Issue: How to backup/restore your android device

Affects: Android handset

Solutions to the issue:

Your music, pictures and videos are saved on you SD card, so you can easily copy them to your computer for backup but what about all the applications you installed, you text messages or your settings?

For the apps you can use astro manager and for the data mybackup. Both are free if you are restoring to the same device. If you want to restore to a different device then you will need to purchase the pro version.

1. Backup/restore applications

- Go to the market and download astro manager

- Launch astro manager; go to tools and select manage backup/restore

- Select the apps you want to backup; then click on backup.

The apps are now saved on your SD card.

If you need to restore, open astro manager; select tools and then manage backup/restore; click on the backup tab; then select the apps you want to restore

2. Backup/restore data (settings, phone logs, contacts, etc)

You can use mybackup to backup data or apps to your SD card. It will even allow you to save the backup online.

- Go to the market and download mybackup

- Open the apps

- Click on backup

- Select data; give a name to your backup then select what you would like to backup and where (local SD card or online)

- To restore, just select the backup set and select the data you would like to restore

- Once done you will need to restart your device

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Date of last update: 08-21-10

Author: Gaetan Barthelemy