Transfer contacts from your Windows to the cloud server
In our guideline we will introduce PhoneCopy.com service which supports many phones from almost all manufacturers, including Windows, and can be easily used to synchronize data between two or more devices.
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.
![desktop icon](/dynamic/images/windows/desktop_icon.png)
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.
![status bar icon](/dynamic/images/windows/icon.png)
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.
![Synchronization direction](/dynamic/images/windows/this_device_to_server.png)
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 Xiaomi Redmi Note 12 Turbo 5G
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.
![Contacts](/dynamic/images/android/contacts.png)
![Contacts](/dynamic/images/android/contacts2.png)
![Contacts](/dynamic/images/android/contacts3.png)
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 Xiaomi 14 Ultra, Xiaomi Mi 12s Pro 5G, Xiaomi Poco C65, Xiaomi Poco F5 Pro 5G, Xiaomi Poco F6 Pro 5G, Xiaomi Poco M3 5G, Xiaomi POCO M6 Pro, Xiaomi Poco X6 5G, Xiaomi Poco X6 Pro 5G, Xiaomi Redmi 13C 5G.
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.