix it I would sent it in to cover your ass...ets.
Let Samsung sort their own mess out.

@blackhawk thank god i didn't import it myself, i bought it from a store, but they imported it from Singapore. I already validated with them that if i can't fix it by doing a hard reset, then i would request a replacement and they agreed.

Hopefully the reset will get it done
Resets are over used as many times it's a settings issue... lazy techs.
A fresh clean load is nice though.

OP8T Bootloader unlock and root without loosing data

Hey,
I've been a little out of the rooting/unlocking game since it was a while since I unlocked and rooted my last phone (OP 6).
What's the easiest way to unlock bootloader and root without loosing data - or what's the best way to backup and restore all data.
Thanks!

burnoutslo said:
Hey,
I've been a little out of the rooting/unlocking game since it was a while since I unlocked and rooted my last phone (OP 6).
What's the easiest way to unlock bootloader and root without loosing data - or what's the best way to backup and restore all data.
Thanks!
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There isn't. You lose it.

@FullOfHell is right. There is no way to unlock the bootloader without losing you're data. I would recommend to do a backup using the OnePlus switch app.

KingCartman said:
@FullOfHell is right. There is no way to unlock the bootloader without losing you're data. I would recommend to do a backup using the OnePlus switch app.
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Thanks. Any chance to guide me to a thread that has the easiest way to unlock&root?

Unlock Bootloader: Enable Developer settings by tapping multiple times on the Build Number.
Rooting: There is a guide in this forum.

No offense...but the OP sounds like a rookie at rooting a phone! That being said, why do you want, or think you need, to root your phone? I did it a few times back when dinosaurs ruled the earth but for the vast majority of people it is unnecessary. Most of these new phones have everything you could possibly need built in, and anything you may want can be installed with a 3rd party app. So if you are a rookie at rooting, then be warned that you can turn your $$$$$$ phone into a worthless paperweight! YMMV

Do a Google backup before you unlock. Restoring that cloud backup during first boot after unlock should be pretty close to where you left off.

jaseman said:
No offense...but the OP sounds like a rookie at rooting a phone! That being said, why do you want, or think you need, to root your phone? I did it a few times back when dinosaurs ruled the earth but for the vast majority of people it is unnecessary. Most of these new phones have everything you could possibly need built in, and anything you may want can be installed with a 3rd party app. So if you are a rookie at rooting, then be warned that you can turn your $$$$$$ phone into a worthless paperweight! YMMV
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I need root to use AdAway ad blocker I was constantly flashing custom ROMs when I had a Nexus 4, Galaxy S2, etc. But new phones, new android versions require new procedures, and that's why I better ask you guys.

burnoutslo said:
I need root to use AdAway ad blocker I was constantly flashing custom ROMs when I had a Nexus 4, Galaxy S2, etc. But new phones, new android versions require new procedures, and that's why I better ask you guys.
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You don't really need root for ad blocking. Just go to settings, "WiFi & Network", then "Private DNS". Select "Private DNS provider hostname" and type in "dns.adguard.com" and click save. Voila, ads are blocked.
This won't block ads in YouTube (I have a paid subscription so I already don't see them), but I see lots of users posting about using and liking YouTube Vanced for that reason.
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