Hello.
We began to live at a time when the information stored on the phone or PC became more expensive than the hardware itself. In general, this can be attributed to the contacts in the notebook ... 👀
And when buying a new phone - one of the first tasks that one has to face is transferring contacts from the old device. If you have a lot of numbers (more than 20-30), then the manual option can be discarded immediately, because it will take a long time, and it is easy to make a mistake and confuse the number.
In general, it is much more convenient to use specials for this task. Android system function to import / export notebook. This note will be about several options for its use ...
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Transfer contacts from your old phone
Note: screenshots below are made with Android 8.1
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Using a SIM card
This method is convenient first of all for its versatility (it works even if you do not have the Internet, there is no slot for an SD card, etc.). But it should be noted that not so much can be saved to a SIM-card - only 50-150 numbers. However, if you have a lot of them, then you can transfer the list of numbers in parts ?!
1) And so, to transfer, you first need to open your contact list, click on the "More" button and select the option "Import Export" (if you have an older version of Android, then this option will not be in the menu, so you can immediately open the settings from contacts).
Import-Export Contacts
2) Next, select an option "Export to SIM storage" , then specify which contacts to use (which are saved in the phone memory, Viber, Telegram applications, etc.), and press the button "Export" (with an arrow).
Export contacts to a SIM card
3) After the contacts are saved on the SIM card - insert it into the new phone.
Inserting a SIM card into the phone
4) In the new device, open again the settings for export / import of contacts, select the option "Import from SIM storage" , then indicate the contacts that you need and click on "Import" ... The screenshots below are for help.
Import from SIM card
In general, the transfer is complete! As a rule, everything-about-everything takes 2-3 minutes. time ...
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Using SD memory card
This option is convenient when you have a fairly large notebook that simply does not fit on the SIM card (or, due to various errors, you simply cannot save anything to the SIM). In addition, this does not require an Internet connection (which is also critical in some cases).
1) First, you also need to open the contact list and go to the menu "Import / Export" ... See example below.
Import-Export Contacts
2) Next, select an option "Export to storage device (SD card)" , specify the contacts (which you need) and agree to save them.
Saving contacts to SD card / Clickable
3) If everything went well, a file with the name should appear on the SD card "00001.vcf" (with current date and time).
Contacts file saved
4) Next, you need to connect the SD card to the new device.
Installing a MicroSD card for 128 GB in a smartphone
5) On a new phone, go to the settings for import / export of contacts and select the option from the menu "Import from storage" ... After that, the phone will automatically find all the contact files on your SD card and prompt you to add them to memory. See the screenshot below for an example.
Import from storage - vCard selection
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Using a google account
This method is the most convenient. Allows you to transfer not only a list of contacts (which can be of any size), but also many other files: documents, calendar entries, multimedia, etc. In addition, when using it, you do not need to do anything at all, except what to create account and log into it ...
Note: I omit the registration of a Google account, it is standard (just click on the "Accounts / Add a new Google account" menu, then enter your e-mail address, phone number, etc. data - and wow, you're done!
So, having a Google account, you can enable the option synchronization, which will save your contacts to its servers in the "cloud" every day (which means that even if you lose your old phone, you can quickly restore all your contacts!).
Synchronization is enabled in the section "Settings / Accounts / Google" ... Please note that after you turn it on, it takes some time until the data is synchronized.
Contacts are synced
After synchronization - you can simply turn on the new phone, set up an Internet connection, and log into your account - all your contacts will be automatically downloaded from the network. Conveniently? Even more!
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With the help of specials. applications
Now there is a fairly large number of applications for auto-creating backups (note: backup is a special file for restoring contacts, files, documents, etc. user data).
For example, it is very convenient in this regard to use Easy Backup (link to the Play Market). It allows you to save your contact list to a file format ".vcf" and send it "anywhere": email, cloud drive, SD card, etc.
Easy Backup - application for backups
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That's all for now, good luck!
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