XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 04 Nov 2025 11:23:45 GMT, Jan Panteltje wrote:   
      
   > adb works OK with my Xiaomi smartphone connected to a Raspberry Pi4   
   > 4 GB.   
      
   Of course. ;)   
      
   > Just downloaded some pictures I took with the phone, huge file   
   > sizes, all nicely in one directory.   
      
   I like to use the “pull -a” option, to ensure timestamps are preserved   
   as well.   
      
   Another thing you can do is, backup the .apk files for the apps you   
   have installed. These are kept in a directory with execute-only   
   permissions, so you cannot do a simple directory listing: but you can   
   use the list-packages function to get details of all installed   
   packages, *along with the paths to the corresponding .apk files*. And   
   then you can pull these files back to your host PC.   
      
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