This is driving me nuts. On Android 6.0. rebooting the phone is causing several apps to de-install. For example it always de-installs colornote and it generally de-installs Google which removes the Google search bar. Today it also deinstalled paypal, and Garmin connect. it seems that in all cases it replaces the installed apps' icons with the Android icon which itself points to nothing.

Any suggestions appreciated.

 

Uninstalled completely. They are no longer in the app drawer.

 

I don't have any apps on my SD card. Only thing there is my music and my backups.

To answer the other question I listen to music from my phone when running. But I have been getting what seem to be interrupts getting fired that cause a brief pause in the music every few seconds or so. I kind of makes listening to music worse than not having music. I have never been able to find out what is causing this. But, rebooting my phone every day clears whatever it is.

I use LG backup every day now before I reboot the phone, but I've never done a restore. Not sure how long that would take vs just reinstalling several apps.

I wouldn't be adverse to getting a new phone, but don't know what to get. I kind of wonder if this issue I am having is somehow intentional, trying to become annoying enough that the user will buy a new phone. It could be due to some upgraded system software. This makes me think that I shouldn't get another LG phone. I wouldn't want to reward them for causing this problem. But if I get some other kind of phone, then I guess I need some other kind of backup. Could I use the LG backup to do a restore on some other manufacturer's phone, like Samsung for instance?

Also, I'll never get another phone where the SD card is not accessible without having to take the case off.

 

For my LG G4 I have to take the back off to access the SD card. I have critter cams outside that take pictures of all kinds of animals that come by during the night, and it would be nice just to be able to pop the SD card out of the cam and put it in my phone just by popping out the SD card that contains my music. I don't want to have to take the back off of the phone to do so.

I also tried restoring using the LG restore function. That was a bit of a waste of time. It took about an hour and when it was finished it actually said that it was incomplete and wanted to know if I wanted to do it again. I said no. But I still had to reboot my phone afterwards and it still managed to delete those normal apps so that the backup hadn't really accomplished anything. I still had to restore the four apps that were deleted the way I have been doing.