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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,