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Help FINALLLYYYYY it happened to meeeee

miss_vickies

miss_vickies

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YES YES YES!

I finally got her... pretty in white <3

now.... WHY ISNT ANYTHING SYNCING??? I see all my contacts, but none of my apps... whats up?
 
but it's on the same account, and i remember when i did factory reset with my nexus, it all just loaded back up...

how do i prompt it to?
 
I think mine did this after I had to do a hard reset, I had then set it up to back up my account, so when I did the hard reset it asked me if I wanted to reinstall the apps, If you have only just got the phone it won't install your apps from your other phone, you would have to go into google play and then you would see all the apps you had before, you Will then have to install them one by one.
 
miss_vickies said:
but it's on the same account, and i remember when i did factory reset with my nexus, it all just loaded back up...

how do i prompt it to?
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I "think" that might be Nexus exclusive, but I could be wrong. I'd go to the play store > hit menu > my apps > then click All. At least you can see everything you've downloaded that way. Outside of that, you could do a back up on your old phone via TB and restore them to your GNII, but I don't think I'd personally do this for a variety of reasons.

Edit: Assuming you only need the apps without the data, you could also use appbak from the playstore. Install it on both phones, do a backup on your old phone, then transfer the txt file to your note and restore. As mentioned, it won't include your app data, but it will have the entire list of apps you had/have installed on your last phone.
 
Thank you guys !

I see the list of my old apps, so I re-downloaded ones I need. However, that list doesn't have the apps I downloaded from external links :(

Also, all my pics, videos, custom ringtones are gone.... I guess there is no way to retrieve that??
 
I believe that the "restore", if you've enabled "backup/restore", only works on the same physical phone (i.e. same IMEI #). If you change models/brands, the native restore does not work.

I was kinda freaked out, and concerned, when after performing a system reset on my original Droid, that all my apps, and wallpaper etc, started appearing as the phone booted. I didn't know that backup was enabled by default.
 
miss_vickies said:
Thank you guys !

I see the list of my old apps, so I re-downloaded ones I need. However, that list doesn't have the apps I downloaded from external links :(

Also, all my pics, videos, custom ringtones are gone.... I guess there is no way to retrieve that??
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No google doesn't keep stuff like that, you would need to transfer them from your old phone.
 
colnago said:
I believe that the "restore", if you've enabled "backup/restore", only works on the same physical phone (i.e. same IMEI #). If you change models/brands, the native restore does not work.

I was kinda freaked out, and concerned, when after performing a system reset on my original Droid, that all my apps, and wallpaper etc, started appearing as the phone booted. I didn't know that backup was enabled by default.
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Not true. How it's supposed to work is you backup your phone. Switch to new phone. Enter your google info. Receive prompt to restore your phone apps/contracts.

Apps aren't tied to the phone; they're tied to the email address you use for your google acct. You can use the same email address across multiple devices and your apps go with you.
 
ScandaLeX said:
Not true. How it's supposed to work is you backup your phone. Switch to new phone. Enter your google info. Receive prompt to restore your phone apps/contracts.

Apps aren't tied to the phone; they're tied to the email address you use for your google acct. You can use the same email address across multiple devices and your apps go with you.
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Fair enough...but given that I did a "hard reset" (i.e. re-installed the OS), and my wallpaper, along with my apps, "automatically installed" without prompting me, I stopped using google backup. I understand that my install history is saved on the servers, available for subsequent phones (on my 9th Android), but at that point I was wary of using the service. However "at the time", the specifics around the native backup were not readily available, and I never confirmed the restore process, but I believe that more than just your install list is backed up...at least on the original Droid.
 
ScandaLeX said:
Not true. How it's supposed to work is you backup your phone. Switch to new phone. Enter your google info. Receive prompt to restore your phone apps/contracts.

Apps aren't tied to the phone; they're tied to the email address you use for your google acct. You can use the same email address across multiple devices and your apps go with you.
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well i know that its tied to my email, which is why i thought its weird that it never reinstalled my apps... or ask me... when i entered my email address it seemed to just have loaded my contacts, but not apps...

with my nexus i remember it also synced all my twitter contacts too, so i had a choice to view just gmail or all contacts... this time only phone contacts...

so, i dunno what i would have done wrong, as this is not my first android...

but this... then the crazy lady announcing every time i open a folder ( i think lightflow issue, still not solved) and you cant group apps into your home screen's bottom bar where your Phone and Contacts apps are...

some new things to get used to.

however i figured out how to get all my pics and downloaded apps from my Nexus to this phone... i plugged it into my laptop and took all the APK and photo/music files and loaded them onto my dropbox, then opened dropbox on my Note 2 and got all the doanloads and pics from it... YAY lol that made me happy :)
 
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