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How to transfer contacts from Apple Mac OS X to Sony Xperia Tablet Z2 (SGP521)

Apple Mac OS X
Sony Xperia Tablet Z2 (SGP521)

Transfer contacts from your Apple Mac OS X to the cloud server

We used PhoneCopy.com service for this guideline. Using it, your can backup your contacts from your Apple Mac OS X easily. The whole backup, including the settings, can be done in several minutes.

Download PhoneCopy for Mac to your Mac, which you can download free of charge. After downloading and installation, go through following steps.

Start PhoneCopy for Mac Choose Log into an new account

Choose your username and password, fill email address and captcha and press Sign UP. Press Synchronize.

Type in your username, password and captscha Select sync direction

Select synchronization direction. Press This device -> server

Sync in progress

Your contacts will be synchronized in few seconds.

Sync in progress Sync in progress

And now it's time to transfer data to your Sony Xperia Tablet Z2 (SGP521)

Download PhoneCopy for Android to your Android phone, which you can download free of charge. After downloading and installation, go through following steps.

Login

Run the app and create new account. If you already have an account choose "sign on". Fill in your username and password. Here you can check where will be stored contacts from PhoneCopy.
Log in to your existing account where you stored your data from the old phone.

Welcome Login to existing account

Permissions

To allow correct functionality of PhoneCopy application we will kindly ask you to confirm access permissions for it.

Permissions Permissions

When you confirm access to contacts you can set which "contacts databases" you want to backup.

Contacts Contacts Contacts

If you also want to back up your SMS, enable access to the SMS in the next step.

SMS SMS Messages

After enabling media access, you can set up media backup (photos and videos).

Media Media Photos and videos

You can download photos and videos from old phone (which was synchronized to PhoneCopy.com before) you can choose it in the next step. Then you can synchronize.

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This guideline also works for similar devices like Sony D6503 Sirius, Sony Xperia E1 (D2005), Sony Xperia M2 (D2302), Sony Xperia M2 (D2303), Sony Xperia M2 (D2305), Sony Xperia M2 (D2306), Sony Xperia T2 Ultra (D5303), Sony Xperia Z (C6603), Sony Xperia Z2 (D6502), Sony Xperia Z2a (D6563).

Now you have all your contacts backed up on PhoneCopy and you can edit all your contacts in your online account. If you lose your phone or the stored data, or if you just run out of battery, you can see your contacts online.

Some additional tips:

Just as a reminder, the contacts are transferred via your mobile phone service provider, so you need to have data plan activated for the service to work. If you don't have a special data scheme, your carrier will charge you additional fees.