Upgrades and Migrations
Despite running fairly recent Android (7.1.1) it took me almost a day to restore the new phone to the state where I left the old one. It failed to install some widgets due to some race conditions around authentication. It failed to restore the account links between the apps (both Pocket and Feedly "forgot" I used the Google account to log in. Feedly forgot the linked Pocket too. Banking apps required re-running the process of authorizing the fingerprint sensor. All Bluetooth pairings were lost. And the Google Music offline collection reported finishing the sync process after around 85GB (previously it was 93GB). So somewhere I lost about 8GB of music, but not really sure where and what.
In short: device migration is still a mess and is getting worse, due to the rising number of things that need to be taken care of.
Ironically, the only system that seems to be under control is Windows 10. I had a couple of hardware crashes and cloning the old drive to the new computer works miraculously. The new Windows hardware may be completely different, in which case windows will just do auto discovery and will install the missing drivers. At the same time the entire environment when cloned is identical to the old one: desktop settings, cookies, documents. Unfortunately I don't know how to make a clone image of an Android phone and restoring it over a new one would not probably work.
This is a huge downside as people will continue losing lots of data as they switch phones. also the switch experience, which should be nice becomes something that should be avoided. I wish Google put more attention to making this process smooth and reliable. At the moment it starts feeling a bit like Pre Windows-7 PC era. Can't we learn from other experiences?
BTW just before my departure Blackberry sent me free of charge a replacement phone citing broken battery. Well.. I really dropped it on the floor and would not mind paying for fixing it. Can battery break when a phone falls down?
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