I'm thinking about selling my Streak to a friend. I'm also relatively new to Android, so I'm not sure how the Market apps transfer to a new device. What's the best way to ensure that my apps transfer to my new device without a problem?
A factory reset?
If I have manually removed items using Titanium backup, such as the Stage UI, will a factory reset fail?
Thanks for any suggestions.
Once u sign into the market it will have all your purchased apps. Do a factory reset on the phone before u sell it.
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Selling your Streak? Say it ain't so! May I ask what you're replacing it with?
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I went to sell my Streak 2 weeks ago, did factory reset and the phone got stuck in a loop, usual fixes wouldn't work so sent it back to dell and got a new one back a week later.
Sold my Desire HD instead and kept the dell
donalgodon said:
I'm thinking about selling my Streak to a friend. I'm also relatively new to Android, so I'm not sure how the Market apps transfer to a new device. What's the best way to ensure that my apps transfer to my new device without a problem?
A factory reset?
If I have manually removed items using Titanium backup, such as the Stage UI, will a factory reset fail?
Thanks for any suggestions.
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If you have made many alterations/modding to be safe I would flash a stock ROM with the stock recovery. This is the equivalent of a factory reset and the phone will have to be set up from scratch. If the person you are selling to wants a custom rom flash the stock ROM the custom ROM is based on and then flash the custom ROM.
Your Android Market apps will follow your gmail account. Set up your new phone with that account and your paid apps will be shown in the market on the new phone. You can also turn on the setting to back up your data to Google on the old phone and let that sync before wiping/flashing it. Your data is supposed to be restored when you set up the new phone and reinstall the apps. I would sync your old phone and restore your new phone while connected to WiFi.
Go to Settings->Privacy
select Back up my data and Automatic restore
Thanks for the help. I'm debating switching to a Galaxy SII at this point.
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Hello, I am having an issue with my droid 2. I have rooted it following all the instructions here. Since this phone is my GF's she has loaded all sorts of stuff on there, and now the phone is running slow, and burning through battery. We decided to do a factory reset on the unit.
after setting up her google account, all her old applications start flooding back in. how can i stop this? we want to have the phone with a clean slate.
we have tried deleting all the apps on the phone. rebooting, waiting then wiping as well. all these same apps come flooding in.
Any help will be appreciated.
Go through darkonion's sbf tutorial that will start you off from scratch.
will that remove root?, im not sure that would fix it tho, ive read around, and it appears like google has some sort of application backup and restore option. somehow that was turned on. and im not sure how to turn it off.
It will remove root but you can easily get root back with darkonion's one click root. Look in Settings>Privacy>uncheck Back up my data>uncheck Automatic restore and try a factory data reset.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=791227
one-click root
Yeah its a feature in froyo that its restoring all your apps in the my downloads folder of the market. If you have done a full wipe just open the my downloads folder and begin to uninstall apps, that should also break their chain to come back if you wipe again
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Ive tried that, i guess ill have to keep battling it. the odd thing is my incredible does not even have this feature... maybe its the rom im using (Virtuous) but i dont see anything that even remotely looks like this.
the last thing we did was uninstall all the apps and wipe again, and they all came back. Maybe if i do it from the market, like you suggested. ive already disabled the backup and sync. i wish there was a more intuitive interface for this.
If it's not too much of a hassle just sbf the phone and make a new google account.
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So i figured out a solution. I wiped her phone. and skipped adding a google account.
I then went to settings privacy, and i saw that backup my data was unchecked, but automatic restore was both greyed out, and checked.
i quickly enabled backup my data, then unchecked automatic restore, and backup my data (making it so everything was unchecked.)
I added her google account, and none of her apps came back. This was a pain to figure out, but not that bad of a work around now that i found it.
hopefully this helps someone who is having the same issue.
Hey peeps....couple quick questions here. I flashed my X10 with the nordic 2.1 update....a post from bin4ry a while ago....i also rooted it with z4root and deleted some things. Now, im handing my X10 over to my fiancee to have but I wanna wipe my google account and all my info. If I just did a factory reset will the nordic 2.1 still load properly and will the phone still be rooted for her? And will the apps I removed still be gone?
Thanks!!!!
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well, if u had flash the phone, i will restore back to original which means all data u previously have are wiped out.
it also means that rooting and app u once installed also wiped out.
if u did a backup using titanium, then the data still will exits in the sdcard in the form of titanium backup. so be sure the card formated.
sorry for my bad english
I have a similar q. I did the factory reset since my phone has to go to the service repair centre, but it still works mostly.
Anyway, I signed in with my google acc, and I want to remove it without having to do a factory reset again.
Where do you remove your google info in 2.1? I can't find it
Hello all,
Thank you in advance for your help and time.
My brother recently acquired a GT-P1000 (unlocked)and after using it for a while, he purchased the new Galaxy Tab 7 Plus and gave me the GT-P1000.
I upgraded the existing 2.2 Froyo to the new 2.3.3 Gingerbread using Samsung Kies version 2.1
There is a numerous number of applications that have been installed on it and it's by far the best phone i have owned.
However, I attempted to use Google Talk, and it will only sign in using my brother's Gmail account, I added my account to the Gmail application and attempted to remove his account.
I get the following message.
"this account is required by some applications. You can remove it by resetting the phone to factory defaults (which deletes all your personal data). You do that in the Settings application, under Privacy.
My fear is, if I reset the phone to Factory Defaults, will the new Gingerbread 2.3.3 upgrade be reverted back to 2.2 Froyo? and is this upgrade still available of Kies or I would have to download it again from scratch?
and will I lose all the settings and application updates that I have installed on the phone?
I already Backed up everything on Kies.
What do you advise me to do?
Thank you.
empiref said:
Hello all,
Thank you in advance for your help and time.
My brother recently acquired a GT-P1000 (unlocked)and after using it for a while, he purchased the new Galaxy Tab 7 Plus and gave me the GT-P1000.
I upgraded the existing 2.2 Froyo to the new 2.3.3 Gingerbread using Samsung Kies version 2.1
There is a numerous number of applications that have been installed on it and it's by far the best phone i have owned.
However, I attempted to use Google Talk, and it will only sign in using my brother's Gmail account, I added my account to the Gmail application and attempted to remove his account.
I get the following message.
"this account is required by some applications. You can remove it by resetting the phone to factory defaults (which deletes all your personal data). You do that in the Settings application, under Privacy.
My fear is, if I reset the phone to Factory Defaults, will the new Gingerbread 2.3.3 upgrade be reverted back to 2.2 Froyo? and is this upgrade still available of Kies or I would have to download it again from scratch?
and will I lose all the settings and application updates that I have installed on the phone?
I already Backed up everything on Kies.
What do you advise me to do?
Thank you.
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Factory reset means : back to original. However, after doing the official upgrade through Kies, you should also have that as 'factory-new-state'. To be honest, that's in fact the best way to handle a phone when bought second-hand. It cleans up any unwanted or undesirable software/setting/etc... If you have a G-account, no worries, your contacts are save.
About your settings , apps etc... there are several good backup programs that backup any app/data/setting etc. cos you will indeed lose all non-original items on the phone.
Hi guys,
I recently side loaded kit kat 4.4.2 and I have 100% completely stock no rooting or anything. Everything is NAE I have been noticing that my phone turns off spontaneously and the only way to turn it back on is to take out the battery. I also have noticed that my phone becomes very hot and loses its battery very quickly.
i was told from another user to do a factory reset which I plan to. I wanted to back up my files before i do that but after i install kies with this version"* Supported model : Feature phone, Smart Phone/Tablet before Galaxy Note III
(including Galaxy S4, Note II, etc)" from Samsung.
My Windows 7 64 bit cannot install the MTP driver and then Kies says to install Kies 3 because it is unsupported to the current version.
Does anyone know how to back up the whole phone like Apple's Itunes back up or know of any other solution to my problem?
This has really put me off of Android..
I've never used Kies for anything so I can't help you there, what are you trying to backup? If your going to backup the whole phone, factory reset, and then restore your phone then your problem will just return. How long have you had your phone? If you've never rooted then it may be a hardware problem. I have great battery life after updating to 4.4.2. You should be able to find an app in the play store that can back up your data without root. All of your apps and contacts are backed up by google. I believe there are apps that will backup your texts and call logs without root. You are better off letting the play store reinstall your apps after a factory reset so the problem doesn't return.
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I've never used Kies for anything so I can't help you there, what are you trying to backup? If your going to backup the whole phone, factory reset, and then restore your phone then your problem will just return. How long have you had your phone? If you've never rooted then it may be a hardware problem. I have great battery life after updating to 4.4.2. You should be able to find an app in the play store that can back up your data without root. All of your apps and contacts are backed up by google. I believe there are apps that will backup your texts and call logs without root. You are better off letting the play store reinstall your apps after a factory reset so the problem doesn't return.
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I don't think its a hardware problem since this problem began after I updated to kit kat. Also, what is the best way to do a factory reset? is there a difference between a soft and hard factory reset?
Thanks
Shark0011 said:
I don't think its a hardware problem since this problem began after I updated to kit kat. Also, what is the best way to do a factory reset? is there a difference between a soft and hard factory reset?
Thanks
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Best way is through recovery, power off phone, then hold the volume up button and power at the same time until you see the blue text in the upper left corner. Select factory reset. You should pull your sdcard first because I can't remember if the stock recovery wipes the external sdcard.
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cruise350 said:
Best way is through recovery, power off phone, then hold the volume up button and power at the same time until you see the blue text in the upper left corner. Select factory reset. You should pull your sdcard first because I can't remember if the stock recovery wipes the external sdcard.
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Thanks! I will try to back up everything and then do a factory reset. Hopefully it will solve my problem
My brother just had the same problem, screen wouldn't come on, got very hot. Factory reset fixed it. Not sure about the backup as he didn't do one(all the apps he uses are cloud saved) but just confirming you doing the right thing doing a factory reset. Usually fixes everything lol
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84guy said:
My brother just had the same problem, screen wouldn't come on, got very hot. Factory reset fixed it. Not sure about the backup as he didn't do one(all the apps he uses are cloud saved) but just confirming you doing the right thing doing a factory reset. Usually fixes everything lol
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Thanks for the info! ill try it! Do you know of any way to back up my text messages?
Shark0011 said:
Thanks for the info! ill try it! Do you know of any way to back up my text messages?
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i dont backup my sms. but i know there are alot on the google play store. just search "SMS Backup" find one with nice reviews
you might need to copy it to your PC hard drive as i think a factory restore clears the internal storage and most apps dont have access anymore to the SD card as Google is trying to kill it
Hey guys,
A while ago I had a problem where if I disconnected my phone from Wi-Fi, mobile data wouldn't connect back and I'd have to restart my phone to get it working, and if I happened to find more Wi-Fi I'd have to repeat the process. This started happening since an update. I went into recovery mode and wiped the cache partition and that fixed the problem for about 3 weeks and recently it's been happening again. I know it's not my signal strength. So I was now planning to
Backup with Kies
Flash Stock ROM
Go into recovery mode and do factory restore
Setup phone
Restore phone with Kies
Should this do the trick / fix my phone. I'm not rooted atm.
Only if it's a ROM problem
Made sure Smart Network Switch is disabled in WiFi settings?
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Only if it's a ROM problem
Made sure Smart Network Switch is disabled in WiFi settings?
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It is, yes. That's one of the first things I tried. No change. It think something went wrong after an ota update.
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If the OTA update was from KK to LP, it is strongly recommended to factory reset your phone once it's updated, the update from one version to another leaves rubbish files behind that cause endless problems, factory resetting fixes the majority
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If the OTA update was from KK to LP, it is strongly recommended to factory reset your phone once it's updated, the update from one version to another leaves rubbish files behind that cause endless problems, factory resetting fixes the majority
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It was an update after Lollipop, but still 5.0. I've never factory reset my phone and I've had it since it came out in April 2014.
Is it okay to use Kies to backup (photos, apps, contacts) and restore my data to my phone after.
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KIES is pathetic for backup restore, it doesn't work
It says it has done a full backup, but when you come to restore, you lose everything
That's pretty crap then. I'll just backup my photos onto my PC then, my contacts will sync with Google and I'll reinstall my apps.
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If you turn on the Google backup feature, it should auto restore your apps once you log back into your gmail account on the phone