Re: Thumbnails, and what creates them.

Java Jive wrote on Wed, 6 Nov 2024 10:51:35 +0000 :

"You cannot download your backups individually. If you need to recover
data in Samsung Cloud, you must sync your data to a compatible device."

Thanks for reminding me why on my free Samsung Galaxy A32-5G I set it up
with not only no Google account, but also no Samsung account.

Funny thing is, just as with Windows, Android works better without the
account (in that it does fewer things without you knowing it did it).

I asked on XDA long ago if there was anything in the Samsung offering that
was worth losing your privacy for... the answer came back as one app only.
 *[Privacy] Is there any app in the Samsung Galaxy Store worth the login requirements?*
 <https://xdaforums.com/t/privacy-is-there-any-app-in-the-samsung-galaxy-store-worth-the-login-requirements.4453661/>

By the way, I had asked the question for Java Jive of Wi-Fi backup over on
XDA Developers to try to always be helpful to others asking for help.
 *How can we backup & restore all our Wi-Fi AP connection settings from*
  *one phone to another (/data/misc/apexdata/com.android.wifi/Wifi*
 <https://xdaforums.com/t/how-can-we-backup-restore-all-our-wi-fi-ap-connection-settings-from-one-phone-to-another-data-misc-apexdata-com-android-wifi-wificonfigstore-xml.4701306/>

Not much came back yet, but XDA isn't as responsive as this newsgroup is.
  "Starting with Android 11, Google introduced scoped storage
   which restricts access to certain directories, including /data.
   This means that without root access files in /data can't get
   accessed directly."

However, we know apps can access that scoped storage, so the question is
how do the apps that access it do it, and how can we manually mimic that?