Thank you for taking time for this answer Denis ! I found https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/BackupTheDataPartition with and instructions to backup data and loaded it a few days ago when my phone crashed (lucky me) ^^ It's very useful ! By the way, wiki is again online :)
For information, I installed last Replicant 4.2 by building it myself a few years ago, so I would say Replicant 4.2 version 0004. I do not remember if there is a file giving the installed version accessible in CLI (I think we discuss this a few years ago bu I do not remember if it exists). Cheers, - Fil Lupin. On Friday, July 30th, 2021 at 4:54 PM, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <gnu...@cyberdimension.org> wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jul 2021 10:41:24 +0000 > > Fil Lupin via Replicant replicant@osuosl.org wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > after updating some apps (Document viewer), I get an issue with > > > > sharing access to my Galaxy SIII space to my computer (`lsusb` did > > > > not recognize when I pluged my phone). I have a replicant 4.2 (yes, i > > > > know should update to v6 but I still was not able to import my sms > > > > from v4.2 to v6 and i would like to keep them). > > > > When I rebooted my phone: > > > > 1.I was asked my password to decrypt my phone. > > > > 2. I then was stuck on the image of green bugdroid startup screen. > > > > 3. I can reboot my phone by putting out my battery and I then can > > > > access to download mode or recovery mode, but I can't mount /data and > > > > /emmc from recovery mode. I succeeded to mount it from adb shell but > > > > /data contains only /data/data/app directory. > > > > I need at least save some data from apps and would like to access to > > > > user data from several apps. Do you know any way to do this? > > There are some things that could be tried. I recall having seen > > software for GNU/Linux that is capable of opening partitions encrypted > > by Android. > > It may be referenced on the wiki, but the wiki is currently down for > > some reason ("503 Service Unavailable"). We need to contact the OSUOSL > > if it stays unavailable. > > Since you have a shell in the recovery you could probably backup the > > data partition and try to open the partition with these tools. > > There are tutorials in the wiki for restoring application data to > > another installation or device. They need a bit of polishing so if you > > find anything to improve feel free to do it. > > It might also be a good idea to also look at the UMS partition (which > > typically contains files like the users music, etc) along the way to see > > if it's also encrypted, or what it contains. > > Another idea could be to try to add root to the boot image that is in > > the KERNEL partition, but here you already can get root in the recovery > > and lsusb gives nothing with the regular boot, so I'm not sure that it > > will change something or not. > > For that to work you also need to double check what exact Replicant > > version you have. In addition the tool to add root wasn't tested yet on > > Replicant 4.2. > > Denis. _______________________________________________ Replicant mailing list Replicant@osuosl.org https://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant