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Help Note 3 from scratch?

Pinmac1

Pinmac1

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Just bought a Note 3 to replace my Note 1 and it looks great. I'm having serious battery problems with my Note and I can't pin it down to one 1 app. My plan was to build up the Note 3 from scratch, installing each app at a time to see if there was a problem.

When I booted up it asked if I wanted to log in to my Google account, I agreed as I wanted my Google contacts and calendar synchronised on the phone. Unfortunately, it also downloaded all my apps. As I haven't yet transferred my SIM to the new phone or installed a micro SD card there were a lot of failures and it's a bit of a mess now. It also downloaded 4.4.2.

I would like to start again as in my original plan. I assume that if I now reset to factory settings, KitKat will still be there but I will have a clean slate to reinstall my apps? How do I stop all my apps from downloading automatically? I didn't happen when I last reset my original Note. I intend to buy a new 64Gb micro SD card too.

Thanks for any help.
 
Well the only thing I can think of is go into the Playstore settings and turn off the auto-update feature, this might prevent them from installing

Otherwise try uninstalling everything Facebook, I have heard that it might cause this bad battery issue.
 
Thanks to you both. I had a look and found that the Playstore setting was set to auto-update, which surprised me as I always had that off on the Galaxy Note so that I could choose whether to update.

mrao, I'm not sure which setting you mean. I have gone in to Settings>general>Backup and Reset. Do you mean the both the Backup my data and the Automatic Restore both of which are ticked?
 
Pinmac1 said:
Thanks to you both. I had a look and found that the Playstore setting was set to auto-update, which surprised me as I always had that off on the Galaxy Note so that I could choose whether to update.

mrao, I'm not sure which setting you mean. I have gone in to Settings>general>Backup and Reset. Do you mean the both the Backup my data and the Automatic Restore both of which are ticked?
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Remove the one that says "Automatic Restore", that means that when you restore your device it's going to automatically download all of your applications again :)
 
Thanks, Digital Controller, I have done that. Just waiting for my 64Gb micro SD card to arrive and I'll reset and start again.
 
I found my Note 3 to be a bit battery heavy the first couple of days and then it seemed to stabilize itself, bit like when flashing a new ROM it can take a few charge cycles
 
I finally got around to doing this today. Unfortunately, exactly the same thing has happened and all my apps have started to download. This despite me checking that Auto-update apps was switched off in Google Play before I reset. When I realsied that they were all downloading I checked the Play store again and it was now set to allow auto-update. The restore setting mentioned above is unticked so it seems to be Google Play causing the problem.

I've googled about auto-updating but all I can find is how to turn on or off auto-update which doesn't help. I have stopped the apps from downloading but it's too late and there are loads on there already. Please can anyone suggest what I can do?
 
Thanks, Digital Controller, but there was no check box to select whether or not to install my apps. I have been messing around today, doing several resets and trying different things and I found a way to bodge it. I logged in to my Google account which then set off the apps downloading. I quickly went to Google Play and pressed Stop. In my app drawer I looked to see what had been downloaded and there were only 4 apps there. I deleted the ones I didn't want.

I think that gets me pretty much to where I wanted to be. Not pretty but it seems to have worked and I am now rebuilding the phone to how I want it.
 
Pinmac1 said:
Thanks, Digital Controller, but there was no check box to select whether or not to install my apps. I have been messing around today, doing several resets and trying different things and I found a way to bodge it. I logged in to my Google account which then set off the apps downloading. I quickly went to Google Play and pressed Stop. In my app drawer I looked to see what had been downloaded and there were only 4 apps there. I deleted the ones I didn't want.

I think that gets me pretty much to where I wanted to be. Not pretty but it seems to have worked and I am now rebuilding the phone to how I want it.
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Yeah that's what I usually do when I want to start fresh, annoying, but pretty much the only way I stop the downloads.
 
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