[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jtabb1256:
This is how I did it:

**READ NOTES AND EDITS ON BOTTOM

*1st method (quick and easy, but not totally thorough)

1. Plug in your phone with usb debugging on

2. Make a folder named "system" on your computer wherever you would like to have it. (For ease of use, I would temporarily put it in "C:\Users\Owner" or just "C:\' or whatever

3. Open up mtk droid tools. If it says you don't have shell root, then press root. The box on the bottom left should be green when it is done getting shell root

4. Click on the adb terminal button on the bottom right

5. Type "adb devices" and make sure a device number pops up.

6. Type "adb pull /system C:\Users\Owner\system (or C:\wherever you saved the folder)

7. Wait until it finishes. You'll notice that at the very beginning when it starts the pull, it will say "skipping special file....." That means that this isn't an entire system dump, but it does get most of the stuff.

*2nd method (harder and more time consuming, but thorough. I have still found a couple hidden font files and other things missing, but this is the best way I have found.)

1.Download the application for your computer named "QtADB- Your android manager"

2. Create a folder that is easy to get to named "system from qtadb"

3. Minimize the window that you were in to create the folder

4. Plug in your phone with usb debugging on

5. Use mtk droid tools to make sure your phone has shell root (discussed in other way to backup)

6. Open QtADB

7. On the top right side of qtadb, you should see where it says "phone". Underneath this, there is a bar that says something like "/system/something/". Delete the "something" so that all you have is "/system"

8. On the top left side of qtadb, you should see where it says "computer". Underneath this, there is a bar that says wherever you installed qtadb to. Delete this and put "C:\Wherever you created the folder named "system from qtadb"

9. On the phone side of qtadb, you should see all kinds of folders named app, bin, etc, fonts, framework, kcjprop, lib, media, tts, usr, vendor, xbin, and maybe other things. Go back to the window that you minimized where you created the folder named "system from qtadb". Create new folders with the names of all of the folders on the phone side of qtadb.

10. Go back to qtadb and on the top left bar, you should still have "C:\Wherever\system from qtadb". After this, type in the first folder name, in this case, "app". So in the top left bar, you should have "C:\wherever\system from qtadb\app".

11. On the right side of qtadb click once on the blank space below all of the folders and then press f9

12. Click once on the folder named "app" on the phone side (it should be highlighted now) and drag it over to the computer side (which should be blank and still have "C:\wherever\system from qtadb\app" in the top left bar).

13. It will take a while for it to copy to your computer.

14. When it finishes, go to the top left bar and change it to the second folder, "C:\wherever\system from qtadb\bin"

15. Click and drag "bin" from phone to computer following the steps you did for "app"

16. Repeat these steps going folder to folder and remembering to change the top left bar to the proper folder.

*NOTE: I tried copying all of /system to my computer at once, but it locked up qtadb, so this is why you need to go folder by folder.

*NOTE: You may have stray files under the folders in your /system. Copy these over to your computer as well.

Good luck!! Hope I helped! :good::D

EDIT FOR QTADB SYSTEM DUMP: You might not have to make all of the folders in your "C:\wherever\system from qtadb" You might be able to just drag all of the folders from /system on the phone side to C:\wherever\system from qtadb" directly, instead of each individual folder you created.

ANOTHER EDIT: YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO COPY "FONTS" OR "MEDIA" TO YOUR COMPUTER. (Although, I tried several times and had qtadb succeed in copying them over to my computer right before it crashed.) What you need to do is use the app "es file explorer" on your phone and go to /system/ and copy "fonts" and paste it into your sd card. From there, you can use mass storage option on your phone to be able to view your sd card on your computer. Here, you can copy "fonts" to your "system from qtadb" on your copmuter. Actually, you could probably copy your whole /system to your sd card and get it onto your computer using this method, but you might not be able to access all of the files on your system to be able to copy them to your sd card, even if it appears that you were able to do so.