Hello,
I need some insights from Android users...
I was wondering...
WIth my iPhone, I have my iTunes full backup. If I upgrade my phone to a new one, I just connect my old phone to the Macbook, do a full backup, connect the new phone, do a full restore, and my new phone has everything there.
My contacts, SMS messages, Settings, Pictures, Camera Roll, Apps, App data like save games and progress on games, you get it.
How is it on android?
Suppose I have a Galaxy S4 I have been using for a few months. I have it set up, I have SMS messages on it, data, emails, I have 80% of angry birds complete, I have 2000 pictures on my camera roll, i have some MP3 music...
Then I upgrade to a Note 3. Is there a way to transfer all my data to the new android without losing it? Like I can on Apple?
Thanks for your insight.
Cheers!
gdourado said:
Hello,
I need some insights from Android users...
I was wondering...
WIth my iPhone, I have my iTunes full backup. If I upgrade my phone to a new one, I just connect my old phone to the Macbook, do a full backup, connect the new phone, do a full restore, and my new phone has everything there.
My contacts, SMS messages, Settings, Pictures, Camera Roll, Apps, App data like save games and progress on games, you get it.
How is it on android?
Suppose I have a Galaxy S4 I have been using for a few months. I have it set up, I have SMS messages on it, data, emails, I have 80% of angry birds complete, I have 2000 pictures on my camera roll, i have some MP3 music...
Then I upgrade to a Note 3. Is there a way to transfer all my data to the new android without losing it? Like I can on Apple?
Thanks for your insight.
Cheers!
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Download Rom toolbox from the store, when installed go to the Apps Admin module of Toolbox, then swipe to right and you will find the backup module; there try the backup phone data option and it will show you the different backup options it do, when it finishes, return to the main page of Apps Admin module, and press the menu key to show the preferences of the toolbox app, and there will show you the carpet in your phone where the backup is.
To restore it on the new phone you have to install the Toolbox app in it first, then check in which folder the backup is going to be stored, so you have to copy the folder of the old phone into that exact location of the new phone, so you can do a restore of it in Toolbox app. Sorry for my English but is not my first language, this is the best method I know, there could be others. cheers
gdourado said:
Hello,
I need some insights from Android users...
I was wondering...
WIth my iPhone, I have my iTunes full backup. If I upgrade my phone to a new one, I just connect my old phone to the Macbook, do a full backup, connect the new phone, do a full restore, and my new phone has everything there.
My contacts, SMS messages, Settings, Pictures, Camera Roll, Apps, App data like save games and progress on games, you get it.
How is it on android?
Suppose I have a Galaxy S4 I have been using for a few months. I have it set up, I have SMS messages on it, data, emails, I have 80% of angry birds complete, I have 2000 pictures on my camera roll, i have some MP3 music...
Then I upgrade to a Note 3. Is there a way to transfer all my data to the new android without losing it? Like I can on Apple?
Thanks for your insight.
Cheers!
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with the apps as he mentioned you can try rom tool box or any apps like that and for message contacts etc you can use kies for Samsung or softwares like that google
For contacts and email I have them on my Google account so they will automatically sync to the new device. For texts I use SMS Backup & Restore and back them up to my SD card. I keep pictures and music on my SD card so I just move the card over to the new device. But many devices don't have SD cards these days so you could just plug both phones into a computer and copy/paste files from the old phone over to the new one.
For app data you'll have to be rooted and I use Titanium backup. It can either backup to the SD card or sync to a cloud account.
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Hi, I just received my Samsung Galaxy S3 in the mail today. I was using HTC Desire HD before. I was wondering how do I transfer everything such as contacts, sms, picture, app and etc from my HTC Desire HD before reseting my Desire HD to factory settings (I wish to resell it). Please advise thanks. I never rooted and don't plan to root my phones =).
Titanium backup.
use the export xml feature to export your sms/mms, call logs, & wifi hotspot configs
use the app backup feature to backup all your apps (mainly the data), then moved the backed up files to your s3 and restore it from there.
use your phone app to export your contacts as a vcard then go to your s3 and import vcard.
Titanium backup is the best way but it might have a problem for some user
it requires root
so u might want to consider that before u plan on using it
Google for your contacts is a sensible start
Thanks for the replies. Do I have to root my GS3 too in order to backup everything from Desire HD to GS3?
slaphead20 said:
Google for your contacts is a sensible start
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Yeah, however, how does google understand which one is my main account once I have google account on both devices? Wouldn't it delete everything if I remove account on my Desire HD?
To get really really thorough backups, you need to root the DHD. But I bet you can manage without that. For instance, you can backup call logs and SMS with the "Call Log Backup & Restore" and "SMS Backup & Restore" apps on the android market. You'll need to backup, then install these apps on your new phone and copy the backups to the new phone, then use them to restore.
Your contacts should be part of your google account--you can check by logging into http://contacts.google.com and checking. If they're there, you don't need to worry about backing them up. They will exist on your new phone as soon as you enter your google account information while you're setting up the phone.
I'm not sure how to delete your account from your old phone, but that won't affect your new phone. Just don't delete your contacts--removing an account is not the same as changing the data that belongs to an account.
heartnet89 said:
Thanks for the replies. Do I have to root my GS3 too in order to backup everything from Desire HD to GS3?
Yeah, however, how does google understand which one is my main account once I have google account on both devices? Wouldn't it delete everything if I remove account on my Desire HD?
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I makes no odds, the contacts are stored in the cloud! I have two phones, regularly mess with my old S1, if you wipe it you are only wiping the on phone storage, unless you actually delete a contact through contacts on the phone nothing will get deleted from g cloud!
i would suggest you root the dhd so you can use titanium to pull data for you apps as well so any games and apps that you have can easily have their data restored.
and it's also a great app that handles nearly all your backup needs.
root is nothing scary.. it just means you can allow certain programs to access settings that require admin status.
Some answers are just...... Ehhh nvm
Contacts should be stored on your default Gmail account go to settings.... Accounts check which one of our account is syncing contacts
SMS simple answer. SMS backup and restore
Pictures well that should be on your SD card that came with the phone. Same with any other media
Now app data... Without root in think you can forget it. What I normally do is to make a nandroid backup and if need to move this to another phone I use app extractor and restore certain apps I need
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sms back up and restore doesn't seem to do mms for me.. maybe i botched something. titanium though, stores it in xml form and can do all the necessary import and export as needed. why get a separate app if titanium is about as close to a one stop shop as it gets for android users...
and really... if you're on xda, why aren't you rooting your phone and enjoying one of thr biggest reason to be here (for me atleast) : to flash different roms that will suite your needs/wants.
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I moved over from my desire s without root. It was a bit of a faff but ok I the end.
My apps all restored from the market. The other apps that needed side loading were installed using app saver on my DS and copying the files onto external SD.
I restored my sms with sms backup and restore (I don't use mms as I just e-mail), which was fine.
Contacts were saved to my Google account so downloaded automatically. I think you can export contacts from stock app if you want to do it that way, or use something in the market.
Finally I used angry birds backup to restore my progress.
Hope this helps. I do agree with above though, it will be a lot easier with titanium backup provided you are rooted, but if you have to root and don't mind losing all your app data then it may not be any faster.
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Sad to say, I find iOS comfortable, and have done since the first iPhone.
I digressed with an Galaxy S3 for a couple of months, but then it was not for me.
No I´m tempted by the Sonys Xperia Z1, as it features some of the things I loved about my old Sony Ericcson K800. Dedicated camera button, superior camera, and the remote headset option, witch I loved in its time. The gourgeous IPS screen and waterproofing also is a killer, and the more simple UI compared to touchwiz is tempting.
But heres my concern:
On the iPhone, iCloud gives me wireless automatic backup of my deice. Absolutely no stress to restore it. iCloud provides automatic syncronizing of my contacts, my notes(use this one alot) and calendar between devices (mac, ipad and iphone). iCloud also gives me an option to locate my phone by gps if lost. I have a friend who left her phone on the roof of her car, and drove away. iCloud led her back to an almost unharmed phone.
Lots of things are **** about the Apple limitations, but those things mentioned above are golden for me, therefore:
Were are Android at this stage?
1 - At wireless automatic backup and restore?
2 - At wireless automatic syncing of notes, calendar and contacts?
Are there integrated solutions, or do you put together your own solution by picking from different providers?
Android users views and comments about this are much appreciated.
Google automatically backs up contacts, if you login to your google account on your device. And dropbox is very good cloud service, so add your media to there.
try the new Copy.com cloud, they offer 15GB on sign-up + a stunning 5GB for every referral, i already got like 700+ GB free cloud space, they offer apps for every platform out there.
monkeywithbanana said:
Google automatically backs up contacts, if you login to your google account on your device. And dropbox is very good cloud service, so add your media to there.
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Oh..thanks. Yes of course google does the contacts and calender. I´ve been away too long
But how about the notes? Do you Android folks have a note app you sync with your computer and other devices?
Evernote is an app for that.
monkeywithbanana said:
Evernote is an app for that.
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Thanks alot. Evernote looks totally rad, and far beyond anything else I´ve ever used.
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jrrasch said:
Sad to say, I find iOS comfortable, and have done since the first iPhone.
I digressed with an Galaxy S3 for a couple of months, but then it was not for me.
No I´m tempted by the Sonys Xperia Z1, as it features some of the things I loved about my old Sony Ericcson K800. Dedicated camera button, superior camera, and the remote headset option, witch I loved in its time. The gourgeous IPS screen and waterproofing also is a killer, and the more simple UI compared to touchwiz is tempting.
But heres my concern:
On the iPhone, iCloud gives me wireless automatic backup of my deice. Absolutely no stress to restore it. iCloud provides automatic syncronizing of my contacts, my notes(use this one alot) and calendar between devices (mac, ipad and iphone). iCloud also gives me an option to locate my phone by gps if lost. I have a friend who left her phone on the roof of her car, and drove away. iCloud led her back to an almost unharmed phone.
Lots of things are **** about the Apple limitations, but those things mentioned above are golden for me, therefore:
Were are Android at this stage?
1 - At wireless automatic backup and restore?
2 - At wireless automatic syncing of notes, calendar and contacts?
Are there integrated solutions, or do you put together your own solution by picking from different providers?
Android users views and comments about this are much appreciated.
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Well, contacts, calendar, documents (google docs - if your wise) , pictures (google+ or FB), music (google music), wallpaper and system settings are auto backed up to gmail. Nothing to do EVER, and nothing to BUY either!
Need more? OK. Go SMS which destroys all other SMS clients anyway will backup sms to sd card, google drive, dropbox, or their own server free.
Apps -- auto synced to play store or many 3rd party apps (no root needed).
So what's missing????
No need to perform a backup or restore either! When you sign into your google account on phone setup - it just does it . Thats all.
Oh, and since you can actually look at your phones files you can just copy and paste.
Suggested apps to look into
Go SMS, Go Backup, Helium, G Drive, Google+, Astro, ES File Explorer, etc etc
garvus said:
Well, contacts, calendar, documents (google docs - if your wise) , pictures (google+ or FB), music (google music), wallpaper and system settings are auto backed up to gmail. Nothing to do EVER, and nothing to BUY either!
Need more? OK. Go SMS which destroys all other SMS clients anyway will backup sms to sd card, google drive, dropbox, or their own server free.
Apps -- auto synced to play store or many 3rd party apps (no root needed).
So what's missing????
No need to perform a backup or restore either! When you sign into your google account on phone setup - it just does it . Thats all.
Oh, and since you can actually look at your phones files you can just copy and paste.
Suggested apps to look into
Go SMS, Go Backup, Helium, G Drive, Google+, Astro, ES File Explorer, etc etc
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Okay , why doesn't Google provide a global back up of the phone ? it's really frustrating that we have to use third party apps to back up things separately, why sin't contact and SMS back up supported and built in the android system, even media, this is really a hassle and clutters my phone every time i am migrating to a new device, i hope the day comes where back up is unified in one single option!
redland226 said:
Okay , why doesn't Google provide a global back up of the phone ? it's really frustrating that we have to use third party apps to back up things separately, why sin't contact and SMS back up supported and built in the android system, even media, this is really a hassle and clutters my phone every time i am migrating to a new device, i hope the day comes where back up is unified in one single option!
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For SMS that is due to the different ways each OEM sets up the SMS databases. If you restore the data base from sense to a touch wiz rom you will have issues. With Apple you only have one os. With Android each device has its own distro of the os and works very differently.
I've been using whatsapp on a samsung gs5. I'm in the process of moving over to a samsung gs7. (I have already registered the new sim card.) I backed up whatsapp on the old phone using google drive. The backup completed without any error. Then I opened whatsapp on the new phone and verified the number. I understood whatsapp was supposed to automatically restore the chats and media from google drive, but that didn't happen. Whatsapp created a new database and I started receiving messages right away. I copied the entire whatsapp folder off the old phone, backed up the new folder and moved the old folder into place. Whatsapp did not load it. None of the chats or media were visible. I was going to deinstall and reinstall whatsapp, but it's pre-installed on my phone so I can't do that. Is there a way to restore the chats and media from the old phone onto the new phone, preferably preserving the new chats and media? I emailed whatsapp support, but they take forever to respond so I'm trying here.
I've done it many times without any problem.
I've done it both ways, using Drive backup and copying folders across manually.
Easiest way is to just copy the whole WhatsApp folder across to the new device BEFORE you install WhatsApp.
So maybe you could uninstall the app, copy the folder across from your old device, then reinstall it.
the_scotsman said:
I've done it many times without any problem.
I've done it both ways, using Drive backup and copying folders across manually.
Easiest way is to just copy the whole WhatsApp folder across to the new device BEFORE you install WhatsApp.
So maybe you could uninstall the app, copy the folder across from your old device, then reinstall it.
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Thanks for the reply. Whatsapp was preinstalled on my phone. I can't uninstall / reinstall it. Before I started whatsapp on the new device for the first time, I backed up the old device to google drive. When I started it on the new device, it sent a verification sms and started, but it did not restore from google drive. I immediately started receiving new messages. So now I have the old device with two years of chats and media. I tried moving the entire whatsapp folder onto the new device, but it did not load. I don't know how to restore the previous chats and media and I also don't know how to preserve the new chats and media.
bimmerdriver said:
Thanks for the reply. Whatsapp was preinstalled on my phone. I can't uninstall / reinstall it. Before I started whatsapp on the new device for the first time, I backed up the old device to google drive. When I started it on the new device, it sent a verification sms and started, but it did not restore from google drive. I immediately started receiving new messages. So now I have the old device with two years of chats and media. I tried moving the entire whatsapp folder onto the new device, but it did not load. I don't know how to restore the previous chats and media and I also don't know how to preserve the new chats and media.
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Are you sure that you can't uninstall WhatsApp?
When you have your Google Account configured and you start WhatsApp for the first time it asks you for a restore.
lordhow said:
Are you sure that you can't uninstall WhatsApp?
When you have your Google Account configured and you start WhatsApp for the first time it asks you for a restore.
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I can disable and force stop, but not uninstall. As far as I know google drive was operational, but when I started whatsapp for the first time, it did not offer to restore. There is no option anywhere I can see to restore. For an app with such high usage, the developers seem to be pretty brain-dead about some obvious functionality.
bimmerdriver said:
I can disable and force stop, but not uninstall. As far as I know google drive was operational, but when I started whatsapp for the first time, it did not offer to restore. There is no option anywhere I can see to restore. For an app with such high usage, the developers seem to be pretty brain-dead about some obvious functionality.
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Have you considered to root your phone and uninstall WhatsApp? Is the first time that I see WhatsApp is pre-installed. Even so, you have all the reason, should be an option to restore instantly.
lordhow said:
Have you considered to root your phone and uninstall WhatsApp? Is the first time that I see WhatsApp is pre-installed. Even so, you have all the reason, should be an option to restore instantly.
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Thanks for the reply. I'd love to root my phone, but I can't. It's a company phone and the intranet software we are using would not run on a rooted phone. Not sure if it's Samsung or Bell Mobility that pre-installed what's app, but it's not possible to uninstall it.
I finally received a response from whatsapp support. There is no way to restore the chats and media from before the account was transferred to the new device, at least not without losing everything since. What a f*cking brain-damaged feature. Thanks for nothing, whatsapp support.
bimmerdriver said:
I finally received a response from whatsapp support. There is no way to restore the chats and media from before the account was transferred to the new device, at least not without losing everything since. What a f*cking brain-damaged feature. Thanks for nothing, whatsapp support.
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And now you now why most people stopped using it. Well at least in the states.
Hey folks, I'm having trouble restoring all files to my new phone. I would have thought Android would be able to do this much easier. If I could, I'd love to just input my Google account password into a new phone, wait for syncing and then it would be like using the same home screen, same apps with all the same data and settings, but I've tried 3 methods so far and when I'm opening apps on the new phone, it still looks like I'm opening them for the first time ;(
I'm going from a Z3 Compact to a S7 Galaxy Active
On set up I did the NFC back to back which transferred all my Google account info and maybe some other info, but not my app data
I then installed Samsung Smart Switch, and this appeared to transfer some (not all) call logs and sms messages, but no data from WhatsApp or Shazam etc.
I then tried Helium and I see the list of disallowed apps is almost longer than the list of allowed apps, so don't see any point doing it this way either ;(
Is there any way to just almost CLONE the system you used and use it on the new phone? All settings and data the same? Is this possible at all?
Any feedback would be great
I've tried so many apps I'm losing track... basically everything in google store that has "sms" and "backup" in the title. I have a non-rooted S7 edge that I'm trying to move everything off to an LG v30. When I do a backup of SMS, either to SD card or to Google drive, if I look at the XML file, all the messages are there, but after the restore, I only get a few threads from 2017?? I'm completely stumped.
I believe you can use your Samsung account to backup all of your text messages....................that way you can restore at a later time. I do a backup of mine about every other week just in case something happens to my phone.