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Former Member
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So you are not a superuser and have not rooted your smartphone/tablet to gain access to the data directory area, for example. Backup apps would not copy the secured area along, but with these instructions you can, from remote via cable to a PC for instance: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-cr...roid-device-without-root/
The kicker is this piece of Google Easter egging:"...and tapping Build number seven times" Enjoy. |
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Eric_Kaiser
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Thanks for sharing. :)
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Former Member
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You're welcome... Did the 7 taps on Build number LRX22G and a balloon popped up "You are now a developer" (Irreversibly, as repeating this trick a few times, a new pop up comes up "No need, you are already a developer")
----------------------------------------LoL And while in Hands-On, after 2 hours reaching midway, this note in the instructions... Installing the remaining dependencies for creating an image. If you're doing this for the first time, the download and installation can take some time, so be patient. Yes all for an unrooted full backup  And another week 2 monthly Windows update ... same as last month, 1.2GB worth of patches.  [Edit 3 times, last edit by Former Member at Mar 11, 2015 6:43:13 PM] |
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Eventually it was a little bit more involved, needing some more reading around the intertubes. The "USB computer connection" mode had to be set to Camera (PTP) and the Google driver did not do the job [would not install per the Windows 7 device manager, leaving a yellow exclamation mark on device manager on the tablet device]. Found the ADB Universal USB driver http://adbdriver.com/ which installed fine, then unplugged and replugged into the USB 3.0 [some suggest retrying on a USB 2.0 port, but that made no difference]. Then when doing the test command "adb devices" a line appeared "Now unlock your device and confirm the backup operation". There was a pop-up on the tablet asking for a backup password [had entered a heavy in case of loss/theft] and a wiseguy also using Android Studio to get in :D. Then a new screen appeared on the tablet and it could be watched how the files were being backed-up to the PC. Sure enough a multi-GB sized file started building with the backup.ad name in the users area. Guess next time will experiment with file names and restore, to see if custom names are taken.
Now -that- was enjoyable in the end, to succeed |
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This is for the command line allergic: The backup finished, compressed 20.5GB, but now wanted to see if it's good. Some digging on how to do this came on this discussion at http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/28...p-made-through-adb-backup which also refers to some icing on cake, DroidExplorer. After installing the 64 bit version and entering the password used, right from inside File Explorer could see the file was now labeled with file type "Android Backup File". Right click for the pop-up menu which included the restore and unpack options. Amazement.
Yes, now I'm a Android developer, LoL, and default installation of the SDK+DroidExplorer setting diskspace back by a measly 15.5GB, so a few of the default SDK packages such as for TV development will be axed  |
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