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My son cracked my fiances S4 so i purchased her a new one off CL. Its been a while since i toyed with the S4 so i was hoping someone could tell me the easiest way to transfer her old text messages from her old S4 to her new. With htc i use the htc transfer tool which basically allows you to transfer pictures, music, photos, videos, settings, bookmarks and messages all over wifi. I know the pics and music should be able to be sent via NFC. Can i send text with NFC? If not whats the easiest way
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bmoreboy02 said:
My son cracked my fiances S4 so i purchased her a new one off CL. Its been a while since i toyed with the S4 so i was hoping someone could tell me the easiest way to transfer her old text messages from her old S4 to her new. With htc i use the htc transfer tool which basically allows you to transfer pictures, music, photos, videos, settings, bookmarks and messages all over wifi. I know the pics and music should be able to be sent via NFC. Can i send text with NFC? If not whats the easiest way
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Try out Samsung app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sec.android.easyMover
I haven't used this, but the description seems to indicate that it will support messages
bmoreboy02 said:
My son cracked my fiances S4 so i purchased her a new one off CL. Its been a while since i toyed with the S4 so i was hoping someone could tell me the easiest way to transfer her old text messages from her old S4 to her new. With htc i use the htc transfer tool which basically allows you to transfer pictures, music, photos, videos, settings, bookmarks and messages all over wifi. I know the pics and music should be able to be sent via NFC. Can i send text with NFC? If not whats the easiest way
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Thanks! Will definitely give this a shot
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I use SMS Backup + for saving / restoring text messages when I am switching ROMS... Works pretty good. It creates a folder in you Gmail account and stores them there so you can read them on-line too if needed.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zegoggles.smssync
AzWizzard said:
I use SMS Backup + for saving / restoring text messages when I am switching ROMS... Works pretty good. It creates a folder in you Gmail account and stores them there so you can read them on-line too if needed.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zegoggles.smssync
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+1 for SMS Backup +. Works great and simple.
However
IF you Titanium BackupRoot Pro. That can backup and restore texts, mms, phone logs et. al.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore sms backup and restore. Go into settings and change the default storage from phone to sd card. It will not back up pictures or videos or audio. You should save any mms attachments and move them from the phone (where messaging program saves by default) to the sd card. Excellent program.
leaderbuilder said:
+1 for SMS Backup +. Works great and simple.
However
IF you Titanium BackupRoot Pro. That can backup and restore texts, mms, phone logs et. al.
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True, but for some reason I have had problems with TB when saving / restoring SMS messages.
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I use Helium, haven't looked at anything else since. I was impressed.
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I use MyBackUp to save and store old texts.
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Super Backup works for me.
My Backup Pro is excellent for sms, mms, etc.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rerware.android.MyBackupPro
My Note 5 isn't rooted because I didn't have an immediate need to do so knowing that I was most likely getting the OPT.
When I switched from my S6 Edge to Note 5, Samsung Smart Switch was great because it did all the setup for me with my multiple emails, which I normally hate doing because I have to re-login and waste time re-setting everything up.
Is there anything I can use to perform the same action going from Note 5 to OPT in transferring texts, pics, email settings, etc without Titanium?
I read that I could possibly still use Smart Switch to move from Note 5 to OPT, but wasn't sure if anyone else here had a better method?
Thanks in advance.
What about helium? Pretty good backup solution and can be used for transfers I think.
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apd said:
What about helium? Pretty good backup solution and can be used for transfers I think.
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Thanks, I read up on Helium, but I don't think it restores my email accounts like Smart Switch did for me. This is just me being lazy because I have multiple email accounts for multiple reasons and I always end up spending 30-45 minutes just re-logging in and redoing my emails settings.
Helium still the best way when considering my Note 4 is locked?
it did not work perfectly when I move from my Samsung s3 to the note but not sure if Helium is really my only option
I definitely want to move over my sms/mms
SMS's are synced to google I believe if you are using hangout.
For my backup restores I use Titanium backup, but remember that it'll only backup/restore system and apps settings and data and no personal data like images, sms, contacts etc. But if you have google backup setup transfer should be smooth for photos, sms, contacts etc.
Hey thanks. I used to use titanium but don't anymore since I thought it needed root to work properly?
I use hangout for sms. How can I be sure it gets transfered over?
And Google Backup?
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andy_d0 said:
Hey thanks. I used to use titanium but don't anymore since I thought it needed root to work properly?
I use hangout for sms. How can I be sure it gets transfered over?
And Google Backup?
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I think hangout syncs all your messages automatically to the cloud. I can say this as per my experience of before and after rooting my nexus 5 on android 6.0. For root I had to wipe clean my phone and after root, hangout automatically synced all old SMSs back to my nexus 5. So I think before wiping out you can try to install hangouts on some other device and sign in with same ID that you have on Note 4 and see if your messages appear on new device. I think that would be the best way to check.
Or else use an app like - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore
And by google backup I meant google account's sync service. If you use google photos, use backup option to move all photos to google and it'll be available on new device when you sign in with same account on new device using google photos. And all your contacts and other preferences are saved by google account so its matter of logging into the new device with same google account and checking how many things you were able to restore. For remaining like music and videos move them manually.
There is no easy way of moving everything to new android device in Android ecosystem unlike iOS where iTunes does everything for you (but again if you are jailbroken, even iTunes cannot sync everything).
I cant help with SMS/MMS, thats why Hangouts is great. BUT, I can help with the application data. I just pushed out a new version of my script, which, among other things, adds support for backup and restore of app data. Might help you out here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/development/tool-android-job-box-v1-00-t3233482
Titanium Backup is only way to transfer SMS without using Hangouts.
Will work between any Android versions and types as long as you use the XML SMS backup option.
Nekromantik said:
Titanium Backup is only way to transfer SMS without using Hangouts.
Will work between any Android versions and types as long as you use the XML SMS backup option.
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I thought helium transferred sms, just not mms?
OK guys. I'll try to see what happens when I load hangouts. I didn't realize it was backing up sms. I did use titanium back when I had my S3 rooted. That worked perfectly. Helium - yeah I lost mms
Chevycam - so it's just a tool that does adb backup? Works on any phone regardless of root status?
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I used ADB backup to transfer my data from my Nexus 6 to my 6P.
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I used ADB backup to transfer my data from my Nexus 6 to my 6P.
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How well did it work? Did you copy everything?
Backed up everything from my prior phone via Titanium Backup
Save to computer
Cut and paste onto the 6P
Restore.. although this time around, I restored only the apps and not the app data so I can start clean.
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How well did it work? Did you copy everything?
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Worked well.. Once I logged into the 6P, I let Google download all my apps. I then restored the backup, which restored most of my data. It did not seem to copy my Nova Launcher settings, so I had to copy that manually. It also does not copy Bluetooth connections, so you will have to set those up again. Overall, I was pretty happy with it. I didn't want to root the phone, so I didn't do a titanium backup.
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kgeissler said:
Worked well.. Once I logged into the 6P, I let Google download all my apps. I then restored the backup, which restored most of my data. It did not seem to copy my Nova Launcher settings, so I had to copy that manually. It also does not copy Bluetooth connections, so you will have to set those up again. Overall, I was pretty happy with it. I didn't want to root the phone, so I didn't do a titanium backup.
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Ouch. Certainly better than nothing but my Nova is huge with all my apps. I guess knowing this you can export/import the nova settings
andy_d0 said:
OK guys. I'll try to see what happens when I load hangouts. I didn't realize it was backing up sms. I did use titanium back when I had my S3 rooted. That worked perfectly. Helium - yeah I lost mms
Chevycam - so it's just a tool that does adb backup? Works on any phone regardless of root status?
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Yes, it's independent of the device connected. Root doesn't matter. But be aware, in order to back up APPS, you need root. Backing up the App DATA does NOT require root. Apps won't back up, even with Titanium Backup, without root.
So my experience...
1) Hangouts doesn't backup sms or at least it doesn't seem that it does. Used SMS Backup and Restore and that seems to have done the trick
2) I tried using Helium but I'm not sure what drivers to use so gave up on that
3) If Google is backing up app data in Lollipop, it has to be bare minimum. Honestly, I'm not sure what it actually did backup
4) I realized that I really don't need the backup besides SMS. It would have been easier to handle transferring stuff sure but there are only a handful of apps that I wanted to transfer settings over and they all had options to Export settings.
Oh well. Hopefully the new backup on Marshmallow will hopefully provide a better experience. It did ask while setting up the phone whether I want to do a restore through NFC from another phone - it just neglected to mention that it's not a Lollipop option
andy_d0 said:
So my experience...
1) Hangouts doesn't backup sms or at least it doesn't seem that it does. Used SMS Backup and Restore and that seems to have done the trick
2) I tried using Helium but I'm not sure what drivers to use so gave up on that
3) If Google is backing up app data in Lollipop, it has to be bare minimum. Honestly, I'm not sure what it actually did backup
4) I realized that I really don't need the backup besides SMS. It would have been easier to handle transferring stuff sure but there are only a handful of apps that I wanted to transfer settings over and they all had options to Export settings.
Oh well. Hopefully the new backup on Marshmallow will hopefully provide a better experience. It did ask while setting up the phone whether I want to do a restore through NFC from another phone - it just neglected to mention that it's not a Lollipop option
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Almost no apps use API 23 which is required for the new Google backup. Only choices are helium or adb backup
Hi guys, i have S7E and i dont recall backing up anything on the samsung cloud app, however its showing me a percentage of my backup storage i have used. See the image.
I wanted to know, if i removed the account, would it delete my current data on phone, i.e. contacts, messages etc? Or only the backed up contacts, messages etc? Im not sure because niether i recall backing it up or niether do i want to backup anything on samsung cloud.
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So no one on here uses Samsung cloud, who can shed some light??
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kuljit55 said:
So no one on here uses Samsung cloud, who can shed some light??
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I use Samsung Cloud but I find it fails more time than anything, for instance I've gone into the settings just to see the last time it successfully synced and it was last month, iirc that was when I did a manual sync.
I might not be correct here but from what I read about Samsung cloud is that it will not delete the data from your device just from the cloud, as it just syncs it.
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I've just read this on their FAQ page so looks like you'll be fine....
Hello all,
I'm having this really weird issue where after I recently wiped and freshly updated my Galaxy S7 Edge to Nougat, I started using Samsung's default messages app to see if I'd like it. Well long story short I decided to switch back to Google Messenger like I always do on every device I've owned, but when I install the app, and set it up. NONE of my SENT messages are imported to the app. Only the RECEIVED messages from my contacts. Every message I've sent to any and all of my contacts AND *some* messages received are just completely missing. I have no way of exporting the messages via the Samsung app to then import into google messenger, and I've tried using third-party apps and Samsung smart switch to backup the messages and then restore them, but they all only see and backup the received messages, and not the ones I sent.
This problem is only for the messages I've sent and received since the day I updated my phone and started using Samsung messages. Any conversations older than that, transfer successfully to google messenger.
I don't think Nougat or the update is the issue, but rather with something in samsung messages. I could really use some help! Thanks!
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http://imgur.com/a/QWg6f http://imgur.com/a/Y8DMT
rogvid700 said:
Hello all,
I'm having this really weird issue where after I recently wiped and freshly updated my Galaxy S7 Edge to Nougat, I started using Samsung's default messages app to see if I'd like it. Well long story short I decided to switch back to Google Messenger like I always do on every device I've owned, but when I install the app, and set it up. NONE of my SENT messages are imported to the app. Only the RECEIVED messages from my contacts. Every message I've sent to any and all of my contacts AND *some* messages received are just completely missing. I have no way of exporting the messages via the Samsung app to then import into google messenger, and I've tried using third-party apps and Samsung smart switch to backup the messages and then restore them, but they all only see and backup the received messages, and not the ones I sent.
This problem is only for the messages I've sent and received since the day I updated my phone and started using Samsung messages. Any conversations older than that, transfer successfully to google messenger.
I don't think Nougat or the update is the issue, but rather with something in samsung messages. I could really use some help! Thanks!
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http://imgur.com/a/QWg6f http://imgur.com/a/Y8DMT
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Anyone? I've had to post this in two separate places to no avail.
Same here but I'm trying to switch back to my Nexus 6p. I've had limited success with SMS Backup & Restore. Not all of the messages are pulled out of the stock Samsung messenger. It cannot transfer everything over. Did you ever find a solution?