This is a known issue. I worked around it by storing a copy of the preferences in a sqlite database table, and populate the preferences form the database in case the regular preferences are lost. A pain, but in my experience has worked.
On Mar 5, 12:46 pm, code_android_festival_way <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello. > > At the moment I got a bug issue with my application. I have saved > about 20 values in the SharedPreferences. I got a lot of users > reporting that their settings got reset without uninstalling the > application. To be honest I didn't believe these reports since today. > After 4 days of usage the settings had been gone from one moment to > the other. > > I can't find an error in my application. The only possibility that > could delete the settings would be "me" (as the coder) calling "clear > ().commit()" on the settings. But I don't use that at all. > > To be honest I don't know where to start searching since it works for > an unregular amount of time and then the settings file is empty. > > Some facts about the point of time my settings got deleted: > - clear() can't have been called (it is not implemented in my app) > - I got more than 30 MB free space on the internal flash memory > - I have NOT uninstalled the app > - I have NOT done any OTA update > - I have NOT rebooted the phone > - I have changed the thread priority of some background threads in my > service in my last update. (that was the only change and since that > more users report that "bug") > - My application does NOT use multiple processes > > It would be awesome if I could get some hints why this could happen. I > got a big "adb bugreport" here but can't find anything strange. > > Regards --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
