Help recovering settings after phone number port

**Holy the Goalie** · 09-24-2010, 10:30 AM

I recently purchased the Droid X to replace my aging and crappier-by-the-day iPhone 3G. I decided to use the new number that Verizon supplied me while I tested the phone out to make sure that I really did like it, and to make sure that Verizon's coverage would be sufficient where I use my phone. After about a week of playing around with it, I've decided that this phone freaking rocks, and I'm going to keep it.

I called Verizon to have them port my old number, which they were happy to do. I never received a notification from them saying that the port was complete, so after about 18 hours I went ahead and just dialed *228 to update my phone. Upon completion of the update, my phone powered off, then downloaded an update (looked like when it downloaded Froyo, but only took a few seconds), then rebooted with everything restored to factory defaults.

Is there any sort of "one click solution" to recover my previous settings/apps, or am I going to have to go back through and try to remember every change I've made over the past week?

**raygunc** · 10-28-2010, 04:07 PM

Hey did you ever find out a way to back this up, for those of us who haven't yet ported our number? My friend just called me w/ this news after he ported his DroidX. I was just about to go port my EVO and I want to back it up first.

Any ideas? I've read something about a "Nandroid" backup, but if i find out i'll post back here for others.

GenericMessage · 10-28-2010, 04:16 PM

your phone number and google account have NOTHING to do with eachother.

As long as you use the same google account you'll be dandy!

**raygunc** · 10-28-2010, 04:49 PM

thanks for the quick reply GenMsg -

So when i port my number and its gets the new PRL, and my EVO auto-resets to factory default, as long as i set it up w/ my google account, it will download and restore my Settings, home screen widgets, email bookmarks, contacts etc?

Am i understanding that correctly?

**raygunc** · 10-29-2010, 11:45 AM

Just ported my HTC EVO over from AT&T to Sprint. It didn't reset like the Droid-X did, so no worries. My friend called and told me this happened to his Droid-X so i got concerned, but we're all good, it didn't even need to reboot to update phone numbers. Thanks!