Restoring an Android phone

[Michael David]

Does anyone make backup software that can restore a phone completely, similar to the way Acronis backs up Windows computers and Time Machine backs up Macs?

I have an S10+ that will not talk to the info system on my vehicles properly. I keep getting "Device not responding" errors and I know the cables are OK. I assume it has something to do with the usb settings but nothing I have changed has allowed the phone to work as a navigation system on either vehicle (Ford Sync 3 and Honda). I thought I might do a complete factory restore, add my software manually and try again but, if that does not work I would want to be able to do a full restore to the phone.

Is there any way to do that?

 

[svim]

Try Samsung's Smart Switch. No it's not as seamless as Acronis, nor Time Machine, nor as comprehensive and automatic as Apple's iOS-iCloud service but it will allow you to manually make full backups to make restoring a lot less of a hassle.
https://www.samsung.com/us/smart-switch/

 

[Michael David]

Thanks, but I did try that and all it seemed willing to allow me to do was back up the info to a new phone. That is not what I wanted to do since I was trying to back up the data prior to a factory reset.

I was finally able to get Android File Transfer working (for some reason it stopped working, perhaps due to a recent Android update) and used that to copy the data to an external drive. I also used the built-in backup-restore functionality and will keep my fingers crossed, so to speak.

Thanks for the post.