a sad story

yesterday i was walking down a small soi in chiang mai and i suddenly heard screaming and crying from a young ferang woman about a hundred yards in front of me

she had droppeed her phone down a drain and was hytericaly screaming , shouting , crying , trying to catch her breath and running across the soi and back uncontroalably while two other girls friends ? tried to calm her down

while all this was going on thais were running out from everywhere to see what was going on and two ferang boys were on their knees fishing around for the lost phone but i honestly thought this girl was going to die of shock there and then

after a few minits they found the phone which obviously was a smartphone with water dripping out of it but nothing could console this girl and she collapsed in a big heap

so my question is as an android newbie how can i easily back up my non rooted galaxy cooper phone and 7.7 tablet n case this or anything else happened to mine

dave2

ps ... the sad part of this is if my newish toys died or were lost i would just buy new ones but this poor girl had probably just lost her whole life down a drain

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What is it, exactly, you wish to back-up? Contacts, photos, email, applications, etc. There are many, many, many, many options. There may be no one single silver bullet for your specific requirements.

Yes, there IS a silver bullet to this:

Go to Google Play and find "Lookout" -----> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lookout

Not only is it a highly recommended anti-malware and anti-virus program, but has excellent (and automatic) backup functions as well. Works alos as a phone finder, and it is free!

I take out my AIS SIM card now and then at the AIS office at Future Park, they save everything on it to there setup. Then if the SIM goes bad, which has happened to me once, they can reload all the Contacts.

The Micro SD card I just back up to the HDD on my PC.

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Mac

Here ya go, from the best Android support site on the web: http://www.androidtabletpcsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=61.0

Detailed instructions of how to do a backup of a Android tablet, which will also work for an Android phone.

Not sure about the OP's phone, but I have a Galaxy S4 and I find Samsung's Kies works fine.

I take out my AIS SIM card now and then at the AIS office at Future Park, they save everything on it to there setup. Then if the SIM goes bad, which has happened to me once, they can reload all the Contacts.

The Micro SD card I just back up to the HDD on my PC.

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Mac

nowadays phones don"t use SIM card to store contacts, they're inside the phone's phonebook.

Depends if you're phone is rooted.

Go Backup will backup everything, and I mean everything, apps+data, contacts, bookmarks, Wifi hotspots, etc., and it will do it to Dropbox if you want.

Android 4.2 has backup and restore built in (finally!)

There's no need to back up your contacts as they are backed up automatically in your gmail account -- the one you used to setup your android phone. If you go to the gmail account, under the drop down menu where GMAIL is written, you will find contacts and all your phone contacts are there so you can just import on any phone you have.

Maybe you have to select synch the phone at setup but that's about it.

As someone else already said, contacts are synced with Google, my pictures go into Dropbox and the rest is either anyways online or not so important.

But I lost once my angry birds high score and fully understand how this poor women feels...

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Dear Dave ... I would recommend using G Cloud backup... You don't need to root your device and it's free and it backs up quite everything. So yes that would be my piece of advice Ciaao

There are so many items which one might care to back-up:

efs.tar (IMEI)

Contacts

Stand-alone

Google

WhatsApp!

Line

Skype

et al

call records

calendar

notes

alarms

SMSes

Photos/videos/music

WWW bookmarks

Applications/data

Google

Other

APN

WiFi

and probably quite a few I've forgotten.

Again, not certain any one, single app. can accomplish all this. Likely you'll need some combination of apps.

I think back-up/restore has been around since (at least) Android 4.0.4?

I have Android 4.3

thanks for all the replies especialy koo with his " lookout "

which i almost went for but after going into norton 360 which i run on all my computers to see if they could solve a problem that was driving me nuts

i see they now have a new android app that should do all i want so im looking into that at the mo coz as theyve been looking after all my stuff for years and never had a problem

ill probably stick with them !

dave2

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