How to Backup & restore your Starlight Future

Read this guide carefully and make the final decision to create the backup of your Future .

How to Backup and Restore Starlight Future

Even if your mobile or Android smartphone has never given you any issues, that doesn’t mean it can’t break at any moment! But it’s important to secure the data of your Starlight Future   forecasting the worst situation.

Don’t worry, just make a backup of your Starlight Future by following some simple and quick procedures.

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What is a backup

Before starting to make Starlight Future backup you need to understand what it is.

A backup consists in making a safe copy of the files and folders saved in your Starlight Future .

Why Do You Need a Backup?

The reasons range from having a copy to restore following a possible malfunction of the device to the more common replacement with a new device.

Usually, the backup files are stored on a medium other than the device itself. The reason is, if there is a problem with hardware or software, any data in that device will be inaccessible. But we will still have access to the backup copy saved in a safe place.

The media on which to store backups can be external hard drives, pen drives, and cloud systems such as Google Drive, etc.

In the case of your Starlight Future with the android operating system, the files that are present in the backup are the downloaded applications, settings, address book, photos, videos, and everything saved on your device.

Backup Starlight Future via Google account

For several years now, Android has integrated the possibility of backup the most important data, via a Google account.

The configuration of this method occurs when the first time the phone is started. Once you have connected your Google account to your Starlight Future , you will be asked whether to backup to the cloud (and recover a previous one, if it exists).

You can check if the backup on Google account is active on your Starlight Future by opening the settings, going to the “Accounts” and then selecting the options relating to your Google account.

Here are the data which gets stored into Google Drive:

  • Calendar
  • Chrome (open tabs, favorites …)
  • Contacts
  • App data
  • Google Fit data
  • Documents (Google Docs)
  • Drive
  • Sheets (Google Sheets)
  • Google Play Music
  • Google Play Movies
  • Google+
  • Inbox
  • Keep
  • Offline maps
  • Presentations (Google Presentations)

To have the backup of certain data, such as those of Google Fit and the various types of documents, you must have installed the related apps on which you must also log in. It is also very important to specify that the “App data” settings will save the installed apps (which can be restored when a new phone is configured), but the data brought to the cloud depends on the developer of the app itself.

For example, WhatsApp has its internal backup method which excludes the possibility of doing it via a Google account.

You will also notice that the photos are missing from the list. To get the photos backed up to your Google account, you need to download and go to Google Photos App. Just download and perform the initial configuration to activate the automatic uploading of all the photos already present on the device and those that will take in the future.

In this regard, you have two configuration options: a free one that will upload photos at reduced resolution (max 16-megapixel photos, max 1080p video), more than enough for viewing on smartphones, or Google one at full resolution that will consume your space. on Drive.

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Full Backup Starlight Future on PC [without root]

Introduced with the antiquated Android 4.0 Ice Cream and recently enhanced on Oreo, backup via ADB is certainly an alternative to consider. ADB is a tool usually used by developers and geeks, but it can also be used by the common user, perhaps just to make a complete backup on a PC or Mac.

The first thing to do is to install ADB on your PC, which is used from the command line (therefore command prompt or terminal).

Once you have installed ADB on your PC, you can follow the instructions below, with which you can make a complete backup of your [device], which you can restore with a special command that we mentioned at the end of the procedure.

Make sure USB debugging is enabled

If we want Starlight Future to communicate with our PC using a USB cable, we must activate USB debugging on the Starlight Future (available in ” Settings -> Development options “).

Install Device Drivers on your PC

We will need to have the drivers for our Android device installed on the PC.
For example, If we have a phone with a Mediatek processor, we will need the MTK drivers for Windows.

Checking terminal connectivity in ADB

After USB debugging is enabled and the Starlight drivers are installed, we will do a connectivity test.

From android_sdk/platform-tools/ directory execute adb devices.

If connected, you’ll see the device name listed as a “device.”

Making the backup copy of Starlight Future

Now we have verified that Starlight Future is capable of “listening” to our commands, we just have to launch the following command line:

adb backup -apk -shared -all -f backup-file.adb
Next, a message will appear on our Starlight Future indicating that a backup is going to be made, and giving us the possibility to encrypt the data.

Once the copy is authorized, the system will create a file with the name backup-file.adb in the path where we have executed the command. The duration of the process will depend on the amount of data that we have stored in the Starlight Future .

Backups Starlight Future with Helium App [with or without root]

Helium – App Sync and Backup allows us to make a copy of our applications without having to be root and save it on our SD card or on our computer, it also offers us the possibility of synchronizing with our cloud storage applications such as Dropbox and Google Drive.
Steps to Backup Starlight Future using Helium App

Next, we will explain how Helium – App works and follow the steps to create a backup of your Starlight Future .

  • Download and install the Helium app on Starlight Future .
  • Download the application for our PC from the official website.
  • Install Drivers of your Starlight on your desktop.
  • Activate the USB Debugging option on your Starlight Future , which we will find in the developer options.
  • We start the Helium App on our Starlight Future and connect it to our computer.
  • After all this, you will only have to select the applications you want to make a backup copy and click on Save.
  • Select where we save the information, if we have the paid version it will let us save it in the cloud. After the process is finished we will have our information safely.

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Backup Starlight Future with TWRP Recovery

Here to create a backup, we are using the custom recovery, TWRP, a third-party custom recovery software. This method works only if you have installed TWRP on your Starlight Future . This method is called Nandroid Backup.

Read the steps to know how to create a nandroid backup of Starlight Future . Before you proceed, make sure you have already installed the TWRP recovery in your Starlight Future .

Step 1: Enter the TWRP Recovery Mode.

You can access the custom recovery by the same process which is carried while you are entering the original recovery mode. Most probably you should press a particular combination of keys on your Starlight Future . Most commonly, it will be the Power + Volume Down Button or Power + Volume Up button. 

Another way to enter recovery mode is via the ADB command. On the ADB software in your PC, enter the command “adb reboot recovery” which is the easiest way.

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Step 2. Create the Nandroid Backup of Starlight Future .

Once you have entered the TWRP custom recovery,

  • Find the “Backup” option.
  • Select the Boot, System & Data options. (You can also select other options such as System Image, Vendor, Vendor Image in case you needed).
  • Swipe the button to create the backup.
  • Wait until the process is completed.

If TWRP Recovery asks if you need to root your phone, select “Don’t install”. It is best to update the latest SuperSU yourself, rather than TWRP doing it for you.

Step 3: Restoring Starlight Future from Nandroid Backup

You can restore the Nandroid backup when you need it by following the below process.

  • Launch the TWRP Recovery mode.
  • Click on the restore.
  • Twrp will show you the list of backup files which already exist on your device. Select the recovery file which you need and swipe.
  • Wait until the process is completed.

Again, if it asks you to root, be sure to tap “Don’t install.”

You will be back in your device with exactly the same as when you created the backup.

We have mentioned 4 different ways to backup your Starlight Future . Hope you can backup your Starlight Future with any of the above methods.

If you have any doubts regarding creating a backup of Starlight Future , feel free to comment. Also if you have any alternative & better way to create the backup, please comment below.

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