While trying to sync calenders with a friend I created a new ecloud account and changed to it on my fairphone 3. It said to remove the current account first and I didn’t think much of it since it said I could always just switch back.
But after doing so my notes app was completely empty and I didn’t find anything synced in my account either. I thought I’d saved the notes locally but it seems I instead messed by having them in an ecloud account without the sync ever working.
Is there any hope of a trace of the notes being left on my phone that I could retrieve?
I had a lot in there and would be insanely happy to get even some of them back.
• Sadly there is nothing left in the trashbin either.
• Yes, it does offer my old account.
• I tried enabling adb root but the option appears gray and doesn’t let me change it. Is there another step I have to take before I can root?
the non-root method needs a decryptor utility, goes like this (and assumes a unixy environment, in Windows WSL provides “tar” and “sqlite3”, macOS should have it):
download abe.jar from release page and sqlite3 or any sqlite browser. adb backup prompts on the handheld screen to set a password
adb backup foundation.e.notes
java -jar abe.jar unpack backup.ab decrypt.tar <password>
tar vxf decrypt.tar apps/foundation.e.notes/db/OWNCLOUD_NOTES --to-stdout > notes.db
echo ""select content from NOTES union select content from Note;"" | sqlite3 -csv notes.db > notes.csv
