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According to the Google Play Business and Program Policies, you may re-install any app you have purchased, unlimited. (also if the app has been updated since you bought it).
Based on my experience it works like that indeed: I have updated and re-installed paid apps without any issue. Please note that the re-install/update also works on any other android ...
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Android does not natively back up applications so you can't "undo" an app update. Best thing I'd say you can do is something like this howto. It backs up your apks and their settings. It uses Titanium Backup and requires root, but rooting is not your problem.
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Beware: The instructions are for clean installing an OS. That means ALL YOUR DATA will be permanently LOST. If your phone was previously rooted it will be brought back to an unrooted state (whether you want it or not).
Please, remember to make backups of any important data on your phone. It will be lost.
1. Turning on USB debuging
Turn on USB debugging ...
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There an app developed to deal with that issue, Smart Timeout Keep Screen On by guidology available from Google Play Store:
Smart Timeout allows you to specify apps that will keep the screen / display on. Once there are no specified apps visible on the screen the normal screen timeout is enabled.
Works great while reading articles in web browsers, ...
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Multiple approaches here.
First, you can open the PlayStore App, hit the menu button, go to settings, and advise it to only work with WLAN, plus not install apps automatically. This would cover part of your problem.
Second, you could also tell it to not check for updates at all. While on a first look this seems to contradict with your intention -- please ...
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The same way as the phone would be: you have to wait for your manufacturer (in this case ASUS) releases an OTA update.
Android JellyBean hasn't been released yet - source and updates for Google Nexus devices will be released on July 15th, so update for your tablet probably wont be available for at least a month.
Of course the other option is rooting and ...
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When you download an app (whether free or paid) it is tied to your Google account so you can get all updates for this app as long as the developer is maintaining it.
Every app has a package name. This can be something like
com.touchtype.swiftkey
This is the package name for SwiftKey. If you buy it*, the app is tied to your Google account. You can ...
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Factory Reset doesn't take your device back to factory condition. It just clears all data, settings, etc.
So your phone will not go back to older Android version. It will be on the upgraded Android version (or any ROM that you have installed) with all data cleared!
Watch this video for more help. At 5:30 the guy answers exactly what you are asking.
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First, you probably cannot update to Android 3.x as that version was only intended for tablets.
Second, no Android version is linked to a specific phone. But each phone needs specific adaptions due to different hardware elements used, so each Android version must be adapted to be usable on the device.
Third, for "How can I..." and "Where do I find..." and ...
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Though I don't know about any "official way" (did I miss some option in the playstore app?), I can think of a work-around using Tasker (or a similar automation app). As a long-term Tasker user, I can best describe it for this app, which is the most feature-filled and complete automation solution for Android (but for sure not the cheapest and easiest one). ...
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Most vendors/manufacturers modify the Android source code to ensure full compatibility with the devices hardware - if you were to update to a clean version of Android, it just wouldn't work properly (and it it even booted, most things wouldn't work at all).
Some manufacturers implement an OTA update feature - whereas some don't. Those that don't sometimes ...
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Ok, here is how I solved the problem:
I followed the first part of the directions here: http://oldwiki.cyanogenmod.org/wiki/Motorola_Droid_2_Global:_Full_Update_Guide to wipe the flash and install older version of the Motorola software. (specifically, section 2.1.1) Then I upgraded to the version that I was running before the update started attempting to ...
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Is there a chance that something could go wrong?
Yes, always!
There's a reason you should always keep up to date backups of anything that is of importance to you, because things do go wrong.
That said, I didn't have any issues what so ever upgrading my Galaxy S2, it just worked.
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You don't usually have to wipe your data from a carrier upgrade. However, it's possible to have issues requiring data to be cleared for specific apps, and it's also possible that the upgrade will wipe your data for you.
Never fear, though. If you have the current version of Play Store on your phone now, then when you update to 4.0, even if you have to wipe ...
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Galaxy Nexus goes by variants such as yakju, yakjuxw, and takju. However yakju and takju will receive updates directly from Google. While the rest will be receiving from Samsung or probably network provider.
The difference between yakju and takju is that takju has Google wallet while yakju does not. Takju can only be purchased from Play Store.
I assume the ...
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Firmware, in this case, means the OS, since it's a preinstalled part of the core system.
The method I used does not require root, but it's possible to root at the same time. I didn't.
This depends. In most cases, unlocking the bootloader voids your warranty if the warranty is read and interpreted letter-to-letter. However, you could install an official ...
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ROM Updates from vendors/manufacturers/carriers usually evaluate checksums of at least the system partition -- which fails in case of applied modifications, such as required by rooting (rooting needs to place at least the superuser apk on the system partition, and other root-apps may then add to it). I'm not sure how this is handĺed by HTC for devices ...
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When you root your device you're gaining administrator access to it (root). Nothing more nothing less.
So, unless you install a third party ROM, you will continue to receive updates and be able to use the source code you download. One small issue, updates may unroot your phone if you install them.
Some useful reading on this subject:
What does “to root ...
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Quadrant is not a very good benchmark, beacuse the results vary a lot. Try running it four times in a row and you will be surprised. Antutu benchmark is much more reliable.
Don't worry about benchmarks though, they don't tell the whole story on real performance of the device anyway.
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Ok, found the answer here
When you start the update process it loads that screen with the android character and the yellow progress bar, as soon as that screen shows up press both vol up and vol down at the same time and it will switch to verbose mode where it will show each step of the install process. When it fails it will typically display a directory ...
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You probably have to use ODIN. I've done it myself, and it worked for me. I used it to root my phone (SGS2). I've postponed it for months, afraid it would brick my phone, but it didn't.
Make a backup of all important data.
Find a good manual on Youtube, XDA-developers or via Google. Compare them, and see what they say.
Be prepared that it can go wrong. ...
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Yes and No. There are Nexus/Google devices that are nevertheless branded by the carrier and therefore receive a different ROM then the stock ROM. This usually takes longer then the stock ROM.
But yes, besides of that, the Google manufactured branded devices are the only ones who receive the updates directly from Google. All other devices get their updates ...
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It just works, no need to wipe.
You don't need to wipe, according to a blog post on CyanogenMod's Google Plus channel:
Upgrading from CM10 to CM10.1
As you may have noticed, we started updating some devices from cm10 (Android 4.1) to 10.1 (Android 4.2) during the weekend. The upgrade process has been tested extensively for the older devices (manta ...
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The minimum requirements should be something around 800+ MHz CPU and 256+ RAM/ROM. That should be for a stock ICS ROM. Custom ROMs on the other side, are developed for a specific device, so their minimum requirements may be different. This can be achieved by enhancing the ROM to be able to get almost the same features (or more depending on the custom ROM) as ...
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As Peter mentioned, the requirements given might apply to stock ROM. Things may look different with special Custom ROMs. Take e.g. the HTC Wildfire, which comes with just a 576MHz single-core CPU and 384MB RAM (see GSM Arena for full specs), and thus wouldn't meet the minimum requirements. But put Paranoid ROM on it, which runs 4.0, and it's reported to run ...
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You can use Carbon to backup your applications data. If your devices is rooted you can make a complete nandroid backup using CWM.
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You can perform updates on installed APP's accessing the Play Store:
Find the Play Store icon on your home screen or in your app drawer and tap it to open it up.
Once the Play Store loads, tap the menu button on your device and choose the "My Apps" option.
Wait until the list gets filled. If there are available updates you'll see::
A text that says ...
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From my favorite forum xda-developers, a step by step guide to apply the port of Cyanogen 7.2.0-RC1 (based on Android Gingerbread 2.3.7) for the Vodafone Smart VF858 (Huawei U8160).
This is not to take lightly, read and understand everything before proceeding. So please read the introduction from the famous question:
How do I root my device?
Assuming ...
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If your handset is Google Nexus, then yes, Google pushes out the OTA updates.
The rest is down to the carriers, depending on who you are with, what handset you have.
Edit: Added more thought for clarity.
Some may not roll out the OTA updates, its all dependent on the market, region. I am with O2, and never get any OTA updates what-so-ever. Some ...
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If you have a custom recovery already, where Clockwork Mod Recovery is the most popular one, there's an option there to do a complete backup, sometimes called a "nandroid". As long as you have this backup folder lying around (it won't disappear when doing wipes from CWM) and you can enter CWM, you can restore that backup as well. Since the backup includes ...
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