How to back up your Android phone
April 27th, 2010 | 
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Android phones are fairly secure, but there are still lots of ways your data might get lost. Your phone could get stolen, or dunked in a river for example. Backing up is always a good idea. You should also backup your phone whenever you update its firmware in case of nasty accidents. Read on to find out how to back up your Android phone…
Backing up apps
One of the limitations of Android that we hope Google will do away with soon is that you can only install apps to the internal memory of your phone. It quickly proves restrictive if you’re an appaholic.
Try downloading AppManager for free to back up your apps to your SD card, meaning you can reinstall them later on without resorting to a full re-download from the Android Market. This becomes especially important when apps being yanked off the Android app store isn’t unheard-of.
Backing up SMS messages
If you like to keep conversations with your friends, there are some great apps to archive your SMS history quickly and easily. Txtract – SMS Backup lets you export your text as an HTML file that you can either save to your microSD card or email to yourself.
The similarly-titled SMS Backup automatically sends all your texts to your Gmail account, acting as a secondary store should anything go wrong with your phone’s memory banks.
Backing up everything
If you don’t want to mess about with partial solutions, MyBackup Pro saves your contacts, SMS and MMS messages, Settings, Alarms, Dictionary and a whole lot more besides. You can either dump it all to your microSD card, as an image of your phone’s current state, or store it online on MyBackup Pro’s servers. We’d recommend doing both.
If the worst happens, just reinstall the app on your newly-formatted device then restore your phone’s previous status from within MyBackup Pro.
Managing your memory
Keeping an eye on your internal memory level is always important with an Android phone. You can check out how many megabytes your phone has free by going to the Settings menu, then heading to SD Card & Phone Storage. Down the bottom of this menu, you’ll see the internal memory details.
The best way to keep your internal memory in check is to monitor how many apps you have installed and always make sure to put music and video files on your microSD card rather than in the internal memory
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