Microsoft releases Contacts+Message backup app for Windows Phone

If you are running Windows Phone viii.one on a device with expandable storage via an SD card, yous may desire to grab this new system app from Microsoft.

The release is titled 'contacts+message fill-in' and the tiny app merely installs to the Settings on your Windows Telephone (it will not be listed in your apps). Contacts+message will "fill-in of all your contacts (in VCF format) and messages (SMS & MMS including attachments) to SD card (in XML format) for afterward restore to aforementioned or another Windows Phone."

The information is saved to in a 'backup+restore' folder on the SD card.

If this all sounds vaguely familiar, it is because nosotros recently ran a story on the Xolo WIN Q1000 Windows Phone that had this same app built in. At the time, nosotros implied how information technology would exist useful for all Windows Phone users to accept this ability, and many of you lot agreed in the commodity comments. Evidently, someone at Microsoft was listening considering yous tin can now download the <one MB app to your Windows Telephone 8.1 device to get the same role.

Oh and what happens if you lot install this to say a Lumia Icon (aka a phone with no SD card option)? Nothing much. The organization app will appear in Settings, but (a) it will note no SD carte du jour was constitute and (b) yous cannot uninstall it. Sure, it will non impairment your phone, merely it creates an unnecessary listing in your settings.

So, heed that warning before installing!

Anyway, take hold of the app and enjoy backing upwards your contacts and messages locally on your Windows Phone and relieve that data.

Download contacts+bulletin backup for Windows Phone viii.1 (micro SD card required)

Big thanks to aromal t c for the tip!

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