Backup and restore application, Types of content you can back up – Sony Ericsson Xperia™ ion HSPA(LT28H) User Manual
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Backup and restore application
Use the Backup and restore application to make backups of phone content to a
memory card or a USB storage device. Such backups can be used to restore your
content and some phone settings in cases where your data gets lost or deleted.
Types of content you can back up
Use the Backup and restore application to back up the following types of data:
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Bookmarks
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Call log
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Contacts
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Applications from Google Play™
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Multimedia messages
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System settings (such as alarms, ringer volume)
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Text messages
You do not need to back up music files and photos or videos taken with the phone camera.
They are backed up automatically to the phone's memory card.
You may incur additional data transmission charges when you restore Google Play™
applications.
Preparing to use the Backup and restore application
Before backing up your phone content, you can select the backup destination and
the backup data types.
To select the backup destination
1
From your Home screen, tap .
2
Find and tap Back up & restore.
3
Tap Select destination.
4
Select the destination to which you want to back up your phone content.
To select the data types to back up
1
From your Home screen, tap .
2
Find and tap Back up & restore.
3
Tap Select data type under Back up.
4
Select the data types that you want to back up.
To back up phone content
1
From your Home screen, tap .
2
Find and tap Back up & restore.
3
Tap Back up.
Restoring backed up content using the Backup and restore
application
When you restore backed up phone content, you must select a backup record to
restore from. If you have backed up content several times, you may have several
backup records. After you select a backup record, you can then select which types of
data to restore.
To select a backup record to restore
1
From your Home screen, tap .
2
Find and tap Back up & restore.
3
Tap Select record to restore.
4
Select the record that you want to restore.
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