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Where are various things being backed up? Market, etc.

I am trying to figure out how exactly Android Market knows which apps you have downloaded/deleted on your phone, so that when you flash a new rom, etc., it will automatically download your apps.
The last time I flashed a ROM, market did NOT add the apps from my previous rom, but it has done this every other time.
After logging into my Market account from a computer, but it shows a list of the apps I have downloaded in general. It does NOT "sync" which apps I currently have on my phone, and those I have deleted.
Is there a way to edit this list through the Market so that the next time I format my phone only the apps I specifically choose will automatically be sent to my phone?
The time that the apps did NOT come back automatically, I also formatted my microSD and only put a fraction of the files/folders back on it. Is the "list" saved to the microSD card?
Also I find it strange the way my contacts will come back to my phone. After the first "sync" it will only put a fraction of my contacts onto my phone, and it is the same people every time - a very random selection of the contacts, but the same selection every time. THEN after waiting 5 minutes or so, the rest follow. So I am wondering why the phone grabs this particular fraction of contacts first?

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weregoingunion said:
I am trying to figure out how exactly Android Market knows which apps you have downloaded/deleted on your phone, so that when you flash a new rom, etc., it will automatically download your apps.
The last time I flashed a ROM, market did NOT add the apps from my previous rom, but it has done this every other time.
After logging into my Market account from a computer, but it shows a list of the apps I have downloaded in general. It does NOT "sync" which apps I currently have on my phone, and those I have deleted.
Is there a way to edit this list through the Market so that the next time I format my phone only the apps I specifically choose will automatically be sent to my phone?
The time that the apps did NOT come back automatically, I also formatted my microSD and only put a fraction of the files/folders back on it. Is the "list" saved to the microSD card?
Also I find it strange the way my contacts will come back to my phone. After the first "sync" it will only put a fraction of my contacts onto my phone, and it is the same people every time - a very random selection of the contacts, but the same selection every time. THEN after waiting 5 minutes or so, the rest follow. So I am wondering why the phone grabs this particular fraction of contacts first?
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I've also been wondering this very same thing. Here's what I've learned, so far:
If you bypass the very first Google sign-in after flashing a new rom, market won't restore your apps (as per gtgx65x).
Under settings > privacy, there's a 'Backup My Settings' option. From reading the Google mobile web page, my understanding is that this is what controls app backup/restore, among other things.
Apparently, and I have yet to actually experiment with this, if you toggle it off, it will "clear" the backups that currently reside on Google servers. Toggling it back on would of course back up your app list, and other things, as it exists currently.
This would be helpful for those who find that when market starts restoring things, it restores *too* much, as in apps you had long since uninstalled, as is the case with me. Market is remembering and reinstalling stuff I haven't had on my phone for quite some time.
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[A] Been Rooted Nook/NST/N2E/n2e, anon

Hi All,
Recently suffering a near Bricked unit--after rooting and messing about, I must share a procedure to both recover the believed brick, and both root and make a bit more of this mere reader unit.
Many thanks to those of You Who Have Served code, I salute You! Thanks!
Many thanks to those of You Who Have Implemented Served Code, intrepid explorers into tiny worlds unknown, or known less, save for the bitter pill of suffered faults and need to "do over," I salute You and the tales You've shared on fora I am unable to--yet--participate... and so, my tale, here...
Please read these procedures FIRST, then follow them.
IF, you must "do over":
A-While powering on the NST, hold both left and right lower page-advance buttons for 20 seconds. You might get a "Reset" screen, but what you are seeking is the "Recover" screen. If you originally had a f/w 1.0.0, or 1.0.1 purchased device, to proceed with this procedure, get the f/w 1.1.0 from B&N and follow instructions here.
IMPORTANT: Set up your B&N account with your Google Account email, and create associated Google accounts with this same email...
1. Create a google.com account, including email, maps, calendar and YouTube.
2. DO NOT Login to market.android.com before attempting connection with your Nook: the "device" must make first contact.
3. Create a B&N account at their website with your Google account email addr.
4. Yes, it seems overkill, but I first followed this touchnooter procedure
WAIT... do not set the default launcher to ADW, it will break the B&N apps!
Yes, after reboots, you must select the launcher every time, but a small price for keeping both the B&N and "Rooted Forever" experiences equally functioning!
BE SURE TO REFORMAT YOUR miniSD CARD before continuing.
5. Follow the SalsichaNooter procedure...
EXCEPTION: you DO NOT need login to YouTube because the previous data/config will not be wiped during this second rooting expedition.
AGAIN... do not set the default launcher, see above.
6. Go to opera.com with your computer and d/l the Opera Mini android apk, then transfer this to your NST. Install, and remove the "mobile" version.
7. With your computer's browser, visit market.andriod.com and find "searchmarket.apk"... when you select install, it will "find" your nook and install it... brill!
8. Reboot the NST.
9. Using SearchMarket, install CalendarPad (b/c you want a widget that can *use* your Google Calendar--I installed the Pro version b/c I had thought it would help... not really needed. Install Synker. Run the Market app (which will show nothing in apps, until you run Synker), then select "Downloads"... you will see an "Updates" tab; select this and it will update ES File Manager with a functional root access...
So, now I have an NST with email, web, calendar (Maps is interesting, but not that useful, yet) and no issues with B&N Shop, nor connecting to WiFi spots... and all Calendar events and tasks sync both up and down...
...BECAUSE I did not select a default launcher, set up all Google services before rooting, and installed Synker *after* all other apps, so accounts would be pre-established.
Final note: I previously attempted an ADB connection over USB, and (I think now, mistakenly) ran `adb usb' which foobard my WiFi... fyi, I suspect the state is preserved, even over reboots.
hth, Be Good,
/falls

Have screwed up Play Store and keyboard on rooted tablet, stuck trying to repair it

Hi, I have a MID-756, also known as an F900, Quadcore A33, with Android 4.4.2. A bog-standard cheap tablet, but having installed a 10,000mah battery, quite a useful device that lasts for several days.
The performance isn't super-sparkly and it does appear to run out of some types of memory sometimes, with browsers prone to shutting down without warning when reading newspaper websites. So I purchased Link2SD Pro and moved as many things as possible to the internal SD card. This also allows you to set some system programs as user programs, which then enables you to move them to the SD card as well, which is very useful.
I also did this with google play store and google play services, and that is when it went wrong, as google play store no longer worked. Based on things other people suggested, I tried various things like clearing caches, but that didn't work. I tried to use the browser to go to the play store and update them, but it said things like, "App will be installed later" - but which never happened. I tried to download google play services and play store APK's from a repository and after deleting the originals I installed them from the APKs. It nearly worked - it got to checking permissions, but instead of starting the download progress bar it said, "Unfortunately google play store has stopped", or words to that effect. Based on one suggestion I tried clearing the data for services and google services framework, and then it wouldn't even connect to the store at all.
So I saved important things and then did a factory reset, under the naive impression that it would restore it to how it had arrived. I discovered that it only clears user data and programs, and does not restore system apps that you've stupidly deleted. Having reinstalled the play services and play store from the downloaded APK's it still wouldn't actually download anything as it failed at the progress bar stage with the same message as before - "Unfortunately google play has stopped".
The other thing is that after doing a complete reset the keyboard became chinese, and having to use the old 'Nokia' way of entering English using a numeric keypad is a nuisance. So I'm keen to be able to restore the Play store function so I can at least download a better keyboard.
I've tried to download the gapps file, saving it on an external SD card and installing it on its own as suggested by one person, even going to the Pico version and each time I get "E: Error in /tmp/sideload / package.zip (status error 255)", which apparently means not enough memory according to one person.
I have looked for a custom ROM to install from scratch, but there don't appear to be any for this model. I considered reinstalling the original ROM I downloaded (exdroid4.4.2_r2-a33-v2.0) but I haven't found a mid-756 driver file so my understanding is that it is highly likely to fail.
I can't now reinstall the Link2SD app in order to set the play-related apps back to system apps again either, even though I tried uninstalling and then reinstalling on my rooted phone in order to get the .APK files and then transfer them across to the tablet. It appeared that the .APK files were automatically deleted from both the app and the Pro licence app.
I'm feeling I've right royally screwed my tablet. I know it wasn't that expensive, but it is pretty useful with the massive battery so I'd really appreciate any pointers to help fix it. I've read the suggested threads but as I can't find a driver file for this device, reinstalling the whole ROM from scratch doesn't seem like a good idea. Is it safe to clear the Dalvik cache and reinstall a whole gapps package though? I'm cautious because so far clearing other caches does not seem to have improved anything and in one case made it worse.
Very grateful for any help received!
Mike

Ok, didn't get any help but finally fixed it and people might like to know how I did it:
To recap, the situation was: Rooted MID-756 / F900 tablet, having deleted play store after it stopped working when I made it a non-system app, and after doing a full reset, found that the only keyboard option was a japanese one with Nokia-style input for Western typeface. Complete nuisance to use and with hardly any even standard apps remaining after I'd previously moved them to SD card, which was then wiped when I did full reset. So, close to useless.
Solution: Use another Android 4.2 phone, and for each of the following apps, [ Google play services, play store, Link2SD, Link2SD (new)] do the following steps:
a) in Link2SD, select an app.
b) in the details screen, from the options menu, select 'share apk'. You may need to scroll the menu up if your screen doesn't show it.
c) When the share apk options come up, select 'google drive'
d) go to your PC, and in google drive, change the name to xxxxx.apk . I don't know why the .apk seems to get missed off, but you need to add it back in again.
e) Once you've done all four apps, copy all of them to a micro SD card.
f) Put the micro SD card in your tablet.
g) in a file manager, go to the external SD card, and click on the google play services.apk. This will take you through the install procedure. When it has finished installing, reboot.
h) Do the same with Link2SD and Link2SD(new). Even if it says that the licence won't verify (it will show a red triangle next to the name when the app is open), don't worry. Select google play services, and in the detail screen, from the options menu select 'convert to system app'. Then reboot again.
i) Do the same with Play Store - install apk, reboot, convert to system app using link2SD and reboot again.
f) Open Play Store. You will probably have to go through some account setting up of google play store which should be familiar to you. This time when you get to play store and try downloading or updating something it should work. If it still doesn't, do one more reboot.
You can now restore all your previous apps, including the google keyboard if you've screwed that up by doing a hard reset. You will now be able to use a proper keyboard again.
If Link2SD was not verifying the licence for the paid version, when play store is working again you should find it will now check the licence properly.
The moral of the story: Play store does not work as a user app, it needs to be a system app, so don't try to convert it to a user app in the first place.

coolinventor said:
Ok, didn't get any help but finally fixed it
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Ok so I think you are new to xda and so I want to tell you that you will only get a reply when you post summarized threads.
Posting long posts will not get much attention
You can post small posts and then just elaborate your problem when you get a reply
Remember my advice next time whenever you post
Regards milkyway3

You're correct - Point taken, thanks

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You're correct - Point taken, thanks
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Always thank the post using the thanks button whenever you get any help because it is meant for it and these thanks are recorded by the xda community
Regards milkyway3

Doh! I'll get the hang of it eventually

Backup app data without root?

This is the first time I have bought a phone without a known method for rooting. I have always used Titanium Backup to backup and restore apps+data whenever I bought a new phone but unfortunately without root, this won't work. Can some one suggest another method to transfer app data from my Oneplus 3T to Pixel 2? I tried Helium but it shows "Backup Disallowed" for several of my installed apps.

Did you try using the data transfer process that is part of the initial setup on the phone? It walks you through connecting a cable between your old phone and new one and then is supposed to transfer everything.
That said, people have had extremely inconsistent results with this. I've seen people say it transferred everything no problem. Others that it didn't work. For me in transferred a lot of phone settings, but not all, wifi passwords, but not contacts or calender data; and all it did with apps was redownload them from the store and not transfer the actual data and settings at all. I had to redo settings myself, manually copy data that was on the sdcard partition, and for any apps that had a feature to export their settings to a file and then reimport them on the other phone I did that by hand.
The other possible option that I'm aware of is to use the settings on your old phone that allows Google to backup your app data to the cloud and then sync it on the new phone. I did not do that, because I don't want Google to have all my personal information. But perhaps that works. I have the sense that the whole data transfer process works best when you just let Google invade your soul as deeply as possible, because that's what they are really after.
But those less than optimal options aside, I think that transferring app data without root is pretty much impossible, since most of it resides in the /data directory which is not accessible without root.
Yeah, this sucks. Personally this is the first and last time I will buy a device at the moment of release, before root is available.

Edit: Never mind, I see you already tried Helium

Android Debug Bridge is what you're looking for. In short: enable USB debugging, install ADB, connect to computer with USB.
You can backup an app with:
adb backup -f backupfileonyourcomputer.ab packagename
You can get the packagename from the address bar if you check the application page on Play Store in a browser.
Restoring an app:
adb restore backupfileonyourcomputer.ab
You could backup all apps at once, but then can only restore the whole bulk later. (Possible to extract apps, but it's tedious)
If you need more details just search for adb backup.
Cloud save is also working really well, as stated above, but some apps don't support it. I use adb to move those from one device to another. Finally some apps have backup disabled by the developers, well.... no luck if you have some of those.

Brand new phone (TYT ip98) won't install any apps

The phone is brand new, runs Android 9 and - like the title says - won't install any apps. This happens either if I want to download apps from the store (the download happens but then I get an error message that the app can't be installed) or if I want to install an apk file from my sd card.
On the internet dozens of sites keep repeating to clear cache and data from Google store and Play services. No way! Even after a factory reset the situation doesn't change.
I also flashed the phone with its firmware ... the result stays the same.
I tried changing user account and double-checked my connection.
I will eventually return the phone to the seller, but, until then is there anything else I might try that escaped me?
Thank you

The cause for this problem ( Error 910 ) is that there is not enough available storage space.
Fix: Make some space.

try to install apps from browser (open google play on your computer and login to your play account that added to your phone ), remote installation , the apps will be installed your device , then open google play and you will be able to install apps directly from google play

Thank you jwoegerbauer and eslamdiaa2 for your replies.
Jwoegerbauer, the phone is new and no apps have been installed. I'm attaching a pic to prove there is plenty of space.
eslamdiaa2 I did try the remote installation. The app is sent to the phone but the result is the same: can't be installed (like in the picture of my opening post). Besides, I also said I can't even install apk files from my sd card.

ok, try to clear cache for google play services , and restart your phone

Been there done that. Like I said it in my opening post.

I have the same issue. Please try this code ( *#13579*# )

Thank you so much kiwi1688. That code WORKED!!! You're a life saver!!!

There may be various reasons behind this error, but for now, you can check and follow these steps whether they are working for you or not.
Clear the cache and data of the Play Store
This gives the app a fresh start and can help fix issues.
Steps are:
Open your device's Settings app.
Tap Apps & notifications See all apps.
Scroll down and tap Google Play Store.
Tap Storage Clear Cache.
Next, tap Clear data.
Re-open the Play Store and try your download again.

Thanks bracknelson but in my case it was NOT a question of clearing cache and data (which was the very first thing I have done). Odd enough I had to "enable" app installation with the code provided by kiwi1688. After entering the code a confirmation message appeared and since then I was able to install any apps.
Before that I was about to return the phone to the manufacturer because it was far from my mind there was a code to be entered. Weird!