Importing history data from previous Sailfish OS phone

Hi everyone!

I’ve received my Jolla phone and successfully imported contacts. But does anyone know if it’s possible to import also notes, messages from Sailfish basic app and contacts history?

If so - could you tell me, how? Probably it’s somewhere in the files, but I can’t find it.

Cheers!

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Just make a normal backup in settings?

Make a backup on the old phone and restore it on the new phone

Will try, thank you!

The built-in backup includes regular SMS, notes, contacts etc. , but not MMS and its pictures.
If you search the forum you’ll find threads how to get MMS transferred also, I did something like this when moving from an Xperia 10 III to JP2, but search first and dont take my suggestion below as an absolute truth :wink:

Backup SMS/MMS db and folders with MMS/pictures (as root / devel-su):
tar -czvf /home/defaultuser/commhistory-mms.tgz /home/defaultuser/.local/share/commhistory/

Copy the file commhistory-mms.tgz into /home/defaultuser/ of the new phone
(via SSH or by SD card)

Backup current commhistory on the new phone:
mv /home/defaultuser/.local/share/commhistory /home/defaultuser/.local/share/commhistory.new

Unpack the tar file:
tar -xzvf /home/defaultuser/commhistory-mms.tgz -C /

Fix permissions if needed:
chown -R defaultuser:privileged /home/defaultuser/.local/share/commhistory

Finish with rebooting the phone:
reboot

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Can also recommend the app “Syncthing”, very convenient for transferring files between your old phone and the new one.
(Also good for easy sync of files between desktop PC / laptop and your phone)
Available for many OS’es, and for Sailfish there is one in “Openrepos”, use the app “Storeman” for easy interaction with the Openrepos repository on a Sailfish device.

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