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Backing Up Before Getting a Replacement?
- Thread starter DroidGurl
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I don't know why you're replacing the Droid, but if it works well enough to export contacts to the SD card, you could do that. Then put the old card into the new phone and import. I suspect you can also transfer the exported file to your desktop, from the SD card, but I don't know for sure.
Kent
I'll give that a try.jaysonstaurt
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EVERYTHING is backed up to your google account. You don't need any 3rd party backup applications. Once you log into your google account on the new phone it will load everything back up that you had on your old phone.
I'll go one better: with MyBackup Pro, I got a no-touch restore of everything but my non-GMail e-mail accounts. I needed to get a replacement phone because two keys on my hard keyboard stopped working. Before going to the Verizon store, I bought ($4.95) and installed MyBackup Pro, and backed up my apps and the data to the SD card. I put the original card in the new phone. When first powered on, I had to enter my GMail credentials, but seconds after that MyBackup took over and restored just about everything. Call log, SMS messages, app settings, just about everything. I had a little hillarity with my POP3 and Exchange e-mail accounts, but that was minor and might've been me not following directions. Certainly worth the $5.
No affiliation with the publisher, just a satisfied customer &c &c.
No affiliation with the publisher, just a satisfied customer &c &c.
I don't have any experience with the app but their website says you can backup to their secure servers.
RerWare Android™ Products: MyBackup Pro (backup Android™,backup G1,backup Hero,backup MyTouch), MyBookmarks, Asteroids, Lunar Lunacy
Kent
Right, or you can go to the SD card - but it would be nice to be able to do both.
I disagree. I'm on my second replacement and NONe of the apps, other than those I purchased were listed in the Market and those had to manually be downloaded. NONE of the other apps were ever downloaded (Waited for 4 hrs before I used MyBackup pro to reinstall the apps - but that an entirely different thread). Before I went the manual route I spoke to two different CS and neither knew of any way to have the apps listed/available. And yes I do have the backup / sync optionms checked in the settings.
How were you able to do that? Email accounts are not shown anywhere that I can find in the backup or restore/sections. The only way I can get anything to restore is by manually starting the restore operation. Then the settings have to be changed to allow apps not from the market to be loaded. After all apps are restored, none show up under downloads in the Market. If I have missed something in this please let me know as using this to restore apps is a pain.
i've had three DROIDs and have done at least 4-5 factory resets and EVERY time, the market has restored my apps. if you restore your apps from backup or install them from another source other than the market, it won't know what you have installed.