How to Transfer All Data to Motorola Edge 2024 From an Old Phone

welcome into the video I am your Tech Guy Wayne and today I want to show you how to transfer all of your data from an old phone to your new Motorola Edge and we're going to take everything pictures videos contacts call log everything all right so we're going to start with our Motorola phone here we're going to hit start and um the first thing we'll need to do is select the device that we're trying to transfer from and look we're uh now if you have a newer Android phone you might see a popup that'll say set up which is uh this makes it so much easier I'm going to hit setup on this older phone here so I'm just going to take the phone here and I'm going to scan that QR Code by doing this it actually pulled the Wi-Fi data from my current phone which that made it so much easier we'll hit accept and continue it's going to look for any quick updates and then it will basically show a list of all the pictures contacts and everything on this phone we can select what we want to have transferred over on this phone now one disclaimer this is just one method to transfer your data now if you're not seeing what I'm seeing on the screen a couple things could be happening I want to walk you through that so one your phone may already be set up okay and so just like this Motorola phone if your phone is already set up and you're now trying to transfer your data unfortunately it's kind of too late uh well not too late but you'll have to do some extra steps so the first thing is this you're going to have to swipe down from the top of the screen swipe down again hit the settings wheel and you'll basically need to factory reset your phone first so I just want to show you quickly how to do that you're going to swipe up and go all the way until you get to system go to reset options you need to go to erase all data unfortunately you cannot transfer all your files if the phone is already set up you do need to factory reset it first so the phone is in its uh basically at the start screen and that's where you start the process to do the transfer okay so you will have to do a factory reset and by doing that it is going to erase anything you've already saved to the phone so just keep that in mind um you will have to do that in order to get to what I'm seeing on my screen [Music] now right now uh my Moto Edge is asking me to put in the password for my uh Gmail again so um this is sending information to the phone I obviously have to verify that I have access to this Gmail account so I'm going to put the password in now there we go it's going to copy over my account information now while this is happening I want to point out one more thing again if you're not seeing the same things on your screen that I'm seeing I'm going to link up here to another video and this video will have um the transfer process but it's going to be using a slightly older phone so if your phone doesn't have that little popup on the screen that will be a great video to watch and that'll show you how to do it if you didn't get that initial popup at the beginning okay right now it's asking do we want to set a pin for our Moto Edge I do but I want to do it later so I'm going to skip this for now I will have a link here as well to my beginner video and that video um I do go over how to set up a pin and your fingerprint so you can learn all that in that video so next is asking do we want to copy all of our data from this phone to this phone yes we're going to hit next and here it's showing the model of the phone which is great so here it's trying to look for all the data that's on this phone and it's going to compile it and allow me to select what information I want to transfer and what I don't want to transfer so we'll just give it a couple of seconds all right so here we go this is showing us everything that's on this phone so the apps there's 25 apps quite a few contacts over 2,000 photos and videos music text messages okay so right now if I just leave all this checked it's going to transfer all this information and this is the important thing here it's only going to take up 8 gigs of my storage I'll still have 185 G well it'll 185 minus 7.9 gig so you still have a lot of storage even after the transfer so we're now if there's something in here that you don't want to transfer you could just check the box to unselect it just know you can do that okay so now that we have all that selected we're going to hit copy and now it's starting the process of transferring the data you might see a couple of popups along the way so just keep an eye on the phones here it's asking about Google services we're just going to go through always turn off this one here and hit accept and here it's going to recommend a few other apps um to download as well and I'm going to skip those I'm just going to uncheck that press okay and here it says continue setup now this is pretty cool if I hit continue I can now start using the phone even though it's doing the transfer the only thing is you have to keep the phones together if you move them part too far it's going to stop the transfer so I would encourage you leave it on the same table where they're very close together and you can do a couple of things while it's doing the setup here it's asking if you want to set up the Google assistant so you can just say hey Google and then it'll start listening I'm going to skip that for now and I'm going to skip the assistant unlocking the device and a few other things are going to load but I mean here this is pretty cool it's already showing us that uh the transfer is only going to take 6 minutes now keep in mind I didn't have a lot of data on this phone so the transfer is super fast if you have you know 50 gigs of photos and videos and a lot more like the process could take 45 minutes an hour I've seen it take almost 2 hours so my advice to you is do this transfer closer to the end of the day when you're not going to need to take your phone and go run somewhere like it's best to do this at night so your phones can sit there as long as they need to and you don't have to worry about the transfer being interrupted the other thing is plug both of the phones into Power because if the phones die that's also going to screw up the transfer as well okay all right our transfer is now complete that was not too long it took more so about 10 to 12 minutes instead of seven so just FYI we're going to hit close on our pixel phone here I'm going to hit done on the Moto Edge and this is it guys this pretty much was the transfer process uh again all you need is Wi-Fi to make this work and um again the process the time is going to vary depending on how much you have on your old phone that you're trying to transfer but essentially you can do a lot of the transferring yourself at home don't need to wait for hours at a cell phone store just follow the video do it at home and you're good to go okay I'm going to go through here and just finish up to get us to the main screen and that's it I hope you guys did find this helpful uh oh this very last thing is really important so on this screen it's asking about the navigation style I always pick the button because it's a bit easier to function that way so I hit next finish now I'm going to link here to a playlist of all my other Moto Edge videos I've shot quite a few videos on this phone so check out those videos you'll find some other helpful resources and here I'm going to link to another really helpful video as well if you got value out of this video a couple of things first if you can hit hit the like button down below really helps the video to get shared out to more people second if you can subscribe that also helps to support the channel uh and third in the description I have a cool website I'm part of it's called Uh buy me a cup of coffee and if you feel inclined to you can always leave me a small tip as a thank you if not the like And subscribe is good enough but I appreciate any support you want to add 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