Google solves Android’s biggest update problem with huge speed boost – but fans ‘beg’ for another change

GOOGLE is making it faster for customers to transfer their data from one Android device to another.

It could have been another reason for customers to keep choosing Android over iOS, but fans are begging for a different transfer feature.

The company no longer wants the process of setting up a new phone to be slow and is actively working on building faster wired and wireless connections to carry data.

Currently, data transfer can take a while – whether you use a wired connection, wirelessly, or via a Google One backup.

But code discovered by AssembleDebug for Android Authority reveals that Google is building a tool to transfer data between two devices using wireless and wired connections simultaneously.

Users will be able to choose whether they want to speed up their downloads or not.

Take your time when transferring data. I don’t care if it takes an hour… Maybe I’ll just transfer all the damn data so I don’t have to spend two hours setting up all my apps again.

Reddit user

Android fans, however, are not impressed by reports of the new feature and say the speed has never bothered them.

What frustrates Android users is having to log back into all their apps after they have been transferred to a new device.

“I’m not worried about speed, I just transferred more data from my app instead of having to set up a lot of apps again,” wrote one Android owner on Reddit.

Another added: “Don’t be in a hurry to transfer data. I don’t care if it takes an hour.

“Just maybe transfer all the damn data so I don’t need to spend two hours of setting up all my apps again or realizing that Google Maps didn’t copy everything when I start driving to a new place and I really don’t have time to deal with it.”

A third observer wrote: “The problem with the [Google] The Pixel version of the transfer all it does is point your new phone to the Play Store, where it will automatically download apps.

“No settings. No logins. Nothing else is imported. So you spend two hours logging into everything.

“I just want to plug in the cable and copy and paste everything exactly the same. I don’t care if it takes three hours.”

Take your time – just don’t waste mine

By Millie Turner, technology and science reporter at The Sun

I’ve never heard anyone complain about the time it takes for their data to transfer from their old phone to their new phone.

The giddy excitement of the shiny new device in the palm of your hand often takes over as you watch the progress bar near completion.

What trips people up is what happens after your new device is activated for the first time: logging back into all your apps.

It’s frustrating, of course.

But ultimately it is time-consuming.

Research shows that the average person has more than 80 applications installed on your phone.

And while we may only use a few of them on a day-to-day basis, that only makes remembering the exact login credentials for our entire library of apps even more tiresome.

I admit these Android owners may seem ungrateful, but I stand shoulder to shoulder with them: we need automatic logins for ported apps.

DATA LOSS FIX

The company may also be working on a new feature to combat relentless data loss during migration – an uncommon but possible side effect of upgrading to a new device.

Google’s data transfer tool could soon offer an “Anytime Restore” that would allow users to extract photos, videos, text messages and app data from an old device after they set up their new.

Currently, Android owners can only migrate their data during the initial setup process, which, if it goes wrong, could result in thousands of memories floating in the ether.

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