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How to transfer contacts from Mac OS X to Samsung Galaxy J3 2017 (SM-J327f)

Mac OS X
Samsung Galaxy J3 2017 (SM-J327f)

Transfer contacts from your Mac OS X to the cloud server

PhoneCopy.com is a web service which is free for personal purposes (with few limitations). This tutorial will show you how to backup your data from Mac OS X. The whole process can be completed in few 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 Samsung Galaxy J3 2017 (SM-J327f)

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 A5 LTE (2017) SM-A520f, Samsung Galaxy A7 LTE (2017) SM-A720F, Samsung Galaxy J1 Mini Prime (SM-J106b), Samsung Galaxy J1 Mini Prime (SM-J106f), Samsung Galaxy J3 2017 (SM-J327p), Samsung Galaxy Tab A (SM-T280), Samsung Galaxy Tab A (SM-T585), Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1 2016 (SM-T580), Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 8.0" (SM-T713), Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 9.7" Plus XLTE SM-T818v.

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:

Contacts can be then transferred to another device (eq. iPhone, other Nokia, SonyEricsson, Samsung, LG etc). You can always edit your contacts in your online account. Also, you will see full history of your contacts, as well as the data that you have deleted between two synchronizations.