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Steps To Backup Your Android Smartphone

Thursday, 26 February 2015, 01:39 IST
By SiliconIndia
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Locally back up media, messages and apps



So after all the important ones safe, now it comes to saving your choices, music, videos or other media.



This is how you do it:



Connect your phone to the computer with a USB. If you are on a Mac, make sure you have the Android File Transfer application installed before you do this.



Open My Computer on your PC or open finder for Mac.



Navigate to the SD card and copy all the files you want to save to your computer.



You can unplug it after you save them.



Back up your text messages also



If you have any important text messages that you ought to save you can also do it right now by following these steps:



Download SMS Backup+.



Open the app and tap on Connect.



Pick your Gmail account from the pop-up.



Now click accept to let it access your Google account.



Now go back to the app and tap on Backup. This will save all your text messages to your Gmail account.



Log in to Gmail from any Web browser and on the left side you will find- SMS. Click it to view all the text messages that have been backed up.



To restore these messages, just tap Restore in SMS Backup+.



Tap OK in the pop-up.



You'll be asked to set SMS Backup+ as your default SMS app. Tap Yes. This is needed to restore messages.



Now the app will automatically restore all your messages and call logs. Once the process is complete, the app will show a pop-up that restores your default SMS app. Tap Yes.



This is how you back up your files or any other media files from an Android phone.
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