How to Transfer Contacts from Android To Android?

 

Technology is improving day by day and everyone needs to adapt to these changes if they want to keep up with the rest of society. Mobile phones are one of them, every day new smartphones are being launched and people are buying them on a regular basis. Each new update brings something new to the customers, but one thing remains constant: your contacts. Transferring your contacts from your previous phone to a new phone can be very tiring and can take hours if you don’t know the proper procedure. This article will help you transfer your contacts from one Android phone to another with ease, saving your precious time.

 

Use Your Sim card:

You can easily transfer contacts from Android to Android using a Sim Card. If you own the sim cards that can be removed, they can be used to transfer all the contacts into your new phone since they have memory. Here’s what you need to do:

1. On your old phone go to Contacts, then open a menu using the three dots present at the top of the screen.
2. Select Manage Contacts from the drop-down menu.
3. You will see an option named Import/Export Contacts, click on this option.
4. Click on the option Export contacts to Sim or something similar to this.
5. This should start copying the contacts to your sim card.
6. After your contacts have been copied take your sim out and place it in your new phone.
7. Open Contacts on your new phone, then head to the Manage Contacts
8. Now from Import/Export contacts option: select Import contacts.
9. This should copy the contacts from your sim to your phone after the processing completes.

 

Use a VCF File:

You can easily transfer contacts from Android to Android using a VCF file (VCF is an extension and file type). Your sim card has a very limited storage capacity and might not be able to store all the contacts. You can solve this problem using a VCF file, by sending it from your old Android phone to a new one through an email or any other medium like memory card or Bluetooth.

1. Open the Contacts app on your old phone.
2. Go to Manage Contacts from the menu and click on Import/Export Contacts.
3. Select the option export the contacts as a VCF file, this should start copying the contacts and compress them right into the VCF file.
4. After the processing has completed, you can find the file vcf on your device in the internal storage section.
5. Mail, Bluetooth or share this file to yourself on the new device.
6. On your new phone log in to the email you sent the file to or retrieve it from any other medium you used, and copy the vcf file to your new device’s storage.
7. After the downloading or copying has finished, go to Contacts then to Manage Contacts and select the Import Export contacts
8. Select Import VCF file from the given list of options, then choose the file destination where it was downloaded or copied to.
9. After the processing has ended you will see that all the contacts have been copied to your new phone successfully.

 

Use Third-party applications:

You can easily transfer contacts from Android to Android using third-party applications. There are many applications to help you achieve your task. If both the methods mentioned above are not feasible for you, you can always rely on other applications to do the work for you. One of these is called SHAREit.

1. Install SHAREit app on both devices and connect them under the same wifi.
2. Go to Contacts on your old phone, select all contacts, and press on the share option.
3. Select SHAREit from the options.
4. Open app on destination device and the old phone will connect with the new Android phone.
5. The contacts will be transferred to the new phone.

 

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