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sajipv I use an app "App Backup and Restore". This saves all the installed apks on the SD card. After Factory Reset, just install "App Backup and Restore" at first. Then reinstall all apps from the saved apk's.
Many thanks. I am surprised Android does not have installation files / packages like Windows and Linux, or that when you visit the App Store and download an application, it does not give you the option to save the installation files on SD ....
Actually this does not sound right. How would one application know how and where another application stores its data files and settings etc? Imagine you have a game that uses 1GB of data in some obscure directory - how would the backup/restore application know about this directory?
In my opinion what needs to be saved / backed up is the original installation files that you got from Google Play so that you can re-install the application as you like.