On Sun 03 Aug 2014 11:40:56 AM CDT, John Andersen wrote:
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On 8/3/2014 5:20 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Very true.
That is nothing new, all brands are and were the same. Even using the same brand, migrating from one model to another, specially if separated by 3 year old design, has always been difficult if not impossible.
The problem wasn't posed as a request to upgrade phones, the problem was posed as a method to backup to Linux.
Had we known it was for migrating from one phone to another we would have suggested other methods, none of which required backing up to Google.
For instance on both my wife's Moto X and my HTC One M8, there was a utility which used an app installed on the old phone to move all messages, images, videos, music as well as reinstalling all apps from their source (google or amazon), from the old phone to the new, via your local WIFI connection.
The only use of the Google account was to access the market for apps (free or purchased) and install them again on the new phone.
Hi The android adb app will backup apks etc. On my tablet with kitkat 4.4 I can do all that to a sd card by rebooting into backup mode, makes it nice and easy to keep all the data and do a restore, upgrade, rollback etc. -- Cheers Malcolm °¿° SUSE Knowledge Partner (Linux Counter #276890) openSUSE 13.1 (Bottle) (x86_64) 3.10.1 Kernel 3.11.10-17-desktop up 5:12, 3 users, load average: 0.12, 0.15, 0.14 CPU Intel® B840@1.9GHz | GPU Intel® Sandybridge Mobile -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org