Gentoo adb (android debug bridge) broken [confirmed]

Roman_Gruber · Last edited by Roman_Gruber on Sat Jul 23, 2016 12:32 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hi

The written down backup command, to backup all files from my smartphone to my computer with the android debug bridge, does not work anymore.
Used to work in previous adb versions. I tried to set a password in the developer option as suggested via internet search. but nope.
In short it does not backup. It generates 44 bits files, with password 5xx bits file. Stupid useless
I used the same command as I have saved it in the backup folder on my computer in a cheat sheet, a text file.

acmondor · Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2016 3:33 pm Post subject:

I ran into the problem of 'adb backup ...' not working earlier in the week and the solution was to get an older version of adb.

My system had adb version 1.0.32 so I downgraded to 1.0.31 by downloading platform-tools_r19.0.1-linux.zip (http://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/platform-tools_r19.0.1-linux.zip) and replacing my tools as per "android - How to downgrade my SDK Version? - Stack Overflow" (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9555337/how-to-downgrade-my-sdk-version). Which is basically this:

Roman_Gruber · Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2016 12:31 pm Post subject:

Thank you for the reply

I will manually move the files. Those binary backups are worthless anyway. There were some hacks to read those adb backups.

I prefer raw plain data files on my file system anyway.

As long my hardware works I have to stick to Anroid.

Personal opinion: Google managed to ruin the software of my rooted custom roms several times since I own this smartphone. The lack of proper backups and proper file structure to the FHS standard, the dirtyness of hacked memory bars and other stuff, makes any android phone a mess to deal with. Also the lack to know where the real files are, which stuff to backup. and google policy do not allow custom roms to ship their google playstore. Also their politics for years to disable adblockers. Without an adblocker hardware gets really fast outdated and slow.

Its time for a real unix phone with proper handling of the hardware and software without binary blobs for radio and other stuff.

Except the navigation software, called google maps, there is no real application which a flip phone does not offer too.
Navigation, Clock and clock alarms are the most used items. The E-Mails may be useful, but I have to turn on the computer anyway.

Android is just a toy. Not well designed, half stolen from the unix world. Full with shitty apps and advertisements. Lack of useability, like android 4.0 had. Sadly adroid 4.0 should not be used anymore because of security issues.

And also google does not offer many updates for their shipped hardware, as any other manufactuerer. Google nexus 4 is unsupported. Google nexus 7 same

Roman_Gruber · Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2016 12:41 pm Post subject:

Final entry on this topic:

For those who want to make a backup of their phones.

TWRP, e.g. for Nexus 4, offers a backup feature.

a) have TWRP installed
b) make TWRP backup
c) adb pull the backup file from the TWRP Recovery screen

d) I also recommend to pull at least the following folders and data

/sdcard

/data/app or apk folder which contains the applications installed (reduces the downlaod time of those apks. just adb install and the stuff again after you switched your roms)

the picture folder, somewhere in /sdcard or somewhere else, the path contains DCIM, which any camera thing so far used ...
(the auto sync feature is very often broken by google itself; may work flawless when you run the stock google rom on google supported devices as long they are in the support period, like nexus 6 now for example I assume)