Originally Posted by
jsooney My 1520 has gone stupid on me, not sure what's wrong with it. I think I need to do a hard reset or maybe use the recovery tool, but I need to back up a few things first.
Is there a way to back up to local media? I don't use the "cloud", so that's not an option.
You can backup photo's, music, documents etc on your pc.
But not apps and settings.
If you don't use the cloud you need to manual download your apps and "create" your start screen etc
To make it easier to reinstall apps you can go to
The Smartphone Reinvented Around You | Windows Phone (United States) and login with your ms account you use on your phone.
There you can see which apps you had on your phone and can give the reinstall "command"