So my Xperia Z1 Compact was being rubbish, it ate through its battery in 6 hours, got really hot, was slow and regularly unresponsive, and kept rebooting every 20 minutes or so like it had Alzheimer's or something.
I tried using Xperia Companion to back up the phone but it kept rebooting mid-backup, so the backup failed. I tried 4 times.
I tried using the Backup & Reset default app to backup to the SD card, but again the phone rebooted mid backup. I tried this twice.
So instead I just plugged the phone in to my PC and manually copied the files off the internal storage, all of them including hidden files, and pasted them into a folder on my PC's hard drive.
So I used Xperia Companion's software repair tool to fix the phone, and this worked nicely, although it did delete absolutely everything off it (not off the SD card though). The google account remembered my apps and restored them, but I had to manually bring back my phone contacts from a backup I made on the SD card, etc. It's like it was when I fist bought it, but it's no longer unstable, slow, or rubbish. This is the first time I've ever done this - I've had the phone for nearly 3 years now.
ANYWAY after all that faff, I noticed my notes app is completely empty.
Another thread said they were saved to Internal Storage, so what is the exact save location of the notes files so I can restore the notes? There are some very important notes on there I'd rather not lose.
Here's two screenshots of all my backed up folders:
I don't want a lecture about the importance of backing up, if you're not going to tell me where the notes app saves its data then please just don't reply. I did back up the data and I don't want to hear how I'm somehow an idiot for not proactively doing some obscure thing before the backup and repair. Keep it to yourself.
Thanks to actually helpful people in advance.
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