{"id":3870,"date":"2016-07-16T23:59:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T15:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alfredivy.per.sg\/blogger\/?p=3870"},"modified":"2016-07-17T17:46:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-17T09:46:08","slug":"adb-backup-restore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/2016\/07\/adb-backup-restore\/","title":{"rendered":"ADB backup and restore"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I saw an article on Reddit about how ADB backup can be used in migration. \u00a0So I thought I checked it out. \u00a0The command is<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div>adb backup -f &lt;filename&gt; -full<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I ran and kept a copy just for fun. \u00a0A few days later, while I was changing Google Play Services, the whole phone locked up. \u00a0I could get it to boot and it kept stuck at the OnePlus logo, even after clearing the cache. \u00a0Resetted the phone and restore partly from Google Play and Titanium Backup.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Then I remembered my ADB backup and restored that. \u00a0The phone came back, with most of the settings. \u00a0Some did not.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h3>What was restored<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>WiFI and bluetooth<\/li>\n<li>Most application settings and data<\/li>\n<li>SMS and Llama<\/li>\n<li>Ringtones selection<\/li>\n<li>Display timeout<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>\u00a0Did not restore<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Display font size,<\/li>\n<li>Whatsapp group conversations, some have chunks of missing entries. \u00a0I fixed this by restoring from the nightly backups.<\/li>\n<li>The restore also caused Play store to hang, cannot install new applications. \u00a0Full reboot to clear.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Android\/comments\/4r8zcf\/this_is_why_i_love_android\/?ref=search_posts\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw an article on Reddit about how ADB backup can be used in migration. \u00a0So I thought I checked it out. \u00a0The command is adb backup -f &lt;filename&gt; -full I ran and kept a copy just for fun. \u00a0A&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[357,241,400],"class_list":["post-3870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-adb","tag-android","tag-backup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3870"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3874,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870\/revisions\/3874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}