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.
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
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
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.