Re:Why Google Pixel lags 10x more than Moto Z
by Sean1708 on Monday December 12, 2016 @12:14PM
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> I probably do that only a few times per week.
Re:Why Google Pixel lags 10x more than Moto Z
by jcheng on Monday December 12, 2016 @11:44AM
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> at rest data shouldn't be modified
If your data is kept in a SQLite database or any other type of compound storage scheme it's entirely possible to lose data that wasn't being modified, due to corruption of the metadata that governs the layout of the file (actually I don't have experience with SQLite file format specifically, but I ruined my startup's launch a decade ago with almost identical reasoning--thousands of pressed CD-ROMs in the garbage).
Are people creating new contacts that often on a phone? I probably do that only a few times per week. If the phone crashed immediately following the input, I'd just ask the person for their details again.
> corrupt an essential database?
It would only corrupt application data. Android isn't completely stupid, /system is mounted read-only on every Android phone I've ever seen.
I guess it depends on how highly you depend on application data remaining consistent.
Presumably the corruption would only apply to data that was modified but had not been flushed to flash before the power cycle, so at rest data shouldn't be affected.