Thank you Denis, I will give a try, I feel the same way about the proprietary software so I will let this to make my tests with libre software. Regards,
- Fil Lupin. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On August 22, 2018 12:05 PM, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <gnu...@no-log.org> wrote: > 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. _______________________________________________ Replicant mailing list Replicant@osuosl.org https://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant
