Easy Way to Backup & Restore MOTOROLA MOTO E4 (PLUS) Contact, SMS, Data, Picture Before Doing Hard Reset Format?

Tips for backup all important data at MOTOROLA MOTO E4 (PLUS) including contact, text messaging, photo, video, downloaded files and some other mode. This phone will have many important data after use for several months, the important data have to be backup before something happen or MOTOROLA MOTO E4 (PLUS) broken, corrupt or phone lost / stolen.

 

BACKUP Procedure for MOTOROLA MOTO E4 (PLUS) XT1766 / XT1763 / XT1770 / XT1773

Login With Google Account to Backup Contact or Phone Book at MOTOROLA MOTO E4 (PLUS)

Almost all of us will have many contacts or phonebooks data at MOTOROLA MOTO E4 (PLUS) which are very important for our activity. We have to backup all important data at safety location. One important thing when use Android, that we can synchronize our contact data to Google account, what we have to do is make sure our phone already sign in with our personal Google account.

After doing login, the phone by default will automatically synchronize or backup data to Google cloud server, so we will have 2 phonebook storage, one is at our MOTOROLA MOTO E4 (PLUS) and the other one at https://contacts.google.com. Please check that address to make sure all data already backup at Google server.

Bellow are the steps to check that our MOTOROLA MOTO E4 (PLUS) already backup:

1. Turn on MOTOROLA MOTO E4 (PLUS)
2. Open Menu Setting > Account > Google , make sure your Gmail account already setup
3. If you need to add Google / Gmail account, then click Add account
4. Please see at your account, and make sure the Sync is ON

 

How to Backup Phone Book or Contact at MOTOROLA MOTO E4 (PLUS) Manually to SDCard Memory?

Beside having backup at Google cloud for our contact, we can also backup or export our contact or phonebook at MOTOROLA MOTO E4 (PLUS) using Export menu at Contacts menu.

1. Turn on MOTOROLA MOTO E4 (PLUS)
2. Open applications: Contacts
3. Choose all contact to backup: Contacts > Menu > Export / Backup contacts
4. Choose Export to storage / SD card
5. The filename of exported file will be show to tell us where the exported file is
6. Finish backup contact MOTOROLA MOTO E4 (PLUS) to memory card

 

How to Backup Picture/Photo MOTOROLA MOTO E4 (PLUS) ?

Photo also important to backup because with good camera quality at MOTOROLA MOTO E4 (PLUS), we will have many important pictures for special moment. There are several option to backup our media like Photo and Pictures to several location, the easier step is backup our media to external microSD memory card. But for this step we need to prepare our MicroSD card first and insert it into memory card slot at our MOTOROLA MOTO E4 (PLUS).

Backup or Copy to External Memory Card:

1. Turn on MOTOROLA MOTO E4 (PLUS)
2. Open Home Screen
3. Find and run File Manage / File Commander
4. Choose Internal storage, we will see many  folders
5. Press and hold one folder for select, after one folder selected, we will see menu at bellow
6. Choose Select all at menu bellow
7. Choose Copy (or move, but better use copy to reduce the missing files)
8. Choose Menu > SD Card
9. Choose the new folder that we want to copy that files
10. Choose Paste
11. Please make sure check manually at microSD folder that all files already copied

Backup or Copy at Computer:

1. Turn on MOTOROLA MOTO E4 (PLUS)
2. Connect MOTOROLA MOTO E4 (PLUS) with computer using USB data cable
3. Make sure computer can connect to MOTOROLA MOTO E4 (PLUS) memory card (otherwise, try to slide down the notifications area from MOTOROLA MOTO E4 (PLUS), choose to connect USB as media)
4. If the computer already able to read MOTOROLA MOTO E4 (PLUS) phone data, then use computer File Explorer to open the DCIM folders at MOTOROLA MOTO E4 (PLUS), copy all folder or files to specific location at our computer
5. If everything finish, please try to open all images from our computer to make sure all data already backup or export or copy without problem

Backup Photo / Videos of MOTOROLA MOTO E4 (PLUS) to Google Photos:

1. Turn on MOTOROLA MOTO E4 (PLUS)
2. Make sure we have installed Google Photos applications from Google Play Store
3. Open Google Photos applications from MOTOROLA MOTO E4 (PLUS)
4. Choose Setting at Google Photos applications: Setting > Backup & sync (turn in on)
5. At Backup & sync menu, please choose our Google backup account
6. At Backup & sync menu, please choose Upload Size to High quality (free unlimited storage)
7. By default the photos and videos will backup to unlimited Google Photos backup when our MOTOROLA MOTO E4 (PLUS) connected to Wifi

 

Follow Tips and Tricks to Fix & Hard Reset MOTOROLA MOTO E4 (PLUS)

 

 

Restore Procedure for MOTOROLA MOTO E4 (PLUS)

Restore Back Backup Contact From Google Account at MOTOROLA MOTO E4 (PLUS)

If we reformat or hard reset MOTOROLA MOTO E4 (PLUS), all data will be removed or wiped, so we need to restore back all contact to MOTOROLA MOTO E4 (PLUS). This is how to restore:

1. Turn on MOTOROLA MOTO E4 (PLUS)
2. Go to Menu Setting > Account > Google
3. Add our Google or Gmail account
4. In the first time, we can force Sync contact to restore Contacts from Google server to our MOTOROLA MOTO E4 (PLUS)
5. Make sure Sync is on for keep synchronize our contact to Google cloud server

 

Restore Back Backup Contact From SD Card / MicroSD to MOTOROLA MOTO E4 (PLUS)

1. Turn on MOTOROLA MOTO E4 (PLUS)
2. Choose Contacts
3. Choose Menu from Contacts > Import Contact
4. Choose Import from storage / SD card
5. Choose the place that we can save our contact
6. Choose Import vCard file

 

Restore Backup Photos and Videos from Google Photos at MOTOROLA MOTO E4 (PLUS)

1. Install Google Photos to our MOTOROLA MOTO E4 (PLUS)
2. Choose Setting at Google Photos applications: Setting > Backup & sync (turn in on)
3. Login previous Google account to our Google Photos applications.
4. Wait for several moment when our MOTOROLA MOTO E4 (PLUS) connected to Wifi, then our photos and videos will be restored to our phone.