On 07/20/2012 04:24 PM, John Abreau wrote:
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Kent Borg kentb...@borg.org wrote:
I *did* get free apps installed automatically installed on my new phone, but
not all of my free apps. I don't know why some got installed, but many free
apps did. (Maybe it had
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Kent Borg
Shirley Márquez Dúlcey wrote:
One of the nice things about the Amazon Appstore is that it has a full
record of all the apps you have bought including free ones. It
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Derek Atkins
Google Play does. Go into Settings - My Apps, and then slide the
screen right-to-left from Installed to All.
Actually, right now on my phone, when I do that, I do
Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
The ones you pay for will reappear. But the free ones don't.
I *did* get free apps installed automatically installed on my new phone,
but not all of my free apps. I don't know why some got installed, but
many free apps did. (Maybe it had something to do with when
Matt Shields wrote (privately, but I think it is of general interest and
not confidential):
Just an FYI for anyone who uses iTunes and buy's apps and music from
Apple. If you have lost your content for whatever reason, iTunes
allows you to redownload load all your content again. I believe
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Kent Borg kentb...@borg.org wrote:
Matt Shields wrote (privately, but I think it is of general interest and
not confidential):
Just an FYI for anyone who uses iTunes and buy's apps and music from
Apple. If you have lost your content for whatever reason,
On 7/20/2012 9:41 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
Google does the same thing. (Mostly.)
I recently got a new phone and *most* of my Google Play apps reappeared,
but not all.
The ones you pay for will reappear. But the free ones don't. It seems like an
easy fix - I wish they would do it.
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Kent Borg kentb...@borg.org wrote:
I *did* get free apps installed automatically installed on my new phone, but
not all of my free apps. I don't know why some got installed, but many free
apps did. (Maybe it had something to do with when I installed the free
On Jul 20, 2012, at 11:17 AM, Shirley Márquez Dúlcey wrote:
The new Google Play store on the web does appear to have a full record of all
the apps you have bought including free ones. The phone version only shows
the apps you bought on that phone.
The device will list all applications
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Richard Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/18/2012 6:41 PM, Rich Braun wrote:
The iTunes backup model provides only for whole-volume snapshots; you
don't
get to restore things piece-meal. And it includes sys-config items that
go
way beyond your
On 7/19/2012 12:52 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
Oh - This is definitely *not* a full system backup. I can copy anything in
the filesystem (and without root, just anything within the sdcard). If I
lost or replaced my phone, I would have all the stuff I care about the most
(photos, music, etc),
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Shirley Márquez
Dúlcey
One of the nice things about the Amazon Appstore is that it has a full
record of all the apps you have bought including free ones. It would be
nice if the
Shirley Márquez Dúlcey wrote:
One of the nice things about the Amazon Appstore is that it has a full
record of all the apps you have bought including free ones. It would
be nice if the Google Play store had the same kind of record. At least
then you would have a central place to see what apps
Kent Borg wrote:
If you want all the cool stuff that Android and Iphone have, but don't
want clouds, you are in for a tough fight.
Actually, with Apple being slow to the cloud, the Itunes model of a
backup really is pretty close to what you want, except you say it is
broken and too limited.
Shirley Márquez Dúlcey m...@buttery.org writes:
On 7/19/2012 12:52 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
Oh - This is definitely *not* a full system backup. I can copy anything in
the filesystem (and without root, just anything within the sdcard). If I
lost or replaced my phone, I would have all
On 7/19/2012 6:08 AM, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
How about http://www.mediafour.com/products/readyaimdrop/ for a
backup/recovery option?
It's not a backup/recovery option. Apple does not permit iOS
applications to access ANYTHING outside if their own private sandboxes.
Anything that escapes
On 7/19/2012 12:52 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
On android, if you have root, you can use titanium backup. It will backup
all your apps app configs. But as far as I know, nothing can backup the
actual android state - layout of your homescreen etc, knowledge of wifi etc,
I've had another data loss thanks to iTunes, and am once again pondering
whether to ditch Apple in favor of Android. The whole reason I switched to
iPhone less than a year ago was to get out of the sysadmin-for-phone business;
I don't really want to have to manage the thing.
But I'm finding that
On 7/18/2012 6:41 PM, Rich Braun wrote:
The iTunes backup model provides only for whole-volume snapshots; you don't
get to restore things piece-meal. And it includes sys-config items that go
way beyond your personal data, in such a way that there is no assurance that a
snapshot can be restored.
On 7/18/2012 9:45 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
The iTunes backup model is nearly identical to the Palm Desktop model:
everything exists in iTunes. An iPhone is a portable cache of what's in
the parent iTunes. Android is little different: it's a portable cache
of what's in the Google cloud. Their
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:18:48PM -0400, Shirley Márquez Dúlcey wrote:
An Android phone can be hooked up to your computer via USB and acts
as an external drive. The entire Android system can be backed up to
a computer that way, and there are applications to facilitate the
process. I don't
On 7/18/2012 10:18 PM, Shirley Márquez Dúlcey wrote:
An Android phone can be hooked up to your computer via USB and acts as
an external drive. The entire Android system can be backed up to a
computer that way, and there are applications to facilitate the process.
Not possible. Not even
On 7/18/2012 10:40 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
Not possible. Not even CyanogenMod permits the boot loader, operating
system or application partitions to be exported via USB. Even if they
were, Android mounts them read-only internally so if they were exported
you would not be able to do a restore
On 7/18/2012 10:51 PM, Shirley Márquez Dúlcey wrote:
But the OS itself isn't the important thing to back up; you can
reinstall that. What you want to back up is the data - contacts,
calendar, and so forth.
Android doesn't export the applications partition via USB, not even with
CyanogenMod
From: Edward Ned Harvey [mailto:b...@nedharvey.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 12:45 AM
I personally run FTPDroid (ftp server on android) and I use goodsync on
the
PC to sync it nightly.
Oh - This is definitely *not* a full system backup. I can copy anything in
the filesystem (and
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