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hey what's up it's Jared with Stata tech
and today we're gonna talk about how to
backup your Android phone now there's a
couple things that I do to make sure
that all the things that I like and I
want to keep are backed up and my
Android phones and Android phones are
different so there are different ways to
back them up depending on the type of
Android phone that you're using so I've
got the pixel 3 XL here and then I also
have the Galaxy S 10 plus and so we're
gonna quickly go through what I do on
any phone to back up some of the things
that I have and then also how to backup
the phone itself such as the apps the
data that you're saving within those
apps like games and all that good stuff
well let's start with what I do on both
of these phones so you'll see that I've
got Google Photos installed here most
Android phones are all gonna come with
Google photos on them now and Google
photos is great because it backs up all
of your images to the cloud all of your
images and video so there's no need to
keep them all stored on your phone
there's no need to download all of them
to your computer every now and then
they're gonna be backed up in Google and
so you don't have to worry about it now
if you're on the pixel device pixel
phones come with original storage of
those images if you're on another phone
and you use google photos Google photos
is gonna give you free unlimited backups
but those images are gonna be compressed
just a little bit now I rarely am able
to really tell the difference in the
quality of the images Google does
compress them a little bit so they give
you high-quality backups to your images
but nonetheless they still look
absolutely fantastic but if you don't
have a pixel phone and you want to and
you want to get a little bit better
quality images saved you can choose to
use your your Google one storage I think
is what it's called now Google one
storage to utilize the saving of bigger
images and all that stuff so I do that
when I'm not on one of my other devices
because you know when I'm when I'm
talking about photos and stuff and
camera phones I want to make sure I have
my original
photos but it's not really a necessity
now if you save other stuff to your
phone such as music and movies uh a
phone may have the option of having a SD
card in it and an SD card is a great way
to save some of those larger files and
make sure that they're not living on
your phone on the phones physical
storage not all phones support that for
example this phone does but this phone
does not so depending on the phone you
may or may not be able to use SD card
storage now for those of you that just
really don't want to be in the cloud at
all and use any cloud services that's
probably pretty tricky to do on phones
these days but a phone with an SD card
may be your best option because at least
the backing up of all of your data can
be done to an SD card instead of having
to be done in the cloud so Google photos
is pretty much the only app that I use
as far as backing up my photos and
videos I you also use Dropbox as well
Dropbox is great for backing up
documents and files and stuff like that
that I may open in an email and save to
my phone I can then save those in
Dropbox and so that way between like
documents and images and videos I have
all that stuff backed up and I'm not
having to worry about losing anything
now on a pixel if you're wanting to
actually backup the software it does all
this stuff by itself but you may want to
force a backup in case your phone hasn't
been plugged in in awhile or maybe you
just want to check to make sure that
your phone is being backed up so from
the surge just do a search for backup
and you'll see we've got we've got our
backup settings right here you can see
it says that it's backing up to my
Google Drive account and it gives me
that email address so you want to make
sure that these are correct you wanna
make sure that it's also the same
account that you use to download all of
your apps from because next time when
you go and log in to a new phone and you
need to restore your phone from its last
backup you're gonna want to make sure
that that's the same account that you
downloaded the apps from otherwise if
there's some paid apps
it's gonna check it against the Google
account that you're logged into and the
purchase history isn't gonna be there so
you kind of want to make sure that those
are matched up then it also shows the
active backups which are backups that
are happening periodically it shows my
app date it was backed up an hour ago
call history yesterday and all that
stuff so if I want to force it I just
simply tap backup now
and it's gonna backup all that data now
besides backing up using Google so this
is backing up to Google which probably
is the best way I think for Android
phones these days because backing up to
Google means that when you go and log
into your new device the reason that you
would need a backup is something happen
to your old device logging into your new
device it's gonna pull in all that data
and easily restore your phone I found
especially on pixel devices using Google
is just the best because it's so well
integrated samsung has its own backup
service as well using Samsung's cloud
service it works really good as well but
you can also backup to Google so you can
see that backup process is going to take
a couple of seconds while we wait we'll
jump into our Galaxy phone here so I'm
going to swipe down just like I did on
the pixel I'm gonna tap on the gear to
get to the settings here and of course I
can just do another search and I can do
a search for backup
so we've got backup and restore we've
got backup my data we've got back update
it we've got backup account on the s10
on the Galaxy phone we have all sorts of
options so let's just go to accounts and
backup you can see we've got accounts
backup and restore samsung cloud here so
we'll tap on backup and restore we could
backup data using our Samsung accounts I
could tap on that and it's gonna show me
all the data that I have backed up and
my available cloud storage now it shows
that my backup was done a couple of days
ago so I might want to tap on backup and
let it go through that backup process so
it's gonna go through and check
everything and make sure that everything
is backed up and it's gonna put that in
the samsung cloud so samsung cloud works
really good
Samsung devices especially if you know
that your next purchase is gonna be a
Samsung device if your next purchase is
not gonna be a Samsung device that's
where you might want to make sure that
you're backing up to more than one place
than just the Samsung cloud of course
these phones are getting good at
switching between them now so if your
say your next phone was a pixel you can
just connect the cable to your device
with a little adapter these phones come
with and use the Aptus to migrate
everything over but that's assuming that
you have your old phone anyways if you
had something bad happen to your your
Galaxy phone and you wanted your next
phone to be another device such as a
pixel but all of your backup data was
saved in Samsung then it's gonna be a
little bit tricky for you to go from a
samsung cloud backup over to like a
Google pixel device or an LG or some
other sort of device so let's go back
here you can see there's a restored data
option as well you can see here that we
can back up our data to Google also and
you want to make sure that this is
turned on so backup my data to your
Google backup account and just like I
said about the pixel phone you want to
make sure that you're backing up to your
Google account that all of your app
purchases and app purchases
subscriptions and all that stuff are
taking place and I've just found that
that's better so make sure that you're
doing that make sure that you have
automatic restore turned on I can also
tap on my Google account here notice
that I'm now looking at the same page
that I had over here on this phone so we
can see here how old our backup data is
into our Google account I can force a
backup if I want to just like I did
there and then also notice that we have
our external storage transfer here if
you have a micro sd card in your phone
on this particular phone or on another
phone that allows for that you can tap
here and you can actually go and and
look but I don't have a external storage
in my phone right now
so what I'd be able to do is of course
backup that data if I had one installed
in this phone at the current time so
that is the
of making sure that your phones are
backed up like I said I think Google is
the best option to back everything up
because it's their operating system
Android is from Google and so having all
of your backup data go to your Google
account
means that you're gonna be able to jump
between different devices easier if you
decide to switch brands later on if
you're only going from Samsung to
Samsung of course using the backup for
your Samsung as well as great because
some of the things that are not going to
transfer over for example like Bixby is
only available on an Android phone from
Samsung it's not available on a pixel or
an LG or any of the other manufacturers
so some of those specific settings to a
samsung phone or to an LG phone or any
of the other phones oneplus that are out
there you're gonna want to make sure
that you're using the backup that is
available for that phone because of the
specific settings that are gonna be
backed up and then also the Google
backup which is more Universal doesn't
isn't going to backup your Bixby isn't
gonna back up
some of those other specialized settings
for phone specific software but it will
backup everything that you either that
you're doing within Google services or
doing within any of the apps that you've
downloaded from the Google Play Store so
that's gonna do it for this video I know
it was a lengthy video I have a lot to
say there about backups I hope that it
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