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Rastaman-FB said:
i didnt realise palm backed up everything including apps
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Yes, everytime I do a "hotsync" via USB, Bluetooth or IrDA, EVERYTHING in the PalmOS that isn't burned into the ROM is copied to a "\My Documents\Palm" directory. PalmOS is simply a .prc file (palm resource) or a .pdb file (palm database) for each application. This makes it very clean and easy. And you can put any app on the external storage -- you can move them to internal easily too. You also decide at the time of install where it should go. None of this "move to SD" business after the fact.

Rastaman-FB said:
and lets not exaggerate about "20 years" what you gonna back em up to? floppy via parallel port?
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Okay well maybe 15. I got my first PalmPilot PDA when I founded "Boot" Magazine (now "MaximumPC" in 1996. My point is the same. The fact that I -- as a normal user -- can not make a safe, reliable backup of my phone is absurd. This is more critical than backing up my computer! I'm much more likely to loose, break or have stolen my fancy $500 phone than my desktop computer.

I just find it astonishing that with all these amazing smart phones that have been around for so long that Google / Android (the original startup company that Google bought) would make such poor design decisions and oversights...

I also find it ironic that some of this was no doubt done in the name of "security" and yet the phone is "rootable", so really what have they accomplished? Nothing but frustration.

I believe they should have followed more of the Mac OSX model with their .dmg files (and I'm no phanboi -- I actually hate OSX in general too -- I'm an XP guy myself). Each application should have just been a self contained ".apk" that didn't expand into a plethora of files. It should also contain all your settings rather than use sqllite or xml or whatever else is being used to store your settings. Then you would simply drag/drop these files off the mounted phone for safe keeping. Each one is a little virtual machine in a way. All "secure" and "sand-boxed".
 
you are obviously a disgruntled android user, it cannot be helped.
why didnt apple do the same thing with iphone?
most of the apps are just an apk. the problem you have is that you installed to sdcard or moved them to sdcard to conserve on space, if they were on the phone you wouldnt have this problem.
the issue is with htc as they space for apps is very small so you end up moving them.
most people dont have a problem with this unless they completely wipe the device.
you however must have had a tone on the sdcard and tried to do some fancy stuff with your device before youve been even able to root it, thats dangerous in itself. you might have not been able to boot it at all.
yandroid is based on linux
With linux to perform certain tasks you need to run as root or have an app running as root to image the os
Android is no different, unfortunately due to worry about copy-write infringement and security manufacturers make it difficult to root. google do not say "your consumers must not be able to root the device" hell there would be a legal battle and linux would banish the tree entirely

anyway its derailing the thread and its not related to your problem really
I would go and argue your points to evo users.
I appreciate your pain but i dont mess about with stuff untill ive achieved root and got a backup for this reason
 
just posted a kind of similar thread - what you are doing works for me (using music folder) but getting the sd card to re-mount after can be tricky while any power supply is attached - once on battery all is good for me. If I choose mount as drive and then charge only it does remount on the phone on the PCs I use.. but I am not sure the desire responds to all USB the same??

If all is ok on batteries than you may have similar problems to me..

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I am an experienced Linux user. I am a senior LAMP developer since PHP version 1 when it was called "Personal Home Page". ;-) So I'm very familiar with "root" and "sudo" and all things Linux/Unix.

My point is that I still find it absurd that I can't make a solid backup of my entire phone in case it's lost, stolen, submerged in water, whatever. It seems that I can use "MyBackup Pro" or "Astro" or something to get SOME applications backed up and SOME data, but not all.

Given that it *is* linux, I expected a tgz of the SD to be "good enough" just as it's good for backing up my entire Linux servers.

Anyways, I'll see if I can root it by the time the 30-day trial is up and then use Titanium and that might just suffice...
 
No, however, a symlink still works if the file it points to is deleted and then restored. ;)

Linux doesn't just go and hose up the system because it decided the link doesn't exist anymore. It just says, "oops, file not found". And then if you put the file back, then everything just works again. Magic.

My point being, that Android is trying to be too smart for it's own good and I suspect that the act of me using Android to Format the SD card it knew about, caused it to do MORE than just format. I suspect it went and wiped out any links to said SD card in some internal config/database/etc. thereby
"screwing the pooch" as they say.
 
Hi...

I had the same problem using my Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4g... Thanks for the advice. Formatted the SD:cool: card, and now they are still there (for now?)

PB
 
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