Forgot your Android phone password, PIN, or lock pattern and can’t get past the lock screen? On modern Android phones, there’s no way to unlock your phone without resetting it. To use it again, you ...

To factory reset Android without losing messages and call logs, enable Google backup first by turning on “Back up other device data” in Settings > Google > Backup. After reset, restore data during ...

I've been in a particularly "back everything up for the sake of it" mood lately, and the latest target of my fixation is messages. It's been several generations of Android flagships since I archived ...