Cheers AnotherElk, that could be a nice one for #backup or something.
Gonna give it a whirl when I’m sober. I forgot about that MyPhoneExplorer application and used Titanium Backup in the past. How are people on non-Windows doing this?
Cheers AnotherElk, that could be a nice one for #backup or something.
Gonna give it a whirl when I’m sober. I forgot about that MyPhoneExplorer application and used Titanium Backup in the past. How are people on non-Windows doing this?
I wonder. MyPhoneExplorer is one of only a few things still keeping me on Windows.
However, MyPhoneExplorer 1.8.7 seemed to work using Wine when connecting to the phone via WiFi.
That’s what I would try first on Linux with the current MyPhoneExplorer 1.8.9.
I’m on MacOS and I’m doing backups of apps/data/some system prefs (user dictionary) via Titanium Backup (oandbackup has failed to restore data for me in the past). I then do system backups with TRWP and copy the whole thing (aka the virtual „sdcard“) to my Mac with adb (which can be installed via Homebrew). I use Androids pretty bad Android File Transfer app to copy audiobooks to the device sometimes
Ok, next try on encryption … coming from an encrypted phone with LineageOS 14.1. 20180711 …
(TL;DR: Encryption works when prepared the right way, but TWRP can’t handle it afterwards.)
TWRP 3.2.2-0
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p20 bs=4096 count=512
)Rebooted into TWRP to make sure encryption is gone (no request for the encryption password when starting).
Checked file systems (visible via Wipe - Advanced Wipe - [file system of choice] - Repair or Change File System) …
system: ext4
cache: ext4
data: ext4
Installed test build (Install - Select Storage etc.).
Rebooted into LineageOS 15.1
Showed the Android robot for a moment, then rebooted and in the process somewhen showed the Android robot again and encrypted the phone.
So far, so good .
But … @z3ntu TWRP 3.2.2-0 can’t handle this encryption yet?
It prompts for the password (even if the setting in LineageOS 15.1 was “None”), but fails to decrypt. Even if I set a password (not a PIN like I used to) for the encryption in LineageOS 15.1 and I’m trying the correct password in TWRP.
And … @chrmhoffmann While a start pattern works, I noticed that regardless of whether I set a start PIN or a start password the phone then prompts me for a PIN and I can only enter numbers. Which isn’t intended when having set a password, I guess?
New version available (this time without gapps): https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=5862345805528054435
This should:
As I was coming from Ubuntu Touch who have their own recovery, I used the recovery image from the first post to install today’s image plus opengapps pico via sideload. Worked perfectly. First time wizard is completed, phone is up and running. Thanks
I’m thinking of posting my experience like AnotherElk does in Updating LineageOS via TWRP + feature test if that’s ok. Any problems I’d report/discuss here.
That is great to see!
Have you published the source code for this already? I’d like to build my own and play around with it a bit. Thanks!
Device config: https://github.com/chrmhoffmann/android_device_fairphone_FP2
Kernel: https://github.com/chrmhoffmann/android_kernel_fairphone_msm8974
Branch is staging/lineage-15.1
in both repos.
Some problems I encountered
Things that work and not mentioned yet
Code is also on gerrit now.
Chris
Build installed via TWRP 3.2.2-0 (Releases)
lineage_FP2-ota-f21232f92b.zip
Security patch level: 05 Jul 2018 (Settings - System - About phone)
Vendor security patch level: 01 Apr 2018 (Settings - System - About phone)
The following things work for me so far:
Confirmed. LED works for the battery status now .
It reboots with the new camera modules.
Without them it powers off.
And with encryption in place it powers off from the start pattern/ PIN/ password even with the new camera modules.
Would it be possible at some point to repartition so as to support A/B updating?
Some more problems: I wanted to download the fdroid app from their webpage in Firefox. After tapping the download button, I see “Starting download…” in the Firefox status bar at the bottom. But then nothing happens.
For the moment I installed it via adb install /path/to/FDroid.apk
from my PC.
Then I wanted to install the fdroid priviledge extensions. Installing the OTA package puts the actual install ZIP file in /data/user/0/org.fdroid.fdroid/ota
which then needs to be installed from recovery. But that failed with the lineage recovery
So I switched to TWRP and got it working.
Related? …
That’s what I think, too. But I haven’t found a way to find out more. In the logcat I didn’t see anything that looked related (system is rooted).
How did you download firefox / owncloud app then?
I think I cannot reproduce that.
Chris
I have occasionally the same problem in LOS 14.
I even cannot take any pictures.
Unfortunately I haven’t created a bug report yet.
In Open Camera, you could enable “Use Storage Access Framework” and then select a folder where to store the pictures, that should help at least for that App.
I downloaded all apps via play store.
Just tried downloading fdroid with the built-in browser and that worked fine after allowing access to files.
Edit: one more thing I tried is typing something in Jota text editor and then saving. The save dialogue shows 3 folders below /storage. No matter which one I tap, the error is always “access denied”.
It won’t solve the problem for messenger apps.
Only power off, wait some seconds power solves it. Just pressing restart in the power menu doesn’t work