cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/42756061

Got the old Samsung Galaxy A21 successfully running again as a home project. Besides pictures, wondering what else should be recovered through adb Android SDK.

Planning to test crDroid and lineageOS roms on it. Running any kind of FOSS, or similar, tooling is fun. It will not be my daily driver.

    • zikzak025@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      7 days ago

      I think the S10 (2019) was the last S series model with an unlocked bootloader, but not sure about the A series.

      • hexagonwin@lemmy.todayEnglish
        1·
        7 days ago

        depending on the region, later phones were also unlockable. the option was completely removed with OneUI 8.

  • hexagonwin@lemmy.todayEnglish
    2·
    7 days ago

    samsung smart switch is proprietary shitware but can backup app data afaik

    if you already have unlocked bootloader, you can just dump userdata partition directly from recovery