I installed (hopefully) with success e/OS on a OnePlus Nord. Is there any way to transfer selected apps from my Samsung to the OnePlus?
Thanks Karl
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Using the recent /e/ documentation to backup and restore your apps with Package Manager I think it should be easy.
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Will the documented steps work without a rooted device? The README.md for Package Manager says
ROOT Access required for some advanced features
And the documentation page at https://smartpack.github.io/PackageManager/general/ says
Although this application is available for non-rooted android users, please be noted that the restrictions imposed by the Android ecosystem don’t allow userspace applications, like Package Manager, to manage many advanced features. As a result, Package Manager has little limited capabilities in a non-rooted environment than its rooted counterpart.
I would be surprised if it is possible to backup and restore data without rooting
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I backed up my app data with a non-rooted phone. Did not try to restore it though.
unser Linux I can do a sudo instal APPa APPb APPc… and so in.
Perhaps sometging is possible in Android?
BR Karl
Android offers ADB, the Android Debug Bridge.
The phone needs to be connected to a computer,
USB debugging or Android debugging (wording differs between Android versions) needs to be enabled in the Developer options in the Settings
(just tap on the Build number in Settings - About phone a few times to make the Developer options visible),
then ADB can be used from the computer side either with the full blown Android SDK, or with just the adb commandline command available as part of the SDK platform tools … https://developer.android.com/tools/releases/platform-tools.
At first use, you will need to confirm this access from this particular computer on the phone, at that point you can also allow the phone to remember this decision so that you don’t have to do this step every single time.
This will let you do a lot of commandline things already within the limited scope of what a user is allowed to do on the phone, among them is installing Apps.
Furthermore, in the Developer options /e/OS allows you to enable Rooted debugging (not every Android OS allows this).
With Rooted debugging enabled, you can use the adb root command to run ADB commands as root. For example, this lets you access the whole phone storage, not only the limited part a normal user can access, which could of course be interesting for App data backup purposes, see e.g. Android Backup and Restore Tools, mentioned in this forum here … [HOWTO] Backup and Restore Data on Android Devices - #36 by petefoth
Here’s a commented list of adb commands for a start … https://gist.github.com/Pulimet/5013acf2cd5b28e55036c82c91bd56d8
If you want to install Apps this way, you will need their APK files.
There are various Apps offering to extract APKs of Apps on a phone where they are installed. If you want to go this route, make sure the extractor App you use supports so-called Split APKs, as some extracted App APKs will only correctly re-install afterwards when extracted by an App which supports this.
SAI supports this, for example (even if unmaintained now, still worked the last time I used it) … https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aefyr.sai.fdroid/, but there should be others, too.
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… In the context of split apk, you might check the availability of foundation.e.splitinstall.service built into your system.
Settings > Apps and notifications > Show all … apps > top right 3 dot menu > Show system > Split Install System Service