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For SMS and telephone data, you could use Fossify Phone and Fossify Messages (F-Droid). They do have an export function. (I personally did not use it, since I do not have a SIM card on my smartphone.)
I have moved to iodéOS from CalyxOS in August 25 - did it with Seedvault. Important learning for me was: Don’t restore your backup when the device asks you for it. Let iodéOS install their standard apps (like F-Droid etc.). After that you can selectively restore Mail apps, calender and so on (apps with personal data). All the other apps you can just do a fresh install from F-Droid/Aurora.
Seedvault can restore your SMS / MMS database by itself. But yes other apps can explicitly export and import them as well (I use SMS Import / Export… it does MMS as well and I have had better luck with group MMS with it than with the builtin Fossify Messages import / export), so it is good to maybe have both but just try the Seedvault restore first as part of restore of all the rest too (?)
I did make the same move in October with almost no efforts on a motorola G42 with SeedVault. The suggestion about selective restore from seedvault is indeed important (I did not make it!).
As an additional security measure, I always do some backup, as far as possible with the system offered by each apk, on SD card.
For me whatsap restore “facility” has never succeeded without gougoul. It’s a pity because Meta stays with my messages and I do not !! That’s another reason to quit whtsapp.
For SMS, I recommend SMS Import/Export of F-Droid. Works fine for me.
Welcome to Iodé then
Sorry for you, but I agree with you. I don’t use WA a lot ; almost only to contact shops/sellers/administrations.
For me, copying the Whatsapp directory in Android/media/ was enough.
I see it a little differently: Personally, I prefer a complete transfer when changing operating systems (iodéGSi to ShiftOS-l, ShiftOS-l to iodéOS) at first stage. Then I have to add the F-Droid third-party repositories specific to that OS afterwards, so what.
I did the move and it was really easy using seedvault.
However, I have a few questions that I might post in other threads. And I’ll also search if I can find the answers. First : I was using trackercontrol app which does about the same job as the iodé app but I found it more usable : for each app, there is a categorization of the trackers found so if an app doesn’t work, you can try to unblock each tracker beginning with those categorized as essential until you find the one preventing the app to work when blocked. From what I’ve seen you the iodé app despite offering many options (I paid for the premium version) doesn’t seem so customizable. But maybe I’m missing something ? Is there a very complete tuto for noobs like me ?
Also I was using shelter for my banking apps and those requiring too much unblocked trackers to work so there were separated from my personal apps and datas. I believe it would be wise to do the same with iodé or is it worthless ?
Frankly IodeOS’ tracker control is baked in to the system and much more elegant solution. In my experience most apps have worked even if I set them to be in Reinforced mode. For a specific app in iode app, go to Report, select the app you need to and you will see which trackers have been blocked for that app. Once you click on the tracker you can manage blocking settings for that tracker either system wide OR just for that app. Also, you can also select Stream to see in real time quickly to pinpoint which tracker may be causing for an app to malfunction
As this is a system app, the settings are the same across all profiles and users. If you allow all trackers for this app in your work profile, they will also be allowed for your main user, and vice versa. Your general security configurations also apply to all profiles.
Thank you very much for your answer. It is very helpful ! I’m very happy to read it can do the same and even much more as tracker control which I was used to.
I will search if I can find some sort of tutorial to get the best out of this app
I do the same for banking, WhatsApp, Telegram, and other apps I want to freeze and not have continually running in the background (hello Qobuz: you are killing my battery!)
Thank you For your answer rik. I tried to put whatsapp in shelter with calyx but I wasn’t successful !
It did not find the contacts although I did import the contact app in shelter. I’m going to try again. Best would be to avoid whatsapp. Unfortunately it is almost impossible. Everybody uses it and many people refuse to use signal or any other communication app instead. A few years ago, I installed threema but nobody in my contacts was using it. So I never used it
