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by sharts 248 days ago
How do backups/restores work when using LineageOS and moving to a new phone?
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matham 248 days ago
With Titanium Backup unmaintained, Neo Backup [1] works pretty well. It has some potential issues with restoring wifi/bluetooth/sms as those were still experimental, last I used it. But sms at least worked. I'd suggest a 2nd backup app of those, just in case.

[1] https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Backup

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neobrain 247 days ago
LineageOS includes Seedvault for backup and restore. It's not 100% reliably across devices apparently, but should typically work: https://github.com/seedvault-app/seedvault/discussions/331#d...

This requires both phones to use Seedvault though, so it's not an option when moving from the stock OS to LineageOS.

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baby_souffle 248 days ago
They're seamless. Any phone that allows you true `root` can do nandroid style backups which work very similar to how iOS does backups.
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