The Lollipop upgrade has messed up my phone (Nexus 4) so I’m going to do a factory reset and see if that helps. Its probably due one anyway as I have accumulated a lot of junk over the years. What’s going to disappear that I have forgotten about?

Text and call history – don’t care
Photos – all backed up
Paid apps – I only have one and that is sorted
Passwords – I think I can remember them all
Angry Birds high scores – Might be time to move on
Anything else?

Can I save a list of my apps to remind what I might want back? They didn’t all come from the Play store.

For me, it’s stuff like ftp details

You wont loose any paid apps they are linked to your Google account, make sure you know that by logging into Gmail if you dont regularly do so on a PC.

Use an app like ‘app backup & restore’ to back up all your apps. Connect your phone to a computer and download all the backup files to it. Do the factory reset. Install app backup & restore, copy the files back into the backup folder and then reinstall them all from AB&R.

Bookmarks for websites?
short-cuts you have made, I have loads would be nice to have an app that just creates them every time I switch phones or reset…

copy all your contacts to your sim (apologies if you took that as read)

Thanks. all good so far.

Only one ftp site and I have that stored
Only one paid app that bought on my old Nokia and have transferred several times
Not sure I want to restore everything. Part of the reasoning is a purge of junk
On chrome so all my bookmarks are synced with my desktop browser and tablet
Contacts are backed up by Google

copy all your contacts to your sim (apologies if you took that as read)

Don’t do that – create a proper extact (either on the phone or google will do it too) and save that off the phone. The SIM is very limited in what it’ll hold.

any more? Just about to do it

I did mine on Monday night….(did a Factory reset on Kitkat as phone is almost 2 years old and starting to get a bit cludgy).

The things I forgot

Wi-Fi locations set-up (not sure if you can back these up though
Saved dictionary own words – but it seems to have kept them anyway
Bluetooth pairing – only one device and took seconds to reconnect

I did a ‘back up and restore’ – my phone has the program installed on it (not sure if it’s a Sony app or generally available), but decided not to use it in the end as I wasn’t sure how much it was going to drag back.
I thought I could select what I wanted to restore – e.g. tick the box to restore text messages, tick the box to restore app data etc. but I think it just dumps everything back on that was saved.

Contacts should be backed up on Google and take about 2 button clicks to get back.
There’s a few people who’s Facebook contact hasn’t linked up with the Google contact, but no big deal.

Do you use google authenticate? If so make sure you have the set of ten codes to hand 😳