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How to transfer contacts, sms messages, photos and videos from Sony Xperia Sola MT27 to Samsung Galaxy S6 Active (SM-G890A)

Sony Xperia Sola MT27
Samsung Galaxy S6 Active (SM-G890A)

Transfer contacts, sms messages, photos and videos from your Sony Xperia Sola MT27 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 Sony Xperia Sola MT27. The whole process can be completed in few minutes.

This guideline also works for similar devices like Sony Nypon LT22i, Sony Xperia go, Sony Xperia Neo L MT25, Sony Xperia P LT22, Sony Xperia S (LT26i), Sony Xperia ST21, Sony Xperia U ST25i.

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 S6 Active (SM-G890A)

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 SM-A8000, Samsung Galaxy A8 SM-A800F, Samsung Galaxy A8 SM-A800yz, Samsung Galaxy J (SC-02f), Samsung Galaxy Note 5 (SM-N920a), Samsung Galaxy S4 (SC-04F), Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini (SHV-E370k), Samsung Galaxy S6 EDGE+ (SM-G928i), Samsung Galaxy S6 EDGE+ 4G (SM-G928a), Samsung Galaxy Trend 2 Lite (SM-G318h).

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.