Overview

Introduction

Yearly/Monthly cloud phones cannot run after their subscription expires. If a yearly/monthly cloud phone is about to expire but you want to continue using it, renew the subscription within a specified period. Otherwise, resources such as the cloud phone will be automatically released, and data will be lost and cannot be restored.

Only yearly/monthly cloud phone subscriptions can be renewed. If you use pay-per-use cloud phones, just ensure that your account has a valid payment method configured or a top-up account with a sufficient balance.

If you renew the cloud phone before it expires, resources will be retained and you can continue using the cloud phone. For details about cloud phone statuses after they have expired and the associated impacts, see Impact of Expiration.

Renewal Functions

Table 1 describes how to renew your yearly/monthly cloud phones.

**Table 1** Renewal functions
Function	Description
Manually Renewing a Cloud Phone	You can renew a yearly/monthly cloud phone at any time on the KooPhone console before it is automatically deleted.
Auto-renewing a Cloud Phone	You can enable auto-renewal to automatically renew a cloud phone before it expires. This prevents resources from being deleted in case you forget to renew a subscription.

You can select a method to renew a yearly/monthly cloud phone based on the phase the ECS is currently in.

Figure 1 Cloud phone lifecycle

A cloud phone is in the Running state after it is provisioned.
When a cloud phone subscription expires, the cloud phone status will change from Running to Expired.
If an expired cloud phone is not renewed, it enters a grace period. If it is not renewed before the grace period ends, the cloud phone will be frozen and enter a retention period.
If you do not renew the subscription before the retention period ends, your resources will be automatically deleted.