Recent content by bent fender

This is my first SMART phone, not my first cell phone which was a ten pound Motorola in the 80's. In terms of what it costs I think it's the most useless invention ever but people are being forced to get aboard the craze. My non-texto flipphone kicked the bucket and my provider told me there was...

The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5G and, as an my involuntary introduction to the smart PHONEhouse, I downloaded and printed in color the wrong Samsung Galaxy Flip 5G manual before getting a hold of the right one. Then, printing that right one in color laser (because the manufacturer is too cheap to...

So, anybody know how I can find out what apps or their configs or their (my!) data will not be backed up in a Backup to external USB?

What was there to fix? I don't keep originals but in some fifty forums I've never run into this sort of intrigue in almost as many years (well, except for KDE where some 'personality' didn't approve of my use of the Bard's language).

just a regular USB thumbdrive formatted VFAT with all kinds of other migrating data on it

I haven't tried Samsung Smart yet, using Linux only. Done abot a doizen BackupToUsb-Reset-RecoverFromUsb cycles for practice, maybe a dozen more to go as I basically write my own manual of necessity. There are apparently (too many) unpublished details to nail down.

just a regular vfat catchall with an adapter No problem with precautions

> Which model flip ? Samsung flip 5? The phone is a Samsung Z-Flip5G > Sorry I'm not following you on what you're trying to ask ? First I want to know how to identify apps, or app configs or app data which cannot be backed up (to External USB in my case)? > Your other 2 threads have been...

It's my first rodeo with a smart phone, it's an Android Flip5g. I've just read all kinds of rationale about why some app config or user data cannot be backed up, some of it makes sense but only in cases of paths outside user-God's reach and control (clouds and other such horrors). First of all...

Thought I had done this already AND that I had made at least one post, can't see any of it. My memory is still like a razor blade; alas, not much wider than its edge. OK, so I just got my first and Android smartphone and I'm puking already about some of the ifs and buts! Will post that in a...