Help reinstalling apps with Appbrain after wipe

[clipperqb]

So I decided to wipe the phone couple days after 2.2 update. I was experiencing severe lag time while typing. Also zooming (double-tap) in browser wouldn't work. Anyway, I cant get appbrain to sync. I installed appbrain on phone and have signed in with same account but none of my apps show up just the pre-installed ones on the phone. When I look on web all my apps still show up in My Apps.
Thanks

 

[clipperqb]

More Info:
It appears that there is a new app list automatically added to my appbrain web account called "Apps on the HTC Incredible" this list includes only the stock apps and it is the one my phone is now syncing with. I had to "Add to List" my existing apps over to this new list.
Worked

 

[ctc]

Had the same issue with appbrain. You need to copy all of your apps from your old list to your new list. Then you can reinstall them by syncing w/ appbrain. After that you'll probably want to delete your old list and go into your appbrain settings from your computer and make the new list the default if you still have multiple lists (for example, I have a "maybe" list where I put apps that I want to look at later but not install).

 

[Terabethia]

What ctc said.

To be a bit more specific...

The apps you had originally are in a list called Apps On The Phone. The new list will be called Apps on the HTC Droid Incredible (you can change this later if you want).

Open up that original list and select all. Then hit Add To List and add them all to the new HTC Droid one.

Once you are all done, you can remove the original list.

 

[MP Flinn]

Thanks to all for the help with process preparation before hard reset.

However, wouldn't you think "they" (Market / HTC / Google .. SOMEONE?) could make saving ones Apps easier than all this While users may be skilled in using technology, we're all not "techies" or in my case resent all the time hunting down answers.

 

[Outlaw71]

I'm curious, because I've been wanting to do a factory reset for a few days now but I want to make sure all my ducks are in a row first... I made an 'Appbrain' account and have all my apps on there now. I did the Verizon contacts back-up. But now I'm starting to wonder, what about apps like 'Notes' and 'Keeper'... does 'Appbrain' store all the info that was in those? Or do I need to go into 'Keeper', write down all the passwords that are stored it, and reenter them once I reinstall 'Keeper' after I do the reset?

Man that sure would SUCK!!!! I have tons of passwords in there. Plus another ton of files in 'Notes'... is there a back-up assistant that takes care of ALL of that stuff without having to do it all manually? Like with my Blackberry when I backed it up onto my computer it backed EVERYTHING up that was on my phone. But I didn't get a back-up assistant disk with my Android phone, do they not have that feature for our Droids?

 

[NightAngel79]

I'm curious, because I've been wanting to do a factory reset for a few days now but I want to make sure all my ducks are in a row first... I made an 'Appbrain' account and have all my apps on there now. I did the Verizon contacts back-up. But now I'm starting to wonder, what about apps like 'Notes' and 'Keeper'... does 'Appbrain' store all the info that was in those? Or do I need to go into 'Keeper', write down all the passwords that are stored it, and reenter them once I reinstall 'Keeper' after I do the reset?

Man that sure would SUCK!!!! I have tons of passwords in there. Plus another ton of files in 'Notes'... is there a back-up assistant that takes care of ALL of that stuff without having to do it all manually? Like with my Blackberry when I backed it up onto my computer it backed EVERYTHING up that was on my phone. But I didn't get a back-up assistant disk with my Android phone, do they not have that feature for our Droids?

Can try appbackupreinstall
the only thing appbrain does is sync a LIST of your apps, doesn't save any of your actual app data

btw moved to Android apps section

 

[Lane]

I'm curious, because I've been wanting to do a factory reset for a few days now but I want to make sure all my ducks are in a row first... I made an 'Appbrain' account and have all my apps on there now. I did the Verizon contacts back-up. But now I'm starting to wonder, what about apps like 'Notes' and 'Keeper'... does 'Appbrain' store all the info that was in those? Or do I need to go into 'Keeper', write down all the passwords that are stored it, and reenter them once I reinstall 'Keeper' after I do the reset?

Man that sure would SUCK!!!! I have tons of passwords in there. Plus another ton of files in 'Notes'... is there a back-up assistant that takes care of ALL of that stuff without having to do it all manually? Like with my Blackberry when I backed it up onto my computer it backed EVERYTHING up that was on my phone. But I didn't get a back-up assistant disk with my Android phone, do they not have that feature for our Droids?

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