Looking for an Android data migration tool (lemmy.world)

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I recently got a fairphone and I want to move my pictures, contacts, messages, etc. from my old android phone to the new one. My initial search found some apps that do this but they look like absolute privacy nightmares. What is a good way to accomplish this without handing my phone contents out like candy to whichever malevolent spyware developer?

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[-] peej@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 months ago

If you can't or choose not to use the Google provided backup solution, consider this https://www.openandroidbackup.me

Source code is here: https://github.com/mrrfv/open-android-backup

Companion app is available on F-Droid https://f-droid.org/packages/mrrfv.backup.companion/

Hope that's close to what you're looking for

this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2025

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