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How to Backup and Restore Huawei Mate 20/Mate 20 Pro
In a year where every new phone raises the bar a bit higher than its predecessor, the Huawei Mate 20 Pro has just enough premium features to stand out from the crowd. It’s a powerful smartphone with three rear cameras and a modicum of distinctive style, but its bold signature is a handful of neat tricks you won’t see on other phones until next year. In many ways, it’s a superlative device that gamely competes with the Samsung Galaxy Note 9, Google Pixel 3 and iPhone XS.
After you switched to this new Huawei Mate 20, transferred from old phone to huawei mate 20, took plenty of pictures, then a problem must have past your mind that how to backup your phone data (including messages, photos, music and other personal files) from mate 20 device. Just read this article and find out the three easy solutions.
Huawei User - Take Seriously About Data Loss
Attention please, mobile users, your phone data is actually not as safe as you think. Your precious data can be lost anytime because smartphone damaged, stolen, accidently reset. If you lose your phone and someone picks it up, they can get access to pretty much anything they want in a matter of minutes. Your home address is right in the Maps app. Your bank accounts have apps on your home screen. For your data security consideration, you should wipe your phone data at the first time. Regularly backup can save you from a disaster. You should never try your luck when you have anything valuable on your Huawei Mate 20/Mate 20 Pro.
How to Make A Full Backup of Your Huawei Phone?
Syncios Data Transfer must be the Android backup tool you are looking for - unlimited backup. Give you a wonderful experience while backing up and restoring Motorola phone data. This types of professional Mobile backup and restore tool supports backing up and restoring almost any kinds of data to PC or from iOS & Android devices on one click, including: contacts, text messages, call logs, music, apps, photos, bookmarks and videos etc. With this convenient Android backup and restoring tool, you are able to transfer data between two devices, move everything from phone to computer on one click.
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Part 1: How to Backup Huawei Mate 20/Mate 20 Pro Data to Computer
Step 1 . Launch Syncios Program and Connect Your Huawei Mate 20/Mate 20 Pro to PC.
Download and install Syncios Huawei Transfer on your computer, we have windows and mac version for your free choice. Connect your Huawei device to your computer and launch the Syncios Data Transfer. Make sure you have enabled USB debugging mode, and you can follow this tutorial if you have any detection problem. Keep your phone unlocked, Syncios will install an Syncios for Android app on your Huawei Mate 20 phone. And make sure you have allowed Syncios to access your phone data.
And you now can see the primary window of Android backup app. There are three modules: Transfer, Backup, Restore. Click the Backup button. You can see your Huawei Mate 20 device on the interface if your device is successfully deteced. On the right side of the panel, you will also have the option to change or choose the location of the backup data. Select the [...] button that appears beneath the computer icon and select the location where you would like all data to be saved. Then click "Next".
Step 2 . Select Data on Mate 20/Mate 20 Pro to Backup.
The following screen will allow you to select which items you would like to back up from Mate 20/Mate 20 Pro onto your computer, including contacts, text messages, call logs, music, apps, photos, bookmarks and videos. Choose the files you want or just click "Select all", Syncios will start loading your phone data. After making sure your data are chosen, click Next button to start transferring. During this time, make sure your phone is well connected to the computer.
Step 3 .View the Backup Data on Your Computer Freely
When the extracting process is done, you will get the pop up message Copy Completed. Click OK, the backup folder will automatically open. You can check the backup files in this folder.
Part 2: Restore Huawei Mate 20/Mate 20 Pro from Backup File
Step 1 . Launch Syncios and connect your device.
After backup completed, go to the homepage of Syncios and you will see the Restore option. Syncios allows you to restore: Syncios Backup, iTunes backup, iCloud backup and iTunes library to your new Huawei Mate 20 device. Simply connect your Mate 20/Mate 20 Pro or other iOS/Android devices, then click Restore.
Step 2 . Restore your Mate 20/Mate 20 Pro.
Choose "Syncios Backup", now you can select your previous backup files from the windows, simply choose one backup and click "OK". On the select interface, check data you would like to move to your Mate 20/Mate 20 Pro on the middle checkbox. Click Next button, all of your selected files will be restored to the target device.
Tips: you can also directly transfer data from Mate 20/Mate 20 Pro to other devices via Phone to Phone Transfer. This handy mobile transfer tool even allows you to restore iCloud/iTunes backup to all iOS/Android devices supported by Syncios. Just download this program and have a try!
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Part 3: How to Backup Huawei Mate 20/Mate 20 Pro Data to Huawei Cloud
If you do not have a computer and urgently want to backup your huawei phone data, you can also try the built-in Huawei backup app. Simply launch your phone, go to Settings > Cloud. You can choose Gallary, Contacts, Notes and other options to automatically backup them to Cloud when connected to WLAN.
Or you can just enable the Cloud Backup option, your huawei device will automatically backup the following when it's charging, connected to a WLAN netwoek, and the screen is locked: gallary, contacts, messages, call log, notes, recordings, settings, weather, clock, camera, input methods, brosers, phone manager, WLAN information, home screen layout, and apps. (Data from third party apps whill not be backed up.)
Go to Cloud Backup, click "BACK UP" button, then device will backup almost all your phone data to Cloud. And the latest two backup records will show under "Cloud Backup" option. You can choose the backup you want to restore, the backup details will show in interface, then click "RECOVER" to restore the backup to your Huawei devices.
However, you can only restore the backup to same phone or other Huawei phone which has same Huawei account. So it seems to be not so convenient when you switch to other brands or want to transfer data from phone to phone. And only 5GB free space for cloud backup, you need to pay extra money if you have more than 5GB data. Just for your information. Compared to Cloud backup service, a professional backup program like Syncios Data Transfer will be much more helpful for you whatever you want to backup or transfer your phone files.
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