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Use nandroid backup on other phone?

I just spent a long time tweaking my current system,
TPR 2.21
CC_V2
Apps installed etc...
I'm about to do the whole process for my wifes phone, & I was curious if I could restore MY nandroid backup on her phone, and then just change the account info stuff...
Or is it so much hastle that way that it's better just to install fresh?
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I do it for my GF's phone with all 3 of her replacements. Has to be Epic to Epic of course.
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kennyglass123 said:
I do it for my GF's phone with all 3 of her replacements. Has to be Epic to Epic of course.
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I just tried, and it looked great, but the only way I could unlink my google account was to [privacy->clear all data] but that messed it up... is there a was just to unlink and relink to another account?
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EDIT - i did a triple wipe data in CMW and now it looks good... curious though about unlinking an account if it's possible

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I just tried, and it looked great, but the only way I could unlink my google account was to [privacy->clear all data] but that messed it up... is there a was just to unlink and relink to another account?
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EDIT - i did a triple wipe data in CMW and now it looks good... curious though about unlinking an account if it's possible
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i found this below on another site and i'm going to check it out
http://androidforums.com/ally-all-t...ount-android-without-doing-factory-reset.html
Remove main Google account from Android without doing a factory reset.
This worked on my ally running 2.2 Froyo with Cricket flash---Its good for those of you needing to change your primary Google account and dont want to lose any flashing or apps---I only lost the emails and contacts from the primary account so I suggest you back them up if you want to keep them.
You can do this if your phone is rooted:
All you have to do is use Root Explorer and go to /data/system/ find accounts.db and rename it to accounts.db.bak so I could just name it back if I had a problem instead of doing a restore. I also did a Nandroid backup.. Reboot your phone and goto settings>accounts and sync>add account and your good to go!!!!
*You can use AntTek Explorer instead of Root Explorer--its free
**I would do a NANDROID backup before, just in case you delete the wrong file accidentally.
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oxsolid said:
i found this below on another site and i'm going to check it out
http://androidforums.com/ally-all-t...ount-android-without-doing-factory-reset.html
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IT WORKED!!! but then i got the Google talk authentication failed error like below
Ok as fortune would have it I had to use this trick recently with my wifes phone recently.
So I did it worked great.
The only problem is now it is occasionally asking on both my phone and hers
Google talk authentication failed.
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So then i found this:
How to fix google talk authentication failed
I just thought id post this information so everyone wouldn't have to search for it. Go to settings-applications-manage applications and scroll down to market and clear data then scroll down to google services framework and clear data then reboot you're phone and that's it enjoy. Remember it will take about 10 minutes to be able to use the market again.
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I had to use titanium backup to to the wipe data, but it did the trick
{i only did this on the *NEW PHONE*}
to validate, i did a google talk -> google talk chat session between the phones.
Previously undoable
Now i'm going to make a nandorid of my wifes phone so i don't have to do this again!!

oxsolid said:
I just tried, and it looked great, but the only way I could unlink my google account was to [privacy->clear all data] but that messed it up... is there a was just to unlink and relink to another account?
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EDIT - i did a triple wipe data in CMW and now it looks good... curious though about unlinking an account if it's possible
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I think you have to add the second account then delete the first in syncs. Could be wrong though.
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Automatically download all my apps from google play.

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?
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You're missing Titantium Backup :good:

Why two threads about this?
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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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When you first setup your phone after a clean ROM flash it usually ask you if you want to sync up your Google applications. If you unchecked one of the options it will not automatically sync Google Apps from the Play Store. For me i prefer not to autosync and use Titanium Backup to restore my apps. This is much faster. There are some apps which when restore with TBU will not activate properly and for those i am not restoring from backup.
You could also access the Play Store from a web browser and directly send the installation to you phone. This way you don't have to waste time going through each App on your phone.

Yeah it doesn't work for me either. It worked great on my Galaxy Note but has never worked on the S3 anyone have a clue on how to fix this??? THanks

I'm having the same problem.... That sucks.

Use Rom toolbox its amazing and the dev actually helps you
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Is there a way of running the wizard that was at the first boot of the rom again..?

justin860 said:
Use Rom toolbox its amazing and the dev actually helps you
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Plus 1 on this. Great app.
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Safe to remove bloatware apps?

i didnt see any thread in here for the safe to remove apps on the Note 2
anybody have a list?

I think this is a legitimate question. For those of us that choose to remove system apps without using an Aroma type program we can really mess up functionality if we delete the wrong stuff. I would like to see a thread where a qualified Dev makes a list of all the system apps that come pre installed and tells us whether they are safe to remove or not

IIRC that stupid Sprint Connections Optimizer can at best only be frozen...if you try to remove it bad things happen. Most of the other bloat you can live without ime.
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Yeah I've seen lists made for other devices
Earlier I removed one I was almost was harmless to remove but then my notification bar disappeared. Luckily I recovered it
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Titaniums Backup is your friend. Backup everything, then freeze, test. If ok, then delete and test. If ok, cool. If not, restore or unfreeze.

Masturbatoe said:
i didnt see any thread in here for the safe to remove apps on the Note 2
anybody have a list?
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Here you go:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1910885

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Here you go:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1910885
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Thanks much!
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Notifications keeps resetting back to silent.

I'm sure it's an app that's causing this issue, buy I cant figure this out. My notifications keep resetting to silent some how. Mainly my email notification sounds and occasionally my text message sounds.
Anyone experience this too, or found the culprit?

Do you installed any battery saver app? If yes check the setting for this app and stop the "auto turn off sync"
or install an app called " auto sync" available in the store..
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Having same issue since flashing the latest sabre kernel.
Oh and no battery saving apps.
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Hussein Aljaza'ary said:
Do you installed any battery saver app? If yes check the setting for this app and stop the "auto turn off sync"
or install an app called " auto sync" available in the store..
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Yeah, no battery apps loaded here...just a few basic one's...I only got this phone a few months (May) ago... funny thing is that it kept happening on my old Samsung Galaxy S2 rooted and unrooted ways....

Homeuser66 said:
Yeah, no battery apps loaded here...just a few basic one's...I only got this phone a few months (May) ago... funny thing is that it kept happening on my old Samsung Galaxy S2 rooted and unrooted ways....
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Yeah I was going to tell you to go check what was the last thing you installed last? That might b causing the problem your having! Fyi
Most of those battery app's are junk and don't really help you! That's why I learned with my Skyrocket, not to use unnecessary app's. I've tried everything with that phone. And over time you'll see what is good and what is junk!
So NOW if you want to clear out the audio setting!
Then go into setting, applications, All, setting, clear data, reboot into recovery and then wipe cache & dalvik and see if it's still happening. After you set up your audio sounds! Might b something that was, corrupt in the data causing it!
Just my 2¢®
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Bajanman said:
Yeah I was going to tell you to go check what was the last thing you installed last? That might b causing the problem your having! Fyi
Most of those battery app's are junk and don't really help you! That's why I learned with my Skyrocket, not to use unnecessary app's. I've tried everything with that phone. And over time you'll see what is good and what is junk!
So NOW if you want to clear out the audio setting!
Then go into setting, applications, All, setting, clear data, reboot into recovery and then wipe cache & dalvik and see if it's still happening. After you set up your audio sounds! Might b something that was, corrupt in the data causing it!
Just my 2¢®
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Sorry..but I'm not rooted...this is for a Rooted phone...I'm going to wait on rooting this...

Homeuser66 said:
Sorry..but I'm not rooted...this is for a Rooted phone...I'm going to wait on rooting this...
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Clearing out your setting data, you don't need to b rooted to do that FYI.
And another thing if it's a real problem for you then do a FDR [factory data reset] and you should b good to go then.
I'll say search read and you'll find your answer!!
Just my 2¢®
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Bajanman said:
Clearing out your setting data, you don't need to b rooted to do that FYI.
And another thing if it's a real problem for you then do a FDR [factory data reset] and you should b good to go then.
I'll say search read and you'll find your answer!!
Just my 2¢®
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Roger that! Thanks! I keep doing just that...and it keeps defaulting to this..weird..

Homeuser66 said:
Roger that! Thanks! I keep doing just that...and it keeps defaulting to this..weird..
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And it's all stock, no root no nothing! Take that crap back to the store, and ask them for a replacement!!
For the resetting part, might need to wipe internal as well.
I had to when I was having some issue with a few things!! Just back up what ya want to keep first!!!!
If you haven't done it already!! Just trying to fix ya prob 4 YA!
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Bajanman said:
And it's all stock, no root no nothing! Take that crap back to the store, and ask them for a replacement!!
For the resetting part, might need to wipe internal as well.
I had to when I was having some issue with a few things!! Just back up what ya want to keep first!!!!
If you haven't done it already!! Just trying to fix ya prob 4 YA!
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No...I don't need to go back to store and replace it..I can live with it...thanks though...just trying to find the culprit...no worries..

Homeuser66 said:
No...I don't need to go back to store and replace it..I can live with it...thanks though...just trying to find the culprit...no worries..
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Bajanman said:
And it's all stock, no root no nothing! Take that crap back to the store, and ask them for a replacement!!
For the resetting part, might need to wipe internal as well.
I had to when I was having some issue with a few things!! Just back up what ya want to keep first!!!!
If you haven't done it already!! Just trying to fix ya prob 4 YA!
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Hey, I found out the issue to this problem.. Not sure if it can be posted somewhere as "Fixed"...or maybe I should start another post with the original post inside it for reference??
I had my Ringtones/Notification sounds I downloaded from the web or created on my SD Memory card. I was using the sounds from there and not the device. I have now copied and pasted them into the Ringtone and Notification folders on my Device itself and they stay.
To test this, I used 2 different Google e-mail accounts and set 1 Ringtone/Notification sound from my Device and the other Gmail account to a Ringtone/Notification sound from my SD memory card. The one from my memory card kept changing to a 5 Digit number. The other one didn't..
I hope this helps others????

What bloatware is safe to delete?

How much and what bloatware is safe to delete?
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Depends, how clean are you trying to make it?
I remove a ton of stuff, but I do actually use a few of the Asus apps.

I'd also like to see if we could create a list of everything you can uninstall, personally until CM12 comes to the ZF2 I'd like to uninstall every single non-essential ASUS application to the point where my device is as close to stock android as possible. Anyone know of such a list?

Harfainx said:
Depends, how clean are you trying to make it?
I remove a ton of stuff, but I do actually use a few of the Asus apps.
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Fairly clean tried a few asus apps some seem like they'd be useful but a lot aren't
But there is loads of crap apps
I'm not going to be updating with OTA anyway so even some system apps are gone already
Just needing to know what i can get shut off safely
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I'll get some things put together for app/location. There's a lot that can be removed but causes the Asus experience to suffer. There's a lot that just shouldn't be there.
I'll try to get a list with things organized by impact. There's a bunch of stuff that's installed but doesn't even show up. Straight up junk.

Harfainx said:
I'll get some things put together for app/location. There's a lot that can be removed but causes the Asus experience to suffer. There's a lot that just shouldn't be there.
I'll try to get a list with things organized by impact. There's a bunch of stuff that's installed but doesn't even show up. Straight up junk.
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Appreciated mate
I can't believe some of the crap they have in system files unbelievable
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When in doubt, just freeze it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/zenfone2/help/apps-to-freeze-t3142954

Haven't rooted. So every time I uninstall one of those pieces of crap it reinstalls alllll by itself. Like it's possessed.

geegs8 said:
Haven't rooted. So every time I uninstall one of those pieces of crap it reinstalls alllll by itself. Like it's possessed.
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If you're unrooted, you can't uninstall system apps with the regular uninstall process. It will only uninstall updates back to the stock build version. Then it will update again from the Play Store, which is probably what you're seeing.

cmendonc2 said:
When in doubt, just freeze it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/zenfone2/help/apps-to-freeze-t3142954
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Nah i like to remove it completely
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geegs8 said:
Haven't rooted. So every time I uninstall one of those pieces of crap it reinstalls alllll by itself. Like it's possessed.
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Rooting has it's advantages even if you don't want custom roms kernels or recovery
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Are there any options other than rooting
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wschase said:
Are there any options other than rooting
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You can disable some apps, but that's about it for ones that it won't let you fully uninstall.

wschase said:
Are there any options other than rooting
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Yes go to play store type asus apps
Found out it let's you uninstall most of them
Once deleted reboot if it seems stuck on splash screen press power button till it powers down
Then power on your phone HEY PRESTO ALL THE CRAP GONE
To get them Back just reinstall from play store
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I posted a ROM with a list of what I removed.
Please feel free to let me know about more things that can go.
Plus I'm still expanding on it. This is an early pass of what can go.
List can be seen HERE under the hidden content button (didn't want to blow up the post too much).

Harfainx said:
I posted a ROM with a list of what I removed.
Please feel free to let me know about more things that can go.
Plus I'm still expanding on it. This is an early pass of what can go.
List can be seen HERE under the hidden content button (didn't want to blow up the post too much).
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Yeah I've seen your post mate nice touch
More or less the same as I've got rid of was thinking about talking software update out of system but not sure if I'd get away with that
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Hello, if i removed (actually deleted some bloatware) and want to factory reset my phone, will that cause a softbrick of the phone?

darcsacka said:
Hello, if i removed (actually deleted some bloatware) and want to factory reset my phone, will that cause a softbrick of the phone?
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It hasn't on my device.
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Thanks for the answer Man