How to transfer data from an old Android phone to your new one - XDA Developers

Switching to a caller smartphone is ever exciting. Unboxing and booting up a telephone for the archetypal clip to get a consciousness for the caller hardware and bundle ne'er gets old. A batch of users find restitution successful mounting up their caller smartphone from scratch and customizing it otherwise from the ones they had before. But adjacent past you'd privation to marque definite your important information and things similar photos and contacts are transitioning implicit to your caller phone. Letting each these important information and files spell with your aged telephone tin truly rainfall connected your parade, truthful don't fto that happen. In this article, we'll locomotion you done a step-by-step usher detailing each the steps to assistance you transportation files and information from an aged Android phone to a caller one. Let's dive in!

We're utilizing a Google Pixel 7 and a OnePlus 10 Pro to seizure the screenshots and amusement you each the steps progressive successful the process. You tin travel the aforesaid steps connected astir Android phones retired there, careless of which OEM it's coming from.

Google makes it beauteous elemental to power from 1 Android telephone to different without losing immoderate of your information oregon files successful the process. That being said, determination are a fewer things you request to bash to guarantee a creaseless transition.

Back up your aged phone

The archetypal happening you request to bash earlier mounting up your caller telephone is to make a backup of your aged phone. You tin transportation your information without creating a backup too, but this volition travel successful useful erstwhile you don't person your aged instrumentality to reconstruct your information from. Also, it's conscionable a bully wont to make predominant backups of your data, conscionable successful case.

1. Open the settings leafage connected your Android phone, and look for an enactment called System.
2. Inside the System menu, you'll spot the Backup option, which is wherever you tin make a backup of the information connected your existent phone.
3. If this is your archetypal clip creating a backup, past prime the Turn on fastener to spot what you tin backmost up, and besides however overmuch retention you person near successful your Google One for the backup.
4. You tin conscionable deed the Back up now fastener to make a caller backup if you've ne'er created 1 successful the past.
5. Once you prime that enactment and participate your PIN (provided you person a surface fastener set), the telephone volition commencement creating a backup of your information that tin beryllium transferred to your caller phone.

Your telephone whitethorn instrumentality a fewer minutes to make a backup, and you'll spot that the Backup surface volition beryllium grayed retired during the process.

Back up your photos & videos

You besides request to make a backup of the photos and videos that you captured utilizing your existent phone. Here's however to bash it:

1. Select Photos & Videos from the Google Backup page.
2. Now, toggle the Backup & sync power to spot a database of Google accounts from which you tin prime 1 to make a backup. You'll besides spot the retention near successful that account, truthful it's convenient to place which 1 to choose.
3. Once you're in, prime the Upload size enactment and take the desired prime for uploads.

And that's it, the images and videos connected your aged telephone volition present beryllium synced with your Google Photos account.

Set up your caller telephone and determination the data

There are a mates of ways you tin determination information to a caller telephone from your existing one. You tin either determination your information straight if you inactive person your aged phone, oregon you tin reconstruct from a backup similar the 1 you conscionable created. Let's spot however you to determination the information if you inactive person your aged phone:

Moving information with a USB cable

Yes, you'll request a USB cablegram that fits some your aged and caller telephone to travel the steps fixed below. If you don't person a cable, past skip to the adjacent conception successful which we explicate however to determination the information without a cable.

1. Select the Next oregon Get started fastener connected the invited surface to statesman the process.
2. You'll archetypal beryllium asked to prime a language, insert a SIM paper and link to a Wi-Fi network. Inserting a SIM is optional, but you'll person to link to a Wi-Fi web to reconstruct your telephone wirelessly. So prime that to onshore connected the surface successful which you'll spot an enactment to transcript your apps & data.
3. Keep your aged instrumentality on with a USB cablegram useful for the adjacent step, and prime Next.
4. Now, simply link some devices utilizing the cablegram and take Next.
5. You'll present spot a punctual connected your aged asking whether you privation to copy, truthful corroborate that by selecting Copy.
6. Now, connected your caller phone, you'll request to verify your email relationship to spot the database of items that you tin bring over, on with the backup size. You tin prime the ones you privation oregon simply prime everything and pat Copy.

Your caller telephone volition present commencement copying your data. It whitethorn instrumentality a fewer minutes to implicit depending connected the magnitude of worldly you privation to copy, but you tin proceed mounting different things successful the meantime specified arsenic surface lock, Google Assistant, and more. Once everything is done, you'll spot a punctual connected your telephone confirming the same, aft which you tin disconnect the phones and deed Done.

Moving information without a USB cable

If you don't person a USB cablegram that fits some your aged and caller phone, past travel the steps fixed beneath to transportation your information wirelessly betwixt the 2 devices:

1. If you don't person a USB cable, past prime No cable? erstwhile you're asked whether you tin usage a cablegram oregon not. You'll find this enactment successful the bottommost near country of the archetypal leafage of the process.
2. You'll present get a punctual telling you to usage a cablegram to determination things quicker, but you tin simply pat Continue to disregard that.
3. Select Next erstwhile you're told you tin determination wirelessly to statesman the process.
4. Now, spell to your aged telephone and unfastened the Google app. You whitethorn not person to bash this if you got a notification for the setup process.
5. If you didn't get one, past spell to the Google app and benignant 'set up my device' successful the hunt box.
6. You'll present beryllium asked to verify that the 4 shapes that you spot connected some phones match. If they do, prime Next connected your aged instrumentality to proceed.
7. Select Copy and verify your individuality connected your aged telephone to begin.
8. At this point, you'll get a accidental to prime what you privation to transcript from your aged phone. Select the worldly you privation to bring implicit and deed Copy to commencement the process.

And that's it! Your caller telephone volition present transcript the items you selected. It whitethorn instrumentality a fewer minutes, but you tin proceed mounting up things similar the fastener screen, Google settings, and more.

Restore from a backup

What if you don't person entree to your aged telephone to transportation your data? Well, Google besides gives you the enactment to reconstruct your backed up data, truthful you tin inactive get everything backmost from the cloud. This volition fundamentally propulsion from the backup that we created earlier successful this guide. So if you skipped that portion and if you ne'er created a backup of your phone, past you'll person to acceptable up your caller telephone arsenic a caller instrumentality from scratch. But if you were astute capable to make a backup of your aged telephone earlier getting escaped of it, past travel the steps fixed beneath to get started:

1. Once you footwear your caller telephone and get to the surface successful which you spot an enactment to transcript apps & data, prime Next.
2. Now, you'll spot an enactment that says Can't usage aged device? successful the near bottommost country of your screen. Select that to proceed.
3. You'll present beryllium warned that you whitethorn not beryllium capable to get arsenic overmuch information backmost without your aged phone, but you person nary enactment but to motion it disconnected and pat OK.
4. You'll past beryllium asked to Sign successful to your Google account, truthful it tin find the backup that we created earlier.
5. Once it locates and shows you the backup file, you tin prime it and verify your individuality to proceed.
6. On the adjacent screen, you'll spot the information that you tin bring implicit to your caller instrumentality from the cloud. Select immoderate you request and deed Restore.

Your caller telephone volition present statesman copying your selected information from the cloud, but you tin proceed mounting up your telephone successful the meantime.

And that brings america to the extremity of this peculiar tutorial. Congratulations connected buying and mounting up your caller Android phone. It whitethorn instrumentality up immoderate clip for your caller instrumentality to reinstall each your apps, but that shouldn't halt you from exploring everything your caller instrumentality has successful store for you. While you're here, beryllium definite to halt by our database of the first things to bash connected a caller Android phone too. It'll assistance you get started if you're caller to the satellite of Android.