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•Allow mock locations: mark the check box to permit a development
tool on a computer to control where the phone believes it is located,
rather than using the phone’s own internal tools for this purpose.
11.7 Accounts & sync
Use the Accounts & Sync settings to add, remove, and manage your Google
and other supported accounts. You can also use these settings to control
how and whether all applications send, receive, and synchronize data on
their own schedules, and whether all applications can synchronize user
data automatically.
Gmail, Google Calendar, and other applications may also have their own
settings to control how they synchronize data; see the sections on those
applications for details.
11.7.1 General sync settings
Background data
Mark the check box to permit applications to synchronize data in the
background, whether or not you are actively working in them. Unmarking
this setting can save battery power and lowers (but does not eliminate)
data use.
Auto-sync
Mark the check box to permit applications to synchronize data on their
own schedule. If you unmark this setting, you must touch an account in
the list on this screen, press the Menu key, and touch Sync now to
synchronize data for that account.
Synchronizing data automatically is disabled if Background data is
unchecked. In that case, the Auto-sync checkbox is dimmed.
11.7.2 Manage accounts
The rest of this screen lists the Google Accounts and other accounts
you’ve added to the phone. If you touch an account in this screen, its
account screen opens.
This screen contains different options, depending on the kind of account.
For Google Accounts, it lists the kinds of data you can synchronize to
the phone with checkboxes so you can turn synchronizing on and off
for each kind. You can also press the Menu key and touch Sync now to
synchronize data. Touch Remove Account to remove the account along
with all its data (contacts, mails, settings, and so on).
11.8 Privacy
You use the Privacy settings to manage your personal information.
Back up my data
Mark the check box to back up your phone’s settings and other application
data to Google Servers, with your Google Account. If you replace your
phone, the settings and data you’ve backed up are restored onto the new
phone for the first time you sign in with your Google Account. If you mark
this option, a wide variety of settings and data are backed up, including your
Wi-Fi passwords, bookmarks, a list of the applications you’ve installed, the
words you’ve added to the dictionary used by the onscreen keyboard, and
most of the settings that you configure with the Settings application. If you
unmark this option, you stop backing up your settings, and any existing
backups are deleted from Google Servers.
Automatic restore
Mark the check box to restore your backed up settings or other data when
you reinstall an application.
