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Managing your Android phone or tablet does not mean that you have to establish a physical connection – providing you have a copy of AirDroid installed. With this app in place on your Android device, all you then need is a web browser; it does not matter which web browser you use or whether you are running OS X, Linux or Windows. Launch the app and you will be provided with both a URL and an IP address that you can use to establish a remote connection along with a pass code for security.
Once this has been entered you’ll be presented with a virtual desktop for your device. This is not an emulator, so you will not be working with a representation of your phone or tablet, but you will be able to browse through its contents and even make use of various features. You can quickly see how much space you have left available both on internal storage and your memory card and you can see how this space is taken up by different types of file.
There is a great file browser that can be used to view the contents of your device, but also enables you download files to your computer or upload them to your phone or tablet. Drag and drop support is a great feature and you can also install and uninstall apps with ease, including setting up batch operations to help get things completed more quickly.
Other great features include a shared clipboard that can be used to copy and paste text between computer and Android. You can also view your call logs, control your ringtone settings and control your music from your computer. If your device is rooted, you have a handy screenshot tool on your hands, but there’s plenty to keep you busy even if you haven’t take this step.
Verdict:
A superb way of managing your Android device and transferring files in both directions.
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AirDroid remove ApMobile?
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Must try for Android Addicts
I have AirDroid and ApMobile on a Galaxy Note GT-N7000. The N7000 is unlocked and has Android vers 4.0.4. AirDroid says it can 'remove' ApMobile but this is contrary to other links.
Is it safe to do this, please? Thanks for help.
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useful utility if you have android tv device
i've android device which connects to TV and this app is very helpul for transfering files which i can view on my tv now.
No other words than AWESOME APP
unubtanium said:
No other words than AWESOME APP
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It's life, simplified!!
Been using this for well over a year
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Been using this for well over a year
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Just wondering if there are many vulnerabilities though. Lots of app permissions that might not be necessary..
I used it since a year now, very useful app, writing sms with a keyboard ^^
I have a Note 10.1 2014 and have just picked up a Note Pro 12.2. While I am still debating whether to keep both and if not, which one to keep, I have run across an issue I ran into a long time ago. I am trying to keep LectureNotes synced between the two devices, and as happened with my original note and HTC Flyer (used only for backup purposes), using DropSync to keep both devices in sync with each other, causes an occasional delete on one device which seems to propagate to the other device. I have again lost a couple very important notebooks.
What is the best way to keep two devices in sync with each other? Perhaps I am not setting dropsync up correctly, are there suggestions for that? Perhaps there is a better / safer app than dropsync ..... Any and all suggestions appreciated.
I use FolderSync to do this. It has more flexibility to set up multiple sync processes so you can both sync and back up.
I have two sync folders in the cloud connected to my lecture notes folder, controlled by three "pairs".
The first pair does full sync, deletes included, two way. This is echoed on my phone so everything matches.
The second pair is a one way sync from the tablet to the cloud, no delete. This is the backup folder. So if the above situation causes a loss, the backup folder comes to the rescue.
The third pair is really same target folder as the second, but is one way delete only and manual only. Every week or so I confirm that I haven't lost anything from the sync folder, then run this to delete stuff I really wanted to get rid of. This one is optional if you go with a never delete backup approach.
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Reason for deletion - FEATURE REQUEST
Hi, I have done some tests and discovered why the sync problem occurs:
When inserting, deleting or moving pages in LectureNotes, the app simply renames the .png files in its system, but it doesn't change their "modified date".
For example, let's take the following scenario: You have pages P1, P2, P3. All created 12:00. You have used a sync program to sync these pages (two-way) to Google Drive. Their modified date in Google Drive will be 12:01 lets say, since you sync every minute as an example.
At 12:02 lets say you delete P2. What LectureNotes will actually do in this scenario is simply to rename P3 to P2, and it will delete P3. But P2 modified date will not be set to 12:02, instead it will remain at 12:00.
In the next sync cycle (let's say 12:03), the sync program will see that P2 in LectureNotes and P2 in Google Drive do not match. It will look at the latest modified date, and see that the P2 in Google Drive has a later modified date (12:01, vs. LectureNotes' P2 which has 12:00). Hence, it will copy over P2 from Google Drive and overwrite your P2 in LectureNotes.
So what you end up with is: In LectureNotes you will now have the P2 which is actually the original P2 you created previously, and the P3 you created will have disappeared.
I have attached a .png file (created in LectureNotes ) to illustrate the problem.
How to fix the problem:
The easiest way to fix the problem and allow people to seamlessly sync between multiple devices and cloud services etc. is to edit the modified date of the .png files when adding, inserting or moving pages.
(For example if I have P1, P2, P3 and move P2 to after P3, LectureNotes today simply renames the files to reflect their relative order - page2.png will be renamed to page3.png and vice versa - but no modified date is changed, which causes sync program to overwrite the files).
I have thought about various options, but there is today no automatic way (unless you want to use the previously suggested manual backup, checking etc. strategies) to create a seamless sync. The workarounds that exist today with the above limitation are:
1) Use only 1-way sync (which means you will just have a back-up system, not a sync system - meaning you can't sync between multiple devices)
OR
2) Don't use the move, insert and delete pages functions. This will make sync between multiple devices work, but is a severe limitation since you won't be able to delete any pages in any of your notebooks.
@[email protected]: You are right, LectureNotes renames files upon page deletion and insertion without updating the last modified date of the renamed file.
I am a bit surprised to hear that this causes problems with syncing. Actually, I would expect a syncing tool to be smart enough to handle cases of simple file renaming within a directory.
I could modify LectureNotes such that it sets the last modified date to the current date for each file it renames. But this could cause huge network traffic. For instance, assume that you have a 100 pages notebook and your insert a page before the first page. If LectureNotes sets the last modified date to the current date for each file it renames, all 101 pages will be sent over the network.
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@[email protected]: You are right, LectureNotes renames files upon page deletion and insertion without updating the last modified date of the renamed file.
I am a bit surprised to hear that this causes problems with syncing. Actually, I would expect a syncing tool to be smart enough to handle cases of simple file renaming within a directory.
I could modify LectureNotes such that it sets the last modified date to the current date for each file it renames. But this could cause huge network traffic. For instance, assume that you have a 100 pages notebook and your insert a page before the first page. If LectureNotes sets the last modified date to the current date for each file it renames, all 101 pages will be sent over the network.
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Thanks for responding.
I understand. Is it possible to fix the sync issue in other ways? Do you know any other syncing tool which handles this? I am using the tool called "FolderSync" and I would have expected it to be a good tool.
There are some options in it, such as "Use MD5 checksums" (default checked), "Use temp-file scheme" (default checked) and "Disable file-size check" (default unchecked) in it, would you expect that changing some of these may help?
If you are not aware of another syncing tool, would there be another way of modifying LectureNotes to make sync work without causing the problem you mention.
Actually files are quite small so I would not expect there to be a large network traffic, and moving/deleting and inserting pages is a quite rare occurrence, so I think it would be a good solution anyway. Currently, not being able to use any of these functions if you want to sync is a severe limitations (however I will still keep LectureNotes because it is the best tool in the market - I have tested Samsung S Note, FiiNote, Papyrus and many others but LectureNotes is simply the best and I really don't want to leave it).
Thanks for helping, and very much appreciate your comments. I would be happy to give you a 5-star review on Android market also.
@[email protected]: I do not use this app (or any other syncing app), so I cannot say much concerning your questions.
I do not know which algorithm this syncing app applies, but syncing solely based on last modified date is not a particularly good idea (in particular under Android, where the last modified date is notoriously unreliable), as being able to handle file renaming properly is crucial.
As I stated in my previous post, LectureNotes could set the last modified date whenever it renames a file. I would not like to make this the new default behavior, but I can add this as an option. I just uploaded v2.5.3 into the app stores (and I also need to think a moment about the implications of such change), so that I have to ask you for some patience.
Thank you, having this as an option would be fantastic. Please let me know what you decide and if you do upload a new version with this option.
I have done some research, and the app developer for this sync app says that it doesn't detect renames because that is instable and would cause battery drain:
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So it seems like this is exactly what is causing the problem.
I will research if there are other apps that detect renames, but with the above comments i doubt it and your "option to update modified date" would be greatly appreciated.
Solution found!!
Hi, I have tested the app "Autosync for Google Drive" developed by ttxapps and this solves the problem!
I have tested this:
1. Create P1, P2, P3 - sync
2. Delete P2 - sync
3. Insert P2(new) between P1 and P3 - sync
In all 3 steps, Drive Autosync behaved perfectly, replicating exactly on Google Drive what happened (while FolderSync - the old app - failed both step 2 and step 3 because of the issue I described previously.
Thank you for your quick responses.
@[email protected]: OK, thanks for the feedback, glad to hear that you could solve the problem.
I know this post is a little old at this point, but I've recently been testing the same thing,trying to get lecture notes to sync between two samain note devices. I'be tested with both dropsync and drive autosync and neither seem to be able to decipher how to sync lecture notes reliably. I get all kinds of anomalies like missing pages, missing text, page additions instead of overwrites.
At this point it looks like manual backups and restores are the only option. To that end it might be handy to have an auto backup function that dumps backup files to a synced folder at least. It's not super awesome,but I don't any other way to get my notes synced up. Lecture Notes is the best note tool on android so imuch definitely not going to stop using it!
If anyone has new ideas I'd love to hear them.
I use BTSync and I have never had any problem with sync between my Note 3/ Note 10.1, plus I have a copy of files on my PC through BTSync pc app.
Has anyone tried syncing notebooks with Syncthing?
Old, but interesting thread...
Witch app(s) will sync Lecture Notes... today in 2020...?
Hello,
I'm attempting to make an inventory application. Basically, our company has several devices/equipment that we checkout to other people and our current paper system isn't working out. The devices will each have an NFC tag put on that uniquely identifies it, and the idea is that the Android application on our smartphones (provided by the company) will simply scan it to check in/out the device. It will record the date time, who checked it out, and other information, and we want more than one person to be able to check in/out items at a time.
My problem is figuring out a way to store this data. Our company already pays for a OneDrive for Business account and our initial idea was to simply store the data in an Excel spreadsheet and share it with the people who checkin/checkout the devices (only two people at the moment), then the app would download the spreadsheet, record the new data, and upload it again to OneDrive. Reading and writing the data is easy, but actually pulling the file from OneDrive is where we hit a road bump and now we need another plan.
Are there any free alternatives for data storage of this kind where I would be able to access it through the Android application and update it? We also thought of using Heroku, but through researching I found that directly connecting to the PostgreSQL database they provide within the application is not possible. Of course we want to keep this data secure and only accessible to the people actually checking in/out devices, but we do not need a huge amount of space to store this data. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
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Hello,
I'm attempting to make an inventory application. Basically, our company has several devices/equipment that we checkout to other people and our current paper system isn't working out. The devices will each have an NFC tag put on that uniquely identifies it, and the idea is that the Android application on our smartphones (provided by the company) will simply scan it to check in/out the device. It will record the date time, who checked it out, and other information, and we want more than one person to be able to check in/out items at a time.
My problem is figuring out a way to store this data. Our company already pays for a OneDrive for Business account and our initial idea was to simply store the data in an Excel spreadsheet and share it with the people who checkin/checkout the devices (only two people at the moment), then the app would download the spreadsheet, record the new data, and upload it again to OneDrive. Reading and writing the data is easy, but actually pulling the file from OneDrive is where we hit a road bump and now we need another plan.
Are there any free alternatives for data storage of this kind where I would be able to access it through the Android application and update it? We also thought of using Heroku, but through researching I found that directly connecting to the PostgreSQL database they provide within the application is not possible. Of course we want to keep this data secure and only accessible to the people actually checking in/out devices, but we do not need a huge amount of space to store this data. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
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Heroku is a good option. You'll have to make an app to run API's that will talk to your app.
I ran a quick search and haven't seen this mentioned anywhere else yet, so sharing this info here for Mac users.
I just downloaded and fired up a free app (SmartFinder for Android) from the Mac App Store...looks to have come out just a week or two ago. Appears VERY promising, at least as an alternative to the rudimentary Android File Transfer that we've been stuck with for years. Seems quick and provides a proper classification and grouping of files (e.g., Pictures, Video, Music, Files), which can actually all be opened directly from within the app (unlike with AFT). Should make things a lot easier and just all-around more enjoyable compared to what we've been limited to in the past.
One thing I did notice, however, is that a small piece of software is actually also loaded onto the device when accessing for the first time. This is presumably to make things work properly and the required permissions are minimal and can be restricted anyway, so it doesn't seem too concerning. Still, it would be nice to see the developer mention this in the description.
GOAL - a universal backup and restore solution that can take ALL device accounts and ALL their related passwords - back them up - and restore them to ANY version of android - including Phones, Tablets, and Emulators such as bluestacks, memu, nox etc. even from different android versions.
This is primarily to get all EMAILS - google - outlook - etc loaded into a new device *This is NOT for apps as there are plenty of solutions for apps already but none for ACCOUNTS
This software should basically have a database, preferably in an easy to edit CSV format - which would never need to change as it would always have ACCOUNT_TYPE,USERNAME,PASSWORD,RANDOM_DATA
-you could manually populate this via your computer or you could have the android software export it via coding magic. Maybe use a different format and have it load a spreadsheet or a different database type...
Importing would be trickier- you'd have to have a drop down asking questions like - What android version are you importing to- so that the code could be properly inserted...
I intend to ask for advice here and see what solutions you all have; I will edit this first topic to help others if a solution exists.
Some people spend 50 hours of labor installing hundreds of apps on their phone; each needing custom configured, many require having an Account to access data through the app.
What if you have to load 50+ emails into the phone; each of them having huge complicated passwords.
What if you are always buying new devices, changing roms and having to set this all up again?
=Some Solutions exist but none have worked for me.
1. Built in google 'set up new device' -
This only seems to work when you have reset your phone.. once the phone is active and you've actually used it -- there appears to be no way to turn this on and attempt to bring new accounts over...
q. How can you activate this after the fact?
If you have more than a few accounts on the device, say.. 4... maybe you have 20 or 40 email accounts loaded.. it is almost guaranteed to fail.
q. What causes it to fail? Is there any work around.
If you are on android versions too far apart its also likely to fail
q. Why? is there any work around.
*Here is a site with code related to the account transfer API; I'm not sure how accurate it is:
Account Transfer API | Android Developers
developer.android.com
2. Samsung Smart switch
This only copies ONE account - but it also does a fine job of moving text messages, SOME apps and other info over.
*Is there any way to get it to copy all email accounts; and other random app accounts to the new device?
3. Titanium backup - for non root and root.
I've played with this numerous times over the past 10 years and never successfully. I dont think it is capable of taking all accounts and backing up / restoring to different devices.
More to be added later.
Reserved for random info so I can update later;
One month later and no replies...
Anyone?
1. Is there any app on the planet that can do this - or close? ((samsung smart switch - sometimes - though it mostly fails -- Googles built in set up - which fails 95% of the time) - I know of no other solutions.
2. Is there any desire for this? have any of you been annoyed with the menial task of setting this stuff up again and again?
another month goes by.. now I have a new android tablet.. and guess what?
Samsung smart switch wont copy my accounts...
I cant seem to get the built in google 'set up device' to start == and I'm not looking forward to adding 50 email accounts and various other accounts into this manually.. thats gonna take ages...
Buying a new device every couple months.. is a grueling task when it comes to account transfers...
Nobody has any suggestions on a solution for this? I'm searching around randomly again and finding Nothing.
what is your concern?? reading your thread give me headache
I have the same issue. I am "bored" in getting another mobile because i have to setup from beggining soooo many things
IIRC then account details are stored in SQLite database named accounts.db, its location depends on Android version.
Wi-Fi passwords are stored in file named wpa supplicant.conf.
@jwoegerbauer thanks for the tip. using your filename I found a tutorial that listed the location as follows:
/data/system_de/0/accounts_de.db
I've verified this on Nox; my bluestacks still isnt rooted and it seems the phones I have with all email accounts loaded == are not rooted either== I'm going to need to find a workaround for that or make time to root bluestacks to get the account data out of it...
Problem is;
1 there are no passwords included here. Where are they? mine are all crazy long and I have no clue what they are... its very time consuming to manually input them via my password managing tool.
2 Once I export; and change the CSV into a spreadsheet to include all the other missing email /google accounts; how do I replace the accounts_de.db file on each device
3. Why isnt there an app that can do this already; lol?
EDIT
Titanium backup does have an 'accounts' export option that -sorta - works... problem is how picky the app is about using root plus super SU and refuses to work with Magisk (sometimes) or will constantly crash on (some) devices - or will fail to export/import unless you try (5 different file managers that can eventually figure out how to import their file type) - or is otherwise NEEDING root access to function...
Would be nice if a solution existed via ADB or simply in an un rooted device to do this; sorta like how google ''set up nearby device'' was supposed to work (and will; if you use only 5 or less accounts... but its also buggy and fails)
Any ideas on how we can export/import accounts?
Still no successful solution.
1. Notes regarding Titanium:
I've tried about 15 versions of bluestacks using android 4.4.2 and have had mild success with titanium to backup/restore =
however it seems to randomly restore less than all the accounts (missing a few different ones each time)
it also seems to randomly miss the google password tokens randomly =forcing me to log into 10% of the imported accounts with each restore.
It also seems to fail 100% when trying to restore a bluestacks 4.4.2 accounts file on to android 7 bluestacks; or nox / or memu
It has limited success importing into a proper non emulated tablet (again missing about 60% of the accounts randomly)
all in all Titanium doesn't appear to be a good solution.
2. Perhaps a direct edit of the Accounts DB file would be wiser;
I've attempted to export it a few times and am not sure yet how to edit it ...
HeidiSQL has errors when accessing the file
Oracle's sql developer is WORSE; most of the text is gibberish.
*Any ideas on how to edit this?
3. Other xda searches lead me to:
The google password isn't a real password. After first successful authentication, an Auth Token is downloaded to device which is stored in accounts.db.
From the Auth Token is impossible to guess the password.
So I guess I answered my own question on that... I was hoping the passwords were stored on the device database so I could import/export them via a text editor.
4.
*File manager for super users allows one to explore and edit (to a point) a sql database - but one can not add new entries; only edit existing entries.
one can only export to csv; not import.
so this is only a partial solution.
5. an open source XDA solution looks promising but will not work.
Each OnAndBackup version uses different file extensions that are not compatible between versions... so yuo can't backup one android version and restore to another.
OAndBackupX is a fork of the popular open source backup app for Android
Looking for an open source solution to backup individual apps and their data? OAndBackupX is a handy Android app for the job. Check it out!
www.xda-developers.com
Blombardo said:
2. Perhaps a direct edit of the Accounts DB file would be wiser;
I've attempted to export it a few times and am not sure yet how to edit it ...
HeidiSQL has errors when accessing the file
Oracle's sql developer is WORSE; most of the text is gibberish.
*Any ideas on how to edit this?
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In post #7 you were told it's a SQLite database. Hence use a SQLite browser.
Downloads - DB Browser for SQLite
sqlitebrowser.org
It appears that the art of editing the database file on this is more complicated than it should be...
1. Taking the old DB file from 4.4.2 with a million accounts loaded... -- Export the 'accounts' table into csv
2. taking the new DB file from 7.1.1 with one account loaded - delete existing and then import the old 'accounts' table -
Swap original .db file with new edited one...
and congrats you too have a bootloop...
Anyone know how to PROPERLY export / import the accounts information ?
The sql table otherwise appears the same.. but I'm by no means an expert on these databases so perhaps I missed something simple.
Can't wait to see what happens from nox to bluestacks to memu to real versions of android on multiple devices with multiple android versions...
There HAS to be a better way to do this.?
Edit: 20 plus hours and many weeks into this problem
delving deeper into Titaniums site they have a suggestion for use on emulators that I did not notice; I will try and report back.
12. I have an Android device that is x86 based, and rooted. Can I use Titanium Backup ?
YES. Please ensure that you have a working BusyBox on your device and make the following changes in TB preferences:
enable the “Force use external BusyBox” option (under Troubleshooting) then hit MENU -> Reload application.
1. I've noticed there are two places for saved account info; I still have no success in getting my edited database to properly recognize in the emulator.
system DE on older 4.4.2
and
system CE on 7.1 (also has the DE folder)
2. No luck on titanium either.
a. I've tried making busy box work on the emulator; it pretends to install successfully but when running shell commands it doesnt seem to work; therefore the number 12 from Titanium FAQ is something I can't seem to accomplish either... so Titanium will not work yet; maybe due to the busybox fail.
Blombardo said:
@jwoegerbauer thanks for the tip. using your filename I found a tutorial that listed the location as follows:
/data/system_de/0/accounts_de.db
I've verified this on Nox; my bluestacks still isnt rooted and it seems the phones I have with all email accounts loaded == are not rooted either== I'm going to need to find a workaround for that or make time to root bluestacks to get the account data out of it...
Problem is;
1 there are no passwords included here. Where are they? mine are all crazy long and I have no clue what they are... its very time consuming to manually input them via my password managing tool.
2 Once I export; and change the CSV into a spreadsheet to include all the other missing email /google accounts; how do I replace the accounts_de.db file on each device
3. Why isnt there an app that can do this already; lol?
EDIT
Titanium backup does have an 'accounts' export option that -sorta - works... problem is how picky the app is about using root plus super SU and refuses to work with Magisk (sometimes) or will constantly crash on (some) devices - or will fail to export/import unless you try (5 different file managers that can eventually figure out how to import their file type) - or is otherwise NEEDING root access to function...
Would be nice if a solution existed via ADB or simply in an un rooted device to do this; sorta like how google ''set up nearby device'' was supposed to work (and will; if you use only 5 or less accounts... but its also buggy and fails)
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Thanks for the tip just used Titanium Backup to transfer accounts backup generated from one phone to another (using the generated backup files) both N916K rooted with Magisk version 23.0 (23000) without issues!
So is there any Progress or Solutions found yet?
A good thing would be to see all the accounts and then retype them manually if needed.
Else it would be much better to have something like Smart Switch.
Problem I noticed with SmartSwitch, when you try to transfer the Accounts. Samsung trys to grab and upload all the accounts to their server!! Why? I don't know, but it always asks for Internetconnection etc. ONLY when you want to transfer accounts, everything else works more or less.. some appdata not included sadly anyway.
Swift Backup doesn't seem to or did someone manage it to work with it?
Tipps and possible Solutions would be greatly appriciated.
It seems to be especially problematic with Android 12...
Hello, I'm having the same problem. I'm "bored" with obtaining a new phone because I have to set up so many things from scratch. real estate istanbul
A shame there still doesn't seem to be a good solution for this. TB only tries to backup the non-existent location, while the correct is /data/system_de/0/accounts_de.db
Manually moving just puts me into a bootloop, even after setting the correct permissions.
I dont know if this works, someone should test it.
GitHub - cluk33/android-multiuser-backup: A set of scripts to backup and restore apps and data of multiuser android devices.
A set of scripts to backup and restore apps and data of multiuser android devices. - GitHub - cluk33/android-multiuser-backup: A set of scripts to backup and restore apps and data of multiuser andr...
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I dont know if this works, someone should test it.
GitHub - cluk33/android-multiuser-backup: A set of scripts to backup and restore apps and data of multiuser android devices.
A set of scripts to backup and restore apps and data of multiuser android devices. - GitHub - cluk33/android-multiuser-backup: A set of scripts to backup and restore apps and data of multiuser andr...
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I spent hours trying to get the script to work, but it will not backup anything in A13. I even disabled DFE on the device and started it over to test.