I am trying to figure out the best way to transfer apps from my rooted Captivate to the Atrix. Titanium backup would be the natural choice, but it only works on a rooted phone which the Atrix isn't, at least for now. I could go to the android web page https://market.android.com/ and tell it to download each app separately. But I am wondering if there is a non rooted backup/restore app that will let me selectively backup/restore?? I say selectively because I do not want to restore those apps that require a rooted phone.
Then there is the question of the market place which saves your downloaded app list linked to your gmail account. I do not want market place to remember those apps I don't want on the Atrix. So the question is how do you instruct the market place to "forget" installed apps? The only way I know of would be to install ALL the apps via either a backup program or thru the web client, then de-install those from the phone I don't want which would then wipe them out from market place account so they will not keep re-appearing in my app list.
I should have my Atrix in my hands this Monday!
I would too like to know this. Thanks to anyone who knows the answer!
Try AppMonster.....there's a pro version as well
I would suggest App Brain personally...That's what I've been using during my time with my EVO.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.appspot.swisscodemonkeys.apps&feature=search_result
App brain, a trackdog, and appbak
Captivate 2.2.1 Paragon
Actually, AppBrain and all those "add-on Markets" won't work with the Atrix out of the box. AT&T disallowed sideloading and that counts apps like that.
On the plus side, the Atrix has already been rooted (read the first topic in the Dev section of the Atrix forum)...so it lets you do anything you want.
Check the Atrix dev sub forum - They have root!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=960336
GREAT
OK looks like we are going to have our Atrix rooted and Titanium backup working but there is still the problem of the market links. There is some reference to market links in Titanium backup but not sure if that works to enable updates and there's still the issue of un-installed not wanted apps getting unregistered with market place. I had lost some apps and reinstalled with Titanium backup and I am not sure if I regained the market links or not. I am certainly not complaining and expect to spend many hours setting up the phone...thats part of the fun. Until a solution appears the best way to handle this may be to install the apps separately from the market place or via the web. I will try other programs others have suggested and post a solution here if found.
You can still sideload via ADB - so if you have the APK file it is simple to side load many.
How do you extract your own apk's? Been wondering this for a while now
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You can use adb to pull them off your phone...
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I'm coming from an Evo so not familiar with this sideloading business - is there a primer someplace?
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hotleadsingerguy said:
Actually, AppBrain and all those "add-on Markets" won't work with the Atrix out of the box. AT&T disallowed sideloading and that counts apps like that.
On the plus side, the Atrix has already been rooted (read the first topic in the Dev section of the Atrix forum)...so it lets you do anything you want.
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App brain only side loads? I though by synching my account, it would allow me to re download all applications from the market that is how it checks for upgrades anyway.
I use.app brain to actually check for updates to apparently o had installed through Titanium, apparently that do NOT have market links.
Captivate 2.2.1 Paragon
MyAppList
The free program MyAppList will make a text file of all the apps installed on your phone. I am going to un-install any apps i do not want installed on the Atrix. Then print out MyAppList. Then go to the market place on my Captivate and goto "my apps" so that the market updates what I do and do not have on the phone. When the Atrix arrives, I will register with my same email. Then on the Atrix i will go to the market place so it will update the installed list. Then I will go market place on the PC and install all of my listed apps, checking off each one on MyAppList as I go. The advantages are I will be sure to get all the apps, there will be no question as to what is or is not installed, the Atrix will automatically install the apps and the apps will get updates thru the market. I have 397 apps installed on the phone, maybe 225 of them are 3rd party apps so it may take a couple of hours to download and install them all but since the Atrix runs so quickly it may go a lot faster.
My Captivate is maxed out. I have a lot of widgets running and am constantly running out of memory. And then there is the lag problem which gets worse when you are running out of memory. With 1 gig of ram there is plently of memory with room to spare. This is going to be a very welcomed upgrade.
I am wondering exactly when the phones will arrive at the AT&T store. Are there Sunday deliveries? Monday is Presidents Day. I am going to the store tomorrow (Sunday) to see if they arrived and see if they will give it to me.....
My wife has an app for school on her old phone, ( rooted eris ). The app is "expired" but still works on that phone. She has recently upgraded to a droid charge and tried to download that app again, but was not able to because ( and she called the company ) they told her it is expired and cannot be activated on a new phone.
So, is there a way for me to find this and manually install it on the new phone? it is while she is registering a new installation of the apk that she gets denied.
Download titanium backup from the market on both phones. Backup the app on the Eris. Put Eris microsd card in the charge. Use titanium backup to restore the app. The caveat is the app must be designed to work on later versions of android.
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the charge is not rooted... yet
is there an nfl mobile apk that will work for non verizon users? i've read many older posts saying that there was an apk that used to work, but now it doesnt. i would really like to have this app on my phone.
No the old versions of the app will tell you to update and the new versions of the app will not work on a non-Verizon phone. Even if you changed the build.prop you'd probably still get issues since it looks for the actual VZW account tied to the phone for billing purposes.
i just upgraded to 4.3, not really worried about root or anything at the moment. It had ME7 when I purchased it so I was screwed in the custom recovery department. Anyways I'm going through all the pre installed apps and disabling/turn off all the bloat. My question is does Samsung ever release updates through the samsung update apps. I'm not talking about Samsung HUB, and that junk but actual firmware updates, stuff that might be important. Or will all updates come through the regular verizon OTA? I don't want to disable an update app through Samsung and maybe miss something important for the phone. Thanks in advance for any info.
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i just upgraded to 4.3, not really worried about root or anything at the moment. It had ME7 when I purchased it so I was screwed in the custom recovery department. Anyways I'm going through all the pre installed apps and disabling/turn off all the bloat. My question is does Samsung ever release updates through the samsung update apps. I'm not talking about Samsung HUB, and that junk but actual firmware updates, stuff that might be important. Or will all updates come through the regular verizon OTA? I don't want to disable an update app through Samsung and maybe miss something important for the phone. Thanks in advance for any info.
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Samsung does update via kies on the pc.
Just install kies and the USB drivers and plug the phone in and open kies. Sometimes the ota will arrive ota sometimes via kies. Sometimes both.
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No. Samsung apps, like the Hub Store, and the media apps, Music, Gallery, and Video, can all be updated through the Hub app. They can also update via a firmware update, but its not necessary, Samsung can push system app updates thru Hub anytime without Verizon's approval.
I know I said system apps, but I dont mean all of them. Apps like Camera and Phone can only be updated through a firmware update, either via OTA, Kies, or the Verizon Update Assistant.
I know it will probably never happen but would be nice for an update from att is an update that give you the permissions to remove the bloatware. I'm content with no root and even if i had to go in manually to uninstall the att stuff and amazon app,kindle,facebook,direct tv,uber etc. I had a bunch of apps disabled on my s4 because it was stupid to have Soft Pay enabled when you couldn't use it since the service was shutdown and you couldn't uninstall it either. It was the samething with the samsung market etc. I think on the last update I got for the s4 after the receiving the update and tried enabling the apps when I attempted to click on them on the screen it said the app was not installed and it disappeared. I went through and did that for a bunch it it cleared out like 4 or 5 apps I think. I just figured that since the apps were disabled the update wasn't able to delete them until I enabled them again which was perfectly fine with me.