Added restore info to ReadMe

Walkman100 · May 24, 2017 · 25b4ca9 · 25b4ca9
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@@ -12,7  12,7 @@ A complete guide to rooting the Google Pixel
 ### ABE (Android Backup Extractor)
 - Only used for extracting the backup file, if you don't need to be able to restore a backup then don't bother.
 - Download from: https://sourceforge.net/projects/adbextractor/
-- easiest is to extract the `*.jar`s and `*.sh`s to this repo, or you could edit the commands to where you put it
 - easiest is to extract the `*.jar`s and `*.sh`s to this repo folder, or you could edit the commands to where you put it
 
 ## Bootloader
 First off, if you have not already, you will have to unlock the bootloader. This wipes the device, so make sure you make a backup first!
@@ -26,7  26,7 @@ First off, if you have not already, you will have to unlock the bootloader. This
 - Run `fastboot oem unlock` while in bootloader, then accept prompt on phone to wipe & unlock
 
 ## Rooting
-first, make sure you have a terminal open in this repo folder
 First, make sure you have a terminal open in this repo folder
 
 If you have just followed the steps above:
 - reboot into the bootloader after the phone has finished starting up
@@ -35,6  35,26 @@ If you have just followed the steps above:
 
 If you have tried to get root working with some other method or Android isn't booting properly:
 - run `bash set-up.sh` once-off to download and extract the official firmware
-- run `bash root.sh` to flash bootloaders, system image e.t.c. (pretty much everything) and boot into TWRP. it also tells you what to do in TWRP
 - run `bash root.sh` to flash bootloaders, system image e.t.c. (pretty much everything) and boot into TWRP. It also tells you what to do in TWRP
 
 ## Restoring the backup made from `adb backup`
 The most simple command/process is to simply run this after setting up the phone (and enabling USB debugging again):
 - `adb restore backup.ab`
 
 However, in my experience this doesn't work completely, so another thing to try:
 - run `bash adb-split-no-extraction.sh backup.ab` (from ABE), this will split the backup into smaller backups, one per app
 - then run `bash adb-restore.sh`, this simply `adb restore`s all the backups individually
 
 That didn't work for me either, next try:
 - run `bash helium-ise.sh` which copies the backups to a folder called `carbon` and puts them in a format that Helium can recognise
 - move/copy `carbon` to /sdcard on your phone, then use the app Helium (on Google Play) to restore the backups
 
 That didn't work for me either, next try:
 - run `java -jar abe.jar unpack backup.ab backup.tar` (self-explanatory)
 - run `tar -xvf backup.tar` (unpacks the tar archive), and `rm backup.tar` (removes it)
 - next step is to start ADBD (the adb process on the phone) as root:
   - try running `adb root`, if this completes successfully then you're set
   - if `adb root` returns `adbd cannot run as root in production builds` as it did on my device, you will need to start ADBD in root mode some other way:
   - There is an app: "adbd insecure": https://stackoverflow.com/a/28070414/2999220
   - if that app doesn't work (didn't for me), use `bash adb-remount-insecure.sh` after extracting the proper ADBD from the app apk and pushing it to /sdcard
 - run `bash "adb push extracted apps.sh"` to forcefully push the data to the phone, then set the proper permissions on the files so they can be accessed by apps
diff --git a/adb push extracted apps.sh b/adb push extracted apps.sh
@@ -1,9  1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 ## Based on https://www.semipol.de/2016/07/30/android-restoring-apps-from-twrp-backup.html
 ##  and my own findings on the ADB backup structure
-## Also, if `adb root` returns "adbd cannot run as root in production builds"
-##  as it did on my device, you will need to start ADBD in root mode some other way
-##  There is an app: "adbd insecure": https://stackoverflow.com/a/28070414/2999220
 
 export adb="~/bin/platform-tools/adb"
 export packages=`ls apps`

diff --git a/adb remount insecure.sh → adb-remount-insecure.sh b/adb remount insecure.sh → adb-remount-insecure.sh