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DAYS=(some number); cd /place-to-save-stuff ; adb -e shell "cd /sdcard/; find . -mtime -${DAYS} | cpio -o" | cpio -idmuv # rooting phone not required
How does that reach into app folders where adb has no permissions ?
If I change phone I log into Google, start from scratch and download the apps I need / log in wherever I need the first time I need to.
I'm not very happy with using Google / Gmail for contacts and as a login manager, I've been postponing de-googling for 5+ years. The only promise I made to myself is that I'm not giving them a cent (and I keep living with 3% free space).
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I've gone through like 5 Android phones back to back. Photos, documents, emails, installed apps, contacts... It's all seamless and works, literally just with Google's defaults. What do you think you lose?
App data . Play store simply reinstalls the apps but they're in a clean state. Some apps supposedly back up and restore their data from Google cloud but that's rare.
But yeah, I guess Google isn't backing up the state of the offline chess app I downloaded 10 years ago...
The only data I care about on the phone already gets backed up by Google and is then exported regularly via Google Takeout. I don't live on my phone so I tend not to generate much of any value on it other than random pictures of things. Prior to Google automatically backing up everything, I used Titanium Backup.
> The only data I care about on the phone already gets backed up by Google and is then exported regularly via Google Takeout. Are you using Google Authenticator? If so, how do you backup your secrets?
Nextcloud for me. I run my own home server, which is just a normal PC on a cheap UPS, on a residential internet connection with dynamic DNS. On that, Proxmox, and Nextcloud lives in there as an LXC container. On my phone, the Nextcloud app is installed, and that takes care of the photo/video/downloaded file "cloud" sync, and DAVx5 takes care of calendar, contacts, todo. Nextcloud, with additional apps, can also do Ka…
It's a mess and I don't understand that Google hasn't fixed that.
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Sorry for a dumb question, what are those
To add to the existing comment, the solution I use, and I think the most popular solution right now is called Play Integrity Fix: https://github.com/chiteroman/PlayIntegrityFix/ I haven't had to touch it in about a year, but some apps may try harder to keep people from having control of their own devices.