Muzzy996, thanks for taking time to help me resolve my Note 4 issues. After my phone crashed like Evel Knievel a couple of dozen time I got pretty fussy.
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Not a problem.
I'm a tinkerer and I love to mess around with various modifications etc. I've had some experiences early on where certain software packages just weren't playing nice with certain kernels/drivers. Being that I'm not a programmer/developer it's not like I could ever go deeper than recognizing that something wasn't quite right after the installation of certain packages though. So most times I'd just give up on a particular culprit and find an alternative app that had less issues.
For a while I thought it was cool that Google was doing us a "favor" by having auto backup/restore features on our devices such that when I'd upgrade to a new device all my apps would seamlessly get installed after logging into my Gmail account during initial setup. I jumped ship from name brand manufacturers like HTC or Samsung to Nexus devices for a little bit during this time so I didn't have issues with doing factory resets and reinstalling things.
When I jumped back to a Samsung tablet and then the Note 4 it didn't take long for me to realize that while restoring everything worked great on my Nexus devices, if I let apps that weren't compatible with Samsung install I would have issues . . or that sometimes an application being restored was newer and less stable than one I used to use . . etc. In general my issues were with root applications but I still believe that there's a chance that standard non-root apps can have compatibility issues with other device variants that aren't strictly following what stock android has.
Devices like Nexus devices, Motorola or other developer edition models of phones are generally more stable since the deeper modifications that makers like Samsung, HTC or LG make aren't there.
The hard part is, stock sucks . . we all end up installing other applications . . so troubleshooting as we go along can be laborious and not feasible. I know all too well how hard it is to exercise restraint in the app store on a freshly reset device.