Backing up

[ziddey]

I'm about to have some fun with my phone again, but am looking for some hints on what to backup. I'm planning on using titanium backup, and given how slow it is to back everything up, I'd like to go as minimal as possible. First off is sms messages. Do I simply backup "Messages"? I'll be using Handcent most likely. Also, contacts is just "Contacts Storage"? Any way to have handcent be able to use all the contacts? As it is, I don't have that many contacts where I added the numbers myself, since most my friends have their numbers on facebook, and motoblur has taken care of that. Will that be a problem if I go Purehandler without motoblur? Also, any way to have handcent be able to see these contacts? As it is, it seems handcent only accesses actual phonebook numbers.

Then, there's Shazam. I see that with the new version, it says it limits you to 5 identifies a month, with prior users being grandfathered. How do I make sure I keep this capability?

I think that should be it. There's also aCar, which keeps track of gas logs, but that's not a real big deal if I lose my logs there.

If anyone can think of something I'm missing before I wipe it all out, that'd be nice :P

Thanks

ack, posted this in dev by accident

[supreme313]

i would use your custom recovery to do a nandroid backup, to make sure that you have all your stuff intact incase of catastrophic fail. I couldn't get titanium to back up my messages, but there are free apps on the market that would sync them. as for shazam, i don't know.. but the new 2.1 has something similar in the music player (the music app is nice! shows album art in notifcation tray, auto finds lyrics and has nice big album art display in music player) now, for your mileage logs,
there should be a folder on your sd card with the logs stored, i'd think..
you should be able to back-up your apps with titanium and then reinstall them

[miharkula]

I'm planning on using titanium backup, and given how slow it is to back everything up, I'd like to go as minimal as possible.

Are you using the free version or paid version? I use the paid version and it's very quick with backups.

[XxSpiiKeZxX]

Are you using the free version or paid version? I use the paid version and it's very quick with backups.

I used the free version for like a week and it was frustrating, but spending 4$ and a little wait, the paid version is so damn golden . You rly need to get yourself the paid version, u wont regret it. And u should use sms backup, which allows u to sync ur txt messages in gmail, or try sms backup and restore

[opencliq]

like its already been said, use nandroid. always.