What we need is a more reliable ability to restore data to apps, particularly across phones. This used to be possible with 3rd party apps, but they borked it a long time ago.
Scoped storage (only one app has access to its own data folders) is the heart of the problem. Not saying it’s wrong, as I understand the rationale.
This makes root necessary to permit a different app to write to those folders.
And then apps need to be coded in a way that doesn’t cause problems with restored data. Because even with root, this can sometimes happen.
Nah I don’t think that’s it, rather the app data is tied to that specific phone via a number Google assigns to it. So, if you go to a new phone, or even factory reset your phone, you cannot restore data - even using root and apps that would backup the app data folder. Like I say, it used to work, it hasn’t for years.
Another reason to root. Then Neobackup.
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It had lots of bugs and crashes back last year, but considerably improved. Flawless backups/restore, A13. It’s almost a replacement for titanium now.
Neobackup, thanks, I’ll give that a try. I’ve used Titanium Backup back in the day, and maybe one or two others, but not had any luck with restoring into a new install.
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Just like Nextbit!
Uhm. Newsflash. My Vanilla Android 9.1.0’s vanilla Play Store already does… 🙄
Edit: Apologies for the tone above. I deserve the downvotes. 😅
What “vanilla” play store do you have? I have Android phones running android 4 through 13 and none of them natively have something like that built in.
First off, my apologies for the tone of my first post. I am cyclothimic and sometimes (in bad moments) shouldn’t be on social media. Hard to draw that line sometimes, though.
Secondly, in a more positive manner and admitting my error in comparing native in Android to the Play Store: I had this message popup on a full phone in the Play Store if I wanted to enable it. It is now also in my Play Store settings underneath “Google Play Feedback”.
I have Play Store v39.4.23-21 [O] [PR] 599960585
It also only sometimes does Archiving, but not often. Usually it’ll just still pop-up the uninstall-other-apps popup as usual.
This is not something you can choose. It chooses the apps for you itself
True.