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tenchy

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I Bought My Nexus As I Use Forums A Lot, Being Admin On One.
The Jelly BRan Update Has ScrewedThat Up Completely.
Is There A Way To Roll Back Until Jb Isn't A JoKe?
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Thanks. Looks Like That Is Going To Be The Way Forward For Me.
Will I Life All My Apps Etc?
Life Should Say Lose, But I Cannot Select It To Change It
 
The poster wants to know if rooting will lose all his apps. I assume he is asking if it does a factory reset or if you lose any apps downgrading maybe because app data won't be comparable with ICS once running JB.

What is so bad on JB? Don't hear that many complaints.

Honestly, every forum should have a "This is how you revert back to previous state after update" stickie. Isn't this question asked after EVERY update for EVERY phone?
 
The Problem Is Kb Has Turned My Phone In To A Piece Of Crap For Using Forums.
Kb Should Say Jb, OnCe Again I Cannot Change It.
I Will Detail My List Of Broken Or Worse Things When On A PC.
 
I've noticed JB is a bit less polished than the last revision of ICS. The voice dialer is a lot more irritating, it never understands either the person or the number (mobile, home, work) I said. ICS was perfect.

I also seem to get less battery life with JB. Maybe due to Google Now running? I don't actually find it that compelling, though it's a neat demo of technology. It's rarely needed.

I also find that Netflix and WatchESPN are worse. Sometimes they will only show a black screen, necessitating a reboot. Killing the app then restarting doesn't help, nor does turning off and on mobile data. Netflix also hiccups now when the quality changes. There's like a half second skip of audio when it happens. On cell data, that happens a reasonable amount, which is sort of annoying. That never happened on ICS, and I am almost never on wifi.
 
Long story short... yes you will lose all your apps. It doesn't take to long to download them again (an hour if you have to do everything manually) and there are ways to back everything up to make your life simple. I recently reverted from JB to ICS using this process myself.

The only thing you MUST do is backup anything you don't want to lose (pictures, music etc.) for obvious reasons.

Now spread your wings and fly from the nest :trytofly:
 
bubbaken said:
Long story short... yes you will lose all your apps. It doesn't take to long to download them again (an hour if you have to do everything manually) and there are ways to back everything up to make your life simple. I recently reverted from JB to ICS using this process myself.

The only thing you MUST do is backup anything you don't want to lose (pictures, music etc.) for obvious reasons.

Now spread your wings and fly from the nest :trytofly:
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Thanks for heads up.
How do I stand for my paid for apps?

All this is really annoying, as I never update willy nilly, but this one was so aggressive nagging, I did what they wanted and updated to remove the incessant nags.
 
Paid applications from google or amazon are login based so you will have access through their store. I can install applications purchased on my Droid X on my nexus. Spend some time reading in the root forum.
 
FramCire said:
The poster wants to know if rooting will lose all his apps. I assume he is asking if it does a factory reset or if you lose any apps downgrading maybe because app data won't be comparable with ICS once running JB.

What is so bad on JB? Don't hear that many complaints.

Honestly, every forum should have a "This is how you revert back to previous state after update" stickie. Isn't this question asked after EVERY update for EVERY phone?
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for one, JB doesn't work with encryption on my ASUS tf700. I had to factory restore my tablet twice (once at the JB upgrade on an already encrypted drive) and again later when I tried to re-encrypt after JB was on the tablet. I thought that encryption would work once JB was installed, but NOPE.
 
If your battery life is suffering on JB remove any location based features of Google now. Especially nearby places, traffic, etc. If you don't use it at all then turn off all the features.
 
tenchy, could you perhaps explain a little more about your issues with JB? Rolling back to ICS and having to re-install all your apps seems like a pretty extreme solution, perhaps we can help you with your issue without you having to revert your software.
 
RazorSharp said:
tenchy, could you perhaps explain a little more about your issues with JB? Rolling back to ICS and having to re-install all your apps seems like a pretty extreme solution, perhaps we can help you with your issue without you having to revert your software.
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Look at the date, this is an old thread.

The OP already started another thread hating on JB. Out of all his problems, it was pretty much narrowed down to Swype being the culprit. However, he continued to blame JB for not supporting Swype. You can even see that his issues are more about typing and text box selection, which is all keyboard related.

Here's the other thread he started at the same time.
http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-nexus/591397-things-jelly-bean-have-screwed-up.html
 
nj02vette said:
Look at the date, this is an old thread.

The OP already started another thread hating on JB. Out of all his problems, it was pretty much narrowed down to Swype being the culprit. However, he continued to blame JB for not supporting Swype. You can even see that his issues are more about typing and text box selection, which is all keyboard related.

Here's the other thread he started at the same time.
http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-nexus/591397-things-jelly-bean-have-screwed-up.html
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swype was indeed the most affected, but the whole phone is affected.

If a smart phone OS is acceptable shipping with NO apps whatsoever, no email, no text, no browser, no way of doing anything, then yes, I would agree it's not the OS, it's all the apps at fault.

But hey, I also happen to think a smart phone OS should actually run apps, particulalrly ones that ship with it, or what's the point of it's existance.

Therefore, shipping a new OS that screws up nearly all of the default shipped apps is pretty poor in my book.
One day, I have a phone that everything works, the next some are hopelessly unusable, many have faults, and it is all the fault of the apps???
 
except that JB didn't screw up nearly all of the default shipped apps.... or in fact any of them that I have seen.
 
swype is not a core app -____- besides whatever app issues you were having developers should have updated their apps by now to accommodate.
 
tenchy said:
swype was indeed the most affected, but the whole phone is affected.
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I cannot locate your other thread, but EarlyMon answered and explained why it's behaving the way it is (from the OS update). I believe what's recommended when this happens is to factory reset (as long as your not rooted, then you reset from the recovery).
 
Petrah said:
I cannot locate your other thread, but EarlyMon answered and explained why it's behaving the way it is (from the OS update). I believe what's recommended when this happens is to factory reset (as long as your not rooted, then you reset from the recovery).
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Just been re-reading earlymon's post.
A lot of hassle for sure. That said, if it fixed a lot it would be worth it.

To be clear, a factory reset is essentially wiping the entire phone apart from the current version of operating system, yes?
 
tenchy said:
Just been re-reading earlymon's post.
A lot of hassle for sure. That said, if it fixed a lot it would be worth it.

To be clear, a factory reset is essentially wiping the entire phone apart from the current version of operating system, yes?
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Yes, it will wipe all your apps and app data, but those can be restored from the Play Store. It's certainly worth a shot.
 
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