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Ever wondered what apps you had before a Master Reset?

Both are great, and I have used them both. The advantage of Titanium Backup for rooted users is that you get your app data back as well.
 
Thom Little said:
The simple way I do it ...

Load Android Market
Select Settings | My Apps
All of your Apps are listed ... Installed first then Not installed
Simply select from the Not installed list to install them

The only thing you really have to remember is the apps that you installed that did not come from Android Market.

... Thom
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I have found that not all previous apps show up on "Not Installed" on the phone. Have you noticed the same? Some phones it even restores apps automatically after logging in. Not everything goes and sometimes it's random. I don't claim to understand.

Does Appbrain allow a whole batch or do you click on each one like Android market?

Android market shows apps I've never installed on my current phone. It remembers apps I either uninstalled or had on other phones.
 
Lars said:
I have found that not all previous apps show up on "Not Installed" on the phone. Have you noticed the same? Some phones it even restores apps automatically after logging in. Not everything goes and sometimes it's random. I don't claim to understand.

Does Appbrain allow a whole batch or do you click on each one like Android market?

Android market shows apps I've never installed on my current phone. It remembers apps I either uninstalled or had on other phones.
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<mine is a uniques case and is misleading>

... Thom
 
The "Not Installed" thing in the Market seems to only show the things I've bought. I usually just reinstall the apks with Rom Toolbox, and restore all of my Market links. Hasn't failed me.
 
tjreishus said:
I don't understand, Ive done dozens of resets and all my apps restore automatically.
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I revised my earlier comments. I realized that my case was not typical and the results were misleading.

I have a Droid X and a Bionic. They share the same account in Android Market. The same apps are installed on both of them.

I have not wiped the Bionic. If I did I think it will tell me that I should update the 88 active apps that are on the Droid X.

Do you perhaps have two devices sharing the same account with the same apps on both device?

... Thom
 
I've only done 1 factory reset on the bionic, but only those apps previously installed on the bionic were reinstalled back to it, none of the apps from my old Eris or the d1 that I used for a while were installed to the bionic. When I go to my library on my PC it shows all apps from each device. If I click on the installed button, it comes up and shows me which device it is installed on and asks if I want to install it on another device.
 
Doogald correct me if I'm wrong, the eris didn't have the option of google backup so when you did a factory reset everything got wiped and all you got back was contacts and email, everything else was gone. But on the bionic there is a setting for google backup and since I had checked that option prior to resetting, everything including wallpaper came back.
 
mamawm said:
Doogald correct me if I'm wrong, the eris didn't have the option of google backup so when you did a factory reset everything got wiped and all you got back was contacts and email, everything else was gone. But on the bionic there is a setting for google backup and since I had checked that option prior to resetting, everything including wallpaper came back.
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I have it enabled on the Droid X and the Bionic.

... Thom
 
I have half a dozen phones listed as possible to install apps in the "My Library" including multiple Bionics. I guess it's too confusing for google. One of them is an Eris but it is running CM7 GB 2.3.5 so it has the latest OS. I think VZW/HTC stopped at 2.1.

Maybe I'm not patient enough after a master reset to wait for them all to reinstall. Occasionally market has done "some" of that for me. Just wondering on the ryhme or reason. It's a great concept.
 
mamawm said:
Doogald correct me if I'm wrong, the eris didn't have the option of google backup so when you did a factory reset everything got wiped and all you got back was contacts and email, everything else was gone. But on the bionic there is a setting for google backup and since I had checked that option prior to resetting, everything including wallpaper came back.
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That's correct, but a rooted Eris did ask that question if you ran a CyanogenMod ROM. At one point, tired of having all of the apps reinstall every time I flashed a new ROM version that required a data wipe, I turned off that option, and I wonder if that has turned it off for me for good.

It's not a big deal for me - I just reinstall using the method Lars listed in the OP whenever I factory reset. Or, if I am rooted (I am not now), I restore from Titanium.
 
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