BackupManager & BackupAgent in Android 2.2

Question

I\'ve reviewed the docs and the sample BackupRestore app and written my own test app implementing android:backupAgent. I extended the BackupAgent clas

Answer 1

The outputBackup pass but e=true p=false means the backup manager is enabled (e=true) but not provisioned (p=false).

It will only run backups if both of these conditions are met. So for some reason the backupmanager is not provisioned on your emulator image, after digging through the code I noticed it should get auto-provisioned during bootup (DefaultActivity)

I/ActivityManager(   73): Starting: Intent { act=android.intent.action.MAIN cat=[android.intent.category.HOME] flg=0x10000000 cmp=com.android.sdksetup/.DefaultActivity } from pid 0

I just created a fresh emulator image, and it worked without problems there.

Answer 2

I also tried to use the "new" Backup Manager Service and always got following error messages:

12-01 09:58:54.420: WARN/BackupTransportService(9965): Unknown package in backup request: @pm@
12-01 09:58:54.450: WARN/BackupTransportService(9965): Not ready for backup request right now: [OperationScheduler: enabledState=false lastSuccess=2010-10-07/09:33:51 moratoriumSet=2010-12-01/09:53:32 moratorium=1970-01-01/01:00:00 trigger=1970-01-01/01:00:00]
12-01 09:58:54.450: WARN/PerformBackupThread(9965): Backup pass unsuccessful, restaging

Does anybody know what this means???

If I change backup transport to local version with following command

adb shell bmgr transport android/com.android.internal.backup.LocalTransport

everything works well. So its not a problem of my code, I think...

Regards!

Answer 3

Check your phone's settings. If the syncronization-service is disabled then backup via Data Backup API won't work.