{"id":47413,"date":"2019-11-23T05:40:58","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T05:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stellarinfo.com\/blog\/?p=47413"},"modified":"2024-03-21T10:05:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T10:05:19","slug":"fix-google-backup-is-broken-on-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stellarinfo.com\/blog\/fix-google-backup-is-broken-on-android\/","title":{"rendered":"How to fix Automatic Google Backup is Broken on Android"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many Android users are reporting a strange problem. The automatic Google Drive Backup feature on their Android device stops working without any warning or notification!<\/p>

The problem gets unmasked when they incidentally check Android Settings. The ‘Back up Now’<\/em> button under Settings> System > Google > Backup> Back up to Google Drive<\/em> is greyed out and inaccessible. While the ‘Active backups’<\/em> list shows ‘Waiting for backup’<\/em> under data categories — App data, Call history, Photo and Videos etc.<\/p>

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The problem has been commonly reported on Samsung Galaxy Note, Motorola, Google Pixel, OnePlus, LG V30, Huawei Mate Pro and some other devices running either Android 9.0 Pie or Android 10. The Android backup issue may not be limited to just these phones, as usually users don’t check if their automated Google Drive Backup function is working or not. Thus, the problem may have remained largely unnoticed.<\/p>

Moving on, workarounds to fix the issue, like Restart, Reboot, Factory Reset or re-adding Google account have all been proven futile. So now, your device is not backed up on Google Drive while the cause of the problem is also unknown.<\/p>

If you’ve been affected by this problem on Android phones there are two things that should worry you now —<\/p>

How to fix the problem so that Google Drive starts backing up Android data again?<\/strong><\/p>

And equally important—<\/strong>how to recover Android data that is already lost <\/strong>as you might have deleted important photos, videos, contacts, text messages etc., from your phone, knowing<\/em> that there’s Google Drive backup to fall back on.<\/strong><\/p>

So first let’s delve into the first question.<\/span><\/p>

How to fix Google Drive Backup Broken issue on Android phones?<\/h2>

So far, it seems that Google and Android phone OEMs haven’t rolled out a solution to fix this bug.<\/p>

However, thankfully, some Android users have shared a couple of solutions in various discussion forums that have worked for them —<\/p>