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Move from old Android to new Android

Apr 7, 2017 12:24AM PDT

I need a solution to transfer my photos, videos, songs and contacts from old Android phone to new Android phone. Please let me know if you know something.

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There are so many articles on this.
Apr 7, 2017 7:51AM PDT
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Move data between Android phones
Apr 18, 2017 2:53AM PDT

To transfer photos, videos, songs and contacts from old Android phone to new Android phone, we just need a pro mobile phone transfer program. After we connect two Android phones to computer via USB Cable, then we can directly move data between them.

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The easiest way is to use Google Drive.
Apr 18, 2017 6:13AM PDT

In fact you don't have to move them between you can just move them to Google Drive and access them from many devices. But if you want you can use Google Drive as a holding place and copy them to the new android with the new android connected to a pc.

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Or even just download them from
Apr 18, 2017 6:14AM PDT

Google Drieve to the new Android.