Did your free apps transfer?

[thebignewt]

Just got my GN last evening. Signed into my gmail account and contacts of course showed up. It updated to 4.0.2 pretty fast. My paid apps are available. Someone said their free apps all somehow showed up on their phone, but mine didn't. Should that happen or not? I'm just getting used to the phone now, my 3G signal is about the same as on my Incredible (-83 to -93). So far so good.

 

[ppillai]

Mine did transfer. I think the reason they did was because of VZN backup assistant.

 

[thebignewt]

Mine did transfer. I think the reason they did was because of VZN backup assistant.

I did backup my Incredible via Verizon backup assistant, but I didn't use it on my GN (yet). How might I go about that and would it duplicate my contacts restored using gmail? It's no biggie, I can redownload them from Market I guess, but I'd rather not if it's easy. The passwork keeper app has a bunch of data in it, but that probably wouldn't restore anyway.

 

[MRW1215]

Nah, only my paid ones showed up in "My Apps". Which, I guess is understandable, since the other apps are free. But still, it's been a major pain in the ass trying to remember all the free apps I downloaded.

 

[anon(392846)]

Nah, only my paid ones showed up in "My Apps". Which, I guess is understandable, since the other apps are free. But still, it's been a major pain in the ass trying to remember all the free apps I downloaded.

They didn't show up at the bottom of your My Apps list under "Not Installed"?

 

[rosend99]

use appbrain in the future to backup free apps

 

[tony bag o donuts]

a few did.
I wiped it anyway. I wanted a clean install of everything, data and all.

 

[MRW1215]

They didn't show up at the bottom of your My Apps list under "Not Installed"?

Nah, only the ones I've paid money for.

 

[tony bag o donuts]

use appbrain in the future to backup free apps

backs up paid ones as well....

 

[Gekko]

i like using this free App to archive my App List as well as share it with friends -

ShareMyApps
Matt Lawrence

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mattlary.shareMyApps

 

[trunks527]

Google backs up all apps and settings on ics. I don't think this was available prior to ics

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk

 

[Gekko]

Google backs up all apps and settings on ics. I don't think this was available prior to ics

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk

i think it was hit or miss based on manufacturer, model, skin, OS version, settings, etc.