Can someone tell me, or point me to a tutorial that explains how to:
1. Backup contacts to PC
2. Backup paid apps to PC(don't want to have to buy it twice...)
3. Backup app data/settings to PC.
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So, there is no way to backup to your SD card, or PC? For windows mobile, I use Sprite, which works great. I was looking for something like that.
Thanks
Never used WinMo, but Titanium Backup might be what you're looking for. You need root to use it though.
I don't mind rooting if that is what it takes, but I can't belive that there is not an easy way to at least backup your contacts.
Backing up Contacts, several ways:
Samsung Kies -- follow the sticky at the top of this forum, it will back them up to your PC.
Export to SD Card, then copy to your PC -- Enter the Contacts app, hit Menu, More, Import/Export, Export to SD Card.
Copy them to your SIM -- Enter the Contacts app, hit Menu, More, SIM Management.
Sync them to AT&T's servers, which will do it in real-time when you add/delete them, similar to if you synced to your Gmail contacts .. the other benefit here is that you can log on to your AT&T account via the web to manage your phone contacts and it will sync your changes. Useful if you're mass-adding and want to use a full keyboard for speed. -- Enter the Contacts app, hit Menu, More, Settings, AT&T Address Book, click Auto Sync contact with online Address Book.
Backing up paid apps: I have not used it, myself, but Titanium Backup might do what you need, as the previous poster said. You can find it in the Market and read up on it.
Backing up app/data settings to a PC. I'm guessing this would be more app-specific than anything, no? I don't think Google imposes or enforces any standards on data/setting storage for apps, so any single backup tool would have to support individual apps one-by-one. Please update this thread if you find anything, because it would be pretty convenient ....
UserNamer said:
Backing up Contacts, several ways:
Samsung Kies -- follow the sticky at the top of this forum, it will back them up to your PC.
Export to SD Card, then copy to your PC -- Enter the Contacts app, hit Menu, More, Import/Export, Export to SD Card.
Copy them to your SIM -- Enter the Contacts app, hit Menu, More, SIM Management.
Sync them to AT&T's servers, which will do it in real-time when you add/delete them, similar to if you synced to your Gmail contacts .. the other benefit here is that you can log on to your AT&T account via the web to manage your phone contacts and it will sync your changes. Useful if you're mass-adding and want to use a full keyboard for speed. -- Enter the Contacts app, hit Menu, More, Settings, AT&T Address Book, click Auto Sync contact with online Address Book.
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Awesome. Sounds like backing up the contacts won't be a problem.
Backing up paid apps: I have not used it, myself, but Titanium Backup might do what you need, as the previous poster said. You can find it in the Market and read up on it.
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Will look into it. What would really be nice would be if google would do this for us. Seems like it would be pretty easy for google to remember which apps I have purchased, and not charge me next time I try to download it. Perhaps the marketplace already does this? I just don't want to buy an app and then remove it to find out....actually I will not pay for any apps until I can figure out how to back them up. I don't mind spending $5 on an app, but I do mind spending $5 for each app every time the phone gets reset...
Backing up app/data settings to a PC. I'm guessing this would be more app-specific than anything, no? I don't think Google imposes or enforces any standards on data/setting storage for apps, so any single backup tool would have to support individual apps one-by-one. Please update this thread if you find anything, because it would be pretty convenient ....
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Again, I don't know, this is my first android phone. But with Ubuntu Linux, pretty much all apps store their settings in a hidden folder in /home/{your-username}/ (i.e. firefox would store it's data in /home/{your-username}/.firefox/ ) All you have to do to backup all of your settings is to backup the /home/{your-username}/ folder. It is common for people to place /home/ on a different disk/partition, so that you can reinstall the OS and not loose any of your data/settings...
Android is also linux so I would think it would be similar...
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Seems like it would be pretty easy for google to remember which apps I have purchased, and not charge me next time I try to download it. Perhaps the marketplace already does this?
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I am not sure how most app developers currently handle this, but I think Google made it easier a few weeks ago with the announcement of their new "licensing service for android applications". Plug that into your favorite search site (minus the quotation marks) and a post from Eric Chu explaining it on the Android Developers Blog should be up top.
But with Ubuntu Linux, pretty much all apps store their settings in a hidden folder in /home/{your-username}/
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Home directories are great. =) I haven't used Ubuntu in a long time, so I'm not sure if you're saying that the system enforces it or if it's still just up to the individual developers to follow convention and store their settings in /home/ ... but I'm looking through my internal SD card and it seems like most of the apps I have installed (including the Google ones) each created their own data directory at the root level. :\
Titanium also backs up your contacts, paid apps, and free apps. The pros of rooting outway the cons. You can always un root if you need to send your phone in. I am also a newb and I've been wondering if I had to return my phone and get a new one will my paid apps carry over to a new device. I have the my license key for Titanium so I am thinking that I will be good in the event of such emergency. All of my paid apps are backed up there and I wiped my phone to factory settings the other night, I didn't un root, I was trouble shooting an issue caused by AT&. I did a reinstall of Titanium and it recognized my device because it installed donated version and I restored everything with ease.
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I haven't used Ubuntu in a long time, so I'm not sure if you're saying that the system enforces it or if it's still just up to the individual developers to follow convention and store their settings in /home/ ...
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I don't know, as I'm not a developer. But I would think that it would cause problems if a program tried to save data outside of /home/ The user would probably be prompted for their password every time the app tried to write a file...since sudo is required to gain write access to anything outside of home.
Hi all, I have just released my first App onto the Android Market so I thought I would post about it on here.
It a simple lightweight App which allows you to store you login information for different websites that you use. The app will also allow you to quickly copy and paste the information into the fields on the website.
All the passwords are encrypted and stored into Android's built in database. When you want to login to a website you can the load the website from the App, which will automatically copy the username allowing you to paste it into the field on the website. Also, when you load the website from the App it will create a notification which, when clicked copies the password for the website you selected allowing you to paste in to the password field. This provides a simple and quick solution to logging in and it also means that people who are standing around you cannot see you enter your password.
The app can be found on the market by searching for Boardies Password Manager. There are two version, a free version which is ad supported and a donate version which has the ads removed.
I hope you find this app useful and would to hear your comments.
Great concept. Though, is there a way to do this without requiring the Full Internet Access permission? Knowing that it requires this is what is preventing me from giving it a shot on my own device.
Hi, thanks for your comment. The Full Internet Access is only there to allow you to send bug reports from the settings page and to allow the Adverts. I promise you know personal information is sent over the Internet.
Sorry if you sent the reply a while ago, I thought I would receive an email to inform me about a reply.
I have uploaded my first app on to the Android Market and haven't too much interest so far on XDA so I thought I would post a little bit more information about the app.
This is a simple and light weight app that allows you to securely store and easily login to different websites on your phone.
Do you have all your passwords saved into your devices web browser meaning that anyone who has access to your phone can log on to the websites that you’ve accessed. Do you regularly wipe your phone for whatever reason and get annoyed at having to keep typing in your username and password. Then this might be the app for you.
The app will store all the login information that you enter into the app, which include the company name, the web address, username and the password. Each login is listed on the front screen. If you click on the stored login it will load the website and copy the username to the clipboard allowing you to paste into the username field. Also, when you launch the website from the app it will also create a notification. Once you have copied the username you can then click on the notification to copy the password. This way you do not need to switch to and from the app and the browser to copy the login information. Once you have launched the website, the copying of the username and the password is done while the app is running in the background.
All passwords that are stored within the device are encrypted using AES encryption algorithm to ensure your data is safe.
To protect others from accessing the app you can enable a password that needs to be entered before getting access to the app. Also, for added protection you can enable a feature that will automatically reset the app back to first use if the password gets entered incorrectly 3 times.
The app enables you to backup and restore your stored logins to a file on the SD card of your device. Should you need to wipe your phone, or if you get a new device and want to restore the logins onto your new device you can use the file that was generated from the backup in order to restore your data.
Although the App has Internet Access this is only there to enable you to submit bug reports from inside the settings menu and to enabled adverts to support the app development. I promise you, know personal information that you store inside the app is sent over the internet.
The App can be found on the Android Market. There are two versions, one which is a free ad supported version and a donate version which is identical to the free version but doesn't show ads. Please search for Boardies Password Manager.
Thanks
A new update has been released today in order to enable support for Android 2.1 and up. Tests have also been made to ensure that the app works correctly on honeycomb
Hi all,
I write this app for myself but soon i decided to put it on Android Market
As you read on thread title, it is a simple app useful to write secure notes on flat filesystem. You can find it h ttps://mar ket.androi d.com/details?id=com.tostis.notes".
For lazy people i copy&paste market description here
Write down secret notes with Tostis Notes. Text is encrypted with AES algorithm and saved on your SD card to make backup easier. Every .tec file has its own alphanumeric password and is stored by default in /sdcard/TostisNotes/ directory.
Share unencrypted text inside your note with application like GMail, SMS, Twitter etc.
Send encrypted .TEC file as attachment in GMail or backup it with Dropbox.
Print to any printer with Google Cloud Print.
This is the ad supported version, please click on banner!
Buy Pro version with more features: ht tps://m arket.andro id.com/details?id=com.tostis.notes.pro
Features:
- Share unencrypted text or encrypted .TEC file
- Shake to close!
- Vibrate on save
- Move app to SD
- Custom directory on SD
- Order file list by name, data or size in ascending or descending order
- Open .tec file directly from your favourite file manager
- Backup to Gmail folder
- Print text with Google Cloud Print h ttp://ww w.google.com/cloudprint
QR Code -> ht tp://qr code.kaywa.com/img.php?s=8&d=https%3A%2F%2Fmarket.android.com%2Fdetails%3Fid%3Dcom.tostis.notes
Sorry but i cannot post links.
Great to see but unfortunately I don't trust closed source. Having trouble finding a solution since WhisperSystems was bought by Twitter
Sorry for delay. What are your concerns about closed source in security application? Tostis Notes simply creates a binary AES encrypted file starting from your typed text. The key is your salted passphrase.
All other features like print or backup are written around this core feature.
Most of the permissions are required from advertising network but are not used if you buy the Pro version.
PS. You already sent me an email, right?
Hi,
I have some apps that I have forgot the password to.
The apps still works but if I want to access the content using my PC I can not since I forgot the password.
Is there a way to extract existing passwords.
To stop this from happening in the future is there an password manager that automatically saves the passwords that I create for the different apps.
Or if there are no manager that does this automatically one with as little effort as possible would be good.
Also it would be nice If this manager auto-fills the username and password because I have some apps that automatically logouts.
Is there a manager that is freeware?
I do not know of a way to extract a password from an app that is logged in, that is mostly because the app does not store your password, but a special has that has your login information session.
However, going forward you can use something like LastPass to store your app passwords, it will prompt you to save them when entering, and you can use it on your desktop as well.