On 2016-09-12 05:55, Bill Filler wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 12:41 AM, James Dearing
> <mailto:deari...@lifetime.oregonstate.edu>> 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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