Unified Cloud Backup!

[anon(344696)]

Alright, so this is a widely covered topic. But I just wanted to express some of my own frustration I've been running into recently.

I have an HTC One. Completely internal storage, and now that CM 10.1 is progressing nicely, and HTC announcing a Sense-less HTC One - I've been looking into cloud services to keep my phone backed up. I began my journey looking for a way to keep pictures and videos backed up, since Google only backs up contacts/calendar events etc with GMail.

Then, while researching cloud services on my Hackintosh, and after watching the WWDC keynote, I thought to myself...how nice would it be to have a service like iCloud, only ran by Google?

I have never owned an iPhone, or an iPad, but I do sell and activate iPhones regularly as a phone dealer, and have experienced everything iCloud has to offer. A backup for everything. Notes, pictures, videos, contacts...all you'll ever need. Not only that, but it integrates seamlessly into other devices, including a desktop operating system.

Here's where my frustration began. With Android, and Google, I'll need to use GMail to keep my contacts, calender events...etc backed up. Google Drive to upload my documents. Picasa to backup my pictures and videos, which is also part of Google's failed social networking service Google+, which poorly organizes things into dated albums, Evernote to keep my notes backed up...see where I'm going with this?

Sure I could use Dropbox to keep things backed up, or SkyDrive, or whatever. But I want one unified backup service, that is reliable, syncs things across all platforms, and integrates very well into the device.

I hate having all of these additional services that require extra apps, extra programs on my computer...

 

[srkmagnus]

Have you considered HTC Sync Manager? It'll work with the One. However, I'm not sure if you'll be able to pull the data if you switch to another manufacturer.

HTC Sync Manager

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[ajua]

This is something I would like, but we need to use some apps/services to do that right now.

Windows Phone 8 had the "new" iCloud functionality when it launched and it works great. It even syncs to Windows 8 computers WiFi passwords, sms conversations and more, without requiring anything on your part, only that you log in with the same account. This is how it should work in Android, but different manufacturers with different settings and app can't use a unified solution I'm afraid. I don't know if iCloud will work as seemless as SkyDrive.

The only thing I want is to SkyDrive to implement automatic photo uploading. I use my Microsoft as the default for contacts, calendar, tasks and mail. Only thing missing for me are the photos but we can upload them manually to any cloud service or use HTC Sync Manager as srkmagnus said.

I haven't tried it yet, I just installed the drivers to use the One as an MTP device in Windows but I will definitively give it a spin to sync data and keep photos and files in my main desktop.