Transfer contacts from your Windows to the cloud server
We used PhoneCopy.com service for this guideline. Using it, your can backup your contacts from your Windows easily. The whole backup, including the settings, can be done in several minutes.
This guideline also works for similar devices like Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows 2003, Microsoft Windows 2008, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows 8.1, Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows ME.
Download PhoneCopy for Windows to your Windows, which you can download free of charge. After downloading and installation PhoneCopy icon will appear on your desktop.
Start the application and small PhoneCopy icon will appear on right bottom corner of your screen on status bar. When you will press this icon at first time you will be asked to fill your username and password. Any next icon click will start synchronization.
Start PhoneCopy for Windows. Fill your PhoneCopy username and password, select local directory to store contacts, and choose VCARD format which will be used (we recommend to use 3.0 which is pre-selected). Another option is to use native Windows Contacts format and synchronize directly to Contacts folder. Also you can set your proxy.
Now you can start the first synchronization on your Windows to transfer your contacts from/to PhoneCopy server. Also you have some contacts at PhoneCopy.com server, they will be copied to selected directory. Status bar icon is animated during synchronization process.
When synchronization finish you will get confirming message.
And now it's time to transfer data to your Samsung Galaxy A05 (SM-A055f)
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.
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.
When you confirm access to contacts you can set which "contacts databases" you want to backup.
PhoneCopy allows to back up SMS too.
Then you can set up backup for 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.
This guideline also works for similar devices like Samsung Galaxy A02 SM-A025u1, Samsung Galaxy A12 (SM-A125m), Samsung Galaxy A52 5G SM-A526u1, Samsung Galaxy M54 5G sm-m546b, Samsung Galaxy Note20 Ultra 5G scg06, Samsung Galaxy S23 5G sm-s711b, Samsung Galaxy S23 5G sm-s711u, Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4 (sm-f7210), Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 5G (SM-F946u), Samsung M02 sm-m022f.
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, Nokia, SonyEricsson, Samsung, LG etc). See PhoneCopy site for supported devices.