Over time, our phone becomes much slower because the performance is not the same for different reasons, either by installing apps, memory consumption and much more. Sometimes we want to keep a lot of information from that terminal so as not to lose any data and transfer it to the new smartphone, essential if they are photos, videos and contacts.
The ideal if you are going to restore it from the factory is to make a complete backup, saving all the information that in the end is all that has been collected for many months. There are several ways to do it, whether you are root or not, and we are going to explain how to create it and then how to recover it.
Keep in mind that you must have enough battery if you want to create it, if it does not have more than 70% it will not be possible, so you will need to have a charger next to it. Whether you are root or not you will be able to do it in the same way and the best case is to do it without being root.
Create a backup without being Root
With creating the backup on Android We will save everything important that is photos, videos, documents and files, contacts, applications and WhatsApp chats. The ideal is to save everything in Google Drive, one of the essential applications to store everything and then recover it.
With Google Drive you can make a quick backup, it will let us upload the data to the cloud, from SMS, contacts, call history, everything that Google Photos contains, applications and device settings. It takes a while to export all of this to the cloud.
Create the backup with Google Drive
The first step is to go to Settings> Google> Backup, click on "Create a backup now"Once the process is complete, they will all be in Google Drive. This will take several minutes, so do not touch the phone if it is not strictly necessary.
Reset the phone to leave it as it comes from the factoryOnce this is done, enter your email with which you made the backup, you must use the same account to restore the Google Drive backup. Once you open it, it will notify you that it has found a backup, restores and expects it to complete everything in a few minutes.
Save your photos and videos from Google Photos
If you want to keep your photos and videos and go step by step you can do it, since all the images and video clips are stored in Google Drive following a different step than the backup. Google Photos gives us that option and quite a few other options within the application.
To create the backup of Google Photos you will need to open the application, click on the three horizontal stripes, select all the existing folders within the application, including WhatsApp, Telegram and others, click on Import everything to Google Drive. With this, all the files will be uploaded, something essential to want to keep all of the above.
Use your PC to save files if you don't trust the cloud
If instead you want to store all your phone files You can do it if you connect it to a computer with the USB cable, this will allow you to do it manually. The process can be a bit more tedious, but at the same time, you have everything available in a safe place.
The process is as follows: Connect your smartphone with the USB cable to the computer, select Transfer files, now on the PC give access to the device from "My PC", it will show you the model of your phone and follow these steps:
- Phone storage> DCIM> Camera, these will be the photos taken by the camera
- Storage> WhatsApp> WhatsApp Images and WhatsApp Video, this will allow you to copy and paste WhatsApp photos and videos
- In Storage> Pictures> Screenshot you have the screenshots of the phone
- Storage> Telegram, here what is saved by the application that competes with WhatsApp in terms of instant messaging
Save your contacts manually
This task will give us the option not to lose contacts at any time, his thing is to make a copy in a timely manner in case your phone does not turn on or does not load Android. Making an exact copy goes through a few simple steps that we tell you below to save them.
Go to Contacts, go to Settings and select "Export", that will generate a file that ends in .vcf, choose the folder in which you want to save it, now open Google Contacts or download the application, display the menu and access Settings, select Import and choose the created .vcf file, choose the account of Google in question and in a minute the process will be completed. With this you recover all the contacts stored so far.
Recover the backup
If you have managed to save everything with the first step, you will have the backup uploaded to Google Drive, the next step is to restore it, for this you need to follow a few steps. Turn on your phone once you have created the backup and follow the next steps to restore it.
- Log in with your Google account associated with the backup, do not enter another account if you want to recover everything and leave it as it was before.
- Choose the backup, in this case it will be the last upload.
- Select to restore all the applications or choose some manually, the first option is the appropriate one to keep all the tools that you previously had.
- Follow all the instructions to restore the phone, with this you will recover everything, including the saved contacts, but you can do it manually if you cannot load all of them in the Import contacts step.
- Even if you have a background wallpaper for your phone, it is usually saved, otherwise the one that comes from the factory will be installed, this can be changed by hand on the phone.
With this step you will achieve the complete restoration of the device, It is ideal if you want to do cleaning to improve the performance of the terminal. Google Drive is a necessary app for everything, even if you want to store things that you do not want to lose, be it photos, files and work documents or personal things.
As well You have other options to save files, among them are MEGA, Dropbox, 4Shared, HotFile, WeTransfer, FileHosting and Mediafire, among others. If you want to host files, make them encrypted so that no one has access to any of them, it is a point to take into account and consider if they are photos or vital documents.
Another tool to create a backup
If any application stands out for making very good backup copies of Android that is JS Backup, allows you to store the files in Google Drive, DropBox, Box, Sugar Sync or even on your MicroSD card if you have one. Doing it is quite simple, as well as recovering it with the app. You have two options, one is to create
Once you have the copy created you can recover it with the same application, so it is necessary to have it installed if you want to carry out the process. JS Backup takes a long time for Android devices and it is one of the important ones next to the one that comes with the phone.
JS Backup is a free application within the Play Store, is in Spanish and has four out of five stars, is one of the best voted and has a total of one million downloads. It works from version 4.0 or higher.
What is backup for
A backup is required on a regular basis for various reasons, the main one is to have a backup of everything that is on the phone, be it images, videos, documents and other files. Making a full copy takes more than 10 minutes, so be patient as you have to take time and always have enough battery.
In addition, with it you can return to the point where you were with your phone, since it saves all the applications, photos, videos, documents and everything until the moment that you had your tools. Many wonder if performance improves: yes, since the terminal will be clean despite everything being installed as before.
Among other options, you have the possibility of storing any file on your phone without the need to create a backup, as well as storing all the photos, PDFs, audio files and many other things without having to do it completely. Many users save the Google Photos gallery in Drive, 4Shared and other portals where data can be uploaded in droves.
Conclusion
If you change your phone annually, the important thing is to always create a backup copy in Google DriveWith it, moving to a new device is much easier just by logging into your email account. Passing all the information is loading a copy of quite a few megabytes because it will be compressed so that everything is much faster for the phone that you get to restore the copy with images, videos, documents and applications.