Monday, February 27, 2017

Preparing to factory reset my android phone

Most everything on my phone is automatically sync'd to the cloud. This means if I don't do any backup at all I still don't lose those things.

On my system these things have to be manually backed up:
* nova settings and screen setup
* s-note doesn't seem to back itself up to Evernote except when I manually tell it to do so
* pictures are automatically backed up to Dropbox and Google but it's a good idea to confirm - I didn't realize that I had gone over my quota just now and would have lost several pics
* documents other than Google docs (files located in documents or etc)
* music
* ring tones (maybe backed up? What about special ring tones for specific people?)
* setup for tasker
* setup for alarm plus
* setup for my profile manager
* beyondpod settings

For anything backed up, make sure it goes on the external SD card - last time I did this I put all the backups in a directory on the builtin SD card and lost them all.

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Done. Here's what I regret...
* sms messages - forgot to back up
* WiFi pw - surely there is some way to back them up - why didn't this happen automatically?!
* viber messages - why doesn't this backup automatically to my gmail backup account?!