My favorite 5.0 feature so far....

[raphymartinez]

The simple fact that home screen layouts (apps and widget placement) and settings will finally be transferable between phones. To someone that switches devices several times a year this is huge.

That was the one thing I missed from my iPhone days. Very exite!

 

[Greg C]

The simple fact that home screen layouts (apps and widget placement) and settings will finally be transferable between phones. To someone that switches devices several times a year this is huge.
That was the one thing I missed from my iPhone days. Very exite!

Serious? So if I transfer from an old phone to a new one... I can have everything the same as before... without spending hours getting it all "just right" ... again?

 

[Minh La]

Yeah yeah, one Google account for moving everywhere

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[krifor03]

Or if you get another phone off the same type (like you destroy your old phone and get a replacement) you can just load a backup of your old phone that Google stored. Put's everything back where it was, folders, widgets, background, everything

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[raphymartinez]

i know ios has had this since always but.... i'm very happy to see it finally come to Android. I'm sure it'll only work when going from a 5.0 or higher phone to another but that's ok by me

 

[TJWINS]

Even Windows Phone has this. Nice to see it coming to Android. Is it safe to assume that even a 3rd party launcher and layout would be copied as well or only the built in launcher with icon layouts?

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[osvanberg]

Even Windows Phone has this. Nice to see it coming to Android. Is it safe to assume that even a 3rd party launcher and layout would be copied as well or only the built in launcher with icon layouts?

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My guess is only stock. Unfortunately, Android is too customizable to make these things work as intended.

 

[kenorian]

Of course, using Nova launcher, folks have been doing this for a long time. But, agreed - nice to have it available for everyone.

 

[Pollster]

So app data is not backed up? SMS and call data?
I feel lazy, who can spoon feed me a link to where it's discussed what gets backed up?

 

[radicchio]

Is it transferred directly from one phone to the other, or do you back up all the settings then load onto the new phone? Or can you do it either way?

 

[benhaube]

i know ios has had this since always but.... i'm very happy to see it finally come to Android. I'm sure it'll only work when going from a 5.0 or higher phone to another but that's ok by me

It works setting up an Android 5 phone from a 4.4 phone. Both phones need to be using Google Now Launcher though.