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What is the most robust backup method for Xperia X10?

Hi folks
What would be the easiest and most thorough way of backing-up/syncing everything on my Xperia X10? I have read some advice on the SE website but I am unsure whether what they suggest includes absolutely everything on my phone, i.e. downloads from the Andriod Market, contacts, music, pictures, settings, etc.
I previously had a Nokia 5800 which had an in-built backup programme which made a copy of everything onto the memory card.
Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated.
Many thanks
Scott

Latest firmware has a backup tool.
I didn't test it
I personally use Titanium but you need root for it.
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Thanks tux Style. What firmware version has this backup tool?
My phone has firmware version 1.6 and build number R1FA016

Yea I like the back up Sony provides in the update.
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The SE Backup Tool (and My Backup Pro too) doesn't include Shortcuts on the Homescreen (I'm using Zeam Launcher).
Does Titanium include absolutely everything?

scott2121210 said:
Thanks tux Style. What firmware version has this backup tool?
My phone has firmware version 1.6 and build number R1FA016
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I think R2BA020.
In 023 is for sure.

I have used My Backup PRO for 2 months till today and today I have tried Titanium Backup beacause I dont want to have both apps on my phone and let me tell you, this app restores your phone to the EXACT state as it were when you made backup. I mean, wallpaper, widgets, shortcuts, data, Market links, EVERYTHING, literally EVERYTHING ! I havent tried My Backup PRO with root features, without them it worked great 1 month ago when I didnt have root but I have decided to dump one of these apps since I hate to have 2 apps that do the same thing and Titanium was first choice because it has ability to uninstall stock apps after root AND it restores all apps with one click, no manual confirmation for installation. Those are 2 major and BIG advantages of Titanium Backup over MyBackup PRO.
Hope it helps

damirbusic said:
I have used My Backup PRO for 2 months till today and today I have tried Titanium Backup beacause I dont want to have both apps on my phone and let me tell you, this app restores your phone to the EXACT state as it were when you made backup. I mean, wallpaper, widgets, shortcuts, data, Market links, EVERYTHING, literally EVERYTHING ! I havent tried My Backup PRO with root features, without them it worked great 1 month ago when I didnt have root but I have decided to dump one of these apps since I hate to have 2 apps that do the same thing and Titanium was first choice because it has ability to uninstall stock apps after root AND it restores all apps with one click, no manual confirmation for installation. Those are 2 major and BIG advantages of Titanium Backup over MyBackup PRO.
Hope it helps
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Fantastic! I will give Titanium Backup a go but it certainly sounds promising. My device is not rooted but if it worked for you then I am sure the same will be for me.
Thanks again
Scott

Hm, you cant use Titanium if you are not rooted :-\ Also, non rooted phones cannot backup Market links and data in apps. For non rooted phones MyBackup PRO is the only solution and the best one, that for sure.
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Yea you are correct...I am not rooted and it therefore did not work.
I will go check out MyBackup PRO and see how I get on.
Thanks again for all your assistance.
Kind regards
Scott

I have accidentally bricked my phone do to some tests on modding
So before that I use SE backup and restore and Titanium to back up apps and data.
after re-rooting, first I use SE restore and restored basics.
and Titanium first to restore all my apk files and then selective applications of data.
Im have easily got my previous state around 95% of it
I would recommend SE backup and restore and Titanium combination strongly to any one.

What does TB backup ? Because MyBackup PRO backups SMS, contacts, call logs, apps, market links, settings, only thing that it DOES NOT backup are widgets and wallpaper. I read on other forum that Titanium does not backup SMS and contacts, WTF ?

damirbusic said:
What does TB backup ? Because MyBackup PRO backups SMS, contacts, call logs, apps, market links, settings, only thing that it DOES NOT backup are widgets and wallpaper. I read on other forum that Titanium does not backup SMS and contacts, WTF ?
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sms, contacts, call log stuff will cover by SE backup and restore.
for me, all my contacts are sync with Google mail. so i just need to sign-in, automatically all will sync with out backup.

That means that Titanium does not cover that !?!? MyBackup PRO covers all of that, I cannot believe that TB does not do that.
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damirbusic said:
That means that Titanium does not cover that !?!? MyBackup PRO covers all of that, I cannot believe that TB does not do that.
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You got to be kidding . Titanium will backup *everything*. No app without root access (such as MBP) will do the same.
SMS is called "[SMS/MMS/APN] Dialer Storage 1.6"
Contacts data is called "[Contacts/Calls] Contacts Storage 1.6"
Look at the Legend - "green" is "system service with useful data" and filter by "system" in the Backup/Restore list.

I also was really suprised when I saw this:
http://androidforums.com/android-applications/128633-mybackup-pro-need-help.html
And I have abandoned MyBackup PRO because I dont want to have 2 apps that do the same thing and TB was better because it could uninstall apps after root. But my schedule backup in TB does not work !?!? It is ON and on ignore list in Task Manager but no backup was made
EDIT: MBP also has root acces.

Well, is something strange.
The schedule is working but it seems is missing some tasks.
At least on my phone.

Nope, mine says with red letters next backup and writes date and hour but when that passes it only says next time when it is scheduled but also says "No backups yet". Really have no clue why is that so...

Is the default Backup and Restore program any good?

Hello, I have a question, I come to have a milestone, and can be done
an entire system backup using nandroid backup, there is something similar in
the xperia? like I can do if you accidentally brick the phone?
P.S: sorry for my bad inglish, google translate sucks xD

[Q] Is the a basic backup software?

Is there a backup software that can do these simple backup function
1. backup sms automagically every day and delete previous backup that is more than x days old.
2. Backup contact automagically every day and delete old backup that is more than x days old.
3. backup downloaded apps same way as above.
this kind of software will be particularly usefull for testing rom regularly and no need to remember to backup everytime before flash new rom.
Last time I had PIMBackup in my HTC touch polaris with these function.

2+3 made by google sync
1+3 by titaiumbackup\my backup pro.
1- check market for sms backup, there are many options.

Titanium and my backup work only for rooted phones.
Any backup solution for non-rooted?

Tik_Tak said:
2+3 made by google sync
1+3 by titaiumbackup\my backup pro.
1- check market for sms backup, there are many options.
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backing up apps with google take lots of download time. and also it will take almost a whole day to download all my apps from internet after install rom.
Titanium looks complicated.
I use es file explorer to backup apps in sd card. this reduce the download time.

How does everyone backup their S6's?

I'm just curious what backup solution everyone uses for phone backups.

Helium.
Used TB for many years but Helium is a decent alternative that doesn't compromise warranty.
Helium doesn't obviously do as much as TB but it suffices.
Still waiting for Google to get on par with Apple's approach to backups.
-- from my S6

I used to use twrp all the time , would love to be able to install and flash twrp only to make my backups but I don't want to root just yet till I find out when Samsung pay is coming.
in in Canada on rogers , I don't think its possible to install / run twrp without being rooted and not break knox.

Titanium backup for apps. TWRP for Roms. Laptop for photos and mass music.

I have just been using the Google backup built in to Android. It's not great, but not terrible either. It will restore most of your phone settings and will install all of the apps you previously had installed (or you can pick and choose which to install), but you still have to go through most apps and set them up again.
Anyone tried Samsung's backup built in to the phone?

gtg465x said:
I have just been using the Google backup built in to Android. It's not great, but not terrible either. It will restore most of your phone settings and will install all of the apps you previously had installed (or you can pick and choose which to install), but you still have to go through most apps and set them up again.
Anyone tried Samsung's backup built in to the phone?
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google back ? hmmm which one we talking about here ?

ex-28 said:
google back ? hmmm which one we talking about here ?
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Settings > Backup and reset
You should see different backup settings. One with Samsung account and another with Google like you find in stock Android.

My 2 Backup-solutions that are working flawlessly since day 1 on every device.
Gcloud Backup - for calllogs and sms
Folder Sync pro - for my photo albums, music, whatsapp and everything else. I sync all that with gdrive or onedrive since I've got there 130gb of storage thanks to s6 ^_^

Data backup

What's the best way to backup/restore apps/data from a rooted phone to an unrooted 4a? Does a Google restore restore data/settings from non-google apps (like MixPlorer)? I usually restore with Swift Backup, but don't think that works without root.

tcat007 said:
What's the best way to backup/restore apps/data from a rooted phone to an unrooted 4a? Does a Google restore restore data/settings from non-google apps (like MixPlorer)? I usually restore with Swift Backup, but don't think that works without root.
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Google restored all of my apps with data/settings including Mixplorer for me using the data cable connected to my P2XL. I did have to log back in with passwords and redo biometric logins but that was expected. Google even copied my downloads folder and most of its contents to the 4a.
Before you restore make sure to go into the Google One app and manually back up your data.

GoldElocks said:
Google restored all of my apps with data/settings including Mixplorer for me using the data cable connected to my P2XL. I did have to log back in with passwords and redo biometric logins but that was expected. Google even copied my downloads folder and most of its contents to the 4a.
Before you restore make sure to go into the Google One app and manually back up your data.
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My 5t backs up to Google drive. I assume the cloud backup would be the same as cable backup? I've never done a phone to phone bu. I always just use cloud but for Google apps, and Swift (or titanium) for the rest thinking Google didn't backup data.
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I've used Google Restore, Helium, My Backup Pro and had success with all of them. Restoring settings and app data is not too difficult.
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I just use the cable to Cable transfer when I set up my 4A. This was from a pixel 3 XL rooted. All the apps that were at least available on the Google Store were moved over. The applications like viper for Android and ad-away were not transferred over.

Question How am I supposed to restore a backup from my p2xl to my new pup using the backup on Google drive?

The title says it all. I've got this backup on the Google drive cloud from my old phone. There are no options to restore from it. Is the only time to restore from the old phone's backup at setup?!

I was wondering that too and I just assumed you could do so during setup by selecting the "cable doesn't fit" option or saying you didn't have access to your old phone. Not sure about after setup tho..

issasaurus said:
I was wondering that too and I just assumed you could do so during setup by selecting the "cable doesn't fit" option or saying you didn't have access to your old phone. Not sure about after setup tho..
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I can't believe there's no other way to utilize our backups except during the time of setup ridiculous. Does anyone know if there's a way to get the backups on our new device after setup or how to force the setup menu?

It's not too tough, using ADB, or it doesn't appear tough (I haven't actually tried this, but retrieving and using the correct token-values seems pretty straightforward): https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/testingbackup
There do appear to have been some "launch apps" that were able to trigger this through a (hidden) system-app-launch, but I see zero mention in more recent (i.e. > A9) times...
My personal peeve is the fact that Google makes it incredibly difficult to access (can't even see these anymore on my Drive account), and create some sort of restore-point backup, of a device. You can use this same adb technique above, but what if you just want to "fiddle with some sketchy apps", or similar, and have a couple of bailout backups, it's sure not easy, by any stretch...

Just use Swiftbackup with Google drive. It backs up and restores all your apps, data, phone logs and messages

swieder711 said:
Just use Swiftbackup with Google drive. It backs up and restores all your apps, data, phone logs and messages
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I just moved my swift backup from my PC to my p7p. I'm ready to restore. Google seems to have done a good job restoring my apps through its backup. It didn't seem to restore any of the data though. How should I do the restore with swift? Do I just restore the data for system and user apps? Do I slrwatore the APKs too? Given that most of not all the apps have been restored by Google what happens if I restore the APKs with swift too? Will the apps be duplicated?

Schroeder09 said:
I just moved my swift backup from my PC to my p7p. I'm ready to restore. Google seems to have done a good job restoring my apps through its backup. It didn't seem to restore any of the data though. How should I do the restore with swift? Do I just restore the data for system and user apps? Do I slrwatore the APKs too? Given that most of not all the apps have been restored by Google what happens if I restore the APKs with swift too? Will the apps be duplicated?
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I use Swiftbackup to restore apps with its data which works 90+ percent of the time. I think you can restore the apps again via Swiftbackup.

swieder711 said:
I use Swiftbackup to restore apps with its data which works 90+ percent of the time. I think you can restore the apps again via Swiftbackup.
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understood. the question is if I select apps data and apps will it cause an issue if google has already restored a lot of the apps with its backup?

Schroeder09 said:
understood. the question is if I select apps data and apps will it cause an issue if google has already restored a lot of the apps with its backup?
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I think Swiftbackup will just overwrite the apps that you restored from Google. I can't see any problem.

swieder711 said:
I think Swiftbackup will just overwrite the apps that you restored from Google. I can't see any problem.
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When I last used Swift to restore from backup all my apps were glitchy. I had started to clear data from them all to get them to work correctly, but ended up doing a factory reset. Restored from Google and everything was fine

K1nsey6 said:
When I last used Swift to restore from backup all my apps were glitchy. I had started to clear data from them all to get them to work correctly, but ended up doing a factory reset. Restored from Google and everything was fine
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There was a bug using Swiftbackup to restore apps to a P7. It has been fixed.