Re: Move Service to New Phone (?)

AJL wrote on Sun, 8 Sep 2024 15:54:10 -0000 (UTC) :

If I am moving to another phone, I absolutely want everything exactly
the same.

 
YMMV. When I change phones after 5+ years I will start from scratch to weed
 out and get rid of all that accumulated no longer used junk (seen and
 hiding) that has built up...

As others said, everyone has differing opinions, where what I do is
periodically save the homescreen setup to a file on the sd card.

That saves everything about the homescreen (folders, icons, shortcuts,
positions, names, icons, colors, shadows, etc.) to that single file.

Then, when I get a new phone, I simply pop in that SIM card and re-load
that file. No cable is needed. Every app icon is where it belongs.

I've done this so many times, it comes naturally to me; but I understaqnd
that most people don't come up with their own systems, so they're at the
mercy of whatever MARKETING has come up for them.

Having said that, MARKETING (both Google & Samsung), and hell, even Apple,
has come up with some pretty easy ways to bring over all your apps & data.