Backup of apps on s3

[Bilal Almuhandis]

I will be soon getting the samsung galaxy s4. I need to take a complete backup of my apps that i have downloaded. Can anybody give any suggestions?

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[Robert White1]

Why? you really won't need it unless you're rooted and want to have all the apps reloaded in one fell swoop. If that's the case you can use titanium backup to backup all the apps and you can restore it to the new phone if you copy the backup file to the new phone, and install titanium backup on the new handset as well.

If you are not rooted, just go to the play store and when connected and logged in, press the menu button and select my apps. All the paid apps that you bought are installable without paying for it again.

One other thing you can use is onthefly backup. It copies all the installed apps to a single folder that you can save and reinstall from.
I have found it sometimes does not copy all the apps, but more than you can remember to do manually LOL

 

[GSDer]

You may want to try Helium: http://market.android.com/details?id=com.koushikdutta.backup - even on a non-rooted phone you can backup both apps and app data, along with SMS (not MMS though), etc.

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[GTWalling]

Also be careful not to backup and restore system apps.

 

[Bilal Almuhandis]

This is because i shifting to a new galaxy..so i would need to transfer all the apps on to the new phone

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[GSDer]

Bilal,
Actually, when you first set up the new phone, and enter your Google account information, it'll automatically start downloading your apps.
However, it won't have your app data, so it would be a good idea to use something like Helium to backup your apps and data on your current phone and restore it to the new phone. Be sure that you backup to the SDCard (if you have one) so that you can just move that to the new phone and restore from there.
If you don't have an SDCard, you can backup to the cloud (Google Drive; Box; etc.) but you'll have to purchase the full version of Helium to be able to restore from the cloud.

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