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Re: transfer to a new smartphone

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On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 14:18:14 +0100, Wendelin Uez wrote:
> 
> It's time to move to a new smartphone. I knwo when changing from one Android 
> smartphone to a newer one I can login to my Google account with the newer 
> smartphone and data are copied from backup to the new one.
> 
> Bit what exactly is copied? I have addtional apps installed having their own 
> data, f.e. WhatsApp, Firefox, Mail clients. Are these non-Google-apps and 
> their data also backuped and restored, or do I have to reinstall them 
> manually? 

My Samsung phone was stolen last month, so I had to follow the 
process you described on my new Pixel phone. I found that most of the 
non-Google apps did get restored. I can't remember which ones I had 
to download manually, but it was a small number. It wasn't a matter 
of downloading only the apps in Google's Play Store, because I had no 
apps on my old phone from any other source -- other than the Samsung 
ones that came preinstalled on that phone, and I didn't care about 
losing those.

YMMV, but for me getting everything re-established and setting all 
the settings on my new phone took only an afternoon, much less than I 
had feared. And because you'll still have access to the old phone, 
you won't have to spend time racking your brain to remember what is 
missing. :-)

-- 
Stan Brown, Tehachapi, California, USA         https://BrownMath.com/
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transfer to a new smartphone "Wendelin Uez" <wuez@online.de> - 2025-01-05 14:18 +0100
  Re: transfer to a new smartphone "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-05 15:17 +0100
  Re: transfer to a new smartphone Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2025-01-05 18:36 +0100
  Re: transfer to a new smartphone Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2025-01-05 11:11 -0800
  Re: transfer to a new smartphone The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2025-01-05 12:01 -0800
    Re: transfer to a new smartphone Gelato <gelato@.is.invalid> - 2025-01-09 10:41 -0500
  Re: transfer to a new smartphone "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-01-06 20:21 +0100

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