Is there currently any way on android of getting a local backup and restoring it after a factory reset? It seems access to application data is so limited, you’re stuck with whatever backup functionality the specific devs chose for their app.
Whatever your device supports. Every Android variant (Samsung, Lineage, Graphene) supports something different. I don’t think AOSP has any native tools.
Unless you root and use whatever you want.
It seems my phone supports backing up through the Google account. So no local backups and only some apps appear in the list. If it’s the same as when changing to a new phone that’s pretty inadequate.
Could get a burner and then back it all up to a zip file send it to yourself in an email and then recover it later on. Factory reset your phone before you leave the country and don’t log in to Google, give the phone to a homeless when you come back to the US after clearing security. Lmfao
The question is what to put in the zip. Do you have to use each app’s backup mechanism (if it exists) and gather the files yourself? This works I guess but it’s very time consuming.
People hate on iPhones a lot but damn do they make this easy. Plug into computer, click “make encrypted image backup.” Wipe phone and set up as new.
Go to other place and use phone as normal. Take all data that’s needed once you’re back at home and upload to encrypted online storage. Wipe phone before traveling back.
Plug phone into computer at home. Click on “make phone the same as it was before I left.” Phone is now the same as it was before you wiped it the first time.
Huh and it seems you can even do it locally and without a Mac. That’s a nice feature.
Yus, I don’t use cloud backups for any phone stuff. I hate iTunes but it does work on windows for a local, encrypted, incremental backup, so that’s all I use it for. You can definitely do the same with Android devices, but iPhones do make it incredibly simple. If you get another iPhone, any type of iPhone, even eight years old (maybe older?), you can plug it into your computer and enter your encryption password to make your new (or old, used, wiped phone) exactly the same as the one you replaced.
For the last couple of years, we have traveled with burners and left our primary phones at home. Old phone models are surprisingly capable and cheap.
I cut out the middle man and just switched to the old models permanently. I don’t need a smart phone, not f it’s spying on me.
You can also wipe your existing phone and restore your info from a back up after you return.
But, to wipe a computer, you have to delete, then write new information over it. Deleting just deletes the references or whatever to the information.
If you’re using encryption you should be good.
I would not be so sure about that now a days. I bet the government(s) have backdoors to a lot of this. You heard it here first ish. So when it comes out, I do require you to say, that asshole online was right.
in the meantime I’ll say “👆this asshole IS wrong”
This is what I plan on doing.
Fucking fascists. 🖕🤬🖕
laughs in grapheneos
Graphene does zip zero zilch to address a single word of snowdens leaks. That shit was the radio firmware and we all said sure ok guess that stays a black box. Your privacy os protects you from advertising companies, not the government.
GOS has good broadband isolation, and can actually switch the cellular radio off.
Laughs when you are in jail for giving the incorrect password. /s
Not really laughing but there was a recent incident on this.
I heard about that. Seems like the case would be thrown out but I didn’t follow up on what happened.
Case might have been thrown out but you still have to be in jail and hire a lawyer.
Yeah that’s definitely something I’m trying to avoid
Reminder to factory reset your phone before handing it over the authorities.
Wasn’t a guy persecuted for using kill switch just for that?
No. They already had him and the device, and he gave them the wipe pin when they asked him for the unlock pin. That’s destruction of evidence.
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I doubt any court would agree with you.
I looked it up and they cover the definition pretty well, that’s why i deleted the comment.
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He’s going to be prosecuted, whether he’s found guilty and what he’s found guilty of is still TBD
Yep, specifically for
enteringproviding the duress password for the ICEstapo agent to into his phone that had GrapheneOS on it to wipe it beforehanding it over toit was taken by the authorities.Which led to DHS/CBP prosecuting him for “evidence tampering”.
I’m pretty sure the LEO entered the password, he just provided it.
I mean they didn’t specify which PIN they wanted, just that he hand over the PIN for his phone and that he could not speak to anyone (lawyer, someone that knows his rights, etc). I don’t know your definition of duress, but that situation fits mine and I would have given them the same PIN.
The border bitches asked a poorly worded question, made assumptions about the answer, and proceeded to wipe his phone and blame him for it.
I 100% agree and I didn’t even think about the vagueness of their question given the possible responses.
I was just clarifying that the Leo’s entered the password, not him.
I’d still rather wipe my phone than openly give it to authorities. Guy should have had a better lawyer. Being arrested for evidence tampering when there is no crime is practically the same as being arrested with the only charge being resisting arrest. Good lawyer gets that case thrown out.
