Enhancing Personal Information Security on Android with a New Synchronization Scheme

Mobile phones which use Android or other smartphone operating systems, equipped with richer applications than traditional ones, enable users to leave more things to phones to deal with. As a result, personal information stored on mobile phones becomes more and more. It is well known that backup is an important means to keep the information safe. However, users could only sync their contacts, sms, etc. to the Internet and easily sync back these information if necessary. Application settings such as activations, game scores and so on are also important to users. The lost of personal information caused by mobile phone updates, replacement and lost becomes not uncommon in recent days. It is urgent to propose a better application settings integration and management scheme. This article raises a solution on Android platform after a study to Android security mechanisms and system components.