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[John McAleely <john.mcaleely@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Simos beat me to it. you can grab the recovery image from the 'device
tarball' for ota-4, simply untar, and look in the partitions folder.


examining this file for image 23:

http://system-image.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch/stable/bq-aquaris.en/krillin/index.json

suggests that's this tarball:

http://system-image.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch/stable/pool/device-168ccf6a391da4f83feb0325783f02b313e3892675bfea9e4a036bd63fd24f93.tar.xz


I've opened this bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1465660

to see if we gather other reports of this issue.


J



On 16 June 2015 at 13:55, Simos Xenitellis <simos.lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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
>