how do i backup everything before rooting?

[edwinc8811]

so im gonna try to root my official 2.1 by flashing that new sbf and installing a custom rom to get root.

how do i back up my contacts and my apps where i have saved information?

 

[thebizz]

Contacts and apps are backed up to your gmail if you have the option checked.
Sms can be backed up with wave secure

 

[edwinc8811]

thanks! alright lets do this....

 

[thebizz]

Good luck with the root process

 

[Duvi]

Btw... the back gmail backing up everything doesn't always work. I actually lost my all my free apps once. The paid app of course was still there, but I had to download again as it never synced.

 

[thebizz]

I've lost free apps also more to do with the Rom I've flashed to then Google.

 

[edwinc8811]

i lost my apps but i backed everything up using astro. my droid now runs jrummy cyanmod and i just bought setcpu....

WOW....just WOW....

 

[Duvi]

i lost my apps but i backed everything up using astro. my droid now runs jrummy cyanmod and i just bought setcpu....

WOW....just WOW....

Thanks for the heads up. I didn't even know astro did that.

 

[Duvi]

I've lost free apps also more to do with the Rom I've flashed to then Google.

I believe you're right. Just put a new ROM on and it did it again. Went back to cyanogen and everything loaded.

 

[thebizz]

ASTRO is good at backing things up but you loose the ability to update the apps you back up. Once rooted titanium is a better alternative. You can restore app data so the market knows you have it

 

[edwinc8811]

Actually the market didn't know what apps I had but once I came back to it an hour later, they were all back. I guess it takes a while for all those apps to sync

 

[thebizz]

Shouldn't take more than five. Minutes for the apps to show in the market. I miss those roms. That downloaded the apps for me