Galaxy S or Iphone

DUTR

thegoodman wrote: »

The member of Android Religion will say anything to support their belief.

Do you mean like where you create another screen name to re enforce what you said?
Let's not forget zxcvop

DUTR

mrochester wrote: »

I just genuinely want an answer to the question because so far I haven't been able to find anything that makes setting up/restoring an Android phone as easy as the iPhone. If there's something that makes it as easy as that (without any hacking/rooting/whatever!), then I'm all ears to finding out what it is!

custardy, any further information as to what this backup/restore function is?

I posted an answer in post #31, although you are saying not as easy, the alternatives are not difficult. Simply run the PC suite software .

mrochester

DUTR wrote: »

I posted an answer in post #31, although you are saying not as easy, the alternatives are not difficult. Simply run the PC suite software .

So Sony PC software will allow you to backup and restore any Android phone?

owen1978

mrochester wrote: »

I just genuinely want an answer to the question because so far I haven't been able to find anything that makes setting up/restoring an Android phone as easy as the iPhone. If there's something that makes it as easy as that (without any hacking/rooting/whatever!), then I'm all ears to finding out what it is!

custardy, any further information as to what this backup/restore function is?

This is a copy an paste from an android device user guide

Back up my data
Check to back up some of your personal data to Google servers, with your Google Account. If you replace your phone, you can restore the data you’ve backed up, the first time you sign in with your Google Account. If you check this option, a wide variety of you personal data is backed up, including your Wi-Fi passwords, Browser bookmarks, a list of the applications you’ve installed, the words you’ve added to the dictionary used by the onscreen keyboard, and most of the settings that you configure with the Settings application. Some third-party applications may also take advantage of this feature, so you can restore your data if you reinstall an application. If you uncheck this option, you stop backing up your data to your account, and any existing backups are deleted from Google servers.

Automatic restore
Check this option to restore your settings and other data when you install an application, if you installed and used it previously on this phone or on another phone, where you signed in with the same Google Account and were backing up your settings.

It has worked when my wife moved from her OSF to her Samsung ACE

DUTR

mrochester wrote: »

So Sony PC software will allow you to backup and restore any Android phone?

I'm sort of not really sure what you are asking here, as why should the Sony PC Suite back up any android phone? I have shown a pic of the Sony PC Suite here is one for the HTC



So in answer to your question it is a back up of the Brand of handset not the OS.
The manufacturers make handsets that adopt the Android OS but then is hardwared to what they want to offer.
Only Apple make iphones so only itunes would be appropriate for iphones, I don't see that as any different to any other brand, if Apple decided to offer an Android handset then itunes would not be a suitable pc suite for it. I'm not sure why you (as it comes across) seem to think the whole world should be using itunes?

Plushchris

lol at all this talk of backing up, when I had the iPhone I was amazed that I couldnt transfer contacts from my sim card to the phone, a basic function that I had on a Nokia phone over 10 years ago..

Plushchris

thegoodman wrote: »

The member of Android Religion will say anything to support their belief.

Android religion?

At least it encourages diversity with all the many different handsets on offer I guess whereas apple limit you to a choice of two handsets. (both pretty much the same)

mrochester

DUTR wrote: »

I'm sort of not really sure what you are asking here, as why should the Sony PC Suite back up any android phone? I have shown a pic of the Sony PC Suite here is one for the HTC



So in answer to your question it is a back up of the Brand of handset not the OS.
The manufacturers make handsets that adopt the Android OS but then is hardwared to what they want to offer.
Only Apple make iphones so only itunes would be appropriate for iphones, I don't see that as any different to any other brand, if Apple decided to offer an Android handset then itunes would not be a suitable pc suite for it. I'm not sure why you (as it comes across) seem to think the whole world should be using itunes?

I'm just wondering why one Android phone from one manufacturer can't be backed up and restored to another Android phone from another manufacturer. I was under the impression that the ability to chop and change between devices was a big plus of the platform, but it seems that it comes with some major caveats (namely, you have to set each device up from scratch unless you buy from the same manufacturer, in which case you can restore from your backup). I've obviously got the wrong impression from somewhere and it's obviously not as easy as I first envisaged it was going to be. It basically seems to mean you are stuck with buying from one manufacturer unless you are prepared to set each device up as new.

This is a copy an paste from an android device user guide

Back up my data
Check to back up some of your personal data to Google servers, with your Google Account. If you replace your phone, you can restore the data you’ve backed up, the first time you sign in with your Google Account. If you check this option, a wide variety of you personal data is backed up, including your Wi-Fi passwords, Browser bookmarks, a list of the applications you’ve installed, the words you’ve added to the dictionary used by the onscreen keyboard, and most of the settings that you configure with the Settings application. Some third-party applications may also take advantage of this feature, so you can restore your data if you reinstall an application. If you uncheck this option, you stop backing up your data to your account, and any existing backups are deleted from Google servers.

Automatic restore
Check this option to restore your settings and other data when you install an application, if you installed and used it previously on this phone or on another phone, where you signed in with the same Google Account and were backing up your settings.

It has worked when my wife moved from her OSF to her Samsung ACE

Thanks very much; so it seems like you can do a crude backup, but some/all of your app data/settings/saves may be missing when you restore?

lol at all this talk of backing up, when I had the iPhone I was amazed that I couldnt transfer contacts from my sim card to the phone, a basic function that I had on a Nokia phone over 10 years ago..

I wonder why your iPhone was missing the 'Import SIM Contacts' option? I've no idea how long the option has been there... it's not something I've ever used!

EDIT - iOS 2 introduced this option so that was... 2008?

DUTR

mrochester wrote: »

I'm just wondering why one Android phone from one manufacturer can't be backed up and restored to another Android phone from another manufacturer. I was under the impression that the ability to chop and change between devices was a big plus of the platform, but it seems that it comes with some major caveats (namely, you have to set each device up from scratch unless you buy from the same manufacturer, in which case you can restore from your backup). I've obviously got the wrong impression from somewhere and it's obviously not as easy as I first envisaged it was going to be. It basically seems to mean you are stuck with buying from one manufacturer unless you are prepared to set each device up as new.

Thanks very much; so it seems like you can do a crude backup, but some/all of your app data/settings/saves may be missing when you restore?

I wonder why your iPhone was missing the 'Import SIM Contacts' option? I've no idea how long the option has been there... it's not something I've ever used!

That is no different to having an iphone though is it? What if the next or previous handset was not an iphone, as you mention it is about the manufacturer. So the Apple data is only available to another Apple device, where is the difference?

owen1978

mrochester wrote: »

Thanks very much; so it seems like you can do a crude backup, but some/all of your app data/settings/saves may be missing when you restore?

I wouldn't say crude, but it worked too good, as I didn't want it to restore her old settings - i ticked the restore option without thinking.

The backup/restore to cloud functionality is built into the android os by google themselves and not by 3rd parties.

So its in every android phone from v2.2 i believe