Summary: Did you just get a new Samsung Galaxy A8s? Looking for a simple way to sync all data like contacts, photos, videos, music, apps and more from an old Galaxy phone to Samsung Galaxy A8s? This article will tells 2 simple and effective ways for you to transfer all data from any Galaxy phone to Samsung Galaxy A8s in a click.
Samsung has just taken the wraps off of the Galaxy A8s, which has a hole in the screen for the front camera.The reveal isn’t all that surprising, we had been hearing rumors about the Galaxy A8s for a while, and Samsung did say that it would debut some of its fancy new features on midrange phones.The phone will be available in China starting on December 21, and it’s available for preregistration (no price has been provided yet) through Samsung’s Chinese online store now, but it’s not known if the Galaxy A8s will ever be released internationally. We’ll update this article when we hear more about pricing and availability. Updated on December 17, 2018: Added further official details on the Galaxy A8s, along with images of the phone.
Be honest, I was attracted to the device and now I also intend to get started with a Samsung Galaxy A8s smartphone. Before using the phone, I hope all my files like contacts, SMS, photos, videos, music, and more in my old Galaxy J2 can be transferred to Samsung Galaxy A8s. I believe that for many old Galaxy users, there is a need for this. Do you know how to do it? Next, let me share my method.
Compared to Bluetooth or other third-party softwares, Mobile Transfer is highly recommended for phone users as it makes it extremely easy to directly transfer all data and files from any Samsung Galaxy phone to Samsung Galaxy A8s without loss of quality, such as contacts, photos, videos, text messages, music, calendar, apps, app data, documents and so on. Just 3 steps and the transmission is done. What’s more, it is practical in a variety of Android phones, including Huawei, HTC, Google, Xiaomi, OnePlus, vivo, LG, ZTE, OPPO, SONY, NOKIA, etc.. Besides, you are allowed to backup and restore your phone data by using this tool.
Step 1. Download, install and launch the Mobile Transfer tool on your computer. When its primary window appears, please choose the “Phone to Phone Transfer” option and press “Start” to move on.
Step 2. Next, connect your old Galaxy phone and Samsung Galaxy A8s to the computer via two USB cables and the software will automatically detects the two connected phones soon. Make sure your old Samsung phone is displayed on the left as the Source phone, and if not, click “Flip” to exchange theirs position.
Step 3. All of the transferable files on the old Samsung phone are displayed in the middle of the window. Select the data types you’d like to transfer from the Samsung phone, then click “Start Transfer” to move the selected data to Samsung Galaxy A8s.
Step 1. After running the software, please click on the feature of “Restore from Backups” on the primary interface. Then, choose a backup file type according to your need, for the old Galaxy user, here it can be “MobileTrans” or “Kies”.
Tips: If you’d backed up your old Galaxy phone with Mobile Transfer on this computer before, please choose “MobileTrans”, if the backup files that were created by Samsung Kies, then please choose “Kies”. Of course, if you get other backup files like iTunes backup, iCloud backup and so on, you can also choose it.
Step 2. No matter which kind of backup type that you choose, the program will automatically scans and lists all the result to you, just choose the one according to your need. Then the program will extract all the transferable data from the selected backup and displays them in the middle panel. At the same time, please use a USB cable to connect your Samsung Galaxy A8s to computer.
Step 3. Once your device is detected, check the items that you want to transferred, and press “Start Transfer” to restore them to your Samsung Galaxy A8s.
Note: No matter which method you will choose, please do not disconnect your phones during the whole transfer process. If you want to wipe all data on your Samsung Galaxy A8s, you can use the “Clear data before copy” feature.
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