Aside from the initial setup during the first boot of a clean rom install, is there a way in any ICS rom to force a Google settings restore?
By that I mean settings like wifi passwords and app settings, etc. Sure, theres Titanium backup but many times devs have said not to restore system settings this way.
Honestly, the only thing I really need it for is to restore wifi settings. I have a pretty long passphrase and being a bit of a crack flasher, it gets annoying to retype it over and over again
My phone is slow as hell and I need to hard reset. I remember before, all my apps auto-downloaded afterwards. The settings were gone, but that's fine. I have tried several times (restoring from nandroid backup) and each time, nothing seems to happen despite leaving the phone on overnight. I have searched other threads and found the following:
I need to have "back up my data" and "automatic restore" checked in Settings -> Privacy. Did that before hard reset.
Found this answer: "if you go to the Play app and tap the 3 icons top right there is a setting so auto update the apps." Auto update doesn't appear to work, all it does is update apps you already have installed. After hard reset I only have about 15 basic apps, none of my old ones.
Found this answer: "All your phone apps are collected together in your market library. Just go there ad push the apps once again to your phone (just half a minute job actually). Its a bit tricky because the install button for push is hidden." So where is the hidden button?
I don't want to use a third-party app like Titanium Backup. I'd prefer a clean re-install from Google, not apk. I think some of my apk files and settings were the problem in the first place.
I could just reinstall all of them manually, but I have a lot and Google Play mixes up the apps I had installed with all of the apps I uninstalled years ago. I can't tell the difference!
I went to aggressive on removing the bloatwares via ADB. Now I can't open the "Ignore battery optimisation" settings. The recent apps also keep coming back after cleared.
What app is causing that? Is there any apk of it? Don't really want to factory reset.
Thx in advance.
Edit: Battery settings is gone completely
Use the huawei backup to backup all your apps and settings. Factory reset and then restore all apps and settings. Total transaction time maybe 3-4 hours.
Is the information here safe to be used for removing bloatware on my 8T?
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imcrazyz said:
Is the information here safe to be used for removing bloatware on my 8T?
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This isn't really removing, more hiding from the main user those apps, thus making them not start. But the apks are still here, and after a reset the apps will be there again.
This is totally safe tho, and it's a great way to get rid of them if you don't reset every 2 days, so feel free to try
i just tried using titanium backup paid version to freeze some apps. it still works. you won't see the apps in the drawer until you defrost them again.
issuing those adb commands will modify system settings, so it might be a pita to get updates after you do that. you'll have to remember which apps you deleted and reinstall them again. i could be wrong and this might be a non-issue, i just remember earlier days and modifying system data and then having to make sure all the stock apps were still there to take an ota.
ADB will not stop OTA's from taking place unless you uninstall/disable something relevant to the app that is needed to search/find/download/install the said OTA. After the OTA is applied the apps you uninstalled/disabled (whichever worked) will not come back. As mentioned, using ADB itself without root does not really uninstall them like you think it does. They're still there. So although an OTA will not show them to still be there, a factory reset will bring them back. So the only real way to completely uninstall bloat is to have root. But even then a factory reset will bring them back because they are built in to the native OS.
Raiz said:
This isn't really removing, more hiding from the main user those apps, thus making them not start. But the apks are still here, and after a reset the apps will be there again.
This is totally safe tho, and it's a great way to get rid of them if you don't reset every 2 days, so feel free to try
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Disabling the app is just as good as removing it completely. There isn't really any reason to delete the apps like this (if no uninstall option exists) because once they're disabled they will not run.
I know people have a fascination with deleting system apps, but it's not like you can free up space this way.
Factory reset should bring them back. But this is safer for the integrity of the firmware.
Freezing system apps that do not have the disable option (with TB) is always preferred over deleting them, in my opinion.
Ultimately, you can always save yourself by using the MSM tool to restore.
I like to stop background data and set battery use to restricted for most of my apps.
I spent about 10 minutes yesterday going through every app and turning off background data and setting the battery use to restricted, but after a reboot, everything is back to default, including apps I've previously enabled to install other apps (Google chrome, mixplorer, sai, etc)
Any ideas?
Here is something that I do to achieve a similar result. I use the app Ice Box to freeze many of my apps that I want to restrict. This temporarily disables them, but keeps their data. This cuts down on battery usage, background CPU/RAM usage, and notifications. Whenever you want to use one of those apps, you can just tap the icebox icon and it will show a panel of all of you frozen apps and you can just tap an app to open it. It does offer the ability to put shortcuts of the frozen apps in your launcher to make it easier to access them.
If you are rooted it is simple to set up. If you are not rooted, you can still use it with ADB permissions (works well with Shuzuku too), but you need to reissue the adb command anytime your phone it rebooted. Shizuku makes this step a bit easier.
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Here is something that I do to achieve a similar result. I use the app Ice Box to freeze many of my apps that I want to restrict. This temporarily disables them, but keeps their data. This cuts down on battery usage, background CPU/RAM usage, and notifications. Whenever you want to use one of those apps, you can just tap the icebox icon and it will show a panel of all of you frozen apps and you can just tap an app to open it. It does offer the ability to put shortcuts of the frozen apps in your launcher to make it easier to access them.
If you are rooted it is simple to set up. If you are not rooted, you can still use it with ADB permissions (works well with Shuzuku too), but you need to reissue the adb command anytime your phone it rebooted. Shizuku makes this step a bit easier.
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Thanks @synesthete, but my use is different. I've used SDMaid and other apps to freeze apps for years, but that's not what I'm after.
For instance, I don't think Google Chrome needs to have background data when I'm not actively using it. I also think that there's no need for it to have "optimized" battery setting if I only want it running when I want to use it. There are a lot of apps that fall into this category that I'd like to be in control of.
So in short, I want to disable background data and set it's battery use to "restricted", which works right up until I restart my phone.
I hope this isn't some new "intended behavior", that'll suck.
Battery life is part of my concern - apps that are on the "restricted" list don't use as much battery, and I couldn't care less if I get notifications from most of them, but I still want to use them.
Background data is more privacy-concern. I don't think most of my apps need to call home and tell them what I've done in their app since last time it called home. My invoicing program for instance. I need that info synced, but when *I* choose for it to sync, not 14 times in the middle of the night when I'm not using the phone.
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Thanks @synesthete, but my use is different. I've used SDMaid and other apps to freeze apps for years, but that's not what I'm after.
For instance, I don't think Google Chrome needs to have background data when I'm not actively using it. I also think that there's no need for it to have "optimized" battery setting if I only want it running when I want to use it. There are a lot of apps that fall into this category that I'd like to be in control of.
So in short, I want to disable background data and set it's battery use to "restricted", which works right up until I restart my phone.
I hope this isn't some new "intended behavior", that'll suck.
Battery life is part of my concern - apps that are on the "restricted" list don't use as much battery, and I couldn't care less if I get notifications from most of them, but I still want to use them.
Background data is more privacy-concern. I don't think most of my apps need to call home and tell them what I've done in their app since last time it called home. My invoicing program for instance. I need that info synced, but when *I* choose for it to sync, not 14 times in the middle of the night when I'm not using the phone.
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Yeah I understand your reasoning and I agree that many apps like that do not need background data or to even run run in the background. I suppose some people use web-apps/PWAs and push notifications in their browsers, but it seems that background data should be an opt-in setting for many apps.
It is very strange that those settings are resetting after reboot. I just tested it out with Chrome and Chrome Beta and the restricted setting survived a reboot.
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Yeah I understand your reasoning and I agree that many apps like that do not need background data or to even run run in the background. I suppose some people use web-apps/PWAs and push notifications in their browsers, but it seems that background data should be an opt-in setting for many apps.
It is very strange that those settings are resetting after reboot. I just tested it out with Chrome and Chrome Beta and the restricted setting survived a reboot.
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Damn, ok, at least I know there's something wrong with specifically MY setup.
Hopefully someone will chime in with a reason and a fix.
Thank you for checking it out on yours and giving me input!!
I hate to double-post, but it's been a couple days and I was hoping that someone with experience in what my issues is would chime in.
tl;dr the initial post:
I set specific apps to restrict background data and set the battery use to restricted.
After a phone restart, the settings are back to default, including any 'disable over' and other permissions. My changes do not persist after a reboot.