Moving from one phone to another can be as traumatic as changing schools or moving to a new city. To make the transition less painful, you can use Google One to back up and restore Android.
What is Google One?
Every Google account includes 15 GB of storage shared across Gmail, Google Drive, and Photos. According to Google, the only files that don’t consume your free space are “Shared with Me” items, along with photos and videos stored in “High Quality.” Any media you purchased on Google Play doesn’t use your free space either.
You can get additional Google One storage if you pay a monthly or annual fee. As of August 2018, you can increase the storage capacity from 100 GB to 30 TB. Other benefits include customer support, family sharing (up to six people), Google Store benefits, and hotel discounts.
You can choose from the following plans:
- 100 GB: $1.99 per month, or $19.99 annually
- 200 GB: $2.99 per month, or $29.99 annually
- 2 TB: $9.99 per month, or $99.99 annually
- 10 TB: $99.99 per month
- 20 TB: $199.99 per month
- 30 TB: $299.99 per month
You can download and install the Google One app from Google Play for free. However, when you open the app, you’re prompted to select a subscription. You can’t use this app if you want to stick with the free, 15 GB plan.
How to Back Up Your Android Device Using Google One
After installation, the first time you launch Google One app, it prompts you with three toggles to back up “Multimedia Messages,” “Photos and Videos,” and to “Back Up Using Cellular Data.” Enable these to suit your preferences. Google One enables the “Device Data” option by default.
When you’re finished, tap “Next.”
A permission prompt appears. Tap “Allow” to grant “Photos” access to your photos, media, and files.
The app loads with the Home tab open by default. The first item you see is the “Device Backup” card.
If you’re ready to save your phone’s media in its current state, tap “Back Up Now.” If you want to make changes (now or later), tap “See Details.”
If you tapped “See Details,” you can change the back-up settings on the following screen. If necessary, toggle the “Device Data,” “Multimedia Messages, or “Photos and Videos” options on or off. You can also toggle-On or -Off the “Backing Up Using Cellular Data” option.
When you’re done, tap “Back Up Now.”
In the future, if you want to keep your current settings, you can just tap “Back Up Now” on the main page.
Keep in mind Google One doesn’t back up any media sent through the phone manufacturer’s texting app automatically. You have to save any attached media manually to Google Photos, which is backed up automatically if you enabled the “Photos and Videos” back-up option.
However, if you use Google’s Messages app as your default messaging client, Google One will back up everything automatically.
So, if you previously used Samsung’s app to send media, like stickers and videos, via text, you can install Google’s client and set it as the default to back up that media. You won’t see the media in either client until you restore from the Google One backup, though.
Restore Your Device Using Google One
If you’re moving from an old phone or replacing a damaged unit, Android’s setup process already includes a restore option if you enabled automatic backups and restores for your Google account. Tap the backup created for your device. Next, select the backup items you want to return to the phone, including apps, call history, device settings, and messages, and then tap “Restore.”
When your device is up and running, open the Google One app. You might see a “Restore” card under the “Device Backup” card. If you do, tap “Restore Backup” to get started.
If you don’t see a “Restore” card, tap “Settings” in the app’s toolbar. Next, tap “Restore from Your Backup” in the “Storage Settings” section.
On the following screen, tap the “Restore” links to restore your images and videos in their original quality, and all media sent through Google’s Messages app.
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Backing up your Android phone is always smart — and backing it up to the cloud makes it easy to reload your data even if your phone is lost, stolen, or broken. And now you can back up some of that data to Google’s cloud storage service, Google One, even if you aren’t on one of the company’s paid plans, which start at $1.99 for 100GB of storage. If you’ve got a personal Google account (not a G Suite account), you can get up to 15GB of storage for backing up your mobile data (although that can vary somewhat, depending on what other services / accounts you have).
Back up data with Android
Of course, you don’t need Google One to back up your app data, call history, contacts, settings, or SMS messages. You could already do that easily using your Android settings and your Google Drive storage. Just in case, here’s a reminder on how to do that.
Note: Because Android phones can differ widely in how they handle various features, the procedure you use to enable the backup may differ depending on whether you use a Pixel phone, a Samsung Galaxy phone, or one from another manufacturer. This is the procedure if you’re using a Pixel phone; yours could vary somewhat.
- Go to Setup > System > Backup
- Toggle on “Back up to Google Drive.”
- Just under the toggle, you’ll see the account to which your phone will automatically back up. If you have several Google accounts, and you have more free storage space in one of them, you may want to switch to that account.
- Below that, you can check how long it’s been since the last backup. If you think it’s been too long, you can tap on “Back up now” to manually start a backup.
You can back up your app data, call history, and other info to your Google Drive.
You get unlimited backup for “full resolution” photos and videos (limited backup for original resolution).
Once you’ve backed up your app history, etc. via the Android “back up to Google Drive” feature, you’re covered if you need to switch to a new phone or had to wipe your current one. Once you log in, you’ll be prompted to restore it all.
If you want Google to back up the photos and videos in your Photos app, you can arrange this as well.
- Look for and tap on “Google Photos,” which is listed under “Photos & videos.”
- Turn on “Back up & sync.”
This will provide you with unlimited backup for what Google calls “high quality photos and videos.” In other words, they are not in the original resolution but are somewhat compressed. If you want to back up your photos in their original resolution, you can do that via the Google One app, which is now available to Gmail users even if they don’t subscribe to a paid plan.
Back up with Google One
If you are using an Android phone, the free version of the Google One service will back up device data, multimedia messages, and photos / videos in their original quality (as opposed to the compressed format backed up in Google Photos).
- Install and open the Google One app.
- You should see a page that says “Storage and more with Google One.” If the feature hasn’t rolled around to your phone yet, all you’ll see is an offer to upgrade to paid storage. Try again in a day or two.
- Tap on the button that reads “Setup data backup.”
Many of you may not know, but you can back up your Android phone to the cloud, using Google One. And we’re going to show you how to do that.
Google One is a somewhat new service that Google debuted a couple of years ago. It basically takes the 5GB of space they gave you for Gmail, Google Photos and Google Drive each, and combined it into one service.
Every user gets 15GB of space that can be used for Gmail, Google Photos or Google Drive. But it can also now be used to backup your phone. If you want, or need some more space, you can upgrade to 100GB for just $1.99 per month, or 200GB for $2.99 per month. And if you buy a Pixel (or select other Android phones) you can get three months of Google One for free. After those three months, you can then get the same plan for half off, so $0.99 for 100GB sounds really nice.
What data does Google One Backup?
Google One isn’t going to back up everything that’s on your phone. But it will backup some of the necessities. You can choose to have it back up Device Data, Multimedia Messages and Photos & Videos. These are granular, so you can choose to back up one and not the others if you wish to do so.
The “device data” is basically the data that is not messages, photos and video. Google is pretty vague in what that backs up.
How to backup your Android phone with Google One?
To get started backing up your Android phone to Google One, you’ll want to install the Google One app. This should be pre-installed on virtually every Android smartphone. But if not, you can grab it from Google Play.
Now, you should see a card on the “home” screen of the app, that says “Set Up Data Backup”. Click on that.
Now it is going to ask you to select your options. So you can choose what you want backed up, and then hit “Back up now”.
And that’s it. It’s just that simple to back up your Android phone to the cloud.
Now, if you are looking to retrieve a backup, simply hit the “Storage” tab at the top of the app screen.
You can scroll down and see when your last backup was. You can opt to back it up now if you wish to do so. But if you scroll down further you’ll see “Previous Device Backup” tap on the “Get Backup” button to the right of that.
There it will show you what was backed up, and allows you to restore it, if you wish.
And that’s how you can backup and restore your Android phone using Google One.
Enjoy an extra 15GB of storage
Backing up your Android phone is always smart — and backing it up to the cloud makes it easy to reload your data even if your phone is lost, stolen, or broken. And now you can back up some of that data to Google’s cloud storage service, Google One, even if you aren’t on one of the company’s paid plans, which start at $1.99 for 100GB of storage. If you’ve got a personal Google account (not a G Suite account), you can get up to 15GB of storage for backing up your mobile data (although that can vary somewhat, depending on what other services / accounts you have).
BACK UP DATA WITH ANDROID
Of course, you don’t need Google One to back up your app data, call history, contacts, settings, or SMS messages. You could already do that easily using your Android settings and your Google Drive storage. Just in case, here’s a reminder how to do that.
Note: Because Android phones can differ widely in how they handle various features, the procedure you use to enable the backup may differ depending on whether you use a Pixel phone, a Samsung Galaxy phone, or one from another manufacturer. This is the procedure if you’re using a Pixel phone; yours could vary somewhat.
- Go to Setup > System > Backup
- Toggle on “Back up to Google Drive.”
- Just under the toggle, you’ll see the account to which your phone will automatically back up. If you have several Google accounts, and you have more free storage space in one of them, you may want to switch to that account.
- Below that, you can check how long it’s been since the last backup. If you think it’s been too long, you can tap on “Back up now” to manually start a backup.
Once you’ve backed up your app history, etc. via the Android “back up to Google Drive” feature, you’re covered if you need to switch to a new phone or had to wipe your current one. Once you log in, you’ll be prompted to restore it all.
If you want Google to back up the photos and videos in your Photos app, you can arrange this as well.
- Look for and tap on “Google Photos,” which is listed under “Photos & videos.”
- Turn on “Back up & sync.”
This will provide you with unlimited backup for what Google calls “full resolution photos and videos.” In other words, they are not in the original resolution but are somewhat compressed. If you want to back up your photos in their original resolution, you can do that via the Google One storage plan, which is now available to Gmail users even if they don’t subscribe to a paid plan.
BACK UP WITH GOOGLE ONE
If you are using an Android phone, the free version of the Google One service will back up device data, multimedia messages, and photos / videos in their original quality (as opposed to the compressed format backed up in Google Photos).
- Install and open the Google One app.
- You should see a page that says “Storage and more with Google One.” If the feature hasn’t rolled around to your phone yet, all you’ll see is an offer to upgrade to paid storage. Try again in a day or two.
- Tap on the button that reads “Setup data backup.”
You can use PC or Android apps
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If you’re an Android user and you store important information or files on your phone, it’s important to know how to backup an Android phone to a PC. Sure, backing up your Android to Google Drive is simple, but if you prefer having your Android backup stored on your own PC, you’ll need to use a different approach.
How to Backup Android via USB or Wi-Fi
If you’re only really concerned about photos, videos, and other files stored on your Android, transferring them via USB is the easiest method. It doesn’t require an app and it only takes a few minutes.
An alternative way to transfer files is installing the Wi-Fi FTP Server app on your phone. Launching this, you can connect to your phone via any FTP browser on your computer. Using whichever approach you like, you can transfer files from your Android to your computer for safekeeping.
Turn on the Android device. Using the USB cable that came with your phone, plug the USB end into your computer and the other end into your phone.
Go to Settings > General > Developer options and tap either USB debugging or Android debugging.
If you don’t see Developer options, tap Settings > System > About Phone, then tap the build number seven times.
Check your notifications and tap the USB item for more options, then tap Transfer files.
You’ll see your Android appear as an available device to browse in Windows File Explorer, allowing you to copy files from your Android phone to your PC.
Manually backing up images, videos, and files from your phone is a good way to save data, but it won’t save contacts, text messages, and other items you may want to back up as well. It also requires you to remember to back up new files.
Perform an Android Backup to Your PC
If you want to have a full backup of your Android phone, a better approach is to install apps that handle full Android backups.
One of the best Android backup apps is Dr.Fone, which lets you perform a full backup or restore of your Android device, or you can backup specific data from your phone to your computer. It does this without requiring root access to the phone.
Download and install Dr.Fone to your PC.
Once you install Dr.Fone, it’ll prompt you to connect your phone if you haven’t already. Follow the steps above to enable USB debugging to make the connection work.
Once you connect with the software running, you’ll see the window where you can Backup or Restore an Android phone. To perform your first Android backup to PC, select Backup.
This will open a new window where you can select which components of your phone you want to back up. It defaults to every option, but you can deselect any you like.
You need a premium plan to backup your Application data.
When finished selecting the items you want, select Backup to initiate the backup process. You’ll see a status as the software copies those components over to your local computer.
Once the backup fully completes, you can select either View Backup History or Open Backup Location. At this point, your backup is fully completed and ready to be restored whenever you need.
When you need to restore the backup you’ve made, just open the backup history list, select the backup with the latest backup date, then select Next to initiate.
The restore process using Dr.Fone is just as fast and simple as the backup process.
A nice additional feature of Dr.Fone is you can link it with your existing iTunes, iCloud, or Google Cloud automatic backups and use Dr.Fone to perform your restore.
How to Backup Android With Other Resources
The following are other free programs, like Dr.Fone, that let you quickly take a backup of your Android phone and perform a quick restore whenever you need to.
Choosing the right app for your situation depends on whether you want to run the app on your PC or your Android. It also depends where you want to store the backups and if you want to automate them.
Many of you may not know, but you can back up your Android phone to the cloud, using Google One. And we’re going to show you how to do that.
Google One is a somewhat new service that Google debuted a couple of years ago. It basically takes the 5GB of space they gave you for Gmail, Google Photos and Google Drive each, and combined it into one service.
Every user gets 15GB of space that can be used for Gmail, Google Photos or Google Drive. But it can also now be used to backup your phone. If you want, or need some more space, you can upgrade to 100GB for just $1.99 per month, or 200GB for $2.99 per month. And if you buy a Pixel (or select other Android phones) you can get three months of Google One for free. After those three months, you can then get the same plan for half off, so $0.99 for 100GB sounds really nice.
What data does Google One Backup?
Google One isn’t going to back up everything that’s on your phone. But it will backup some of the necessities. You can choose to have it back up Device Data, Multimedia Messages and Photos & Videos. These are granular, so you can choose to back up one and not the others if you wish to do so.
The “device data” is basically the data that is not messages, photos and video. Google is pretty vague in what that backs up.
How to backup your Android phone with Google One?
To get started backing up your Android phone to Google One, you’ll want to install the Google One app. This should be pre-installed on virtually every Android smartphone. But if not, you can grab it from Google Play.
Now, you should see a card on the “home” screen of the app, that says “Set Up Data Backup”. Click on that.
Now it is going to ask you to select your options. So you can choose what you want backed up, and then hit “Back up now”.
And that’s it. It’s just that simple to back up your Android phone to the cloud.
Now, if you are looking to retrieve a backup, simply hit the “Storage” tab at the top of the app screen.
You can scroll down and see when your last backup was. You can opt to back it up now if you wish to do so. But if you scroll down further you’ll see “Previous Device Backup” tap on the “Get Backup” button to the right of that.
There it will show you what was backed up, and allows you to restore it, if you wish.
And that’s how you can backup and restore your Android phone using Google One.
Mobile phones are almost become a basic need in this digital world. We use them to store files and other things important to us such as photos, music, documents, information and videos. Sometimes your mobile phone gets lost or damaged which is a common habit among many people. This can be a big problem when you think of the data that you have lost .The good is that you can be able to restore your Android phone from google backup. From this you can be happy to recover all the data you thought had lost from your Android phone. With this article you will know how to restore Android phone from google backup and why and when to backup your Android phone.
Part 1: Reasons to Why We Need to Backup Android Phone
Information you store on your mobile phone are very important. They could be important files, photo, videos and other important information. Circumstances where you need backup your Android phone are:
- When there is unexpected loss of data through a dead battery, you need to back so as to keep your data always safe and secure.
- Sometimes you loose your phone accidentally or it is stolen. In such situations you loose data on your phone that is of great use to you. You need to backup in order to recover any important file or data in case something like this happens.
- Due to virus attack such as Trojans or viruses where you can recover any lost or damaged files and data.
- USB shown on the system but it does not allow opening it
- A times while using your phone you accidentally delete some data that you would not wish to loose them. This the time you realize you need to have a backup for your Android phone. You need to back up to ensure that you can always recover any data if you delete them accidentally.
Part 2: How to Restore Android Phone from Google Backup
An easy way to restore Android phone from Google backup. Google backup is a service that uses Google drive to back up your information onto Google’s online server. After you have backed up your data to your Google account then you can restore it easily. This made easy when you add your Google account to a device then the data that you backed up is restored to your device. Using Google backup to backup and restore your Android phone is a fast and easy procedure.
Below is how you can restore your apps and settings when moving to a new Android phone from Google backup.
How to enable the Android backup service
First, make sure you have the backup service running on your current phone.
Step 1 Open Settings from the home screen or app drawer. Navigate to Backup & reset. Then select Back up my data.
Step 2 Toggle Back up my data to On. Select Back to go back to Backup & reset. Check that your Google account is associated in Backup account. Toggle Automatic restore to On to restore settings and data when installing an app.
Now that you’ve enabled the Android backup service, your system settings and app data will be automatically saved to Drive. When you’re switching to a new phone, you can rely on the service to restore your settings, apps, and associated data from Google backup easily.
How to restore Android from Google Backup
You can always restore any lost or deleted data of your Android phone from Google backup. Immediately when you reinstall any application, the settings or any data backed up on your Google backup is automatically restored. Restoring apps is straightforward if you’re using a handset running Lollipop and above. This setting is available to phones as they’re booting up for the first time, or after they’ve been factory reset.
Step 1 When you got your new Android phone, log in to your Google account. You’ll see a list of all your previous devices, and when you’ve last used them. Select a device to see all the apps available for restore.
You can take a look at the amount of app data that’s being stored. Here’s how you can find out:
Step 1 Open Google Drive from the home screen or app drawer. In My Drive, select the hamburger menu from the top left corner. Navigate to Settings.
Step 2 Tap Manage backup. You’ll see a list of all the apps that are using the backup service.
Part 3: The Best way to Backup and Restore Android Phone
Wondershare TunesGo
Wondershare TunesGo is one of the best powerful software tools to backup and restore Android phones’ data such as music, pictures, documents, apps and other useful information. It is an effective multi-files manager that allows you to easily backup and restore your media files and apps. It helps you manage your Android device as it allows you to backup and restore important data and send messages between computers.
Android Backup
One Stop Solution to Backup and Restore Android Phone
- Backup your music, photos, videos, contacts, SMS, Apps etc. to computer and restore them easily.
- Manage, export/import your music, photos, videos, contacts, SMS, Apps etc.
- Phone to Phone Transfer – Transfer everything between two mobiles.
- Highlighted features such as 1-click root, gif maker, ringtone maker.
- Fully compatible with 3000+ Android devices (Android 2.2 – Android 8.0) from Samsung, LG, HTC, Huawei, Motorola, Sony etc.
Part 4: How to Backup and Restore your Android Phone
As above mentioned Wondershare TunesGo can one step to backup your Android mobile phone,let see the detail tutorial steps as below:
Step 1 Download and launch Wondershare TunesGo on you computer and connect your Android phone.
Step 2 TunesGo could help you backup Android contacts, photos, music, messages, call logs, apps and app data to PC with one click.
eg:Transfer music from your Android phone to cpmputer
Step 3 So that you can restore contacts, music, photos, messages, call logs, apps, app data back to Android phone fast.
Select backup files to restore Android phone.
If you want restore contacts, SMS, videos, photos and more from backup on PC to Android or other devices. By default, all data that can be restored to device are ticked. Click Restore to get the contents back to your Android device.
Posted by Bill Farrell December 07, 2018 12:30
Even though backing up data from your smart phone does not make any difference in most cases, however, it means a lot when you need to restore deleted or lost data urgently. And Google is the popular choice for most Android users. It’s hard to tell when you need to backup phone to Google, but it is never too late to backup data to your Google account from a smart phone. There are three different tools you can use from this article to back up an Android phone to Google.
- Part 1: How to Backup Phone to Google
- Part 2: How to Backup Phone with G Cloud Backup
- Part 3: How to Backup Android Phone with Apeaksoft Android Data Backup & Restore
Part 1 : How to Backup Phone to Google
So what kind of data does Google backup from your Android phone? The situation is that Google can back up some Android files automatically including contacts, emails and calendars. You can sign into Gmail account and then receive the phone backup online. Moreover, Chrome browsing data and some purchased apps are also supported to sync to your Google account automatically. As a result, the left data types need to be backed up to Google within the Settings app.
How to Backup Common Data from Android Phone to Google
Step 1 . Access Backup & Restore
Click the “Settings” gear icon on your Android phone. Scroll down to choose “Backup & Reset”. Now you can enable Google cloud backup service from this option. Unlock your phone with your PIN if it is required.
Step 2 . Set to backup phone to Google servers
When you see the Backup & Reset list, turn on “Back up my data” and “Automatic restore”. If those two options turn green, it means you have activated auto phone backup successfully
Step 3 . Link the phone with your Google account
Tap “Backup Account” under the “Backup & Reset” list. Select your Google account name that associated with your phone. Tap the “Return” icon on the top left corner to go back to the main Settings menu.
Step 4 . Backup phone contacts and other data to Google
Hit “Accounts” button and click “Google” below. Confirm your Gmail account and choose which Android data type you want to back up. You can choose from App data, Calendar, Chrome, Contacts, Docs and Drive. After triggering the target Android file types, exit the Settings app, and then you can back up an Android phone to Google account automatically.
How to Backup Photos and Videos from Android Phone to Google
Step 1 . Sign into Google Photos
Run “Google Photos” apk on your Android phone. Choose the “Menu” icon with the three horizontal lines. Use your Google email and password to sign into your Google account.
Step 2 . Turn on Back up & sync
Go back to the main interface of Google Photos. Choose “Settings” and then click “Back up & sync”. Move the “Back up & Sync” slider to the on state.
Step 3 . Backup photos and videos from your Phone to Google
Scroll down and turn on “Photos” and “Videos” options below. Tap “Back up all” to backup phone pictures and videos to Google drive. After that, you can verify the Android phone backup content to check.
Part 2 : How to Backup Phone with G Cloud Backup
G Cloud Backup allows users to backup phone manually or automatically. you can get free 1GB cloud storage space and earn up to 10GB. Thus, all your phone content can be moved to G Cloud Backup cloud storage easily. To be more specific, the auto backup messages (SMS) enables users to backup contacts, call logs, photos, settings and other files in original qualities. No rooting required, so it is safe to backup phone data to G Cloud Backup Android app.
Step 1 . Sign in to G Cloud Backup account
Free download and install G Cloud Backup on your Android phone. Open it and create an account. It is another cloud storage tool that enables you to get similar features with backing up phone to Google Drive.
Step 2 . Select data types to back up from your Phone
Tick certain Android file types and tap “Run Now” button in the corner to make a copy of your Phone. Later, you can view the statistics of your phone backup on Android. Otherwise, open G Cloud Backup online site to get detail information of phone backup.
Part 3 : How to Backup Android Phone with Apeaksoft Android Data Backup & Restore
There is an all-in-one program that enables users to backup and restore Android phone in one click. You do not have to distinguish which Android data files are supported by Google auto backup while others not. Apeaksoft Android Data Backup & Restore is the best Google alternative program. You can backup data from Android to your Mac or PC without hassle. And it is also supported to preview what you have backed up from your phone in detail. So if you are worried about the security of backing up phone to Google account, just free download it and have a try.
- One click to backup and restore data from your phone to PC or Mac
- Preview data before restoring from the backup in detail
- Selectively backup and restore Android data without hassle
- Offer easy-to-use filters and the well-designed interface
- Support various Android phones including Samsung, HTC, Huawei, etc.
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Step 1 . Launch Android Data Backup & Restore
Free download and install the Android phone backup program. Register it and click “Android Data Backup & Restore”.
Step 2 . Enter Android phone backup mode
Tap “Device Data Backup” to selectively backup Android phone data to your computer hard disk.
Step 3 . Connect a phone to a computer
Use a lightning USB cable to plug in your phone to Mac or PC. Tap “Manually Connect” to move on.
Step 4 . Choose data type
Mark before items you want to back up from your Android phone. Tick “Encrypted Backup” in the corner to make an encrypted backup and set a password.
Step 5 . Backup an Android phone to your computer
Tap “Start” to backup phone to Mac or PC instead of cloud storage space.
All in all, you can get the step-by-step guide from above operations to backup phone to Google drive with ease. And if you are not sure whether the cloud storage is reliable enough, you can also backup phone data to your Mac or PC with Android Data Backup & Restore in one click. Feel free to contact us if you have any question about backing up phone data to Google account.