Okay, so I broke my phone...screen cracked. My insurance sent me a new one, and what I really want to do is make my replacement a copy of what I have (settings, apps, data, everything, as if it were the same phone). I really don't know how to go about doing that, though, and I'm not really sure what to search for (everything I came up with didn't really seem right, and didn't come up with useful results).
So, what should I do?
Oh, both the broken phone and the replacement are Bionics.
Clone my phone to a new one
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LaurelRaven
, Jan 19 2013 10:40 PM
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Posted 19 January 2013 - 11:11 PM
Can you still use the old one? See stuff on the screen etc?
If so and your rooted titanium backup or a similar app can backup and restore your apps and data. I don't know 100% that will work to a different phone but it's worth a shot seeing as they are same model device.
Contacts, Google should have taken care of.
Internal sdcard you will have to move the stuff to the external one, use a PC or a file browser on the phone, then just put it in the new phone.
I hope this is somewhat useful to you
If so and your rooted titanium backup or a similar app can backup and restore your apps and data. I don't know 100% that will work to a different phone but it's worth a shot seeing as they are same model device.
Contacts, Google should have taken care of.
Internal sdcard you will have to move the stuff to the external one, use a PC or a file browser on the phone, then just put it in the new phone.
I hope this is somewhat useful to you
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Posted 20 January 2013 - 08:58 AM
I was thinking of that, but is there a more comprehensive way? Like, can i do a nandroid backup and restore that to the new phone? I'm not sure exactly how that works, so i don't know the limits of what it can do.
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Posted 20 January 2013 - 09:02 AM
Oh I hadn't thought of a nandroid backup. It's worth a shot, I don't think it would cause any damage, if it doesn't work of you have issues just fxz the new phone to stock again. Both bionics are on ics correct?
I'm not very knowledgeable on this subject so hopefully someone else chimes in
I'm not very knowledgeable on this subject so hopefully someone else chimes in
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Posted 20 January 2013 - 04:35 PM
Yes...if nothing else, if the new one isn't, I'll patch it to 246
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Posted 21 January 2013 - 06:12 AM
I did this when we bought my 3 boys Nexus 7's for Christmas. I got the first one where I wanted it with the apps and settings, made a nandroid backup, and then restored to the other two. It worked well. The only thing I did before restoring the backup was boot and change the "owner" name so we'd eventually be able to keep track of which tablet belonged to whom.
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Posted 22 January 2013 - 06:09 AM
Laurelraven, it looks so strange to see your name and a title of "noob"..
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Posted 22 January 2013 - 06:15 AM
I have personally used a safestrap backup between two bionics myself.
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Posted 22 January 2013 - 10:58 AM
Laurelraven, it looks so strange to see your name and a title of "noob"..
Tell me about it! I've just been too busy lately to post on this new forum.
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Posted 22 January 2013 - 11:05 AM
I did this when we bought my 3 boys Nexus 7's for Christmas. I got the first one where I wanted it with the apps and settings, made a nandroid backup, and then restored to the other two. It worked well. The only thing I did before restoring the backup was boot and change the "owner" name so we'd eventually be able to keep track of which tablet belonged to whom.
Good to know, though I'm concerned about what affect it will have with all of the carrier stuff involved. I'm going to give it a try...getting tired of using my phone with a broken screen.
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Posted 23 January 2013 - 08:32 PM
Okay, I did it. The nandroid backup, along with putting the SIM card in the replacement, made the whole thing go very smoothly (though I learned that I somehow lost root...)
It was almost eerie booting the new phone and having it be exactly as I remember my old one. Also nice. While I don't mind change, and if you saw my phone over the year and a half I've had it you'd know that's true, I don't like sudden drastic change.
I know...I'm a whiner. But I'm a whiner with my phone the way I like it!
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It was almost eerie booting the new phone and having it be exactly as I remember my old one. Also nice. While I don't mind change, and if you saw my phone over the year and a half I've had it you'd know that's true, I don't like sudden drastic change.
I know...I'm a whiner. But I'm a whiner with my phone the way I like it!
Sent from my Nexus 7
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