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How to transfer contacts, sms messages, photos and videos from Sony Xperia Ion LT28 to Samsung Galaxy A8 Plus SM-A730F

Sony Xperia Ion LT28
Samsung Galaxy A8 Plus SM-A730F

Transfer contacts, sms messages, photos and videos from your Sony Xperia Ion LT28 to the cloud server

In our guideline we will introduce PhoneCopy.com service which supports many phones from almost all manufacturers, including Sony Xperia Ion LT28, and can be easily used to synchronize data between two or more devices.

This guideline also works for similar devices like Sony Tablet P (Tablet S2), Sony Tablet S (Tablet S1), Sony Xperia acro HD IS12s, Sony Xperia acro S LT26w, Sony Xperia advance ST27s, Sony Xperia GX SO-04D.

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 A8 Plus SM-A730F

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 C7 Pro (sm-c710O), Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime Plus SM-G532BL, Samsung Galaxy J3 Prime (SM-J327w), Samsung Galaxy J7 Nxt (SM-J701MT), Samsung Galaxy On7 Prime 2018 sm-g611f, Samsung Galaxy S7 (sm-g930l), Samsung Galaxy S7 (sm-g930r7), Samsung Galaxy Sol 2 (SM-J326az), 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:

Contacts can be then transferred to another device (eq. iPhone, Nokia, SonyEricsson, Samsung, LG etc). See PhoneCopy site for supported devices.