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Ok this was a big problems for me because i love testing out sifferent rom but also have like 9 different emaisl accounts on my phone (NOT GMAIL) but email accounts.
And everytime i would tryout a new rom and i would do a wipe and then have to Start from scratch with my email accouts.
So i did some messing around with my phone and foudn out how to make a complete backup of all my account please read carfully
(I AM NOT RESPONSIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES DOEN TO YOUR DEVICE)
Things Nedded
# 1. An Android Phone (Duhhhhhh)
# 2. A Rooted Phone (Must be rooted to do this)
# 3. Root Explorer
# 4. An SD Card with enough space to backup your accounts.
here is the procedure.
Before installing any new roms or just doing a wipe you must do the following to backup your accounts.
Open Root Explorer and browse to the following folder on your phone
data/data/com.android.email folder
in this folder should find the following folders
chache
database
files
lib
shared_prefs
now copy each folder and browse back into your sd card and paste them into a new folder on your SD card.
now your email setting are safe and you can wipe the data from your phone.
now once you have installed a new rom or did a master reset.
go into your email app and add 1 email account somthign simple like a gmail or aol etc....
install and run root explorer again,
browse to your SD card were you saved toye 5 email folders
copy them and then browse back to
data/data/com.android.email
make a new folder in the data/data/com.anroid.email folder
so now open the new created folder so you will be in data/data/com.android.email/new folder (or what ever you named the new folder)
now paste the 5 folders in this new folder
chache
database
files
lib
shared_prefs
now open each folder and copy all files inside 1 of the folders for instance data/data/com.android.email/new folder/database copy all files in this folder
now browse back to data/data/com.android.emal folder and open the database folder located here in data/data/com.android.email.
so now you will be in the following folder data/data/com.android.email/database
now paste your files in this folder. (Please Note you may ends up with 2 of the same files for instance) (webview.db & webview.db -copy) delete the webview.db file and keep the webview.db-copy file.
now rename the webview.db-copy file to webview.db and any additional file that may have the -COPY extension on it delete the orignal and rename the -COPY file as the original file name.
keep doing this process with all 5 folders.
once done if you go into your email.app you will only still see the emailaccount you created erlier this is normal.
Now reboot your phone (Full Reboot) power off then power on.
when you return to your email.app you will see that all your account have returened.
if you need any help let me know.
i will add screen shots later to help out
Hope this helps.
RinnyCoop121
Great tutorial! This has been driving me nuts for years.
Just tried it though and the copy process failed... I believe a file was in use. I went to the app manager and force stopped email, but it still failed in copying. It did get farther though.
Any idea what else I should force stop for succes?
My plan b is to boot into recovery and see if I can do the copy steps from TWRP. Seems like I saw a file manager in there before..
Thanks again!
Mike
---------- Post added at 08:39 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:23 AM ----------
I did have success copying with TWRP. Now I just have to backup my current rig and see where this process gets me! Thanks!
Mike
Hi all,
may i know what the OSpHome folder and its function? We know that all apps are also included on this folder aside from [email protected]@[email protected]@__
is it safe to delete some folder files here w/c is already deleted on [email protected]@[email protected]@_ folder?
ive noticed that even i deleted the apps, it is also deleted on [email protected]@[email protected]@_ but still in OspHome folder.
Thanks
is it safe to delete the folders in /data/data that correspond to the apps deleted in /system/app?
Didnt know how to search about this and I dont know why it would be necessary but if its not being used, I would think there would be some benefit to cleaning up the crap.
EDIT: apparently its safe. I backed up first also found other corresponding files and deleted those. Don't remember where they were located exactly.
@ Admin: This can be deleted as I can't find the delete option