CyberSynchs Backs Up Your Phone in the Cloud

08.08.2010

Once the sync is complete, you should be able to access all of the data that has been synced by pointing any computer's Web browser to cybersynchs.com. (If you're offline, you can use the Java-based desktop app, called CyberSynchs PC, but you will need a Web connection to update its contents.)

I had a bit of difficulty here, though. I first tested the app on an HTC , which had 97 photos in the camera's gallery. When I looked at the Web interface, I was surprised to see that more than 100 photos had been synced from the phone--but unfortunately many of them were not from my camera gallery. Instead, I saw sample photos that had been stored on the phone's SD card, as well as screen grabs from what looked like every Web site I had ever visited with the phone's browser. Likewise, none of my videos showed up.

CyberSynchs CTO Tyler Thackray told me that the Android app is programmed to pick up whatever it identifies as a photo, which explains why I was seeing screen grabs of Web pages. But he was unsure as to why the app was missing several photos that it should have identified. He says that the company will have to look into this.

I had better luck when I tested the app on the . This time, all of my photos were synced appropriately--those from the photo gallery only; no random Web pages here. But not all of my text messages showed up as expected.

CyberSynchs is free for 7 days; after that it costs $3 a month. I'd be hesitant to pay that fee until these bugs are worked out. If CyberSynchs can solve these glitches, however, $3 a month seems like a small price to pay for mobile peace of mind.