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This was super easy when I had TWRP recovery. Is there an official Android way to pull a full system backup?

• londons_explore 7y ago
  Android full system backups have become less and less 'full' with each version. Stopping piracy, enforcing secure storage for apps (eg. Fingerprint storage), and protecting DRM keys are all fairly incompatible with being able to backup and restore the entire device.
• jeroenhd 7y ago
  Since the release of Android 6 apps have the ability to back up data to a Google account. I don't know if all apps make use of this feature, but many of the important ones I use do. Just signing in to the right Google account will pose the question of if you want to restore data from a different device or not. There's also a backup mechanism built into ADB. This is a manual process that puts a copy of all apps and information (but probably not security keys) on your computer, optionally encrypted with a PASSWORD. Google deprecated this functionality though. See here for a short guide: https://9to5google.com/2017/11/04/how-to-backup-restore-android-device-data-android-basics/ https://9to5google.com/2017/11/04/how-to-backup-restore-andr... There's always TWRP/Titanium Backup if you have root access, or in the worst case scenario, starting a root shell over ADB in recovery mode and just DD-ing the entire data partition to a file in your computer.
  • zeveb 7y ago
    > Since the release of Android 6 apps have the ability to back up data to a Google account. That does have the unfortunate side-effect of giving Google your application data.