How do I transfer from one Android phone to another?
When you turn on your new phone, you’ll eventually be asked if you want to bring your data over to the new phone, and where from. Tap “A Backup from an Android Phone,” and you’ll be told to open the Google app on the other phone. Go to your old phone, launch the Google app, and tell it to set up your device.
What do I need to transfer to a new phone?
How to transfer from Android to Android
- sign in to your Google account on your existing phone – or create one if you don’t already have one.
- back up your data if you haven’t already.
- turn on your new phone and tap start.
- when you get the option, select “copy apps and data from your old phone”
Is the ADB backup and restore app data working?
While testing ADB backup on other applications (thank you @Robert for the helpful suggestion), I managed to figure out that ADB backup was working the entire time — it was ADB restore that wasn’t working. So the 17KB .sol output was the correct one (it’s obfuscated when directly opened so I couldn’t tell the difference directly).
Is there a deprecation warning for ADB restore?
A commit in AOSP is titled “Add deprecation warning to adb backup/restore.” A warning will be shown whenever the user runs the tool in the latest ADB tools release telling them that the feature might not stick around. This would be a bummer for people who rely on this non-root solution for better backups.
Can a Google backup be restored to an emulator?
As the Google Backup method states it needs to be restored onto a device of equivalent OS version or higher, one option I had thought of was restoring onto an emulator running Oreo 8.0, and from there enabling root to extract the data I needed.
Can a smart switch backup to external storage?
Smart Switch does offer a backup “to external storage” option, but even though I have encryption disabled on both my device as well as the Smart Switch backup settings the backup still results in an .enc container, which I’ve not been able to find a way to decompress or extract from (see below for further on this).