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this episode of TechnoBuffalo is brought to you by Gamefly what's up everyone welcome back to episode of renter's rants I'm your host John Rutgers the show where I rant and rave on something with the technology of this week is kind of interesting topic I was all set to rant on how big a giant pain in the ass 'it is to switch android phones and I mentioned it to our managing editor Roy Troy he sent me written his rants from April where I ranted on what a big pastures to switch Android phones so I thought that I would make an update to that talk actually about how I switch Android phones and maybe if you're looking to get a new phone to take some of the pain and button s out of that whole process this is right just rants go and get started there are many awesome things about my job I get the privilege to play with and check out some the latest technology in the world and part of that is I switch phones I test different phones and always switching what my daily driver is so we got our HTC One Maxx and Todd Hilton finish this review and I wanted to try it and I was switching from the Galaxy Note Lorain I realized switching Android phones can be quite difficult iOS whether you love it or hate it has a really eloquent solution for backups and restores you can backup on an iPhone 4 and it look exactly the same on your iPhone 5 or 5s or backup on a5 look you're saying on the 5s it's just a very very elegant solution nothing really exists on the Android platform whether it's because they're manufacture different skins we really difficult for that to sort of work cross operating system to if they're different versions of Android that you're running now some manufacturers have their own backups HTC has got a pretty good HTC backup solution samsung has something similar but really nothing that goes across different manufacturers so I thought I'd share what my process is to switch Android phones and it really was a very convoluted process he used to be I would start over from scratch I would log into the Google Play Store from a web browser I would sign in to that phone using that same email address and I would send all the apps that I had or write to that device I'll go through one by one from a manual read web browser and I would send each app there then I'd go through each email out set that up individually I go through and set up permissions all the AFT individually everything up from scratched it took a while probably you know 45 minutes an hour and a half depending on how in-depth I want to get with the device or how long I was going to use it for then I thought there's got to be an easier way so I was doing that I was losing all of my sms issues you know I might call this trio starting all over from scratch a lot of times I store numbers and text messages and I just didn't have that so then I thought all right there's got to be a better way to make this work I did all you guys do I went to the App Store I looked online I found an app called SMS back up pro so okay I had my SMS backed up but not everything else so I did some more research and I found an app I've called my backup pro the pro version a free version I paid the money and I bought the pro version actually worked really well so what it does it's going to backup all of your applications back with your call log backup your SMS contacts if you want I will restore your phone almost the way it was to what it looked like before I move over all your pictures it makes life a lot easier when it comes to moving dad at information so I really appreciated that it worked that's really what I do now when I switch phones first thing I'll do is I will download my backup Pro download on both devices it creates sort of an ad hoc Wi-Fi no answers everything a via Wi-Fi and it just worked really really well it's not perfect there are a lot of things I'd want to improve on it but it does get everything over I have to go through and download all my pictures again from Dropbox it just saves them and moves it right on over it's worked very very well for me it's a concern my process from again at 45 minutes to an hour and a half down to maybe 20 minutes which Android phones so it's not as elegant as what you see on iOS but it does work very well so if you're like me and you want to try and switch Android phones been a giant pain in the butt for you try doing that app you maybe you find a better app that works better it's better for you leave in the comments down below I'm always looking for something good I'm not married to this app but it has worked well for me in the past so let me take a minute to thank our friend sponsors the good people at Gamefly probably note they are already there are the largest online video game rental service and they offer you a ton of choices over 7,000 new and classic titles pretty much across all consoles and platforms so with plan starting at just under 16 bucks at 1595 Gamefly members can rent one to four games at a time and keep them for 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kind of videos let me know and if you want to see more tips and tricks I can work them into right and just rants every now and then he's gonna comment down below again we love to hear your thoughts on it they got the TechnoBuffalo conflation greatest tech news please give the video a thumbs up but sefa we appreciate it I'm Jen right enger' see you next video what's up guys it's John again just wanted to let you know that if you liked what you saw I hope you did we've got two other shows that go live every single week come rain shine sleet or snow ask the Buffalo where ashley Esqueda answers your tech questions and a rumor roundup where yours truly tells you about all the best rumors in the gadget world click the text below that says subscribe and check out our other shows by clicking right over here till next video thanks for watching