Re: back up factory reset

From	Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com>
Newsgroups	comp.mobile.android
Subject	Re: back up factory reset
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Date	2016-08-24 09:34 -0800

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The Real Bev wrote:
> On 08/08/2016 07:33 PM, Hannelore VB wrote:
>> On Mon, 8 Aug 2016 14:01:03 -0700, The Real Bev wrote:
>>
>>> I have 4 email accounts, 2 mail programs, a number of logins for banks
>>> and other institutions, file locations, LOTS of options for my GPS apps,
>>> and that's enough to keep me going for half a day. This stuff is NOT
>>> included in backups, and it's the most troublesome.
>>>
>>> I've done three factory resets so far, each was traumatic and I lost
>>> stuff that I valued.
>>
>> you were right
>> this was my first factory reset
>> there are a lot of settings I didn't know about
>>
>> I thought it would only be little things like setting up the wifi
>> password
>> and the bluetooth pin but but each time I run any program I have to
>> set it
>> up again
>>
>> for example I manually imported the vcard.vcf I had saved to the sd card
>> that gave me back my contacts
>>
>> then I set up a couple of the email accounts but they were easy
>> for wallpaper I took a picture of the sky
>>
>> the android settings menu was something I went thru one by one
>>
>> a bunch of paths needed to be set
>> for example I set the app apk automatic backup path to the sd card
>>
>> I changed a few settings in the default browser
>> even MMS had to be set up for my carrier in the text app but that was
>> easy
>>
>> so the setup seems to be easy but each of about 50 to 100 programs
>> needs it
>>
>> the alarms had to be reset
>> the shortcuts to text files had to be made again from es file explorer
>> sideline seems to have lost its phone number so a setup file is missing
>> the voice recorder needed its path set for saving files to the sd card
>> i had to put a shortcut to text files in the browser and video
>> directories
>>
>> probably the worst setup hassle was that all the offline maps had to be
>> downloaded again so I need to learn how to save them before resetting
>>
>> for example I had to type "ok maps" in google a bunch of times just to
>> download again the map tiles which I would have thought the app backup
>> program would have saved but it did not
>>
>> all the redirected files were lost so I had to figure out where to
>> redirect
>> the files again so that they are saved by the apps onto the main
>> memory and
>> then instantly moved to the sd card
>>
>> so it was more traumatic than I thought it would be because each of
>> the 50
>> to 100 programs had to have its settings checked and reset and about
>> 25 of
>> the programs needed their data replenished
>>
>> you would think the backup program would have saved all that ahead of
>> time
>> but it did not save any of that stuff
>
> This seems like a major defect in Android, and I was really shocked when
> I discovered it. We ought to be able to mirror the entire installation
> to a computer subdirectory, and just feed all or parts of it back when
> needed.
>
> I copy my entire linux partition to another one every couple of weeks,
> and if the one I'm using gets broken I can boot into a backup or restore
> broken files from the backup. I haven't had to do that very often, but
> it's a nice way of upgrading my system -- run a backup, update the
> backup and play with it for a while to make sure everything is OK before
> using the original partition for a new backup.
>
> Not enough space to do that on a phone, but running a complete backup to
> a computer surely ought to be possible.
>
   "backup"....unless that was a COPY (_NOT_ "image), it cannot be used 
as-is. So if everything else gets trashed, you are SOL.

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back up factory reset Hannelore VB <hannelore@vb.net> - 2016-08-08 11:35 +0700
  Re: back up factory reset Bob Martin <bob.martin@excite.com> - 2016-08-08 07:38 +0100
  Re: back up factory reset Dave Doe <hard@work.ok> - 2016-08-08 22:34 +1200
    Re: back up factory reset Hannelore VB <hannelore@vb.net> - 2016-08-08 21:15 +0600
      Re: back up factory reset The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2016-08-08 08:56 -0700
        Re: back up factory reset Hannelore VB <hannelore@vb.net> - 2016-08-08 23:48 +0700
          Re: back up factory reset The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2016-08-08 14:01 -0700
            Re: back up factory reset Hannelore VB <hannelore@vb.net> - 2016-08-09 09:33 +0700
              Re: back up factory reset The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2016-08-08 20:37 -0700
                Re: back up factory reset Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2016-08-24 09:34 -0800

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