Oreo 8 : Everthing gone. Cannot restore from my back up

[Carl_In_WA]

Nokia 3 recently updated to Oreo 8. Everything was reset. I tried to restore backup I made from my Google account but I cannot find the restore function. I am religious in backing up and now it seems for nothing. All sms, email accounts etc gone?. Please help. How do I restore backup I made from my Google account.

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! Did you do the factory reset yourself, or did it seem to do a factory reset on its own as part of the Oreo update? If the latter, that sounds like a glitch, since a system update should never act like a factory reset.

SMS doesn't get backed up to your Google account -- saved messages are only saved locally to the phone, so a factory reset will wipe them. You need to use a 3rd party app like SMS Backup & Restore beforehand. Email accounts can always be added back to the email app, but if you were using a POP3 server and downloading copies of your emails to the phone (and deleting the copy on the server), then those also don't get backed up to your Google account, and would also be wiped with a factory reset. That's one reason why IMAP is a better idea than POP3 -- the emails remain on the server with IMAP unless you delete them there.

 

[Carl_In_WA]

Thanks for getting back. Your points well noted for future reference.

 

[B. Diddy]

How about the question of the factory reset -- did you do it yourself, or did the phone do it on its own?

I'm not sure if this is possible, but you could also check with your carrier to see if they have a copy of your recent SMS threads saved on their servers.