i dont mean to intercept...
im using appbrain, what fiasco? just point me to the link and ill smoke it over if there is a link...
So, I sign up for AppBrain for the first time the other day and install the app.
It jumps up and tells me I've got 8 or 9 updates pending. The Market had just moments before said I was up-to-date. I jump back to the Market, it says I have 8 or 9 now, so I back out of the Market, and decide to see what all of the shouting is about - and throw the update all via AppBrain.
When it's all done updating I've got icons that have gone stale - some have turned generic, some are left over - and instead of them making any sense -
I ended up with a different Bubble level altogether - not from the same dev at all - and 4 other apps completely missing (not in /system/app at all), but with two of them showing their original icons.
So evidently the replace procedure was remove then install - and it did say that each app downloaded and installed, I watched their little progress bars.
And as an added bonus, a _boatload_ of my settings were redone - and then:
- Wifi would no longer lock on, constant connect/disconnect
- My battery indicator in the notifications bar showed full charge while I watched it lose 15% an hour - _idling_
- My QuickDesk settings were completely scrambled
- Half of my contacts were gone and by the time I'd discovered it, that had traveled upstream to Google and then downstream to my laptop
A .357 to my head would not induce me to ever try AppBrain again.
I was only doing it to check out the HP iPrint Photo app that one guy said he couldn't find in the Market, and I thought, hey, while I'm here, I'll see if this is as good as they say as yet another backup method.
:nono: :nono: :nono:
YMMV tho.
PS - HP iPrint Photo is just too cool.
PPS - I left out the parts where according to my system logs, GPS started turning itself on/off/on/off while 4G kept cycling looking for service - with 4G off the whole time.
I finally had to revert to an image restore and thank the heavens for root!