What backup tool should I use to backup my contacts and text messages before I flash my phone. I've used PIMBackup but I've experienced the downsides of using that particular app, and more recently heard of others advising against it. Basically, I need to know what everyone's using now to backup Contacts and SMS before flashing. Thanks in advance!
i use PIMbackup before every flash. I use the NRG roms and his roms will automatically restore pim backups found in the xda_uc folder. I hear SPB is good but only for use with contacts and appointments, otherwise some backed up reg files can screw things up. Have you also tried syncing with your computer using windows mobile device center?
Well I went ahead and used Microsoft's cloud solution, My Phone. Ever used it? I'm setting up Energy right now actually ... Just trying to figure out how to get swype to work at the moment. Thanks!
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Does anybody have a good app that will back up the entire phone... especially the apps and settings.... to an online cloud. The really ideal way would be for it to backup to my home machine via blue tooth or wifi.
Ideally, the backup app would have a scheduler so I wouldn't have to worry about it.
The closest thing I found was myBackupPro, but I tried the free version and it didn't work. Told me that I had to purchase the pro version to get enough online space to back up my phone. Stupid.
Anyway, if you have a recommendation, I would love to hear it.
My backup pro is great and worth it
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There has to be something else. Its hard to trust an app where the free "trial" version doesn't even work as expected.
You can always uninstall and get your money back if it doesn't work how you expected in 24hrs
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1) Why the hell would I try and application when the trial doesn't work? Refund or no. And, I am more than likely not going to need to reinstall the backup within 24hrs..... at least I hope not. AND, the only way to test it is to do the factory reset and then hope the backup works. Why bother when the free trial fails??????
2) There must be an alternative that is more trustworthy?
Is this thread surveyed by mybackup pro shills?
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1) Why the hell would I try and application when the trial doesn't work? Refund or no. And, I am more than likely not going to need to reinstall the backup within 24hrs..... at least I hope not. AND, the only way to test it is to do the factory reset and then hope the backup works. Why bother when the free trial fails??????
2) There must be an alternative that is more trustworthy?
Is this thread surveyed by mybackup pro shills?
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Cease to amaze. You asked for help and suggestions for apps. I've used the app on my G1, MTS, and now the Vibrant and it replaces everything. Including location of homescreen icons, settings, contacts, apps (short of protected ones), etc...
And the trial is to give you a feel for the app btw...
You can also try Lookout, don't know that it backs up apps, but does backup data. Will TEST FOR YOU now...
Ok, lookout only backs up contacts and pictures. Sorry, my backup pro is probably gonna be your best solution... Take it or leave it...
I would recommend Titanium Backup, and then you can copy your backup files to the cloud through Dropbox. It's not an all-in-one solution, but it should work.
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Does anybody have a good app that will back up the entire phone... especially the apps and settings.... to an online cloud. The really ideal way would be for it to backup to my home machine via blue tooth or wifi.
Ideally, the backup app would have a scheduler so I wouldn't have to worry about it.
The closest thing I found was myBackupPro, but I tried the free version and it didn't work. Told me that I had to purchase the pro version to get enough online space to back up my phone. Stupid.
Anyway, if you have a recommendation, I would love to hear it.
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MIQ will back up pics, contacts, notes, mms/sms, call log, and a few other things(but not apps)
Sprite Backup will back up the ENTIRE phone(apps included)
I was also looking for a solution like this...it's a shame google hasn't come out with a program to at least do this one task that iTunes does so easily for the iPhone.
To accomplish something similar I've rooted my phone and used Rom manager to make a nandroid backup.
I have heard a bit about sprite backup.... but doesn't that only work on 2.2.
I have a vibrant, so not quite at 2.2 yet.
Is there a way to restore TXT messages from a nandroid backup?
I'm SBFin to 2.3.5 to install Eclipse 2.0.1.......
I dont want to use an app from the market....
Isn't there a way to just push something from the nandroid backup to somewhere in /data?
I remember seeing someone talking about this, but all search turns up with people saying use "this" from the market its free!
Does anyone know if this is even possible? Not really a big deal if not, I just like having all my threads there with the history.....
** Is there a way to manually insert my old call log too? **
Thanks guys!
Why are you against using an app from the market? Just a curiosity question.
Yeah this can't help you for this current situation, but MyBackup Root is an excellent app from the Market. I use it to restore SMS, MMS, all my apps, data, etc. I definitely recommend it.
Not 100% sure but I believe you can restore you texts with handset.
I know you're not going to like this, but the only way I really know of is using an app. Not sure why you have such an aversion to doing this as many of them are free.
I use GO SMS (it's free) and that will allow you to backup and restore your text messages. I believe, as someone else has stated, Handcent does this as well. It's also free.
I I was wondering if there are any programs where I could do GREAT backups.
Mainly 1 for phonebook, so that I can safely copy all my contacts and modify them from the computer. I have like 300 numbers but want to erase 200 of them while still having them on computer if I need them. I can't find a reliable app to do this so am wondering if anyone has any experiences in it.
The 2nd backup I'm looking for is an APP one. It doesn't hve to necessarily backup the apps, but at least be able to queue all of them I want RE-installed and download them all from the google play store or something. I want to get into flashing ROMS, but I have like 7 pages of apps already that I don't want to lose, as I'm still sorting through trying to find the ones that work best for me so I can remove all the extras.
First off, I think these could've been answered by searching, so please do that in the future.
If your contacts are stored as Google contacts (as they should be), you can edit them from GMail. On the top left corner of the page, there is a menu that says "GMail." Click it and select "Contacts." I've found this to be the easiest way. It'll also always backup your contacts, and you can restore old versions of your contact list if you need to do so. (Since you talk about wanting to delete them from the phone, but keep a record of them, if you delete them from GMail and remember the date when you had them all in there, you can always restore it back to that date and they'll all be back.)
Also, from the People app, you can go to Menu -> Manage Contacts, and export the data.
Regarding backing up apps, this is the main reason I don't think you've done any research at all. There's a very-well-talked-about app called Titanium Backup that will backup and restore every app on your phone. You have to buy the key for it to restore all of them without your involvement--the free version requires you to give permissions to install each app.
First off, I did search prior to asking the question and could not find what I was looking for. There is no need to be rude, as searching was obviously the first step anyone would or at least SHOULD take before asking such a question.
As for your replies, I have chosen sync in my contacts, but they will not show up in Google for some reason. I've tried tons of ways, and it shows like it is syncing, but when I check... nothing there. I don't know if something is wrong in my settings or what, but I've tried many times... it just won't work for me for some reason. Maybe it's because I have 6 google accounts attached to phone, and even though I'm only syncing 1, it is mixing them up or something.
And I already have Titanium Backup, it keeps crashing on my phone for some reason, which is why I was looking for an alternative. I have over 300 apps on my phone right now. I know that's horrid, but I downloaded a ton of them for the same things so I can test them and find the ones I liked best, in which I plan to mark them all, re-flash the phone with whatever ROM (later once full rooting with S-off and everything has been tested more thoroughly), and only install those apps I liked, which should bring it down to maybe 100 apps or so.
I do understand I might SEEM like I didn't search, but trust me... I did.
Anyways, I thank you for your response (both the neg and the pos), and your time was greatly appreciated. I am about to toy with my settings and see if something is blocking the sync or something. I didn't know you could export from the people app though, so thanks for that especially.
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Man, thanks! That export feature is NICE! going to see how easy it is to modify it shortly, hopefully it's readable in Excel.
Regarding Titanium Backup, you are rooted and have granted Titanium Backup superuser permissions, correct?
Yes, I used that 1 click .bat file (from the first method that was shown). I think my superuser app was corrupt, so I re-downloaded it and it's working fine now. Thank you.
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Yes, I used that 1 click .bat file (from the first method that was shown). I think my superuser app was corrupt, so I re-downloaded it and it's working fine now. Thank you.
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I ran into an issue with TB when I tried restoring from my OG EVO. I am rooted in the EVOLTE but not running a custom ROM. the ROM I was running was deodexed. Stock EVOLTE is not so I was unsuccessful in my restore. I bought mybackup pro and WA able to restore SMS and .MMS this way. Not sure I'd you are having the same issues or not though
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I agree, all contacts should be on google...then theres no worry about backups (ive had 3 android phones and a tablet and they all auto sync the contacts instantly).
Editing them on the computer is a breeze, the duplicate find/merge feature is simple and works very well.
What exactly are you all doing to make them sync though?
I went to Accounts & Sync
> selected the one GMAIL that I want the numbers synced to and hit sync now, but it doesn't do anything.
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I've been helping my dad upgrade from a stock 4.1.2 ROM which has been really playing up lately, to a nice new 4.4.4 ROM Ehndroix which I have to say I'm very impressed with. It's breathed life into what was really a terrible phone just a few hours ago.
Here's the problem though Google Sync adamantly refused to backup his contacts before upgrading. I tried everything to make it work but it just would not do it. So, I decided to chance Titanium. Normally, when I've done Titanium, it's been messages that haven't worked, however this time, messages are fine and contacts is broken, causing the standard android.......acore is forced close issue.
I know I should have made a vCard and I'm desperately hoping I've got one backed up from when I did it last time, because I normally do, but I didn't this time. My bad, I know.
It must be possible to go into the raw tar files and somehow extract the numbers. Even if it's just name to number with WordPad, ill bloody type them in manually or chuck a quick apk together to do it for me. Just wondering if anyone can give me some advice here what to do.
Please no captain hindsights "you really should have used SMS Backup Plus" or whatever what's done is done, just trying to make the best of it
Thanks
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Hi,
I've been helping my dad upgrade from a stock 4.1.2 ROM which has been really playing up lately, to a nice new 4.4.4 ROM Ehndroix which I have to say I'm very impressed with. It's breathed life into what was really a terrible phone just a few hours ago.
Here's the problem though Google Sync adamantly refused to backup his contacts before upgrading. I tried everything to make it work but it just would not do it. So, I decided to chance Titanium. Normally, when I've done Titanium, it's been messages that haven't worked, however this time, messages are fine and contacts is broken, causing the standard android.......acore is forced close issue.
I know I should have made a vCard and I'm desperately hoping I've got one backed up from when I did it last time, because I normally do, but I didn't this time. My bad, I know.
It must be possible to go into the raw tar files and somehow extract the numbers. Even if it's just name to number with WordPad, ill bloody type them in manually or chuck a quick apk together to do it for me. Just wondering if anyone can give me some advice here what to do.
Please no captain hindsights "you really should have used SMS Backup Plus" or whatever what's done is done, just trying to make the best of it
Thanks
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Contacts restore from titanium backup is not recommended when upgrading or changing roms as there will be different contact apps. With tar files, I don't think there is any way to extract contacts from them (well none that I've heard of). If you look at a vcard structure, you should be able to recreate a similar file that should work under the contacts app. It is a very complex structure so you can use the tool in office outlook (assuming that you created contacts in outlook) to export contacts into a .vcf file.
skezza said:
Hi,
I've been helping my dad upgrade from a stock 4.1.2 ROM which has been really playing up lately, to a nice new 4.4.4 ROM Ehndroix which I have to say I'm very impressed with. It's breathed life into what was really a terrible phone just a few hours ago.
Here's the problem though Google Sync adamantly refused to backup his contacts before upgrading. I tried everything to make it work but it just would not do it. So, I decided to chance Titanium. Normally, when I've done Titanium, it's been messages that haven't worked, however this time, messages are fine and contacts is broken, causing the standard android.......acore is forced close issue.
I know I should have made a vCard and I'm desperately hoping I've got one backed up from when I did it last time, because I normally do, but I didn't this time. My bad, I know.
It must be possible to go into the raw tar files and somehow extract the numbers. Even if it's just name to number with WordPad, ill bloody type them in manually or chuck a quick apk together to do it for me. Just wondering if anyone can give me some advice here what to do.
Please no captain hindsights "you really should have used SMS Backup Plus" or whatever what's done is done, just trying to make the best of it
Thanks
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If you have a nandroid you can extract the contacts using nandroid manager
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Hey everyone!
My Samsung Galaxy S6 is about 6 months old roughly and the battery life has never really been all that great on it anyway, but lately I'm having some much more serious issues with it depleting really quickly, and dropping to 98% as soon as I take it off the charger. Anyway, my query was regarding backing up my phone and the best way to go about it. I came from an iPhone so I've never really had to back up an Android phone before, this is all new to me. I've googled and such but I figured it might be better to ask as I find a lot of the threads about it and posts in general online are quite old and maybe outdated now.
I want to be able to back up app data, contacts, messages, bookmarks (if thats a thing), login data, and so forth. I know photos and any files can be transferred to my macbook so I'm not too worried about that.
I have a Macbook so I'm not sure on what backup/restore programs are available or whether there is anything I can use to transfer files and such.
I don't know whether this will fix my problem but I figure it's well overdue for a restore anyway so who knows, maybe it'll help a little. Otherwise, I have it insured so I can always see about a fix if it's the battery itself that's faulty.
If you are stock without root or mods then Samsung Smart Switch should work. Google also syncs most things like apps and data, contacts, wifi passwords, etc and you can use a multitude of apps to backup call logs and texts. If you are rooted, you can use something like Titanium Backup. Then copy your internal storage to your Mac. Reset and copy back.
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If you are stock without root or mods then Samsung Smart Switch should work. Google also syncs most things like apps and data, contacts, wifi passwords, etc and you can use a multitude of apps to backup call logs and texts. If you are rooted, you can use something like Titanium Backup. Then copy your internal storage to your Mac. Reset and copy back.
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Ah yes I forgot to mention - my phone is not rooted. Are there any apps you recommend to back up texts and such? I didn't know whether Smart Switch was just for when you were switching phones.. I'm guessing it can restore once everything is backed up and the phone has been reset? Will make sure to back things up to Google too. Thanks
http://www.samsung.com/us/support/smart-switch-support/#!/faqs/1
They have a Mac version. It should be able to backup your messages and such according to their FAQs. I like Call Log Backup and Restore and SMS Backup and Restore for apps on the phone. Very simple and works for most any phone or Android version.
If you're not rooted Samsung Kies should be able to do the backup for you.
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If you're not rooted Samsung Kies should be able to do the backup for you.
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With the S6 / S6 Edge, they introduced Smart Switch to replace Kies.
Thanks all! Will look into SmartSwitch and the other aforementioned apps. Really appreciate it! Also, is there any other way to connect the phone to my Macbook other than using Android File Transfer? I find the application very buggy and it keeps disconnecting from the phone when I'm trying to do stuff.
I don't use Macs, but I would suggest either an app like Wifi File Explorer Pro or if you are comfortable with command line stuff, just use adb.