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Android 5.0 lollipop brings with it a lot new features and functionalities and it just looks nicer but that's not my favorite part I'm Joe Levi for PocketNow my favorite part about Android lollipop believe it or not is the setup process the first thing you're gonna notice is what a beautiful starting screen this is this is the welcome screen that everybody's going to get as soon as they power on their Android powered device running lollipop it's got a nice welcome message and of course you can come in and change what language and locale you want and it changes the language is right there as you'd expect it to I'm gonna keep it at United States English if we needed to at this point we could make an emergency phone call we don't need to let's continue with the setup from here since this is going to require talking back and forth to Google servers and whatnot it asks us if we want to set up a Wi-Fi network I do I'm gonna set up my five gigahertz Network and I'll go ahead and put my password in for that and then we'll connect goes and connects and authenticates which takes just a minute it checks that connection and this is where we start waiting a little bit so we're gonna do some cuts so that you don't have to wait through the entire process but we'll hit on all of the the highlights next and this is wonderful if you are upgrading from one device to another device and both of those devices have NFC and Bluetooth you can simply tap one device to the back of the other and it will transfer your account and settings over to the new device so you don't even have to put in a username and password to do that now I did that originally when I was going from my HTC Desire eye which we've covered it here a little bit of pocket now and it transferred everything over I didn't have to put in my my Google username I didn't have to put in my Google password I didn't have to do my 2-step verification because I had that trusted device that I was able to use so we're going to go ahead and skip that because I don't want to use that device because I want to show you something else about it at this point it's saying okay just a minute let's go ahead and sign into your Google account or we can skip that so I'm going to put in my account here and everybody knows how to get ahold of me all over the place it goes out and sees what kind of a vlogging credential that I need so at this point it's gonna have me put in my password and once I've done that it says hey my account is protected by a 2-step verification so I need to do that I can either use the Google Authenticator app which I just erased off my device when I reset it or I can hit this problems with your code a link and that will let me authenticate in some other way I can either get the code from the app I can have it call my phone on file which is this one that might be a little bit cumbersome or have it send a text message again same problem or use a backup code that I received from Google so I'm going to go ahead and do that from here I will put in that 8 digit code and continue through once I've input that code it will go through and check everything make sure it's all kosher and just a sec next and this is really where the magic begins this is going to go out and get my apps and my data data being a very operative word it's going to easily set up my device for storing a backup from another device and I have the option to choose which device I want to restore from my Nexus 4 Nexus 5 the desire I that I just told you about the HTC One eh that I did a versus comparison on and some others I like using the Nexus 4 that I had set up previously just for this purpose so I'm gonna go ahead and do that it then also asks me from that device what apps do you want me to include and here all of the apps that I had installed on that so we're gonna go ahead and let that install all 54 apps and we will continue next from here it's asking about my Google services and other than a new skin a new look and feel this is essentially the same setup process that you've become familiar to if you've had an Android in the past so we'll go ahead and continue next through that I'm accepting all of the defaults there and at that point we're at our tutorial so okay to that and now you can see that it's installing my applications and what all of my my settings are here let me and bump that brightness down for you so it's a little bit easier to see on camera once it does that it's going to start setting everything up you can see this is kind of the old launcher it hasn't installed the Google now launcher yet to to install and configure that so we're gonna wait while it does that and be right back the Google now launcher has now installed I just hit the home button and I am gonna switch from launcher over to Google now launcher and I'm gonna ask that that be always that'll be my default launcher app now the first thing that you're gonna notice is I've got my calendar over here which is loading I've got my icons all arranged in folders including my my dialer which has phone has the contacts and if you'll notice this is my Hangouts dialer and it's grayed out alright let's go ahead and look at some of the others I've got hangouts I've got Gmail over here I've got Chrome I've got Google+ and Facebook and Twitter are there but they're both greyed out and then of course there's my camera we don't need to see in there cuz that'll just show a picture of the keyboard so I'm back here and that's what I've got set up right now I haven't opted in to to Google now on the the far side so it's not letting me go to that pain yet but I'm still downloading and installing things but it's configuring things exactly how I had them before in addition to downloading the apps so this just right here is very very nice and it works with widgets too which is something that Android hasn't had very much of in the past unless you got into some some third-party launchers and whatnot but now if I had 10 different widgets across several different screens those widget at least placeholders would be there until that app downloaded and installed and in the case of beautiful widgets I'd be able to tap on it and go ahead and configure that once it was installed but like you're seeing here until the app itself is installed there's a great out placeholder they're already occupying where that shortcut is going to be as soon as you get it downloaded and installed on your device now the one thing that you are going to still have to do and it's kind of a pain and I wish they would do something about this but I understand why they don't if you come in and look at accounts these are my accounts right now as soon as Twitter and Facebook and whatnot install I'm gonna have those accounts in here as well but I'm going to have to manually install or Emmanuel II put my credentials back into those settings instead of having them automatically filled in being transferred over for my other device now that's because it's not a good idea to put all of your passwords in one basket there are some people who would argue that with password managers and they have legitimate reasons to that but in this case where it's in the automated restore they're good legitimate reasons why we don't want to put all of our credentials into that one place so that they're all right there you have to go back in and manually Rio tentacle which is probably a good thing in this context I'm going to go ahead and let this continue to download install and configure all the apps the same way that I had them in the past it's a very nice thing that I can just set this down walk away and let it do its thing and don't have to spend the next hour - setting everything up the way that I liked it in the past that's why it's my favorite new feature in Android lollipop more or less that's the process that you'll go through and what you can expect when you switch to a new device running lollipop from a previous device running another version of Android or lollipop itself if you like this make sure you give the video a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel so you don't miss out on any of the new tips and tricks that we're going to have coming down the line for pocket now I'm Joe Levi we'll catch you next time