[Replicant] steps to follow BEFORE installation

[Fil Lupin]

Hello,
thank you for your answer Denis. 

On June 16, 2018 10:12 AM, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo at no-log.org> wrote:

> On May 31, 2018 9:37 PM, Fil Lupin fillupin at protonmail.com wrote:
> 
> > Before installation of Replicant, some steps can be followed to
> > better prepare installation:
> > -   save data :
> > -   pictures
> > -   music
> 
> Theses are typically located on the microSD and/or an internal
> partition that is used to store users files.
> That partition is may be called userdata, media, or something like
> that. Files on such partition and are probably not erased when
> unlocking the bootloader and are not meant to be erased when installing
> Replicant.

Ok, I have to say I always saved those data and put them back on my phone after every installation/upgrade. I understand I can win some time, this is useful, thank you for the tip. :)

> > It could be interesting to give some tips, precisions, howto, links
> > to doc, etc. to help newcomers to prepare installation through
> > these steps. If this is already available, please let me know where
> > I could find this. If not, do you see any other things?
> 
> I think it would be very interesting to add some information about
> that on a dedicated page in the wiki as it will most probably be very
> useful for many reasons:
> -   Users could more easily switch to Replicant
> -   Users could more easily upgrade between Replicant version without
>     loosing all the data.
>     For instance some applications might have some specific procedure to
>     be able to backup and restore their data. For instance it's not
>     trivial to export and import data from silence between different
>     Replicant version.

Since currently, my phone seems to not mount partition sdcard (https://redmine.replicant.us/issues/1864), I am sure that information would be useful to complete doc to avoid putting user phones into this state or to repair it when it is in this state. I will open a new thread to find a specific solution for this issue to avoid confusion between those two topics, but I can do beta tester on theses doc I would like since I am in the place of the people who want to increase there knowledge and help but who can't :)

- Fil Lupin.