Is there a way to capture and store all user/app settings?

[mfidelman]

I may be facing a reset to factory defaults & restore situation (Galaxy Note 8). Now Smart Switch does a pretty good job of doing a full dump/restore - but not quite. So I've been capturing screen shots of all my home screens and application folders, as a reference.

But.... I've been looking for a simple way to capture and dump all of the various user & application settings - as a reference.

Can somebody recommend either a tool or trick for doing so? Preferably one that will pick up everything that's unique to a Note 8, failing that something generic for Samsung or Android.

Thanks very much!

 

[Rukbat]

Helium will backup all app data (and the apps too, if you choose that).

 

[Gayle Lynn]

"Updated
October 1, 2016"

 

[strikeIII]

Samsung's built in backup cloud service works great. It's under settings - cloud amd accounts - backup and restore and under the Samsung Account section there is Backup Settings. When you wipe your device restore both from Google and Samsung and it should pretty much get you back to way things were setup.

 

[Gayle Lynn]

Samsung's built in backup cloud service works great. It's under settings - cloud amd accounts - backup and restore and under the Samsung Account section there is Backup Settings. When you wipe your device restore both from Google and Samsung and it should pretty much get you back to way things were setup.

Agreed. Found that it works with SD cards too.

 

[trucksmoveamerica#AC]

Samsung's built in backup cloud service works great. It's under settings - cloud amd accounts - backup and restore and under the Samsung Account section there is Backup Settings. When you wipe your device restore both from Google and Samsung and it should pretty much get you back to way things were setup.

Verizon users, don't get excited. Verizon decided we don't need that feature, it's not there.

 

[strikeIII]

Verizon users, don't get excited. Verizon decided we don't need that feature, it's not there.

What! That's super bogus for Verizon to take that out. SMH.

 

[trucksmoveamerica#AC]

What! That's super bogus for Verizon to take that out. SMH.

Well if it's there, it's not where the other poster said it was.

 

[strikeIII]

Well if it's there, it's not where the other poster said it was.

Straight from the settings menu type Backup in the search and see if it finds it.

 

[leerandall]

I have Backup and Restore under Accounts in Settings on my Verizon Note 8.

 

[magichoward]

Verizon users, don't get excited. Verizon decided we don't need that feature, it's not there.

It did but as after today they are no longer backing up 3rd party app data… .I received new terms and conditions…