I guess I got a bit ahead of myself with the rooting and custom ROMs. I mentioned briefly about how it’s strongly recommended to back everything up, but I guess I didn’t quite talk about how to exactly go about doing this! Never too late, read on.
For any serious backups, you’ll need root access and a custom recovery environment. Have a look here to see how to get started (yeah, I know, I warn you to backup stuff before you have the root access in order to actually back it up). Once you’ve got root, there are a few core tools:
- Titanium backup. This application is crucial, it lets you save all the applications and their data (both user and system applications. If you use this application a lot, you should consider getting the Pro version to support them (and it’s faster and adds some more features too)
- ROM Manager. While you don’t need this application to perform kernel level backups (you can do that directly from the custom recovery environment), it’s a bit easier to do it from here (and you can assign your own backup names!). Again, if you use this a lot, consider getting the Premium version.
- SMS Backup & Restore. I’m pretty certain a brute-force backup using Titanium Backup will encompass your text messages (but I’ve not checked), having a separate backup for just your text messages can be handy. A Pro version removes the relatively unobtrusive ads in the application.
- Call Logs Backup & Restore. If you need to keep track of your calls (say, for business reasons), you can backup the call history using this.
There’s a setting within Android as well which lets you backup many/all of the applications and their data to the Google cloud. I've never really, truly relied on this although it did restore many/all of the applications I had installed on my tablet when I wiped it. The setting is located in Settings > Privacy Settings:
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