The transfer was without issues; I've got the Nexus 5 on the devel_rc-proposed channel, and it is fine except for the minor issues I've seen discussed, such as starting up from sleep; and the strange loss of Arabic in music file names....
Thanks to all involved with the UBPorts project! Happy to continue with this effort! Daniel On Sat, 6 May 2017 11:01:21 -0400, Patrick McGowan wrote: > Try https://askubuntu.com/questions/602850/how-do-i-backup-my-ubuntu-phone > complements of popey. > > On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 9:09 AM, Daniel Drennan ElAwar <dren...@panix.com> > wrote: > >> I was happy to see on the web site that the Nexus 5 would be supported, >> though I'm sad to leave my nexus 4 behind (#nexus4life). >> >> I've been successfully backing up my phone from time to time using tar and >> then adb to get that file to my computer. >> >> I've also done the same with just my contacts. >> >> Which has led me to think (perhaps quite erroneously, which would not be >> the first time) that I might be able to back up /home/phablet, config >> files, and other items FROM my nexus 4 and then restore them TO my nexus 5, >> rather than configuring it from scratch and the successful initial build. >> >> Any thoughts on how to do this, in terms of what to back up in terms of >> directories/files, would be greatly appreciated. >> >> If I'm completely off the mark, just let me know. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Daniel >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >> Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
