Saturday, January 19, 2008

Manual Backup and Restore

The automatic backup and restore solution is easy and effective. But it requires discipline to back up your data regularly and to remember to back it up before each experiment. It is also less useful if the backup interval is too long and too much user data is changed between backups. In addition, if your phone is infected with a virus before the last backup and you have just noticed the virus now, how do you know which past backup is the clean one that can be safely restored?

Using manual methods described in this section, you will be able to selectively back up some of your phone data right before the deep reset, and then restore it after the reset. Here, I assume that you can still boot up your phone and operate it.

Even if your phone is fully functional and is not affected by malicious programs, you can still optimize the phone's memory by "refreshing" it. The manual backup process before refreshing gives you the opportunity to eliminate stale data and programs.

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