hi, i got a new fone and i used smart switch to transfer stuff wirelessly. it got all my movies, music, pictures, apps to my new device; however, when i clikk on, e.g., connect bot it says no hosts are created yet / extensive notes lite says no notes or to-do lists are saved / opera is missing my bookmarks / ... ?

Connect bot: The only way I know is to recreate the connections.

Bookmarks: the best way is to EXPORT to a file on the old device, transfer the file to the new device, and IMPORT the bookmarks there. You used to be able to set up sync so that all of your Opera browser instances would sync the same basic settings and bootmarks (Like Mozilla Sync - I think Google tools do the same thing but I would not trust them).

I understand that Opera sync is problematic since they sold it to less ethical players, so I would do the export/import trick. .

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thanks, i guess i was kinda' hoping there was something like a /home/schneidz/ sub-directory that i could just drag-and-drop.

On Android? No. Users/permissions work very differently compared to our familiar GNU/Linux paradigm.

sign in to your Google account on your existing phone – or create one if you don't already have one. back up your data if you haven't already. turn on your new phone and tap start. when you get the option, select “copy apps and data from your old phone”

^ prefer not to use spyware <@.

Dude! You are either using Android (Google) or one of those little fruit machine (Apple) and spyware at the OS level is a given!

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AFAIR, Android's builtin backup functionality backs data up into the Googleverse; OP didn't originally say this, but I assumed they're trying to avoid that.
Also AFAIK it's still possible to use an Android phone without a Google account, therefore also no Google cloud backup.

Unfortunately OP hasn't provided much information at all: what the old and the new phone's OS are etc.
I could also imagine that some apps remain untouched by any built-in backup functionality.

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^ +1; i am going from oxygen-os 11.0.5.7.in55cb to android-11.

IIRC, it's also possible to make (complete) backups via adb or fastboot, but I don't know about restoring.

edit: there's also software on the phone - some sort of advanced bootloader, I forget the name, it's almost a requirement when you use things like LineageOS - that makes backups straight to the phone's sd card.

It's been a while for me, nowadays I'm using a real GNU/Linux system on my phone.

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twrp ?

which fone / which distro ?

Yes, that was it.
https://sailfishos.org/
https://shop.jolla.com/
https://dt.iki.fi/tags?q=sailfish+os

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