HP Veer 4G (AT&T) manual Backup, What information is backed up?

Backup

Backup is one of the major advantages of your Palm profile. You create a Palm profile when you set up your smartphone.

What is a Palm profile?

When you create a Palm profile during setup of your smartphone, you gain access to the many advantages of having a Palm profile, including automatic, daily backup of your data.

Your Palm profile gives you the following benefits:

Palm profile account: Your Palm profile account is automatically created for you on your smartphone. In this account you can store Contacts and Calendar info that you don’t store in online accounts like Google or Exchange.

NOTE You cannot access the info in your Palm profile account anywhere but on your smartphone. View, add to, and edit the info in your Palm profile account on your smartphone.

Automatic, daily backup to a secure server: Info stored in your Palm profile account is automatically, daily backed up to a secure server.

Your smartphone backs up the contacts, calendar events, tasks, and memos that are in your Palm profile account, as well as system settings and applications you downloaded to your smartphone. If you ever need to erase the info from your smartphone, you can restore all your backed-up info. All data backed up to your Palm profile is encrypted, and only you, the profile owner, can access your data.

Backup does not affect information stored in online accounts like Google. Information stored in online accounts is synchronized by the online provider at regular intervals. Information stored in Exchange is synchronized by your company’s Exchange server.

IMPORTANT Backup does not back up files stored on your smartphone’s USB drive.

You can turn off automatic backup, and you can also perform a manual backup.

Remote erase of a lost or stolen smartphone: If your smartphone is lost or stolen, open the web browser on your computer, sign in to your Palm profile on palm.com/palmprofile, and do a remote erase of the info on the smartphone.

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 Palm profile settings: To change your Palm profile information after you set it up, see Update your Palm profile settings. To see the email address you used when you set up your Palm profile, open Device Info (see View system information).

What information is backed up?

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

IMPORTANT In the event that your smartphone is lost or stolen, you can go to your Palm profile on palm.com/palmprofile and from there erase the data on your smartphone.

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