How to save your profile between installs

August 25, 2009 by Psym 5 Comments

I’ve had a lot of requests for the ability to keep a profile when you need to uninstall the app, or do a factory reset on the phone – with the latest version of World Attack this is now possible.

Step 1:

Make sure you have the latest version of the app (1.21)

Step 2:

Make sure you have an SDCard inserted

Step 3:

Before you uninstall the app, click on the “change profile” option in the main game menu and long press the profile you want to keep. You’ll see the following options:

Step 4:

Select “Backup to SDCard”, and all being well you should see the following:

At this point you probably want to go on to step 5 straight away to confirm that the backup restores correctly.

Step 5:

Once you’ve reinstalled the game at a later date, go to the profiles section again and press the menu button:

Step 6:

Press the “Restore Profile Backups from SD Card” and any saved profiles will be recreated. Exisiting profiles will never be over-written, you will simply get another profile with the same name.

The restore option always loads all saved profiles. To delete a backup up profile, long press on it, choose delete and then press the “Delete Backup” button on the following dialog: