Cloned game retains it's data

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I have made a clone of a game and it retains it's settings even if phones cache is deleted. Doesn't connect to google play though, original game does. So settings must be stored locally on phone. Now if I reset all data on phone I lose the settings, have to start from square one again, all progress is lost. Anyone know what's happening and if I can backup the cloned app?
 
I don't actually know what cloning a game means, but clearing an apps cache wont do much. Go to the app in settings and clear data. Then you're back to square one.
 
AndyCr15 said:
I don't actually know what cloning a game means, but clearing an apps cache wont do much. Go to the app in settings and clear data. Then you're back to square one.
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It sounds like he has sideloaded an APK and wants to back up game progress when he resets his phone.
 
Ahh, sorry. I misunderstood. Reading again now I see he wants to back it up. I'd thought he was trying to clear it and start again.

Check in backup settings if the app is automatically backing up to your Google account. This has been an option for developers for a couple of years now I think. If not, I think it will be quite hard to do without root. Maybe Helium can help - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koushikdutta.backup&hl=en_GB
 
You don't need root, just connect the phone to a PC/laptop and then copy the contents of /Android/data/<package name of app>.
 
I used App Cloner, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.applisto.appcloner&hl=en_GB, to clone a game so I could start again from scratch. 1st instance of game connects to my Google Play account, cloned version doesn't as you would expect. So 1st version has progress saved on Googles servers but if I wipe the phone(hard reset), all settings from cloned app are lost. I think cloned app must be uploading to Googles servers(and not storing on phone) even though it's not connected to my GA, as if stored on phone then easily hackable. Must be taking some ID from the game or my phone to allow to store generically on Google servers(or at least the servers the game actually uses, which I think is Amazons AWS).
 
You think the game doesn't store info on the phone because it's hackable? I think it likely does.

So what do you actually want to do? Reset the phone and have both apps in the same state they were before? As has been said above, just backup the data and put it back afterwards.
 
Yes, have cloned app in same state, spent weeks on it so far. I will just try and backup app state and see what happens, I assume the stock backup will do the trick.
 
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