Originally Posted by dreamypuma:
“What are you backing up? Can it not just be saved to a memory card?”
What's the difference between saving to a memory card (I assume you mean the Micro SD card) and saving to a folder on my PC?
Originally Posted by dreamypuma:
“You will lose all your apps etc, but these can be downloaded again. If you don't have a memory card, back up to Google Drive or Sky drive.”
Ok, but what about all the local data associated with apps? Say for example it's a game - progress is stored in a local data file. What happens to that? I've not heard of Google Drive or Sky Drive, but I shall look them up.
Originally Posted by dreamypuma:
“The beauty off Gmail is that it's just a username and password to reinstate your calender, contacts and emails.”
Gmail is useless for me, because unlike any other email client (like Thunderbird on PC for example) I cannot set up my proper email account - it has to be a Gmail or Googlemail account. The default email client on the Xoom allows me to set up my email account, but that is only used for reading and sending emails when my main PC is off, and all my emails are stored on my PC in any case. So I don't care about preserving mail on the Xoom.
Originally Posted by dreamypuma:
“I too was dead against GEDifying my xoom, in favour of waiting for the Motorola. Glad I did, ICS is brilliant.
I've used both sets of instructions (the one you linked to and and those on Xoom forum). Never done this before, but didn't have a problem at all.”
Yes, I want to do this too, but only if I can back up and restore my data.
Originally Posted by dreamypuma:
“The Simonjstuart instructions are far easier to follow. The only difference I found between the two was that the simonjstuart one didn't have the regional settings on. I just downloades Locale Select from play store. This gives you back the regional settings for UK English keyboard etc.”
Surprised about that, because I thought he was UK based. Other people haven't flagged that as a problem.