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How to transfer contacts, sms messages, photos and videos from Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY 4G to Samsung Galaxy J7 Nxt (SM-J701MT)

Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY 4G
Samsung Galaxy J7 Nxt (SM-J701MT)

Transfer contacts, sms messages, photos and videos from your Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY 4G to the cloud server

We used PhoneCopy.com service for this guideline. Using it, your can backup your contacts from your Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY 4G easily. The whole backup, including the settings, can be done in several minutes.

This guideline also works for similar devices like Sony Ericsson WT19i Live Walkman, Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S LT18i, Sony Ericsson Xperia Duo, Sony Ericsson Xperia mini ST15a, Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo V MT11i, Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro Black MK16i, Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray ST18i.

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 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 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:

On your online account, you will see full history of your contacts, as well as the data that you've deleted in between the synchronizations. You can find them in an archive from where you can restore them. And if this is still not enough of a backup for you, you can download a CSV file, that you can store in your computer.