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[Mitchell Reese <dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 21/01/17 10:35, Marius Gripsgård wrote:
> Cleaning the device wont matter how much userdata you delete or move, 
> cache is a different partition...
> Here you can see the different partitions on for example Nexus 5 [0]
>
> Try wiping cache as i said:
>
> reboot to recovery
> adb shell "rm -r /cache/recovery/*"
>
> This gets rid of old update tarballs.
>
> There is no personal data in cache, the /cache/recovery/ is only used 
> for updates. The reason why it stores it there is so tempararly store 
> it there while the device reboots to flash (note that recovery does 
> the flashing [1], ubuntu-device-flash just pushes the updates to the 
> device)
>
> [0]: 
> https://github.com/ubports/android_device_lge_hammerhead/blob/ubp-5.1/fstab.hammerhead
> [1]: 
> https://github.com/ubports/android_bootable_recovery/blob/ubp-5.1/system-image-upgrader
Tried this - device booted into 'Contact Support, your Device is 
f****cked' screen. (sigh), Will back up properly next time before 
attempting this - yep, thanks for the advice by the way - normally I 
just copy essential files and am done with it.

Restoring now how I originally flashed the device from android.

M
> 2017-01-20 23:34 GMT+01:00 advocatux <advocatux@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:advocatux@xxxxxxxxxxx>>:
>
>
>     El 20/01/17 a las 22:32, Stephen escribió:
>
>
>         Perhaps others can advise how to backup the relevant
>         directories (e.g. contacts, messages etc) to do a new install,
>         and copy back in the contacts etc. I don't know enough (yet)
>         about Ubuntu Touch, but wouldn't it be much the same as Ubuntu
>         desktop. Aka, reinstall ubuntu, keeping the home directory (or
>         backing up home directory), then all contact, messaging
>         information should be available again
>
>
>     Copy the whole /home/phablet and you'll have everything.
>
>     You can use something like Buds (by Alan Pope) [*] or use ADB.
>
>     Regards.
>
>     -- 
>     advocatux
>
>     [*] https://github.com/popey/buds
>
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