Mobile phone backups

[Rodcx500z]

P-ss-ng myself

 

[Chippy_Tea]

You are a bad man. Just had the wife dial it

I googled the number i was expecting much worse

 

[MashBag]

I googled the number i was expecting much worse

 

[pilgrimhudd]

Annoyingly over the weekend I broke my phone screen, got a new phone sorted pretty quickly but because I forgot to pay for extra cloud space I have lost photos from the last year, bit gutted really as they are mostly of the kids. I suppose I could send it off to get repaired somewhere, anyone have any ideas, it's a samsung, can you send it to them?

 

[matt.]

Isnt it all on the cloud these days? iPhone is. If I lost my iPhone I just get another handset, log into the iCloud and my phone re-appears on the new handset just as it was before...

My current iPhone doesn't even have a SIM card, physical media is dead it seems. Not familiar with non-Apple platforms, but assumed they all worked the same?

Really not an issue losing or breaking a handset now...apart from the cost/faff

Did you mean SIM card? I thought that was for your service provider?

 

[Davegase]

A mate of mines android phone died the other day. The man from del 'monte said its completely quacked. Would be the same if it was stolen.

Got me thinking I ought to back mine up. Completely.

Anyone got any cunning ideas / recommendations / software etc.

If it's an Android phone open settings type backup, I would choose backup to Google from the list.

 

[Leon103]

Annoyingly over the weekend I broke my phone screen, got a new phone sorted pretty quickly but because I forgot to pay for extra cloud space I have lost photos from the last year, bit gutted really as they are mostly of the kids. I suppose I could send it off to get repaired somewhere, anyone have any ideas, it's a samsung, can you send it to them?

If it is just the screen take it any of the pop up phone repair shops that are all over the high street.

 

[MashBag]

Absolutely most (not all) things can be repaired. Most jobs seem to be about £50. Data recovery is also possible.. They will normally send it away, because they will not have a spider

 

[MashBag]

If it's an Android phone open settings type backup, I would choose backup to Google from the list.

Annoyingly (cos I would like to), I don't think cloud backups are the answer. It's my data I need physical copies (note the plural).

We have just seen above, that the cloud has shortcomings.

 

[Donegal john]

Annoyingly (cos I would like to), I don't think cloud backups are the answer. It's my data I need physical copies (note the plural).

We have just seen above, that the cloud has shortcomings.

Pen paper a bit of scrolling and writing is all you need then. And a lot of time.

 

[Twostage]

Last time I switched iPhone's, I put it next to the old one and it magically migrated across.

Thought all phones did this now, it at a minimum just restore from a back up.

Has you friend got a Nokia 3210 or something?

I have, in a drawer somewhere. I also have an N95. Now they were a great phone Carl Zeiss lens, slide out keyboard. It even had a video out and I once gave a presentation in a meeting on it by connecting it to the projector.

 

[Jim Brewster]

Maybe I'm the minority these days but I don't have anything on my phone that needs backing up, I just tend to get a new phone every few years and swap SIMs and the memory card carries the photo over but even if I lost the photos it wouldn't be the end of the world to me. I don't like being reliant on tech, as I have a habit of breaking stuff.

 

[LeeH]

How would that work on a dead phone?

From the OP -

"A mate of mines android phone died the other day"

Because it’s still recoverable from the cloud.

 

[Rodcx500z]

A lot of my pics are on one drive on my lap top, i have a 5gig cloud storage i refuse to pay for anymore