Good morning everyone,

I have a phone with LineageOS right now, with a lot of apps installed and configured. I want to test out CarbonROM. However, if I don't like it, I want to be able to re-install Lineage and keep all the configuration that I have now. How can I do this?

Thank you! ^^

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[–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

You can mostly backup everything but it's impossible to make a perfect backup like the old days anymore because of the TEE. Flashing a new ROM will change the keys and permanently make the old data worthless. Stuff like Google Authenticator for example simply won't backup even with a perfect bit copy.

Apps will restore okay but many will be logged out and have lost their permissions and push notification registration with Google.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    If you rooted your phone you can use Neo Backup can't backup full ROM, but is great for backing up applications configured. For non root, I honestly don't know. There are other applications for backup but I used this one and is easy to use.

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  • In your recovery there should be a backup option. Pick that and back up everything.

    Then make sure you copy that backup off the phone in case you really hose things and have to start completely fresh.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    no such thing exists. there's a buncha stuff claiming to do it but I've tried everything there is and everything fails differently, but consistently.

    source: tried for close to two weeks to create a perfect clone to a similar phone (Poco F1 to Oneplus 6T - both have the same SoC, LineageOS, rooted) so that all apps and settings and storage and whathaveyous are copied and I failed. even the supposedly standard backup - wipe - restore, on the same phone, doesn't work.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    afaik you can do a nandroid backup on twrp or just dump the raw partitions, but my android knowledge is dated and even before treble and a/b stuff so it might not work now.

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