My google research has yielded little. I have Motorolas, so the Samsung app is out, apparently. I could get a double-male type-C connector if needed, as suggested by my local phone-repair shop, but it seems like there should be one that uses wi-fi or Bluetooth to clone everything but the OS.
I presume this is an Android phone. If it’s running a relatively recent OS, you can just back it up and restore it from the new phone. I did this recently when my wife changed phones. I’m not sure it copies every last bit of data, but it seemed to get everything important. Details here.
You can still use it if you’re moving to a new Samsung phone, I believe.
Otherwise, as @markn_1 suggests, turn on Google backup, and then restore the new phone when you login with your Google account. That should get your apps reinstalled, and on many of them will even copy over the settings.
Many apps will also have ways to backup or export their settings. It is often necessary to export the settings on the old phone, copy that file to the new phone, and then restore the settings within the app.
If you have to many files or pictures to backup to Google, then you will need to find another way to backup those. The best method might be something as simple as a USB drive. Connect it to your old phone (possibly with a USB-C to A adapter), copy the files over, and then reverse the process on the new phone.
Also, if you haven’t thought of this, setup/restore the new phone, and make sure everything is working before resetting the old phone. You can always reset the new phone and try again if it didn’t work right.
Finally, the new phone might ask you to do something as part of setup to copy from the old phone.
My recollection is that this is actually part of the normal “new phone setup” experience provided by Google, as long as it’s a relatively new phone (not repurposing something a couple of years old). It uses the Google backup mentioned earlier.
Unrelated to replacing the old phone, but if you don’t already have all your pix & docs and such data syncing to somebody’s cloud AND also using Google backup for the apps, config, etc., then IMO you’re doing it wrong
20 years ago we kept stuff on our devices as primary storage. Now cloud is primary and your device is, or ought to be, just a sacrificial local- and offline-use copy of everything. This is as much an attitude change as a technical one.
Ugh! I’m too old fashioned to rely and trust someone to store my stuff for me free of charge. I keep several copies in various physical locales around the valley as well as my copy.
The last handful of phones I’ve helped my parents switch out with new used the phone to phone cloning method, with the funny little cord. I thought that was the new standard. It seems that there is a temporary bit of software that does all the work then disappears when finished. Doesn’t seem to matter if the phones are the same brand or not, except for needing a lightning adapter for iphones.
I’m looking for something that works universally for Android, and completely clones the phone except for the OS. I assume that part is too much to ask.
You don’t need to hardwire two iPhones to move to another. You just need to bring them together.
When I switched from android to iPhone that’s how it was done. The little usb-to-lightning cord to hook the phones together to transfer all my crap from one phone to the other.