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How to transfer contacts, sms messages, photos and videos from Sony Xperia to Xiaomi Redmi Note 12 Pro 5G

Sony Xperia
Xiaomi Redmi Note 12 Pro 5G

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

This guideline also works for similar devices like Sony Xperia 10Plus I4213, Sony Xperia 5 j8210, Sony Xperia 5 j8270, Sony Xperia L2 (H3321), Sony Xperia XZ 2 H8296, Sony Xperia XZ1 701so, Sony Xperia XZ1 sov36 (KDDI).

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 Redmi Note 12 Pro 5G

Download PhoneCopy for Huawei from Huawei AppGallery to your phone free of charge. After downloading and installation, go through the following steps.

Run the app, fill in your username and password. Here you can check where will be stored contacts from PhoneCopy. In case you are Premium user, you can upload SMS, photos and videos as well.

Welcome Login to existing account

Log in to your existing account where you stored your data from the old phone. 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

PhoneCopy allows to back up SMS too.

SMS SMS Messages

Then you can set up backup for media (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 Lite 5G, Xiaomi Black Shark 5 Pro (ktus-h0), Xiaomi Mi 10S 5G, Xiaomi Mi 11 Pro 5G, Xiaomi Poco F4 GT 5G, Xiaomi Poco M4 Pro 4G, Xiaomi Poco X5 Pro 5G, Xiaomi Redmi 10 5G, Xiaomi Redmi 12C, Xiaomi Redmi Note 12.

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.