I have a HTC Desire S, not rooted. A lot of customizations, personal dictionaries, apps, pictures etc.
Let's say I lose the phone, or it gets stolen, or it breaks down whatever.
How can I get EVERYTHING back on a new device? By everything I mean I log in with my Google account to the new device, I run some backup utility and all the apps and their settings, pictures, home shortcuts, videos etc are back like the old device.
Is this possible? I read plentys of post but I did not find a viable solution
So far I have different tools in place:
- Dropbox saves my pictures automatically to the cloud
- SugarSync syncs some of my folders to the cloud, so I can get that content back. Many apps allow me to backup their settings to SD, some of them offer auto schedule backup
- Google backs up my mails, contacts, calendar etc so that is not a problem
Not sure if I will get everything back this way though..and what does the "Backup and Restore" function, under "Privacy", do? I got my phone back from a repair and I had to re-install all my apps manually moreover all the settings were gone...
Many suggest Titanium backup, but I can't be bothered to root my phone...other mybackup pro (and send the backup to the cloud)
Right now I am about to try Sandisk memory zone which lets me backup my whole SD and the internal memory to the cloud (Box for example, where I have 50GB available)...
What are your suggestions? What is the best approach to have a sort of iTunes backup function like in iOS?
Thanks
Let's say I lose the phone, or it gets stolen, or it breaks down whatever.
How can I get EVERYTHING back on a new device? By everything I mean I log in with my Google account to the new device, I run some backup utility and all the apps and their settings, pictures, home shortcuts, videos etc are back like the old device.
Is this possible? I read plentys of post but I did not find a viable solution
So far I have different tools in place:
- Dropbox saves my pictures automatically to the cloud
- SugarSync syncs some of my folders to the cloud, so I can get that content back. Many apps allow me to backup their settings to SD, some of them offer auto schedule backup
- Google backs up my mails, contacts, calendar etc so that is not a problem
Not sure if I will get everything back this way though..and what does the "Backup and Restore" function, under "Privacy", do? I got my phone back from a repair and I had to re-install all my apps manually moreover all the settings were gone...
Many suggest Titanium backup, but I can't be bothered to root my phone...other mybackup pro (and send the backup to the cloud)
Right now I am about to try Sandisk memory zone which lets me backup my whole SD and the internal memory to the cloud (Box for example, where I have 50GB available)...
What are your suggestions? What is the best approach to have a sort of iTunes backup function like in iOS?
Thanks