You can use SMS Backup & Restore to transfer MMS regardless of app.
The big thing to be careful about is 2FA. Make sure you check for all your authenticators how they can be transferred to a new device, and do it before getting rid of/wiping the old handset.
Yeah, I think I have every text I’ve sent/received since my first smartphone in 2009 on my current device.
Also every picture I’ve ever taken on a smartphone on my increasingly enormous SD cards, hah
Yeah, I need to delete more stuff off my Pixel 3 so that SMS Backup & Restore stops failing every Sunday on its weekly backup. I think at this point it requires almost 4GB free on my phone to do a successful backup (which it then uploads). I only have 2GB left free.
The 2FA stuff is the single biggest reason I’m holding on to my current phone for now. I really don’t what to muck with transferring that stuff until I have to.
Sooooooo I gave myself a self-inflicted imminent need to replace my phone last night. It’s not important to go into the details – the denizens of Discord got to enjoy a partial retelling of the unfortunate events in question – but the process of replacing it has been a whole stupid thing.
- Waffle a bunch on the Fi shop page, talk to the wife, eventually give in to the techlust and order a Galaxy S21 Ultra.
- Bank flags it for fraud.
- Call the bank, get routed to their fraud department.
- Sit on hold for five minutes, at which point they send me to voicemail so they can call me back.
- Explain in voicemail that my phone is inoperable and I’m trying to buy a replacement, and they should call me at (wife’s number), full well knowing that they won’t because duh that’s a huge red flag for fraud.
- Stomp around the house, mad about everything, doubly so because this is a totally self-inflicted dumbass situation to start with.
- Realize I’m an idiot, pull out my debit card, order a Moto G Power because they’re practically giving the things away at $50 and I honestly don’t need a superphone.
So ultimately, the fraud department at my bank saved me $800 by making me cool down from the techboner. Still need to call to get my card unfucked, but that’s manageable.
Congrats on the new Moto G Power! I bet that’s a pretty cool little phone.
Let me guess Mr. I-Don’t-Need-A-Cover-For-My-Pixel-3. You dropped it again?
A cover would not have saved it from becoming…
Dropped it in the toilet, didn’t ya?
At about the worst possible time, yes.
On the plus side, looking at the specs this is all kinds of a great phone for the list price of $249, much less $50. Hopefully it lives up to how good it looks on paper.
I dropped my Pixel 3XL in the toilet, and the main difference is that the charging port is now really really finicky. I pretty much always need to fiddle with the plug a bit to get it to register the cable, and sometimes I need to reboot it altogether.
It’s still technically useable, but it’s annoying enough that I’m looking into a spare wireless charger (as my Pixel 5 is using the Pixel Stand) to deal with this mostly working post-toilet phone.
My wife got me a bedside lamp that is also a wireless charger for Christmas. It’s delightful.
And yeah, the charging port on this has gotten woobly and the power button had already started sticking last week, so fuck it. I’m stoked for my $50 new phone.
God USB C is such a shit design for a cable that will be plugged and unplugged multiple times a day, every day, for a device that ideally should survive for 2-3 years minimum.
It’s a fuckload better than USB Micro!
Anyway this actually has a headphone jack and an SD slot, whaddaya know. Not that I care about such things since I live in the year 2021, but hey.
Having just tragically consigned myself into an S21 Ultra, I’m already hunting down a bevvy of adapters and dongles. Fuck 2021.
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I was suuuuper tempted by the Moto Power and Stylus deals that Fi is running but ultimately decided to stick with my Moto x4 due to the lack of NFC in the new devices. Which probably wouldn’t have bothered me a year ago before it let me not touch all those nasty-ass payment terminals in stores.
That’s an odd reason to favor NFC. I believe shopping near a few maskless people is waay more dangerous than touching a payment terminal. The nice(ish) thing about being almost a full year into COVID is that we have a decent idea of the transmission vectors these days and surface transmission is very low risk.
I mean, if you’ve got all your payment apps set up and really like paying for things by reaching for your phone instead of your wallet, no big deal. I get it that’s cool. I just didn’t want anyone else in the thread thinking they had to start to doing that or face a dangerous COVID-19 risk.
I don’t know how it is in the US, but over here phone contactless has a higher spending limit than contactless cards, so it’s pretty useful.
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Definitely wireless charge it if you want to use that usb-c port for headphones. Saves a ton of stress on the port.
Yeah, I’m grabbing a wireless charger for my desk and, eventually, car (whenever that’s a thing I need to use again). Wired on my nightstand, most likely, because most wireless chargers are very unstable (here’s a slightly convex plastic plate for your phone to slide off! here’s a platform with a tiny lip for your phone to slide off! etc.), and because I’ve got a fairly old but very nice tabletop speaker on the nightstand that’s wired-only, that I use to play my fan noise videos for naps and such. So, will need the dongle there anyway, may as well have one of the two-way dongles that lets you charge and listen simultaneously.
May want one for the car, too. Bluetooth audio is so laggy and lossy, ugh.
