Google sync

ethan · 4 Oct 2013 at 14:59

Google sync. Is it tied to your sim or particular make and model of your phone. I just replaced my phone expecting all my data to be implemented from Google but nothing happened. I gave my other phone to my sister so I'm assuming Google back up etc is now working on the wrong phone.

tom_e · 4 Oct 2013 at 15:00

It's tied to your Google account, just signing in with your account on the new phone should be all that's required.

reflux · 4 Oct 2013 at 15:17

As above, but all it doesn't sync text messages or phone logs.

Uriel · 4 Oct 2013 at 15:47

On most phones you can choose whether to have your contacts locally on the phone or with your google account. Obviously if they were just on the phone, you won't have them on the new phone.

englishpremier · 4 Oct 2013 at 16:20

It's just a sync with google's online services, and nothing else. Don't rely on it for a backup of things outside of google e.g. SMS, emails, etc...

Orch · 4 Oct 2013 at 16:21

Mine never bloody works :rolleyes:

ethan · 4 Oct 2013 at 18:32

I mistakenly assumed it backed up apps and photos. At least I backed up the photos on the pc.

englishpremier · 4 Oct 2013 at 21:07

It doesn't back up app data, but it does remember which apps you had installed so will auto install them on any device you log into to. A pain if you're just borrowing a mate's phone for the evening.

It doesn't back up any photos at all unless you've added them to picassa, or google+ but that's not really backing up.

ethan · 5 Oct 2013 at 01:15

It doesn't back up app data, but it does remember which apps you had installed so will auto install them on any device you log into to

That's my problem, it didn't

Edit: Sorted. Just logged in Google account to see them all there and reinstalled manually. It's as I suspected. Many of the apps, including Google Play are still running on my other phone so I have two phones using the one account lol.

Rusty! · 5 Oct 2013 at 08:43

ethan said:
I mistakenly assumed it backed up apps and photos. At least I backed up the photos on the pc.

It does to an extent. It will automatically reinstall your apps from the Play Store, and you can have your photos saved to Google+