Migration of devices

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Hello,

if I migrate to a new phone, all apps from google play get automatically reinstalled (if I want that).

Is there a way to at least to export the apps of my old phone which are installed from fdroid and import them on the new phone?

Even better would be to migrate the data, but getting at least the apps reinstalled would be a good start :slight_smile:

Thanks
Rainer

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No, not yet :frowning:

Custom Android distributions have SeedVault which should do this.

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Use apps such as Neo Backup, AppManager, DataBackup etc if your devices are rooted.

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Maybe this will help you …
AppListBackup (Effortlessly create and manage backups of a list of your installed apps.)

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Thanks for the quick reply. LineageOS has Seedvault, but it never worked for me. Also I have not seen positive reports (at least for lineageos).

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modern versions of Seedvault work pretty well, especially with A15, there’s D2D mode now (so it backs up more data for most apps), integrity checking, deduplication of app backup data so the fact it backs up more isn’t as much of an issue and a bunch more
IMO it works pretty well, I use CalyxOS so it lands those changes pretty quickly, I’m still on A14 though, but I don’t have much to complain tbh.

If you’re using an older/unofficial version of LOS, your exp might vary

to me, the only apps that don’t get backed up are Signal, WhatsApp (which I don’t even use) and Element. For the first two, I just add their independent backup folders and for Element, well, that’s online.

Oh and Bitwarden but somewhat expected;

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I used Seedvault successfully on LineageOS to migrate to another device. But YMMV of course.

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It sounds like the solution is to search for “How to migrate “AppName” to new phone” instead of “how to migrate fdroid apps to new phone?”

For example, I am not looking forward to recreating my Revolution IRC config on a new phone, so I would really like to find a way to migrate it. But a search reveals no results. So it looks like I am forced to recreate my configs on the new phone. :confused:

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always use only apps that allow backup and restore (export & import, etc) :person_shrugging:

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