Transferring everything from a Moto G to Galaxy S4

[radhak]

My daughter cracked (shattered) her Moto G's display. I can see that it's just a matter of time before it stops working fully. So I managed to get a used Galaxy S4 for cheap.

Now how do I transfer all the info from her Moto G to the S4?

To make a list: contacts, pictures, videos, texts are the bare minimum. Would be good if I could transfer some app data too: Whatsapp, Go SMS Pro, maybe? (Frankly, app data does not bother me very much, but I did tell her I'll make the attempt).

Is there any freeware that can do this? Googling gives me a bunch of ~$40 apps that claim to do this, but which one does it comprehensively? As in, better than others?

I can see the whole Moto G device and folders when connected to my Win 7 desktop, and plan to take a backup of all of that. Does that help? Could I manually transfer that to the S4?

 

[Yuriman]

Apps/conntacts are tied to your Google account, and will install themselves/appear on whatever device you log in on, automatically. Data has to be moved over manually though. Videos and pictures will all be in Camera/DCIM. Move the contents of this folder to Camera/DCIM on the S4. As for texts, last time I moved my wife to a new phone, I google'd "SMS backup" and picked the first one I found in the play store, and it worked nicely.

Couldn't tell you where whatsapp and the like keep their stuff, but it'll be in a folder.

Years ago I used to use Titanium Backup to do this sort of thing, but I don't know if it works on non-root devices.

 

[radhak]

Apps/conntacts are tied to your Google account, and will install themselves/appear on whatever device you log in on, automatically. Data has to be moved over manually though. Videos and pictures will all be in Camera/DCIM. Move the contents of this folder to Camera/DCIM on the S4. As for texts, last time I moved my wife to a new phone, I google'd "SMS backup" and picked the first one I found in the play store, and it worked nicely.

Couldn't tell you where whatsapp and the like keep their stuff, but it'll be in a folder.

Years ago I used to use Titanium Backup to do this sort of thing, but I don't know if it works on non-root devices.

Thanks - good info. I'll start with that.

I do see folders for those apps. I'll try copying over selected folders and check.

 

[WelshBloke]

Sms backup+ backs up your SMSs to Gmail if that works for you.
Make sure that her contacts are tied to her Google account, not everyone's are.