Then a full filesystem tar backup, as shown below (before rooting, so it’s partial).Also copy the files from /storage/sdcard0/WhatsApp/Databases/ Ran a backup to cloud within WhatsApp.Back up all in DCIM/Camera (all taken photos and videos).LG’s own backup tool, backing up everything except media (got 760 MB, would have reached 6 GB with media).Restore with LG’s own backup tool and fetch WhatsApp chats from cloud.īefore upgrading, make a backup? Here’s my maximalistic checklist.Upgrade to Nougat, possibly with LG Bridge, and if not with LG UP.In particular, get the WhatsApp key, without which the backups are worthless (in hindsight, no need to root the phone for this purpose). Root the phone for backing up all files.Save all WhatsApp chats to cloud (Google Drive).Try LG Bridge and see what it can do (in particular regarding backup of WhatsApp).Make screenshots of applications, both main and secondary.The only benefit was the full image backup, which at the very least gives me the WhatsApp secret key. Understanding that upgrading will probably come with a headache, and that rooting the phone will also probably mess up things considerably, I decided to leave all this. It’s more hassle than just buying a new phone (or is it?) but I thought maybe I’ll learn something interesting.Īs it turns out, each Android phone has its own story and toolset for the low-level stuff, so it’s really a lot of ugly company-specific things to deal with. This was really the first time I sat down and tried to see what’s under the hood. The fact that I have a G4 for six years implies that I’m not fond of these things, and I’m anything but an Android expert. So the point was to make the phone work better, or else I just go and buy a new one. My original idea was to upgrade Android from Lollipop to Nougat, mainly because there are a few Apps out there that won’t run on my outdated OS. The only important takeaway from all this is that there’s no need to root the phone in order to get the key file that is necessary to decrypt all WhatsApp messages in the phone’s history: The file can be fetched in Download Mode without rooting. I usually try to get the post tidy so it becomes some kind of how-to post, but this time I just left it as is. These are my really messy jots as I tried out things with my LG G4 H815 phone (Android 5.1, kernel 3.10.49, software version V10e-ISR-COM from Aug 17, 2015, not locked to any specific network). This post was written by eli on May 7, 2022
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