Switching between multiple android phones

[bobby1927]

This is a topic that has always been on my mind. I am looking for a new phone and plan on trying out a few (used, affordable models). Is there a good method for switching back and forth between android phones? It might be a good video topic since I assume the staff have experience with it from phone reviews. 

[Mnky313]

10 hours ago, bobby1927 said:

This is a topic that has always been on my mind. I am looking for a new phone and plan on trying out a few (used, affordable models). Is there a good method for switching back and forth between android phones? It might be a good video topic since I assume the staff have experience with it from phone reviews. 

depends on the manufacturer, android has a built in backup and restore options but I haven't used it so idk how well it works.

If it's Samsung, smart switch works ok. it usually misses any documents I manually downloaded or put on the internal storage as well as usually missing a couple apps for some reason. But it's good enough to try out.

[OhioYJ]

Documents, music, pictures are easy enough to move using a computer or a cloud service if you choose. Google will backup some things. It's restoring apps and their data that rooting makes much easier (IMHO). Titanium Backup used to be the go to for this but, it hasn't been backed up for a while. I've found myself having to restore data for some apps manually when using Titanium Backup. I've recently switched to Swift Backup and so far have had better luck with that.