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by aidanhs 4152 days ago
I too like my Lumia more than any previous phone I've had.

Unfortunately there's one key problem which means I won't be getting another one - I have no way of getting an offline copy of my phone backups.

I didn't realise for a while after purchase and it's not such an issue to make me immediately want to get a new phone, but I refuse to relinquish that control by choice.
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zensavona 4151 days ago
I owned and loved a Lumina for a short period also: my issue was that tethering with OS X simply does not work on WP 8.1 (at least on the Lumina 1320), for this reason I moved back to iOS, but damn that phone was great (battery life, performance and WP 8.1 is a /really/ nice OS). All for about a third of the cost of my iPhone.
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msh 4151 days ago
Nasty regression then. On my lumia 800 (wp7) I could do offline backups to my computer.
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rasz_pl 4151 days ago
Nokia branded Windows phones have a custom Lumia backup app that doesnt work on anything else. M$ has _NO BACKUP API_

"Cliff Simpkins (Sr Product Manager, Windows Developer) responded:

Currently, the platform provides a number of SMS Access from a system eventing perspective (as of Windows Phone 8.1), and Windows Phone supports sms backup/restore for consumers as part of the base OS (Settings Backup). What we don’t provide is a backup API."

The only backup offered is in form of Outlook cloud, there is no way of retrieving your backup from the cloud, you can only restore into another windows phone device. If you happen to have non Lumia device and want data you need to first backup to cloud, then restore into Lumia branded phone (that you bought/borrowed for the occasion), and then backup again using Lumia proprietary backup app that lets you store locally. YAY M$

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