I tried emailing the support center but I kept getting canned responses back to 'create a thread' so here I am. I need to reset my phone due to a recent corrupt update on the Android Operating System. It has nothing relating to the game. But I need to export and save my vaults since I've spend money on lunchboxes. How is this to be done?

get some file management app, the save data is located at

/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.gamesas.falloutshelter/files/VaultX.sav

while X indicates the Vault number(1,2,3) in your vault list.

Thanks, I was planning on trying this but on reddit apparently some people had issues when trying to put them back onto their phones later. Do you have first hand experience that this works?

Quote from reddit

Yea the solution is quite easy. Redo your phone stuff and reinstall FOS. Then start, make a vault and get through the walkthrough.. You'll know when you're ready when the pipboy appears. Then exit and replace or add your old file. Only way I know how. I think it makes a change to some setting or so on the first bootup.


Let me know if it works! Because other than this, no clue. You could also test it by copy/pasting the old file in the old directory and renaming it Vault2.sav (if the old one was Vault1.sav of course) and start FOS, load vaults and it should be the second one..

Well phone is wiped and vaults are stored on my PC. Just waiting for all the restoration to happen and I'll let you guys know. Rj3r, that is probably the way I am going to do it, create 2 new vaults with the same number as my present vaults and go through intro. Who knows what gets written into config files elsewhere. I'll let you know if it works.

Got it to work! Happy about that.

- Copy vaults from /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.gamesas.falloutshelter/files/VaultX.sav

- Install application.

- Open new vault, name as the same vault #.

- Go through the introduction.

- Exit to main menu.

- Quit.

- Go and overwrite vaults from saved data.

- Open and vaults will be there.

Not sure what steps are not needed or redundant. I imagine I over-did it however I wanted to be sure.