HELP! Apps Automatically loading

[Floridadomer]

Just got my phone today and activated it. It appears that every single app I have ever purchased is automatically downloading. I HAVE NEVER HAD A PHONE DO THIS. I thought I had fixed it by stopping the downloads in the market. I uninstalled some of the downloaded apps and they started redownloading agin.
Can someone tell me what is doing this? There are TONS of apps that are downloading that I don't want downloaded to my phone.
Thanks

 

[Sparhawk2k]

It seems like it was more than that. It was every single app I had associated with my account. Because I got a ton of free apps as well.

It was nice in some ways because I didn't have to scroll through my list of installed apps to figure out what I needed to download again. But it was also kinda crazy watching my phone download 500 megs of apps all at once.

 

[Floridadomer]

So is there anyway to stop it?

 

[Bob61]

Nice way to introduce people to a limited shared data plan, eh? Automatically download apps that people don't really want or need any more. Guess lesson learned is clean-up your phone before you activate new phone - especially if you are on a limited plan.

 

[anon(181017)]

I had intended to manually go back through my apps and selectively re-download the ones that I wanted, because I had accumulated a lot of junk that I didn't use. But when I activated mine last night it did the same thing. So I guess I'll take some time to go through and uninstall the stuff I didn't want. I'm sure there was some backup setting I missed....

I have unlimited still, so no biggie.... but I feel for you if you don't. Mine was about 0.5 GB in an hour or so...

 

[mikesmith]

Hmmmm.

Mine didn't do this. It only listed the apps I've downloaded since I first started using Android, even the ones I uninstalled. I had to manually download them.

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[Floridadomer]

I am on my home wireless so the data part shouldn't be a problem but still, there is going to be a lot of apps to uninstall. The last thing I want to do on a new phone is start cluttering it with apps. Just doesn't seem like a very way to start off with a CLEAN phone.

 

[Graphixx30]

Mine did this as well, but it only downloaded the apps that I had installed on my Galaxy Nexus phone. It also downloaded and set the wallpaper that I had on my GNex phone as and restored all of my WiFi settings/passwords as well.

Personally, I liked that the phone did this automatically ... saved me the trouble.

 

[Ultrapale]

Same thing happened to me,wasn't thrilled but it was pretty easy to uninstall them. Also would have liked to start clean, but I couldn't find a way to stop them. Would be nice to know how just in case.

 

[BostonBeats88]

I found this to be a huge pain in the arse as well!

Any idea how to turn off the feature that automatically adds shortcuts to your home screen?

 

[richardfoc]

Did you guys use Backup Assistant Plus during the initial setup of your phone? If so I suspect that is what is triggering the mass download. I skipped this step and didn't have anything download automatically. Of course I had to then download what I wanted myself but I prefer downloading manually to deleting manually.

 

[Graphixx30]

Any idea how to turn off the feature that automatically adds shortcuts to your home screen?

There is an option in the Play store to disable that.