An India-only Samsung Smart TV feature that backs up a phone's photos and videos to a drive on the TV when the phone comes near.
- ADB (Auto Data Backup)
- India only
- USB drive or external HDD connected to the TV
- USB Backup app on the phone
- Samsung India TV e-manual, 2025
ADB (Auto Data Backup) is an India-only feature of Samsung Smart TVs that keeps a local backup of the owner's photos and videos. Once the TV is registered in the USB Backup phone app, ADB copies the chosen gallery folders to a USB drive or external hard drive plugged into the TV whenever the phone comes close. The files land in a password-protected folder, with no cloud involved.
Files can also be sent back from the TV to a Samsung phone over Wi-Fi Direct. Samsung India promoted a matching feature, Home Cloud, in its April 2019 Unbox Magic launch, and ADB is still documented in Samsung's 2025 India TV e-manual.
What I did
- I built the UI layer for the app, which shipped on Samsung Tizen TVs in October 2018.