Solved Problem with Motorola Phone

Sven1458 said:

i uploaded the pics to Google drive and then downloaded them to the new phone.

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you can also do that with the contacts and messages on your old phone
use backup to save the contacts and messages to file
then upload these files to Google drive and then download them to the new phone
once the files are downloaded to the new phone you can them import them
to contacts and messages.

glad you got the pics dealt with
best of luck, Steve ..

Thanks Steve, i will try that, but it looks like my wife is OK with not having them. if it works, i will surprise her with it.