Transfer Contacts from Nokia to Android Effortlessly
Getting a new phone is easy. But transferring your contacts over to your new device can prove to be very tricky and time-consuming if you do not have the right tools. If, however you have an old black and white Nokia phone, the only way to transfer your contacts is to copy them to your SIM card and then re-copying them to your new phone. Although this process will work for most phones, it has its own limitation. For instance, you can carry only put 250 contacts in a SIM card at a time and modern day smartphones require your SIM card to be cut to the appropriate size for it to fit. However, if your phone has USB support, which it should have, read on.
Part 1: Effortless method to transfer contacts from Nokia to Android
MobileTrans - Phone Transfer makes it easy, 100% safe and risk free to transfer all your contacts, call logs, photos, videos, apps and music from Nokia phones to Android and many other platforms in just one click. All you need is your computer, your Nokia and Android devices and MobileTrans software. Here are the steps you can follow to do that.
1. In order to tansfer contacts from Nokia to Android, it is crucial that you make sure that you have updated your device’s software to the latest version by going to "Settings, About Phone, Software Update" and tap "Check for updates".
2. You should then download and install the MobileTrans software on your computer.
3. Next, connect your two devices via USB to your computer and turn on "USB debugging mode" on your Android device.
4. Open up MobileTrans Phone Transfer. This is the easiest and most user-friendly device that you will ever come across and here’s why. As soon as you connect both devices successfully, the program will display the source phone on the left and the one to which data will be transferred to the right. You can use the Flip button to change the source and destination phones. All the data that can be transferred between your devices will be displayed in the box in the middle, as shown below.
5. Simply mark the data you want transferred, in this case Contacts and click the "Start Transfer" button.
6. Everything that you selected will be transferred to your Android device in no time. So with MobileTrans, you can easily transfer contacts from Nokia to Android.
Since the whole process is carried out directly from phone to phone, you don’t need any internet access, making sure that all your private information remains private. Sensitive information leaks are simply impossible with MobileTans.
MobileTrans also allows you to back up your phone data and files to your computer and restoring them is just as easy as clicking restore from the Backup window. Also note that if you have a Windows Phone, you will need to first backup your contacts to Onedrive and then use the restore from backup option to transfer contacts.
Before you throw away, sell, trade or give away your phone, you will undoubtedly want to erase all the data on it first to prevent risk of identity theft. Simply resetting your phone to factory settings or manual deletion will not permanently destroy the data. Data recovery programs can still be used to get your information back. This is where MobileTrans really shines. It includes a feature to permanently wipe out all your data using US Military technology, making sure it cannot be recovered in any way possible.
Part 2: Free method - Transfer contacts from Nokia to Android using Nokia Suite
Since most Nokia phones have USB support, contacts can be easily transferred to your Android device using Nokia Suite. Just follow the steps outlined below:
1. Head to the Softonic.com and download the Nokia PC suite software
2. Install the program
3. Start the program and connect you Nokia phone to Nokia PC suite using a USB cable
4. Now, navigate to the Contact menu and select all the contacts you want to transfer
5. Click on File and then Export
6. Choose a location on your computer where you want to save the file and click Save
7. A new CSV file will be created where you specified
8. To transfer this file to your Android device, we will make use of Google Contact Sync service. So, open up your Google account on your computer
9. Under the Contact menu, import the CSV file that you just created on your computer
10. On your Android device, make sure you are logged in with the same Google account to which you have uploaded the CSV file.
11. Go to "Settings, Account & Sync" and check "Sync contacts"
12. Your contacts will now be available on your smartphone in a matter of seconds
It is important to note that though this method is free, there is a chance that your data gets leaked on the internet and hackers may use this information for malicious purposes. So, you use a software like Wondershare MobileTrans for importing the file to your Android device to prevent loss of sensitive information. This is a free software that allows you to easily manage and organize your Android smartphone.
Nicola Massimo
staff Editor