Guest Tobriand Posted May 1, 2011 Report Posted May 1, 2011 (edited) Hi all! A few days ago I updated my phone to CM7 N57 and gen2 using the TPT in the stickies, and subsequently decided to try a Titanum restore. Long story short, it did what bulk Titanium restores tend to do on CM7 for some reason, which is to say all apps worked but not *quite* right. So today I figured I'd have a go at a full manual reinstall from the market, and TPTed again, having previously installed AppBrain. I turn the phone on for the first time... open up the Market to get S2E... and suddenly all the previously installed apps are automatically downloading! I've never seen this behaviour before, so wondering whether it's Google updating their market backend or something to do with AppBrain or something else entirely. It's certainly a bizarre experience, since I'm used to the phone acting untouched more or less after a factory reset - let alone a TPT one! Anyone else had this, or is my phone haunted? - Toby [EDIT]: Curiouser and curiouser. Lots of apps have reinstalled automatically - e.g. GiffGaffapn, Appbrain, LauncherPro and the Plus unlocker. But lots have also remained not installed - e.g. Wordfeud (free) or Game Dev Story. I was wondering whether it was only doing free apps, but it includes the LP+ unlocker, which is paid, as well as a few others. Either that or it's only restoring apps which are pretty small, and avoiding others - but then I'd expect it to include TweetDeck but not include DocumentsToGo (which is 9mb, and one of my heftier apps). Very confused, though I won't say it hasn't saved my a considerable amount of time! Edited May 1, 2011 by Tobriand
Guest iKrautDroid Posted May 1, 2011 Report Posted May 1, 2011 (edited) Hi all! A few days ago I updated my phone to CM7 N57 and gen2 using the TPT in the stickies, and subsequently decided to try a Titanum restore. Long story short, it did what bulk Titanium restores tend to do on CM7 for some reason, which is to say all apps worked but not *quite* right. So today I figured I'd have a go at a full manual reinstall from the market, and TPTed again, having previously installed AppBrain. I turn the phone on for the first time... open up the Market to get S2E... and suddenly all the previously installed apps are automatically downloading! I've never seen this behaviour before, so wondering whether it's Google updating their market backend or something to do with AppBrain or something else entirely. It's certainly a bizarre experience, since I'm used to the phone acting untouched more or less after a factory reset - let alone a TPT one! Anyone else had this, or is my phone haunted? - Toby Unlike the wipe data option in clockwork a tpt install does not wipe your sdcards ext2/3 partition. So the apps are still stored there. Edited May 1, 2011 by iKrautDroid
Guest Tobriand Posted May 1, 2011 Report Posted May 1, 2011 You misunderstand; I was starting to try using apps2sd for the first time. Previously everything has been on my SD card. It's not that I found all my apps still installed. Rather they all automatically reinstalled from the market. And also re-downloaded too. I vaguely wonder if this might be a sympton of the 2mb cache plus an incomplete marketplace download before I TPTed. Kind of the same way print queues stored on the printer are often maintained even if the machine that sent the print is turned off, except the queue in question somehow ended up on the SD card, and the market somehow knew to look there. But it isn't just apps left over on the EXT partition, since I'd only just created it!
Guest k0zmic Posted May 1, 2011 Report Posted May 1, 2011 (edited) You misunderstand; I was starting to try using apps2sd for the first time. Previously everything has been on my SD card. It's not that I found all my apps still installed. Rather they all automatically reinstalled from the market. And also re-downloaded too. I vaguely wonder if this might be a sympton of the 2mb cache plus an incomplete marketplace download before I TPTed. Kind of the same way print queues stored on the printer are often maintained even if the machine that sent the print is turned off, except the queue in question somehow ended up on the SD card, and the market somehow knew to look there. But it isn't just apps left over on the EXT partition, since I'd only just created it! Google Backup and Restore feature. It automatically restores your Wi-Fi passwords, applications and data etc. Quite magical really. The others didn't restore because your download cache of 2MB probably wasn't big enough. Edited May 1, 2011 by k0zmic
Guest Tobriand Posted May 1, 2011 Report Posted May 1, 2011 Google Backup and Restore feature. It automatically restores your Wi-Fi passwords, applications and data etc. Quite magical really. The others didn't restore because your download cache of 2MB probably wasn't big enough. WiFi Passwords, contacts, etc I'd experienced before. Even the background. But having my apps in the cloud was something of a surprise. Though it still doesn't explain why some big ones (remember DocumentsToGo is 9mb, way larger than 2mb) restored whilst other small ones (e.g. Andoku @ 848kb) didn't. Anyway, just done the rest through Appbrain, which is also pretty magical... waaaaay faster than previous restores. Just found the initial open the market and BAM: lots of downloads a bit spooky...
Guest rwalton159 Posted May 1, 2011 Report Posted May 1, 2011 I use appmonster and its easy peasy to restore apps.
Guest k0zmic Posted May 1, 2011 Report Posted May 1, 2011 WiFi Passwords, contacts, etc I'd experienced before. Even the background. But having my apps in the cloud was something of a surprise. Though it still doesn't explain why some big ones (remember DocumentsToGo is 9mb, way larger than 2mb) restored whilst other small ones (e.g. Andoku @ 848kb) didn't. Anyway, just done the rest through Appbrain, which is also pretty magical... waaaaay faster than previous restores. Just found the initial open the market and BAM: lots of downloads a bit spooky... Yeah it's a bit weird sometimes, on my 15MB cache partition I've had things like Skies of Glory (12MB game) install but things like Dropbox don't. I haven't used AppBrain in a while, I think I'll install it and give it another spin.
Guest JobSup Posted May 2, 2011 Report Posted May 2, 2011 Google Backup and Restore also restores Apps IF the App specifically supports this. That is the reason why some Apps are automatically restored, other not.
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