Because of my tweet series starting at [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on Twitter: “Migrating from an Android phone to a new Android phone is still a horrible experience. Most apps need you to re-authenticate. Few support password managers. Even fewer migrate settings well (like browser bookmarks and open tabs, launcher preferences, backup folders, etc)”
Since then I assisted a few other migrations as well, so below are the notes I made during the migrations.
First about migration apps:
- OPPO Clone Phone cannot be installed on either OnePlus 6 or OnePlus Nord 2 5G [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on Twitter: “One of the first Google Search results recommended OPPO Clone Phone. That fails to install on OnePlus devices.”
[Wayback/Archive] Search Detail: How To Use Clone Phone?
- The built in sync from Google takes forever (about 8 hours for some 200 applications while connected via 5GHz WiFi to a 100mbit fibre connection) and transfers hardly any application data
- OnePlus Clone Phone can only be installed *after* you have added a Google account, is very unclear about which settings it will overwrite, but is very fast to copy apps and data (less than half an hour for 50 gigabyte).
[Wayback/Archive] Clone Phone – OnePlus app – Apps on Google Play
Previously: [Wayback/Archive] OnePlus Switch – Apps on Google Play
- Helium initially failed on my OnePlus 6, but then suddenly functioned OK. Still a nuisance to use.
Application and settings notes after transfering data through OnePlus Clone Phone from migrating phones of multiple people:
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 