Android/Droid Phone Users App Backup and tablet Side Load

These aren't instructions for newbies. You have to be pretty competent with manipulation at the OS file level with Windows, Mac or Linux to understand the following:

If you already have an Android phone with apps loaded, another way to get access to market apps that are already on your Droid is to use Astro File Manager to make backups of those files and then to copy those files onto your Android tablet and side-load them there.

On your phone:

Download and install Astro File manager from the market.

Load Astro.

Press menu.

Press Tools.

Press Application Manager/Backup

A list of the apps installed on your Droid will be displayed. You can select them for backup by checking them on the right side of the display. (Note, some apps may say Private. These cannot be backed up through this method).

Once you are done, hit the Backup button at the top left side of the display.

Your files will be backed up onto your SD card in your phone.

On your SDcard on the phone, you'll have a directory now called

backups. There will be a directory inside it called apps.

In that folder (/sdcard/backups/apps) you will find the files you backed up in a .apk format (this is the package format for Android applications, like .exe and .msi files for Windows or .dmg files in Macintosh).

Copy those files to your tablet however you want. You can use USB to copy them to your PC then back to your tablet, you can simply switch the SD card from your phone to your tablet, whatever works for you.

Once you've got them on your tablet, I'd use Astro, EStrongs or some other file manager. Browse to the directory where you copied the .apk files to, and double click one.

MOST will install. Some, like the Twitter client or Foursquare, may not work for you on your tablet.

PiddlyD wrote:These aren't instructions for newbies. You have to be pretty competent with manipulation at the OS file level with Windows, Mac or Linux to understand the following:

If you already have an Android phone with apps loaded, another way to get access to market apps that are already on your Droid is to use Astro File Manager to make backups of those files and then to copy those files onto your Android tablet and side-load them there.

On your phone:

Download and install Astro File manager from the market.

Load Astro.

Press menu.

Press Tools.

Press Application Manager/Backup

A list of the apps installed on your Droid will be displayed. You can select them for backup by checking them on the right side of the display. (Note, some apps may say Private. These cannot be backed up through this method).

Once you are done, hit the Backup button at the top left side of the display.

Your files will be backed up onto your SD card in your phone.

On your SDcard on the phone, you'll have a directory now called

backups. There will be a directory inside it called apps.

In that folder (/sdcard/backups/apps) you will find the files you backed up in a .apk format (this is the package format for Android applications, like .exe and .msi files for Windows or .dmg files in Macintosh).

Copy those files to your tablet however you want. You can use USB to copy them to your PC then back to your tablet, you can simply switch the SD card from your phone to your tablet, whatever works for you.

Once you've got them on your tablet, I'd use Astro, EStrongs or some other file manager. Browse to the directory where you copied the .apk files to, and double click one.

MOST will install. Some, like the Twitter client or Foursquare, may not work for you on your tablet.

Nice job piddly and very well put i sure this will help quite a few noobes