Rædwulf 1,441 Report post Posted August 3, 2020 I used some software in the past that sort of worked, but I would absolutely love it if any of you could give me your personal reviews that you all have used? It's specifically for a Samsung 10 to Windows 10. Thank you to anyone that can take the time to help me out... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mark Phelps 473 Report post Posted September 12, 2020 Sorry I'm late to the party -- but I was randomly scrolling and saw this unanswered thread. I do two forms of backup from my Samsung phone to my Win10 desktop -- actually, three forms! 1) Backup internal personal files for safe keeping -- pictures, contacts, movies, music, videos. Use an Android app WiFile File Transfer Pro. Allows me to access the phone by connecting it to my local network over my internal router and the WiFi on the phone. Enter an HTML address it provides into File Manager and up comes a window with the phone's file system on it. Can copy files an folders FROM the phone or TO the phone. This prevents my phone's storage from filling up by moving personal stuff I want to keep to the large external drives attached to the desktop PC. 2) Backup music and videos from the SD card. I have the phone setup to use the SD card for ALL video stuff. That way, if the phone dies, I still have the video stuff on the card. I remove the SD card from the phone, plug it into the PC using an adapter card, copy the contents to a folders on a backup drive. I do this on a monthly basis to prune and update my music and video selections on the phone. That way the stuff I'm currently interested in is on the phone, the older stuff on the backup drives. 3) Create a complete backup of the phone onto a backup drive on the desktop. Have used MOBILedit! Forensic Express, latest version was v5.3.0.12966 in mid 2018. I did this then because I was looking seriously into ROOTING the phone, as there was a LOT of tech advice available on various cell phone forums and some very interesting alternate phone OSs out there. But I decided against that because I have no money any more to replace my 5 year old phone and will simply live with what I have now. Since I'm not about to trash my phone by ROOTING it, I've come to realize that I don't need an image backup of it -- thus I have not used this since and have not looked for more recent versions. I think I read that Samsung Smart Switch will also allow you do to a full backup of your phone to the PC but since my other methods work for me, I have not tried it. Hope this helps in some way. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rædwulf 1,441 Report post Posted September 29, 2020 Awesome and thank you, Mark. I really appreciate the detail you gave me. Now, I had a Samsung 10+ and the screen broke and constantly flashed so I bought a cheaper model and that was a Samsung A50, but I didn't really care for that model so much. I decided to purchase a BLU G8 and that's where I ran into the problem since Smart Switch only seems to work with other Samsung models and not BLU. I ran through a bunch of different backup programs on both Windows and Android, but they all kind of sucked so I decided to just ask and you didn't disappoint at all. Again, thank you kindly, my friend... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mark Phelps 473 Report post Posted September 30, 2020 You might look into MOBILedit Forensic as I recently saw that version 7.3.0.19270 came out a few days ago. I did use an older version a couple of years back and it worked OK for me. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rædwulf 1,441 Report post Posted December 12, 2020 I greatly appreciate the help and thank you as always, Mark... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bad_robot 0 Report post Posted February 22, 2021 apowermanager 3.2.9.1 can connect a android fone to a PC and facilitates copying fotos and other items. Coolmuster android assistant also allowa fone to pc transfers The fone can also be backed up to pc and restored Share this post Link to post Share on other sites