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Title: Backing up for Cosmo
Post by: sbsshadow on October 24, 2019, 05:39:55 am

Morning all

Whats the best way to backup EVERYTHING so that the Cosmo looks exactly the same as my Gemini ?

Ive looked at planetsyncadapter , but that dosnt seem to do anything !

Thank you

Stephen

Title: Backing up for Cosmo
Post by: ZimbiX on November 18, 2019, 02:25:28 am

Best to root and look into Titanium Backup =) That's the go-to backup tool for Android apps. https://www.titaniumtrack.com/titanium-backup.html (https://www.titaniumtrack.com/titanium-backup.html)

We don't have root for the Cosmo just yet, so we can't restore the backups at this point. But if you're desperate to move right now, check out Helium: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?...ackup&hl=en (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koushikdutta.backup&hl=en). That uses the ADB backup mechanism, and so works without root, but these days some apps prevent themselves from being backed up that way.

Be conservative about which apps you bring across - restoring some system apps & system data can make a different Android installation unstable from incompatibilities/conflicts.

Title: Backing up for Cosmo
Post by: shinkamui on November 18, 2019, 03:05:17 pm

Quote from: ZimbiX

Best to root and look into Titanium Backup =) That's the go-to backup tool for Android apps. https://www.titaniumtrack.com/titanium-backup.html (https://www.titaniumtrack.com/titanium-backup.html)

We don't have root for the Cosmo just yet, so we can't restore the backups at this point. But if you're desperate to move right now, check out Helium: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?...ackup&hl=en (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koushikdutta.backup&hl=en). That uses the ADB backup mechanism, and so works without root, but these days some apps prevent themselves from being backed up that way.

Be conservative about which apps you bring across - restoring some system apps & system data can make a different Android installation unstable from incompatibilities/conflicts.

Isn't that a fun catch 22.  If he didn't root won't unlocking the bootloader wipe his phone?  :-D  Its been so long since I used the gem, I can't remember.  I can say with certainty though, that unlocking the bootloader on the cosmo requires a wipe as is expected.