UBPorts 16.04 updates + feature tests

[AnotherElk]

@chrisse

How do you backup and restore your OS when you make your tests? Let’s say someone is under the latest Fairphone Open OS or LineageOS (with or without microg), and wants to try UBports.
Can you describe all the steps you do (including the time it takes to do so)?

Oooh. Ohhh. Lineage 15.1 (testing)

Here’s what I do … Make sure I have the install files with which I installed the old OS (+ Open GApps in my case). Use MyPhoneExplorer to “Multi-Sync” everything there is to sync … complete Internal Storage, contacts, messages, photos etc. … to my PC to be on the safe side with a data backup. Make a full system backup in TWRP and copy that to my PC. Then I can wipe and format and test all I like, and if I want to have the old system back … Wipe everything in TWRP. (In case encryption is go…