Help Unsync Backup Assistant

[rcourt529]

Anyone know how to un-sync or remove Backup Assistant from the Droid 2? I am helping my mom setup her phone and she had the guys down at Verizon swap all her contacts from her old phone to her Droid 2, but now she wants it undone. I know nothing about Backup Assistant and how it works...the contact setup is different from my phone(Moto Droid)

 

[RJT185]

You'd have to do a factory restore and simply not turn it one when you reactivate the phone. Otherwise you can simply turn off back-up assistant first, then erase the contacts you don't want afterward.

 

[rcourt529]

Otherwise you can simply turn off back-up assistant first, then erase the contacts you don't want afterward.

How do you turn it off? When I go into the back-up assistant app, I only see 'Sync Now', 'Recurring Sync', 'Pin', or 'help'.

No option to turn off

Is there somewhere else you go to turn it off?

 

[New Guy]

I don't think you can stop it from syncing. It's on the list of "Do NOT remove" apps for rooted users. If she deletes contacts she doesn't want, when it sycs they will stay gone. If she adds new contacts she may be happy it sync'd and saved them, later on, if something happens to her phone.

Does she just not like the "invasive" not having control?

 

[RJT185]

How do you turn it off? When I go into the back-up assistant app, I only see 'Sync Now', 'Recurring Sync', 'Pin', or 'help'.

No option to turn off

Is there somewhere else you go to turn it off?

Factory Reset and Don't turn on that time around then.

 

[pool_shark]

I turned it off on mine without resetting.

I followed this:

http://androidforums.com/incredible...ing/69089-disabling-vzw-backup-assistant.html

 

[rcourt529]

Thanks for the link Pool_Shark, this worked for me:

There may be other ways to disable backup assistant, but follow these steps to remove duplicate contacts and backup assistant without having to factory reset. Please be aware that I just tinkered around until I got the desired result. I'm no expert and I have no idea if this effects the phone in any other way. I did this over the weekend and everything is working perfectly on my phone. So proceed at your own risk, I don't want to get any pm's about how your phone blew up. I'm just trying to help out here.

1) Be sure to have all your contacts backed up to your Gmail account. Check online before proceeding to step 2.

2) Log into your My Verizon account. Go to the contacts tab, sort by list view and select all contacts. Delete the entire list. There's a deleted contacts tab as well. Select that and delete anything that's in there.

3) Go into your Incredible settings tab, select applications, manage applications. Do not sort or filter, allow list to populate. Select Sync Service, (icon resembles backup assistant icon) select clear data.

4) Also in manage applications scroll down to backup assistant, select clear data. This should do it.

5) To verify backup assistant is now disabled, select settings, accounts and sync, then under manage accounts, select backup assistant. You should be looking at a license agreement screen.

No more backup assistant, no factory reset.