App or technique to copy *everything* to a new phone

[Chris.Nelson]

A few points about that above method.

You can't use it because you said the USB connector is broken.

Damn! I forgot that.

Now If you can transfer data but not charge then that will work.

I'll try tonight.

If you can do that you can also find and push a full SBF file that is the full out of the box stock image.

SBF?

[Martin030908]

You are taking a risk sending a rooted phone back to Verizon, albeit a small one. I wouldn't do it. After you get done with your back up remove the root from your Droid.

+1.

Not worth the risk... especially if you come to find out Verizon is going to charge you the full price of your refurb device for voiding your warranty.

Not worth it to save 5-10 minutes of work to revert to stock w/ no root.

[tp7six]

I wouldn't recommend sending a rooted device back either, no reason to risk it

[nlinecomputers]

A few points about that above method.

You can't use it because you said the USB connector is broken.

Damn! I forgot that.

Now If you can transfer data but not charge then that will work.

I'll try tonight.

If you can do that you can also find and push a full SBF file that is the full out of the box stock image.

SBF?

If you find that you can't push data via the USB cable there are other ways around this.

Using the above method skip all the talk about SPrecovery. Go to the step that asks you to root using an update.zip file.

Now you can't copy the file via your broken phone but you can use your good phone to put the file on your SDCARD and then move the card and battery over to your old phone. Then run the update zip file as instructed. You will be rooted at that point but will not have a sprecovery.

But once rooted you can download a program in the market called ROM manager. It can install clockwork recovery or sprecovery and you can use that do make a nandroid backup of your phone.

You can also use ROM Manager to download a stock ROM with no root just as you get it from Verizon so that you can clean your phone and send it in.

[nlinecomputers]

Scratch my last post. If you don't have sprecovery you can't install update.zip. And you can't install sprecovery without a USB cable.

[Chris.Nelson]

I've got to be missing something. I found several file managers that can copy files from the phone to SD but I can't find anything like /etc/appdata or whatever. Surely applications store their data in the file system. Where is it hiding?

[jrodizkool01]

You are taking a risk sending a rooted phone back to Verizon, albeit a small one. I wouldn't do it. After you get done with your back up remove the root from your Droid.

I disagree with this because I've sent 2 rooted Droids back to Verizon (due to hardware problems) and I haven't had any issues getting replacements.

[Chris.Nelson]

Sorry, I am at work and got swamped

Here is one on how to Root Droid 1 - regardless of OS version

Well, since I don't have a functioning USB connector, I can't use that process. You make reference to EasyRoot, an app that will root my phone, right? I Goggled "EasyRoot" but I don't trust the results. How can I be sure I"m not getting something malicious.

Second, once I've backed up my old phone, how can I unroot it so that I'm not sending a rooted phone back to Verizon?

TIA.