Will you be using Samsung smart switch or a completely clean install?

[magichoward]

I'm wondering if I use smart switch to transfer to the new note 8. will it also be transferring a load of useless old data old unistalled apps left over old wireless settings etc? but I also know a clean install takes hours. Your thoughts

 

[amyf27]

I am going fresh new install one by one ☺. Cannot wait. Now, Google will restore contacts which is needed but other than that, setting it up as new.

 

[Tsepz_GP]

I'll Smart Switch my Contacts, Music, Photos and Video content, everything else will be a fresh install.

 

[anon(782252)]

Setup Google account and then fresh install everything else.

 

[BlueGoldAce]

It will move over settings, photos, messsges, and even your home screen layout (I think) if you have a Samsung device.

But I don't believe it moves over actual app data, it just intiates the install. You can also pick which apps you don't want installed. Essentially, there is no real benefit to a clean install, beyond that new phone feeling.

It isn't like iOS, where app data and etc comes over too, as well as any odd bugs that may have developed on your previous iOS device.

 

[shanghaichica]

I think a fresh install. However I do have a backup on the Samsung cloud from my S7 edge from last year that I could use.

 

[103Softail]

Fresh install. Photos, videos, music are on card, google takes care of contacts and I've found in the past that there are glitches, like apps omitted, when I used ss going from HTC to S7 & then from S7 to note 7 maybe because I use Nova.

 

[justin1578]

SD card + Google account > Smart Switch

 

[Katrina White1]

I get my contacts but everything else, I go fresh. I only reinstall my favorite apps. No point in cluttering my new device with stuff I didn't use on the old one.

 

[mountainman]

I always do a clean install

 

[Ca_lvn]

Be smart clean install, there's always the one person that complains about problems blaming the phone when it was the total transfer that jacked it up

 

[sandra_17]

Fresh and shiny clean

 

[Amele]

Google takes care of contacts and calendar and photos. I have a lot of apps on Pixel and the old LG G3 I am using at the moment that I don't need or want so I almost always do a one by one install of apps. I do backups of my password program, NoteEverything, and my budget program and import them. Kind of half and half I guess.

 

[ajb1965]

I always do clean install. Last year the Note 7 forums were clogged with users having issues with lag etc, and a large portion of those folks used Smart Switch.

It really doesn't take much longer to re-install everything, and your data from Samsung Cloud and Google apps is already backed up anyway.

 

[convert]

I do a combination. Some Smart Switch, some Google Contacts. Went through this 4 times already last year with the N7 fiasco between the two N7s, the S7E loaner, and then my current S7E. So like this will be the 5th time in under a year I am setting up a phone. I have to always tweak something but it gets sorted out eventually.

 

[hummingbirdhill]

Absolutely SmartSwitch for contacts, calendar, photos, vids, & possibly text mesages. My 5 email addys are server-based so I always do them manually. Cannot wait for Note8 in-my-hands

 

[EMGSM]

Like some have mentioned, I'll transfer contacts/messages. Other than that everything can go. Fresh install.

 

[magichoward]

I'm guessing as I've never used smart switch. I would still have to enter all my accounts details like banks and reenter all my accounts passwords and and all my social networks.. Last I did it all manually it took at least 5hours

 

[L0n3N1nja]

Fresh install, takes a matter of minutes to load my contacts and needed apps. Screw all the random crap on the old phone, I don't move photos and videos over as they are regularly synced to my desktop and an external hard drive.

 

[jimd1050]

Combination of SmartSwitch and Samsung Backup/Restore... has usually always covered just about everything except a few minor settings for me!