Sorry for possible repetition of prior threads, but what I can find is about a year old.
I have Samsung Galaxy S3 x 1 mo now and Apple computers for backup and. I want to create an image so that I can back up everything from my phone in the event of an EMP attack or perhaps simply loss of my phone.
Of course, Google backs up some things, but then there are photos and app data and downloaded apps.
Sounds simple, right? Perhaps the first and most basic thing someone would want to do with their phone.
Then why is it next to impossible to do? I have spent most of my spare time this week looking at different apps, syncs, cloud file systems, etc but there is nothing simple about doing this. I am trying to like the Android after a switch from the competition, but this and a few other things like rendom-battery-discharge-in-two-hours mode are trying my patience. But let's just discuss backup. This is what I want to do:
Wired backup of image of phone apps, data and settings from my SGS3 4.0.4 phone to a mac computer to allow a practically identical restore to a new phone plus access to photos and video on the backup computer.
For the moment, let's exclude:
wireless backup - too slow / flaky (Kies and other)
cloud backup - way too slow (dropbox, googlesync)
backup to a PC - don't tell me I need a PC to do this although I do have a virtual one on my mac
no root - considering I would want to backup before rooting, that would be a bad choice. Although I would consider if I know it is safe on my device. (Jailbreaking on my Iphone lead to more problems than benefits)
The one wired solution I can find (and tried once and it worked) is now broken with AT&T's obligatory download of software ver 4.0.4. Android File Transfer no longer works and I haven't seen a solution for this. I think this was the answer but now surprisingly it is broken with no solution.
The Kies app starts up and looks good, but is really flaky and gives no indication of progress when 'downloading' and you eventually go away and find that there was some sort of network error.
Mybackup seems promising but it is only for cloud backup or SD backup, which as it turns out, it cannot find the true external SD card even though it says it is backing up to /mnt/sdcard/external_sd . . . it really is backing up to the so-called internal 'sd card'. When I pull out the SD card, it still gives the same path and backs up to the internal hardware RAM. Crazy.
Ideas? Ti backup with root seems to be popular and gets good reviews, but I hate to think the first thing I have to do is root my phone in order to download photos. Basically I would like to make my phone look like a wired external drive on my mac but there appears to be no simple solution for this.
Thanks for reading,
DJ
I have Samsung Galaxy S3 x 1 mo now and Apple computers for backup and. I want to create an image so that I can back up everything from my phone in the event of an EMP attack or perhaps simply loss of my phone.
Of course, Google backs up some things, but then there are photos and app data and downloaded apps.
Sounds simple, right? Perhaps the first and most basic thing someone would want to do with their phone.
Then why is it next to impossible to do? I have spent most of my spare time this week looking at different apps, syncs, cloud file systems, etc but there is nothing simple about doing this. I am trying to like the Android after a switch from the competition, but this and a few other things like rendom-battery-discharge-in-two-hours mode are trying my patience. But let's just discuss backup. This is what I want to do:
Wired backup of image of phone apps, data and settings from my SGS3 4.0.4 phone to a mac computer to allow a practically identical restore to a new phone plus access to photos and video on the backup computer.
For the moment, let's exclude:
wireless backup - too slow / flaky (Kies and other)
cloud backup - way too slow (dropbox, googlesync)
backup to a PC - don't tell me I need a PC to do this although I do have a virtual one on my mac
no root - considering I would want to backup before rooting, that would be a bad choice. Although I would consider if I know it is safe on my device. (Jailbreaking on my Iphone lead to more problems than benefits)
The one wired solution I can find (and tried once and it worked) is now broken with AT&T's obligatory download of software ver 4.0.4. Android File Transfer no longer works and I haven't seen a solution for this. I think this was the answer but now surprisingly it is broken with no solution.
The Kies app starts up and looks good, but is really flaky and gives no indication of progress when 'downloading' and you eventually go away and find that there was some sort of network error.
Mybackup seems promising but it is only for cloud backup or SD backup, which as it turns out, it cannot find the true external SD card even though it says it is backing up to /mnt/sdcard/external_sd . . . it really is backing up to the so-called internal 'sd card'. When I pull out the SD card, it still gives the same path and backs up to the internal hardware RAM. Crazy.
Ideas? Ti backup with root seems to be popular and gets good reviews, but I hate to think the first thing I have to do is root my phone in order to download photos. Basically I would like to make my phone look like a wired external drive on my mac but there appears to be no simple solution for this.
Thanks for reading,
DJ
