Saturday, September 20, 2014

How to migrate from Android to iPhone without losing photos, music and … – CNN México.com

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? you’re using Android but what did you expect was that Apple made phones with larger to migrate to the firm at the apple screens, there are ways to do it without losing your contacts, photos, videos, your advance in Candy Crush Saga or your music

Here are tips that could facilitate migration

Clarification:. The migration tests were made on a Sony Xperia Z2. The functions for most Androids are similar, but the arrangement of the menus can vary.

If they face any problems recommend approaching manufacturer support sites, or leave in the comments model using Android to help directly.

Contacts

The contact process is the longest, but for most users is the most important of all. There are three methods to migrate your contacts.

Via SIM

If you are one of those who have less than 100 contacts in your address book, the best way to spend contacts is keep them in the SIM same team.

To do it on your phone opens the contacts application, go to the Options menu and select Export.

The phone will give you the option to export to the SIM. Choose that option and go. When you place your chip on your new iPhone will have your contacts. Eye, the SIM can store up to 250 contacts but that depends on your operator and SIM type.

Via Google and Gmail

Navigate to Contacts your Android. Then Settings or Setup, Sync. Choose the option to Google and verify that it is palomeada the sync contacts option. Then choose the Sync option.

To verify that the process has run on your computer access your Gmail account and select the contacts option, found under the word Google in the corner upper left.

If the process was successful you will see all your contacts in your email.

To pass the iPhone only have to navigate to Settings , then Mail, Contacts and Calendars and add your Gmail account. Once you’ve entered your account and password iPhone asks you what data to sync: Mail, Contacts, Calendars and Notes. The recommendation is to choose four.

Via .VCF file

is the most complex process, but the safest way to migrate contacts . Navigate to contacts in your Android. Options and choose Export Contacts. The phone will ask you if the SIM card (see step one if you have less than 100 contacts) to an external memory (SD card) or internal memory.

If you bought your phone MicroSD memory card. Select the option External Memory and the phone will start to export contacts and create a contact file with .VCF termination (It is important to remember the file extension).

When the process draw your MicroSD card phone, connect it to your PC or Mac (you may need to see a microSD to SD adapter) and search within the contents of the card with a file extension .VCF need to copy to your computer.

If you do not have a MicroSD memory you must save the file in the internal memory of the phone. To export this to select the “Internal Memory” option. Once the process depending on the type of computer you have completed reading the instructions. The picture below will show you an example of the type of file that your phone stores and in what part of the system does.

If you have PC

Just connect the phone to the computer and watch the option to explore the contents of the phone appears. The file you are looking for is usually stored in the SYSTEM folder. You may not know the exact file name but remember that the extension is .VCF. That will allow you to search for and detect. Once found, just copy it to your desktop.

If you have Mac

First you need to download a free program called Android File Transfer and install it on your Mac . Once the program is installed, connect your phone to your Mac and open the program. Android File Transfer lets you view the contents of your phone to copy them to your computer. (Note: We recommend to copy, but never cut or delete contents of the team). Navigate to the System folder and then find the .VCF file, simply copy it to your desktop.

Finally, you must create an Apple account, you can make your new iPhone or from this site. Although not want to have to create one if you plan on lowering applications, songs, videos, books and the iTunes App Store

Once you have created the account browse to http:. // www.icloud.com login with your newly created account from Apple. Upon entering you will see several icons for documents, contacts, calendar and other services. For now select Contacts.

In contacts on the bottom left corner you will see a gear icon, click on it and select the option Import vCard. The system will open the scan file from your computer, simply find the .VCF file you just copied to your desktop and all your contacts are automatically copied to the Apple account.

Take your new iPhone navigate to Settings, iCloud enter your account and password for Apple ID, verifies that the Contacts option is turned green.

Migrate photos, videos, music and books

Spend the rest of the content is much easier than contacts. If you have PC connect your device to your computer and copy the folders Music, DCIM (which is usually the folder with the photos from the camera), Movies, Book and Media.

For the owners of a Mac The process is the same but should use the Android File Transfer program or failing equipment like Sony has some exclusive content administrators for Mac.

Using the copied folder on your computer need to download iTunes use with your new iPhone. Simply drag the files from the iTunes folder for the program to detect them and add to the system.

To transfer them to your iPhone, plug it into the computer and select the content you want to sync with the phone. Note that the transfer time will depend on the number of files copied to think.

If you have problems or want to know a migration process in more detail we recommend visiting the following Apple website, which also includes Tips about migrating from Android to iOS.

The data of my games

This is a point that a lot will depend on how advanced the developer of games. Companies like King, Rovio and Electronic Arts let you create accounts to store the progress of games like Angry Birds and Crush Candy.

Find out if your application has this option opens the application and check the options menu if there is the option to create an account with them, creates the account, save your game data. Usually, when you download the same game on iOS can enter the account and automatically will pull all your information from your servers.

The advantage of the cloud

Despite to be questioned by security issues offer the enormous advantage that all the information is not in the team, but is stored in the cloud business.

That is just you download apps like Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, Evernote, Spotify, Rdio and the like on your new iPhone, you enter your account and password for each service and all your data will be in the new phone.

Given the sensitivity of your data is very important never use the same password for all services and, at least, change it every three or at least every six months.

If you are one of those users that, on the contrary, seek to abandon iOS to test any of the Android devices. Next week we will make a migration guide for you

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