[metadog]

Hi! My Droid 2 that is starting to act “odd.” I am thinking it might be time for a factory reset. I keep all of my apps on the internal memory due to a problem I found with “App2SD.” The memory is not full and the SD card has around 7 GB of space. I have an AppBrain account and (of course) a Market account.

What should I do before the reset? Should I back anything up? I would hate to loose my progress in Angry Birds.

Thanks!

[corydunbar]

if you reset you'll lose all your angry birds status. factory resets shouldn't be something that your have to do very often unless you're constantly tweaking things (rooted).

[metadog]

Would I benefit from moving apps to my SD card prior to the reset?

[corydunbar]

no when you wipe your device it wipes that part of your sd as well. you will have all your apps automatically download agian when you reset, but most/all of your data in those apps will be lost because many devs have yet to incorporate the data restore feature in their apps.

[jdbower]

You can use Titanium Backup, it seems to do a decent job of being able to restore app data for the things it backs up. However, you never know if one of the apps you installed is what was causing the flakiness so be selective on restores. The vast majority of stuff just involves a one-time login, but for me ConnectBot has enough local configuration it's a pain to redo. Of course, game status is also probably lost in a lot of cases but that's just an excuse to play it over again

If you use Google Authenticator (Google's two-factor authentication) you'll want to make sure you're by a PC before you reset, I haven't had much luck restoring an Authenticator config (but I think that may be a good thing).

Edit: There's really no point in having apps on your SD card in my opinion, I'd much rather have the option to switch out my SD card without worrying about which apps are installed there.