The Walking Dead Season 2, Android - How to Backup and Keep Your Progress

Update 22/03/2015: Possible fix for sound problems.

I noticed on my ROM (Team UB) that in the settings menu is a section "Performance".

In there is only one switch "Enable per-app profiles".

By default it is "on", I turned it off and all the annoying sound problems are gone.

You might want to check your device options for a performance section and make similar changes if you have the stuttering sound.

By the way: It also fixed the sound problems in other apps.

When you ended up here you might already know my Instructable for Season 1: The Walking Dead Season 1, Android - how to backup and keep your progess, here I will try to the same for the new season.

As before you will full root access and a root capable file explorer.

If you prefer ADB you can use it but again only with full root acces, if "ADB root" does not work you can try the app "ADB Insecure" from the famous Chainfire.

Telltale Games tried to do a better job this and located the progress in seperate folder on the SD card (in my case emulated as I have a Nexus7) but of course they use permissions that make the necessary files invisible in the Windows Explorer when connected to the PC.

So this time you have to backup three folders instead of just two.

First for the root, the folder to save is: Root/data/data/com.telltalegames.walkingdead200

Second is on the SD (not sure if on the emulated or physical in your case):

SD/Android/obb/com.telltalegames.walkingdead200

Last on, again on the SD: SD/Telltale/WalkingDead2 - in here are your checkpoints and choices, filenames for them end with .bundle - if you can't see those you might want to check a different file explorer.

With enough storage space left the best way to get backup done is on an external SD, this way you can copy all to your PC or restore directly.

Keep in mind that access from the PC is limited, if you want to be on the save side use a root explorer and copy all folders into your download folder, from there you can restore or copy to the PC.

Don't use Airdroid or similar as you won't see all the files/folders.

To continue from Season 1 you only need the save points and your saved games.

So if you are low on storage and installing Season 2 is a challenge you can delete everything from Season 1 except the folder Root/data/data/com.telltalegames.walkingdead100/files

When Season two starts you have to select play and once the game loads you will be asked to use your previous progress from Season 1.

It is done a bit confusing as you might think there is an import function but it is all automated for you.

Another nice thing (if you don't mind wasting data on your mobile plan or Wifi) is that your progress is now also uploaded to the Telltalegames servers.

But of course this feature is only for the in-game informations where you see how other players performed.

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