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Where do apps save their data (formatted without backup)

AngelicCore

AngelicCore

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Hi,

As i do again and again, I formatted my phone without taking back up of the data on it.

The apps are easy to restore but I was using fuelio application to track my fuel consumption. I hope i didn't lose all of the saved data within.

I didn't do any backups as said above but i copied the 'phone' and 'sdcard' drives to my PC.

Is it possible the data is still there? Or is it perhaps on a hidden partition which got lost with the format?

Thanks all
 
Its on the internal memory in a different folder from where the app is but its in the same partition and does get wiped by a factory reset im afraid :beer:
EDIT sorry man i missed where you said you copied the internal drive.. i know nothing about PCs or what gets copied when u do that but someone will. Hope you find your data man :thumbup:
 
Normally app data is stored in a location not accessible by the user, but some apps store their data elsewhere due to the volume of data (i.e. GPS maps stored locally). Your best bet is to contact the developer since you have a specific app in mind.
 
It's depending on phone and on Android version (... and on the app's handling as said already :) ).

On your copy of the phone's storage on PC you might look for a folder with the app's/dev's/company's name or in the folder Android/data/ ... there might be a folder "com..." & the app's/dev's/company's name.

Harry
 
UncleMike said:
Normally app data is stored in a location not accessible by the user, but some apps store their data elsewhere due to the volume of data (i.e. GPS maps stored locally). Your best bet is to contact the developer since you have a specific app in mind.
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Harry2 said:
It's depending on phone and on Android version (... and on the app's handling as said already :) ).

On your copy of the phone's storage on PC you might look for a folder with the app's/dev's/company's name or in the folder Android/data/ ... there might be a folder "com..." & the app's/dev's/company's name.

Harry
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Sadly, I've tried searching for a folder that resembles the app name/dev name and couldn't find any.

I did something else though, I copied the Contents of the Phone memory back, which is aweful when you've just formatted.
Anyway, as expected, the saved data isn't there.

chanchan05 said:
Were you syncing to your Fuelio account online? It would be saved there if you were.
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I didn't know about this functionality :( and I think it is available for paying users only, isn't it?

Now I am 100% sure the required data is on the /data partition..is there a way to mount it so next time I don't forget to copy it to my PC?
(I have purchased titanium backup but usually it crashes or something and i neglect to take a backup with it)
 
Hadron said:
You won't be able to mount the /data partition on a PC - it will be ext4 format, which Windows can't read.
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There are plenty of ext2/ext3 drivers for Windows, are there no ext4 drivers?

But yeah, for a one-off or occasional job I wouldn't bother, I'd just copy the files to SD card using adb shell or a terminal on the phone, or use adb pull to grab them directly, or use any of a million programs that will do 2-pane file transfers via adb.
 
Ah, I dunno - never use Windows with my phone, so not gone to the effort of looking.

The only computer I've known let me mount /data out of the box was a linux VM, and that was with my old phone (which also did support USB mass storage, while current models usually don't).
 
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