Ubports Recovery unintended system.img flashing

[advocatux]

@karstong I prefer to save the whole /home because is easier to cherry-pick whatever I need later to reinstall it.

You should save at least .local/share/evolution/ and the content in the main folders (Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, and Videos) but, again, is better to save /home than need something later that is already lost.

Edit to add .local/share/history-service/history.sqlite to save the sms

[karstong]

@advocatux There actually is no home directory. What I see is the following:

~ # ls
cache init.rc
charger init.wcnss.wifi.sh
data init_bt.sh
default.prop mnt
dev proc
etc res
file_contexts root
fstab.qcom sbin
init sdcard
init.class_main.sh sideload
init.mdm.sh storage
init.qcom.class_core.sh sys
init.qcom.early_boot.sh system
init.qcom.factory.sh tmp
init.qcom.modem_links.sh twrp.fstab
init.qcom.ssr.sh ueventd.qcom.rc
init.qcom.syspart_fixup.sh ueventd.rc
init.qcom.usb.sh

The documents, downloads etc. is in data/user-data/phablet...

I do not find: .local/share/evolution

[karstong]

@karstong When I try to copy a folder an error occurs "skipping special file 'SingletonSocket' and it dos not continue or do something else...

[advocatux]

@karstong the /home for "your" user is /home/phablet/

To list the hidden files (those starting with a dot) too you need the command ls -la or if you're using the filemanager, unlock it, and click "show hidden files".

[advocatux]

@karstong you can delete that file (SingletonSocket) and try again.

[karstong]

@advocatux I don't find this file. Maybe it is hidden. Obviously I can copy any file but not directories. Do you have an idea?

[advocatux]

@karstong do you have UTmedia installed? then is probably in .local/share/utmedia.nfsprodriver/UTmedia/SingletonSocket

[karstong]

@advocatux ./local/share does not exist

[advocatux]

@karstong how are you trying to find it?

[karstong]

@advocatux With "ls -la" I get the following screen print:

~ # ls -la
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 0 Jan 1 00:56 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 0 Jan 1 00:56 ..
drwxrwx--- 4 system cache 4096 Jan 12 1970 cache
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jan 1 00:00 charger -> /sbin/healthd
drwxrwx--x 36 system system 4096 Jan 2 1970 data
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5822 Jan 1 00:00 default.prop
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 15480 Jan 1 00:56 dev
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Jan 1 00:56 etc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10882 Jan 1 00:00 file_contexts
-rw-r----- 1 root root 1204 Jan 1 00:00 fstab.qcom
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 422804 Jan 1 00:00 init
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 2696 Jan 1 00:00 init.class_main.sh
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 1702 Jan 1 00:00 init.mdm.sh
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 7064 Jan 1 00:00 init.qcom.class_core.sh
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 6734 Jan 1 00:00 init.qcom.early_boot.sh
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 11380 Jan 1 00:00 init.qcom.factory.sh
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 4022 Jan 1 00:00 init.qcom.modem_links.sh
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 4561 Jan 1 00:00 init.qcom.ssr.sh
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 2962 Jan 1 00:00 init.qcom.syspart_fixup.sh
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 7718 Jan 1 00:00 init.qcom.usb.sh
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 4199 Jan 1 00:00 init.rc
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 218 Jan 1 00:00 init.wcnss.wifi.sh
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 1611 Jan 1 00:00 init_bt.sh
drwxrwxr-x 5 root system 0 Jan 1 00:56 mnt
dr-xr-xr-x 169 root root 0 Jan 1 00:00 proc
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Jan 1 00:00 res
drwx------ 2 root root 0 Dec 20 2017 root
drwxr-x--- 2 root root 0 Jan 1 00:00 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 1 00:56 sdcard
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 1 00:56 sideload
d---r-x--- 2 root sdcard_r 40 Jan 1 00:56 storage
dr-xr-xr-x 12 root root 0 Jan 1 00:56 sys
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Jan 1 00:00 system
drwxrwxr-x 2 root shell 80 Jan 1 00:56 tmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 840 Jan 1 00:00 twrp.fstab
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9098 Jan 1 00:00 ueventd.qcom.rc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7515 Jan 1 00:00 ueventd.rc
~ #

In this list there is no ".local". The content of "data/local" is the following:

/data/local # ls -la
drwxr-x--x 3 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 .
drwxrwx--x 36 system system 4096 Jan 2 1970 ..
drwxrwx--x 2 shell shell 4096 Jan 1 1970 tmp
/data/local # cd local
/sbin/sh: cd: can't cd to local
/data/local # ls -la
drwxr-x--x 3 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 .
drwxrwx--x 36 system system 4096 Jan 2 1970 ..
drwxrwx--x 2 shell shell 4096 Jan 1 1970 tmp
/data/local #

[advocatux]

@karstong it seems you're running the commands as root (I don't know why).

To list the content of "your" user's home the command is ls -la /home/phablet/

[karstong]

@advocatux This command brings:

~ # ls -la /home/phablet/
ls: /home/phablet/: No such file or directory
~ #

[advocatux]

@karstong where are you running that command?

[karstong]

@advocatux In adb shell from my ubuntu desktop maschine with the phone connected via an USB cable.

[advocatux]

@karstong if you exit adb shell, back to your terminal in Ubuntu, and type adb pull /home/phablet/ /home/your_user/directory_you_want_to_save_to/ What happens?

Obviously change that parameters for yours.

[karstong]

@advocatux It gives me the same error:

~$ adb pull /home/phablet/ /home/huelguat/test
remote object '/home/phablet/' does not exist

[advocatux]

@karstong I hope you're doing something wrong because if really "/home/phablet/" doesn't exists, you have lost all the data in that device.

I'm assuming you're running adb properly, so I'm out of ideas for now.

[karstong]

@advocatux I hope too that I did not lose all my data. Anyway, thanks for your help!!!

[advocatux]

@karstong you're welcome and I hope all your data is still in your device, somewhere!

[Marathon2422]

@karstong is it possible to flash TWRP ,see what you can find, and then start again