How to import contacts from phone to xiaomi. How to Sync Contacts with Google on Android

17.09.2015, 19:27

Each person stores important phone numbers, addresses, dates of birth and other information about acquaintances, colleagues and friends on their phone. People stopped writing down numbers in special notebooks, preferring to store all data on digital devices.

Unfortunately, any smartphone can malfunction or be stolen at the most inopportune moment. In this case, many contacts will be lost forever. To protect yourself from such an unpleasant situation, we recommend synchronizing your contacts with Google. Then all your contacts will be in your Google account and, if something happens, you can easily find them.

First, you need to register on the Google website and then add it to your Android smartphone or tablet. After this, you will become a registered Google user and can receive all the benefits of this status.

First of all, synchronizing your Android smartphone with Google Gmail is necessary so that the contacts can be used on any device with the Android system, such as a smartphone or . If you buy a new smartphone or tablet, your contacts will always be nearby: you just need to log into your Google account and all your contacts will be on your new gadget.

So, how to sync contacts with Google on Android? Let's tell you point by point.

First, on your smartphone or any other device, go to the “Settings” menu, where you select “Accounts and synchronization” (this name may vary slightly depending on the brand and model of the phone).

Find “Add account” at the bottom of the display and click there.

This way we add an account.

If you have an account, you add it; if not, then create a new account.

Now you need to enter your username and password. The synchronization account has been successfully created.

Enter the “Contacts” menu on your smartphone or other device.

We go to the account we need and click the “Edit” button.

In the menu above, select the storage location for your account.

After this, you need to wait about 5 minutes, and you can go to Google contacts, where your contacts are located.

It’s so easy to synchronize contacts with Google on Android: now your data will remain with you in any situation. To access them and synchronize them with any device, you only need to log into your Google account, and for this we advise you to always remember your login-password.

In Google contacts, you can specify not only phone numbers and addresses, but also install photos on accounts, divide them into user groups, indicate your place of work, and write other useful notes.

Mobile device users are sometimes interested in how to transfer contacts from Xiaomi to Xiaomi. Phones from this Chinese manufacturer are rapidly gaining popularity, and the problem of data transfer is becoming more common. Smartphone owners often face the problem of having to restore all the applications and other data that was contained on the previous smartphone for a long time. To transfer information to Xiaomi from another phone, use the “Transfer” function.

How to transfer data from Xiaomi to Xiaomi

The data transfer function in Xiaomi Redmi 4X and other smartphones is available in the MIUI 7 interface version and only works if installed on both devices. To transfer data from Xiaomi Mi5, Xiaomi Redmi 4A or any other phone of this brand, you will need a Bluetooth wireless connection. You need to do the following:

1. Go to the “Settings” menu, select “Advanced” and “Transfer”.
2. Select the option “I am the sender” or “I am the recipient”.
3. After selecting an option, you should select the categories of data that you want to copy (settings, programs, contacts, memory card).
4. Select the mobile device to which you want to send the information.
5. Once the connection is established, data transfer to Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 or other device will begin automatically.

How to transfer contacts from a SIM card to Xiaomi

To import contacts from a SIM to Xiaomi, you need to go to settings and select “System offers”. In the list that opens, find and select the “Contacts” section. In the “Advanced” item, open “SIM card 1 contacts” or “SIM card 2 contacts” to see the list of ported numbers.

Here you need to select the data that will be transferred to the smartphone, or use the “Select All” button and click “Import”. As a result, the message “Import from SIM completed” should appear.

Transfer from iPhone

You can transfer contacts from iPhone to Android device using Gmail email. You must first set up Gmail on your iOS smartphone and enable contact synchronization in your email settings. Then you need to disable synchronization in iCloud without deleting the list of numbers on the device. In a standard account, you need to make Gmail the default account. After this, the files from the iPhone will be synchronized with the Google mail service. If the mailbox already contained phone book entries, then the numbers can be duplicated.

Transfer from Samsung

If the user is interested in how to transfer SMS from Samsung, then the Samsung Smart Switch application is used for this. The feature allows you to move contacts, music, photos, calendars, messages, settings and other types of data. You can share files with Android or iOS devices. If information is transferred from the iPhone via a USB cable, it will be copied, including music paid for in iTunes. The application is compatible with Galaxy smartphones starting from the S2 model.

Transfer from Meizu

To transfer data from a Meizu device to another phone, you need to open the Contacts application, click on the 3-dot button in the upper right corner, select Settings, Manage contacts and Export contacts. All the necessary numbers should be highlighted, then select the path and save the contacts as a file with the VCF extension.

In the future, this file can be transferred to another smartphone with the Android operating system via the Bluetooth protocol. Alternatively, you can copy the data to your PC and then to your phone (for example, if Bluetooth transfer doesn't work).

Transfer from Nokia

The fastest and easiest way to transfer (export, import) Nokia contacts involves using a SIM card. For this method, the user will not need to install additional programs. To transfer contacts from Nokia, you need to follow these steps:

• select all necessary numbers;
• select the “Move to SIM card” option;
• Turn off your Nokia phone, remove the card and move it to your Android smartphone.

The disadvantage of this method is that the number of numbers is limited by the capacity of the SIM card. If you can’t transfer all the numbers the first time, you can do it in 2 passes.

To a memory card

To transfer applications to a memory card installed in a Xiaomi smartphone, the user will need a third-party program, since there is no standard function for moving data in devices of this brand. If you need to transfer applications to a flash drive, it is best to use the Clean Master utility, which is designed to clean up unnecessary files. After launching it, select “Application Manager”, check the boxes for copying applications to SD and click the “Move” button.

On computer

• open the calling application;
• hold down the "Menu" button until the settings appear;
• select “Import and export”;
• Click on “Export to memory”, after which the message “The contact list will be exported to a file” should appear;
• confirm the action using the OK button;
• after the export is completed, a corresponding notification should appear;
• if everything was done correctly, the file 00001.vcf will appear in the root directory of the smartphone.

After completing the above steps, you can transfer contacts from your phone memory to your computer by copying the created file.

In some cases, a Xiaomi phone user needs to transfer contacts from a SIM card to the internal memory of the phone. For example, in order to set a ringtone or photo to a contact.

Also, the SIM card may run out of memory, my operator, for example, has a limit of only 100 contacts, for many, this is very little. To free up the SIM card, you need to transfer contacts to the device’s memory, and see how to do this below.

1. Go to the phone settings by clicking on the gear icon.

2. In the settings, find the “System applications” item and go to it.

3. In system applications, select "Contacts".

5. In the “Import and Export” section, click on the “Import from SIM card 1” link. If you have two SIM cards installed, then select the one you need.

6. Select the checkbox for the contacts that need to be transferred, then click the “Import” button.

After completing these steps, the contacts will be transferred to your Xiaomi phone.

What to do if you need to transfer contacts from a SIM card to your phone or vice versa. Xiaomi smartphones have all the necessary tools for this:

Transferring contacts from a SIM card to a Xiaomi phone

To transfer contacts to the smartphone’s memory, open the application Telephone > "Contacts" tab. Here we need to call up the auxiliary menu - to do this, press and hold the left touch key in the form of three horizontal stripes. In the window that opens, select the item Import and export

If your smartphone has 2 SIM cards, then select the one you need, then mark the contacts (or click “Select all”) and click Import

Transfer contacts from phone memory to SIM card

If you want to transfer contacts to a SIM card from your smartphone's memory, you should know that it can hold no more than 200-300 entries and can truncate names longer than 8 characters.

As in the first case, we will need to call up the auxiliary menu. Opening Telephone > tab "Contacts" and hold down the left touch key. This time we are interested in the item "Export to SIM card". If you have 2 of them, select the one you need:

You will see the total number of numbers that can be saved. Next, check the boxes that you need (or click “Select all”) and click OK.

Sending contacts

In the “Import and Export” menu, you can also send contacts using instant messengers (WhatsApp, Telegram), mail, Mi Drop, or save them to Google drive:

In order not to worry about the safety of your contacts in the future, we recommend using cloud services such as.

In essence, this post is useless, because... Most readers are already experienced Xiaomi users and do not need help with what will be described here, but it is hoped that many have their first experience of owning a smartphone with the brand Mi will be positive and the next phone will also be from Xiaomi and then this opus may come in handy.

So, a long time ago, when telephones were still unintelligent and were used in most cases for their intended purpose, i.e. calls, we all stored numbers in the phone's phone book, then when we realized that phones do not last forever, we learned to save numbers in the SIM memory. Then “every dog” had mobile phones and the number of stored numbers began to noticeably exceed the volume of a plastic card, and the purchase of a new “mobile friend” was accompanied by hours of switching notebooks from old to new. The smartest and farsighted did "paper backup", i.e. They also saved numbers in the old-fashioned way - in a notebook or diary. And this was reasonable, because at one point a telephone ceased to be a luxury and they stopped being kept like the “apple of an eye” - they began to be lost, drowned and broken. Key butthurt When the phone died, there was no loss of hardware, because... it opened up the prospect of buying a new, cooler gadget, and the notorious loss of contacts. Although for many this was a whim, because... became the perfect excuse not to communicate with unwanted people :)

One way or another, the questions of transferring and saving contacts will always be a hot topic, and you need to stop once, think about how to organize the issue and forget about this issue of forwarding.

But let’s return to Xiaomi and consider an application problem:

You used to be a Samsonovite, a khtseshnik, or, God forgive me, a skier.
And now you have a brand new Xiaomi in your hands. What's next?
How to transfer contacts from “excrement mammoth” to a new gadget without any problems?

Research:

1. Let's quickly study the "Contacts" menu on Xiaomi and see that there is only one option to enter a new contact, we will be upset.

2. Let's rummage through the large settings and won't find anything useful there either, although a group of "advanced comrades" will activate a Google account, synchronize and tell us to screw this problem.

Solution:

So, why is the Miui shell praised if it doesn’t have the basic “notebook import”?

As the song about a little mammoth says: “After all, it doesn’t happen in the world that contacts are lost...” in our case.
After such a long introduction, I’ll say that “importing contacts to Xiaomi” exists, it’s just been removed/hidden/stolen. Deep.

Instructions:

1. We go to contacts, a list appears of the subscribers’ entries already entered by hand and a button with a plus “new contact”

Contacts menu on Miui7

....drumroll... we press the left touch button at the bottom of the screen, it looks like three horizontal sticks, but in life it’s called “Menu” and we get into the “Contacts” submenu.

Where we see that the following opportunities open up for us: managing the type of contacts (photos), creating logos for characters without photos, importing and exporting contacts, organizing and displaying contacts, finding out how to fill out a SIM card and restoring contacts that the Chinese have stolen. You can write a separate post about all this “How to set up contacts on Xiaomi”, but of course I won’t do that.... We came here to import contacts.

2. Click on “Import and Export”.

3. Select “Import from another phone” and get into the next submenu.

We see logos of famous smartphone manufacturers and say "WOW"1111

This is where the joy ends for most, because... This method of moving contacts involves transferring information across bluetooth and apparently, it became available at what level of Android development, so the list of available models from gadgets from most manufacturers is modest, but it’s definitely pleasing that the list includes Xiaomi (i.e. it will be possible to transfer the salary to a future phone) and Apple Apple (we always welcome to the “lost sons”), and also that there is an opportunity to try to communicate with a nameless phone.

Practical part
An experiment was conducted with a Samsung S4 (GT-I9192) to import contacts. If you follow the recommendations and prompts in the menu and have at least the slightest experience communicating 2 devices via Bluetooth, everything will go smoothly and does not require additional explanation.

I hope that now you have learned how to transfer contacts from any phone to Xiaomi, even from an iPhone.