[Android Apps and Games] inshakhan:
hehe well not rocket science but certainly not as easy as the original step-by-step so I appreciate you hanging in there w/me ... first, ALL of my save/restores have been from FB syncs, from the very beginning, so that wasn't the issue. In the OP instructions, it says to open CC & complete the level you hacked. But in your last answer, you said to open CC, but to restore before completing the level you hacked - that's the part I was missing, but only one of many steps that will need to be added if you want the step-by-step to reflect each & every step. I've been testing this all afternoon, and this is what I finally had to do to pass the level I was stuck on (level 95) by editing it to 200 moves, then getting it to sync back to FB.

1. Open cc, make sure it has synced to FB

2. Close cc

3. Back-up cc data folder to somewhere safe (data/data/com.king.candycrushsaga)

4. Uninstall cc

5. Install hacked cc (my apk has 1,000 lives and also 200 moves on level 95, which is the level I'm trying to pass).

6. Open hacked cc. When I press Play, I do have 1,000 lives. But I'm at level 1. If I exit to main menu & press FB connect, I get this error message: "Candy Crush Saga is misconfigured for Facebook login. Press Okay to go back to the application without connecting it to Facebook"

7. Close cc

8. Copy save_1240581919.bak and save_1240581919.dat from app_storage folder of the back-up from step 3 (mine did not have the files save_0.dat and save_0.bak) - paste to app_storage folder of cc data folder (data/data/com.king.candycrushsaga)

9. Open cc & press Play. I have 1,000 lives but my FB progress has still NOT been restored. It's at level 1.

10. So I closed cc and copied social_data.bak and social_data.dat from the app_storage folder from my backup from step 3. And I pasted those 2 files to the app_storage folder of cc data folder (data/data/com.king.candycrushsaga). Those were the 2 files that I noticed were different between the 2 directories, so I wanted to see what that would do.

11. Open cc, press Play - now I'm finally at level 95, BUT I only have 5 lives - that's strange. When I open level 95, I DO have 200 moves, as I had edited it - that's what counts at this point, since the whole reason I'm doing this is to pass this level.

12. So now I finish level 95, close cc, and again copy cc data folder as my new back-up (data/data/com.king.candycrushsaga)

13. Uninstall hacked cc

14. Install real cc from Play store, open it, then close it

15. Copy save_1240581919.bak and save_1240581919.dat from app_storage folder of the back-up from step 12. Paste to the app_storage folder of cc data folder (data/data/com.king.candycrushsaga).

16. Open cc, press Play. I only have 5 lives and I'm at level 1. So I went to my back-up from step 13 again and copied those other 2 files - social_data.bak and social_data.dat - and I pasted those over to the app_storage folder of cc data folder (data/data/com.king.candycrushsaga).

17. Open cc and press play. Now I have 6 lives and it shows that I have passed level 95.

18. Sync to FB and FB updates correctly - finally!

19. But now if I want the 1,000 lives back, I have to go through the the "extra lives" hack all over again - weird!?