Tips to backup all important data on SAMSUNG GALAXY A31 such as chat history, contact, sms text message, photos, videos, downloaded files and some other more. This phone work with Android 10 and powered by Mediatek MT6768 Helio P65 processor. We can choose to buy 64 GB or 128 GB internal storage. All data by default will be saved inside this internal memory.
We can use MicroSD / MicroSDXC memory card because this phone has dedicated external memory for extend some storage or place for backup SAMSUNG GALAXY A31 data. Please consider to backup all data before some bad troubles happen on SAMSUNG GALAXY A31 like phone lost or stolen or broken or corrupt.
This phone has quad camera with 48 megapixel for wide + 8 megapixel for ultrawide + 5 megapixel for macro + 5 megapixel for depth of field or bokeh effect. Some users deleted or removed photos videos by accident. How to restore deleted files/photos/videos from SAMSUNG GALAXY A31? If we backup our important data or photos videos regularly, then we still have backup data to restore at other locations. We make solutions to do cloud backup for photos videos bellow.
Many users does not aware about data lost issues. Some data already backup on cloud storage automatically like social media Facebook and Instagram.
Please note, some menu maybe different because of firmware Android upgrade to latest version
Simple Backup & Restore SAMSUNG GALAXY A31 To Samsung Cloud Server :
Most users will Backup & Restore Data with Samsung Account. Of course we need to have our Samsung Account to backup & restore at Samsung cloud server.
#Steps for Backup Data To Samsung Cloud Backup server:
- Turn on SAMSUNG GALAXY A31
- Open Menu Setting > Account and Backup > Backup and Restore (on some version goto Settings > Clouds and accounts > Backup and restore > Back up data)
- At Samsung account, please choose Back up data option
- If we are not signed-in, then we have to login with Samsung account username and password
- Please choose select all data to backup, and continue click Back up option
- Wait until all data finish Backup on SAMSUNG GALAXY A31
#Steps for Restore Data From Samsung Cloud Backup server:
- Turn on SAMSUNG GALAXY A31
- Open Menu Setting > Account and Backup > Backup and Restore (on some version goto Settings > Clouds and accounts > Backup and restore > Back up data)
- At Samsung account, please choose Restore data option
- If we are not signed-in, then we have to login with Samsung account username and password
- We will see which backup data and applications that we want to restore
- Continue choose Restore option, some procedure will ask for install
More BACKUP Procedure for SAMSUNG GALAXY A31:
Login With Google Account to Backup Contact or Phone Book on SAMSUNG GALAXY A31
Phonebook or phone contact is very important on SAMSUNG GALAXY A31, we are recommended to take care about this contact because when our phone get some trouble, then we can not access this phone contact anymore. Therefore we need to backup our phonebook at safety location. Android by default have abilities to backup our contact to Google cloud server automatically, it will synchronize as long as we login to Google account. We have to make sure our phone already sign in with our personal Google account.
After sign-in with Google username and password, this phone by default will automatically synchronize or backup data to Google cloud server, so we will have 2 phonebook storage, one is at our SAMSUNG GALAXY A31 and the other one at https://contacts.google.com. Please check that address to make sure all data already backup at Google server.
This steps will show if our SAMSUNG GALAXY A31 sync with Google cloud server:
- Turn on SAMSUNG GALAXY A31
- Open Menu Setting > Account & backup > Account > Google (or choose your Google email), make sure your Gmail account already setup
- If you need to add Google / Gmail account, then click Add account
- Please see at your account detail, and make sure the Sync account is ON
How to Backup Phone Book or Contact on SAMSUNG GALAXY A31 Manually to SDCard Memory?
Beside having backup at Google cloud for our contact, we can also backup or export our contact or phonebook on SAMSUNG GALAXY A31 using Export menu at Contacts menu.
- Turn on SAMSUNG GALAXY A31
- Open applications: Contacts
- Choose all contact to backup: Contacts > Menu > Manage contacts > Import or export 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 A31 to memory card
How to Backup Picture/Photo SAMSUNG GALAXY A31 ?
Photo also important to backup because with good camera quality on SAMSUNG GALAXY A31, we will have many important pictures or videos at our special moment. There are several option to backup our media like Photo / Pictures or videos 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 A31.
Backup or Copy to External Memory Card:
- Turn on SAMSUNG GALAXY A31
- 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 manually at microSD folder that all files already copied
Backup or Copy to Computer:
- Turn on SAMSUNG GALAXY A31
- Connect SAMSUNG GALAXY A31 with computer using USB data cable
- Make sure computer can connect to SAMSUNG GALAXY A31 memory card (otherwise, try to slide down the notifications area from phone screen, choose to connect USB as media)
- If the computer already able to read SAMSUNG GALAXY A31 phone data, then use computer File Explorer to open the DCIM folders on SAMSUNG GALAXY A31, 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 A31 to Google Photos:
- Turn on SAMSUNG GALAXY A31
- Make sure we have installed Google Photos applications from Google Play Store
- Open Google Photos applications from SAMSUNG GALAXY A31
- Choose Setting at Google Photos applications: Setting > Backup & sync (turn in on)
- At Backup & sync menu, please choose our Google backup account
- At Backup & sync menu, please choose Upload Size to High quality (make sure our free storage still available on Google account)
- By default the photos and videos will backup to unlimited Google Photos backup when our SAMSUNG GALAXY A31 connected to Wifi
Restore Procedure for SAMSUNG GALAXY A31
Restore Back Backup Contact From Google Account on SAMSUNG GALAXY A31
If we reformat or hard reset SAMSUNG GALAXY A31, all data will be removed or wiped, so we need to restore back all contact to SAMSUNG GALAXY A31. This is how to restore:
- Turn on SAMSUNG GALAXY A31
- Go to Menu Setting > Account & backup > Accounts
- 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 A31
- 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 A31
- Turn on SAMSUNG GALAXY A31
- 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 on SAMSUNG GALAXY A31
- Install Google Photos to our SAMSUNG GALAXY A31
- Choose Setting at 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 A31 connected to Wifi, then our photos and videos will be restored to our phone.
How to Backup and Restore SMS / Text Message on SAMSUNG GALAXY A31
There are some options to backup SMS / Text Message from our phone. We recommended to use and download SMS Backup & Restore applications 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 :
- Download SMS Backup & Restore from 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 on SAMSUNG GALAXY A31 :
- This steps only can work if we have followed above steps to backup SMS / Text messages using SMS Backup & Restore application from Google Play Store.
- Open SMS Backup & Restore application 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.
How To Backup And Restore Whatsapp Chat on SAMSUNG GALAXY A31 :
Whatsapp is famous chatting applications. We will have many chatting history inside SAMSUNG GALAXY A31 memory. We will give simple steps at backup and restore our Whatsapp chatting history including photos videos with simple steps. Please follow this link to backup and restore Whatsapp chatting history and media on SAMSUNG GALAXY A31.
