Hi,
Is there any application to create databases?
I come from Android and can not find an alternative to or Memento HanDBase
I'm not familiar with Memento, but I know that people on WP7 routinely used SQLite for data storage...
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Hello folks.
I have been a Windows Mobile 6.x user for the past few years, and just made the leap to Windows Phone 8 about a month ago.
I have been happy with the change for the most part, however I am concerned about my backup/restore options.
With Windows Mobile, I used a tool from SPB which archived absolutely everything down to the last byte, packaged it up as an executable written to the memory card, leaving me with confidence that a full restore was possible after a ROM upgrade, device swap, or if something catastrophic happened to my beloved smartphone.
I understand WP does not give developers the same level of control that WM did, so perhaps that level of backup is just not possible? But I am interested in knowing how close I can get.
I have read the official documentation from Microsoft, and understand that much of the mainstream information is backed up automatically to the cloud: app list, photos, contacts, SMS history. That's a great start, but every app I have may store its own data:
Games have progress and high scores, 'Fuel Tracker' remembers and graphs my gas mileage history over time, 'Youtube downloader' pulls down Youtube videos for offline viewing, Nokia Drive+ remembers my favorite locations, Mocha VNC remembers a list of servers that I have saved, and on and on.
None of these apps are covered in the automatic backup to the cloud. So when it comes time to do a hard reset of my phone, I am going to lose all these settings.
I imagine this is not the case with other phone platforms. Prior to Windows Mobile, PalmOS let me backup my PRC and PDB files. Android probably lets users/devs do whatever they want, and I wouldn't be surprised if iPhone had this solved as well.
So my reason for posting comes down to a few questions:
1. Does this lack of *full* backup/restore functionality bother anybody else?
2. Is there already an app or solution that can help with this functionality? I have not looked at the Windows/Windows Phone sync much, but everything from Microsoft seems to pretend that OS-level settings, photos, and music are all anybody needs to backup.
3. Any idea if better backup/restore behavior is on its way? I doubt that Microsoft is going to improve the backup behavior in the OS. But perhaps some innovative entrepreneur like SPB is working to fill this gap?
Any suggestions would be appreciated to help safeguard against losing app data in the future.
Thank you,
Allan
I was actually hoping for an "Application-Storage" backup aswell. In other words - Game-Settings, Saved Games, downloaded videos/maps ...
While restore did actually reinstall all apps fine, this data was completely missing.
I found an existing entry on the feature suggestions page:
http://windowsphone.uservoice.com/f...ons/3387112-expand-device-backup-scope-on-wp8
Hello
I'll still a newbie in WP8 stuff, but I have a silly question or maybe an Idea.
As I have noticed there are lots of APPS running on Windows OS (8,7,XP) to enable ANDROID apps or Games to run on the Windows or MAC
Like BlueStack
So I'm wondering if it's possible to do an Application for WP8 like BlueStack, to be enable to run Android GAMES and if it's possible to run android APPS .. of course it would be so hard to make these Apps pushing Notifications, so I'm wondering about the Games.
Thank you.
Hypothetically possible, but pretty impractical. You'd have to re-implement the Dalvik runtime within the WP8 app framework (and even then, you wouldn't be able to run native apps, which would rule out most games). WP8 also has limitation that make Just-in-Time compilers difficult, which might impede performance. A lot of Android apps wouldn't work because WP8 is so much more restrictive in terms of what capabilities an app can use, too.
Hello Folks,
I'm fairly new to Android and my HTC One (4.4.2).
I've been having a semi-frequent problem with taken notes breaking: I believe the first two times occurred after respective system updates, and shame on me (I suppose).
However the third, and most recent occurrence, appeared to occur without any prompting (that I can tell)... and I now have a number of useful notes - and one that's quite important - that are ostensibly inaccessible.
The only thing that I clearly recall doing, prior, was to disable what I believed were non-essential applications (Dropbox, Facebook, Twitter and an asian font app) and clear respective caches. I did not touch any running application, nor application that was explicitly or implicitly known. I did not clear any cache that wasn't explicitly known.
Is there explanation for this behaviour? Would Notes have any non-explicit dependencies on other apps or their caches?
Most importantly: how can I avoid this occurring again, and can I recover these broken notes?
I've attempted to locate the notes using Windows Explorer in tandem with ES File Explorer on my phone, and I've noticed an odd discrepancy: Windows Explorer (Computer\HTC One\Internal storage\storage\emulated\0\.data\HtcNotes\) shows one note folder (.1407123984759), and if I navigate to the same folder using File Explorer (\storage\emulated\0\.data\HtcNotes) I see something entirely different (.1407357402157).
Again, I'm new to this...
Any help or insight would be appreciated! Thanks!
A few questions on Huawei Private Space vs Samsung Secure Folders
As per the subject, I’d like to understand how the two compare. I have a Samsung and am considering getting the Huawei P20 Pro. I have found a broad description of Private Space in this manual: https://www.devicemanuals.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/P20-user-guide-EN.pdf
However, there are a few things I haven’t understood:
With Samsung Secure Folders, not all apps are immediately available: you have to manually select which ones you want to be made available and ‘reinstall’ them within Secure Folders. Does Private Space work the same way? Or does it immediately give you access to a ‘blank’ version of all your apps?
If it’s the latter,does Huawei provide an isolated sandbox like Samsung, or how do the two differ? The way I understand it, if you move Chrome to Secure Folders and then run it, you are not running the same executable file, but the one you have installed in the sandbox. With Huawei, are you running the same executable but then data is stored in a separate folder, eg the way a program is available to multiple users on the same PC?
Do the two offer a comparable level of protection and isolation, or is one of the two much better (if so, why?)? For example, if you download a file from a private space browser session, is it available outside of it? With the third-party app Parallel Space it is, for example https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lbe.parallel.intl&hl=en_GB .
Does the Huawei thing work if you already have a work app to access work email set up as device administrator? This is what prevents Island from working on my Samsung, for example: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oasisfeng.island&hl=en_GB
Thanks!
SF vs PS
I used SF on Galaxy and since recently use PS on Mate 20 Pro, and a bit disappointed with PS, so looking for a better way of using it and see this thread which nobody seems to answer (?)
Both need to install selected apps, which is fine for me. However while SF is a space that can be used in parallel/concurrent with the normal space, PS is likely to create another user profile with encrypted data (true?), so it must be used exclusively.
However, switching from one mode to another is a pain with PS: needs long step (turn off screen then login, or long steps in setting); SF allows to be used in parallel (so same time) with main space (out of SF) and can quickly access the SF apps per task list. This is good, as we used the app in normal space but for certain data and apps we need to be in encrypted mode or protected with separated password/lock. PS can't do so, it must get out of PS to use normal mode and vice-versa, a pain for me, unless we have to install many more apps in PS as well, but then it will be redundance with normal space.
Another negative point with PS is app notification from PS, for instance, if we setup WhatsApp or another messenger in PS (or email? not tested) which use another account than the ones in main space. While we are in main space, the notification of new message in PS won't be shown so impossible to know that's there is new message. It's not a case with SF: notification still pass out of SF that we know to switch to SF to read, quickly, by task list for instance.
Data sharing or moving in out is not optimal from my viewpoint. Both work on main memory only, SF move in/out but limited number of files at a time, a pain if you have many files; PS... hum, the only way I find is thru obb folder, but this sounds to share and be visible to other users on this phones as well!!!! It is likely a Public folder rather than only for this user within both mode PS and non PS. Also, SF can be customised in setting to enable/disable clipboard between 2 areas while PS can't which is a pain too.
By the way, both SF and PS allow fingerprint to access this private space, but fingerprint is a joke for me (easily to hack) and I would not recommend it unless for temporarily use. I like the face recognisation (with eyes, a must, otherwise it's a weakness) mode of M20P, unfortunately this does not work in PS mode!
Samsung Secure Folder lacks multiple instance feature
Samsung's Secure Folder is more user friendly in term of ease of use than Stock android version of multiple user feature.
copying and moving files, opening app from the interface of main phone without logout and login another user like Stock android multiple user mode.
android's multiple user feature is shipped with some android devices, but others like Samsung just replace this feature with it's secure folder.
The biggest drawback of Samsung's Secure Folder is not possible to have multiple instance of it. you can only have one such Folder per phone.
every not fully trusted android app should run in an isolated space like Secure folder, and should offer some high level of control like, suspending(like power off), giving mock GPS, mock IMEI, IMSI etc.
I am in the process of building up apps on my new S8. I have spent all day installing and uninstalling Office-type apps trying to find one that will allow access to my NAS for saving and retrieval. Has anyone found an app of this type that allows local network storage?
Thanks
Not what you're asking, but if you don't find a better solution, you could consider saving locally to a specific folder on the device, and use the free SyncThing app and desktop client to automatically sync those things to the NAS through your computer. SyncThing is great.
I don't actually have experience with NAS because I'm using 2x 24-port SAS controllers in my desktop PC to access a huge amount of space that's treated as one, and of course through the Windows share, is available on the network, but I don't usually try to save something directly from an app to it, although I have used X-plore File Manager to copy or move files that already exist from one location to the other.
Good luck!
Interesting question. I've got several Windows shared drives on y local network, and I can open them from Solid Explorer, but they get copied to a temp file on my tablet, and you can't save them back to the drive. I tried using an Excel file with Google Docs and Microsoft Office / Excel.
I don't see a way to map the shared drives inside the applications. Cloud storage seems accessible, but not local shared drives.
Joe