Phone change: how to easily transfer your data

On Android, you have to go to the Photos Application, then Settings -> Save and synchronize -> Import size ; On Windows Mobile, it happens in Settings -> Backup -> Photos+Videos. With iOS, the backup on iCloud is by default disabled. Just go to Settings -> Photos and camera and activate the iCloud photo library.

Change phone: the guide for a successful transition

If the generations born with a smartphone at hand already know how to use it at 4 or 5 years, for those which convert to new technologies – willingly or of force – the man -machine relationship is often less instinctive. A distance that can result in anxiety when it comes to changing phone. Here are a few steps how to approach a serenely smartphone renewal.

This article is intended above all to people who are not comfortable with technologies in general (smartphones in particular) and perhaps even with the only idea of ​​change. Doubt about the model to choose ? Fear of being confused with a new device ? Anxiety of losing contacts, photos and other data ?

Do not panic, all dreaded obstacles can overcome, and overall, it’s even rather simple ! For experienced users who think they are mastering everything, the article will act as a reminder, it’s always good to take.

The only real difficulty is for us: consider the different scenarios, depending on the starting device (classic phone, Android smartphone, Apple, Windows Phone, another ?) and the arrival smartphone (Android, Apple or Windows Phone ?)).

Now, and fortunately, there is the cloud, That is to say remote services which synchronize all permanently and make it possible to simplify interactions. And if we look at the market shares of the various manufacturers, the most plausible case is that you adopt an Android phone, possibly replacing another Android phone, but with an older system version.

You can also consult our two tutorials on Android migration to iOS and iOS to Android.

1. Choose the right phone

Unless you have already set your sights on a specific smartphone model, the first step is to choose a phone adapted to your needs and budget. Three families of smartphones coexist mainly: those under Android – most of the offer – Windows Phone – Today Microsoft’s prerogative, in limited number – and iPhone. To help you in your quest, we have developed two purchasing guides:

• a dedicated to Smartphones at less than 150 and 250 euros ;
• another focus on High -end models of 2016.

In this regard, it is Google’s environment that appears the most favorable: Android benefits from a very complete blind and an almost hegemonic number of devices offered at all prices. The Windows Phone are on the whole affordable, but few (there are seven references on the Microsoft site), and the Microsoft application store, meanwhile, is not very supplied, or so coveted by developers. As for the Apple environment, it relies on an excellent blind but endless and very expensive terminals.

Be that as it may, there are mainly three variables to consider well, especially on entry -level smartphones where compromises will be inevitable:

• screen size;
• the quality in photo;
• Storage available.

On the first criterion, and if you have not changed phone for a long time, you will see that smartphones are fine, but that they have grown up. Fashion is 5 -inch screens, or more. It is comfortable to browse the internet for example, but for basic telephone use, you have to tolerate this substantial template. Some brands offer smaller screens, 4.5 inch type, it can be a better option if you are afraid of cluttering your pockets beyond measurement.

Apart from the size, what matters is the quality. The mention of an IPS panel will guarantee better viewing angles. To be favored in relation to the old generation slabs, said TN. As for the resolution, it will depend on the screen diagonal. 720p (HD) or even 1080p (Full HD) will give a thinner display on 5 -inch screens.

For photo quality, what you need to know is that the vast majority of entry -level smartphones are bad, except exceptional conditions (beautiful light, static subject, etc.)). Some models at 200 euros (excluding subscription) stand out, otherwise you have to get in the middle or high-end, around 350-400 or downright more.

Finally, you should know that with too “entry -level” smartphones, you will quickly miss space to save photos and videos or to install applications. Avoid models with less than 8 GB, 16 GB being a good start, and make sure that the device accepts memory extensions by microSD card. On other variables such as battery, processor or RAM, there is less disparity, or say, more uniformity.

2. Open your package to competition

In any case, at the time of renewal, you must use the package as a lever on the prices. Indeed, many users keep an old subscription, with no or little mobile data (which is annoying for a smartphone) and limited communications, all sold at prices that have never been reviewed.

When you like a mobile, you have to see what your operator offers you in the context of a renewal, but also go to eye the competition to make it play. The rivalries are such that you can easily obtain considerable “advantages” with a few calls to customer service, or even termination to put more pressure.

If you are free from any commitment, you must really ask yourself the question of the purchase method: so -called “naked” smartphone (without subscription) that you will complete with a new non -binding package or smartphone subsidized by a package with commitment.

In the first case, you will pay the phone full pot and all of a sudden, but you will have a much cheaper monthly package; In the second case, you will benefit from an attractive price on the device, but with a much higher package and over a period of 12 or 24 months. Technically, and if we compare the invoice after one or two years, it is often more advantageous to opt for a naked phone with a non -binding package (Red, Sosh, B & You, Free, etc.)).

“Comparison and patience are the key to success”

When we motivate ourselves to these so important steps, the keys to success are comparison (packages, operators, purchasing methods) and patience and patience. Indeed, operators have an annoying tendency to try to ferret you by unexpected calls to offer you new offers, with commitment, and that it would be necessary to know at the moment, otherwise you can no longer benefit from it ! Better to stand ready and validate anything without being perfectly certain to have perceived all the ins and outs.

Note that the number of the number, even in the event of termination, allows you to keep your illustrious phone number. A call at 3179 is enough to obtain the R.I.O., Operator identity statement, necessary for the portability process. You can also get it by calling for the termination service, just to start putting a pressure on the upcoming negotiations, since operators keep notes of all your calls.

Another point to take into account: the possibility of taking advantage of discounts not on mobile, but on services in the event of multiple subscriptions (mobile and internet box, several accounts within the same family, etc.)). The view must be global so as not to lose on one side, which you earn on the other. And you must, of course, never lose sight of the service: if you know that your friends at an X operator never capture at home, do not go to this operator.

Finally, once you have chosen the right smartphone and if you haven’t changed your offer, ask your operator to your operator. There is a good chance that your old SIM card will not be in the right format, you will save time. The operators normally offer pre -cut SIMs that adapt to all current, SIM (obsolete), micro SIM (most used) and Nano SIM (top of the range) formats (high -end). And already order your microSD card.

The three SIM, Normal, Micro and Nano card formats

3. Save your contacts

For this perfectly crucial question, it is necessary to detail the cases. If the phone you separate is already an Android smartphone, Windows 10 Mobile, Windows Phone 8.1, or iOS, it will be simple. If it is another bone (symbian, bada, etc.) or a classic phone (feature phone), it will possibly be more complicated. Explanation.

In the case of a smartphone, by default, the contacts are saved on the device and synchronized on the cloud Through the user account. Gmail for Android, Outlook.com (or live or hotmail, it all depends on the period when you created your Microsoft account) for Windows 10 Mobile and iTunes for iOS. In other words, your SIM is likely to be empty, so you are not dependent on recovering your contacts.

This is how a smartphone works, by synchronizing a maximum of data – especially those which are sensitive – on remote servers. It may seem worrying in terms of privacy, but it has the enormous advantage of simplifying smartphone changes, or not wanted (flight, loss, etc.)).

All you have to do is connect your Gmail or Microsoft account in the new smartphone to find the attached contacts, in the cloud. On a Windows Phone, just add a Google account (Settings -> Accounts -> Add an account)). On Android, you must first install the Outlook application, then go to Settings -> Accounts -> Add an account -> Outlook. The smartphone will synchronize emails but also contacts attached to the Microsoft account.

If however, your phone was configured to save contacts on the SIM, or if you use an even older SIM SIM that stored its phone numbers on this chip, a quick hack will allow everything to be put back in order. In the application settings Contacts, You have to ask only to display the contacts of the SIM. If there is one, just select the “Import contacts from the SIM card” option. With synchronization on the cloud Activated, your contact directory will automatically update.

This is the case by default (even compulsory on Windows Mobile). Otherwise (on Android), you must go to the Settings -> Accounts -> Google To activate contacts synchronization. Before operating the rocking, we advise you to make sure that nothing is missing from your contacts on contacts.Google.com (for Google account) and people.lively.com (for Microsoft accounts). The two platforms make it possible to merge or clean the duplicates, it can be useful to do some cleaning.

If you come from iOS, you will only have to export contacts from the iCloud site.com in VCARD format then to re -do this file .VCF contacts via Google Gmail or Microsoft Outlook.com. Windows Phone are even able to import contacts from an Apple iCloud account.

What if your previous device was running on a bone other than Android, Windows Phone 8.1 and iOS ? In this case, your contacts are on SIM, even SIM and phone memory. Better not to bet on possible synchronization. With a phone that can relate to a PC, there is surely a tool for extraction of contacts within the dedicated software provided. Once the export is made, it is enough to import an import as explained in the paragraph above.

The Samsung Kies utility, especially used for smartphones running under the BADA OS

And in the case of a phone without possible connection to a PC ? If we exclude the option of copying everything by hand, formidable but tedious, there are still two possibilities: to use the remote contact backup service generally offered by operators, or go to SFR, Orange, Bouygues or Free stores for Duplication of the content of the SIM card to the new card, which will probably be in a different format. Because recent smartphones no longer use the standard SIM format, but only micro Sim or Nano Sim.

4. Save photos and videos

If there is another type of data that you don’t want to lose by changing phone, it is certainly all memories immortalized in photos and videos. There, there is nothing very complicated. Already, know that if you do not change creamy (from Android to Android, iOS to iOS or Windows 10 Mobile to Windows 10 Mobile), your photos are automatically saved on the cloud. On Android and Windows 10 Mobile anyway, it’s automatic.

The only small subtlety is that one as the other opts by default for a so -called “high” or “good” image quality: in other words, if you do not make a manual backup of your photos in quality Originally, you will still lose a little material (more compressed photos, so less beautiful to possibly make impressions).

In both cases, it is possible to configure the automatic backup in “original size” or “optimal quality”, but it will clutter your virtual storage space more and it will only apply for new shots.

On Android, you have to go to the Photos Application, then Settings -> Save and synchronize -> Import size ; On Windows Mobile, it happens in Settings -> Backup -> Photos+Videos. With iOS, the backup on iCloud is by default disabled. Just go to Settings -> Photos and camera and activate the iCloud photo library.

In any case, we recommend that you make a manual backup by connecting your smartphone to a computer. At Apple, the cable is owner, but on the other smartphones, the micro USB is king: you do not have to use precisely that which was supplied with the device. You just have to open the folder which then appears in the file explorer, in the form of a new reader (in system C :).

On Android, the photos and videos taken by the smartphone are in Internal storage memory -> dcim -> camera. Be careful to recover photos from other applications (WhatsApp, Snapseed, etc.) generally in separate files (but which bear the name of the corresponding application). The screenshots can be found, from the root, in the folder Pictures -> screenshots. Under Windows Mobile, they are in Phone -> Pictures -> Camera Roll. The screenshots are in the same place in the folder Screenshots.

On Android, you have to go to the DCIM folder then Camera

The simplest method is copy / paste it to a folder on the computer, which you will call for example “Smartphone photo backup”. There will then only be to copy / paste in the other direction, from the computer to the smartphone, to the same locations. Or not by the way. Indeed, if you have a clean copy of your photos and videos on a computer (to make touch -ups, mounting, paper prints or simple archiving), you can then settle for images and video in so -called high or good that The new smartphone will look for its cloud.

With iOS it is simpler: Apple only allows access to photos and videos. The only file you will find in the explorer is Dcim Then different directories with your images and movies. Useful to free storage, this manipulation is not necessary, however, to specifically back up its images if you stay on iOS: the best option is backup from iTunes, Apple everything software, or directly from the phone via iCloud. The Restoration will put everything back in place. This is also valid for contacts, photos, SMS. all in fact.

If you change the creamy, you will only have to copy / paste your images and videos saved to the new smartphone (in the precise places indicated above, except on iPhone since they do not allow the copy of files in this Sens) or import these images via the corresponding web platforms (Google Photos, Microsoft OneDrive, Apple iCloud).

5. Save your SMS and MMS

With the democratization of unlimited SMS and MMS offers, shipments have exploded. Many of these messages have no importance in the present moment, but sometimes there are SMS and MMS that we want to keep. Yes, but which ? There are many and the ease solution, it is usually to recover everything to sort it later, it is said, sorting that we will probably never do. Let’s go.

With Windows Mobile, good news: the backup is automatic. On iOS too: a backup made on iTunes or iCloud restored on a new iPhone puts all in place, including SMS included. On Android, only the instant messages sent with the homemade messaging software (Hangout), from Android to Android, are saved. For real “texts”, solutions exist.

In the case of iOS, in addition to iTunes, it is possible to go through commercial software of the type of copytrans contacts or anytrans to select and export your messages in a current format like Word, Excel, HTML, CSV or even in gross text. SMS are then readable on PC. Be careful however, these alternatives to Apple’s house software are limited in free version, and their paid versions are not given (40 € for example for an individual license in Anytrans.))

On Android, free applications like SMS Backup & Restore or Super Backup: SMS & Contacts allow you to easily migrate your SMS and MMS to a new Android smartphone. With the latter, we go to the SMS menu, we choose messages or downright conversations (groups of messages and associated responses), we make the backup that we recover, either in USB or by transferring it to the cloud (by email for example). It only remains to install this same application on the new smartphone and to choose the restoration of SMS or conversations, from the backup file previously copied in a folder of your choice.

Where things get complicated is when you go from one platform to another. It is always possible to use versatile programs such as data transfer of data (40 euros) or backuptrans (20 dollars). Another option, free and which allows you to transfer SMS from an Android device to an iPhone (and vice versa): Moborobo. Now, free software, edited by the Chinese giant Baidu, that does not necessarily inspire – maybe wrongly – total confidence. Up to you !

“Ask yourself the question of whether you really need to recover your SMS ? »»

To recover your SMS from a mobile windows to an Android, it is possible to use the Transfer my data available on the Microsoft Store. It is then necessary to “export to the SD card” its SMS via the menu (. ) to create the SMS file.VMSG. Once this file is copied at the root of the new Android smartphone, it must be opened via the VMG Converter application (free for 200 messages and 2.40 euros in full version) to extract SMS.

Please note, this only works with Microsoft smartphones with a microSD card. For others, use the other contacts+message backup application then proceed in the same way with the file .MSG then created.

In the way Android to Windows Mobile, it’s simpler: you just have to launch the application Transfer my data On the Microsoft phone and activate the Bluetooth of the two devices to recover SMS from the Android terminal. Here, now ask yourself the question if you really need to recover your SMS and MMS. Because no solution is frankly simple, and above all, recovery is not always guaranteed, or even can be partial. And in the Android direction to iOS, there is a move to iOS application that will assist you, by recovering in particular your messages.

6. First start -up

If you stay in the same family of smartphones, you should not be too disoriented. By going from an old Android to a recent model – since the updates follow badly with Google’s OS – you will find that the interface has evolved, and positively. But in principle, nothing has changed. On the other hand, if you go to a new stable, a certain time of adaptation will be necessary.

However, it remains a constant on recent smartphones, dignitaries of the three major operating systems: the need to have an account, Gmail for Google, Outlook.com (or live or hotmail) for Windows Mobile and iTunes for iOS. For the latter, the creation of the account is done either live on the iPhone or from the iTunes software.

Memorize your identifiers And choose a reliable password. And small simple precision: for the Apple identifier, opt for a password different from that of the email address used.

When you start your device, the procedure is simple: adjustment of the geographic area (for the choice of time zone, date, etc.), configuration of Wi-Fi (have your WEP or WPA key available), and entry of the identifier of your account. The system may also ask you for payment information for purchases of potential applications to come. On Android, you are not obliged, on iOS either (if you create your account from iTunes). And Windows Mobile will ask you later.

First start -up of a Windows Phone

Geolocation options are desirable for the services to work better (but deactivable if you fear being watched). Automatic backup and protection by PIN code (or diagram) are highly recommended for security reasons. Be careful Remember your locking code !

A few steps in Android start -up

On Android, depending on the model in your possession, you will have a software overlay, which may ask you to create a dedicated account. It is not compulsory, and even if you want to be tempted, you can do it later. Overall, whenever the “ignore” option is offered, it means that the step is optional.

Take the time to survey the menus, to go to the settings, to familiarize yourself with your new phone. Go to the Blind To find your favorite applications (the best known exist on the three platforms) or to find similar to those that you would not find.

If you have respected all the previous steps, you can at this stage operate your data, contacts (it will be normally automatic), photos and videos (by copy / paste or synchronization by having previously loaded your media library in photos, Oneedrive or iCloud), SMS and MMS.

Note that when you stay on the same operating system as before, most of your data can be automatically restored. This is the case with iOS which operates an image of the system identically. Windows Mobile also saves all applications, settings, photos and videos, SMS and MMS. Android is content to find the applications installed at the last backup, but not the settings or the content of these applications. Contacts, photos and videos will be automatically found thanks to the synchronization of the Gmail account. There will only be the SMS soldier to save.

7. get out of the old phone

That’s it, you have operated the rocking from the old to the new phone. Once you have made sure that nothing is missing, all you have to do is find a second life on your mobile – provided that he still has something to do. Resale, donation or direction the breakage, it’s up to you to see.

But in any case, you have to think about resetting the smartphone completely (system and data) before placing it in new hands.

On iPhone, it goes through Settings -> General -> Reset -> Erase content and settings. On Android, you have to go to Settings -> Save and reset -> Restore the factory configuration -> Reset the phone.

Finally on Windows Mobile, the function is “hidden” in Settings -> About -> Reset your phone.

A final important point: if you think you are throwing your device, do it via dedicated containers of approved eco-organizations that are found everywhere, with physical distribution networks (especially supermarkets) but also local communities. These devices are full of toxic substances for the environment and humans, it is imperative to recycle them in the right and due form.

Phone change: how to easily transfer your data

Photos, videos, directory. How to transfer the content of your old smartphone to a new device? Explanations, depending on the model you use.

SUMMARY

1. Phone change: easily transfer your data
2. From one iPhone to another iPhone (iOS)
3. From an iPhone to an Android phone
4. From an Android smartphone to another Android
5. From an Android smartphone to an iPhone
6. SMS safeguard: the app to know

Phone change: easily transfer your data

You plan to change your phone but you fear losing all your photos, contacts or applications by transferring your data? The operation sometimes turns to the headache. To remedy this, the ARCEP (regulatory authority for electronic communications) has put online several practical sheets detailing all the procedures, according to your operating system, to make a transfer between two models.Reminder: if you have a Google, Huawei, LG, OnePlus, Samsung or Sony smartphone, your operating system is Android. If you have an iPhone (Apple), your operating system is iOS.

• from one iPhone to another iPhone (iOS)

Several possible solutions. The simplest: go through iTunes. To do this, connect your old device to your computer, open iTunes, select your phone and then backup from the device. Turn on your new iPhone, connect with your Apple identifiers, then restore your phone in iTunes from this backup.

If you use the cloud: in your old phone, go to Settings , Activate the functionality ICloud backup . The option Restore from iCloud will appear on your new iPhone to recover your data.

• From an iPhone to an Android phone

To go from an iOS system to an Android device, Google does not offer a dedicated application for the transfer of your data. But the “Google Drive” application is a cloud solution that migrates content by transferring them from any device to an Android terminal. If you abandon Apple for Android, downloaded applications are not transferable with this method. They must be downloaded from the Play Store again when available.

• From an Android smartphone to another Android

You go from one Samsung phone to another Samsung, a Huawei or a Sony? The various manufacturers operating with Android provide automatic transfer software. To transfer your data to a Samsung: download “Smart Switch Mobile”, for a Huawei, “Phone Clone”, for Sony, “Xperia Transfer Mobile”. Easy to use, they allow almost all of your data to transfer, except SMS.

• From an Android smartphone to an iPhone

Download the Migrer to iOS application to your old phone and follow the instructions. As in the opposite case, some applications will not be able to follow you if they are not available in the Apple App Store download store.

Find the details of these explanations on the Arcep website

• SMM backup: the app to know

By transferring your data between two operating systems, some may be more difficult to keep, in particular SMS. To do this, download the Android SMS Backup & Restore app .

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