Backup assistant

[galpdawg]

anyway to stop backup assistant from syncing. i noticed when i got out of store either employee or phone automatically chose to use backup assistant. now i have duplicate contacts. very annoying. help

 

[Yellow Snowman]

same situation. I wish I could just use my gmail contacts.

 

[galpdawg]

well all i did was download mybackup backed up my apps and settings, then wiped phone clean, then when u set up phone again you just skip back up assistant. only solutiuon i found better to do it now since i didnt have much apps and stuff on phone yet

 

[makerofdrums]

Settings then Accounts & Sync you'll find the Backup Assistant option

 

[plim]

but there is no way to turn it off from that setting screen...

 

[lamoglinsgal]

I just noticed they did mine, too. I'm not getting duplicates, but I really don't need them backing up my stuff. And I really, really don't want to do a wipe already.

 

[lamoglinsgal]

I found this. Hopefully it works... http://androidforums.com/incredible...ing/69089-disabling-vzw-backup-assistant.html

 

[lamoglinsgal]

OK. It totally worked. I will bold the steps that were slightly different for me.

There may be other ways to disable backup assistant, but follow these steps to remove duplicate contacts and backup assistant without having to factory reset. Please be aware that I just tinkered around until I got the desired result. I'm no expert and I have no idea if this effects the phone in any other way. I did this over the weekend and everything is working perfectly on my phone. So proceed at your own risk, I don't want to get any pm's about how your phone blew up. I'm just trying to help out here.

1) Be sure to have all your contacts backed up to your Gmail account. Check online before proceeding to step 2.

2) Log into your My Verizon account. Go to the contacts tab, sort by list view and select all contacts. Delete the entire list. There's a deleted contacts tab as well. Select that and delete anything that's in there. I went to My Services, Backup Assistant

3) Go into your Incredible settings tab, select applications, manage applications. Do not sort or filter, allow list to populate. Select Sync Service, (icon resembles backup assistant icon) select clear data. I clicked All.

4) Also in manage applications scroll down to backup assistant, select clear data. This should do it. Same thing, in All.

5) To verify backup assistant is now disabled, select settings, accounts and sync, then under manage accounts, select backup assistant. You should be looking at a license agreement screen.

No more backup assistant, no factory reset.