ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Bill Filler <bill.filler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 12:41 AM, James Dearing <
dearingj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hey guys-
> I have two somewhat related questions:
>
> 1- I am about to switch to a different phone. How can I ensure that my
> contacts and text messages are stored on my SIM card? The Contacts app
> has an "Import from SIM" ability, implying that it does not store them
> on the SIM by default.
>

Are you switching to another ubuntu phone or different?
You can export your contacts to a vcard file and share this. Select all
your contacts and press Share action on the header. This will create a
vcard file containing all of your contacts and you can share to File
Manager or Mail or Messaging.

Text messages are stored in ~/.local/share/history-service directory, so
you can copy that directory manually somewhere and restore it on your new
phone.


>
> 2- I'd also like to backup my data to a computer. What's the easiest
> (preferably automatic) way to do this?
>

There is no automatic way currently, although I've seen people on this list
discuss scripts that have been written. You'd want to copy over files/dirs
in /home/phablet and then restore them on your new phone. You can use adb
or scp or mpt to do this.


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