Help Transfer apps from one phone to another?

surfin_persian · Apr 24, 2015

Hi, I want to transfer this specific app from my old Droid Razr to my new Galaxy S6. However there is a catch, This app is no longer on the google play store

. Are there ways to still put it on my new phone? Like a .Apk file or something?

El Presidente · Apr 24, 2015

If you've previously installed it, it should come up if you search for it via the Play store web interface (providing you're logged in to your gmail account) and you can install if to your new phone that way.

Alternatively, look at Helium backup opn Play, you can use that to transfer apps and their associated data to your new device.

surfin_persian · Apr 24, 2015

El Presidente said:
If you've previously installed it, it should come up if you search for it via the Play store web interface (providing you're logged in to your gmail account) and you can install if to your new phone that way.

Alternatively, look at Helium backup opn Play, you can use that to transfer apps and their associated data to your new device.

Wait.. So you're saying it would work with an app no longer on the google play store?

El Presidente · Apr 24, 2015

Yeah, should do.

Flappy Bird was still installable after the developer pulled it, as is Tiny Death Star.

I bought Tiny Death Star, but it's been pulled and I can still see/install it.

surfin_persian · Apr 24, 2015

El Presidente said:
Yeah, should do.

Flappy Bird was still installable after the developer pulled it, as is Tiny Death Star.

I bought Tiny Death Star, but it's been pulled and I can still see/install it.

helium says that app is not allowed to backup. Would it still be in the play store interface?

El Presidente · Apr 24, 2015

surfin_persian said:
helium says that app is not allowed to backup. Would it still be in the play store interface?

Unless it's been pulled because it did something illegal, it should be.

Limke I said above, Tiny Death Star is still installable for me even though it was pulled from the store months ago.

km2002 · May 4, 2015

I have a similar problem. On my Galaxy Light there are two apps in particular (probably more, but I haven't gone all the way through the phone yet) that either no longer exist in the Play Store, or were once free and now cost. So I'd like to push these over from the Light to my S5 (both of which have NFC and S-Beam). So is there a way to transfer apps from one phone to another?

Slug · May 4, 2015

km2002 said:
is there a way to transfer apps from one phone to another?

See previous posts.

If the app(s) are no longer available for re-installation via Play Store, then a backup/restore using Helium is probably your only option.

km2002 · May 4, 2015

Slug said:
See previous posts.

If the app(s) are no longer available for re-installation via Play Store, then a backup/restore using Helium is probably your only option.

So I d/l'd Helium to both my phones and, per instructions on the Play page, am trying to run the app through my Chromium browser. But the phone's telling me it's waiting for the Desktop application; and the Chrome app says it's waiting for the device. What's up with this, any idea?

chanchan05 · May 5, 2015

You plug the phone in to the computer using a USB cable

km2002 · May 5, 2015

chanchan05 said:
You plug the phone in to the computer using a USB cable

Which had been done before I posted that I was having such problems. Any better ideas?

chanchan05 · May 5, 2015

I think you misunderstood. Or maybe I did. Helium is waiting for you to plug the phone in to the PC so the desktop app can interact with the phone part of Helium.

Anyway, have you tried the actual desktop app of helium and not the one for the chromium browser?

EarlyMon · May 5, 2015

Backup the app, no data, on your phone using Astro or ES File Explorer.

Browse sd card for the backup - send to other phone.

km2002 · May 5, 2015

@chanchan05: The phone was plugged into the PC; the Chromium app never got past "Waiting for device"; the phone never got past "waiting for desktop application"; the msi file refuses to install, saying a DLL is missing. (Someone in TS at clockworkmod suggested I right-click and run as admin; that option isn't available when I right-click an msi file.)
@EarlyMon: Well, that might work. I'll have to try it.

EarlyMon · May 6, 2015

I think it only works for free apps, not sure.

chanchan05 · May 6, 2015

I meant the actual Windows program for Helium, and not just the Chromium app. The one with the exe installer. I think they also have a Mac program. I've never used the Helium Chromium app.

Enahmir · May 6, 2015

It should be in my apps - all.
Was the same with friendcaster. Not in the store but still my app list in the store.

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