Yes and no, is the correct answer, I think. No, because you can't just directly dd your phone's memory. It doesn't mount as a block device. Here's the output from dmesg when I attach my ZTE Axon 7 to my Linux desktop: [1286610.700895] usb 3-1: new high-speed USB device number 19 using xhci_hcd [1286610.828226] usb 3-1: New USB device found, idVendor=19d2, idProduct=1352 [1286610.828231] usb 3-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [1286610.828234] usb 3-1: Product: ZTE USB Device [1286610.828236] usb 3-1: Manufacturer: ZTE Incorporated [1286610.828238] usb 3-1: SerialNumber: eef6e35a However, you can access the phone with adb and fastopen, from a command terminal. This includes the phone's bootloader and recovery mode, e.g. adb reboot bootloader >From here you can dd any of the phone's partitions, but there are several, so a tool like twrp might be a better choice. hth Janina Linux for blind general discussion writes: > Hi! > I know you can connect an android phone and copy and paste files between linux and the phone. > But is there a possible way of backing up the hole phone for example with the dd command? > SO that all settings and everything else is backed up? > Or should i go with something like acronis true backup? > Thanks in advance. > /A > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list