Move game data to new phone

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gaston
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Move game data to new phone

Postby gaston » Sat May 26, 2012 5:54 am

Is there a way to move the game progress to my new phone?
I upgraded from a HTC Desire to a HTC One X
Where is this information stored?

thanks!

gweilo8888
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Re: Move game data to new phone

Postby gweilo8888 » Sat Jun 02, 2012 4:59 pm

I'd like to know the same thing, please, albeit for slightly different reasons.

I bought Osmos HD and have greatly enjoyed using it, but thanks to the fact that Asus' buggy updates have made my Asus Transformer TF101 tablet hopelessly unstable, I want to move to playing on my HTC One X smartphone instead. Thing is, I've put in many hours of gameplay, and don't want to start over from scratch. Both devices are under warranty, so I can't root to use backup apps.

One way or another, I need to wipe my tablet soon. I'd like to be able to save my Osmos HD gameplay so I can do that. If I can't backup my data, I really can't see myself playing the game any more in the knowledge that my next wipe or hardware replacement will lose all my data again. Hence, I'm really hoping there's a way to do this, or a backup / restore function can be added...

Thanks!

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Re: Move game data to new phone

Postby apportable » Sat Jun 02, 2012 9:46 pm

Hi folks,

At this time there is no way to extract the save game file from Osmos on an Android device without having root access to your device or installing a third-party app which gives you this access. If you'd like to go this route, the save file is located at this filepath: /data/data/com.hemispheregames.osmos/files/Osmos/Osmos.sta.

We're investigating ways to expose the save file for backup purposes, but we don't have an ETA for when this might be implemented.

stevensonjr
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Re: Move game data to new phone

Postby stevensonjr » Wed Aug 14, 2013 8:12 am

Hi ,

Is this still an envisaged feature? I hate the idea of having to replay during 10+ hours on my me tablet to get to the same progress... :-( could it not be stored in Google?)

Greetings.

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Re: Move game data to new phone

Postby eddybox » Wed Aug 14, 2013 9:32 am

Hi stevensonjr,

Cloud progress is coming soon! (We've added it on iOS, and are just waiting for Apportable to support it for the Android version.) We'll keep you posted!

Cheers,
Eddy

harningt
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Re: Move game data to new phone

Postby harningt » Sun Dec 29, 2013 11:36 am

I upgraded my Humble Bundle to the 'new' Osmos version and none of the save data is present.

"Old" being the one released before Google + integration and the "new" being the one with Google + and multiplayer.

Looking at the data, the save files are in a different place and the .sta files are quite differently sized (~600 bytes for old and multiple KB for new).

I suppose it isn't a HUGE problem to start anew, as it has been so long since I played.

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Re: Move game data to new phone

Postby eddybox » Sun Dec 29, 2013 8:56 pm

Hi harningt,

It's a good idea to back up your new .sta file of course, but once you've done that, feel free to copy your old one over. It should be compatible! :)

Cheers,
Eddy

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Re: Move game data to new phone

Postby harningt » Mon Dec 30, 2013 6:06 am

Hm... nope, doesn't work :(

The file location is also different on the 1.2 version vs 2.0 version (besides app-name difference):

1.2 - files/Documents/Osmos
2.0 - files/Osmos/

also - when I had both installed, it looks like Osmos 2.0 access Osmos 1.2 files (the file dates changed and log file was written to). So I tried uninstalling Osmos 1.2 after copying the .sta - but no change :-/ still empty progress. Hm... trying copying the entire Documents folder now...

harningt
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Re: Move game data to new phone

Postby harningt » Mon Dec 30, 2013 6:23 am

Whooops.

com.hemispheregames.osmos.humble is the 2.0 version
com.hemispheregames.osmos is the 1.2 version!

No wonder I was resetting progress, noticing the 'humble' one having changed files.

All is good now and I got the folder wrong - the location is files/Documents - no additional Osmos part.

whereothersock
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Re: Move game data to new phone

Postby whereothersock » Tue Nov 11, 2014 10:40 am

can you update on the status of data being stored in cloud? I would really like to move my save data from my old Android device to my new one.
Thanks.


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