On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 06:02:38 +0000 Fil Lupin <fillu...@protonmail.com> wrote:
> If you know how to backup all partition of a stock samsung device, > could you say it? You can do it by 1) getting root without touching anything else 2) backuping the recovery 3) replacing the recovery with a recovery that has adb, and booting on that to backup the rest of the partitions. I never tried to get root without touching anything else, so I don't know how easy it is to do it. There is also another way which may require some work, and requires a proprietary software operating system: Samsung has recovery tools that run on windows, and the recovery tools are able to get stock images and reinstall them on the smartphone. So it's probably possible for someone to run such tool and get the URL of the recovery tools. However I've no idea if the URL are permanent or if it uses some other ways to download the files. The approach rooting approach seem way more reliable for users, and the root exploits are probably already free software. All you have to do is to either: - find a root exploit that works for you and that you can trust, which doesn't do anything else than getting you temporary root access - or find an existing free software root application and modify it to only give you root within a shell, by stripping it of all unnecessary code. This may require you to successfully compile the exploit code, or to extract the exploit code from it (if's it's a separate executable this should be easy as apk are zip files). > If you know this is not possible, could you let me know? It's possible but I didn't do it myself, so I don't know the way to get root without touching anything else. Doing probably require some work or testing, and may or may not take a long time to do. Denis.
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