Re: Thumbnails, and what creates them.

Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:

Java Jive wrote:
 

Presumably what is supposed to happen is that, if your phone gets wiped,
it will offer to restore from the last backup

 
Yes, there have been a couple of times e.g. I've had a hardware fault on
a brand new phone, had to wipe it to exchange it for a replacement, and
hit the restore button, and it just does that (apart from software such
as K-9 which doesn't store config backups in the Google account)

  In my experience *most* (non-Google) software doesn't store
configuration settings in the Google account (or Google Drive). They
(have to) store it in their app-private area  (Android\data, etc.) which
means that general purpose backup programs can not access it and hence
can not back it up.

  This is really a pain, because you have to 'export' (*if* such a
function is available in the app) app-private settings from each and
every non-Google app to some common area, before you can back it up. Not
to mention not being able to backup app-private data.

  That said, do *you* have any positive experience that the Google
restore method restores the *data* of non-Google apps (i.e. for example
to local mail copies of K-9 Mail)?

but I'm not about to test that by wiping my phone!

 
You've presumably got your old one that you could play with?

  Luckily, I've not yet needed to restore any stuff which I could not
backups, but that's mostly because my old phone had Android 5.1.1, so
the app-private areas still *could* be backed up by convential methods,