Restoring From Your Previous Htc Phone; Backing Up Contacts And Messages - HTC U Play User Manual

105 Backup and reset

Restoring from your previous HTC phone

If you were using HTC Backup on your previous HTC phone, you need to download and use the
HTC Restore app on HTC U Play to restore your backup.
Depending on the amount of content, restoring a backup to HTC U Play through your data
connection may incur additional data costs and take a long time. Using a Wi-Fi connection is
recommended.
1. After you've finished setting up HTC U Play, slide the Notifications panel open, and then tap
the Transfer or restore your content notification.
If you don't see this notification, go to Settings and then tap Backup & reset.
2. Tap Restore from HTC backup.
If the HTC Restore app is not installed on the phone, you'll be prompted to download and
install HTC Restore.
3. Tap Restore from HTC backup.
4. Sign in with the account you used to back up your old phone.
5. Choose the backup to restore to HTC U Play.
6. If prompted, choose whether to use a mobile data or Wi-Fi connection for restoring your
backup.
7. Follow the onscreen instructions to restore your backup.
8. Slide open the Notifications panel to check if there's any notification to finish restoring your
backup.
Free apps from Google Play will be restored in the background, and you can track the progress via a
notification in the status bar. To restore paid apps, you need to download and install them from
Google Play.
Your apps will appear on the Apps screen as they are installed. The Apps and Home screen shortcuts
will be reorganized as in your backup after all of your apps have been installed. You can continue
using HTC U Play while apps are being restored.

Backing up contacts and messages

If you want to separately back up contacts and text messages on HTC U Play, here are some tips on
how to export or import them.
Backing up your contacts
1. From the Home screen, tap
2. On the People tab, tap
3. Tap Import/Export contacts Export to phone storage or Export to SD card.
4. Select an account or type of contacts to export.
, and then find and tap People.
Manage contacts.