well, I took the big leap.
Using Jumpdrive and following the instructions for use I was able to access the phone flawlessly. But I guess being an old man that I am was getting errors trying to connect because I was not fast enough with my dexterity to connect the phone to the USB while holding the power and volume up button…but after some practice and patience was able to connect the phone.
BTW I was abled to use a regular amazon ordered USBA to USBC connector 36" in length with no problem.
Next up I created a full disk image using GNOME Disk and stored it to the desktop on my L13.
After completion of the image I rebooted the phone to see if it was rebootable and it was.
I used Jumpdrive again and aceessed the disk on the phone and began to restore the image that I created…about midway through the restoration I picked up the phone and must have disturbed the image restoration by accidentally bumping the USBC connection on the phone because I got an error that the image restoration failed.
I then powered down the phone and booted up again and got through the LUKS password entry but could not get to the lock screen and the error was a white screen sayin to try again…which I did and failed.
Then I used Jumpdrive again and began the restoration of the image once more without any disturbances of the host computer or the phone and successfully restored the Image that I made with Gnome disk. I disconnected the phone and booted it up with no problems and is back to normal with all settings files…etc…
so I suppose an occasional back up of the phone disk via Jumpdrive and Gnome disk would be good for restoring the image and may negate the necessity of having to reflash the phone and start from scratch…IDK.
This is very useful for my needs hopefully someone else will find it useful also. I added a few photos.
Time…30 mins to create and 30 mins to restore
New…Was able to flash another L5 spare(wifey dont like it) with an image created as above from my L5. Now I got twins!
