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How to transfer contacts from Nokia Lumia 525 to Samsung Galaxy J7 Nxt (SM-J701MT)

Nokia Lumia 525
Samsung Galaxy J7 Nxt (SM-J701MT)

Transfer contacts from your Nokia Lumia 525 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 Nokia Lumia 525. The whole process can be completed in few minutes.

This guideline also works for similar devices like Nokia Lumia 1020, Nokia Lumia 1320, Nokia Lumia 1520, Nokia Lumia 625, Nokia Lumia 630, Nokia Lumia 635, Nokia Lumia 930.

Download the PhoneCopy application from windowsphone.com. If you do not have a PhoneCopy account yet, press "Register new account" and create it by filling in "Registration" and then press "Sign up".

Fill in your Username and Password or Register new account Register new account

If you already have a PhoneCopy account, fill in your username and password. To export your contacts, press "Export to PhoneCopy.com". If you want to upload your merged contacts back to the same Windows Phone 8.1, it is necessary to delete all contacts there first.

Fill in your Username and Password, press Your contacts were exported.

And now it's time to transfer data to your Samsung Galaxy J7 Nxt (SM-J701MT)

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 A8 Plus SM-A730F, Samsung Galaxy C7 Pro (sm-c710O), Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime Plus SM-G532BL, Samsung Galaxy J3 2017 (SM-J327vpp), Samsung Galaxy J7 (SM-J727v), Samsung Galaxy J7 (SM-J727vpp), Samsung Galaxy S7 Verizon (sm-g930vl), Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus (SM-G955N), Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8" LTE (SM-P355y).

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.