Mobile phone

Nov 08, 2020 Last reply: 5 years ago 48 Replies

I can't remember the process fully, and I'm not going to wipe my phone just to find out, but when I upgraded from Nexus5X to Pixel3 there was an option to transfer apps/data between them using a USB-C to USB-C cable, possibly initiated by tapping them back-to-back for NFC.

I don't know if this works on Samsung/Huwaei/OnePlus/etc phones, or just Google's own devices.

And you have Apple's word that it's all safe with them?

And in Google's databases, as you have given permission for them to use your information for sundry commercial purposes.

It really is worth getting My Phone Explorer. That gives you access to pretty well everything on your phone and allows you to back it up on your PC. And would give you the choice of what to transfer to another.

Nope, we know it is because they couldn?t even give it to the FBI when the FBI tried to f*ck them over using the US legal system and make them do that.

no proof it wasn't given to google or stolen by the chinese though

Yes, there is, the FBI would have gotten it from google instead of looking very stupid when they couldn?t make apple give them it.

Trivial to prove that with some bait entries that never escape.

For the server end orginally OwnCloud running on my server. Now using NextCloud but still on my server. Android phone/tablet uses DAVx5 (formerly DAVDroid).

Thanks - I'll have to have a look though I want to run the server side on my main machine (laptop). Currently I am using radicale both under Win10 and dual booted Linux with the data on a shared partition. It seems ok but there are idiosyncrasies and I don't know whether they are server software based, client based or Davx5 (using the FDroid rep).

Recurring tasks don't seem well handled but that might be the Open Tasks app on Android.

Makes me realise how well Microsoft Outlook (XP) and my Windows CE phone sync worked for all these (13+) yrs.

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