Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Frank Slootweg Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Thumbnails, and what creates them. Date: 8 Nov 2024 10:47:57 GMT Organization: NOYB Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <1ktfijp2bp4fisefbf95ptanhve79ab2od@4ax.com> X-Trace: individual.net a+jJrTK48NcAx2vEF4YnaQGvWZWdvUgJC+NY5NlCvDuFcBl/ku X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:5j1wi6mxrjNCiAprpf55vtuXeF4= sha256:YUgcswV5lI9tyKM8LczkbRie7zNtRW+oSeBYJd5h1BY= User-Agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (CYGWIN_NT-10.0-WOW/2.8.0(0.309/5/3) (i686)) Hamster/2.0.2.2 Bytes: 2779 Andy Burns 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,