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How to transfer contacts, sms messages, photos and videos from BlackBerry KEY 2 to Samsung Galaxy A8 Plus SM-A730F

BlackBerry KEY 2
Samsung Galaxy A8 Plus SM-A730F

Transfer contacts, sms messages, photos and videos from your BlackBerry KEY 2 to the cloud server

We used PhoneCopy.com service for this guideline. Using it, your can backup your contacts from your BlackBerry KEY 2 easily. The whole backup, including the settings, can be done in several minutes.

This guideline also works for similar devices like BlackBerry Aurora, BlackBerry Evolve , BlackBerry KEY 2 LE, BlackBerry KEYone CDMA, BlackBerry KEYONE DUAL SIM, BlackBerry KEYone Dual SIM TD-LTE, BlackBerry Motion.

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

Login

Run the app and create new account. If you already have an account choose "sign on".

Welcome Create new account 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 Choose 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 Choose photos and videos

Getting media from your old phone

If you want to download photos and videos from your previous phone (which was synchronized with PhoneCopy.com) you can select them like its shown in the image below. Then start the Synchronization using the Synchronize button.

Other devices Sync

And now it's time to transfer data to your Samsung Galaxy A8 Plus SM-A730F

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.

Other devices Sync

This guideline also works for similar devices like Samsung Galaxy A8 2018 SM-A530F, Samsung Galaxy C7 Pro (sm-c710O), Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime Plus SM-G532BL, Samsung Galaxy J3 Prime (SM-J327w), Samsung Galaxy J7 Nxt (SM-J701MT), Samsung Galaxy On7 Prime 2018 sm-g611f, Samsung Galaxy S7 (sm-g930l), Samsung Galaxy S7 (sm-g930r7), Samsung Galaxy Sol 2 (SM-J326az), Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8" LTE (SM-P355y).

Once everything is done, check your data on the web. Login to PhoneCopy webpage and you will see brief review of all data transferred from your device. With another mouse click, you can review the change of each particular item.

Some additional tips:

On your online account, you will see full history of your contacts, as well as the data that you've deleted in between the synchronizations. You can find them in an archive from where you can restore them. And if this is still not enough of a backup for you, you can download a CSV file, that you can store in your computer.