State: 2020-11-09

Migration from Conversations to blabber.im (Android)

In this tutorial we show you how to backup your conversations account and restore it in the blabber.im App.

This method copies all contacts, groups and OMEMO keys, settings are not applied.

Screenshots are in german language, please follow the description!

Point 1: Set profile offline

1. In Conversations we click on the menu at the top right
2. Now click on manage accounts
3. Use the slider behind the profile to set it offline

Point 2: Create Conversations Backup

1. In Conversations we click on Settings in the menu on the top right
2. We scroll down and click on Create Backup
3. After completion you will be notified in the notification bar

Point 3: Restore backup in blabber.im

1. After installing blabber.im we finish the intro and click on IMPORT BACKUP
2. In the next screen we select our backup
3. We enter our account password and finally click on RECOVERY

Point 4: Activate profile

1. We open the menu on the top right
2. Now we click on Edit Profile
3. At the bottom right we click on ACTIVATE

Point 5: Disable battery optimisation

1. In the profile, active in the area of battery optimisation, we click on DISABLE
2. With Allow the battery optimisation for the blabber.in the app is deactivated
3. Done, you have successfully migrated your account from Conversations to the new blabber.im Messenger

Point 6: Uninstalling Conversations

1. It should be avoided to reactivate the profile in Conversations
2. When the profile is activated, OMEMO encrypted messages can be lost because the key is used twice
3. The safest thing to do is to uninstall Conversations