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Replacing battery & saving settings?

Lar — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 08:40:41 GMT

I bought an android phone with a removable battery. The sim card goes under the battery and works fine. Since I didn't know what size SD card the phone would take I didn't put that in at the time and it's also under the battery. Now I'd like to put a SD card in for extra storage. Before I take the battery out and I assume lose all contacts and settings is there anything I can do?

Re: Replacing battery & saving settings?

RobertQc — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 02:48:11 GMT

@Lar wrote:
I bought an android phone with a removable battery. The sim card goes under the battery and works fine. Since I didn't know what size SD card the phone would take I didn't put that in at the time and it's also under the battery. Now I'd like to put a SD card in for extra storage. Before I take the battery out and I assume lose all contacts and settings is there anything I can do?

I don't know how old your phone is. Long ago sim *contacts were saved to sim, now usually they are saved to google account or phone directly.

Either way, you are only taking your battery out for a minute (if you took the battery out for 10 years or 1 minutes it doesn't effect the things saved in your phone) only temporary processes that were running and not saved, the stuff on your phone is saved untill you erase the phone / factory reset (possilby switch sim cards if the contacts are saved on sim)

Re: Replacing battery & saving settings?

sheytoon — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 21:28:01 GMT

No need to save anything. Just power down the phone, remove battery and insert SD card. Once you boot up, everything will remain in place.

Re: Replacing battery & saving settings?

Lar — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 23:19:12 GMT

Ok thank you for the replies and letting me know I have nothing to worry about.

Re: Replacing battery & saving settings?

Darren4 — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 02:13:09 GMT

Wish my phone had a replaceable battery.

Re: Replacing battery & saving settings?

RobertQc — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 02:32:00 GMT

@Darren4 wrote:
Wish my phone had a replaceable battery.

@Darren4 All phones have a replaceable battery, it just takes more effort in some.

Re: Replacing battery & saving settings?

srlawren — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 16:02:18 GMT

@RobertQc wrote:
@Darren4 wrote:
Wish my phone had a replaceable battery.
@Darren4 All phones have a replaceable battery, it just takes more effort in some.

@RobertQc touche! But I think Darren meant a "user-replaceable" battery. 😛