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Re:Malware on My Android Phone by gruez on Monday January 11, 2021 @02:50PM (#25735340)
AFAIK since android uses read-only system partition, there's nothing to restore. It just wipes the data partition and that's it.
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Re:Malware on My Android Phone by goldcd on Monday January 11, 2021 @04:09PM (#25737028)
Indeed.

If you look at the storage requirements of an app, you can see it's split between "App Size" and "User Data" (along with a cache).

AFAIK there's no way to actually backup/move the user data without rooting. Now I can see why Google might not want to store all that (and why I might not want them to) - but it's somewhat silly not to have any options.

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