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kiol discuss.online kiol@discuss.online
Joined: 2025-11-09
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Got the old Samsung Galaxy A21 successfully running again as a home project. Besides pictures, wondering what else should be recovered through adb Android SDK.

Planning to test crDroid and lineageOS roms on it.
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RmDebArc_5 feddit.org RmDebArc_5@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-09-29
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Might want to check out /e/os if you want a more degoogled ROM. AFAIK you can backup and restore internal app data (contacts, notes, browser history etc.) via ADB but not sure if this is possible with out unlocking the phone and pressing a prompt. Also not sure how easily it would be restorable
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kiol Moderator kiol@discuss.online
Joined: 2025-11-09
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RmDebArc_5 wrote:
Might want to check out /e/os if you want a more degoogled ROM. AFAIK you can backup and restore internal app data (contacts, notes, browser history etc.) via ADB but not sure if this is possible with out unlocking the phone and pressing a prompt. Also not sure how easily it would be restorable

My phone is unlocked. So, good on that. Inwill consider e/os
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kiol Moderator kiol@discuss.online
Joined: 2025-11-09
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RmDebArc_5 wrote:
Might want to check out /e/os if you want a more degoogled ROM. AFAIK you can backup and restore internal app data (contacts, notes, browser history etc.) via ADB but not sure if this is possible with out unlocking the phone and pressing a prompt. Also not sure how easily it would be restorable

The phone being years out of date and otherwise unused, I don't care about restore
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