Chris Salmon Technologies

OK so we backed everything up to our online account at MyBackup Pro for Android, easy and no problem.  We've now activated the phone over the Verizon network.  Now to restore the Apps and Data.

First we have to use the phone's browser to install MyBackup Pro again, and activate it with a new PIN# for the new phone.  The default browser on the phone will have to do (I prefer Dolphin as you'll see later, but we have to restore it first!).  We go to MyBackup Pro and download the APK.

Android OS is not going to like this at first, because it defaults to not accepting apps that don't come from the market place.  Choose to change the setting from the complaint dialog box and check the box that tells you it is ok to accept unknown apps.

Download, install.  Open the app, agree to the UA (user agreement).  I'm going to use the same password and email that I used on the other phone.  But MyBackup will give me a different PIN.

MyBackup is integrated with Google and uses Google Checkout for purchase, therefore it's best to have a GMail account to retrieve the key and communicate with RerWare - the makers of MyBackup Pro.  So I quickly set up my GMail account on the phone.  I use my desktop computer to retrieve the key, activating the software by typing the key in with the built in fold out keyboard on the 'Droid.

Now I choose "RESTORE" and "Applications" -- VERY COOL this is exactly what I was hoping for!  I can restore ONLY those apps that I wish to restore.  Perfect.  I'm going to go over the apps I've chosen for the Android operating system and why I've chosen them later individually, but for now, let's just get these all installed.

Hmm - a bit of a problem here, you have to individually acknowledge that you wish to install each app, so I have a lot of them, I have to stop what I'm doing here and ack each one.  It's going fast though, so not such a bad problem.

One thing you will need to keep in mind - when you restore the backups from an old phone, you will need to put the PIN they gave you for the OLD phone in the login form to retrieve your backup.  The NEW PHONE with the new PIN doesn't have any backups yet.

OK!! Very, very nice!!  We have completely cloned our old Droid and now have a brand new phone with 100% of our old data, all the apps we wanted off the old phone, and all the contacts, pictures, video, music, and everything else we had on the old phone.

Well that concludes the backup and restore part of this series of articles.  Next we're going to look at all the apps I use, including a very, very nice iTunes clone/replacement app for the Droid that does everything iTunes does for the iPhone.

And we have an OPEN-SOURCE phone here, that is NOT RESTRICTED the way the iPhone is.

Until next time, enjoy the power of Android!