Android 15 could add built-in support for app archiving
Android 15 could add built-in support for app archiving
Google Play has an app archiving feature that lets you uninstall apps without deleting their data, and it's coming natively to Android 15.
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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.
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.
I was forced back to swiftbackup because neo kept crashing my phone since it takes all coresby default
It even crashed with 2 of 8 cores
And I lost a bunch of data accidentally
Long story short I love neo but I ended up returning to swift since it has always kept my data safe and never crashed
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.