Originally Posted by
Letitride3c
Google auto-backup your basic device settings & configuration on a regular/daily basis, transitioning from previous to current/newer version should preserve & maintain all those without any problem. User app setting sometimes get lost or wiped, including personalized screen layout for Apps (again, sometimes) associated with the launcher ... i.e. switching from Google Now "Launcher" to new "Pixel Launcher" (I take a screenshot for mine, just in case.)
We have that turned on, but how do you actually tell if it's being backed up successfully. On my iphone, it tells you when the last backup was done.
Also there's a setting I noticed to restore app data when an app is updated (or something like that). that defaults to off. Should we turn that on?
I think the developer menu gave me an encryption option also, but I didn't mess with it. (If it was my phone I might have tried turning it on, but didn't want to mess with her phone too much.)
Is the N5X still under warranty, just in case & have a spare phone to use? Coming from MM 6.x or 7.0 - always backup any important data, doc's & pictures, etc. on the SD card partition first and make sure battery is at least 75% charged.
Yes, still under warranty. She has her old Samsung J7 from Thailand, a nice dual SIM phone built for India and Thailand, but it doesn't work very well in the US (it doesn't support enough LTE bands for t-mo, etc).
Photos are all stored using google photos, so they are all in the cloud.
Anyway thanks for the info and suggestions, we'll give it a shot soon.
-David