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)

  • vvvEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    I’ve used

    adb shell pm list packages

    to 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.

  • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    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

    • catsup@lemmy.oneEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      *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.

      • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        If you have root it can back up the /data too, but not many phones support root access these days.

  • MasterBuilder@lemmy.oneEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Neo Backup on F-Droid. Backs up everything based on how you configure it. Copy the backupsvto your new phone and restore.

    It requires root, of course. Yet another reason to have root. I run backup before flashing and copy it to a flash card in case i have to reset or wipe the phone as part of the process, or i screw it up and have to start from scratch.