How to Automatically Backup Your Android Devices

hey what's up it's Jared with Stata tech and today is Thursday so Android tip day and we're going to talk about backing up your device now backing up your device is extremely important for many reasons obviously we have a lot of our important data on our devices and we don't want to lose that data we want it to be safe and when you set up your phone for the first time typically it asks you to enable backup and all that stuff but if you're not sure if you want to be a hundred percent sure that you are backing everything up here's how you do it so I have two devices here I have a Samsung Galaxy s7 edge this is James's he's here in our office and then I also have a Nexus 5x that is running Android 7.0 the process is no different the only reason I have two different devices here is because with Samsung Samsung also has their own kind of backup but it's been called S cloud in the past I don't really know what they call it these days but they backup some data and then also Google with with your Android operating system backs up some data so let's take a look at the Samsung device first so this is James's phone and we're going to go into our settings here so we'll go and tap on settings and so the first thing you're going to want to make sure you have enabled is your Samsung Account so you want to go into accounts and this may look a little bit different depending on what Samsung device or maybe you're on an LG or a Motorola or any other device some of them have their own backup along with Google's backup as well so with the Samsung devices you just get kind of like double the backup which to me is totally fine so you want to go and make sure that you have Samsung Account listed in your accounts if you don't you can tap on Add Account and then scroll down and add a Samsung Account but it up there it is up at the top actually tap on Samsung account and add that account once it's added you'll have your profile here and you can tap on your email address to see which information is being backed up to Samsung you see the available options here based on which Samsung apps and stuff I have running on my on this device here is calendars contacts internet and keyboard data so you can toggle those on and off according to what you want backed up now the majority of us that login with our Google account and use Google calendar and all that stuff like that stuff's all going to be backed up to Google anyways so Samsung is just kind of like an additional layer and same with LG and any of the other manufacturers out there phone manufacturers that have their own backup alright so let's get out of Samsung here and go we'll swipe a couple of screens over to backup and reset backup and reset is the is the the settings page here that has the backup information for your Google Account and that's going to be the same on all of these devices so you can see here under Google Account right here it says backup my data turned on and it shows backup account and then automatic restore those are our three options that we have here so you want to make sure backup your data is turned on because it's basically going to be backing up your data whenever your phone is at rest so when your phone is at rest it will start to backup your data maybe when it's plugged into power nobody really knows when it's ping backed up it just is backing up in the background and then your backup account here you can add additional backup accounts but you want to make sure that your main Google Account that you use is the one that's logged in here I would recommend making sure that it's the same account that you use to purchase apps so the same account that you are logged into for the Google Play Store it's best just to kind of have that all under the same kind of the same email account in my opinion and then automatic restore what automatic restore allows you to do is make this backup available for an automatic restore so when you restore your phone or maybe you get a new phone a new Android phone and you log into Google your Google Account when you're setting up that phone it's going to give you the option to restore data from this particular phone and that's a great feature because then it will download your apps and sync your data and everything over it's fantastic and it doesn't matter whether you're going from a Samsung to and Nexus 5x or an LG or a Motorola or whatever any of those phones you're going to be able to sync across them and have your apps at least be downloaded so you don't have to go through that manual process over again so let's go ahead and take a look at this on the 5x so we'll scroll down here keep in mind this is Android 7.0 which is a new version so it does slightly look a little bit different but it is the same process for backing up and reset so we'll tap on backup and reset you can see backup my data is turned on I have my account enabled in there and I have automatic restore enabled as well and it's the same process that we just walk through on the Samsung device and on most other devices it's the same process as well as long as it is running and a version of Android it's going to have this backup and reset section for you to toggle that on now you want to make sure that this is enabled one additional measure is to go into your accounts so go into your accounts and tap on Google and then tap on the email address for the account and you'll want to make sure that your data is being synced now you don't have to sync all data you'll notice I add a couple of items toggled on and a couple of items toggled off here but you'll want to make sure that your data is syncing because it's not only is it going to sync this data from when you're using a web browser or maybe you know you access your calendar and make a change to your calendar through a web browser or a tablet but then if you make changes to your calendar or something like that on your phone you want to make sure that that data is being synced back and forth that's part of the backup process so as you're here in the sync section you want to make sure that the appropriate toggles are turned on for syncing so that your syncing the data that you want synced to your Google account and then when you go to get a new phone or maybe you you know you have to restore this phone for whatever reason when you log back in all of these toggles will be correctly turned on or off and that data will be pulled over automatically through that restore process that you'll walk through at the beginning of setting up your device pretty cool it's pretty cool that they have this obviously there's you know a pretty solid backup process on an iPhone too so most of these devices all have a really good backup solution but on Android it's just there there's so many different devices and the setup process is different whether you bought an unlocked phone or an AT&T or Verizon or whatever so you just want to make sure that the during the process of setting up your phone initially that you have it set up correctly and one last thought I know a lot of people have their phones set up for them at the store when they buy the phone and some people at these salespeople at the stores will take the time to set it up appropriately other people will just hit the skip skip skip skip button to get you onto the home screen and say that your phone is set up because it's making and receiving phone calls as fast as possible so you definitely want to make sure that your backup is set up appropriately so if you have any questions about this ask them in the comment section below for sure we'll do our best to answer them and subscribe to our channel if you'd like to see more videos like this you'll get notified when we put out new videos which right now we're doing five days a week putting out content for you guys so make sure to subscribe to our channel thanks so much for checking out state attack and we hope to see you next time

Channel: Jerad Hill Tech

Views: 410,079

Keywords: nexus 5x, samsung galaxy s7, galaxy s7 edge, samsung galaxy s7 edge, samsung, samsung galaxy, backup, android backup, google account, google backup

Id: TISzc39NnsI

Length: 8min 18sec (498 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 01 2016