I tried to migrate from Xperia XA2 Plus to Xperia 10 III but it wasn’t successful
I started by taking a backup of my XA2 Plus on my SD-card that i moved to the new device to restore it (both devices use 4.4.0.64
I couldn’t restore my backup from my old phone it failed on notes.
I tried again and i saw a message at the top that i think mentioned account (for some reason i can’t click om the message and read it when it tries to restore the backup.
I then logged int to my account that it had restored and tried again but it failed on notes once again.
I had made one note before trying restoring backup so i deleted it but it failed at notes.
I then changed language to english and tried again but it failed at notes.
I did reboot a number of times that’s not mentioned above.
When i later tried once more it was able to restore the backup, success at last or at least i thought so.
I checked my notes on xperia 10 III but there is no notes.
I then checked people app but there is no contacts in people.
I made manual backup of my contacts on my old phone invoker --type=generic /usr/bin/vcardconverter -e /home/<user>/Documents/backup_contacts.vcf and tried to import it people app “settings>apps>people>From contact file” but no contacts get imported.
I also tried the all.vcf from my backup but it seems that i can’t import any contacts.
How do i migrate notes an contacts to Xperia 10 III?
I checked the backup both contacts and notes has the right information.
Since i also needs my mms history with pictures i did copy commhistory folder (~/.local/share/commhistory) and restored it on the new device successfully going from Xperia X to Xperia XA2 Plus.
I tried it on Xperia 10 III but it didn’t work as before, i had the messages and i could see every message that had a picture but the pictures wasn’t linked to the message so it only showed an empty box with timestamp.
How do i migrate my complete messages history with mms and pictures to the new device?
No experience with notes, but the steps to export and import contacts documented in the Sailfish OS Cheat Sheet | Sailfish OS Documentation have worked for me multiple times in recent couple of days. (Note: mandatory to run the commands just as written there, with devel su -p)
Did you try doing the contact export manually with devel-su -p vcardconverter --export contacts.vcf and importing that? I don’t think invoker --type=generic /usr/bin/vcardconverter -e /home/<user>/Documents/backup_contacts.vcf has the necessary permissions to access the contact database without devel-su, causing an empty .vcf to be created? (Did you check with a text editor if the backup_contacts.vcf actually contains something?)
This is a bug caused by the username change from nemo to defaultuser on new installs since 3.4.0 .
Older installs have their data located on /home/nemo compared to /home/defaultuser on the newer.
When trying to restore the older backups, it fails due to the nonexistance of the former directory.
As directed in the link below, creating a temporary symlink while doing the restore, should enable it to complete successfully:
Tried symlink and restored the backup once again and it completed successfully but still no contacts or notes.
I tried to import contacts to people but it still doesn’t work, tried both from a shell and from the app.
I didn’t export it with that command i used an already exported .vcf file that was empty so you are correct i also had the all.cfv from the backup and must have mixed them up when checking the files.
I tried exporting devel-su -p vcardconverter --export contacts_xperia10iii.vcf and then importing it with devel-su -p vcardconverter contacts_xperia10iii.vcfand it worked i now have contacts.
I would also like my notes back
Ok, nice to hear. Unfortunately I haven’t used notes at all so I don’t have experience or known-to-work suggestions for them. However, I wonder if they could be manually copied by transferring the whole directory ~.local/share/com.jolla/notes/QML/OfflineStorage/Databases to the new phone (although I’m not 100 % sure if that is even the right directory).
I tried copying and cat the files but it seems to be different versions/format, i had no success with it.
I did use the files from the backup and they didn’t work.
I then tried following the description and copied the files from my old phone to my new and it worked, i now have my notes.
The only problem remaining is seeing images in old messages (MMS).
