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How to transfer contacts from Nokia Lumia 530 to Xiaomi Redmi A1

Nokia Lumia 530
Xiaomi Redmi A1

Transfer contacts from your Nokia Lumia 530 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 Nokia Lumia 530. The whole process can be completed in few minutes.

This guideline also works for similar devices like Nokia Lumia 526, Nokia Lumia 535, Nokia Lumia 720T, Nokia Lumia 735, Nokia Lumia 830, Nokia Lumia 920T, Nokia Lumia Icon.

Download the PhoneCopy application from windowsphone.com. If you do not have a PhoneCopy account yet, press "Register new account" and create it by filling in "Registration" and then press "Sign up".

Fill in your Username and Password or Register new account Register new account

If you already have a PhoneCopy account, fill in your username and password. To export your contacts, press "Export to PhoneCopy.com". If you want to upload your merged contacts back to the same Windows Phone 8.1, it is necessary to delete all contacts there first.

Fill in your Username and Password, press Your contacts were exported.

And now it's time to transfer data to your Xiaomi Redmi A1

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 Xiaomi 12T, Xiaomi Mi 10 Ultra, Xiaomi Mi 10S 5G, Xiaomi Poco M4 5G, Xiaomi Poco M4 Pro 4G, Xiaomi Poco X4 5G, Xiaomi Redmi K50i 5G, Xiaomi Redmi Note 11 SE, Xiaomi Redmi Note 11S 5G, Xiaomi Redmi Note 11T 5G.

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:

Just as a reminder, the contacts are transferred via your mobile phone service provider, so you need to have data plan activated for the service to work. If you don't have a special data scheme, your carrier will charge you additional fees.