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My current plan is to wipe my phone before travel and restore it on destination. Nothing to unlock because there's no phone there. Forcing you to restore your
by DanHulton 10y ago
My current plan is to wipe my phone before travel and restore it on destination. Nothing to unlock because there's no phone there.
Forcing you to restore your entire account is a whole 'nother level beyond simple forcing you to unlock your phone.
- maxxxxx 10y agoHow do you do that with an Android phone? With iOS this seems pretty easy
- hrehhf 10y agoI have used the Android development tools to make backups over USB and it is fast. You can install just the command-line tools from https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html#downloads https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html#downloads and use: adb backup -apk -shared -all -f backupname.ab adb restore backupname.ab
- abeyer 10y agoThough be aware that this won't backup everything. (at least on a non-rooted device) Notably, if you use google authenticator for 2FA, it won't backup and you'll restore a device that will no longer work as your second factor.
- hrehhf 10y agoThanks, that is good to know. I wish there was something as easy as the iTunes backup for iPhones. There are Android apps that claim to do a more thorough job but I haven't tried them.
- maxxxxx 10y agoTitanium backup for a rooted device works great. If you have access to recovery you can also do a Nandroid backup which gives you 100% restore capability. For non rooted this seems very tricky, that's why I asked. Most likely you will spend hours getting your phone to work again.