My phone has been acting kind of strange lately- some apps running slowly, the camera taking 2-3 minutes to come up after I do the "camera shake" from my home screen, wifi tethering wouldn't turn on, etc. So I decided to go ahead and do a factory reset to clean things up.
The weird thing is that the reset fixed the issues I was having, but it somehow broke a variety of things that were working before! I can't get the Motorola Connect Chrome extension to connect to my phone from either of the two computers I use regularly, the phone has stopped automatically connecting to the BT adapter in my car (I have to force it to connect manually now), and a number of other little things like that.
I'm doing another reset to see if any of these issues clear up, but has anyone else had any experience where a reset broke something that wasn't broken before?

 

I had a little extra time this morning at work, so I decided to reset again- so far so good! Connect fired right up, and I just went out to my car to pair and while I was there I turned the car off and back on, and the phone reconnected just like it used to. I guess something weird must have happened in the first reset, but whatever it was seems to be cleared up now (or at least for now).

And for the record, I am not rooted and running 4.4.4

 

Yes. Both times, I allowed Google to automatically start installing the apps that were tied to my account. In fact, the only real difference between what I did the first time and the second was that the first time I entered credentials for both of my google accounts (my personal and our shared family account) at the same time, and the second time I entered just my personal account, let it restore completely and then added the family account afterward. The first time, it seems only apps from the first account I entered were actually restored, so I wonder if there was something else in that restoration process that may have gone wrong due to having to accounts entered before the original restore was complete...

 

Normally I would agree, except that it appears to have solved the problem. Granted, it was a slash & burn approach, but it did indeed solve the problem. Likewise, when I had my Galaxy Nexus and was running custom roms, it wasn't all too uncommon for a new version to act funny after initially installing it, but after wiping and installing it again, everything would work great. (And for the record, I'm a software engineer, I don't work in Android, but the basic principles are the same regardless of the language. I know there is little reason why resetting again should make a difference, but for some reason in my experience, it frequently does in Android).

Since I'm not rooted (this is the first Android phone I've owned that I haven't rooted), I'm restoring apps from the Play store and then importing settings for each app that allows it from backups I made previously.

Aside from the difference in when I added each account to the phone, I followed the same procedure both times. The first time left me with lots of little things that didn't work. The second time, everything I've checked so far works just fine...