Can back up / restore for a hard reset on Galaxy Note be done using Samsung Kies? My Galaxy Note seems to have gone pretty sluggish and i guess one option is to hard reset / format my phone. I have been browsing this forum and now know how to do the reset and that it is very important to back up the data safely. My specific questions are:


Can the backup / restore function of KIES do the trick? My phone is not rooted nor do i want to root it. KIES because i have been using it and am not sure about titanium or mybackup.
During the back up should i include account information and settings too? Most posts advise NOT to backup system settings/data but i suppose account info is different? (Sorry i'm a little lost in this field)
I hope the phone will be back to normal functioning after the reset (i mean, it may or may not remove the lags etc but it wont harm either will it?)
The KIES backup/restore function should work, as you are not rooting, upgrading or changing ROMs.  However, it can be a little flakey, so be prepared for this to not work and to lose your system and app settings.
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A reset certainly won't harm it.  However, lags are likely to be due to one of your apps misbehaving, so a backup/restore will likely put you right back in the same boat you're in now.