How to transfer contacts, sms messages, photos and videos from Sony Xperia SX SO-05D to Samsung Galaxy Tab E 8.0 (SM-T477v)
Transfer contacts, sms messages, photos and videos from your Sony Xperia SX SO-05D 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 SX SO-05D. The whole process can be completed in few minutes.
This guideline also works for similar devices like Sony GX LT29, Sony Xperia acro S LT26w, Sony Xperia advance ST27s, Sony Xperia E - C1605, Sony Xperia Tipo ST21a2, Sony Xperia Tipo ST21i2, Sony Xperia V LT25i.
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.
After successful login, press "Advanced & Account". Select "One-way sync" and after 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 Tab E 8.0 (SM-T477v)
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.
Permissions
To allow correct functionality of PhoneCopy application we will kindly ask you to confirm access permissions for it.
When you confirm access to contacts you can set which "contacts databases" you want to backup.
If you also want to back up your SMS, enable access to the SMS in the next step.
After enabling media access, you can set up media backup (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.
This guideline also works for similar devices like Samsung Galaxy A5 (SM-A510M), Samsung Galaxy A5 (SM-A510Y), Samsung Galaxy Ace (GT-S5830i), Samsung Galaxy J1 Mini HSPA (SM-J105H), Samsung Galaxy J3 Duos (SM-J320A), Samsung Galaxy J3 Duos (SM-J320F), Samsung Galaxy J3 Duos (SM-J320fn), Samsung Galaxy S7 EDGE (sm-g9350), Samsung Galaxy S7 EDGE CDMA (sm-g935p), Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8" (SM-p350).
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:
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.