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I'll be able to upgrade my phone in June and was wondering if I had to re-purchase apps on a new Android device. Does it depend on the app or can you re-download all of them, at no cost, to the new device?
Thanks in advance.
You can re-download those apps you paid for. Just sign in with the Google account you used to buy the apps.
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It's done through your google account through the market
Since the Market uses your google account, as long as you login using the same Gmail address, you will be able to re-download purchased apps.
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Thanks guys. The EVO was my first personal smart phone so I wasn't sure how that was handled. I was worried that you'd have to buy everything from scratch for each new device you owned.
m4rk0358 said:
Thanks guys. The EVO was my first personal smart phone so I wasn't sure how that was handled. I was worried that you'd have to buy everything from scratch for each new device you owned.
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Na, that would suck, who are we apple
iitreatedii said:
Na, that would suck, who are we apple
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Haha! Good point
m4rk0358 said:
I'll be able to upgrade my phone in June and was wondering if I had to re-purchase apps on a new Android device. Does it depend on the app or can you re-download all of them, at no cost, to the new device?
Thanks in advance.
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As long as you sign in with the same google account in which you downloaded them under, yes.
And for the free ones, make sure you have them saved on your sd card and you can put those back on too! (or on computer and put them on your new sd)
I'm not sure if its possible or not, but I've always wondered if you upgrade your phone, if you can restore the data in an app from titanium backup. IE i made a backup of my lvl 30 character in zenonia on my evo, and I upgraded to the EVO 3D, or switched to the thunderbolt on verizon. Would You be able to restore the backup in titanium (after the phone is rooted ofc).
Khilbron said:
I'm not sure if its possible or not, but I've always wondered if you upgrade your phone, if you can restore the data in an app from titanium backup. IE i made a backup of my lvl 30 character in zenonia on my evo, and I upgraded to the EVO 3D, or switched to the thunderbolt on verizon. Would You be able to restore the backup in titanium (after the phone is rooted ofc).
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You should, just by restoring the app and data, not the system settings.
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You should, just by restoring the app and data, not the system settings.
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Awesome, that makes upgrading to a new phone a much easier decision, I have several apps that I have taken the time to put alot of data into, and would hate to re-enter that data.
Khilbron said:
Awesome, that makes upgrading to a new phone a much easier decision, I have several apps that I have taken the time to put alot of data into, and would hate to re-enter that data.
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Yea, I know exactly what ya mean. You'll to do your rom over, but the apps will be good to go.
That is very good info to know Hadn't thought about the data restore.....
jayharper08 said:
That is very good info to know Hadn't thought about the data restore.....
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Its the same technique you use when flashing and doing a clean install, you install the apps+data, just not system settings.
Seriously, this is the only thing that makes me root. I used to root for a whole bunch of other stuff, but I've been getting so busy as of late, where flashing just has not been feasible for my time.
On the iPhone, you are able to go into the iCloud settings menu, and tick on or off each and every app+appdata that you want to backup. This puts the data in the cloud, but that part I don't really care about, I'm fine putting the backup data on my 32gb worth of storage. The drive support would be an excellent bonus.
Alas, I don't think it'll happen for a long while... and therefore god bless Titanium Track & his amazing backup app. Although sometimes problematic, it is a handy app.
Google I/O is in a few weeks. Maybe they'll announce something similar.
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The thing is, Google already does this, the issue being hardly any apps take advantage of it, and there's no transparency about which apps do and don't do it.
Since they already do it, I'd hope they just clarify and setup a standard for it.
Yeah, like was said earlier, Google provides a way for apps to include data as a part of the backup that is used when restore. I'm not sure why app developers don't take advantage of it however.
bozzykid said:
Yeah, like was said earlier, Google provides a way for apps to include data as a part of the backup that is used when restore. I'm not sure why app developers don't take advantage of it however.
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Well i tried it and Titanium back has never backed up my entire backup to box, drive, dropbox...It always fails like 10/15 min after starting to upload... "shrug"
Big disadvantage of not having a function similar to icloud
Hi
I love the icloud feature on iOS. If you get a new iphone or ipad, you spend 2 minutes getting everything transfered from old phone/tablet to the new one. Making it very easy to upgrade to newer models.
Why doesn't Android/Samsung give the same functionality? Now I am afraid, if I loose my Galaxy S3, I loose all the settings/apps and stuff. I know there are some rather complicated ways to root and back up, but I want an easy method, where the phone makes a cloud back up, everytime it is connected to wifi, and plugged in, just like iCloud.
In Galaxy S3, there is a feature called device backup with samsung account (which cupposibly should do the same thing), but it keeps coming with some connectivity error.
Could/would anyone help me with this?
Thanks..
Keeping it real.
keepitrealdude said:
Hi
I love the icloud feature on iOS. If you get a new iphone or ipad, you spend 2 minutes getting everything transfered from old phone/tablet to the new one. Making it very easy to upgrade to newer models.
Why doesn't Android/Samsung give the same functionality? Now I am afraid, if I loose my Galaxy S3, I loose all the settings/apps and stuff. I know there are some rather complicated ways to root and back up, but I want an easy method, where the phone makes a cloud back up, everytime it is connected to wifi, and plugged in, just like iCloud.
In Galaxy S3, there is a feature called device backup with samsung account (which cupposibly should do the same thing), but it keeps coming with some connectivity error.
Could/would anyone help me with this?
Thanks..
Keeping it real.
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I clicked "backup camera to dropbox when on wifi" so every picture i take is backed up. and google already saves my contacts and wifi passwords. Not sure what else you need saved, apps?
Also android cant do that because all the phones are different, with different incompatibilities with software. Apple phones are easy because apple makes the phones and the software. Where as android, google makes the OS while the manufacturers make the phones. This is why some get features like that but only for their phones. Android is fragmented.
Android also downloads and installs the apps you had installed before if you choose " backup with Google and restore". I think That's what it says.. All you have to do is sign in with your gmail account. Same with contacts.
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niamul said:
Android also downloads and installs the apps you had installed before if you choose " backup with Google and restore". I think That's what it says.. All you have to do is sign in with your gmail account. Same with contacts.
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But app data doesn't get synced up. That's bad.
impu153 said:
But app data doesn't get synced up. That's bad.
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My wife's iPhone app data does not seem to be backed up.
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As has been mentioned before, this already exists. Google has had it for a while now. The problem is that app developers have to implement it. If there is an app you want to take advantage of that, the only solution would be to harass the app developer until they add it.
This already exist. The reason why no one really knows about it is because Google doesn't brag about it.
They have more stuff then apple and it's better then apple's system.
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They have more stuff then apple and it's better then apple's system.
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Team Google 4 eva!
Darunion said:
I clicked "backup camera to dropbox when on wifi" so every picture i take is backed up. and google already saves my contacts and wifi passwords. Not sure what else you need saved, apps?
Also android cant do that because all the phones are different, with different incompatibilities with software. Apple phones are easy because apple makes the phones and the software. Where as android, google makes the OS while the manufacturers make the phones. This is why some get features like that but only for their phones. Android is fragmented.
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Hi. Thanks. Yes I agree woth you on that, But What I want is a feature like icloud. where I all the apps, and other data are preinstalled after a factory reset and reinstall. Samsung does have a feature called Device backup. Don't know if it does the same thing..
keepitrealdude said:
Hi. Thanks. Yes I agree woth you on that, But What I want is a feature like icloud. where I all the apps, and other data are preinstalled after a factory reset and reinstall. Samsung does have a feature called Device backup. Don't know if it does the same thing..
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at least some third part applications can do that ...
After factory resetting my GS3, the phone does not automatically downloads all my apps from google play but I have to go in and click one by ONE......
I have hundreds of Apps and it will take very long. How come the phone does not do it anymore. It use to do it every time i reset.
what am I missing?
Thanks,
SDJB said:
After factory resetting my GS3, the phone does not automatically downloads all my apps from google play but I have to go in and click one by ONE......
I have hundreds of Apps and it will take very long. How come the phone does not do it anymore. It use to do it every time i reset.
what am I missing?
Thanks,
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Did you have the the Google backup enabled when you first setup your device?
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If you used a backup utility, such as Titanium Backup, it would save you a lot of headache, bandwidth, and time.
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Secret menu
Look under Goofy Play settings. There is a secret option to auto-update all apps. People forgot about that, but not me. Here. Very simple.
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Look under Goofy Play settings. There is a secret option to auto-update all apps. People forgot about that, but not me. Here. Very simple.
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If this is true sir you are a hero! I've been going through phones and OS on those phones a lot lately and installing one by one is really pissing me off. Google backup is a joke. One time in about 50 has google re-installed my apps after a reset.
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If this is true sir you are a hero! I've been going through phones and OS on those phones a lot lately and installing one by one is really pissing me off. Google backup is a joke. One time in about 50 has google re-installed my apps after a reset.
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That's why I only rely on multiple local backups. Cloud backups aren't reliable enough yet.
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Look under Goofy Play settings. There is a secret option to auto-update all apps. People forgot about that, but not me. Here. Very simple.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but this only UPDATES installed apps without user intervention, doesn't actually install an app after a restore correct.. if you've restored how does it know which apps to install?
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That's why I only rely on multiple local backups. Cloud backups aren't reliable enough yet.
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I've never seen a local backup that will do anything more than install a specific version of an app. I want the market app this is up to date and for my current OS. Also I want them to keep receiving updates. If I backed up my apps on 2.3.3 GB Inspire 4G they wouldn't do me much good on ICS GSIII. For that matter some of my ICS apps may trip up JB. I wish I could go on google play, put checkmarks next to the apps I want and have play load them. I hate going through 3 or four screens to install each app. It's as annoying as User Access Control on Win Vista/7.
Sorry but I'm a noon but is there a tutorial on how to use titanium backup to restore multiple apps?
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I'd like to know this too. I used to own the sgs2 and it would piss me off to have to pick and choose my old apps again. But sometimes Google play would do it automatically for me.
Now when using the SGS3 with cm10, it's been pretty good at automatically re downloading my apps. I just need to make sure it stays that way, but I don't know how.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but this only UPDATES installed apps without user intervention, doesn't actually install an app after a restore correct.. if you've restored how does it know which apps to install?
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Google Sync picks up most apps for you. Off course you need to have Google Sync enabled.
As far as data and other complete backup of apps and new versions of the apps you should purchase TiBu. Titanium Backup a must have for Android users.
If the ROM you flash has the option to "restore from Google" while entering your Google login during initial setup of the ROM, then all your apps will be restored.
If you don't get that option, then they won't be restored.
There is no secret setting in Google Play to get the apps to auto-install after the fact.
blasterrr said:
Google Sync picks up most apps for you. Off course you need to have Google Sync enabled.
As far as data and other complete backup of apps and new versions of the apps you should purchase TiBu. Titanium Backup a must have for Android users.
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I just use TiBu, never had a problem and can select which Apps/Data I want to restore.
SDJB said:
After factory resetting my GS3, the phone does not automatically downloads all my apps from google play but I have to go in and click one by ONE......
I have hundreds of Apps and it will take very long. How come the phone does not do it anymore. It use to do it every time i reset.
what am I missing?
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Seriously...hundreds of apps? How many GB is that?
Hi all,
I am a conservative phone user.
What does that mean ?
It means that I want to do something, without it affecting everything else.
For instance: I want to have my emails on my ANDROID.
NO, I dont want my Google contacts in my contact list ... and ...
NO, I dont want to view Youtube videos constantly being logged into my Google account.
I want a perfectly "disintegrated" phone. Where one app doesnt affect all the others.
Also - I hate FACEBOOK, TWITTER and all the other SOCIAL SPY MEDIA out there.
I dont want them on my phone.
NO, I dont want to deactivate them
NO, I dont want to del the icon, just for the program to stay still.
I WANT THEM DEAD AND GONE
And YOU can hopefully tell me HOW TO accomplish these two things... Please
For the google account I don't know, but about the other app you can try to freeze them with titanium backup.
tomthemd said:
Hi all,
I am a conservative phone user.
What does that mean ?
It means that I want to do something, without it affecting everything else.
For instance: I want to have my emails on my ANDROID.
NO, I dont want my Google contacts in my contact list ... and ...
NO, I dont want to view Youtube videos constantly being logged into my Google account.
I want a perfectly "disintegrated" phone. Where one app doesnt affect all the others.
Also - I hate FACEBOOK, TWITTER and all the other SOCIAL SPY MEDIA out there.
I dont want them on my phone.
NO, I dont want to deactivate them
NO, I dont want to del the icon, just for the program to stay still.
I WANT THEM DEAD AND GONE
And YOU can hopefully tell me HOW TO accomplish these two things... Please
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Best way is to create a new gmail email address for your android mobile.
that email address would be anonymous.
Needs 2 GO
Thank You for the replies so far.
I would like to use my normal mail addresses.
The reason behind me disliking the current state is:
Google takes over the whole device. It literally takes a dump over all the phones functions.
I dont want that.
When I log in to my mailaccount, I want to do mails ... and not being logged into all google apps on the phone.
(and into the internet google stuff as well)
Now its with facebook and twitter that I dont want it to track, record and analyze my every move.
(Thats why it needs to go)
tomthemd said:
Thank You for the replies so far.
I would like to use my normal mail addresses.
The reason behind me disliking the current state is:
Google takes over the whole device. It literally takes a dump over all the phones functions.
I dont want that.
When I log in to my mailaccount, I want to do mails ... and not being logged into all google apps on the phone.
(and into the internet google stuff as well)
Now its with facebook and twitter that I dont want it to track, record and analyze my every move.
(Thats why it needs to go)
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What you want is not very easy to achieve.
If you are rooted, I guess it is much easier. the customisation can go deeper.
Steps (in my opinion):
1. At first run of the phone, don't log with google account! don't check any service related to google (keep my phone backed up with google account, for example).
2. before doing anything else, disable the apps you don't need. If you are root you can even uninstall them with some apk (as you are not logged to google, you can not use market, so the app should be saved on sd card before - via backup or whatever).
3. also disable the gapps you don't want (gtalk, etc).
4. remove the settings about the location. activate the mock location in developer section of settings.
5. log to your google account. immediately after, go to accounts and sync and:
a. disable sync (so that no google contacts are synced)
b. go to the settings of the account and uncheck everything that you don't want to be synced. i think you can do only this step, but it is your choice.
6. if you are root, you can install a program to further control the behavior of the apps. it is a personal option, there are multiple choices.
7. make a reboot. your phone should be free (or close) of any google 'integration'. any apps that you don't want to run should not run (twitter, fb, etc).
if I have skipped anything, anyone can update the steps.
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You can selectively sign out of all those apps. YouTube has the option. In Settings>Accounts & Sync uncheck everything you don't want to sync with Google. It's all there, you just have to set it up the way you want. You aren't being forced to are services you don't want to. The only things that need a Google account to work are Play Store and Gmail, for obvious reasons. Even Google Maps won't log you in automatically unless you open Latitude. YouTube signs you in but you can sign out. If you're using any version of Sense or AOSP GB, even the contacts app allows you to store contacts in phone only without syncing to Google. And it won't restore your Google contacts if you uncheck it in settings. In ICS, yes, the People app requires a Google account and can't store local contacts, but if it's THAT big an issue for you, just use a third party dialer like exDialer which has that functionality.
If you want a complete Google-free Android experience, flash CyanogenMod and don't flash Gapps after. You'll have a fully working Android phone minus Google. This also means you won't have Play Store and will have to sideload any apps you want, but that's your caveat.
And about getting rid of apps like Facebook and Twitter (which since you're unable to do, I presume you're running the stock HTC Sense firmware), read around and learn how to root your phone, and then delete the apks for those apps from /system/app. You can unroot after rooting, if that's an issue for you too.
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sashank said:
You can selectively sign out of all those apps. YouTube has the option. In Settings>Accounts & Sync uncheck everything you don't want to sync with Google. It's all there, you just have to set it up the way you want. You aren't being forced to are services you don't want to. The only things that need a Google account to work are Play Store and Gmail, for obvious reasons. Even Google Maps won't log you in automatically unless you open Latitude. YouTube signs you in but you can sign out. If you're using any version of Sense or AOSP GB, even the contacts app allows you to store contacts in phone only without syncing to Google. And it won't restore your Google contacts if you uncheck it in settings. In ICS, yes, the People app requires a Google account and can't store local contacts, but if it's THAT big an issue for you, just use a third party dialer like exDialer which has that functionality.
If you want a complete Google-free Android experience, flash CyanogenMod and don't flash Gapps after. You'll have a fully working Android phone minus Google. This also means you won't have Play Store and will have to sideload any apps you want, but that's your caveat.
And about getting rid of apps like Facebook and Twitter (which since you're unable to do, I presume you're running the stock HTC Sense firmware), read around and learn how to root your phone, and then delete the apks for those apps from /system/app. You can unroot after rooting, if that's an issue for you too.
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You are right with most of the points.
There is only one comment from my side: he does not need to root it. the applications can be disabled without root. the only drawback is the fact that the apps are still there, but they will never start....
Correct. He can do that too. But his issue was that he wants to get rid of them completely.
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tomthemd said:
Hi all,
I am a conservative phone user.
What does that mean ?
It means that I want to do something, without it affecting everything else.
For instance: I want to have my emails on my ANDROID.
NO, I dont want my Google contacts in my contact list ... and ...
NO, I dont want to view Youtube videos constantly being logged into my Google account.
I want a perfectly "disintegrated" phone. Where one app doesnt affect all the others.
Also - I hate FACEBOOK, TWITTER and all the other SOCIAL SPY MEDIA out there.
I dont want them on my phone.
NO, I dont want to deactivate them
NO, I dont want to del the icon, just for the program to stay still.
I WANT THEM DEAD AND GONE
And YOU can hopefully tell me HOW TO accomplish these two things... Please
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Lol, I know what you mean!
You might like LBE privacy guard if you are rooted. It let's you decide which apps can access internet, GPS location, phone id etc.
I also use mybackup pro to freeze a lot of the preinstalled junk that runs in the background. If you are freezing system apps take a nandroid backup first just incase you freeze something that you shouldn't!
There are some apps, which you wont be able to disintegrate without causing something else to crash.
Best way in my books is not to sign in using google under accounts, instead use email app to configure imap gmail.
Or even better, learn how to cook, and make a barebone ROM...maybe you can share it with us if you do get a ROM like that...
okty2k said:
You are right with most of the points.
There is only one comment from my side: he does not need to root it. the applications can be disabled without root. the only drawback is the fact that the apps are still there, but they will never start....
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Imo rooting is the only clean way to remove apps. Using an app to freeze apps causes a layer of crap running that will only hinder performance and potentially cause issues. What he wants is a non associated device. So I agree with rooting and then installing Aosp without gapps. Rooting is so easy anyways you might as well if you want that level of customization.
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Imo rooting is the only clean way to remove apps. Using an app to freeze apps causes a layer of crap running that will only hinder performance and potentially cause issues. What he wants is a non associated device. So I agree with rooting and then installing Aosp without gapps. Rooting is so easy anyways you might as well if you want that level of customization.
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You can't freeze apps without root anyway. Freezing apps does not hinder performance unless you freeze something you shouldn't. There are performance benefits to be had by freezing junk that persistently runs in the background as long as you are careful what you freeze.
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You can't freeze apps without root anyway. Freezing apps does not hinder performance unless you freeze something you shouldn't. There are performance benefits to be had by freezing junk that persistently runs in the background as long as you are careful what you freeze.
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Really? I thought some apps could do it without root, but I have never personally tried it, so you are right I'm sure, and it makes sense. I suppose I see the benefit of freezing too I just would rather remove things all together. Seems cleaner to me.
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hans moleman said:
You can't freeze apps without root anyway. Freezing apps does not hinder performance unless you freeze something you shouldn't. There are performance benefits to be had by freezing junk that persistently runs in the background as long as you are careful what you freeze.
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You can disable the app (without root). That way it will never start....
Hi,
I hate itunes because we all know why.
But what is great about it - I can make backups of all my settings, apps, game progress etc.
In Andrid case you have to be genius to do all that (root the phone, install titanium etc.).
What s Google position regarding Android companion app fo PC?
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Google Play is the alternative. Your mass storage is the alternative. Any computer music utility is the alternative. That's 3
and google sync is an alternative. btw, what is andrid? :silly:
You can make a backup using adb backup or by installing a toolkit without root. Am I missing something here?
Bcoz its easily mountable
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mmm google sync pretty much does everything itunes does. have you ever done a factory reset?
once you enter your gmail login it starts restoring everything. all your apps, contacts, etc.
plus instead of waiting for your entire music library to download onto your phone again, it's instantly accessible from google music.
The idea is that you shouldn't have to make backup of everything all the time and mannage that yourself, when your phone and google's servers can do it for you(and yes it can do it for you). It's just a shame that so few developers have implemented the data backup service introduced with froyo. Currently the only apps on my device storing a data backup, is the settings app, the wallpaper app and another google application...(it does work fine with those apps, my wifi passwords and wallpaper and so on is always backed up and set automatically) Many games and other third party apps could do great with sending a backup of my progress and settings.
drag and drop ftw!
crixley said:
drag and drop ftw!
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exactly who wants to fck with slow azz itunes nazi crap
I am with the OP on this one.
I just tried the ADB method on my wifes RAZR and it didnt work. All app data restored but no applications restored. iTunes is a PITA, and the way that it is pretty much the ONLY way to use you iDevice is pretty stupid. But the principle behind being able to backup and restore everything including games easily is nice. Comparing ADB backup and iTunes backup is just stupid...
Its similar to the way that Windows Restore is a waste of space quite useless, and the TimeMachine on iMac's is very useful and slick.
I would love to have some quick method of transferring game data to all devices. I do not have my xoom rooted, but my Gnex is. PITA
At least for music there is doubleTwist which is ok
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ADB backup is the way, but unfortunately only good for Nexus devices, but my opinion is that a punishment to fools who buy not a Nexus device, so yes if you use ADB you much smarter the other and maybe bought the device for developer purpose. It's not easy for someone to enter a number of lines in ADB, yes iTunes maybe nazzi crap, but guys OP still have a point there, it an organizer, the app don't need stuff to like sync Gmail or Gcal, but it still would be useful to backup settings and game saves and so, at least just make us a program that could backup without using ADB and with some cute UI..:cyclops:
Play music?
You mean that?:laugh:
Its a pity the play music service isn't available in most countries, we just get a stupid play music app that does nothing besides play music that we dragged an dropped into our sdcard ourselves.
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altimax98 said:
I am with the OP on this one.
I just tried the ADB method on my wifes RAZR and it didnt work. All app data restored but no applications restored. iTunes is a PITA, and the way that it is pretty much the ONLY way to use you iDevice is pretty stupid. But the principle behind being able to backup and restore everything including games easily is nice. Comparing ADB backup and iTunes backup is just stupid...
Its similar to the way that Windows Restore is a waste of space quite useless, and the TimeMachine on iMac's is very useful and slick.
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Actually, you don't need to use iTunes at all anymore unless you want to.
altimax98 said:
I am with the OP on this one.
I just tried the ADB method on my wifes RAZR and it didnt work. All app data restored but no applications restored. iTunes is a PITA, and the way that it is pretty much the ONLY way to use you iDevice is pretty stupid. But the principle behind being able to backup and restore everything including games easily is nice. Comparing ADB backup and iTunes backup is just stupid...
Its similar to the way that Windows Restore is a waste of space quite useless, and the TimeMachine on iMac's is very useful and slick.
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Sorry but how is Windows Restore useless?
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Actually, you don't need to use iTunes at all anymore unless you want to.
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I didnt know that. I thought it was still required for activation... Its been a while lol
Zwarx said:
Sorry but how is Windows Restore useless?
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Have you ever used Time Machine? Its fantastic. Windows Restore has never assisted with an issues when I F'd up. It may be great for full system restores but it has never worked for me when I needed a certain portion or program or folder restored.
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bat0nas said:
Hi,
I hate itunes because we all know why.
But what is great about it - I can make backups of all my settings, apps, game progress etc.
In Andrid case you have to be genius to do all that (root the phone, install titanium etc.).
What s Google position regarding Android companion app fo PC?
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it's usb mountable... so you only have to drag and drop (multimedia...) or sync from google's servers...
bigcignus said:
it's usb mountable... so you only have to drag and drop (multimedia...) or sync from google's servers...
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I wish it was true. I am not talking about multimedia. I have not only mp3 in my phone. But tons of other stuff as well.
And no pc app to manage that.
And google servers can sync just settings and wallpaper. 1% out of what I really want to sync/backup.
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