[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] muttleytm:
I installed AICP and it went smooth and everything was fine.

About a couple weeks go I lost my Freedom Pop wireless network. I usually don't run out of time/data, but, I was out or very close to the limit so I wasn't sure if it was this or the PRN, PRLs needed resetting. It was near the end of my FP billing cycle so I waited for it to start again and I still didn't have service.

I was trying to do a backup and then restore to a FP KitKat to do the PRL, PRN update and then restore to the AICP.

I was unsuccessful and confused. I used TWRP to chose backup and then chose the reboot option. I could see a command line running and saving things in a folder with a file name that included the date and time. I had to save it locally as for some reason the SC Card wasn't an option.

I saw a backup completed and went looking for the backup file. There was no folder called TWRP. There was one called backup with a few text files, but, not a backup. I eventually found the backup in a folder called clockworkmod. This was confusing as I didn't have Clockwork Mod installed at any point that I was aware of. I copied it onto the extSD card.

I then found an old backup of the kitkat OS from prior to switching to AICP and copied it to the extSD card as well. Then I tried to run TWRP to do a restore using the kitkat backup and I always got a message saying TWRP closed unexpectedly or something like that.

At that point I contacted TWRP and confused them when I told them that I found the backup in clockworkmod folder. I also did another backup and actually watched the process and saw that while I started the process with TWRP the next option was to reboot to actually do the backup and when it rebooted I saw that it was actually philz recovery that was doing the work. I started reading more about philz recovery and see it is sort of the replacement for Clockwork Mod and is based on it. I guess the explains the directory name.

Meanwhile I got a notice there was an AICP OTA update available that night. I thought I might as well install that before I do a backup and move on. I downloaded and I installed it, or thought I did anyway. When I looked at the last couple of lines it said could not find the update file and at the end it said it aborted. I finally watched more closely and saw the philz recovery pauses, at least for awhile, and I have to select the file I want to use.

After I this the update installed and my Freedom Pop network was working again. However, my Google Play Services were no longer working and need to be updated.

First I tried just getting the latest Google Play Services apk and putting on on the extSD card and installing it, but, the installer wouldn't work.

At the moment I'm copying the gapps apks to the extSD card. Maybe installing them will fix it.

I'm also posting this for the record as I imagine others might have the same issues and to ask:

When I do an update do I have to reinstall gapps, SuperSU, the FP fix, etc like I do when I did the original flash?

Since these can be daily updates, will they also include or will the FP fix also be kept up to date so I can forget about PRL, PRN updates altogether?

Here is the information on the version I just installed:

AICP 11.0 nightly0 (20160324)

google apps version 0.0(0)