Help HTC Desire Backup & Restore

[SurfXombie]

Best way(s) to backup and restore your HTC Desire?
I am hoping people have better suggestions than my experience..

I have just factory rest my HTC Desire to get around the googlemail to gmail switch. This required a factory reset of the device.

Now the HTC backs up some settings but as it turns out not much. These are what I notice it misses:

• any saved scene settings
• any added wallpaper
• any apps
• any email or other account settings

I already had the backup feature enabled (home>menu>settings>privicy>backup...)
I used ASTRO to backup the apps to the SD
I factory reset

You basically start from scratch and have to put in all the account details. Then you can recreate your scene settings, d/l astro from the market place and restore all your apps.

Some apps remember and some don't. So for example I lost all my NoteEverything docs (not a big loss) but kept all my ThinkingSpace maps.

Takes about 1hr (depends on how many apps you need to go through)

 

[SurfXombie]

MyBackup seems like a good answer to this and has a 30day trial, so let us know if you have used it as I suspect factory-resets could be common.

 

[Swana2k]

I'm about to attempt this Factory Reset for precisely the same reason I updated my google account to 'gmail.com'

As long as everything is stored on SD somewhere I'm confident I can get it all back...

Main thing for me is apps and txt messages.

 

[ghinzani]

I'm about to attempt this Factory Reset for precisely the same reason I updated my google account to 'gmail.com'

As long as everything is stored on SD somewhere I'm confident I can get it all back...

Main thing for me is apps and txt messages.

Where do the txt msgs go? Mine have not come back. Everytime Ive had to reset.

 

[KlaymenDK]

I use three levels of backups:

1. SMS Backup & Restore will, um, back up and restore your text messages. It's fast and free, and allows you to store several sets of backups. I used this before I got Titanium.
2. Titanium Backup will back up all or individual apps, settings, data, and system settings, and can make selective restores. To do so, it does require root. If you donate, it will unlock a scheduled backup feature so you'll always have fresh backups, and one-click restore. You can also "freeze" apps, which completely hides un-uninstallable apps (say, Facebook) from the OS without breaking anything. I use Titanium all the time.
3. Nandroid (old description) is a recovery tool (at boot time, not a regular Android app) that will make complete backups of your entire storage, and can make a complete restore after any kind of incident -- even a failed firmware upgrade. The bad news is that it only deals with complete backups/restores, and that you need to install a special recovery boot on your phone. I use Nandroid whenever I'm about to play with ROMs.

 

[pcbms]

I use MyBackup pro which is pretty good - a full restore will take about 40 mins - most but not all apps will be restored and some widgets will have gone tho its not that big a hassle to download them again. The biggest hassle is that it doesn't seem to restore the dictionary even tho its one of the listed features - so I'm always starting from scratch - I've had to do 2 restores in the last month.

 

[SUroot]

+2 for mybackup on an unrooted. Phone

 

[dan55]

yikes - not looking forward to this - bye bye rest of my evening!

just dloading mybackup

 

[Bradden]

My backup sounds good.. I like the idea of backing up to a secure server in case I lose the phone.

Thanks

 

[kapione]

Best way(s) to backup and restore your HTC Desire?
I am hoping people have better suggestions than my experience..

I have just factory rest my HTC Desire to get around the googlemail to gmail switch. This required a factory reset of the device.

Now the HTC backs up some settings but as it turns out not much. These are what I notice it misses:

• any saved scene settings
• any added wallpaper
• any apps
• any email or other account settings

I already had the backup feature enabled (home>menu>settings>privicy>backup...)
I used ASTRO to backup the apps to the SD
I factory reset

You basically start from scratch and have to put in all the account details. Then you can recreate your scene settings, d/l astro from the market place and restore all your apps.

Some apps remember and some don't. So for example I lost all my NoteEverything docs (not a big loss) but kept all my ThinkingSpace maps.

Takes about 1hr (depends on how many apps you need to go through)

sorry to ask this

I Have a HTC Desire I want to back up my phone
I looked at these direction with no problem home>menu>settings
BUT I do not see "privacy" hence no other tabs like backup

Also , is there a application I can use for my HTC Desire like Nokia PC Suite, or like Nokia's very awful OVI suite
specifically I'd like to send,check, and forward sms/text messages,add and edit my contacts and email(Ideally back backups too directly to keep safe in my pc)

everyones advice has been rock solid , and has me enjoying my new device

Thanks in advance

 

[eratata]

"BUT I do not see "privacy" hence no other tabs like backup"
Was a function in 2.1.

Same here even if I have the danish menu. According to the support (danish), this function has been removed.

I was going to make some apps for my phone and need to backup too.

/Eratata

 

[SUroot]

It hasn't been removed. You have to press search then type it in.

 

[MaxAggro]

It hasn't been removed. You have to press search then type it in.

I can't find it

I just did a factory reset and only read the official "How to" on the htc site. It said that all messages, settings etc are auto backed up on the sd card and would reload after you did the reset. I did the reset but no reload option upon start up HTC Desire - Backing up phone data

Anyone have any idea if the htc site is outdated and wrong?

 

[spile]

I can't find it

I just did a factory reset and only read the official "How to" on the htc site. It said that all messages, settings etc are auto backed up on the sd card and would reload after you did the reset. I did the reset but no reload option upon start up HTC Desire - Backing up phone data

Anyone have any idea if the htc site is outdated and wrong?

Read this...
http://androidforums.com/desire-sup...-2-2-settings-privacy-backup-option-gone.html

 

[Gazman]

I just had the same issue (HTC Desire 2.2).
I found my backup options using Google search of my settings for the privacy options. I set it to backup as describe by HTC:

http://www.htc.com/uk/howto.aspx?id=635&type=1&p_id=312]HTC Desire - Backing up phone data

After the factory reset, I saw no option to restore SMS messages and the have all gone.

Is this normal? I have emailed HTC support so will see what they have to say.
In the meantime, I did backup everything on my SD card. Anyone know if my old text messages will still be there somewhere?

 

[Gazman]

After the factory reset, I saw no option to restore SMS messages and the have all gone.

Is this normal? I have emailed HTC support so will see what they have to say.
In the meantime, I did backup everything on my SD card. Anyone know if my old text messages will still be there somewhere?

I just received the following criptic reply from HTC

if the phone was on 2.2 before you updated the option to back up you sms's isnt there as it has been removed from the 2.1

I think what he may have been trying to say is that after updating from 2.1 to 2.2, I needed to recheck the backup option.

Hence I tried again (unchecked the backup option, restarted phone, rechecked backup option) and did another factory reset but again no SMS messages or anything else listed on their help page got restored.

Does it work for anyone or do I just need to accept that HTC's help page is useless and misleading and I have to rely on 3rd party apps for this? (am trying MyBackup which seems to be fine so far).

I love the phone but am slightly miffed that a rather basic feature which they advertise on the website doesn't seem to exist (on my handset at least).

 

[blackebeard]

Hi, my phone factory reset. All SMS have gone. I take it there is no way of recovering them from the SD card? I guess the data will still be there, just a case of how to read the card and recover?

 

[MiranSMS]

I haven't jet tried "My Backup", I am going to.
So far I have used free application called "MyPhoneExplorer" to backup all my messages, numbers, appointments, callendar. It works prefectly and very fast.
But for complete backup (like apps...) some other application should be used.

 

[GigglesSilly]

When you do the factory reset does it delete all your phone numbers? If so how do I back them up.
Sorry I am new to this forum and I just got myself my very first Android phone .

 

[Hadron]

Factory reset will wipe all user data, apps and settings - sets the phone back to factory state.

If your contacts are synced with Google then you can just download them again from the cloud. Otherwise you can back them up from the contacts app (export to SD - may be called something different on the HTC app, haven't had that for a year), or use MyBackup to back them up, or HTC Sync if you use that. Many options.

 

[GigglesSilly]

thank you. I am glad there are options

 

[namsilat]

I have this really dumb problem/question. I backed up the whole phone stuff to microSD card using My Backup, did a factory reset. So now into my phone there's no wifi, no Gmail, no installed app (and no My Backup obviously). I scrolled through all the icons and checked them, but I can't figure out how to restore the stuff saved by My Backup on the SD card. Under Privacy there's no option for restore to click, but I don't think HTC back/restore can restore from My Backup's backup anyways. Any suggestion?

 

[Hadron]

You need to log in to the Play Store and reinstall MyBackup. Then it can restore the backup it made.

Don't know what you mean by no WiFi though. Your saved passwords will be gone, but the WiFi will work.