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How to transfer contacts, sms messages, photos and videos from Android to Samsung Galaxy M40 (sm-m405f)

Android
Samsung Galaxy M40 (sm-m405f)

Transfer contacts, sms messages, photos and videos from your Android to the cloud server

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

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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 M40 (sm-m405f)

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 A20 sm-a205u, Samsung Galaxy A30s (SM-A307f), Samsung Galaxy A50 sm-a505u, Samsung Galaxy A70 SM-A7050, Samsung Galaxy Folder 2 (SM-G160N), Samsung Galaxy J2 Core (SM-J260M), Samsung Galaxy J8 2018 (SM-J810m), Samsung Galaxy Note 10 (sm-n9700), Samsung Galaxy Note 10 (sm-n970f), Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 10.5" (SM-T830).

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, other Nokia, SonyEricsson, Samsung, LG etc). You can always edit your contacts in your online account. Also, you will see full history of your contacts, as well as the data that you have deleted between two synchronizations.