ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Simos Xenitellis <simos.lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Torsten Sachse
<torsten.sachse@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jun 2015, John McAleely wrote:
>
>> You need to use ubuntu-device-flash from a ppa, as advised here:
>>
>>
>> http://askubuntu.com/questions/602035/how-do-i-use-ubuntu-device-flash-with-the-bq-aquaris-e4-5-and-aquaris-e5
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> If you're feeling cautious, you could also use fastboot to flash or boot
>> the recovery with adb enabled, and then use that access to do whatever
>> maintenance/backup you want to do to the filesystem, eg:
>>
>> fastboot boot recovery recovery-krillin.img
>
>
> This command did not work for me, however flashing the linked recovery
> worked
> (although I had to explicitly specify the device ID, despite the fact that
> there
> was only a single device connected) and I can now access and back-up all the
> data in the home directory of my phone. Thank you very much. I will also use
> the
> command provided in the above link to flash a working image once the back-up
> finished.
>
> Just one more question: where can I find the original recovery so that not
> everybody with ADB on their computer has access to all the data on my phone?
> I
> know that this means that such access is still possible after the
> fastboot-step,
> but the more steps needed to access the data the better, IMHO.
>

Check https://sturmflut.github.io/ubuntu/touch/2015/05/06/hacking-ubuntu-touch-part-2-devices-and-images/
on how to download the individual files. The device tarball contains
the recovery.

Simos