New webOS backup utility in the works

by Shawn Brown on November 21st, 2009
  • Digg
  • Facebook
  • Yahoo! Buzz
  • del.icio.us
  • Reddit
  • E-mail this story to a friend!

thumb_tall_palm-pre-backup-1Palm has had a pretty good backup scheme when it comes to webOS and the way it takes care of your contacts and what not but what about all of the other things that you would like to backup and save? Since we cannot backup things such as call logs, memos or even SMS conversations the solution is being currently being created by a third party.

I cannot explain to you how pissed I have gotten the two times I have had to restore and found that I had lost my 50+ critical memos that I have only on my phone. This new app that is in development will back up your SMS conversations, call logs, tasks, memos, web information and yes even your contacts so that you don’t lose a thing next time something goes wrong with your handset. All of these things are backed up and then thrown into a zip file that is placed into the USB drive partition of your memory.

When released you will have to root your Pre and then run a quick prompt to unzip the file in the correct way but the plan is to put restore functionality into the Palm Pre Backup essentially making it a button rather than a command restore. Beta testing for Palm Pre Backup is set here to begin very soon and you will be able to find it in the Preware app feed.

1 Comment

  1. 1. TSledge wrote on November 21, 2009

    This is excellent news. I’m now on my 4th Pre, and unfortunately on Pre number 3 I lost all of my tasks and memo’s, having made the assumption that all was being backed up!

Leave a comment