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This one use to work probably still does https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.usage.appbackup

I also back up my sms and call logs with this to Google drive

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore

You should be able to go to my pc select the phone as a drive and copy any folder on phone to the pc though. You just select storage device when you plug in the USB to pc. To the phone manager off if it auto starts..

If it doesn't work look for backup apps or phone switch apps on the play store

Titanium Back up app is the best app out there but needs root so that's out of the question

Good luck 😉

I gave my phone for servicing yesterday. Leaving this here for any first timer that comes across it. Here's how I did it:

• Disable all pattern/PIN/Password locks
• Go to Settings > Users and accounts > whatever your primary Gmail ID is, and ensure sync is on for these things: Contacts, Calendars, People Details, and App data. Do a sync again to update everything.
• If you have stuff lying in your downloads/storage (songs and files that you downloaded from the net instead of a service), transfer it to your computer or back it up to Google Drive or Dropbox
• Back up all of your camera imagery to Google Photos. Free and unlimited. If you need your specific photo folders on your phone then manually copying them out is best.
• Backup your apps to avoid wasting time and data on redownloading. And transfer the backed up apps to a computer or cloud. I used this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.usage.appbackup
• Backup WhatsApp messages to Google Drive from within the app's settings
• DO NOT DISCONNECT YOUR GOOGLE ACCOUNT FROM YOUR PHONE. Doing that deletes the cloud backup for your phone's settings and app data, and you'll have to set up every app manually. I learnt that the hard way after configuring approx 100 apps.
• Now that all these steps are done, just factory reset your phone. When it restarts, you might have to re-enter your Gmail password on some phones. Do that. It's just an anti-theft measure, your phone is fully formatted now.

Hand it over to the repair guys, after this setting back your phone to its former glory wouldn't be an uphill task now.

P.S.: Totally loved Xiaomi's service policy of same day repair and return, and overall professionalism. Having been screwed over by Motorola service multiple times at multiple locations, this was a fresh breath of air.

I'm on A7 (on 2 devices) and I'm not having those problems. There's an app I use called "App Backup And Restore" https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.usage.appbackup You may want to try that. It has saved my ass many times.

Yeah! Totally, thanks. I think a few people would be interested.

Back up the apk with this:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.usage.appbackup&hl=en

then upload here:

https://www.apkmirror.com/apk-upload/

Almost all apps that are listed as an "app backup" just extract and save the APK in a folder for future use. I just downloaded one of them and made a backup of that app.

This is the app I just used to make the APK.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.usage.appbackup

You can use an app backup tool from the playstore and then upload the apk to gdrive or something. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.usage.appbackup

App Backup & Restore

Mit der App hier ein Backup machen und die apk dann aufs andere Telefon übertragen.

I download to my phone, then use this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.usage.appbackup, grab the backedup APK from that folder and put it on a flash drive, I use an OTG cable for that, but you can move it to a computer and onto a flash drive from there. The plug the flash drive into the SATV and use Xplore to navigate to it and install it. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lonelycatgames.Xplore&hl=en

Sounds like a bigger pain than it is. I am sure there are better ways to do this. Maybe use google drive instead of the flash drive?