If you’re planning to root your Android phone, it’s best to backup everything on your phone to the cloud or your computer. But, even if you’re not rooting your phone, it’s still a good idea to backup all your data and information to ensure that everything is safe and nothing is lost.
Here’s what you can backup, what you can’t backup, and what can be backed up depending on your circumstances:
Things that can definitely be backed up include your phone’s photos, videos, calendar, contacts, and texts. The things that can maybe be backed up are the app data and music, and apps just can’t be backed up before you root your phone.
To backup your photos and videos, you can either connect your phone to your PC and copy them onto your PC by drag-and-drop or backup to the cloud or another service such as OneDrive. If you want to backup your contacts, go to the People or your Contact app and click on the unsynced option. If there are any contacts there, it means that they’re not saved or backed up anywhere, and they’re just locally on your phone.
To backup your texts, download the SMS Backup Plus app and connect to Google. Then press “Backup” and the SMS messages should be saved to the SMS folder in Gmail.
To backup everything, go to settings, scroll down to Google and then accounts, and then go to sync settings and press “Sync now.” Also, make sure that all the options are checked that you want to be synced. Repeat this for any other accounts that you may use.
Music and apps can be manually backed up, but it is available on Google Play Music if you purchase it from there. If you’re using different apps such as Spotify or something like that, then you can simply redownload it and then download the songs straight from the app.
By following these steps, you can backup as much as you can on your phone and ensure that everything is definitely backed up so you don’t lose any data.