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11.7 Accounts & sync
Use the Accounts & Sync settings to add, remove, and manage your Google
and other supported accounts. You can also use these settings to control
how and whether all applications send, receive, and synchronize data on
their own schedules, and whether all applications can synchronize user data
automatically.
Gmail, Google Calendar, and other applications may also have their own
settings to control how they synchronize data; see the sections on those
applications for details.
11.7.1 General sync settings
Background data
Mark the check box to permit applications to synchronize data in the
background, whether or not you are actively working in them. Unmarking this
setting can save battery power and lowers (but does not eliminate) data use.
Auto-sync
Mark the check box to permit applications to synchronize data on their own
schedule. If you unmark this setting, you must touch an account in the list on
this screen, press the Menu key, and touch Sync now to synchronize data for
that account.
Synchronizing data automatically is disabled if Background data is unchecked.
In that case, the Auto-sync checkbox is dimmed.
11.7.2 Manage accounts
The rest of this screen lists the Google Accounts and other accounts you’ve
added to the phone. If you touch an account in this screen, its account screen
opens.
This screen contains different options, depending on the kind of account. For
Google Accounts, it lists the kinds of data you can synchronize to the phone
with checkboxes so you can turn synchronizing on and off for each kind. You
can also press the Menu key and touch Sync now to synchronize data. Touch
Remove Account to remove the account along with all its data (contacts,
mails, settings, and so on).
11.8 Privacy
You use the Privacy settings to manage your personal information.
Back up my data
Mark the check box to back up your phone’s settings and other application
data to Google Servers, with your Google Account. If you replace your phone,
the settings and data you’ve backed up are restored onto the new phone for
the first time you sign in with your Google Account. If you mark this option, a
wide variety of settings and data are backed up, including your Wi-Fi passwords,
bookmarks, a list of the applications you’ve installed, the words you’ve added
to the dictionary used by the onscreen keyboard, and most of the settings
that you configure with the Settings application. If you unmark this option,
you stop backing up your settings, and any existing backups are deleted from
Google Servers.
Automatic restore
Mark the check box to restore your backed up settings or other data when you
reinstall an application.