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How to transfer contacts, sms messages, photos and videos from Motorola Milestone (A853) to Samsung Galaxy Core Prime (SM-S820l)

Motorola Milestone (A853)
Samsung Galaxy Core Prime (SM-S820l)

Transfer contacts, sms messages, photos and videos from your Motorola Milestone (A853) 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 Motorola Milestone (A853). The whole process can be completed in few 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 Samsung Galaxy Core Prime (SM-S820l)

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 Note 4 S-LTE (SM-N916k), Samsung Galaxy Note Edge (SM-N915w8), Samsung Galaxy Note Edge LTE-A (SM-N915k), Samsung Galaxy Note Edge LTE-A (SM-N915r4), Samsung Galaxy Note Edge TD-LTE (SM-N9150), Samsung Galaxy S6 (SM-G920), Samsung Galaxy S6 EDGE LTE (SM-G925s), Samsung Galaxy S6 EDGE+ (SM-G928x), Samsung Galaxy S6 EDGE+ CDMA (SM-G928p), Samsung Galaxy S6 LTE-A (SM-G920r4).

Now you can easily edit your contacts and other resources online in your PhoneCopy profile. You have access to your contact even if you forget your phone at home.

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.