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l 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 storage on the phone. See Back Up and Restore Your Contacts.
l Files. Manually copy and paste files by connecting your phone to your computer as a disk
drive. You can also upload files to online storage and services.
l Other data. If you added new words to your personal dictionary in the onscreen keyboard,
back up the dictionary to the storage or save it as an email attachment. See HTC Sense
Keyboard. Check the other apps to see if they support exporting data to the storage.
Note: If you’re backing up data to the storage, don’t choose to erase the storage when you do a factory
reset.
Use HTC Backup
Save the time and frustration of restoring your content when you do a factory reset or you lose,
damage, or buy another phone. On your phone, use HTC Backup to do a regular backup to the
cloud so you can easily restore your content next time.
HTC Backup uses your Dropbox storage to keep your content. The types of content that it can back
up and restore include the following:
n Home screen settings. These include your Home screen feed settings, widgets, and Home
screen layout.
n Accounts and passwords. Except for some accounts (such as Facebook and Google), HTC
Backup can store the login credentials of the email and social network accounts that you’ve set up
on your phone.
n Apps and settings. These include your Web bookmarks, personal dictionary (of the keyboard),
Wi-Fi networks, settings in the TV app (such as favorites and reminders), apps you’ve installed,
and over 150 other settings.
Turn on HTC Backup to do a daily backup of your content over Wi-Fi. You can turn it on by selecting
Back up phone daily while doing the on-device setup, or enable it in Settings.
Note: Turning on HTC Backup will disable backup of settings to Google servers.
To back up your phone using HTC Backup:
1.
With two fingers, swipe down from the status bar, and then touch > Backup & reset.
2. Touch the Backup On/Off switch.
3. Choose HTC Account as your backup account, and sign in to your account.
Note: You can sign in with your HTC Account or Facebook account.
Note: If you’re already signed into your Google Account, touch it to change your backup account to
your HTC Account.
4. Sign in to Dropbox, if you haven’t done so.