One plus one owners thread

alwald wrote: »

I am very interested about the back up option, my OPO is rooted, what's the best way to back up user data? cheers

Well there's a few different ways depending on what exactly you want backed up.

You can do a full backup of absolutely everything on your phone including the OS, system files, photos, apps, user data, texts, everything! An exact mirror image, by doing a NANDroid backup through CWM or TWRP, one of which you will probably already have installed if you rooted the phone:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/what-is-a-nandroid-backup-and-how-exactly-does-it-work/

If you just want to backup apps and user data the easiest way is probably through ES File Explorer. You'll need to change a couple of settings in this app, one to give it root access and two to tell it to backup user data with the apps. When you backup an app then all the user data will be included in the single .apk file it extracted. So for example if I sent you one of these .apk files from my phone, you could sideload that app as normal but all my user data/settings etc will be there too.

Titanium Backup is a more powerful but at the same time a more complicated tool. This app is great for batch jobs and automated backups etc. You can backup and uninstall system apps or bloatware, until you're happy that you didn't uninstall something you shouldn't have and that the system still works, then you can wipe them off the phone completely if you want. Some of the system apps are dependant on others to work, so you have to have a backup first.

BenEadir wrote: »

What would you use that cable for Blade? Transferring files from a USB key springs to mind but what else?

I used to have a cable http://www.amazon.com/MHL-Adapter-Smartphones-Tablets-Compact/dp/B00KPXI4S2/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_3?s=wireless&ie=UTF8&qid=1411846845&sr=1-3-fkmr0&keywords=icro+USB+to+HDMI+MHL+Adapter which allowed my Note 2 to be connected to a TV and output the screen and sound to the TV. I must dig it out and see if it will work with the OPO.

Transferring large files with a USB stick yes, but smaller files you'd probably be quicker using Dropbox. Simply just reading from it too, I've lots of stuff on USB sticks including TV recordings from the Sat decoder. A lot of phones you have to open up to take out the SD card, so this can be even handier in that regard. Backing up your phone data directly to a USB stick wouldn't be a bad idea either.

You can connect pretty much any wired or wireless USB Peripheral in theory, if some device doesn't work natively, Android drivers can be written to make it work, so we should see more compatibility and devices in the future.

While a lot of things might seem pointless to us, there's always people who will make good use out of something. For example connecting a wireless mouse, why the hell would anyone want to do that? Well take your HDMI cable there and connect it to your TV (or do it wirelessly), with a wireless mouse or controller you effectively turn it into a TV box.

With a card reader photographers/journalists can take the card out of their camera and instantly upload content to the cloud or back to their office etc.

Anyway, USB sticks, Card readers, Powered hard drives, game controllers, headphones/ professional microphones, mice / keyboards, midi keyboards!, USB hubs, USB to Ethernet adapters?...

I have a professional sound recorder here that can be connected to a PC by USB as a mic and I'm hoping to connect it to the OPO and use it instead of the phone's mic for better sound in video recordings. However I think that might be a problem because of the lack of native USB audio support in Android at least for the moment.