For whatever reason, when I switched roms from CM 6.0.2 to ShadowRom, all of my apps (not just paid apps) were not only available through the market, but automatically downloaded and installed. On the other hand, my brother just made the exact same switch and none of the apps he had are there. Is there something I unknowingly did differently that caused them to be there?
I did make a Titanium Backup, but ShadowRom does not come with Titanium Backup installed so I had to wait for the market to download/install it before I could restore all of my app data. I did a complete wipe before installing the new rom, and I did not have Google backups enable as far as I know.
Any ideas? I feel guilty for having informed my brother that the market would install all of his apps, but mine did so I assumed his would as well.
I did complete wipes on two phones:
Incredible, with Root RUU = returned zero apps.
Moto Droid, cm6 = returned all apps.
I figured I did an incomplete step on the moto droid.
There's a new setting that allows everything to be backed up into Google's cloud.
It is an option on your Google account. That option, to my knowledge, is not available on the stock sense-based roms... but is on aosp-based roms like Ruby or CM6.
Where can this setting be found? Not that I want to turn it off, I just want to help my brother turn it on.
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I upgraded my htc desire from opendesire 4.0.33 to opendesire 4.0.36 and usually in the past when I transferred phones or upgraded roms, all my downloaded and installed applications, widgets and live wallpapers would be restored once I signed in to my account.
why is it not restoring this time? did I do something wrong?
I have both "backup my data" and "automatic restore" cekced in settings.
anyone have an idea?
Can someone please help?
I switch phones often and it would be nice to be able to have all my programs and live wallpapers from the old phone install automatically on my new phone.
bigneeker said:
I upgraded my htc desire from opendesire 4.0.33 to opendesire 4.0.36 and usually in the past when I transferred phones or upgraded roms, all my downloaded and installed applications, widgets and live wallpapers would be restored once I signed in to my account.
why is it not restoring this time? did I do something wrong?
I have both "backup my data" and "automatic restore" cekced in settings.
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An alternate is Titanium Backup Guess you already knew that, but mentioning it just in case you don't knew it... It's not automatic, but some kind of semi-automatic. You will have to push some buttons to restore
It backs up from one device to the other?
What does it back up exactly?
also does it backup automatically at certain times? I don't always remember to back things up every time I install a new program.
I'm just surprised that it stopped automatically restoring things. Did I do anything wrong to get rid of it?
Mine restores when I flash a new ROM. But it always appears to be a really old backup Google have of my apps. I don't know why. Now I just use Titanium Backup. It's better and gives you more control.
So i have just flashed to the latest Oxygen ROM and when I logged into Android Market loads of apps started auto installing. Cool, this has never happened before. I noticed though that none of the apps were my apps, they were all random. I'm guessing they were associated with the ROM ?
SO I'm thinking this would be awesome if it could do this with all my apps rather than using Titanium Backup and having to click 'Install' and 'Done' 80 times over. Quite annoying when I try out new roms and updates at least 2-3 times a month.
Now I have 2 questions on this. No1) Why when I have restored all my apps using Titanium Backup does the app not show in My Apps on the market?
No2) How can I get the market to backup my apps and auto restore the next time I flash a new ROM?
It seems kind of random. Some sense roms will autorestore all the apps you ever have downloaded from the market (hd roms i believe).
Your restored apps dont show in the market since you didnt aquire them through that method. If you go to the installed apps menu under android settings you will find them.
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I know HD ROMs do this but never had it happen in any other ROM personally
I just had my Acer Iconia auto restore, and it used apps that I have currently on my phone.... I had the News360 PHONE app install on my tablet, among other incompatible apps (however News360 did work). Anyone know how to enable/disable this market / apps auto restore?
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I sell/rent that tablet at rent a center. Random I know
I do this after flashing a new ROM :
After flashing and rebooting comes the "set up wizard" or something...
When it asks you to put a Google account, skip this part and complete the 'wizard'...
Then, you go to settings-privacy, and untick the 'Automatic restore'.
I'm almost sure it also won't restore the bookmarks and stuff...
should be to do with the google backup and restore feature i think.
it doesn't happen with me every time though because sometimes google market thinks i have a new phone and it re-registers itself on the market (shows up as an unnamed device)...
HTC took the feature out of Froyo roms for the desire (no idea why) if i remember right it was there in eclair though.
but it was in the DHD Roms with froyo...
hopefully they put it back in for the GB rom.
I recently started experimenting with newer gingerbread ROMS, which seem to work fine, but I can't see any of my previously purchased / downloaded apps in the market!
This is a big problem for me... how do I get to my old apps??
I'm sure I'm logged in with the right user account, and this happens on every single ROM out there.
What's the solution here?!? I need the apps I bought back!
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come on guys, I need some help here.. I already tried installing 6 different roms,
Kings, Myn, Fresh, SNS and more... none of them show me my apps!
How can I get all my paid apps back??
Not sure but you should of used titanium backup.
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Yes, hindsight is always 20/20.. how about trusting Google to remember which apps I bought?
I've changed roms numerous times and the list of purchased apps are always present when I initiate the Market app. Have you actually signed in with your Google credentials? Have you made a nandroid backup of a previous setup? If so, restore the backup and your apps should be restored, at least the ones that were backed up. If you haven't, then a lesson has been learneand I mean that respectfully. The next time you get your EVO setup how you want, the first thing you should do is go into recovery and create a nandroid backup and the second thing you should do is maneuver to the /data/app/ folder and copy all of your 3rd party .apk files and place them on a folder on your computer or external drive. Update the .apk files accordingly.
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My understanding is that GingerBread (2.3.x) will handle automatically restoring your apps after a wipe or you switch between ROM (each with clean wipe).
It asks about "backing up google".
I'm currently using MikG 0.5 and was using MikG RC1 for quite a while (since it was released 3 weeks?).
I was hoping starting with a fresh wipe it would restore my apps but it does not.
I think on one of these gingerbread ROMs (I've tried a bunch) I think it did partially restore apps. Not just paid ones. I forget if it was complete or not.
Is there something explicit you have to do to make this all work?
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My understanding is that GingerBread (2.3.x) will handle automatically restoring your apps after a wipe or you switch between ROM (each with clean wipe).
It asks about "backing up google".
I'm currently using MikG 0.5 and was using MikG RC1 for quite a while (since it was released 3 weeks?).
I was hoping starting with a fresh wipe it would restore my apps but it does not.
I think on one of these gingerbread ROMs (I've tried a bunch) I think it did partially restore apps. Not just paid ones. I forget if it was complete or not.
Is there something explicit you have to do to make this all work?
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That still seems to be hit or miss. Is there any reason you're not using Titanium Backup?
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That still seems to be hit or miss. Is there any reason you're not using Titanium Backup?
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Because I don't like it. Recently I wanted to use it for a piece of software for TTS I bought and was no longer available in the Market. And it completely fell on it's face. All I did was copy the APK from system from a restored back up and it installed fine.
I also don't want to restore potentially incompatible apps. I assume Google will trigger Market to install latest right from the start.
I also don't have to explicitly choose what to back up and what to restore.
I've seen the Google Stuff work, and it works well when it works.
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Because I don't like it. Recently I wanted to use it for a piece of software for TTS I bought and was no longer available in the Market. And it completely fell on it's face. All I did was copy the APK from system from a restored back up and it installed fine.
I also don't want to restore potentially incompatible apps. I assume Google will trigger Market to install latest right from the start.
I also don't have to explicitly choose what to back up and what to restore.
I've seen the Google Stuff work, and it works well when it works.
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That's the problem. Honestly, TB can be complicated to use but what you're describing sounds like user error. You also don't have to explicitly choose what to backup and restore in TB either. Just go into Menu > Batch > Backup all user apps to backup and then Restore all user apps when you want to restore. Then just use the Market to update any out of date apps. It takes forever for the Market to get your apps back anyway, I always use TB and so does almost anyone else on a custom ROM.
Call me a purist, but I don't like Titanium Backup either. Granted, I don't use a ton of market apps, only about a dozen or so ... just not a problem. To get back to the original question, Google has always restored my apps on CM6/7, up to and including the 3-7 gapps. The newer gapps used with Android 2.3.4 are where everything began to break down.
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That's the problem. Honestly, TB can be complicated to use but what you're describing sounds like user error. You also don't have to explicitly choose what to backup and restore in TB either. Just go into Menu > Batch > Backup all user apps to backup and then Restore all user apps when you want to restore. Then just use the Market to update any out of date apps. It takes forever for the Market to get your apps back anyway, I always use TB and so does almost anyone else on a custom ROM.
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I don't want to back it up like that. I think it causes problems.
I backed up this app explicitly, went to restore explicitly and it didn't work. Pretty Simple.
I'd like the google feature. I want something that coordinates with the mark app and installs the instead if the backup is old.
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I don't want to back it up like that. I think it causes problems.
I backed up this app explicitly, went to restore explicitly and it didn't work. Pretty Simple.
I'd like the google feature. I want something that coordinates with the mark app and installs the instead if the backup is old.
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Hello everyone,
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Lately, I have been trying to find a good rom to use after many crashes of Andromadus V13. I am using the latest Anrdomadus Mimicry now and its great. Though, I realized that I didn't transfer any of my apps. As I was rooting a few ROMS previous to it, some would install a majority of the apps and others would require me to install them myself. Im curious of why this is so.
the auto restore is a function of the market, I don't like this method and choose no when I sign in (don't like wasting time and slowing things down cause of all the data over network or wifi
titanium back is my personal favorite way to restore apps on a new rom, there are other apps that will do this (romtollbox etc) tb will do texts but I have had issues with it
I use sms backup + for that and connect it to my google account
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Apps are tied to your Google Play account and normally get automatically re-installed after you start your phone back up after a new ROM. Except, sometimes installing your ROM gives your phone a new "name" and Google Play doesn't know that it's the same phone (even though it's on the same account). So, if you go to Google Play on your computer, you would have more than one choice of phones to download apps to - your old phone name and your new phone name. And I've also had the occasional app out of many that just doesn't re-install for some reason.
Two words : Titanium Backup (though mainly only useful if you can restore your old rom, run a backup, then flash the new rom back).
While google can half-ass restore your downloads (settings may not always be intact), Titanium Backup will actually restore all your backed up apps along with their full settings/etc. It can also restore your rom's Android ID so that restored apps don't conflict.
But yea since you already have it, you should know least that much. Personally I have not found anything better than 4EXT Recovery and Titanium Backup Pro when it comes to backing up and restoring data.
ps: it can backup your SMS/Call Logs/Wifi Access points, etc to XML files on your SD card which can be re-imported later, just in case the SMS/Etc backups performed are not compatible with your new rom's apps.