Backing up Android phone to Google?

Biggles

I'm still relatively new to an Android phone and I've had to send it away for a repair. I had the usual reminder to back it up, though it's only a screen replacement so shouldn't affect the data.

But my limited understanding of the sync process between Android and Google is that, while new items added to the phone appear in, say, my Google calendar, similarly items deleted from the phone disappear from my Google calendar.

So, if the calendar data on the phone is deleted, why won't I lose all the Google calendar data?

dipsomaniac

Your data is syncing with your google account on googles servers. Just make sure all your important stuff is syncing in settings>accounts>google account

Biggles

I get that, dipso, but still don't see why one deletion to a calendar entry is reflected in my Google a/c but not a deletion of all entries.

RumRat

Biggles wrote: »

I get that, dipso, but still don't see why one deletion to a calendar entry is reflected in my Google a/c but not a deletion of all entries.

You are not deleting all entries if you lose the data on your phone.
You would still be able to access the calendar on other devices or when you re-log into your phone.
The events are held on the Google servers and only deleted if instructed so.
Apologies if I didn't understand your dilemma.

dipsomaniac

if you factory reset your phone all of your data, memories and multimedia (if synced) are still available on other devices just not on your phone until you boot up, log back into your google account and re-sync

DoaM

The only real thing to watch are SMS and call logs (and music stored on the device) ... these don't automatically backup to Google servers unless you've installed apps to do this.

Biggles

Excellent, thanks for the advice.

I couldn't see that there was a difference between me actively deleting an entry and the data being erased in some way. Now I know that there is, I am reassured.

Thanks to all.