On 7/18/2012 10:18 PM, Shirley Márquez Dúlcey wrote:
An Android phone can be hooked up to your computer via USB and acts as an external drive. The entire Android system can be backed up to a computer that way, and there are applications to facilitate the process.
Not possible. Not even CyanogenMod permits the boot loader, operating system or application partitions to be exported via USB. Even if they were, Android mounts them read-only internally so if they were exported you would not be able to do a restore onto them.
You can get in there with the Android debugger but that's more than little complicated and it doesn't let you restore. You may be able to do it via a custom recovery, but if you can do that then you already have a mechanism for doing a complete dump and restore on the device itself.
A stock iPhone cannot be accessed as a drive. It can ONLY be accessed via iTunes. Unless your iPhone is jailbroken, the option of backing it up in any way without using iTunes does not exist.
Not entirely true. Recent versions of iOS allow USB access to some areas of storage, notably the DCIM directory.
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