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What backups? It's literally impossible to take backup images of an Android phone (as in: the entire thing, not just some Playstore apps and some of the settings).

The last phone I used that supported taking a backup image of the entire phone was a 2013 BlackberryOS 10 device.

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You cannot even backup all of the playstore apps, tons and tons set the magic "don't backup" bit.

You are totally right in that there are basically no useful backups on android whatsoever. The closest thing is "adb backup" when you have root and developer settings enabled, which is saying a lot.

Even Firefox does this. Because of something something security.

Even adb backup isn't possible: it's been deprecated for years and I've never ever gotten it to work even with root and the right dev settings.

It starts creating an image of a couple of GB (takes a couple of hours, lol) and then just bugs out and stops. There's no error checking or anything and when it bugs out it means you have start all over again.

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