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How to transfer contacts, sms messages, photos and videos from Motorola Milestone (A853) to Huawei P20 (EML-L29)

Motorola Milestone (A853)
Huawei P20 (EML-L29)

Transfer contacts, sms messages, photos and videos from your Motorola Milestone (A853) to the cloud server

We used PhoneCopy.com service for this guideline. Using it, your can backup your contacts from your Motorola Milestone (A853) easily. The whole backup, including the settings, can be done in several minutes.

This guideline also works for similar devices like Motorola Cliq MB611, Motorola Defy Mini XT320, Motorola MOTOLUXE XT615, Motorola XOOM 2, Motorola XOOM MZ605, Motorola XPRT MB612, Motorola XT702.

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

Backup contacts and SMS from your Android

Run the app and create new account. You can check which contact databases you want to backup and synchronize. You can do multiple choice.

Create new account

After successful login, press "Advanced & Account". Select "One-way sync" and after choose "This device >> server".

Press Advanced & Account Press One-way sync Choose This device >> server

Contacts from your Android phone will be copied to PhoneCopy.com server in few seconds.

And now it's time to transfer data to your Huawei P20 (EML-L29)

Download PhoneCopy for Huawei from Huawei AppGallery to your phone free of charge. After downloading and installation, go through the following steps.

Run the app, fill in your username and password. Here you can check where will be stored contacts from PhoneCopy. In case you are Premium user, you can upload SMS, photos and videos as well.

Welcome Login to existing account

Log in to your existing account where you stored your data from the old phone. 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

PhoneCopy allows to back up SMS too.

SMS SMS Messages

Then you can set up backup for media (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 Huawei Mate 10 Pro (BLA-L09), Huawei Mate 9 Lite (BLL-L23), Huawei P20 Lite (ANE-LX1), Huawei P20 Pro (CLT-L09), Huawei P20 Pro Dual SIM (CLT-L29), Huawei P9 (EVA-AL00), Huawei P9 (EVA-DL00), Huawei P9 (EVA-L09), Huawei P9 (EVA-L19), Huawei P9 (EVA-L29).

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:

You can easily remove duplicate items among your contact list or SMS messages. Just go to the Contacts (or SMS) section and choose More Actions -> Search for duplicates. Detailed wizard will help you to solve this kind of problem easily.