Apps restored on their own with new AOKP rom?!

[ConTejas]

I flashed the newest AOKP rom, GAAPS, and the new 4.0.4 radios before bed last night. ALL of my apps downloaded from the market on their own. WTF? Of course, I'm not complaining, but I'd like to understand how and/or why. Oh, actually, the only apps that didn't download and restore are TiBu, RM, and ZipThemer. I mean it downloaded old apps like My VZW and ones I've tried and uninstalled that weren't on my phone with the AOKP M5 rom. So the Nova Launcher backup doesn't really make sense, does it? Awesome regardless. Only other thing I did differently was moved all my contacts via csv to Google. Phone is working beautifully once again. Love it. I just don't fully understand lol.New rom below...yes...still need to flash the background gradient.

 

[PsYcHoNeWb]

I flashed the newest AOKP rom, GAAPS, and the new 4.0.4 radios before bed last night. ALL of my apps downloaded from the market on their own. WTF? Of course, I'm not complaining, but I'd like to understand how and/or why. Oh, actually, the only apps that didn't download and restore are TiBu, RM, and ZipThemer. I mean it downloaded old apps like My VZW and ones I've tried and uninstalled that weren't on my phone with the AOKP M5 rom. So the Nova Launcher backup doesn't really make sense, does it? Awesome regardless. Only other thing I did differently was moved all my contacts via csv to Google. Phone is working beautifully once again. Love it. I just don't fully understand lol.New rom below...yes...still need to flash the background gradient.

Thats not just AOKP, thats any ROM. Google sync now will start to automatically download apps that it recognizes was last on your device. Awesome feature if you didn't use titanium backup or just forgot. At least thats what it seems to be doing which I think is pretty damn good. Had this happen to me on Liquid, Stock 4.0.4, and AOKP.

 

[2defmouze]

Lol.. yes the play store is supposed to restore your apps, though sometimes it doesn't work quite right, and sometimes like you saw it "forgets" some apps. When you first booted up the ROM you click Sign In on the activation screen, enter your google account info, and I think the next screen has 2 checkboxes.... 1 for saying let google restore to your phone - this includes all your apps, as well as other things backed up such as wifi networks pw data - and 1 for keeping your phone backed up with google. I always prefer to uncheck the google restore box and restore my apps on my own with TiBu, as I told you before, selecting which to restore with data and which without.

Note apps restored with the market don't come with their data, but you can scroll to them in TiBu after they've installed and restore the data that way as well if you need to. Also note you still want Nova's backup/restore function because that saves all your desktop data... the layout, settings, all your folders if you're using them... that stuff wouldn't get backed up anywhere else

 

[loraque]

I second the do it yourself with TitBu. It is nifty that it tries, but it is slower and less reliable than doing it yourself with TitBu.

 

[DolfanCole]

Did you flash the newest Google Apps too (the 04/22 version)? My experience with that version is that it "broke" the market sync, so I've been flashing the 03/17 version still.

 

[2defmouze]

Did you flash the newest Google Apps too (the 04/22 version)? My experience with that version is that it "broke" the market sync, so I've been flashing the 03/17 version still.

Actually the newest is 4/29 which is supposed to have that fixed.. I assume that's what was linked with AOKP.

Bookmark this and check it for Gapps changelogs
Google Apps - RootzWiki

 

[ConTejas]

Did you flash the newest Google Apps too (the 04/22 version)? My experience with that version is that it "broke" the market sync, so I've been flashing the 03/17 version still.

Ahh perhaps that's why my phone was acting up with gapps 4/22. Well, only the people contacts, which is obviously important. Anyway, no I have the newest 4/29 version. It's working great. Give it a shot

 

[ConTejas]

Thanks guys this is all very cool new news to me, well beside what 2def said about using TiBu and unchecking. I did it the lazy way lol. I thought Google sync only restored your paid apps, not free. Very cool even if it forgets a few. I loved my sexy nexy before and I can't believe how much faster and smoother it is now...to the point it's noticeable to say the least. Consider me a believer. I actually LOL'd reading a post on wikirootz where some guy was so concerned with getting back to stock to receive the OTA. WHY? I'm never going back

Question: what exactly does just wiping cache and dalvik cache do? I want to flash a background gradient mod (that blacks out some other stuff and looks cool..guess it's a mini theme) and I'm wondering if I'll have to reconfigure etc. Thanks!

 

[2defmouze]

Question: what exactly does just wiping cache and dalvik cache do? I want to flash a background gradient mod (that blacks out some other stuff and looks cool..guess it's a mini theme) and I'm wondering if I'll have to reconfigure etc. Thanks!

Doesn't hurt anything... the cache and dalvik cache just store temp app and java data, basically... nothing you need to worry about. You wipe them when flashing a theme so the theme can access and change system properties without breaking anything. You won't lose any data, setup, etc. Whenever you wipe the caches, after you reboot you will see the Android is Upgrading screen and optimizing applications... fancy talk for the system rebuilding your caches basically. So yeah you'll be fine

 

[steveinil]

i also just flashed m5 wit the 4/22 gaps i thought there were newer ones but didnt see them... darn... can i just flash the new gaps or do i need to wipe cache and delvik again?

 

[steveinil]

o crap i bet i do i am themed so will mess things up if i dont prob.. lol

 

[ConTejas]

i also just flashed m5 wit the 4/22 gaps i thought there were newer ones but didnt see them... darn... can i just flash the new gaps or do i need to wipe cache and delvik again?

I'm pretty sure you can just reflash the gapps (4/29), at least I did over M5 to try to fix an issue I had and it didn't hurt anything, but why not the whole new build released yesterday

Build 35 - Releases - Releases - News

 

[2defmouze]

Rule of thumb... Any time you are unsure if you should wipe cache and dalvik, just wipe them. It doesn't hurt and you lose nothing, whereas not wiping them could screw your whole setup.

Oh rule #2.. You usually have to flash Gapps directly after you wiped and flashed the rom, then reboot. Doing it in any other order, or trying to flash different gapps after the fact, MAY work.. But if anything starts getting wonky and get errors or FC's you should assume you need to wipe and flash the right way to fix.

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[DolfanCole]

Actually the newest is 4/29 which is supposed to have that fixed.. I assume that's what was linked with AOKP.

Bookmark this and check it for Gapps changelogs
Google Apps - RootzWiki

Ah .. thanks. I hadn't seen the 4/29 version.