Backup And Restore Application - Sony C6916 User Manual

Safely removing the memory card
You can safely remove the memory card from your device any time when the device is
turned off. If you want to remove the memory card when your device is on, you must
first unmount the memory card before you physically remove it from the device. This
can prevent damaging the memory card or losing data stored on the memory card.
To unmount the memory card
From your Home screen, tap
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Find and tap Settings > Storage > Unmount SD card.
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Formatting the memory card
You can format the memory card in your device, for example, to free up memory. This
means that you erase all data on the card.
All content on the memory card gets erased when you format it. Make sure you make backups
of everything you want to save before formatting the memory card. To back up your content,
you can copy it to your computer. For more information, refer to the chapter
device to a computer on page 95.
To format the memory card
Drag the status bar downwards, then tap
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Find and tap Storage > Erase SD card.
2
To confirm, tap Erase SD card > Erase everything
3
Clearing the application memory
You may sometimes need to clear the memory for an application. This might happen
if, for example, the application memory becomes full, or you want to clear scores for a
game. You might also want to delete incoming email, text, and multimedia messages
in some applications.
To clear the memory for an application
Drag the status bar downward, then tap
1
Find and tap Apps.
2
Tap the application you want to clear the memory for.
3
Tap Clear cache.
4
It is not possible to clear the memory for some applications.

Backup and restore application

Use the Backup and restore application to make backups of content to a memory card
or a USB storage device. Such backups can be used to restore your content and
some settings in cases where your data gets lost or deleted.
Types of content you can back up
Use the Backup and restore application to back up the following types of data:
Bookmarks
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Call log
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Contacts
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Applications downloaded from Google Play™
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Multimedia messages
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System settings (such as alarms, ringer volume, and language settings)
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Text messages
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You may incur additional data transmission charges when you restore applications from
Google Play™.
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