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[James Dearing <dearingj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2016-09-12 05:55, Bill Filler wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 12:41 AM, James Dearing
> <dearingj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto: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?

New Android. I had to quickly get a phone that supports American 3G/4G
radio frequencies, which my BQ Aquaris E5 doesn't. Still keeping my
Ubuntu phone for app development :)

> 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.

Good enough! Thanks.

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James Dearing
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