Just finished doing a factory reset,everything with ICS is working great,Love the upgrade,well worth the wait.
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I'm running the .12 RUU now and for me it has been a bit snappier smoother running than the .10 leak.
"Honey my phone is broken after they gave me ICS!!! I think it's time to upgrade to a new bigger and badder HTC phone!!"
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"Honey my phone is so slow. I really need that new quad core phone!!"
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Those of you who performed factory resets:
Did your apps and/or other settings return to the phone from the cloud? I noticed when I went to settings > privacy, I had to select my account (gmail) for this feature to take effect. But I haven't tried a factory reset yet to verify what items restore.
My apps and settings weren't backed up in the cloud. I had to re-download everything and sign into my apps again. It's only a minor pain, but you can install apps from a pc (see my post above), and that makes it a little easier.
Sms and mms messages, call history, and settings don't get backed up. It's mostly contacts, I think, that get backed up.
Actually, this sounds like a bad SIM card, or worst-case scenario a bad connection to the SIM card inside the phone (ie. bad phone).My ICS experience was brief. After not playing a great deal of my music library and eating battery like nobody's business I performed a factory reset tonight. I no more than started the setup process when I lost internet connection with an error stating I needed to insert my Sim card. Needless to say... I'll not be setting up the phone tonight.
Oddly enough, I bothered to look at my phone later and it was working. Must have been a glitch or the local tower was down. In any event... I'm up and running and a factory reset set things right.
Contacts are backed up in a completely different place/way. What IBT means is if you use the 'supposed' backup settings option in Privacy menu will it actually remember your settings and/or app data. It says it will but like he said, you actually have to go to the privacy menu and tell it to back this stuff up.
@Olbriar - did you use the back up settings option in privacy menu? did it work?
Actually, this sounds like a bad SIM card, or worst-case scenario a bad connection to the SIM card inside the phone (ie. bad phone).
If this continues, I would call tech support and get a new SIM card and if all else fails get the unit replaces.
This is not new, Android has had this for some time although the way it is presented in ICS is much nicer than older versions.not sure if this has been mentioned before other than in the Verizon notes....
On any desktop page/panel, press and hold the red Home button on the lower left.... and we get to see or pick a recently accessed app... (must press/hold the Home button long enough)
Where did you get your copy from? I don't want to use any of those "limited speed" sites. I'll keep looking but a point in the right direction would be appreciated. In the meantime, was it just one file, or are two required like the OTA? I am hearing that the 7.1MB primer isn't needed when going from .10 to .12 but I haven't talked to anyone else who did it.
Also, have you noticed any feature changes, good or bad?
I had wireless turned off when I got home last night, and my home network is remembered in my phone. I got a notification this morning that wireless was automatically turned on because I was in range of a remembered network for a while. That's a new feature, right? You can turn off the setting under settings > Wi-Fi > menu > advanced, but I think the default is on.
No experience with Facebook sorry.
I hate to say it again but a factory reset would make a WORLD of difference. Make sure contacts are backed up with google, go to Menu>settings>privacy>back up to google to get settings/etc to get backed up as well and wipe the phone out.
Trust me, you won't regret it
My experience with the stock music player post ICS update was sketchy at best; would not play songs that previously worked (sorry I have no idea what types of files they were). Ended up doing a factory reset with sd wipe then re added all my music...all the songs work again!
Contacts are backed up in a completely different place/way. What IBT means is if you use the 'supposed' backup settings option in Privacy menu will it actually remember your settings and/or app data. It says it will but like he said, you actually have to go to the privacy menu and tell it to back this stuff up.
@Olbriar - did you use the back up settings option in privacy menu? did it work?
As I posted in another thread, after a factory reset, I seem to have lost most of the stuff (like backed up data and settings from my apps) I backed up on my SD card, and I'm not sure why yet.
I had the backup apps and restore apps boxes both checked, and I have my Google account shown as the account to use. So far, I have seen no evidence that any of my settings OR data has been restored. Maybe the restore process hasn't happened yet. I wish I knew if it was working or not. And I wish there were a manual way of restoring these things.
As I posted in another thread, after a factory reset, I seem to have lost most of the stuff (like backed up data and settings from my apps) I backed up on my SD card, and I'm not sure why yet.
I had the backup apps and restore apps boxes both checked, and I have my Google account shown as the account to use. So far, I have seen no evidence that any of my settings OR data has been restored. Maybe the restore process hasn't happened yet. I wish I knew if it was working or not. And I wish there were a manual way of restoring these things.
WY... this won't help you now, but perhaps someone yet to do the upgrade. I made copies of several files in the "sdcard" folder (which we all now know is not the actual SD card) and put them in a file on the "ext_sd" (which IS the actual SD card). I copied much of the "Android" folder (which has a lot of data including settings for a lot of the apps), some from the "data" folder, some from the "DCIM" folder and many of the folders created by the various apps that I use (where they store their own settings). After doing the upgrade, I then pasted those folders back into the "sdcard" make sure not to replace any files when I got the warning asking if I wanted to replace an existing file with the same name. Most of my apps preserved their settings or I was able to use the apps "restore settings" or "restore from backup". Saved a whole lotta rebuilding time.
I signed into my verizon account today to look at something else, and I had a message that seemed to know if I had factory reset my phone and it asked if I wanted to restore. Maybe check your verizon account?
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