Backing Up a Samsung Infuse 4G

[WaLLy]

Hello Android gurus!

I've searched high and low and for the life of me cannot find a way to backup the wife's stuff like I can with my iPhone. Her phone is giving her a bunch of problems and the first thing support will say is to erase and restore that bitch! and with no backup of contacts, pics, texts, pretty much anything worth backing up, I cannot erase it.

I'm not looking to root it because it's already giving her problems and don't want Samsung to bitch about it.

Help, pl0x. kthxbai.

 

[BluBirD78]

Well for the contacts you can click on the phone button, then contacts, hit your settings then it should say import/export there to do either with those.

As for the pictures they should all be stored on the SD card so you shouldn't have to do anything with them, to check open some type of file explorer (I like ES File Explorer), make sure you are on /sdcard/, navigate to your DCIM and the pictures should be under your Camera folder.

And for text messages, you can download an app called SMS Backup & Restore that can save all of your text messages, when you back them up they should be stored on your SD Card under the folder /sdcard/SMSBackupRestore.

That should save the things that you asked about here, those are all I ever saved when I "erased" mine. I know all of this because, well I've done it several times and it does work lol, when I was rooting my phone, if you want to know more just ask and I'll help out if I can

P.S. Keep in mind this is for Android 2.2 and 2.3, anything higher "should" be the same but I have never used higher than 2.3.

 

[Joonikko]

+1 what Blu said, but I would use app called "Backup Master"
Handy way of backing up APN settings before testing custom ROM's


or use Samsung Kies to backup contacts, messages, pictures music etc.
Calendar should sync with Google account automatically.


I'm currently testing the just released "value pack" from Samsung for the original Galaxy S.

 

[Joe Momma]

1. Samsung doesn't care if you root or install custom OSes on their phones, in-fact they promote it.
2. http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-20054149-285/how-to-back-up-your-android-phone/

enjoy


Also forgot, you can use samsung's kies program on your computer. Should be able to backup everything

 

[felon]

1. Samsung doesn't care if you root or install custom OSes on their phones, in-fact they promote it.
2. http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-20054149-285/how-to-back-up-your-android-phone/

enjoy

So basically wally fails at searching for that?

 

[WaLLy]

thanks everyone! I downloaded MyBackup Pro using Joe's link and that backed up mostly everything but the apps and their game saves. So the wife is a little :sad: about that but it's nothing too major.

Hopefully a fresh restore fixes the odd crap that phone gives her.

 

[Joe Momma]

thanks everyone! I downloaded MyBackup Pro using Joe's link and that backed up mostly everything but the apps and their game saves. So the wife is a little :sad: about that but it's nothing too major.

Hopefully a fresh restore fixes the odd crap that phone gives her.

Yea I'm sure it will. If you rooted her phone you could have backed up all her apps and games using titanium backup. Oh well.