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Extend a rental
Extending a rental keeps your data, accounts, and installed apps intact — it's cheaper and easier than renting a fresh device.
3 min read
Rental
Extending a rental keeps your data, accounts, and installed apps intact — it's cheaper and easier than renting a fresh device.
3 min read
When your Android cloud device is about to expire, you have two options: rent a new device or extend the current one. This article explains why extending is usually the better choice and walks through the steps.
Extending has two big advantages:
When you extend, your virtual device stays exactly as it was:
Renting a new device means starting from scratch — reinstall every app, sign in to every account, redo the entire setup. For account farmers and marketers running many profiles, that's a huge difference.
Extensions use the same tiered pricing rule (see Pricing explained). If you extend by 30 days, you're billed at the monthly rate — much cheaper than stacking hours one at a time.
Go to the device list — Open app.xcloudphone.com/dashboard/devices to see all your active rentals. Each device shows its package name, remaining time, and status.
Pick the device(s) to extend — Tick one or several devices you want to extend. Batch selection is supported, so you can extend 5-10 devices at once if needed.
Click "Extend" — The Extend button appears in the action bar once at least one device is selected. Click it to open the extension configuration dialog.
Configure duration and payment — The extend dialog is very similar to the rent dialog: Additional hours sets how many extra hours to add (the system still picks the best tier: ≥720 → 30-day rate, ≥168 → 7-day, etc.); Payment method is Balance or Promo Hours (if the package supports it); Voucher code applies a valid discount code.
Confirm — Click Confirm to finalize. The remaining time on the device is added by exactly the hours you chose. You don't need to restart the device — the change is instant.
If you have multiple devices on the same package all expiring around the same time, select them together and extend in one go — faster and harder to forget one.
Sometimes the Extend button is greyed out or hidden. The usual reasons:
Some packages — especially special-promo packages, trial packages, or limited-edition ones — don't allow extension. Look for the Extendable badge on the device card or on the original package page.
If the package doesn't support extension, you can only rent a new device when the current one expires; there's no way to preserve the old one.
Once a device expires, its data is wiped and cannot be recovered. At that point extension no longer applies — you have to rent a new device.
Once a device expires and is wiped, the data is gone forever. Logged-in accounts, installed apps, photos, files — all permanently lost. Watch your expiry dates and extend before the timer hits zero.
app.xcloudphone.com/dashboard/devices regularly — every card shows remaining time.Extend a few hours early just to be safe. Don't wait until the last minute — if the network glitches or payment fails, you could lose the device unexpectedly.
Extending is cheaper and safer than renting a new device every cycle. Just:
app.xcloudphone.com/dashboard/devices.And your device keeps running, with all data intact.