HTC Desire 626s User Manual page 119

119 Sync, backup, and reset
Messages Back up your text messages to the phone storage or storage card, or save them as an
email attachment.
Contacts § Save contacts and other personal data to your online accounts so you can just sync
them when switching to another phone.
§ If you have locally stored contacts in the People app, export them to the phone
storage or storage card.
Files Manually copy and paste files by connecting HTC Desire 626s to your computer as a
disk drive.
Other data Check other apps to see if they support exporting data to the phone storage or storage
card.
Using HTC Backup
Save the time and frustration of re-creating your personalized HTC Desire 626s experience when
you do a factory reset or buy another phone. On HTC Desire 626s, use HTC Backup to do a daily
backup to the cloud so you can easily restore your content and settings next time.
HTC Backup uses your Google Drive or Dropbox storage to keep your content and settings. It can
back up and restore the following:
Personalization
settings
Accounts and
passwords
Apps and settings
Backing up HTC Desire 626s to Google Drive
Turn on HTC Backup to do a daily backup of your phone over Wi-Fi. Turn it on by selecting Back up
phone daily while doing the on-device setup. If you didn't do so, use the HTC Backup app.
Depending on the amount of content, doing a manual backup through data connection may incur
additional data costs and take a long time. Using a Wi-Fi connection is recommended.
1. From the Home screen, tap
2. Tap Turn on automatic backup.
3. Make sure Back up phone daily is selected, and then tap Next.
4. Log in to your HTC Account by signing in with your Google Account or Facebook account.
5. To do a daily backup, make sure the Automatic backup switch is on. You can also tap Back
up now to manually back up your phone anytime.
You'll see the most recent backup date and time under Backup history.
These include your feed sources in HTC BlinkFeed, widgets, wallpaper,
Home screen layout, and ringtones.
HTC Backup stores the login credentials for many popular email and
social network accounts, such as Exchange ActiveSync, Outlook.com, and
POP/IMAP.
These include your contacts stored on HTC Desire 626s, text messages,
call history, web bookmarks, Wi-Fi networks, free apps you've installed,
grid size and sort order on the Apps screen, and more.
, and then find and tap HTC Backup.