Why You Need a Backup Strategy for Your Smartphone

[house70]

Looks like the op did not do his homework regarding the phone itself or the multitude of apps that allows one to back-up pretty much anything. What would you expect? A bit of research online would have been invaluable when deciding what phone and what apps to get.
Of course, T-mobile's customer support was not being... supportive, to say the least. At that point, I would have walked in a T-Mob store and asked for someone with a bit of expertise to troubleshoot the device. If they sell it, they have to do that. If you bought it online from a third party, it's your baby. That service person should have offered a back-up solution before wiping the phone and resetting it to a factory-like state.

 

[in_the_loop]

Most important things are on the cloud (google services). But for SMS use SMS backup+ which backup SMS;es to gmail.
For photos, just set that every picture taken is uploaded to google+. The limit is 2500*2500, but that is still very good for a phone camera.

But, in reality, if you wanna backup the whole system the only way is to root the phone and then use somthing like nandroid (in recovery mode). That is like doing a norton Ghost for android. Everything on the device is dumped and can be written back if the phone is repaired.
The second best thing is titanium backup, which backup up all apps and all the settings.

 

[Camikazi]

[citation][nom]in_the_loop[/nom]Most important things are on the cloud (google services). But for SMS use SMS backup+ which backup SMS;es to gmail.For photos, just set that every picture taken is uploaded to google+. The limit is 2500*2500, but that is still very good for a phone camera.But, in reality, if you wanna backup the whole system the only way is to root the phone and then use somthing like nandroid (in recovery mode). That is like doing a norton Ghost for android. Everything on the device is dumped and can be written back if the phone is repaired.The second best thing is titanium backup, which backup up all apps and all the settings.[/citation]
I do both regular nandroid backups and have titanium backups, with both of them being copied to my dropbox account (which means they are on the cloud as well as on my desktop and laptop comp) I love dropbox

 

[Guest]

+1 for nandroid backups

 

[WyomingKnott]

[citation][nom]joshybo7[/nom]he mentioned multiple times that he is an android user, i do not think a liveid would help him much regarding that particular situation.[/citation]
Somehow, that gives me an image of a robot using the phone. "Hello (beep). I am an Android user (beep)." But I have a very silly mind.