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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.

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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.

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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.

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Another reason to root. Then Neobackup.

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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.

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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.

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