Rescue Your Mobian post Update Aug22 faster fix to working guide
It is worth noting that something in the post update .conf files in /home/mobian is crashing the settings app.
before I transferred my backup of /home/mobian on to of the install it worked and I was able to setup my mobile data, after I am back to the settings app crash issue.
I might leave it until a Mobian fix or if I need settings to fix data I might go back and only save the dirs I feel like transferring like .kodi .local/share/evolution/ .mozilla maybe my mapping apps too.
For sure I will do this if the Mobian updates over the next few days are not fixed and I have to wipe anyways.
Perhaps I will take personal .img of a loaded, personalized, configured, and fully working pinephone so I don't have to do all of this work again but rather USB it over with tow-boot and reboot into personalized for me ready-to-use if I ever need it again.
There was a lightweight alt-boot bootloader app for the Maemo5 Linux Nokia N900 called Backup Manager which was a highly functional toolkit of useful actions like taking a backup image of the system to the SD or EMMC, restoring it, fdisk'ing the partitions, mounting them over USB, busybox, etc the only thing missing was mounting USB drives as this was a later hack. It was similar to the functionality of TWRP recovery tools on Android devices. I hope that tow-boot or a derivative will add these useful features with compatibility for most pinephone OSs.
before I transferred my backup of /home/mobian on to of the install it worked and I was able to setup my mobile data, after I am back to the settings app crash issue.
I might leave it until a Mobian fix or if I need settings to fix data I might go back and only save the dirs I feel like transferring like .kodi .local/share/evolution/ .mozilla maybe my mapping apps too.
For sure I will do this if the Mobian updates over the next few days are not fixed and I have to wipe anyways.
Perhaps I will take personal .img of a loaded, personalized, configured, and fully working pinephone so I don't have to do all of this work again but rather USB it over with tow-boot and reboot into personalized for me ready-to-use if I ever need it again.
There was a lightweight alt-boot bootloader app for the Maemo5 Linux Nokia N900 called Backup Manager which was a highly functional toolkit of useful actions like taking a backup image of the system to the SD or EMMC, restoring it, fdisk'ing the partitions, mounting them over USB, busybox, etc the only thing missing was mounting USB drives as this was a later hack. It was similar to the functionality of TWRP recovery tools on Android devices. I hope that tow-boot or a derivative will add these useful features with compatibility for most pinephone OSs.