How to transfer mobile game saves to another device? Three ways to transfer a Steam game to another drive
You will need
- - tablet/phone to which you want to transfer your games or applications
- - computer
- - Internet access
Instructions
Turn on your phone or tablet to which you want to transfer applications from your previous device. Make sure your Google account is activated on your device. To do this, just go to the “Settings” section of your phone or tablet. “Settings” -> “Accounts” -> “Google”.
Connect the Internet on your device. To do this, in the “Settings” section, click the “Connections” tab. Select "Connect via Wi-Fi" because... If you use the mobile Internet when transferring applications, you risk using up the entire monthly Internet traffic limit, and possibly exceeding it, which can lead to a rather hefty bill for mobile services.
Open a browser on your computer and enter the following address in the address bar: https://play.google.com/store
Click on the “Login” button located in the upper right corner. Enter your username and password for your Google account.
To go to the list of applications that you want to transfer to another device, click on the “Applications” tab. The tab is located at the top left of the page. On the page that opens, click on the “My Applications” tab. Now you have access to a list of games and applications installed on your device. A noteworthy fact is that the list will contain not only those games that are installed on your device, but also those that you installed but deleted for some reason.
Select the application that you want to transfer to another device by clicking on its icon or name. On the application page, click the “Installed” button. In the pop-up window that appears, select the phone/tablet to which you want to transfer the games and click the “Install” button. You can now return to the previous page to select the remaining applications to transfer. And repeat the procedure.
note
This transfer method is only valid for those games and applications that you installed from PlayMarket. This method does not apply to applications installed from third-party sources.
Be sure to make sure that all the applications you select are successfully installed on your phone or tablet. Otherwise, the phone will “try” to download them the first time it connects to the Internet, and if it is not a Wi-Fi connection, but a mobile Internet, this may lead to additional financial costs.
Owners of unlimited mobile Internet tariffs may ignore this advice.
Nowadays, no one is even talking about the popularity of mobile gadgets; phones have become an integral part of every person’s daily life and many people use them not only for calls but also for entertainment - games. Very often the question arises about transferring the game between Android devices with data saved. And this article will look at several simple ways to transfer a game from Android to Android with minimal time and knowledge of gadgets.
Using a personal account
Many modern applications have the option to create a personal account. This account stores all your personal game data in the form of achievements, levels completed, points earned, and more. The advantage of this method is that all you need to do is download the game on another device and simply log into your account. However, there are several disadvantages:
- Many applications are stored in the cache of the Android device itself.
- If you update the game via Play Market, you may lose your account data
- It is not possible to transfer games installed from third-party services in this way (since they are not linked to Google Play)
Using Titanium Backup (ROOT)
To transfer a game from one Android phone to another, you will need superuser rights. Obtaining these rights will remove your device from the warranty period, so do not use this method if your phone is still under warranty. You need to install several applications that are freely available on the Play Market or on the Internet.
The first program is ES Explorer. It can be downloaded through the Play Market, you only need to install it on the phone from which you will transfer the game. The only thing you need from this program is to open the “Tools” item, activate the “Root Explorer” switch and confirm your actions.
It is very important to note that before continuing the process of transferring the game with progress from one Android smartphone to another, you need to update the game in the Play Market to the latest version, so that later there will be no problems with the game versions.
- Titanium+Backup
- Titanium+Backup+Patcher
The first program makes a backup of the application (saves) and with its help we will restore this application to its original form. But, since this program is paid and there are no free analogues, we will need a second program that expands the capabilities of the demo version of the program to a full one.
Download and install these applications, run Titanium+Backup first, open it and give it root access at startup. Then install the second program. In this program, we need to click only one button “Patch” and not touch anything else.
We wait a few seconds and open the first program. If everything is done correctly, you will see green checkmarks in the center of the screen when the program is fully launched. After that, in the upper right corner, click on the “Menu” button. In the window that opens, select “Back up all user software” and click “Start”. A list of all smartphone applications that can be archived will open. Here you need to select only your game and remove all third-party marks, then click on the green checkmark in the upper right corner of the screen.
Once the process is complete, you will need to go to the save folder for all backups. By default, this is the “sdcard 0” folder. You can go to it using the previously installed ES explorer, in the upper left corner. Open the “local storage” tab and select sdcard 0. This is where the game backup is located. It consists of three files. To transfer games to a second smartphone, you will need to transfer these files using a microSD card or computer.
Then, repeat installing all programs on the second device in the same sequence as you did for the first time and set root rights. By default, Titnium+Backup creates the “sdcard 0” folder during installation. Transfer the game backup there, namely these three files.
The Google Play account and the Play Market must be the same on both devices, otherwise you will not be able to transfer the game from Android to Android.
Download the game on the second smartphone, launch it and immediately close it, then restart the phone. Open Tinatium+Backup and open the “Menu” section (upper right corner). Scroll down the list to the “Restore all software with data” column. Go into it and see the number 1 with the name of the application (this is your backup). Check the following boxes:
- Software+data
- exclude systemic
- the name of your game
And click on the green checkmark in the upper right corner. We wait until the backup is downloaded until the message about successful completion is displayed.
That's all, open the game, wait for it to fully load and continue to enjoy the game from where you finished it on another smartphone with the same bonuses, achievements, etc.
Using Wi-Fi (without ROOT rights)
Another way to transfer the game from one device to another without losing progress. The TapPouch Wi-Fi File Transfer utility will help us. This application is free and suitable for all Android OS versions 4.0 and above. The application must be installed on two devices. On the donor device it will open in standard mode " Share Mode" Select " Share files/folders" Then select the file storage, in this program marked as “Folder”, in it, select the file with the game and click the send button. On the second smartphone, click on “ Get files/folders" A 6-character security code will be generated on the first device, which must be entered on the second device and click on “ Get files" When finished, the files will be saved on the SD card or in the memory of the second phone.
Conclusion
The ways to transfer a game from Android to Android do not end there; there are countless of them. The main thing is that you can do this exactly in the conditions in which you find yourself. With the Internet, without it, or without using third-party software at all.
There will come a time when, thanks to Steam games, you won't have any space left on your hard drive. Then you will need to either delete unnecessary ones, or simply transfer them to another HDD. But how to do this if they are tied to the created library? There are ways, including those offered by the service itself.
As you know, after you download Steam, it creates a library where all the toys are downloaded. This is quite convenient from a systematization point of view. However, it is then difficult for users to transfer the game to Steam to another drive: they have to delete it and download it again. After all, if you simply transfer the folder with the program to another location, the service will generate an error upon startup. Let's look at three methods that will allow you to avoid this error.
Powered by Steam
The service recently added an option that allows you to automatically transfer games to another directory or to another HDD. It is not performed automatically, but nevertheless almost always fails. You must first create another library, and then transfer it to a new section through the game properties.
- Click on the Steam button, which is located in the upper left corner.
- Select “Settings” from the drop-down menu.
- In the settings window we find the “Downloads” section.
- Under the “Libraries” item there is a link “Steam Library Folders”. Click on it.
- In the list that opens, you can see a list of all directories and see how much space they take up. Click on the “Add Folder” button.
"Add Folder" on Steam
- Select the hard drive and its partition in which the new library will be located.
- Exit the settings and go to the list of installed games.
- Right-click on the toy that you want to send to another location and select “Properties”.
- Open the “Local Files” tab.
- Click on the Move install folder button. By the way, it was not previously in the service.
"Move install folder" on Steam
- In the library selection window, select a new location for our game.
- Click Move folder.
"Move folder" on Steam
- The transfer process will start. If the game is large and the HDD or SSD is connected via USB, this may take some time.
- At the end they will tell us where we moved the game and how many files were transferred.
The main thing is not to turn off the computer while copying files. Otherwise, the transfer of games may be disrupted, and its data may be damaged.
The method appeared not so long ago, so some users may have difficulties with it. Plus, perhaps you haven’t updated Steam for a long time and for some reason you don’t want to do it. Then there are two more alternative methods for you, one of which will be a little faster.
Steam Tool Library Manager
This is a special utility that automates the process of creating a library and sending selected programs to it. Quite convenient, it takes up very little space and does everything relatively quickly. If you need to transfer many toys at once, it is better to use Tool Library Manager.
That's all, as you can see, here it happens even faster. Games then, as a rule, launch without any complaints.
IN Android There are 3 effective ways to transfer applications to a memory card.
System Methods- V Android there is a built-in function for transferring any application to a memory card (if the application itself supports this, of course). To check if the application can be transferred, open Settings - Applications, and then select the one you need from the list of applications.
After that, pay attention to the button with the name "Move to SD card". If it is active, then you can safely press it, then wait a little while the system transfers the application and voila, the application is already on the external memory card.
Using the AppMgr application (it is App2SD)– quite a popular application among Android users, which will allow you to transfer applications to a memory card much more conveniently than using system methods. After launching the application, please note that there are 3 tabs available: Movable(applications that are located in the device memory and support moving to the memory card), On SD card(applications that are currently on the SD card and can be moved back to the device memory) and In phone(applications that cannot be moved and can only run in the device memory).
The main advantage of the application is its bulk allocation, which will allow you to transfer all applications to an external memory card at once. To do this, open the menu and then select the item "Move All". In the window that appears, mark the applications you want to move and click « OK» . After this, you will only need to press the button "Move to SD card" and that's all.
It is now possible to create multiple libraries for games in different folders. This way, all your games can be spread equally across disks and partitions. The installation folder is now selected during installation of a newly purchased game, but there is no option to transfer an already installed game. But you can get around this with the help of certain crutches.
If you can’t move the game in one fell swoop, then you can do it in stages.
So. To begin, from the menu, select the command "Steam > Backup and Restore Games...":
To begin the transfer, select “Create a backup copy of the program” and click “Next”.
In the list we find the game that we are going to move. There are several that can be mentioned, but let’s focus on one first. In this case, the Steam client will tell you how much disk space the created backup copy will take. You need to worry about its presence immediately.
Click "Next" again.
Now we select the location where the backup copies will be written. The file system used does not matter. I’ll tell you about the reasons later, but for now click “Next”.
In this window you can set how the backup file will be split into parts. This is intended in case all this stuff will be transferred to another computer, and in our case it will be useful if we write to media with a file system that does not support large files, for example FAT32. Click "Next".
The archiving process has begun! All that remains is to wait for its completion.
Now we have an archive of the game. The next step is to delete the game files from its current location. To do this, open the properties of the selected game and on the “Local files” tab, click the “Remove from computer...” button.
And we agree to the request about the seriousness of our intentions.
Now we need to create a new library for the game on another disk. To do this, give the command “Steam > Settings” and in the window that opens, open the “Download + Cloud” tab:
Click the "Steam Library Folders" button:
To add another folder, click the “Add library folder” button and indicate the required folder in the directory tree. You can also specify the root of the disk, because the “Steam” folder will be created inside the specified folder, and games and programs will already be in it.
Now we close all windows and restart the client if it asks.
The last step is to restore a previously saved game from a backup. To do this, again give the command “Steam > Backup and restore games...”, but this time select “Restore from backup”. Well, click “Next”:
Now we click the "Browse..." button and indicate the folder with the backup copy of our game, the folder inside which there are folders with the names "Disk_1", "Disk_2" and so on. If the folder is selected correctly, the name of the reserved game will appear in the window:
Now we have a choice of where to restore a saved game. Yes, Fallout NV turned out to be a bad example for porting a game.
Click "Next" to start the recovery process. You may be prompted to accept the license agreement before recovery begins. You will also be prompted to create shortcuts.
By the way, you can also create a new library folder from this window. Simply select the appropriate item from the drop-down list.
And now the restoration is over. Steam will show this window:
Now you can safely delete the folder with the game backup, because absolutely all game files have been moved to the new location, even those that were added to the game folder yourself.
Let me remind you that not all games can be transferred this way. Some even during installation cannot be placed in another folder.
This method has not been tested on the Linux version.
