Backup Questions...

[lasu]

I was reading the announcement and tried to figure out how to backup my phone before rooting it. or is that wrong?

Will I be able to go back to unrooted if there is a problem?

I already backed up my pics and contacts though..
Please help me. I am looking at the how to's at the unlocker but it doesn't say anything about backing it up.

 

[riadav]

From what I understand you've got to basically root before you can backup. Once you install the recovery partition you can do a backup from there that will get you back to that point in time...so...after rooting...before flashing custom ROM.

Once in the recovery partition (power + volume up) you can select backup and do a nand backup to your SD card.

I think you can un-root but personally have not had any issues to make me look into it.

Good luck!

 

[lasu]

Thanks, was waiting for an answer before rooting. here goes nothing.

 

[riadav]

So, lasu, how did you make out?

 

[jprausch]

Here's a related, but simpler, question. I have yet to install the 2.1 upgrade. I want to back-up my contacts first, in case I lose them in the upgrade. How can I easily back-up my contacts? This may seem like a dumb question, but I am sort of a newbie and am not 100% knowledgable about sync-ing, though I do have a Gmail account, if that helps. Any help anyone could provide me on how to backup my contacts, in easy clear instructions, would be very much appreciated.

 

[riadav]

Your contacts should already be backed up to your gmail contacts. Have you checked your gmail contact list?

 

[jprausch]

I have checked, and they are not there. What do I do now, please?

 

[riadav]

Hmmm...I think if you go into the contacts app and then into the menu there is an import/export option which dumps your contacts to your SD card.

That means they are local Phone contacts and not google contacts. I would try to get them imported to google, then your backup happens natively with each sync.