I’ve been looking for a method to backup my phone so if I should loose or upgrade the firmware I’m able to restore the phone to its previous state.\u00a0 All of my contacts are either in Facebook or Email so I have no problems restoring contacts as they are all “cloud” based.\u00a0 What I would like restored is all of\u00a0my SMS, MMS, Call Logs, Screen layout and installed applications and associated data.<\/p>\n
After searching a number of forums I decided to use the application MyBackup Pro<\/a>\u00a0as this application seems to be highly recommended by the Android forums.\u00a0 This program was able to backup and restore my Call Logs, SMS and MMS data after I did a factory reset so that was pretty good, but to get all the other data I had to root<\/a> my phone.<\/p>\n I’ll list the procedures below that\u00a0I followed to root my phone, but after doing so I am now able to backup all Android Market applications and data, Home Screen layouts and other items.<\/p>\n I am reasonably happy with the MyBackup Pro application but it is not perfect.\u00a0 Below is a list of items that were and were not\u00a0backed up.<\/p>\n — Lost Settings —<\/p>\n — Items that were Restored —<\/p>\n I just used the\u00a0default call notification settings so I don’t know if that was able to be restored or not.<\/p>\n For those of you that don’t already know I am using the Samsung Galaxy S, GT-I9000.<\/p>\n One of the good things I like about MyBackup Pro is that I can schedule a backup to occur on a daily basis at a certain time which is automatically backed up to the “cloud”.\u00a0 The trial version of MyBackup functions for 30 days and they give you 2 MB of online storage.\u00a0 When you purchase MyBackup Pro for about US$5 you get 100 MB of storage and you can also backup to a SD card if you prefer.<\/p>\n — Rooting Procedure —<\/strong><\/p>\n Step 1<\/strong>. Step 2.<\/strong> Step 3.<\/strong> I’ve been looking for a method to backup my phone so if I should loose or upgrade the firmware I’m able to restore the phone to its previous state.\u00a0 All of my contacts are either in Facebook or Email so … Continue reading \n
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\nFor some reason as far as I’m aware the Galaxy S sold in Australia did not have the 3 button recover and download buttons activated.\u00a0 To activate this functionality you can follow the Fix 3-Button Combo Download & Recovery Mode In Samsung Galaxy S GT-I9000<\/a> from addictivetips.<\/p>\n
\nYou need to replace the recovery manager from Version 3 to version 2e.\u00a0 Version 3 does not allow the use of unsigned zip files but 2e does.\u00a0 Again there is an addictivetips page that describes the process called How To Install ClockworkMod Recovery On Samsung Galaxy S I9000<\/a>.\u00a0 Even though ClockworkMod is not been installed, we are only interested in the recovery manager downgrade process.<\/p>\n
\nThe final step is to download and install the root functionality.\u00a0 There are many ways to do this but I find the easiest is to download the root update.zip file and apply to your phone now that recovery manager 2e is installed.\u00a0 Download the One-Click-Root<\/a> file and extract its contents.\u00a0 Then copy the root.zip for Android 2.1 operating system or root2.2.zip as update.zip to your phone, boot into recovery manager and then select apply update.zip and your done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"