Well not clone, but you know..
I know similar topics have come up (even by me) but I thought maybe some fresh eyes/brains might have some new insight.
I've been going through CLNR Rezounds non stop lately, just got number 7 today.
Here's the thing, I've put more hours into making my device exactly how I want it than I'd care to admit. I know the conventional method is to just get a custom recovery and bam, erase, restore, whatever. But I don't want to be unlocking, rooting, s-off, etc with every replacement I get just to have to undo all of it and get the phone back to stock to send in and start over again.. I want to make sure my phone works...
The only "solution" I've found is using the adb backup over and over again hoping one of them comes out not corrupt..
from a command prompt (windows 7 through parallels on a mac) I get to where I need to be (platform tools) and run:
adb backup –apk –shared –all –f /backup/mybackup.ab
then to restore:
adb restore C:\backup\mybackup.ab
I make sure to take out or unmount my micro sd before and during all of this.
I get files ranging from 1-8.5gb's, yeah, lot's of stuff, no photos or videos either.
During the restores it goes fine then gets hung up on "com.android.sharedstoragebackup"
tl;dr
Full backups and restores (shortcuts, widgets, data, etc) till I get a Rezound that's not a POS, possible?
I know I'm very "ranty" right now, my brian is kind of fried 12 hours today alone trying to get this sh*t done.... not counting all the phone calls to Verizon in the past few days..I hope I'm not coming off rude or crazy. Thanks for any help you can provide.
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I can't get the TWRP files off my "sd card". When I plug my phone into my windows 8 PC I get an error, and when I use my windows 7 laptop, they just don't copy. I have been trying to look around for solutions, and seem to find that I need to do some kinda of ABD pull, but I havn't been able to figure out how to do that. Time is important, as my phone has a dead pixel and I can only return the phone to the store hassle free within the next few days. I want to get this backup on my PC, or dorpbox, or really anywhere besides my internal storage so I can put it back on my new phone and not have to re setup my phone *again*.
How would I go about getting the backup off the phone, I am using CM 10.1 with teamwin recovery 2.6.0.1.
Was able to figure it out, hopefully ill get better at this rooting thang . Aint as easy as jailbreaking, but it is a lot more fun!
Yes, I've always taken the exploits, but today I received (my 3rd or 4th) replacement Razr HD (I'd wanted a bigger phone, but this was free because the last one was under warranty... asurion). Shocker: they sent the 183.46.15 build (dammit). So all my nands are worthless.
But I did the current root exploit that keeps your phone locked but gives you root (I can get rid of the bloat and edit my files, yay), and installed a working cwm recovery for flashing zips, and flashed the tethering exploit for -15, so this new Razr HD (and it's *really* new; I'm shocked) is purring.
(the older one had been unlocked, "previously owned", which seemed fortunate, but in 6 months' time the battery had expanded so much the thing's a time bomb)
The Uncool: I'm Vicodined up (temporarily sick), and have been doing these exploits all day to see if it were even possible to get root/tethering/xposed. I'd thought it would be impossible, but was pleasantly surprised (though, damn I'd love it unlocked. But this serves my needs.)
But I didn't think about getting my old settings/apps from the old phone to the new. Though I have TiBu, it's pretty borked because my previous Razrs had that SD Card emulation directory (and I *never* understood why; didn't think about it too much). So when I copied my old phone to my laptop, Win 8.1 showed two subdirectories: "Internal Storage" and "SD Card". New phone, of course, just has "Internal Storage". And half the files in TiBu are in the \storage\emulated\legacy\blah blah blah\ (what appears as "SD Card" in Win 8.1).
So I made a hot mess dragging/dropping my "SD Card files" to the device on Win 8.1, as they didn't go into any emulated legacy folders. Dammit. Hopefully I can clean that up tomorrow, but how do I go about emulating an SD Card and copying the files over to make TiBu happy? I think it should be an adb command, but I realized I don't know the freakin file structures anymore. I'm now on 4.4.4, but have been simply flashing backups to new builds since my first Moto Razr HD, and honestly, just got lazy and let programs like TiBu and SDMaid do the hard work.
I'd really prefer NOT to have to copy over apks and install them one-at-a-time, though maybe it's time for a good phone clean? I still have my old device, but any recommendations for a quick and easy (without nandroids, of course), or should I just manually reinstall apps and settings.
Edit:
I should have done the one-at-a-time reinstall of each freaking app (LIKE I'M DOING NOW): the first copy didn't bork anything (just added files); later, using some TiBu command to restore (as per some GINGERBREAD site — I knew better... aargh!), in batch mode, was just stupid. It wasn't calendars and games that bricked the new phone, but surely trying to restore root app settings. I bricked, and had to use House of Moto to unbrick.
2nd, doing the above steps to get root (with lock) again was a joke: didn't work the first time, second, etc. My FXZ was for 4.4.2 instead of the 4.4.4 that came with the phone, and that's all I can guess the problem was. (Never did find the update; I'm on dammit kitkat). And then installing the "working CWM" took so many new tries, as well (it installed, but didn't boot into any sort of recovery for at least 10 attempts and a few uninstalls/reinstalls).
Good news: once I got the thing rooted and the CWM working, flashing was a breeze, so I'm back to where I was with a new phone (still 4.4.2 though), and I'm manually installing. I'm so pissed at TiBu documentation (it's ancient), though I understand TiBu was never meant to be a nand backup.
This will more than do, though. The weird directory structure was from a time I used safestrap (should have remembered that) and I just never cleaned up after that last exploit gave us unlocked phones. Boy do I miss being able to do a nand.
[I apologize if this is the wrong place for this thread, or if this question has already been asked. I am new here and have not been able to find the an answer after my own research.]
I have recently lost my Nexus 5X to the bootloop problem that has been going around.
I have a two month old complete (including all partitions I could) TWRP backup. I also managed to get a complete FireFlash backup right before the phone started its bootloop. Seeing as I'm thinking of upgrading phones and would not like to buy another 5X, nor do I have access to another 5X, these are somewhat useless (as far as I know). I was wondering if one of the backups could be flashed to an android emulator / virtual machine in order to allow me to pull more data off the device. My thought process is that if you could emulate the hardware and partition set-up, then the emulation should be able to flash and boot the recovery, allowing me to have a digital copy of my phone and get everything I want off of it.
If this is not possible, what are my other options to make use of these backups?
One more!
How can I restore TWRP backup to some kind of emulator to work with it as with physical device? I found TWRP recovery for Android Emulator but it seems very limited so idk what will happen why I'll try to restore backup but for sure I'll give it a try... If someone know how exactly I can do that - will be much appreciated for any advice. Thanks.
Hey Every One
I have a Galaxy A 21s on wich I broke the Screen.
Now a few Yeas later I replaced the LCD but forgot my Password.
-Usb Debuging is Disabled.
-No Custom ROM installed, so i cant delete the Password File.
-oem Unlock is alsoe disabled.
-Find my Phone is deactivated and Google recovery also.
I have now tried a lot of ways to get to my Data but nothing worked so far.
My last resorts are trying to get a full Backup of the Phone and use it in an Android Emulator to Brutforce my Passcode.
or install Custom Recovery, restor my Backup and delete the Password File or get in with adb.
Hence my question woud it be possible to Make a Complet Backup, wit example Odin and use it in an Emulator or restore it on a Rooted Phone?
If any one knows further ways of getting back my Data im open to try things out.
Thanks for the Help.
Edit: I found that i could use adb Sideload to install Apps from stock Recovery. The only Problem i woud need to spoof the signature of the .zip im trying to instal, maybe any one knows a way wit that method?
If you can't access it you can't copy anything.
A data recovery specialist that works with Samsung's might be able to.
I never set a lock on mobile phones or PC bios because you are the one most likely to get locked out! Security is physical, one will pay with blood for trying to steal my phone.
I redundantly back up all critical data often and keep backups in separate locations. Never encrypt backup drives. Hdds are best, flash for quick "dirty" backups. I use my 1tb SD card as a data drive then back that up. Also use two .5th OTG flashsticks.
Phone is always cased. Don't put yourself in the predicament again. Think it through and tie up the loose ends before they trip you. I've lost entire, irreplaceable databases before, not fun.
There's no such thing as overkill when it comes to backing up critical data. Digital data is otherwise very fragile.
Hi, I am in the same situation as you. I forgot the pattern but I really need to recover some data before restoring the phone. With the stock recovery were you able to remove any protection via adb sideload? Thanks
I'm hoping I'll run into a merciful soul who can help me with some stupid questions. I'm trying to backup app data from my old phone (stock, unrooted Android 8.0) and restore it on my new phone (stock, unrootedAndroid 13).
I previously used Helium to do this, with this exact same model of Android 8.0 phone (LG V20) with no issues. That was several years ago, though. Now I'm encountering two problems:
1. Several apps, such as Candy Crush, are listed as "backup disallowed" in the Helium backup menu. I definitely backed these up in the past, so I'm not sure what's going on.
2. Even with the apps I can backup, I can't get them to restore on the new 13 phone, as the Helium app doesn't seem to see them. It does see my older backups from several years ago, and I can restore from those, but that's not very helpful in this case. The only thing I can guess is causing this is it looks like the newer backups (which are in the same \carbon folder as the old backups that still work) are .ab format while the older ones are all .json format.
I have been researching for days on how to fix this, but I usually end up in threads that go into fairly complex (for me) cmd commands, and I just can't seem to follow them. I'm sure they're written quite well for someone who has some familiarity doing that, but I just don't. I've only ever used cmd when getting specific, step-by-step, dummy-level instructions from tech support.
If anyone can help me surmount these issues, whether through Helium or some other (non-root required) method, I would be really grateful.
If an app disallows backup of its data then no chance when using 3rd-party tools like Helium.
If you don't have root, you always can use the command-line program ADB to make backups with the help of a desktop computer - what requires USB debugging is enabled on both phones in question.
jwoegerbauer said:
If an app disallows backup of its data then no chance when using 3rd-party tools like Helium.
If you don't have root, you always can use the command-line program ADB to make backups with the help of a desktop computer - what requires USB debugging is enabled on both phones in question.
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I really, really appreciate your response.
Do you know of any guides for doing this at:
1. Are written for complete idiots like myself? The ones I've found seem to presume a level of comfort with command line interfacing that I just don't have.
2. Go over backing up and restoring data for specific apps? The ones I've found focus on replicating the entire phone.
I'd be willing to root my old phone, but my understanding is that, since it's never been rooted before, this would delete all the app data I'm trying to save. Plus my new phone is a Samsung, and I've read that the newer Samsungs like mine simply cannot be rooted.
Edit: I probably should have mentioned that this is the thread I've found that has gotten me closest to understanding: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...me-between-phones-adb-shell-non-root.4378323/
The main issues I'm facing are:
It says to download the attached "adb.rar," but none of the other threads had mentioned any downloads, so I'm worried about doing that.
It talks about getting app info from "BS4/Pro," but there's no links. I have no idea what that is. So far as I can tell, I can just get the app name by looking at the folder name on my phone or from within the CMD adb commands, but I'm always worried about making assumptions when I already know I have no idea what I'm doing.
Also, I've seen some threads mention that even this method won't work with apps that have backup blocked, but I'm willing to try if I can figure out the other issues.
if the issue is with restoring helium backup, adb is worth a try. it's basically the same method, although helium backups aren't compressed.
if new phone is rooted, restoring backups is possible with more advanced methods.
for apps that have backup opted out, try phone clone apps.