Certainly one of the most powerful tools for this is application Titanium Backup. However, the latest version of Android operating system can do a lot for itself without additional applications.

For example, Android 6.0 Marshmallow can automatically restore not only applications, and even their data.

It should be noted that the latter does not mean that once you have a new or discarded to factory settings smartphone or tablet will enter into your Google account and all the application data will be restored: for this their developers must ensure compatibility with the new system Android Marshmallow backup copy.

However, more and more applications are fully compatible with this version of Google’s operating system, and it gives us hope that soon we will not have to worry about the safety of data when switching to a new device or hard reset old settings.

How do I enable or disable backups on Android device?

Manage backup of applications and data on your device, you can through the main menu, Android settings by going to the section “Backup & reset”.

As you can see in the screenshot above, here you can enable or disable data backup, as well as their automatic recovery with the help of the relevant paragraphs.

Go to “Settings” -> “Account” -> “Google” and clicking on your account you can see which of the standard Google applications store their data in the cloud, and when it last happened. Here you can also disable synchronization of data of a particular application.

How to find out which third-party Android application store their data on Google servers?

If you want to be aware of what you set out on your smartphone or tablet applications are able to store their data on Google servers and restore them, you need to install Google Drive (if necessary) from the Google Play Store and run on your device.

After that, go to the menu, and open the application settings “Managing backups”:

As you know, here you can also see not only a list of the applications that store their data in the cloud, but also to know when they kept their data on Google Drive is the last time.

Keep in mind that usually automatic backups run on our device once a day, in order to make this process probably started you need to make your smartphone or tablet connected to the Internet via Wi-Fi and not unused for a long enough (at least one hour) time.

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Attention! The first step is to back up all data. Copy all the photos, videos, documents and other information you need in a safe place.

Manual update deletes all user data from the device, and if you’re an unlucky person, you can turn your Nexus in a brick. So think before you do anything.

Preparation of the mobile device to update

The first thing you need to do to enable debugging via USB. You must click on “Settings” and scroll to the bottom of the screen. There is a button “For developers”.

If there is no button, then go to “Settings”, and click on the “About phone”, and the last in the list is “Build Number”. Tap on it seven times.

After receiving reports about the status of the developer back to the “Settings” then “For Developers”, find the item “debugging USB” and turn it.

Download image

Manual installation of Android comes from the image. Find and download the required image can be on the relevant page Google Developers.

We install Android 6.0 Marshmallow on the Nexus 5, so download the image to the smartphone.

Downloading and installing the tool to download the image to your device

For installation the image to your phone you need to download the utility ADB Installer. You can download ADB Installer at XDA-Developers.  We confirm every request with «Y» and Enter.

Agree and install Google USB Driver.

Now, if you look in the drive C of your computer, you will find a new folder adb. It is everything you need to manually install the image of Android.

Preparing the image for the installation

We return to our image that is already downloaded and stored on disk as TGZ-archive. It is necessary to unpack with any suitable archiver. For example, 7-Zip.

TGZ-archive has a more one file format TAR. It is also necessary to unpack. As a result, you’ll have a folder here with such content.

And the final step is to move the extracted files to a folder adb that was created in one of the previous step.

Installation

Now you can install Android 6.0 Marshmallow on your device. Turn off your mobile phone and connect it to your computer. Now you need to get you started your device in the mode of fast boot.

Open the folder with image of Android 6.0 Marshmallow. There you will find file called flash-all.bat. Click on it to start the installation of Android 6.0 Marshmallow on your device.

Your device should reboot, and then you will have a new version of the operating system Android 6.0 Marshmallow.

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Feature of the tablet Google

Said device “lit up” in the popular mobile test Geekbench 3. Screen device, according to the benchmark is 8 inches.

They became known characteristics and other “tablet.”

At the heart of the gadget – a processor with 8 cores. Operating platform with 1.3GHz. It is assumed that the chip is used MediaTek.

In the role of the operating system performs Android 5.1.1 Lollipop. However, this is a test sample. Most likely, the release device will update to the latest build Android 6.0 Marshmallow.

The information is not official. When the tablet Google Nexus 8 will be on sale – not reported.

Source: wccftech

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Feature of Android Marshmallow

Until recently, the platform had only code mark (cited above). However, the developers decided to confirm the user guesses. And declassified official “name” of the system.

The assembly will present in the autumn as the Android Marshmallow. This time the creators were inspired by marshmallow-like delicacy, popular in the West.

As proof: Google office appeared before the statue of the green android. With appropriate confection in hand.

Sweets for Android is not unusual. All previous versions of the operating system called the same way. Suffice it to recall KitKat, Ice Cream Sandwich, Jelly Bean, or Lollipop.

Android Marshmallow differ from these modifications? Support of corporate payment service Pay, fingerprint scanners and connectors USB Type-C. Right “out of the box.”

Furthermore, optimized energy consumption, as well as embedded data backup mechanism.

Source: 9to5google

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