Google is working to improve its data transfer system between an old and a new Android smartphone. The procedure should be faster, here’s how.
If you knew the first Android smartphonesyou surely remember how changing your mobile quickly became a real headache when it came to transfer data from old to new. Some, such as SMS and MMS, required a dedicated application, and even then, only for “rooted” mobiles. Fortunately, those days are over. Finding your data on a new Android smartphone is now very easy.
There are generally 3 different methods, without taking into account those offered by certain manufacturers. The first consists of connect the two devices with a cable so that information passes from one to the other through the latter. The second does the same thing, but via a WIFI connection. Finally the third uses the backup that you have previously carried out on the service Google One. According to information found in the application Data Transfer Tool from Google, the procedure should be faster in the future.
Google speeds up the transfer of data from your old smartphone to the new one
Version 1.0.624892571 of the app has 2 new lines of codes clearly announcing the color. The first says “want to speed things up?” and the second “copying using a cable
and Wi-Fi for the fastest speed“. Clear, the two tools mentioned will be used together to speed up the transfer. For the moment, the supposed gain is not quantified, even approximately. But this is not the only new thing Google is working on.
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A new feature called “restore anytime” (literal translation of the English name, “restore anytime“) will allow, as its name suggests, to recover data from one old smartphone to another at any time. Currently, if you want to do this, you must first carry out a factory reset of the “receiver”. This will no longer be necessary and the copied data will be merged with that already present on the device. The general settings will not be transferred again to avoid problems.
Source: Android Authority