Comment on Can I try an alternate android version without nuking my phone?
Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
back up your phone on pc, delete it once you realise you don’t need it anymore.
Comment on Can I try an alternate android version without nuking my phone?
Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
back up your phone on pc, delete it once you realise you don’t need it anymore.
GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
I wish it were that simple!
There is no good way to back up an Android phone, unfortunately.
By “good” I mean in such a way that you can restore it and be back to a 100% identical state with no additional steps. And that you can validate that backup before erasing the source, and without needing an additional identical test device.
ADB backups will not contain your app data. Not much of a “backup” at all really.
Google cloud backups only work for supported apps (good luck finding out which ones support it!), and restoration is only available during initial OS setup. Validation is impossible. The whole process is highly error prone. In all my years using Android, I don’t though I’ve ever seen this work perfectly. It’s an absolute mess.
Third-party apps either require root or will not back up app data. At least on any recent version of Android. (9+, was it? I forget exactly but it’s been many years now.)
Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
lol, ill be honest i just got so fed up i just system reset and installed lineage during a hangover, kinda fucked me over for a day or two but i got accustomed.
probs gonna move over to graphene soon, unsure if its my phone or what but i got some real annoying bugs on lineage.