automatic backup sometimes stops working

[bughunter2]

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Affected app version

Contacts v1.1.0

Affected Android/Custom ROM version

Android 12

Affected device model

Motorola Edge 30 Neo

How did you install the app?

F-Droid / IzzyOnDroid

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Enable automatic backups. Use the file picker to select a directory on the SD card, such as /sdcard/backup/Contacts
2. Observe that the Contacts app makes daily contact backups to the chosen location.
3. Observe that somehow, the backups stop after a couple of weeks.

Expected behavior

Automatic backups should work at all times if this feature was enabled by the user in the Contacts app's options.

Actual behavior

Automatic backups stop being made after a while (can be weeks or months).

Screenshots/Screen recordings

No response

Additional information

I'm not sure what triggers the problem. Perhaps a reboot triggered it? I don't know. Even after observing the problem, I have made sure that automatic backups were still enabled in the Contacts app, but no new backups were made for days. Then I disabled and re-enabled it automatic backups and this resumed the automatic backups, so this seems to be a usable workaround. (I may also have pressed the 'manage backups' button to choose which contact sources to backup, but I'm not sure whether I did that and whether this matters, as nothing changed there.)

[bughunter2]

Must've missed that one in my search. Thanks!

[xandro0777]

Hi again, backups are pretty fundamental and this doesn't work for ages. I see more and more Fossify Apps are created and more and more glitches in previously reliable Apps.

I don't think I would recommend any of the Apps to anyone as of now.

Sorry for the criticism but those are my thoughts.