Galaxy S T959 preliminary research to attempt replicant installation

larjona99 at gmail.com larjona99 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 18 16:11:45 UTC 2014


Hi all
Another lurker here, not using replicant yet (not possible in my devices), but trying to free my Androids as much as I can.

On 18 de agosto de 2014 05:34:55 GMT+03:00, "A. F. Cano" <afc at shibaya.lonestar.org> wrote:
>
>
>
>I have also tried to backup user data (call logs, contact list, etc...)
>because
>eventually I would like to sync the phone with the KDE apps
>(Kaddressbook,
>Korganizer, etc...) via the usb cable, but that seems like it's going
>to be
>another project made difficult by how much the phone is locked down.  I
>suppose
>I could eventually find the files where that info resides if I go
>looking
>file by file.  Does anyone know where all that user data is?  I don't
>want to
>depend on the cloud/google for backups and sync.  

"Slight backup", available in f-droid, can save your call logs, sms, contact list to xml files in your sdcard.

There are other backup tools available in fdroid.

Good luck!
Laura Arjona
https://wiki.debian.org/LauraArjona


In the days of the
>Palm PDAs
>it was a matter of one button to sync.  Is anyone aware of scripts to
>do
>this? (sync with KDE)  All I could find was advice to do file-by-file
>copy.
>
>So, given the apparent impossibility to root Android 2.1, it looks like
>all
>I can do is manually find each file I want to backup (assuming they are
>readable) and then proceed with the latest replicant installation and
>hope the
>phone doesn't get bricked.  Any advice/reassurances anyone can give? 
>What
>files do I need to extract from the existing android 2.1 and possibly
>restore
>once replicant is installed?
>
>Thanks for reading this far and for any help/advice.
>
>Augustine
>
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