Thursday, March 9, 2017

Top 3 Ways to Transfer WhatsApp Messages from iPhone to Android

Some WhatsApp users might be puzzled to transfer WhatsApp messages to a new phone when they are switching mobile from iPhone to Android. If you prefer not to move those messages by means of phone data transfer software, you should read on and choose a proper method to your liking.

Method 1. Transfer WhatsApp Chats from iPhone to Android via Email
  • Step 1. Open WhatsApp in iPhone and go to Setting> Chat Setting> Email chat.
  • Step 2. Select WhatsApp messages to migrate, with a pop-up saying "Attaching Media will generate a larger email message". You need to choose optionally "Without Media" or "Attach Media".
  • Step 3. Type an Email address and send the WhatsApp messages.
  • Step 4. Log in the Email account on the new Android cell and check out the messages there.
By this way, you can’t sync the WhatsApp messages in Email to WhatsApp application on your new Android mobile.
Method 2. Move WhatsApp Chat History from iPhone to Android via Backup Restoration
  • Step 1. Open WhatsApp in iPhone and go to Settings> Chat Settings> Chat Backup> Backup Now, to manually back up messages. 
  • Step 2. Uninstall WhatsApp in iPhone and install it on the new Android device.
  • Step 3. Register the app with the same number used in the old iPhone, then a message will pop up to notify you "message backup found". Click "Restore" to import those WhatsApp messages on iPhone to Android mobile.

By this way, you can sync the messages to WhatsApp on new device.

Method 3. Migrate WhatsApp Conversations from iPhone to Android via USB
Step 1. Backup WhatsApp messages on iPhone to Windows PC
Connect iPhone to computer, when it is successfully connected, please close iTunes if it automatically launches.
Open command prompt (RUN : cmd) or terminal. Then search a folder named "whatsapp". You have to use command line:"dir" to see visible contents of the current folder, "dir\a" to see all contents of the current folder or "cd [folder]" to change directory (change folder to).
Copy the folder "whatsapp" to your system by using copy [source] [destination].

Step 2: Transfer WhatsApp backup to Android phone
Connect your Android device via USB to the computer. Copy the WhatsApp conversation backup file into this folder.

Step 3: Restore WhatsApp data from backup
Now start WhatsApp on your Android phone and verify your phone number. You should now get a notification that a message backup was found. Just tap "Restore", then you are done. After seconds, all of your messages should have safely returned.

Friday, February 10, 2017

Best Way to Transfer Call Logs, Contacts and Calendar from Android to Android

Switching phone is kind of a hassle, you have to move all important data between two phones. How to easily get this done? This post will show how to transfer call logs, calendar and contacts between two Android phones.

Professional and useful transferring tool like Gihosoft enables you to copy photos, videos, music, messages, contacts, calendars and even apps between cell phones. Let’s take a quick tour on how to transfer call logs, contacts and calendar between two Android device such as Samsung, LG, Sony, Google Nexus, Motorola and Huawei.

Step 1. Download and install the software
Actually there are two versions of Mobile Transfer-- Windows and Mac. After your downloaded the program, set it up and launch it.

Step 2. Connect your two Android phone to computer
When you open the tool, choose "Phone to Phone" and plug your Android devices into computer or laptop respectively. Once they are successfully recognized by the program, the interface will display as below.

Step 3. Select the files you wan to transfer
If you don’t buy the pro version, you’re just allowed to transfer 10 contacts. (The purchased versionNow you can select these three items.

Step 4. Start to transfer data between your phones
With all set, the last thing would be click the “Start” button to move data. As the transferring process is complete, click “OK” and check out the data on your new Android cell.

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Tuesday, December 27, 2016

How to Transfer Photos from iCloud to PC?

Most iPhone users would like to upload pictures to iCloud, but they have difficulty in transferring those photos from iCloud to PC. Are you still using the way that downloading the pictures from iCloud Photo library within Photos app on iPhone or iPad? This post is going to show you a direct way to move them from iCloud to a computer.

If you want to transfer photos from iPhone to Android/ iPhone, you can try Gihosoft Phone Transfer program.
iCloud.com is accessible from nearly any web browser on any OS, that means no matter you’re on a Mac or Windows PC, Android, or Linux, you’ll be able to download the pictures from iCloud this way:
  1. Open a web browser and go to iCloud.com, then log in with your Apple ID
  2. Click the “Photos” icon after you logged in
  3. Select a photo you want to download and click on the cloud-shaped icon to download the photo, if you want to download more photos from iCloud, please repeat this step to get them.
When you finish the downloading process, go to check where the photos are saved by default. The photos will be stored in the original resolution there.

Tip: Download and install the best free Android data recovery tool

Download picture from iCloud to PC in batches
Now you may ask if there is an easy way to download all photos at a time without manually repeating downloading the photos one by one which is time-consuming. Here is a simple one most people are not in the know:
  1. When you logged in iCloud on your computer, choose the “All Photos” album.
  2. Scroll to the very bottom of the All Photos album and click the “Select Photos” button in the top of the iCloud Photos bar
  3. Hold down the Shift key and click on the very last picture in the album which will help select every photo in the All Photos album
  4. With all of the photos selected, choose the “Download” button at the top of the iCloud Photos bar
  5. Click “Download” on the pop-up message to confirm that you want to download all of the selected items
The selected photos will be finally downloaded in a folder on your PC.

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Friday, December 9, 2016

Must Known Ways to Transfer Music to Huawei Mate 9/P9 from Computer/iTunes

Huawei Mate 9 is reported to be the newest and most powerful Mate series phone equipped with the latest Kirin 960, 4000mAh battery, announced on 2016, November. State-of-the-art HUAWEI SuperCharge technology safely charges the device for a full day’s power in 20 minutes. The P9 is another accomplished smartphone from Huawei, with an innovative camera setup and plenty of power under the hood, announced in the first half year of 2016. When you get any of these two phones, I believe you won’t be disappointed. You might have some amazing songs on your computer or iTunes, and want to transfer them to the new Huawei phone. This post simply introduces two methods.

Method 1: Copy Music from Computer to Huawei Mate 9/ P9
  • Connect your Huawei cell phone to computer via USB cable
  • Double-click "Computer" on the desktop, and then double-click your phone's removal disk in the "Drivers" section.
  • Double-click the "Music" folder. Drag music from your computer to the Music folder.
  • Close the Music folder and disconnect your phone from your computer.
  • Launch the media player on your phone's home screen and select the song you want to play.

Method 2: Transfer Music from iTunes to Huawei Mate 9/ P9
iTunes, born for Apple products, is really exotic to phones with Android System. When comes to moving data like music from iTunes to Huawei phone, it will be a little hard to put the music on it for some people who are not always tinkering with mobile phones. Thus, Gihosoft Phone Transfer is highly recommended to you, which is a powerful program to support tons of smartphones.

  1. Download Gihosoft Mobile Transfer and run it, choose "From iTunes Backup" from the "Restore Data" section. 
  2. Connect the Huawei Mate phone to PC via USB and wait for the program to detect it. 
  3. Select an iTunes backup. (If you cannot find the backup file you want to transfer, you may need to sync your music to the iTunes first.)
  4. Choose the “Music” file and click “Start Copy” to export iTunes music.


After transferring, you can check out the songs on your Huawei mobile.

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Friday, November 25, 2016

How to Transfer Music from iPhone/iTunes to Android like HTC Bolt

HTC Bolt was rolled out by Sprint earlier this month, as an “advanced” version of HTC 10. This isn’t really the case, but to be fair the HTC Bolt does come with a few perks. Like the fact that it runs Android 7.0 Nougat out of the box. Some iPhone users probably want to switch the old phone to this new HTC Bolt phone. When they get the new HTC smartphone, if they want to transfer their purchased music from iPhone to HTC Bolt mobile, how to do?

Gihosoft Mobile Data Transfer software can help you transfer music files from iPhone/iTunes to HTC Bolt phone in a click without compromising the integrity of quality. Using it, you’re also allowed to transfer other files including SMS, contacts, photos, videos and calendar in a breeze.


How to Transfer Music from iPhone to HTC Bolt?

Step 1. Connect The Two Phones to Computer via USB
Launch the tool and you’ll see an intuitive user interface. Please tap on "Phone to Phone" and connect your iPhone and HTC Bolt to computer via USB cable.

Step 2. Select Music for Transferring from iPhone to Android
Please tick on Music to make it selected. If you need to transfer more files, please select the file types according to your liking.

Step 3. Start to Transfer iPhone Music to Android Phone
Please hit “Start Copy” and then the software will do all the rest work at high speed. The duration depends on the music file quantity stored on your iPhone. A progress bar will show you that how many songs have been successfully transferred and how many files are pending.

How to Copy Music from iTunes to HTC Bolt?
Step 1. Switch to iTunes to Phone Transfer Mode
This software is powerful enough to transfer music from iTunes to Android phones, and even move music and video clips between smartphones. Currently, there are two modes. Please click “From iTunes Backup” in "Restore Data" option to go ahead.

Step 2. Choose and Check iTunes Backup Copy
Once you switched to the mode, the software will list all your iTunes backup copy, please tick the correct one.
  • If you have ever moved the iTunes backup copy from default path to other path, you’ll need to select the backup folder manually by clicking “Select” button.
  • If you have never backed up your iOS device files to this computer, please use iTunes to sync music files firstly.

Step 4. Start Transferring iTunes Music/Songs to Android

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Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Best Way to Backup and Transfer SMS from Android to Computer

As we all know, text messages are not easy to be moved from an Android phone to your computer. Not like photos, musics and videos which can be copied from phone to PC via USB cable, the easy way to get SMS transferred is rely on a third-party app such as Gihosoft Mobile Transfer.

Tutorial on using SMS backup & Restore to transfer messages (More details here):
  • Step 1. Go to Gihosoft official site and download SMS Backup & Restore app.
  • Step 2. Open the app and tap “Backup Your Phone” to create a backup for SMS on your Android phone.
  • Step 3. Use USB cable to connect your Android phone to the computer.
  • Step 4. When your phone is connected successfully, please mark "SMS" you need. 
  • Step 5. Click on "Start Copy" to transfer text messages from Android to computer. 

Generally, Android SMS that you transfer to PC are saved as  HTML file, which allows you easily view or print text messages on your browser. 

If you want to transfer text messages from your Android phone to a new iPhone, you can also use Gihosoft Phone Transfer program to get them moved seamlessly.

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Monday, October 24, 2016

2 Ways to Copy Music to iPhone from iTunes/Computer/Android Phone

When talking about transferring music/mp3 to iPhone, I guess the first way occurs in your mind would be using iTunes to transfer music backup to your iPhone. However, there are some downsides on moving files from iTunes to iPhone device. If you move the synced music/mp3 to your iPhone, the existing music/mp3 on the phone will be replaced by the synced ones. Thus, if you really want to import music/mp3 from iTunes to your iPhone, you’d better make a backup for your existing music/mp3 first. Below I’ll show how to transfer music/mp3 from iTunes to iPhone.

Step1. Drag songs from computer to iTunes
Download the newest iTunes version to your PC(if you have one, pls update it to the newest version), then launch it and click on the "File" on the top left corner of the interface, next choose "Add File to Library" (add music files to iTunes one by one)or "Add Folder to Library"(add all song files in a folder to iTunes at one time).

Step2. Connect your iPhone to the Computer via USB cable
When the iPhone is successfully connected with PC, the iPhone icon will show up on the top left bar.

Step3. Transfer music to iPhone
Click your iPhone icon and choose "Music” in the setting menu. Then select "Sync Music" so that you can choose either "Entire music library" or "Selected playlists, artists, albums, and genres".

Supposing that you choose "Entire music library" and click "Apply" in the bottom right corner, then all songs in iTunes music library will be moved to your iPhone.

If you prefer to sync some of songs in iTunes music library to iPhone, please choose "Selected playlists, artists, albums, and genres" which will list all songs there for you to choose. After checking the songs you like, next to click "Apply" and wait a moment for the synchronization to complete.

Finally you can enjoy those songs on your iPhone.

If you don't want the existed files on your iPhone to be covered, you may try to use Gihosoft iPhone Music Transfer software, which can help export music from iTunes/one mobile phone to your iPhone.

Steps to move iTunes music to iPhone:
  • Step 1. Download the tool and run it. Click “From iTunes Backup”in the "Restore Data" section.
  • Step 2. Select your iPhone backup, and tick the “Music” file. (If you cannot find the backup file you want to transfer, you may need to sync your iPhone to iTunes first.)
  • Step 3. Connect your iPhone to the PC via USB, and then click “Start Copy” to transfer iTunes music to your iPhone.

If you wan to transfer music from one Android phone to your iPhone, you just need to click "Phone to Phone" section in the main screen and connect both the Android phone and iPhone to the PC.

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