Flex Mobile persist view data - actionscript-3

Question

I built a simple hello world app to check out the Flash Builder 4.5 mobile capabilities.
Here's how it works:
The Default View asks for name in an textinput and has a continue button
When you click the continue button it pushes a new view in the viewNavigator which just displays "Hello " + name in a label.
When you click anywhere in this view, it pops a view (i.e. itself) from the viewNavigator, to go back to the default view
I see only 1 issue with this:
When I get back to the default view, it is in its initial state, i.e. the textInput is blank. It seems as if the viewNavigator created a new view of the default view's class and pushed this, instead of just removing the top view and displaying the previous one.
I see this being especially problematic for programs which display data in a grid and you can click the data to view the detail...when you get back, the grid will be empty.
Any ideas or gotchas to solve this?
EDIT:
Project name: HelloWorld
Code below:
HelloWorldDefaultView.mxml
protected function button1_clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void {
navigator.pushView(HiView, tName.text);
}
HiView.mxml
protected function view1_clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void {
navigator.popView();
}
protected function view1_creationCompleteHandler(event:FlexEvent):void {
lblHello.text="Hello " + data;
}
Screenshots
Initial screen
Screen 2
Clicking on screen 2 gets us back to initial screen. Notice the blank textInput

Answer 1

Have you tried to set destructionPolicy="never" and then
protected function button1_clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void {
data = tName.text;
navigator.pushView(HiView, tName.text);
}
to store the data in current View's data - before changing to another one?

Answer 2

That's the way it is supposed to work for mobile applications.
Check out this article: Flex 4.5 (Hero) – Persistant Data in MobileApplication
As they write:
Each time a View is removed from the display list (via popView() or pushView()) its instance is destroyed, but its data model is stored in memory.
In order to save session state for a View, you must modify the data property. This property will be requested when destroying the current instance of the View class. And the data property value will be assigned back to a newly created instance of the same View class when navigating back to that view.