New Cell Phone?

[Boomyal]

When you get a new cell phone is there a way to copy all the aps from your old phone to your new one? Seems like it would be pretty tedious if you can't.

 

[jbcurt00]

On android its share or something and you just put the phones together and it copies content: files, pix, apps, contacts etc

 

[keith2k455]

Android should do all your contacts via sync I think. Sign into your Gmail account and contacts and apps should transfer. You may have to intervene to have pictures and video done.

Know that this will use data. I think there's also a way to do this with your pc which would also back everything up.

 

[dingbat]

I just backed up my old phone (Iphone 5s) to the cloud then restored the backup to the new phone.

 

[bruceb58]

Android or iOs will already know what apps that are currently loaded and will automatically download into the new phone. No need to do additional backup.

If you have an iPhone just sync it with iTunes first.

If you have an Android, make sure you use the Google Photos App and your pictures will already be backed up to the cloud.

 

[JASinIL2006]

Really easy on an iPhone. Been too long since my Droid... I don't recall how it worked on that platform.

 

[gm280]

WOW, you guys certainly make me feel so old. I still use an old flip phone and seldom at that too. In fact I've easily had that flip phone for over tens years, and I bet I don't have twenty hours total time on it yet either. Only carry it for emergencies. :facepalm:

For grins, if I were to upgrade to one of the latest smart phones, which one would be the better? My wife uses a Droid, but I haven't upgrades to anything, obviously. Just wondering. :noidea:

 

[southkogs]

For grins, if I were to upgrade to one of the latest smart phones, which one would be the better?

That's gonna' be an oil thread

IMHO, Apple led the way and has some of the better and more user friendly mobile stuff out there. I generally buy used Apple equipment (for home - for work we buy new) and can make it run very well for a long time. I don't care for the Android OS, but it has gotten much better than it started out and I think Samsung is making some very good products. If you can get into a Samsung Galaxy, those seem to be very good.

 

[JASinIL2006]

It really comes down to personal preference. I used both Android smartphones and I have owned several generations of iPhones. For Android, there is a lot more choice in the hardware available to you. I really came to hate the Android OS, though. Many apps seemed to have drastically different ways of accomplishing similar things (e.g., making changes to various settings) and I found the interface to be rather sluggish and non-responsive. It also seemed to crash with some regularity. Android has matured as a platform since then, so I don't know how much the performance issues have changed. I was helping my mom navigate an Android over the holidays, and it still seems to have rather convoluted and confusing ways to use the apps themselves. Apple IOS is easier to use, I think, and conventions are much more similar across applications. The OS is pretty solid, although I think recent versions are a little laggier than in the past (seems to have been worsened when they added the touch-pressure sensitivity feature for the newest iPhone).

The iPhone isn't perfect, but I can't see myself going back to Androids, but again, much of that is just personal preference. I know a lot of Android users that are perfectly happy with their phones.

 

[keith2k455]

Yep, oil type of a thread.

I would go android myself. I love the os and interface. They all do the same things though.

Although I have a Samsung Galaxy, I wouldn't get one unless you like to leave your phone on tables. Get an htc or Droid imo.when my edge plan is paid low enough the Samsung is getting replaced by an htc. I had an htc before this phone and miss it every day.

 

[Limited-Time]

Based on what phone you are moving to it may be painless or a real PITA. When I upgraded from an ip5 to the ip6 it was a mini nightmare.Although I had/have an itunes account, the version I was running, (which was needed to transfer all the phone data) was not compatible with the latest ios the new phone contained. In crapples infinite wisdom they decided backwards compatibility was not necessary in itunes. Then to top things off the itunes upgrade needed to establish the new phone was no longer compatible with the OS on my computer. Long story short I had to borrow a computer with a newer OS down load my itunes account to that computer then upgrade to the latest itunes before I could sync my new phone with the original. There in lies the PITA part.

 

[gm280]

First thing I'd like to do is apologize to Boomyal. I certainly didn't mean to hi-jack his thread and therefore accept my apologies. I guess I really should have started my own thread with my question. So if the power at be wants to move this to its own thread, I have no objections. Again my apologies.

Those of you that are responding and have responded, keep in mind, I have an archaic flip-phone (Samsung) with zero apps or other abilities, that even the Verizon folks couldn't believed was still in existence. So anything I move up to, will be totally new to me.

 

[bruceb58]

I have had both platforms, Android and iOS. They are both good with some doing things better than others. Don't get sucked into the Team Android and Team Apple arguments. Right now I have a Samsung S6 but I would have chosen the iPhone if it had wireless charging. I like being able to plop my phone on a charging puck at home or at work.

 

[MTboatguy]

I moved from my flip to a windows phone a little over a year ago and have been happy with it, it does what I need, makes phone calls, cost me $40.00 and I charge it with $10 bucks a month to keep it active, I don't really play with any of the other features on it.

 

[bruceb58]

I forgot about the windows phone. Will be interesting to see if MS finally drops the Windows phone this year.

I use my phone to deposit all my checks for my bank accounts. Neither of my banks/Credit Unions have apps supported by the windows phone.

 

[southkogs]

First thing I'd like to do is apologize to Boomyal. I certainly didn't mean to hi-jack his thread and therefore accept my apologies.

Me too Boomer ... I got into the question and never realized this was your transfer topic?!? Thanks for doing my job better'n me GM!

GM if you wanna' start a new topic, I'll leave this one sit as is. In the mean time :focus:

 

[bruceb58]

Would be nice to know what type of phone Boomyal has. Knowing Boomyal, it's probably a few generations old!

I had a Nexus 5 Android phone that just died one day and wouldn't reboot. When I bought my new Samsung Android phone, all the Apps that I had loaded automatically loaded into the phone. I actually spent more time removing a few apps that I didn't want anymore and organizing everything.

 

[tlombard]

I have been with Android since the first phone back in October of 2008 and find it perfect for me. One frustrating thing though is the manufacturers of the phones all like to hide or replace built in Android functionality with their own apps that just aren't as good most of the time and even make the phone worse others.

The reason I mention this is that I just recently switched from a Motorola phone to the Nexus 5X with pure Android and the first thing that happened when I turned the phone on was a box popped up offering to transfer everything and set up the new phone from my old one. I simply turned on Bluetooth on both phones and the built in Android functionality transferred my passwords for all my accounts, installed the apps, pictures, background, files, literally EVERYTHING I needed on its own. It even set up the home screens and widgets just like I had them on the other phone. My previous Motorola phone hid that feature and directed me to their app which wasn't nearly as good which is extremely infuriating now that I know what I was missing out on!

And as an aside, part of the reason I switched to the Nexus 5X is so that I could use Project Fi. If you aren't a data hog, it is GREAT. I'm almost done with my third month and my phone bill is going to be under $30 again. I'm averaging a little over $25/month after taxes. Project Fi is Google's experimental phone service that starts at $20/month for unlimited voice and text. From there you choose how much data you want per month at $10/GB. If you don't use your data, they credit you the difference on your next bill. If you go over, they bill you for only you went over at that same rate. Plus they actively try to save you money by using any wifi network that the phone can get on and is trusted by Google. In my experience, the phone has used networks that I never knew existed without me even knowing it. I just happened to look down at my phone during a company dinner one night and saw a symbol that it had found a network at the restaurant and was using that instead of my data! When you don't have wifi available the phone will use either Sprint or T-Mobile's network, which ever one has the best signal at the moment.

The only downside is that you have to use one of three phones currently, the Nexus 5, Nexus 5X or Nexus 6P and you have to pay for the phone up front. I was able to get my 5X for $380. They are all great phones though and have pure Android with guarantees to immediately get new versions of Android within days of release unlike other phones with manufacturer skins on them.

 

[bruceb58]

tlombard Hope you have better luck with your Nexus 5X than I did with my Nexus 5. After mine failed and hearing about all the other people that had the same failure as mine, I would never buy a LG made phone again. LG and Google would do nothing to help me and my phone was one month out of warranty.

I liked having pure Android but mine and other's LG experience soured me on them.

Also, there is a downside to having the pure Android. In my experience, getting the newest Android OS when it first comes out like it does with the Nexus is a difficult experience as you become a beta tester. My suggestion...wait a long time to update when a new version of the OS comes out.

As much as I wanted to use Google FI, I will wait until other phones can use it or Google uses a different phone vendor for their Nexus. Also, too bad they got rid of wireless charging on the Nexus 5X and apparently they didn't fix the battery life issue.

 

[thumpar]

I had the first Droid. It worked for me until I started to have to do a factory reset on a daily basis after it was only a little over a year old. I went to a Droid 2 that I had to buy outright. It served me the rest of the contract. Then I went to the Galaxy S2. It was a POS. I finally threw it hard enough it didn't work anymore. The HTC came next and the screen kept failing and it flew too. I got an iPhone 4 and loved it. Then went to the 5s and now a 6s. When upgrading all you do it restore in itunes or icloud.

I am a computer tech and don't like to have to work on my own stuff. The iPhone just works and connects to both my truck and boat stereo with full control from the deck.

As for Windows phone there is just not enough support for it. One of my customers is a credit union. When they were having their web app developed the opted out of making one for Windows phone because they didn't know a single person with one. The only thing I will give them credit for is the exchange support.