The Android moving migraine
First things first, credit where credit’s due: Moving to a new Android phone has gotten a lot easier over the years.
‘Twas a time when setting up a new Android device required all manners of hoop-jumping, with virtually no systems in place to help with any of the heavy lifting. These days, Google’s got all sorts of systems in place to make the act of backing up and restoring important stuff relatively simple and painless, and for the most part, there isn’t a heck of a lot you have to do.
There is, however, one exception — and that’s messaging. For whatever reason, migrating your messages from one Android device to another often seems to go akimbo and fail to properly bring all of your conversations over intact. Or, sometimes, even when it does work right off the bat, a situation arises where you need to repeat the migration a little later — maybe, say, if you set up a new device but don’t actually switch your SIM over to it and start using it right away, so then you want to move your messages over anew some days later when you are ready to fully make the change.
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