[mythtv] Mythfrontend Android Releases

Peter Bennett pb.mythtv at gmail.com
Tue Sep 18 02:01:54 UTC 2018



On 09/17/2018 07:22 PM, Michael wrote:
> I installed adb and figured out how to use it and I was able to load 
> the package that way after I removed the previous package. All of my 
> frontend settings were lost though which was strange since I am NOT 
> using a custom frontend identifier.   In my testing yesterday, I 
> reinstalled the August version many time and never lost my settings.

This is to be expected. The signed version is considered a new app and 
you get a new frontend id created for it. Since your settings are 
indexed on this id, they are reset. You can avoid the problem by having 
a custom id, and then using the same custom id after reinstalling.

Peter


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