Help Creating a full system image backup...

[Ron P]

For some reason I tend to go through phones faster than the avg person, don't ask why, it's just the way it is. In any case, I'm now on my 3rd Samsung Gal S5 and every time I get a new phone it's a friggin nightmare downloading apps, logging into each, rearranging icons and screens and preferences and yada yada yada! It's like a 3-hour process getting my new phone to be identical to that of my previous one.

MY QUESTION IS...isn't there some way to do a complete system image backup on my prior phone and upload to the new one? I want the new phone be identical to the old one in every respect, can't that somehow be done?

Thanks
Ron

 

[EarlyMon]

As long as you replace with the exact same hardware, you can root and avail yourself of the true image backup we call a nandroid backup.

If you use device independent apps (for example, not the stock launcher, calendar, mail, etc etc) then you can root and make a Titanium Backup, replace with different hardware and restore to a functionally equivalent - and sometimes nearly exactly visually equivalent - with a fairly simple restore. Expect system settings to need full readjustment for different hardware or a newer Android version on the replacement phone with this strategy.

These strategies are not possible for phones that cannot be fully rooted to accept the restored backup.

In such a case you can get as close as possible with Helium Backup and ensuring that whatever it can't do, you've sync'd to the cloud.

Speaking of which - you'll need a separate backup strategy for your media and personal files. Cloud solutions are often the easiest when network access is not an issue.