How can I make a backup on the PC?

[gabr]

I have to reset my FP5 for getting it fixed. Now I have to backup it.
How can I make a backup on the PC? When I get the fixed phone, I want to backup it from PC (not from my google-Account). Up to now my data is not in the google-Account.

[Meaghan]

Hello and welcome to the forum
Please let us know what OS you are using - FPOS or e/OS?

Plus I think it would be good to know what kind of data you want to back up.
The easiest would be files - documents, pictures - you can just download them on your PC (and back) using the cable. I am talking about FPOS but I would assume it should work with different OS as well.

https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/9425348234513-How-to-connect-to-a-computer-with-a-cable

Transferring your calls history and text messages would most likely require a dedicated app, I personally use SMS Backup & Restore.

But if you want to restore data from your apps and do not want to use Google for that, I guess you would need to take care of that for each app separately.

But perhaps with more specific information provided by you (OS, types of data/apps), some other community members would have more to say.

[yvmuell]

Kindly use the search function of the forum this topic is discussed many times and is not device specific.

[gabr]

I use the Android-Version 15.

There really is no other solution than the google-account to save all the phone? I can hardly believe that.
My aim: Save all my data on the PC. When I got the phone back, I want to plug it in and copy the backup from the PC, that the phone will be as it is now. So: Copy all apps, data from the apps, preferences etc. pp.
(Does that not work for the computer? Unfortunately I don’t know, how this is called.)

Thanks for your help!

[yvmuell]

@gabr

There really is no other solution than the google-account to save all the phone? I

No without root such easy all in one solution does not exist. Kindly read a bit in in other topics

This is just 1 example

Factory reset costs a lot of time - should we just accept this?

After more than 3 years in operation, my FP3 became slow, so during the Christmas holidays, I decided to do a factory reset. This worked out quite well, the phone feels like new. However, I’m quite surprised how lengthy (sometimes painful) the process is. In this forum, you quite regularly read about people resetting their phone, just like it’s an easy thing to do. I’m surprised how many unexpected hoops you have to jump through and how limited the available information is. I start to think th…

[gabr]

Dear yvmuell
Thank you for your answer.

Kindly read a bit in in other topics

This is just 1 example

Please apology, but I invested two hours yesterday searching the forum and I did not find or look the discussion “factory reset costs a lot of time…”, because I thought, this is not connected to my question. And please note, that the others I found were several years old.
Your link helps me more… But even with this I have to research a lot.

Anyway. I wish that on the official fairphone-homepage would be more information about this topic than it is now: backup data.

My final question, if it is possible:
How can I change my backup-place? I don’t find the possibility, that I can switch between the google-account and the sd-card.

Thanks for your help,
gabr

[yvmuell]

@gabr

How can I change my backup-place? I don’t find the possibility, that I can switch between the google-account and the sd-card.

You cant all in one, you can only check what each app allows.