Thank you all. Patrick Shanahan írta:

* Istvan Gabor [08-02-14 13:32]:

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The subject line tells it. I would like to backup android 2.3.4 (Samsung Galaxy Mini), especially contacts history (incoming, outgoing calls history, SMS messages) to my computer directly, without using a google account, using linux (openSUSE 12.3). File transfer method could be USB cable or local WIFI, or, less preferred, bluetooth.

The question does not apply to files stored in the SD card, like photos.

Is this possible?

yes, kdeconnect (don't know about 12.3) android pgm WiFi File Transfer android pgm AirDroid android pgm ConnectBot android pgm ES File Explorer ownCloud and probably many more but some effort will be required to search.

As I see AirDroid and ConnectBot cannot be used for saving/backing up call history and messages. I haven't try the others as I found a solution in the meantine, but I have a feeling that these programs can only work with SD card files. Please correct if I am wrong. Carlos E. R. írta:

I use an APP to backup SMS messages to file. It is called "SMS to Text", by SMeiTi, >currently version 1.9. It exports to plain text or to .csv file.

I will check this. I also found two applications which can save call history and messages to the SD card: "Call Logs Backup & Restore" and "SMS Backup & Restore".

And being a Samsung, you can backup most of the thing (from Windows) with Samsung >tools, no google involved. I don't know if it would run under Wine.

I am aware of it; if I remember well, it's called KIES. The only problem is I don't have a windows machine. Thank you once more, Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Le 03/08/2014 03:33, Carlos E. R. a écrit :

And being a Samsung, you can backup most of the thing (from Windows) with Samsung tools, no google involved. I don't know if it would run under Wine.

but don't work if you want to install on an other brand phone :-( jdd -- http://www.dodin.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Le 03/08/2014 14:20, Carlos E. R. a écrit :

For that people use their google account. It just works...

my samsung galaxy S never could syn with google :-( but it's an old model jdd -- http://www.dodin.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On Sun 03 Aug 2014 11:40:56 AM CDT, John Andersen wrote:

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On 8/3/2014 5:20 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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Very true.

That is nothing new, all brands are and were the same. Even using the same brand, migrating from one model to another, specially if separated by 3 year old design, has always been difficult if not impossible.

The problem wasn't posed as a request to upgrade phones, the problem was posed as a method to backup to Linux.

Had we known it was for migrating from one phone to another we would have suggested other methods, none of which required backing up to Google.

For instance on both my wife's Moto X and my HTC One M8, there was a utility which used an app installed on the old phone to move all messages, images, videos, music as well as reinstalling all apps from their source (google or amazon), from the old phone to the new, via your local WIFI connection.

The only use of the Google account was to access the market for apps (free or purchased) and install them again on the new phone.

Hi The android adb app will backup apks etc. On my tablet with kitkat 4.4 I can do all that to a sd card by rebooting into backup mode, makes it nice and easy to keep all the data and do a restore, upgrade, rollback etc. -- Cheers Malcolm °¿° SUSE Knowledge Partner (Linux Counter #276890) openSUSE 13.1 (Bottle) (x86_64) 3.10.1 Kernel 3.11.10-17-desktop up 5:12, 3 users, load average: 0.12, 0.15, 0.14 CPU Intel® B840@1.9GHz | GPU Intel® Sandybridge Mobile -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org