On Saturday 11 February 2012 11:56:57 Russell Coker wrote:
So the hundreds of millions of people with Android phones only have to upgrade to Android 4.0 (which may be impossible) and wipe their data once before being able to backup. :(
I don't know, you'll need to find an Android expert.
Also is adb easy to install yet? Last time I checked installing it required installing i386 libraries first. This will probably be easy in Debian/Wheezy, but in Squeeze it's not a good option.
Adb was fairly easy with Arch Linux, it came along with the Android SDK I installed on my ancient Pentium 4 laptop. I can run Eclipse, Chromium and Android in an emulator in 768MB of RAM under LXDE. It's not particularly fast, but it is usable. :-)
I backed up my stock Galaxy Nexus with:
adb backup -shared -apk -all -nosystem
Now, of course, I've not tried to restore it yet anywhere.. ;-)
Might try in the emulator that comes with the SDK.
Being able to restore to a similar device isn't enough. Ideally you want to extract the data to different devices.
I don't think I said that it was hardware dependent. But software wise yes, you need Android 4. Such are the perils of an effectively mostly-closed source operating system. But the future of open source on phones as a viable mass-market platform is pretty much dead I think, you can thank Nokia and Intel for that for constantly chopping and changing (as well as Google for their licensing decisions). cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP