How to transfer contacts, sms messages, photos and videos from Samsung Galaxy S6 (SM-G920F) to Honor 8 (tfy-lx1)
Transfer contacts, sms messages, photos and videos from your Samsung Galaxy S6 (SM-G920F) 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 Samsung Galaxy S6 (SM-G920F). The whole process can be completed in few minutes.
This guideline also works for similar devices like Samsung Galaxy A3 LTE SM-A300FU, Samsung Galaxy A3 LTE SM-A300M, Samsung Galaxy A5 LTE SM-A500H, Samsung Galaxy A5 SM-A500FU, Samsung Galaxy E5 SM-E500H, Samsung Galaxy E7 LTE SM-E700H, Samsung Galaxy Note 4 LTE (SM-N910u).
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".
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).
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.
And now it's time to transfer data to your Honor 8 (tfy-lx1)
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 Honor 50 (nth_an00), Honor 50 5G (nth_nx9), Honor 50 Lite (ntn-l22), Honor 70 5G (fne-nx9), Honor 8 (tfy-lx3), Honor 8A (jat-lx1), Honor 9X Pro (hlk-l42), Honor X8a (crt-lx2), Honor X9 (any-lx1), Honor X9a (rmo-nx1).
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:
Contacts can be then transferred to another device (eq. iPhone, Nokia, SonyEricsson, Samsung, LG etc). See PhoneCopy site for supported devices.