How difficult is it for a non techy person to change their phone's operating system from Android to one of the non Android OS options?
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How difficult is it for a non techy person to change their phone's operating system from Android to one of the non Android OS options?
What is the general process without risk of losing all the contacts, messages, and apps that are already on the phone in use?
I currently have a Samsung A13.
Thank you.
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How difficult is it for a non techy person to change their phone's operating system from Android to one of the non Android OS options?
What is the general process without risk of losing all the contacts, messages, and apps that are already on the phone in use?
I currently have a Samsung A13.
Thank you.
Generally, if you're using Android, your contacts, messages, etc are all stored by Google. You can't de-Google a device without losing them.
Your best bet would be to export all your contacts to a file, save that on a different device, do the same for your messages, then find someone who's got experience flashing firmware to phones to do the de-Googlification.. then import your messages and contacts back to the device.
It's not for the faint of heart.
If you de-Google your phone, but then sign back into Google for things like play store, chrome, etc, you've essentially re-googled your phone.
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How difficult is it for a non techy person to change their phone's operating system from Android to one of the non Android OS options?
What is the general process without risk of losing all the contacts, messages, and apps that are already on the phone in use?
I currently have a Samsung A13.
Thank you.
@Maker_of_Things
I did this a couple of years back.
Honest opinion then was that it was not an easy thing for non tech minded persons (sadly). Easier yes than it once was, but still a bit of a fingers crossed journey. I was successful and all still good. Very pleased in fact. It may be easier still now so hopefully some others will pipe up. -
How difficult is it for a non techy person to change their phone's operating system from Android to one of the non Android OS options?
What is the general process without risk of losing all the contacts, messages, and apps that are already on the phone in use?
I currently have a Samsung A13.
Thank you.
@Maker_of_Things @Astrocat Well... Big question. You're phone will be totally ereased, so you have to save all your datas (contacts, pictures, etc) before you do anything. It's possible to save messages from Whatsapp and Signal, but it probably won't be possible with your SMS app. You don't have to save you're apps, it will be necessary to reinstall them.
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How difficult is it for a non techy person to change their phone's operating system from Android to one of the non Android OS options?
What is the general process without risk of losing all the contacts, messages, and apps that are already on the phone in use?
I currently have a Samsung A13.
Thank you.
@Maker_of_Things
You can export all your contacts as a CSV file.
You should not use RCS and opt out of it in Messages setting.
You should set Contacts to use Device and not Google Account.Save anything that can be saved (Cloud etc) to local storage and back it up to PC.
Assume you lose everything!
If Playstore can be installed (and then you lose the value of an alternate OS as that needs the Google Framework) most banking apps won't install.
The install / flash is now simple or impossible. -
How difficult is it for a non techy person to change their phone's operating system from Android to one of the non Android OS options?
What is the general process without risk of losing all the contacts, messages, and apps that are already on the phone in use?
I currently have a Samsung A13.
Thank you.
@Maker_of_Things no way of doing it except exporting everything you want to keep and re importing it after switching the os installation.
because on anything newer than 10 years ago the process definitely includes wiping storage of the device.
in some way its a security feature so no one can reflash your phone and get to your data. albeit i think its overly locked down in googles favor.
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How difficult is it for a non techy person to change their phone's operating system from Android to one of the non Android OS options?
What is the general process without risk of losing all the contacts, messages, and apps that are already on the phone in use?
I currently have a Samsung A13.
Thank you.
> How difficult is it for a non techy person to change their phone's operating system from Android to one of the non Android OS options?
Bloomin' difficult.
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@Maker_of_Things no way of doing it except exporting everything you want to keep and re importing it after switching the os installation.
because on anything newer than 10 years ago the process definitely includes wiping storage of the device.
in some way its a security feature so no one can reflash your phone and get to your data. albeit i think its overly locked down in googles favor.
@Maker_of_Things the installation process itself is mostly well documented nowadays, but there are some small pitfalls here and there.
take a lot of care to follow the steps for YOUR PHONE MODEL and the EXACT VERSION of the OS you want to use.and even then there are some errors here and there. best to have someone around who has a little bit of knowledge to where to go look for additional info if things do not work or some lingo in the explanations might not mean what one things initially.
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