Question about backing up phone to the cloud

[agentmobile]

Ok so I'm used to iOS and being able to save everything from photos and contacts, down to settings and web history all to iCloud. I know android has always been on the cloud, but I'm curious as to how I would similarly back up my whole phone and everything up so if I ever needed to delete and restore my device, my content and settings would pop back up as it was before. Any feedback is appreciated


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[smooth4lyfe]

Just log in with your Google Account on your phone and it will back up your Apps, contacts, calendars, and photos to your account

 

[mfriedman79]

Being logged in with your Google account will backup most basic things to the cloud, but not near as much as iOS does. Assuming you have the setting checked to backup to Google things like installed Apps, wifi passwords, device settings do get backed up; although a bit inconsistently in my experience. For picture backups you would need Google+ and have instant upload enabled. Contacts and calendar will sync automatically and as long as when you add new entries you select to add to your Google account and not the local phone memory it will be saved. if you forget and add contacts locally you can always hit the menu button and select "Merge with Google" to upload local contacts.

For me the biggest missing feature on Android is the backing up of 3rd party application save data. It's so annoying to flash a ROM and lose all progress in a game after re-install or having to always reconfigure applications. Thankfully there are products like Titanium backup which help resolve this, but it would be so much nicer if it was built in.

 

[agentmobile]

I totally agree about losing data from games it sucks that's one of my main reasons. U would think Android would had something similar to iCloud but no. It was so simple with iOS I would just hit restore and bam everything is there because I had auto back up on which automatically backs it up daily. But I love android , and I'm gonna root for the first time after the JB update and I'm gonna get the pro version of titanium backup


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[smooth4lyfe]

Yeah Titanium Backup was SO GREAT to backup everything I also recommend that as well. I used to be with iOS for about 4 yrs b4 I switched and so far it has really blown my experience away being with android...things are so much easier to me, but Titanium Backup is amazing