Backing up a Galaxy S3

jem16

Question from my brother who currently has an iPhone 3Gs but considering what to do with either buying the new iphone or going with something like the Galaxy S3.

How easy is it to back up? I know he will not be bothered with something that involves rooting etc. Needs to be simple but effective.

Rusty!

Very easy, you need the ADB utility.

Turn on USB debugging in the development menu, plug your phone into the PC and run "adb backup -all"

jem16

Rusty! wrote: »

Very easy, you need the ADB utility.

Turn on USB debugging in the development menu, plug your phone into the PC and run "adb backup -all"

So how does that work?

What he'll be looking for is something as simple as Apple's iCloud for backing up.

jayme1

you can backup the settings wallpaper installed apps ect. on android with your Gmail account, it backs-up in pretty much exactly the same way as Apples iCloud, contacts are synced with Google Contacts same with Calendar ect.

the result being if you have get a new android phone it will automatically pull your settings, wallpaper, contacts, ect. ect. from Google and setup your new phone just like your old one.

jem16

jayme1 wrote: »

you can backup the settings wallpaper installed apps ect. on android with your Gmail account, it backs-up in pretty much exactly the same way as Apples iCloud, contacts are synced with Google Contacts same with Calendar ect.

the result being if you have get a new android phone it will automatically pull your settings, wallpaper, contacts, ect. ect. from Google and setup your new phone just like your old one.

Ok - thanks. That sounds better.

Does it also backup sms messages, photos, music etc or is that handled in another way?

jayme1

jem16 wrote: »

Ok - thanks. That sounds better.

Does it also backup sms messages, photos, music etc or is that handled in another way?

I don't think so but you can use this application following these steps to backup SMS and MMS to a label in Gmail.

Forwandert

Buy a memory card, set the S3 to save all photos to the sd card and transfer music to the card then everythings on the memory card, also with the S3 you get 50gig of cloud storage with Dropbox, you can set the phone so it sends pictures automatically to Dropbox so you can access them from anywhere.

bengalknights

To backup everything you can use a app called backup master