How to restore a backup from 820 to 640?

  • Thread starter Windows Central Question
  • Start date
W

Windows Central Question

How to restore a backup from 820 to 640

I have recently acquired a 640 and have backed up my 820.

I cannot find how to restore my apps and texts once I have used my 640, other than to do a hard reset, which seems a bit extreme.

Transfer my data does not seem to include transferring text messages.

Any guidance would be most welcome.
 

Harrie-S

Retired Ambassador
Sep 26, 2014
5,378
0
0
Visit site
Re: How to restore a backup from 820 to 640

You only can restore an apps+settings backup during the setup . So if you already did the setup on your 640 then indeed a hard reset is needed.
This however excludes text back up. If you enable text back up on your 820 and your 640 then the texts will be visible on your 640. (but this may take some time. So for text backup you do not need to do a "restore" also with a clean install texts will be back-uped ro your new phone.
 

Mikrobe

New member
Jun 28, 2015
13
0
0
Visit site
Re: How to restore a backup from 820 to 640

Hi, I started with the "Transfer my data" option, but this only seemed to let me select contacts to transfer.

The contacts transferred nicely yesterday, but no texts.

Before I went down the reset route, I happened to check a new text and, 21 hours after my contacts transferred, all my texts were there.

Thanks again for the advice.
 

Members online

Forum statistics

Threads
322,736
Messages
2,242,598
Members
427,978
Latest member
Duouser3