On 7/18/2012 10:40 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
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.
But the OS itself isn't the important thing to back up; you can
reinstall that. What you want to back up is the data - contacts,
calendar, and so forth. (Other files like music, ebooks, etc. are
trivial.) Even if you couldn't restore those files directly, if you had
them you could get the data out and then use some sort of script to
stuff it back into the cloud applications like Gmail.
I don't know, however, whether you can get to those files. On the one
occasion it mattered to me (when I moved to a new phone) it all just
came down from the cloud so I didn't need to try anything else.
Apps that are no longer available (or where you prefer an older version)
are another thing that would be nice to be able to back up. If you had
the .apk files it would be easy but Android doesn't normally keep those
around.
I didn't know that iOS now allowed USB access to some data. Have they
opened up music at all or do you still have to sync it using iTunes?
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