I have do a back up of my phone with seedvault in an usb .
My problem is when I try to restore that back up in another phone from the usb?
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I have do a back up of my phone with seedvault in an usb .
My problem is when I try to restore that back up in another phone from the usb?
Regain your privacy! Adopt /e/ the unGoogled mobile OS and online services
I have just figure it out.
But remember there is quite a lot that SeedVault either doesn’t backup or doesn’t restore successfully. I strongly recommend looking at the ‘Android Backup and Restore Tools’ project as described in this post -
I tried recently to restore but it failed. Since SD-Card were no option I tried OTG-USB. It did not work, I never got a screen to restore it when I started first boot. So I am wondering what medium you have used?
never got a screen to restore it when I started first boot
you can invoke Seedvault in different ways - searching it in the Settings works for some more recent versions of /e/, or install an ActivityManager and search for the activity “seedvault”, then there’s also cli options to start it
I was able to save to SD, my issue was restoring it again on the new device
but what’s the error? “never got a screen to restore” - you can start the restore screen anytime
I understood it comes at the first boot, it never did. So after the boot I went to the settings eo try to restore but I wasn’t able to restore there. Then I gave up, because manually is not that much of a pain
ok I understand it’s a hassle. I don’t like it either that it’s hidden. But if you’re determined to give it a try, you can start the “restore” activity directly. You’d install Activity Manager | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository and search for seedvault, then start the activity that has “restore” in its name.
(as pete said: Seedvault does not Backup everything, that is only solved from Android 13 sadly)
Thanks I will check it out. At the moment I am good, restored the important things on sunday.
I just wanted to give it a try. I like to see how things work if try to use the given methods. Without third party or such things. When I need to recommend e I can keep the expectations to a level.
sure makes sense. Seedvault shouldn’t be hidden
It should be if it doesn’t work
Seriously, making a backup feature visible which doesn’t actually work just serves to give users a false sense of security
the warning text clearly informs that there are Apps it cannot backup, so the false sense comes from… not reading?
as a user it gives you more than nothing. Lineage has it surfaced since ages and I don’t see the damage. Not everybody is up for twrp