Move maps to new phone

[Artur R. Czechowski]

Hi,

I've got a brand new phone (Android based) and moved settings/data/apps from the old one. It seems the OsmAnd settings have been migrated correctly. However I need to choose maps I want to have installed again. Do you know if there is a way to get a list of maps from old phone and install them on the new one without going manually through Download maps menu?

Best regards

    Artur

[Helmut Jarausch]

Install Totalcommander on both devices.

Then copy the folder <external SD card>/Android/data/net.osmand.plus/files

from one device to the other device using copy by WLAN. Totalcommander can even establish a WLAN hotspot which is also the fastest way to the files copied. 

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[lodrog...@gmail.com]

Hi Artu,

for people just like you, with low experience to computers, yes android is linux, i suggest the following

- open osmand app and visit settings
- on the end you will find the option export
- in the next screen find the map data and choose at your device a place to save them that you have access

then go to other device and make import ... the maps

how to move data between the 2 devices ??? you can use for example one usb memory with OTG or the usb port of a pc computer

[lodrog...@gmail.com]

i forgot to say that this procedure compress the data. So, if the maps data are a lot of GB this will take a lot of time

[lodrog...@gmail.com]

i have a No2 solution, for people that have copy the whole folder of osmand app into a new phone

https://i.imgur.com/il7A3lh.jpg
see this screenshot. And check what the app use and what is the place that you have your old data folder. is it the same ?

[lodrog...@gmail.com]

about the question from post 1, i have to add one new very important info. i have test this with android 10

if we have a brand new device, or hard reset the exist device, or we must reinstall the osmand after clean install, etc and we must use the folder of a working install, to save time from download the maps again, please use this tip
- when we download from playstore the application we don't run immediately the osmand. We must visit andoid setting into section apps. There, we must found osmand app and we have to enable permissions for "storage"
this is the only way for osmand app to "see" into first run the old user original backup folder, if we have it at location of /storage/emulated/0/android/data/ at internal memory