New phone- quick activation question

**Amyshubby** · 04-10-2012, 09:24 AM

Just got the Rezound in the mail from Verizon. I'm very excited to activate it today during lunch. Sim card and battery already installed. I looked through the activation material and see there is an option for the verizon backup assistance. I use Google for my contacts and calendar and I manually backed up my photos and videos to my computer. Is there any advantage to using backup assistance from verizon? My concern is that I might even end up with duplicate entrys.

**MrSmith317** · 04-10-2012, 10:19 AM

Verizon backup assistant does nothing but waste your time and battery. It's for people that can't or won't do their own backups. I think you'll be fine.

**skatergirl** · 04-10-2012, 10:51 AM

Originally Posted by Amyshubby

Just got the Rezound in the mail from Verizon. I'm very excited to activate it today during lunch. Sim card and battery already installed. I looked through the activation material and see there is an option for the verizon backup assistance. I use Google for my contacts and calendar and I manually backed up my photos and videos to my computer. Is there any advantage to using backup assistance from verizon? My concern is that I might even end up with duplicate entrys.

I would ignore backup assistant unless you decide that you are not going to be using an Android phone anymore and you need to get your contacts backed up before you switch phones. I use gmail to back up all my contacts and calendar. I believe some people use other applications.

Backup assistant is totally useless when you have a smartphone. Gmail backs up everything in the contact, including pictures.

**Amyshubby** · 04-10-2012, 11:15 AM

That's what I thought. Especially because I am already using Lookout. Thanks for the quick responses!

**daniel-k** · 04-10-2012, 04:03 PM

How do you ignore backup assistant? I agree that it is useless, but I don't see how to ignore it on my unrooted phone.

The only options that I can see are for which times the backup should occur, but there is no "never". Maybe I'm missing something.

**dpham00** · 04-10-2012, 04:12 PM

Originally Posted by daniel-k

How do you ignore backup assistant? I agree that it is useless, but I don't see how to ignore it on my unrooted phone.

The only options that I can see are for which times the backup should occur, but there is no "never". Maybe I'm missing something.

Without root, just don't run the backup assistant setup when yo first setup the phone. Once it is set up, can't undo it unless you do a factory reset or root.