NOTE If you want to erase data on your smartphone while you are still in possession of the smartphone—for example, before you give it to someone else—don't do a remote erase. Instead, do a partial or full erase of the smartphone itself (see Erase data and reset your smartphone).

Access to system updates: Automatic system and software updates are sent to your smartphone.

Updating of HP webOS Account settings: To change your HP webOS Account information after you set it up, see Update your HP webOS Account settings. To see the email address you used when you set up your HP webOS Account, open Device Info (see View system information).

Table 1. Backup details

Application

Backed up

Not backed up

 

 

 

Amazon MP3

Nothing is backed up. You

 

(if available

can copy files from the

 

on your

AmazonMP3 folder on

 

smartphone)

your smartphone to your

 

 

computer while the

 

 

smartphone is in USB

 

 

Drive mode (see Copy

 

 

files between your

 

 

smartphone and your

 

 

computer).

 

What information is backed up?

All data backed up to your HP webOS Account is encrypted, and only you, the account owner, can access your data. Data in your HP webOS Account can be viewed, added to or edited only on your smartphone.

App Catalog When you sign in to your HP webOS Account after your smartphone is erased, apps you downloaded from App Catalog are downloaded again.

App settings and data stored in the app.

Applications from sources other than App Catalog.

IMPORTANT In the event that your smartphone is lost or stolen, you can go to your HP webOS Account on hpwebos.com/account and erase the data on your smartphone.

The following table lists info that is and is not backed up to your HP webOS Account:

Table 1. Backup details

Application

Backed up

Not backed up

 

 

 

Accounts

Usernames for online

Entries (contacts, events,

 

accounts that sync, like

messages and so on) in

 

Google.

online accounts

 

 

Passwords for online

 

 

accounts that sync, like

 

 

Google.

Backup

Backup setting is on by

 

default.

Bluetooth

Nothing is backed up.

Calendar

Events in your HP webOS

 

Account.

 

Usernames for online

 

accounts that sync, like

 

Google.

 

Preferences (see

 

Customise Calendar).

Events in online accounts.

Passwords for online accounts that sync, like Google.

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