What are these apps? and circumstances leading up to why I'm wondering.

[StoneRyno]

What are LGSmartCover, Pages Manager, and Tags. My original G4 up and died. And I don't remember seeing these apps before. At least one of them can be disabled. Long story short Sprint repair store hooked it up to all their diagnostic equipment and they couldn't get it to do anything. They even tried to connect it up to flash the OS again and nothing. So I have to go through and setup everything again due to a lack of adequate backup solutions for stock (I should be able to autistic image my device daily and that image stored remotely and restore from that image so that it is as if nothing ever happened). I didn't lose anything drastic like my life is over loss. There probably were a few photos, call logs, text messages, and at least one app (tasker) that it's data isn't stored remotely. But between this up and die for no reason and previously having SD cards up and die for no reason I'm at a loss.

 

[belodion]

Tags I've got, the others no.

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[JGLdn]

LG Smart cover is an app for when you use an LG smart cover case. Sometimes it will randomly run. As for Pages Manager its a Facebook app to manage Facebook business pages.

 

[Mikey47]

Pages Manager is a Facebook app for managing pages that you administer. Got loaded onto mine when I got it back from LG.

... due to a lack of adequate backup solutions for stock (I should be able to autistic image my device daily and that image stored remotely and restore from that image so that it is as if nothing ever happened).

I disagree with this statement. First I think doing something complete image capture of a phone daily and storing that remotely is unrealistic - why would you want to backup more than your apps and their data? The only people who would want to do something like that certainly are not working with stock images and would not rely on stock software.

Second, I think LG Backup is a more than adequate solution. I've moved from a G2 to G4, factory data reset and restored, and captured a backup before sending both mine and my wife's G4s off to LG for boot loop fixes. The restore works great and captured everything I could need.

The only thing LG Backup doesn't have is a way to schedule backups. It used to have this functionality, but for some unknown reason LG removed it a few releases ago.

 

[StoneRyno]

LG Smart cover is an app for when you use an LG smart cover case. Sometimes it will randomly run. As for Pages Manager its a Facebook app to manage Facebook business pages.

Pages Manager is a Facebook app for managing pages that you administer. Got loaded onto mine when I got it back from LG.

Thanks, I can disable either or both of them if possible then? as I don't have either of those.

I disagree with this statement. First I think doing something complete image capture of a phone daily and storing that remotely is unrealistic - why would you want to backup more than your apps and their data? The only people who would want to do something like that certainly are not working with stock images and would not rely on stock software.

Well perhaps image is overkill. What I was driving at was before I switched from the old PalmOS back in the day before smartphones there was a complete device backup solution that if something catastrophic occurred like this being the worse case. You had a remotely saved backup to which all you had to do was install the backup app and click restore my backup and everything was as if that catastrophic thing never happened. I searched for a couple years for something like that for android and it doesn't exist for stock OS users. The next best thing is titanium backup but you have to root to use it. And I have had nothing but problems in the past after rooting to I stopped doing that when I upgraded to the LG G4. From what I was told about 6 months ago google locks out the ability to access anything remotely important so that on stock OS developers can't make backup solutions to backup that stuff. Prior to then I didn't even know that and had installed non-root backup solutions. The event that occurred then was not as bad as now (sprint repair tech wiped my phone without asking if I needed to backup anything). So I only lost a few apps data that isn't stored by the app remotely. That's how I found out about the lock outs, as I contacted the developers asking what is the point of a backup solution that doesn't backup anything but a list of apps I had installed and functionally already handled by google so when signing in on a new device or after a factory reset it automatically installs them all. I never expected in a million years that a stock device less than a year old that I'm not even tinkering with would just up and die for no reason.

Second, I think LG Backup is a more than adequate solution. I've moved from a G2 to G4, factory data reset and restored, and captured a backup before sending both mine and my wife's G4s off to LG for boot loop fixes. The restore works great and captured everything I could need.

This would have been useful except they discontinued the service for and deleted all your data as of jan 31st 2016. So out of luck with that one. Did it even backup call logs and MMS and SMS messages? I seem to remember when I first got the LG G4 that it was insufficient for my needs. As I need something that will restore things post catastrophic event as if it had never happened. Or minimally all data for all apps.