Warranty Replacement Droid and Back-Up

[viperboy]

I received a replacement Droid due to cracking the screen. All I did was take the SD Card from the broke phone and put it in the new Droid... activated the phone.. used my gmail address at setup.. all contacts and calendars d/l'ed along with the paid Apps (Documents-To-Go and PicSay). Had to re load all the free apps... Set up my screens again. Not a big deal.. all is well now.

To me this seems a pain in the a--! I think mybackup pro backs up everything but i havent tried it yet to know for sure. if i got a new droid for this reason or that i dont want to setup my home screens and shortcuts widgets etc etc again.

I have MyBackup Pro and thankfully I've only had to backup things so far. I would kinda doubt that it would backup the home screen though. Would be awesome if it did, has anyone had to do that?

[thelion]

For the record, your free apps *should* auto d/l. It just takes a few minutes. But you must MAKE SURE you use the same gmail address to setup the new phone as you did with the old phone or it will not work (obviously).

[10ACTony]

I received a replacement Droid due to cracking the screen. All I did was take the SD Card from the broke phone and put it in the new Droid... activated the phone.. used my gmail address at setup.. all contacts and calendars d/l'ed along with the paid Apps (Documents-To-Go and PicSay). Had to re load all the free apps... Set up my screens again. Not a big deal.. all is well now.

To me this seems a pain in the a--! I think mybackup pro backs up everything but i havent tried it yet to know for sure. if i got a new droid for this reason or that i dont want to setup my home screens and shortcuts widgets etc etc again.

I have MyBackup Pro and thankfully I've only had to backup things so far. I would kinda doubt that it would backup the home screen though. Would be awesome if it did, has anyone had to do that?

MyBackup Pro does back up everything and lets you restore the apps in a new phone(free only to original phone that was backed up). But it's a pain in that, You have to go to settings and "Allow Unknown Sources". Then once they are all installed none show up in the market as being installed - hence you will not be notified that there are updates available. It's a great program outside of that.