Not so much fun: I just got the two new Nexus 5 phones. One for me and one for my wife. You'd think Google would make setup simpler than it is. You enter all your credentials and it promptly starts installing all your apps, which is good, but it doesn't really restore your old phone, like where you put the apps, and what your notification settings were. No, you have to do all of that again from scratch. And every app has its own damn notification settings, so weeks later you're getting some noise from some app that you forgot to silence.
Coming up next, the part I've been dreading: calling Verizon to see if I can get out of my contract with them a month early without paying the ETF.
Yeah one of my pet peeves doing a re-install on Android. Try it on an iPhone and almost everything is identical to what it was apart from a few things like Spotify cached songs. Almost to the point of wondering was there any point in the reinstall if having problems. If upgrading then you worry if that might be the cause of whatever issues you might be having.
Sometimes a clean start is a good thing.
If you really want to keep a lot of settings I would recommend Titanium Backup. It's a few dollars but probably worth it. It does need root access though.
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