Hey, as the title suggests I am currently trying to get everything off my phone (xz2 compact running 4.2) as it seems like the battery is about to burst.
There is quite a lot of important data within the apps inside waydroid, and I really need to save those, but could not find a good way to copy waydroid to sd, since I am not even sure which files are relevant and which aren’t.
would be extremly thankful for any hints, even more so for a ready-to-use command prompt.
You have to install File Browser from Storeman, because the File Browser version from Jolla Store is limited and doesn’t show all directories.
With the File Browser from Storeman, you can copy the directory ‘android_storage’ with all it’s content to the SD-card. This is the user-data of the Android apps. The complete path is ‘/home/defaultuser/android_storage/*’.
Ah, Waydroid… My hint was for SFOS appsupport aka Aliendalvik. Sorry!
yeah… already tried that, but sadly it says the apps in question do not allow backups.
hence I would like to “backup” i.e. copy the entirety of waydroid.
Its like a virtual machine, right? isn’t there like an image or something I can copy?
Yes it’s a virtual machine. In earlier times I had a Volla with Waydroid and also wanted to access the Android data from SFOS. Therefore i set a link from SFOS filesystem to Waydroid filesystem. This link did only work while Waydroid was up and running! If Waydroid was down, the link reported an error. If Waydroid was up again also the link worked again.
The best solution would really be to enable ssh access and do it via command line.
Once you’re in, run sth like
devel-su find type d -iname '*waydroid*'
Backing up these folders happens “from the outside” with scp, i.e. exit the ssh session, then type something like:
scp -r /path/to/waydroid .
If you get permission denied errors there’s ways around that.