Why do some ROMs show apps in market that you have previously installed?

[Guest urbanfrit]

This feature makes it very easy when switching roms as you have a list of your apps for you to install manually or on first boot the rom will happily install all your apps automatically unless you stop it.

Also your your saved wifi passwordsare generated.

MMHMP latest does this

GSF R4 does this

Fish&Chips 3.2 doesn't

Silver Snow doesn't

CM7.1 doesn't

Elite Blade S5 doesn't

I've tried various combinations of privacy settings and deleting market data and updates. It's got me perplexed.

Edited January 25, 2012 by urbanfrit

[Guest Maxsas360]

This feature makes it very easy when switching roms as you have a list of your apps for you to install manually or on first boot the rom will happily install all your apps automatically unless you stop it.

Also your your saved wifi passwordsare generated.

MMHMP latest does this

GSF R4 does this

Fish&Chips 3.2 doesn't

Silver Snow doesn't

CM7.1 doesn't

Elite Blade S5 doesn't

I've tried various combinations of privacy settings and deleting market data and updates. It's got me perplexed.

Noticed that too, but never found a solution to it.

[Guest brookergray]

It's Google's backup functionality. When you first boot your phone after installing you get a setup wizard. After you log in you get an option to automatically backup your phone to Google's servers. If you did this before than there's also an option to restore this data.

I just use Titanium Backup as it can restore much more than Google.

Btw it's working on CM

[Guest urbanfrit]

It's Google's backup functionality. When you first boot your phone after installing you get a setup wizard. After you log in you get an option to automatically backup your phone to Google's servers. If you did this before than there's also an option to restore this data.

I just use Titanium Backup as it can restore much more than Google.

Btw it's working on CM

I think there's more to it than that. I always tick the backup box on initial set up. I have been playing with Gingerbread ROMs for the past week and have now discovered that Ginger SF r4 is the only one I have tried which shows a full list of "not installed" apps which stay there after reboots.

I wrongly stated above that MMHMP does as I checked that one again today.

My current ROM, Blade Mix 365 showed them on first boot then they disappeared after reboots.

Weird!

Edited January 26, 2012 by urbanfrit

[Guest urbanfrit]

On restoring a nandroid backup of GSF R4 all the "not installed" apps have disappeared.

Strange..