Here's how to update software on Samsung devices via PC or Mac if an Over the Air (OTA) update fails. Updating your phone can take up to 30 - 90 minutes. Software Upgrade Assistant (Samsung) - Repair Assistant. This helps you repair the software on your Samsung device using your computer. The repair process may take up to 30-90 minutes. Do not disconnect the device from the computer during the repair process. For Mac®, click the Software Upgrade Assistant tray icon then skip to step 5.

Tuesday, July 11, 2017 People use portable devices to store important data like contacts, message, schedules, photos, notes, etc. However, in these years, I often receive some emails, sent by users, complaining that they accidentally deleted or lost significant data from their Samsung Galaxy. That is the reason why we should backup Samsung galaxy/Note to PC regularly. The purpose of writing this article is to show you how to back up and restore data from Galaxy devices with, a data manager program for Samsung devices and the third-party programs: Android Backup Restore and Phone Transfer. • Part 1: • Part 2: • Part 3: • Bonus Tips: Section 1 Backup Phone Data Step 1 Connect Devices to PC and Select 'Backup & Restore' Plug your Samsung Galaxy in the computer via USB cable. Once successfully connected, choose ' Backup & Restore' option and click ' Data backup'.

Kies divides phone data into two categories: Personal information (contacts, memo, planner, call log and message) and Content (video, music and photo). Step 2 Start Backing Up You can selectively choose those data you need, but I suggest you to tick all the data. When finishing selection, hit the ' Backup' button at the top-right corner and start backup process.

After a while, press the ' Complete' button to end the process. You can directly check the media files backup like music, videos and photos on your computer. But for call log and messages backup, you need to install some specific software to read them. Section 2 Recover Lost Data Step 1 Choose Backup Files Switch to ' Restore data' option. The software will automatically load the files your backed up from the plug-in device. That's why we always reminder users not to modify the route of backup files.

You can retrieve all the data or select therein categories. Besides, the ' Application' option enables you to just restore a particular item as well. Step 2 Start Data Recovery After ticking all the content you want to regain, hit the ' Restore' button to start recovering. When the process completed, you can check the data on your Samsung phone. Kies only supports devices created by Samsung, if you want to back up and restore data between different phones or even different OS systems, please continue to read and you will find out the guide you want. Smart Switch is also a good way to backup Samsung phone data if you get an SD card on your device. It is free to use and you are allowed to back up the important content saved in your device to the external SD card.

In addition, it is pretty simple to use. Please check it out below: 1. Download from Google Play 2. Launch the app on Android 3. Go to 'MORE > Transfer via SD Card' and you can start the backup process 4. Choose the contents you want to back up 5. Tap on 'BACK UP' button and wait patiently for the process More details of the guide to back up Samsung phone data please click on.

Is a very effective third-party program that allows you to back up and restore your important data from Android to computer. Please download the program by clicking the download button below. Step 1 Connect Samsung Phone to PC Once you install the program successfully, please launch it! On the interface, please go to 'Data Backup & Restore' and then connect device to computer via the matching USB cable. Step 2 Select File Types to Back Up After your device is detected by the program, you can see different data types on the interface. Please choose the ones you want to back up. Equivalent of alt on mac.

Step 3 Back Up Android Data Click on the 'Backup' button to start the process. Wait for a moment, and you would be notified that the data backup has been completed.

Click on the 'View the backup' and navigate to the location of the backup copy on the computer. To restore the backup copy to your Android, no matter to get back lost data or import data on new phone, you can click on the 'Restore' button on the interface as following with your target device connected. However, if you want to restore Samsung backup to iPhone 7/7S, it is hard to find out a suitable and effective way to work. The Kies and the Android Backup Restore don’t support users to restore the backup to iPhone and though the Smart Switch can work with the case, you can only select several data types for the job(Smart Switch doesn't support all the data types to backup and restore to iPhone). In this way, what should you do if you want to restore the Samsung backup to iPhone 7/7S? Here I want to recommend the program, which allows phone to phone data transfer and compatible with almost all popular devices.