Are you scratch installing or copying/transferring from old phone or backup

[YMarkY]

When you get your new Galaxy S8 or S8+, are you planning on doing a scratch clean install of applications or just transferring apps/data from a backup or your current phone?

These phones have a way of slowing down over time and I'm curious if it would be better to just scratch load all the apps instead of doing a transfer or restore. Setting up Nova and some other things might be a pain though.

I always just did a restore when I had an iPhone, but I might go the clean install route with the S8+. I'm coming from an S7 Edge.

 

[Ca_lvn]

Always better with a clean install eliminate problems that way

 

[johnny8410]

I always start from scratch. That way I can filter out those apps that I haven't used in a while

 

[james702283]

Scratch

 

[bembol]

Scratch. Always.

I have no problems setting everything up all over again. Is it sad that I even enjoy it. LOL

 

[Kalvin Kerns]

Using SmartSwitch

 

[ol_jackburton]

i will use smart switch to move photos and notes from my iphone 5s beyond that i will load everything new.

 

[brau0303]

Clean Install is always best, I usually do backup & xfer my call logs/messages. (it gives me a level of continuity i like to have)

Cheers,
BR
RIP N7

 

[sweetypie31]

I'm going to do smart switch.

 

[cajun456]

I do both. The phone itself will be a clean setup so I can go through all of the settings during the setup. Most of my apps have cloud based data, but there are some like Nova and Tasker that I restore from backup.

 

[Wizzy]

From scratch. Every time I do a restore from Samsung or Google, I never get my data and settings back, so it seems pointless.

 

[frellingfrakker]

From scratch. Every time I do a restore from Samsung or Google, I never get my data and settings back, so it seems pointless.

This. Every time I do a restore from Sammy/HTC/etc. and/or Google I end up missing apps and I never get app data. I'll use Helium to back up my app data so I can restore it correctly.

 

[Crimsonforce]

I'm coming from an iPhone 6S Plus. I'm sure there's a way to transfer my stuff but I'll set up as a clean install..

 

[jcp007]

Last year I did it from scratch. Download apps I still use, disable or uninstall bloatware, & get AT&T to copy the old sim to the new one. Put the old SD card in the new device. I then go through all the settings and put the device in a Defender case.