Unable to get localStorage working

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I have 2 Android devices (4.2+ and 2.3) and I couldn't get either the window.localStorage API or the simple localStorage API to work between app restarts on either device. Has anyone else experienced this issue?

Here's the little code I have. #contact is a page (I just have one index.html with multiple <div data-role="page" ...> tags.

This worked in the web browser using the window.localStorage API.

var startApp = function() {
    $('#contact').live( 'pageshow',function(event){
        var contactInfo = localStorage.getItem("contactInformation");
        if (contactInfo) {
            $.each(contactInfo.split('&'), function (index, elem) {
                var vals = elem.split('=');
                $("[name='" + vals[0] + "']").val(vals[1]);
            });
        }

        $('#contact-form').on('submit', function () {
            var serialized = $(this).serialize();
            localStorage.setItem("contactInformation", serialized);
            console.log("Contact info saved.");
            return true;
        });
    });
};