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[Q] OTA Updates

Hello everyone sorry if I am posting this when there is an answer somewhere already on the forums. I have searched multiple times with no straight forward answer but that doesn't mean there isn't an answer that I overlooked.
I am new to the forum as well as Android. I recently purchased a Samsung Captivate through AT&T. I have been reading up on rooting the device and majorly concidering it to get the AT&T Bloatware off. Of the many, many, sites I have read on up I found One Click Root for Samsung Captivate through this forum, which hopefully will work properly, I do not see why it wouldn't.
This brings me to my first question, if I root my device, install Titanium Backup and uninstall the bloatware, can I then uninstall Titanium Backup and unroot my device? Or must I leave Titanium Backup installed for the "Backup" purposes?
My second question is if I root my device and uninstall bloatware ONLY, will I receive and be able to download OTA updates that become avaliable? ( I am aware I will lose root if installed, just currious as to if it will even let me update. )
My only reason for rooting is to get rid of the bloatware, I am hoping I can remove the bloatware and then unroot because I do not have any use for being rooted once they are removed.
I do not plan on flashing any custom ROM, I am leaving the stock ROM just removing the applications and touching nothing else. I know I have read that if I change from the ROM I will not be able to receive OTAUs...
Any thoughts on this?
Thanks in advance for the help. I am very good with computers and a certified ARES tech, know HTML. Just trying to grasp this whole Android thing comming from a iPhone (SO FAR SO GOOD) ... I don't think I'm too lost... yet.

If all you want to do is get rid of the bloatware, download LauncherPro and hide the icons. Much easier and the phone is much better with LP.

One Click Root works great. I've used it many times without issue.
I have used Titanium Backup to remove unwanted apps. Personally I leave it installed, and use to it to backup all of my apps, and save them to my External SD.
Personally I would leave the root in place, and also consider Sideloading it. It'll allow you to install "unapproved" apps.
I do not know how this might affect your ability to receive OTA. I think I remember hearing something around the time of the JH7 OTA release. I did some looking around and couldn't find it

Thanks for the help. I decided to put my worry aside as far as OTA updates go and go ahead and root the phone and remove bloatware.
I used one click root (which worked perfect) to root the device, downloaded Titanium Backup, and removed all the AT&T junk, and a couple things from Samsung I had no use for. Acually I kinda took my phones life in my own hands and uninstalled more than the lists I have found said to, but I figured if worst come to worst and it bricked I could just return it to Wal-Mart's AT&T kiosk since I was still on my thirty day guarantee. (No ma'am, I have NO IDEA what happened. )
Anyways the phone functioned fine so apparently I didn't do anything I shouldn't have. I only ran in to one problem and that was when I unrooted using the One Click (wanted to try it and see if it worked as good as the root) my phone came back on and was doing crazy stuff... locking out of nowhere, slow, didn't have the notification bar, nor any network connectivity after many reboots. Still in the same mindset that I could just make a trip to Wal-Mart, I did a factory reset. Phone came up and everything is perfect, bloatware is still gone and it took away my root apps which I was probubly going to end up doing anyways.
From what I finally found after a couple hours searching online is that theres a chance I won't be able to OTA update, however I shouldn't have a problem using Kies Mini to update instead of the OTA. Apparently AT&T's servers are getting overwelmed and people are having connection problems... even non rooted users.
We will see I guess when Froyo is (finally) released on AT&T.
Thanks again for the help!

[Q] Swapping out my NC - Best way to Backup/Restore?

Hey all!
I need to swap out my NC due to a few dead pixels, while it is still under the 30 day warranty.. I've rooted it and am running well, apps installing, gmail synced, all that good stuff. My question is, what is the best way to back everything up before returning it? Would a simple Titanium backup/restore do the trick? I've read somewhere that if using Titanium to restore system data, you could have problems? Would it be best to just restore apps/app data? Thanks in advance!
Dennis

Using Titanium backup for Apps/Data is the way to go for this; just don't restore until you have your new device at the same point (rooted 1.0.1 or 1.0.0 depending on which update you are one now.
If you use Titaniuim to restore Data onto a different Rom you could run into problems because different ROMS can use different ways of store data etc. ... but as long as you keep the same ROM you should be fine

On the same device, if I restore Apps/Data it hard resets and screws up. If I restore Apps only its stable.
Just food for thought if it happens to you

It would stand to reason that data wouldn't restore. Same story with the iSomethings, I would only restore the apps... Data is mostly settings and the like, but unless you're a crazy customizer it'd take the average user about 5 min to redo all the config settings.

Bigger time savings would be to have your Autonooter/1.0.1 card(s) ready to root before hand.
I have a bunch of extra 512MB drives so I just let the files sit on cards and label the cards for reuse.

[Q] Transfer existing apps/data from old X to new X?

Hi all. I did a search but couldn't find a clear answer to this particular question. If it's out there I would appreciate if you could throw me a link.
I just received a replacement Moto X for my current unit which has a bad camera. Both were created using Motomaker if that makes a difference.
I've got the new phone activated and used Migrate to move the basic stuff, but I can't seem to find a way to move the majority of my apps to the new phone (I've used Titanium Backup previously but I guess that's not an option here as both have 4.4.2) and I've got quite a few programs that contain settings and data that I really don't want to lose or have to recreate from scratch.
Is there a program that would allow me to move the bulk of my current apps and the related data to the new phone relatively easily or should I just start the copy/paste bucket brigade via USB and my computer?
Edit: I'm also open to using adb and a nandroid backup if that's a possibility, but I would appreciate pointers to instructions if they exist. Thanks.

Does Google back up work, when I switched from my HTC to my MotoX, everything went across including wifi locations.
It should be in your menu, you are actually backing up your Google account and it restores data on any device that you sign in on.
Tapatalked from my G PAD 8.3

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koushikdutta.backup

younger06 said:
Does Google back up work, when I switched from my HTC to my MotoX, everything went across including wifi locations.
It should be in your menu, you are actually backing up your Google account and it restores data on any device that you sign in on.
Tapatalked from my G PAD 8.3
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It doesn't appear to be working as advertised. I've installed the same apps that were on my original phone and none of them had the same configuration or data on the new phone. I've even tried removing apps from the new phone and forcing a sync on the old phone, then reinstalling on the new phone about a half hour later to see if that might help but have had no better results.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koushikdutta.backup
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Is it working properly with the Moto X now? I've seen quite a few reports of it failing on Motorola phones and the Play description itself mentions that it's not available to Motorola devices.

[Q] Google isn't backing up my phone settings

This is probably one of the more frustrating features that I have seen on this device. Whenever I wipe (per say to go to another rom) in the setup process there is no option to select restore from a nexus 6. Only from my tablet and NY old note 4 that I haven't used in 2 weeks. This is really frustrating because I have to manually download all the apps that I use on a regular basis. Is there a way to fix this? Has anyone else run into it?

Why not just use titanium backup. I find it much easier and much faster.
Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk

I have exactly the same issue. It's incredibly irritating to have to re-set everything up including wi-fi settings etc. etc. I don't understand why it keeps showing just my old Nexus 4. I've learned my lesson now and will do a nandroid next time but that is something that should be working anyway.

I think there's a lot of us with the same issue. Tb is fine but I want my settings to restore also.

Yep it sucks, trying to use Google to have a solution but still nothing everytime I try to clean flash I need to select setup as new device since my last backup is almost 50 days old.
I could use titanium backup but why download an app when my phone is supposed to do that without the need of an extra app

It hasn't backed up mine either... Nvidia Shield backsup just fine but not this... I can't understand what's going on.

I posted what worked for me to have my Nexus 6 show up in my Google Play devices in another thread earlier as I was having the same issues, then noticing that the Nexus was not showing up in my devices on Google Play.
Basically, a few days ago, all I did was go to "Backup and reset" in the phone settings, turned off "Back up my data", then turned it back on again and my device finally showed up in Google Play and is presently up to date in the "Last used" column at this time. As noted in the other thread, I have not reset the phone since but hopefully now that the phone is in the list and updating, it will be an option next time I reset the phone.
This worked for me to at least get the phone to show up in Google Play. I hope it works for others that might be having the same issue and hopefully with the phone showing up in Google Play, an automatic restore will be possible after a reset.

Backup, root, restore

Ok, I have had about enough running without root on my SM-T813, so I'm planning on fixing that this weekend. However, I have been using it for a week and a half now, and I'd like to restore it to its current state after nuking/decrypting the data partition.
Would it be too simplistic to think that SmartSwitch would resolve this by letting me backup/restore? Is there another way to do a backup and restore when going from encrypted to unencrypted?
Thanks!

Samsung smartswitch mobile

Yeah. no. This is one area where Apple roundly trounces the crapola out of Samsung - iTunes backups are generally pretty reliable - I've done restores to the same tablet and to new tablets with excellent results for years. Smartswitch? not so much. It only managed to restore about 90% of my apps, despite my taking a backup RIGHT BEFORE I STARTED, and none of the data or settings came over. I'm not sure how that qualified as much of a backup/restore...
This is partly my fault, though, as I was in a hurry. I should have rooted first, backed up with TiBu to the SD card, and then disabled encryption. As it is, I have recreated most everything (Nova settings, banking apps, email, etc.) to where it was. I did lose all my progress in The Room and Does Not Commute, but I actually like both of those games, so replaying them won't be too bad.
The upside is that this won't ever happen again, because now I have two "real" ways to backup and restore data on this tablet.