Change to new phone
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@moem That's a good news Moem. All I need do now is buy a suitable phone.
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@cliffcoggin Yes indeed!
Aren't you worried about the incompleteness of the Xperia X Compact, though? It's an inactive port, so it's rather unlikely to improve in the future. From the pretty feature-complete Nexus 5, that might feel like a step backwards.I have an Xperia X (not Compact) and it has better support, but that too is an inactive port. How future-proof it will turn out to be, I have no idea. Ah well, it was fairly priced.
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@moem My mistake. I meant to say Pixel 2 which Florian recently got working. I had Xperia X Compact in mind because it is a similar size.
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@cliffcoggin Ah, gotcha! Small-sized devices are few and far between... not that many options if that is what you are after.
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@keneda said in Change to new phone:
@cliffcoggin
You only have to move your sim to get your new phone usable with calling, sms and mms yes.
But all your datas from old phone stay on it, you have to export this on new phone and that's not an easy task on UT.These days I am a big fan of just syncing everything via adb onto my PC or Laptop and that works just fine with a lot of phones!
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@nero355 said in Change to new phone:
These days I am a big fan of just syncing everything via adb onto my PC or Laptop and that works just fine with a lot of phones!
I take the entirely opposite view and will synchronise nothing from one device to another. Any specific files I copy from one device to another is done only over a wired connection.
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@cliffcoggin
That's exactly what I do via ADB while the phone is connected via USB but some would call it sync stuff!
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@nero355 The difference is you mentioned synching everything: I synch only a few files.
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@cliffcoggin
I mainly use it for the DCIM stuff but sometimes for example some Downloaded files too -
I am using a Pixel 2, seems to be OK. The annoyance with any SONY phone is finding one with an unlocked bootloader, or a bootloader you can unlock. You can buy an "unlocked" phone, but all that means is it is not SIM locked. The SONY screens are really nice, but this annoyance with the bootloader has put me off.
I also import the contacts as a vcard file from my google account, saves a lot of messing about. You can do the same if you have an Apple account to import your contacts.
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@mrt10001 said in Change to new phone:
The annoyance with any SONY phone is finding one with an unlocked bootloader, or a bootloader you can unlock.
You can buy an "unlocked" phone, but all that means is it is not SIM locked.
The SONY screens are really nice, but this annoyance with the bootloader has put me off.I don't get it : Sony phones are THE phones for Jolla Sailfish and if you stick to those models then unlocking the bootloader in order to flash Ubuntu Touch shouldn't be an issue ?!
