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How to transfer contacts, sms messages, photos and videos from Samsung Galaxy S3 (SCL21) to Honor X8a (crt-lx2)

Samsung Galaxy S3 (SCL21)
Honor X8a (crt-lx2)

Transfer contacts, sms messages, photos and videos from your Samsung Galaxy S3 (SCL21) 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 Samsung Galaxy S3 (SCL21). The whole process can be completed in few minutes.

This guideline also works for similar devices like Samsung Galaxy Core (gt-i8580), Samsung Galaxy Core Plus Duos (SM-G3502l), Samsung Galaxy Fame Lite Duos S6792, Samsung Galaxy Grand Neo (gt-i9168i), Samsung Galaxy Trend 2 (gt-s7898i) , Samsung Galaxy Trend Plus (GT-S7583), Samsung Galaxy Young Plus (gt-s6293t).

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 Honor X8a (crt-lx2)

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 Honor 70 5G (fne-nx9), Honor 8 (tfy-lx1), Honor 8 (tfy-lx3), Honor 90 Lite 5G (crt-nx1), Honor Magic 4 Pro 5G (LGE-NX9), Honor Magic 5 Pro 5G (PGT-N19), Honor Pad 8 (hey-w09), Honor X8a (crt-lx1), Honor X9 (any-lx1), Honor X9a (rmo-nx1).

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.