Backup and Restore App for Android V-6.0.1.

[Al47]

Backup and Restore App for Android V-6.0.1.

I have purchased from eBay so called unlocked Samsung Galaxy S5, Android V-6.0. AT&T probably still has its IMEI listed in database. It works fine with T-Mobile SIM card.

Phone has nine AT&T related apps and I assume some firmware installed by AT&T. I want to DISABLE or FORCE STOP or UNINSTALL all AT&T related app and SYSTEM FIRMWARE using Application Manager and/or an MS File Manager or do a Factory Reset of needed to get the same phone as sold by manufacturer (not sure if it is possible with AT&T phone).

I do Disk Image for PC to 100% restore previous Image. Is there any Android app similar to Disk Image which restores everything including system firmware? The-MobileGo backup/restores Music, Photo, Video, Message, Contact, App File. Nothing mentioned about system firmware. Thanks for help in advance.

 

[Hadron]

Short answer, no. At least not without gaining root (admin) access to the phone. If you do not want to learn how to do that stuff then you can stop here, because there is no other way.

Longer answer: if you are able to unlock the bootloader you can install a replacement for the system recovery module (which must be built for this particular model of phone) which can do this, Since android storage is partitioned it actually creates a series of images for the partitions containing the Android OS and your apps and data. That won't back up the full system firmware, but the bits it doesn't back up are things you really should not be touching (and cannot accidentally erase even with root privileges). If you want to learn more about this I suggest visiting the device forum at xda-developers, but make sure you do your reading and understand what you are doing (including how to recover the device if something goes wrong) before you actually try anything.

If you do go this route and root the phone (grants you admin privileges) you will be able to uninstall the system apps, the simplest and safest way probably being to use an app like Titanium Backup.

A factory reset is no help here: all that does is erase user-installed apps and data, it does nothing at all to the system software and hence will not remove ATT's software customisations (nor will it fix the system if you do anything that messes it up). It's a "factory reset" in the sense that it restores the phone to the state it would be in if it had left the factory with its current system software. And anyway this model was made by Samsung specifically for ATT, so it would have had ATT firmware when it left the factory.

Be very careful about attempting to "remove ATT firmware" though. If you just want to remove ATT apps, sure, no problem. But don't go messing with other partitions or trying to flash a different s5 variant's firmware to it or you are likely to end up with a brick (in the worst case one you can't recover without specialist equipment). What is it, apart from a few ATT apps, that you want to remove anyway?

 

[GameTheory]

I want to DISABLE or FORCE STOP or UNINSTALL all AT&T related app

Without going into too much detail, you can remove ATT apps with the following ADB commands. You need to use caution. If you remove a system vital app, you may find yourself in a bootloop. Any apps removed with this method can be restored by factory resetting or running the last two commands below.

Check if device is available to ADB...

adb devices

List all apps on device and copy the package name of the apps you would like to remove...

adb shell pm list packages -f

Remove app package...

adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 PACKAGE_NAME_HERE

Reinstall app that was removed with the above^ command...

adb shell pm install -r --user 0 /PATH/TO/APP_NAME.apk

To get the apk path for the command above^...

adb shell pm dump PACKAGE_NAME_HERE | grep path