On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Bret Foreman <[email protected]>wrote:

> Since most apps of even moderate complexity make liberal use of the
> preferences database and also SQLite, restarting the app isn't going
> to produces a known good state. A real factory reset is not going to
> happen without either some complex re-init code in the app or else a
> reinstall.
>

If you want to reset the app to its install state, hit "Clear Data."
 (Admittedly there is a hole here in that this doesn't remove files it
created on external storage.)

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Dianne Hackborn
Android framework engineer
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answer them.

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