HTC One M9 - Manual (Page 268)

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Backup Options
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HTC Backup. Use the built-in HTC Backup to back up your accounts, apps, settings, and more
to the cloud so that it will be easier to restore them on your phone (after a factory reset) or on a
newer phone.
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HTC Sync Manager. Use HTC Sync Manager to import music, photos, and videos to your
computer. You can also sync locally stored contacts, calendar events, bookmarks, documents,
and playlists to your computer. Likewise, HTC Sync Manager is a good alternative if you don’t
want to back up your accounts, settings, and other personal content to the cloud. You can use it
to create backups of your phone on your computer. For details, see
HTC Sync Manager .
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Other backup options. Separately back up other data and file types if they’re not supported in
HTC Backup and HTC Sync Manager. In some apps, you can back up data to the storage on the
phone so you can easily restore them after a factory reset.
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Messages. Back up your text messages to the storage on the phone, or save them as an
email attachment. See
Back Up and Restore Your Text Messages .
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Contacts. Save contacts and other personal data to your online accounts so you can just
sync them when switching to another phone. If you have locally stored contacts in the People
app, export them to the storage on the phone. See
Back Up and Restore Your Contacts .
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Files. Manually copy and paste files by connecting your phone to your computer as a disk
drive. You can also upload files to online storage and services.
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Other data. If you added new words to your personal dictionary in the onscreen keyboard,
back up the dictionary to the storage or save it as an email attachment. See
Enter Text with
Word Prediction on the HTC Sense Keyboard . Check the other apps to see if they support
exporting data to the storage.
Note: If you’re backing up data to the storage, don’t choose to erase the storage when you do a
factory reset.
Use HTC Backup
Save the time and frustration of restoring your content when you do a factory reset or you lose,
damage, or buy another phone. On your phone, use HTC Backup to do a regular backup to the
cloud so you can easily restore your content next time.
HTC Backup uses your Google Drive or Dropbox storage to keep your content and settings. It can
back up and restore the following:
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Personalization settings. These include your feed sources in HTC BlinkFeed, widgets,
wallpaper, Home screen layout, and ringtones.
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Accounts and passwords. HTC Backup stores the login credentials for many popular email
and social network accounts, including Exchange ActiveSync, Outlook.com, and POP/IMAP.