Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Maria Sophia Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-7?Q?Can=A2t_Set_File_Permissions?= Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2026 23:11:12 -0600 Organization: BWH Usenet Archive (https://usenet.blueworldhosting.com) Message-ID: <1105ith$1003$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> References: <10vmnk6$2vlko$1@dont-email.me> <10vmsuq$1ont$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <10vmu40$31n35$1@dont-email.me> <10vnso3$gfe$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <10vp4vb$3ka8u$1@dont-email.me> <10vpe83$2qbi$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <10vq8d5$n1g$1@dont-email.me> <10vsoi5$ltv2$1@dont-email.me> <1103lmc$2fu0p$1@dont-email.me> <1104evm$2ni9f$1@dont-email.me> <1a3hfmxrik.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <1104vr1$2s3rl$1@dont-email.me> Reply-To: pusvul@getTjewytR4so+mqe2.invalid Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2026 05:11:14 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com; logging-data="32771"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blueworldhosting.com" User-Agent: telnet + stunnel + gVim on Windows Cancel-Lock: sha1:4HEOVyREUERXfxB4XL78BZGEys4= sha256:Okr/QBsfIEvhEDpHfwif/w8PiC0NPPWmpUV9/NpUP8g= sha1:sKxwK+3a8Tj1ljXxL9qOr128GSQ= sha256:uqskOWEqghQMILg9eLPG0YTiHNeot6ZkR7GmIcOhBso= Content-Language: en-GB Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.android:154095 Alan Peeling wrote: >> Restore the phone, make sure whatsapp is not installed yet. If it is, don't tap on it. Recover all the whatsapp files, its entire tree, and then start whatsapp. Maybe, just maybe, it sees the files and uses them. I did this once, long ago, and it worked. I don't know about now. > > How about copying everything from an old phone to a new one in one > operation? Once per decade, or so, I invest an inordinate amount of energy organizing my phone and my PC (since what I do on them is pretty much the same stuff). I only have to do that once, per decade (or so) for the PC and for Android. Since every phone automatically gets the same homescreen organization. I got a free Samsung Galaxy A32-5G from T-Mobile in 2021 and within two years, I broke it twice so T-Mobile replaced it under warranty twice. I even doubled my sd card size a couple of times, all seamlessly so. (Of course, I format it on Windows to the same name of 0000-0001.) Without the cloud, without an account, I backed up & restored almost everything, but I did lose text messaging history, as I recall, although as I noted to Carlos, had I created a free account on the pulsesms web site, I could have saved them (and I'm sure Google backups save them for others). Each time, I simply pulled out my external sd card, and then put it in the new device. I simply reloaded my homescreen backup file, which had gray icons for every app that wasn't yet installed (which was most apps). If I wanted to, I could just tap on the gray icons, and that immediately tried to get from the Google Play Store the *latest* version of that app. But since I didn't want the latest version, and since I download apps from F-Droid or GitHub, I simply doubleclicked on the APKs that I saved. Saved APKs? Yup. For Google Play store APKs? Yup. Almost nobody does it. Almost nobody even knows how to do it. But I save the APK of every app BEFORE I install that app. So I have all the APKs for all the apps I have installed (and not deleted). Of course, I don't remember all the apps I've installed. But I don't have to remember them. That's what the homescreen backup file does for me. Most of the work is in re-installing a thousand apps. But not for me.