Re: Move Service to New Phone (?)

On 2024-09-08 11:25, Arno Welzel wrote:

Jörg Lorenz, 2024-09-04 07:13:
 

Am 04.09.24 um 03:57 schrieb Carlos E.R.:

On 2024-09-03 23:00, croy wrote:

If I get another phone of the same make and model (in this case a Moto g5
Plus), can I just move the SIM card to the new phone and continue on?

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Not as simple as move the SIM card. Yes, phone service will just work,
but that's about it. Your apps and your data (apps, messages, photos,
etc) has to be copied as well.

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Nonsense. That is all in the Google Cloud. He has just to login into the
Google account.

 Not all apps will be backed up in the Google Cloud.
 First of all you have to enable backup at all - in "vanilla" Android
(e.g. on a Pixel device) you find this here:
 Settings - System - Backup
 There you can enable "Backup by Google One" which will backup *most*
apps and their data, but *not* everything! You can also select what
should be backed up.
 Why do not all apps get backed up?
 Some apps - for example banking apps - store login credentials in the
secure storage of the device which can not be backed up and restored to
another device for security reasons. Also some apps do not allow to
backup their data since it may be protected using DRM or is paid content
which must not be transferred to any other device but only be downloaded
using the official sources.
 So eventhough many apps and settings can be restored on another Android
device using Google backp, you still may have to set up individual apps
manually.

And some apps have their own backup method, like whatsapp, which stores the backup on the google account, separately.
What I don't know is if transferring usage phone to phone using the usb-c cable bypasses the need of the backup on google for whatsapp.
The whatsapp backup is normally incomplete, it does not include videos (and I'm unsure about photos). There is a separate tick mark.
I had to disable video backup because it then takes too long and fails. I also had to disable encrypted backup.
If cable transfer bypasses the need for using the backup, that would be very welcomed.
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Cheers, Carlos.