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Inadvertenly losing game save data (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 month ago by n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca to c/android

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For the third time in as many years my wife has inadvertently wiper her Samsung Galaxy A50 as it does so automatically if buttons are held too long. Does anyone have a recommendation for a replacement that requires multiple steps to factory reset so she doesn't keep losing all of her game data?

In addition, if you have recommendations how to back-up that kind of stuff that isn't included in Google's back-up.

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[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Samsung uses a pretty standard factory reset procedure unfortunately. The A50 should be following the same reset sequence.

The reset sequence requires the phone being powered completely off, and then volume up and power on being held during the power on process. This will open the recovery/boot menu for the device. On this menu she would then have to use the volume keys to accidentally select the erase data partition or factory data wipe option, and then also confirm that same option to actually have it wipe.

The fact that she's managed to do it 3 times now is actually impressive in a twisted way since there is like 5 separate options on that boot menu and factory data wipe isn't until like the 4th or 5th down, and the default option on that menu is wisely reboot.

I can't really give you a very good alternative because that same process is usually fairly universal across all android devices. Outside of corporate controlled devices or custom implementations, most are going to use the hold volume up to access recovery menu shortcut which will allow for a factory reset.

[–] n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

She claims it happens just from her holding her phone too long. Like inadvertently pressing a button or two or something.

[–] Stez827@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Honestly dude she just needs to be more careful like this is a easy thing to not do

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 2 points 1 month ago

I think it's due to some other setting, like "wipe the phone if password is entered wrongly ten times". It's possible to enter bootloader mode accidentally, but wipe the phone requires too many steps to be done multiple times in a row.

Backups and android always suck. They made it on the developer. It's the developer that has to write a function to backup the settings on the Google servers. Not difficult, takes like a couple hours tops, but nobody is doing that.

Instead on iOS it works on the opposite way, the operating system backups everything and it's the developer that has to waste a couple hours if they DON'T want their app data backupped on iCloud.

The result is that on iOS a backup restore gives you a almost 1:1 copy, while on Android a backup restore gives you a phone with all the apps resettled to zero