Is there an application or method with like ADB or something that can easily make backups of my apps to transfer to another phone? i dont care about configs or having to login again, but reinstalling everything is a major bother.
Bonus points if it applies my home screen and QS-Tile Layouts. But thats just a nice to have.
Old Phone: Google Pixel 6a (Lineage OS, Magisk root)
New Phone: Google Pixel 8 Pro (Lineage OS, Magisk root)
I’ve used
adb shell pm list packagesto get a list of installed packages and https://github.com/mvdan/fdroidcl to install the ones available of fdroid.
That said, look into Obtanium, too.
It’s not open source, but Swift Backup can backup your app data with adb access via shizuku to a folder on your device that you can copy to another device
*Not all of the app data, only the app data in the internal user-accessible storage. The data in the /data partition will not be backed up. Most app settings are stored in /data.
If you have root it can back up the /data too, but not many phones support root access these days.
Apps and more (sms, wifi networks, bluetooth devices), free and open source: https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Backup
Titanium Backup does this for me but it’s ancient. I have heard of Swift Backup though.
Not really the answer to your question, but maybe my recent experience will help.
A lot of apps can export settings. Having recently joined the alternative android club, that was a definitely a time saver. On my last phone transfer I spent a few day when I had time reconfiguring every app, this time around all my main apps were pretty much fully setup in an hour.
For an “app list”, I just took a screen shot of my home screen layout and app drawer. Had everything downloading in about 10 minutes. Home screen took a bit to put back together. If you can export the launcher config, maybe restoring it after you’ve downloaded everything will restore home screen layout too…no clue, I never tried that one.
