Re: awful accessibility-breaking lollipop update
As far as update issues on android, I have found that most times, especially when upgrading to a new major version of android such as android 4 to android 5, the risk of buggaboos is extremely high. This can be caused by several issues such as the switch from the dalvik vm to the android runtime (ART) from android 4.x to 5. Usually, while OTA updates do a good job of cleaning up and migrating the caches and system db's, for example, your tts framework bug will 99 times out of 100 be fixed by a factory reset. Alternatively, if you root your device, you can use either titanium backup to locally backup your apps and system settings or a nandroid which is like a complete system image, do the OTA and if you're unhappy, reflash your rom and data partition from the nandroid back to 4.4, in the exact same state you left your device before the image.
To do more or less the same thing without rooting, do the following:
1: install the android sdk on your computer.
2
: ensure that the platform-tools directory inside the sdk installation path is in your $PATH (unix-like), or %PATH%(windows) environment variables
3: on your device, go into settings, then developer options, and check USB debugging. If you don't see developer options (it should be the option above about), go into settings, tap about phone, about tablet, or about device, then tap build number until the screen reads you are now a developer. Next, open a terminal, in windows speak command prompt and type the following
adb backup -all -shared -system -apk -obb
The first time you do this, your device will display an authorization message asking if you want to let your computer connect to the device, check always allow from this computer, then tap ok. finally, on the next screen, tap backup my data. This will take a long time. Once it finishes, you will have a file called backup.ab in the directory where you ran the command. If you want your backup to just include user
apps and settings, change -system to -nosystem. As I said in my previous post, after a factory reset, accessibility can be enabled from the welcome screen, by holding two fingers on the screen. Hope this helps.
_______________________________________________ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
