Migrating to a new Android phone

Murmansk

A friend of mine has ordered a new Motorola Moto G30 to replace her Moto G5 Plus and I'm going to organise the transfer of all her stuff to the new phone.

I looked online and found an app by Motorola called Motorola Migrate which looked like it would do the job but then on searching on Google Play and further research I found it had been discontinued years ago - why on earth there's a page on how to use it on Motorola's website I don't know!

Anyway, I know in theory you can do it all using Google but there are other migrate apps and I wondered what people thought about the best way to do this?

EssexExile

The wife just got a new Moto G8 to replace her G5, during the set up it asked if we wanted to move things over to the new phone. We said yes and it talked us through the process. It then said it had failed but when the phone came on all her apps were there.

Farway

EssexExile said:

The wife just got a new Moto G8 to replace her G5, during the set up it asked if we wanted to move things over to the new phone. We said yes and it talked us through the process. It then said it had failed but when the phone came on all her apps were there.

Much the same as above, except it worked first time. Moto to Redmi

Murmansk

Thanks for those replies, sounds encouraging, presumably these successes were as a result of Google rather than something app related or Moto related?

molerat

Can't remember whether Google or Moto but it just worked, not 100% perfect but copied most stuff across and just needed a bit of tidying up.

Murmansk

molerat said:

Can't remember whether Google or Moto but it just worked, not 100% perfect but copied most stuff across and just needed a bit of tidying up.

excellent thank you

Neil_Jones

Murmansk said:

A friend of mine has ordered a new Motorola Moto G30 to replace her Moto G5 Plus and I'm going to organise the transfer of all her stuff to the new phone.

I looked online and found an app by Motorola called Motorola Migrate which looked like it would do the job but then on searching on Google Play and further research I found it had been discontinued years ago - why on earth there's a page on how to use it on Motorola's website I don't know!

Anyway, I know in theory you can do it all using Google but there are other migrate apps and I wondered what people thought about the best way to do this?

Last time I transferred data to a new phone for my mum I didn't use any of that junk.  Just sign into the Google account, all the contacts come down, the photos were already backed up so what didn't come down from Google I just copied them back, installed Whatsapp, restore the backup it makes on its own, set up a couple of other things... It took longer to update the software on the phone than it did for me to do everything else.

J_B

From my experience a while ago.

Firstly, remember to back up your Whatsapp (if used) on the old phone, as I think (?) it only does it periodically by default.

I downloaded 'SMS back up and restore' from the play store and used that to back up all my SMS and call history, and it restored them to the new phone.

Google did the rest.