Tips to backup all important data inside SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME PLUS (SM-G532F) including sms text message, phone contact, photos, videos, downloaded files and some other more. The internal memory is limited at 8 GB storage, but we still can expand with external memory maximum 256 GB capacity MicroSD, but it share together with simcard slot 2 network provider (hybrid). We need to away to keep all data still save when this phone away from us or stolen or lost or corrupt.
BACKUP Procedure for SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME PLUS (SM-G532F)
Login With Google Account to Backup Contact or Phone Book at SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME PLUS (SM-G532F)
Phonebook or phone contact is very important at SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME PLUS (SM-G532F), we are very recommended to take care about this contact because when our phone get some trouble, maybe we can not access this phone contact anymore. Therefore we need to backup our phonebook data at safety location. Android by default have abilities to backup our contact to Google cloud server automatically, it can synchronize as long as we already login to Google account. We have to make sure our phone already sign in with our personal Google account.
After login with our account, by default this phone will automatically synchronize or backup data to Google cloud server, so we will have 2 phonebook storage, one is at our SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME PLUS (SM-G532F) 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 SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME PLUS (SM-G532F) already backup:
- Turn on SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME PLUS (SM-G532F)
- Open Menu Setting > Account > Google , make sure your Gmail account already setup
- If you need to add Google / Gmail account, then click Add account
- Please see at your account, and make sure the Sync is ON
How to Backup Phone Book or Contact at SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME PLUS (SM-G532F) Manually to SDCard Memory?
Beside having backup at Google cloud for our contact, we can also backup or export our contact or phonebook at SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME PLUS (SM-G532F) using Export menu at Contacts menu.
- Turn on SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME PLUS (SM-G532F)
- Open applications: Contacts
- Choose all contact to backup: Contacts > Menu > Export / Backup contacts
- Choose Export to storage / SD card
- The filename of exported file will be show to tell us where the exported file is
- Finish backup contact SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME PLUS (SM-G532F) to memory card
How to Backup Picture/Photo SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME PLUS (SM-G532F) ?
This phone have 8 megapixel main camera at 5 megapixel front camera. Photo also important to backup because with good camera quality at SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME PLUS (SM-G532F), 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 SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME PLUS (SM-G532F).
Backup or Copy to External Memory Card:
- Turn on SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME PLUS (SM-G532F)
- Open Home Screen
- Find and run File Manage / File Commander
- Choose Internal storage, we will see many folders
- Press and hold one folder for select, after one folder selected, we will see menu at bellow
- Choose Select all at menu bellow
- Choose Copy (or move, but better use copy to reduce the missing files)
- Choose Menu > SD Card
- Choose the new folder that we want to copy that files
- Choose Paste
- Please make sure check manually at microSD folder that all files already copied
Backup or Copy at Computer:
- Turn on SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME PLUS (SM-G532F)
- Connect SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME PLUS (SM-G532F) with computer using USB data cable
- Make sure computer can connect to SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME PLUS (SM-G532F) memory card (otherwise, try to slide down the notifications area from SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME PLUS (SM-G532F), choose to connect USB as media)
- If the computer already able to read SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME PLUS (SM-G532F) phone data, then use computer File Explorer to open the DCIM folders at SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME PLUS (SM-G532F), copy all folder or files to specific location at our computer
- 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 SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME PLUS (SM-G532F) to Google Photos:
- Turn on SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME PLUS (SM-G532F)
- Make sure we have installed Google Photos applications from Google Play Store
- Open Google Photos applications from SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME PLUS (SM-G532F)
- ChooseSettingat Google Photos applications:Setting > Backup & sync(turn in on)
- AtBackup & sync menu, please choose ourGoogle backup account
- AtBackup & sync menu, please chooseUpload SizetoHigh quality (free unlimited storage)
- By default the photos and videos will backup to unlimited Google Photos backup when our SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME PLUS (SM-G532F) connected to Wifi
Follow Tips and Tricks to Fix & Hard Reset SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME PLUS (SM-G532F)
Restore Procedure for SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME PLUS (SM-G532F)
Restore Back Backup Contact From Google Account at SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME PLUS (SM-G532F)
If we reformat or hard reset SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME PLUS (SM-G532F), all data will be removed or wiped, so we need to restore back all contact to SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME PLUS (SM-G532F). This is how to restore:
- Turn on SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME PLUS (SM-G532F)
- Go to Menu Setting > Account > Google
- Add our Google or Gmail account
- In the first time, we can force Sync contact to restore Contacts from Google server to our SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME PLUS (SM-G532F)
- Make sure Sync is on for keep synchronize our contact to Google cloud server
Restore Back Backup Contact From SD Card / MicroSD to SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME PLUS (SM-G532F)
- Turn on SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME PLUS (SM-G532F)
- Choose Contacts
- Choose Menu from Contacts > Import Contact
- Choose Import from storage / SD card
- Choose the place that we can save our contact
- Choose Import vCard file
Restore Backup Photos and Videos from Google Photos at SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME PLUS (SM-G532F)
- Install Google Photos to our SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME PLUS (SM-G532F)
- ChooseSettingat Google Photos applications:Setting > Backup & sync(turn in on)
- Login previous Google account to our Google Photos applications.
- Wait for several moment when our SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME PLUS (SM-G532F) connected to Wifi, then our photos and videos will be restored to our phone.
How to Backup and Restore SMS / Text Message at SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME PLUS (SM-G532F)
There are some options to backup SMS / Text Message from our phone. We recommended to use and downloadSMS Backup & Restoreapplications from Google Play Store. We can backup all or specific SMS/conversations to phone memory (internal or external memory) or use cloud storage such as Google Drive or Dropbox. Please do the following steps to :
- DownloadSMS Backup & Restorefrom Google Play Store
- From menu inside this apps, please choose Back up now
- Choose what to backup at our text message
- Choose where to backup. We suggest to use Google Drive as long as we already have Gmail account to sign-in. We also can choose some other options for backup location like Dropbox or internal/external phone memory.
- We can choose to backup only once or every specific time
Restore SMS / Text Message at SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME PLUS (SM-G532F) :
- This steps only can work if we have followed above steps to backup SMS / Text messages usingSMS Backup & Restoreapplication from Google Play Store.
- OpenSMS Backup & Restoreapplication and choose from menu Restore
- Choose where the location we have backup before (Local phone memory or Google Drive or Dropbox), and choose to Login or find the Backup files from our phone.
- Choose what we want to restore from that backup files (Message or Phone calls)
- Choose Restore button.