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How to transfer contacts, sms messages, photos and videos from Samsung Galaxy S7 (sm-g930fd) to Xiaomi Mi 8 Explorer Edition

Samsung Galaxy S7 (sm-g930fd)
Xiaomi Mi 8 Explorer Edition

Transfer contacts, sms messages, photos and videos from your Samsung Galaxy S7 (sm-g930fd) 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 S7 (sm-g930fd). The whole process can be completed in few minutes.

This guideline also works for similar devices like Samsung Galaxy A10 SM-A105g, Samsung Galaxy A20 sm-a205f, Samsung Galaxy A50 sm-a505fn, Samsung Galaxy J7 2018 (SM-J737t), Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus sm-g9750, Samsung Galaxy S10e sm-g970u, Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.5 2018 (SM-T595).

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

Login

Run the app and create new account. If you already have an account choose "sign on".

Welcome Create new account 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 Choose 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 Choose photos and videos

Getting media from your old phone

If you want to download photos and videos from your previous phone (which was synchronized with PhoneCopy.com) you can select them like its shown in the image below. Then start the Synchronization using the Synchronize button.

Other devices Sync

And now it's time to transfer data to your Xiaomi Mi 8 Explorer Edition

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 Xiaomi 12 5G, Xiaomi 12 Pro, Xiaomi 12X, Xiaomi Mi 11i 5G, Xiaomi Poco C31, Xiaomi Poco X4 Pro 5G, Xiaomi Redmi 10 Prime, Xiaomi Redmi 10c, Xiaomi Redmi Note 11 Pro 5G, Xiaomi Redmi Note 11S.

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.