Re: [b2g] How to backup data from Alcatel OneTouch Fire C?

2015-02-20 Thread Felix E. Klee
Thanks for raising the issue here, Ralph! To be honest,I doubt that Alcatel would tell users how to root devices. After all, it's not a developer device, and giving root access raises security issues. Without the device being rooted, however, I cannot migrate and backup OpenWapp messages. That

Re: [b2g] How to backup data from Alcatel OneTouch Fire C?

2015-02-20 Thread Gabriele Svelto
On 20/02/2015 17:44, Naoki Hirata wrote: fyi, you can probably back up the boot.img via using dd, something like : adb shell dd if=/dev/mtd/mtd0 of=/sdcard/boot.img bs=4096 (you'll have to look up which is the boot.img via looking at files like the proc/partitions or proc/mounts ) Again

Re: [b2g] How to backup data from Alcatel OneTouch Fire C?

2015-02-20 Thread Naoki Hirata
Felix is probably right. Basically in this case rooting the phone involves changing the boot.img so that it's debuggable. If you make your own boot.img and are able to get into fastboot mode, that's one way to make the device rooted. Granted, there's a chance you could also mess up the device.

[b2g] How to backup data from Alcatel OneTouch Fire C?

2015-02-19 Thread Ralph Daub
Hi, A user in the SUMO forums is not able to run the script ./ backup_restore_profile.sh because his device does not have the permissions. He gets the following error: $ ./backup_restore_profile.sh -b -p ~/tmp-backup/2015-02-18+00_Fire_C/ [...] remote object '/data/b2g/mozilla' does not