Originally Posted by
Aquila That sounds invalid, both as a premise and as an analogy.
A more accurate analogy would be something like this: there are demonic burglars in your house, you don't know where can't find them and neither can your friends or the police or even your priest. You know if you don't do something, they can not only take all your possessions, they can also infest the homes of all your associates and will spread like a plague. You have a button that restores your home to its primary state, free of demonic burglars, and all of your possessions will still be yours, but you'll have to spend five minutes telling the movers where to put everything and five minutes more facing your pictures and hanging up your clothes. Ten minutes later and with almost no effort you have a fully restored, demon free home without anything being destroyed, whether in a fire or otherwise.
Or something along those lines. Your hyperbole comes off a little strange.
You see, your example burning down your home would be analogous to throwing your phone on the ground and stomping the display into sand.
A factory reset is more in line with normal spring cleaning.
No, it's not.
There are two issues at play here. The first is the overall OS itself and Android's and OEMs' refusal to do better at making their stuff work without having to wipe everything and start over. Contrast that with Windows, for example. With whatever shortcomings any particular version of Windows has had, there have been plenty of ways to fix issues without having to install a clean version of the OS. As I said earlier, the Android and partners attitude has always seemed to be, "oh well, just FDR." That should be your last line of defense, not the default answer. I figure you know as well as I do that it is exactly the defualt answer too much of the time.
Because of that first issue, the trickle down to users and those of us trying to help each other out results in a fairly widespread sharing of the same "just do a FDR" advice. That's clear in this very thread, where a FDR was not at all needed to fix the OP's issue.
I'll leave it at that. Because if you disagree that FDR is overused as a 'fix" for too many issues (so much so people think they have to do it after any "major" OS update), we just won't find middle ground.