[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] arindam4u:
After using a while you may think of changing your stock ROM or Flash your phone with Odin. Or It may happen that you bricked your phone accidentally.

No matter what is the reason you should always at-least take backup of your apps, SMSs, Contacts and Call Logs everytime in your SD/Computer HDD.

So, here is the tutorial that gives you the easy instructions of how to take Backups & Restore your important things from your Android phone for FREE!

Instructions:​

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BACKUP

1. First of all you need to install two apps from Play Shop for free. One is called "App Backup & Restore" and Other is called "Super Backup".

2. After Installing Both apps First Open "App Backup & Restore", In here you can find all installed apps in "Installed" column (which by default comes first). Now tick the check-boxes you want to backup (If you want to backup all, tap on the little up arrow on the lowest-right corner or click on the menu button of your phone and select "Un/Check all") and click on the button "Backup Selected Apps" to backup your apps.

3. After Backup process complete Don't close this app we are not done yet! Select your phone's menu or the little arrow on the lower-right corner of the app and select "Settings" now make change in these following settings if you find it already changed as per following then ignore that:

Override Old Version: ON

Max Versions To Keep: 1

Backup Path: /mnt/sdcard/App_Backup_Restore

Auto Backup: ON

Auto Backup Notify: OFF

All done press back twice to go back to main menu.

4. After backing up your apps now its time to backup SMSs, Contacts and Call-Logs. So, Open "Super Backup", here you find three different tabs "SMS", "Contacts", "Call Logs". In each tab Select "Backup" button and click "Ok" (Remember you need to backup by going every tab one by one). After Backup everything close the app.

5. Congratulation! if you do everything as I told then You are backed up all your important things from your phone and you may proceed to play with your phone's ROM or flash it without any Fear of losing important data! ;)

6. (OPTIONAL) Connect your phone with your Computer and Copy the two folders "App_Backup_Restore" and "SmsContactsBackup" from SD to your Computer's HDD, this will keep the backups safe to your Computer's HDD.

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RESTORE

NOTE: If you have done Factory Reset then Please Skip the Google Sign-in process and continue. After completing the following restore process you can Sign-in to your Google account by visiting Play Shop! ;)

1. First of all open "Setting" then "Applications" and then Check "Unknown Sources" and Click Ok.

2. Open SD files and folders explorer (by clicking "My Files" option from menu), then open a folder named "App_Backup_Restore". In this folder you can see a lot of apk files. Now, open the filename starting with "mobi.infolife.appbackup". This should try to install the app "App Backup & Restore". Click Install and then Open it.

3. After Opening the app goto the "Archived" Tab. Here you can find your already backed up apps. Now, tick the check-boxes you want to restore (If you want to restore all, tap on the little up arrow on the lowest-right corner or click on the menu button of your phone and select "Un/Check all") and click on the button "Restore Selected Apps" to backup your apps. This will place notification to install your apps one by one, you have to click "Install" and after installation complete click "Done" to proceed all installations one by one.

4. After installing all of your required apps, close the "App Backup & Restore" app and open "Super Backup" app from menu. Now, here you find three different tabs "SMS", "Contacts", "Call Logs". In each tab Select "Restore" button and click "Ok" (Remember you need to restore by going every tab one by one). After Restore everything close the app.

5. Congratulation! if you do everything as I told then You are restored all your important things into your Phone.

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