Easy Way to Backup & Restore SAMSUNG GALAXY M40 Contact, Chat, Data, Picture, SMS Before Doing Hard Reset Format

Tips to backup all important data on SAMSUNG GALAXY M40 including chatting, sms text message, phone contact, photos, videos, downloaded files and some other more. This is mid end smartphone with 6.3 inches LCD screen using Qualcomm SDM675 Snapdragon 675 processor. We can download many applications from Play Store because it has 64 GB or 128 GB internal storage.

Having big storage will make this phone also keep many applications or other private data or photos videos about our daily activity. Some photos videos can be saved into external memory if we use it, because this phone has external memory slot which shared with secondary SIM card slot.

Many users does not aware about data lost issues. All data like chatting or email or contact and other applications and photos videos by default will be saved inside internal memory. Please consider to backup all data before some bad troubles happen on SAMSUNG GALAXY M40 like phone lost or stolen or broken or corrupt.

BACKUP Procedure for SAMSUNG GALAXY M40

Login With Google Account to Backup Contact or Phone Book on SAMSUNG GALAXY M40

Phonebook or phone contact is very important on SAMSUNG GALAXY M40, we are recommended to take care about this contact because when our phone get some trouble, then we can not access this phone contact anymore. Therefore we need to backup our phonebook at safety location. Android by default have abilities to backup our contact to Google cloud server automatically, it will synchronize as long as we login to Google account. We have to make sure our phone already sign in with our personal Google account.

After sign-in with Google username and password, this phone by default will automatically synchronize or backup data to Google cloud server, so we will have 2 phonebook storage, one is at our SAMSUNG GALAXY M40 and the other one at https://contacts.google.com. Please check that address to make sure all data already backup at Google server.

Bellow are the steps to check that our SAMSUNG GALAXY M40 already backup:

1. Turn on SAMSUNG GALAXY M40
2. Open Menu Setting > Account & backup > Account > Google (or choose your Google email), make sure your Gmail account already setup
3. If you need to add Google / Gmail account, then click Add account
4. Please see at your account detail, and make sure the Sync account is ON

How to Backup Phone Book or Contact on SAMSUNG GALAXY M40 Manually to SDCard Memory?

Beside having backup at Google cloud for our contact, we can also backup or export our contact or phonebook on SAMSUNG GALAXY M40 using Export menu at Contacts menu.

1. Turn on SAMSUNG GALAXY M40
2. Open applications: Contacts
3. Choose all contact to backup: Contacts > Menu > Manage contacts > Import or export contacts
4. Choose Export to storage / SD card
5. The filename of exported file will be show to tell us where the exported file is
6. Finish backup contact SAMSUNG GALAXY M40 to memory card

How to Backup Picture/Photo SAMSUNG GALAXY M40 ?

Photo also important to backup because with good camera quality on SAMSUNG GALAXY M40, we will have many important pictures or videos at our special moment. There are several option to backup our media like Photo / Pictures or videos to several location, the easier step is backup our media to external microSD memory card. But for this step we need to prepare our MicroSD card first and insert it into memory card slot at our SAMSUNG GALAXY M40.

Backup or Copy to External Memory Card:

1. Turn on SAMSUNG GALAXY M40
2. Open Home Screen
3. Find and run File Manage / File Commander
4. Choose Internal storage, we will see many folders
5. Press and hold one folder for select, after one folder selected, we will see menu at bellow
6. Choose Select all at menu bellow
7. Choose Copy (or move, but better use copy to reduce the missing files)
8. Choose Menu > SD Card
9. Choose the new folder that we want to copy that files
10. Choose Paste
11. Please make sure manually at microSD folder that all files already copied

Backup or Copy to Computer:

1. Turn on SAMSUNG GALAXY M40
2. Connect SAMSUNG GALAXY M40 with computer using USB data cable
3. Make sure computer can connect to SAMSUNG GALAXY M40 memory card (otherwise, try to slide down the notifications area from phone screen, choose to connect USB as media)
4. If the computer already able to read SAMSUNG GALAXY M40 phone data, then use computer File Explorer to open the DCIM folders on SAMSUNG GALAXY M40, copy all folder or files to specific location at our computer
5. If everything finish, please try to open all images from our computer to make sure all data already backup or export or copy without problem

Backup Photo / Videos of SAMSUNG GALAXY M40 to Google Photos:

1. Turn on SAMSUNG GALAXY M40
2. Make sure we have installed Google Photos applications from Google Play Store
3. Open Google Photos applications from SAMSUNG GALAXY M40
4. ChooseSettingat Google Photos applications:Setting > Backup & sync(turn in on)
5. AtBackup & sync menu, please choose ourGoogle backup account
6. AtBackup & sync menu, please chooseUpload SizetoHigh quality (make sure our free storage still available)
7. By default the photos and videos will backup to unlimited Google Photos backup when our SAMSUNG GALAXY M40 connected to Wifi

How To Reformat Or Hard Reset SAMSUNG GALAXY M40 For Fix Troubles ?

Restore Procedure for SAMSUNG GALAXY M40

Restore Back Backup Contact From Google Account on SAMSUNG GALAXY M40

If we reformat or hard reset SAMSUNG GALAXY M40, all data will be removed or wiped, so we need to restore back all contact to SAMSUNG GALAXY M40. This is how to restore:

1. Turn on SAMSUNG GALAXY M40
2. Go to MenuSetting > Account & backup > Accounts
3. Add our Google or Gmail account
4. In the first time, we can force Sync contact to restore Contacts from Google server to our SAMSUNG GALAXY M40
5. Make sure Sync is on for keep synchronize our contact to Google cloud server

Restore Back Backup Contact From SD Card / MicroSD to SAMSUNG GALAXY M40

1. Turn on SAMSUNG GALAXY M40
2. Choose Contacts
3. Choose Menu from Contacts > Import Contact
4. Choose Import from storage / SD card
5. Choose the place that we can save our contact
6. Choose Import vCard file

Restore Backup Photos and Videos from Google Photos on SAMSUNG GALAXY M40

1. Install Google Photos to our SAMSUNG GALAXY M40
2. ChooseSettingat Google Photos applications:Setting > Backup & sync(turn in on)
3. Login previous Google account to our Google Photos applications.
4. Wait for several moment when our SAMSUNG GALAXY M40 connected to Wifi, then our photos and videos will be restored to our phone.

How to Backup and Restore SMS / Text Message on SAMSUNG GALAXY M40

There are some options to backup SMS / Text Message from our phone. We recommended to use and download SMS Backup & Restore applications from Google Play Store. We can backup all or specific SMS/conversations to phone memory (internal or external memory) or use cloud storage such as Google Drive or Dropbox. Please do the following steps to :

1. Download SMS Backup & Restore from Google Play Store
2. From menu inside this apps, please choose Back up now
3. Choose what to backup at our text message
4. Choose where to backup. We suggest to use Google Drive as long as we already have Gmail account to sign-in. We also can choose some other options for backup location like Dropbox or internal/external phone memory.
5. We can choose to backup only once or every specific time

Restore SMS / Text Message on SAMSUNG GALAXY M40 :

1. This steps only can work if we have followed above steps to backup SMS / Text messages using SMS Backup & Restore application from Google Play Store.
2. Open SMS Backup & Restore application and choose from menu Restore
3. Choose where the location we have backup before (Local phone memory or Google Drive or Dropbox), and choose to Login or find the Backup files from our phone.
4. Choose what we want to restore from that backup files (Message or Phone calls)
5. Choose Restore button.

How To Backup And Restore Whatsapp Chat on SAMSUNG GALAXY M40 :

Whatsapp is famous chatting applications. We will have many chatting history inside SAMSUNG GALAXY M40 memory. We will give simple steps at backup and restore our Whatsapp chatting history including photos videos with simple steps. Please follow this link to backup and restore Whatsapp chatting history and media on SAMSUNG GALAXY M40.