Help How best to prepare to swap phones?

[dawgfan76]

I am getting a replacment DX. What steps should I take now to prepare for the swap such as saving my apps, music files, contacts, ringtones, notifications tones, etc?

 

[colchiro]

Your music should be on your sd card, and since they usually they give you a shell and you use your existing battery, cover and sd card, you'd be all set. O/W just use your existing card.

I'd install Titanium and MyBackupPro and create a backup (which will also be on your sd card).

If you're rooted and on .340 (OTA), I'd create a backup from recovery (also on your sd card) and try to install that on the new phone, after rooting, installing recovery and backup up that.

Your paid apps will download from Market. The other ones you should be able to restore from Titanium. Wouldn't be a bad idea to install Appbrain from Market and log into appbrain.com and do a sync from your phone.

 

[dawgfan76]

I'm not rooted, so are my backup options limited?

 

[colchiro]

You can still backup your apps, contacts, call/text logs.

I like Titanium Pro for backing up apps/data.

I like MyBackup Pro for backing up contacts, call/text logs.

Both these programs have free versions.

If you're rooted, you can also backup system files, not something you need now, but come in handy if you decide you need to de-bloat.

At the minimum, I'd get a file-based backup with those two apps and do the appbrain thing.

 

[fatpomp]

Mybackup pro works great but you wont be able to use the free version. The free version only allows you to backup and restore on the same device so it wont let you restore on the replacement. It's definitely worth buying though.