Backing up our data is crucial to make sure that we don’t lose important information if something happens to our phone, such as theft or hardware damage. In this guide, we will share tips on how to back up chatting, SMS text messages, photos, videos, phone contacts, and more on the Samsung Galaxy Xcover7. This phone comes with a 6.6-inch PLS LCD screen and 128 GB of internal memory, expandable via a microSDXC card.
Backup and Restore with Samsung Account
We can use our Samsung account to back up and restore data on the Samsung Galaxy Xcover7.
Steps for Backup Data to Samsung Cloud Server:
- Turn on our Samsung Galaxy Xcover7.
- Open Menu Setting > Account and Backup > Backup and Restore (on some versions, go to Settings > Clouds and accounts > Backup and restore > Back up data).
- Select the Back up data option at our Samsung account.
- If we are not signed in, log in with our Samsung account username and password.
- Choose to select all data to back up, then click the Back up option.
- Wait until the backup process is complete.
Steps for Restore Data from Samsung Cloud Server:
- Turn on our Samsung Galaxy Xcover7.
- Open Menu Setting > Account and Backup > Backup and Restore (on some versions, go to Settings > Clouds and accounts > Backup and restore > Back up data).
- Select the Restore data option at our Samsung account.
- If we are not signed in, log in with our Samsung account username and password.
- Select the backup data and applications we want to restore.
- Continue by choosing the Restore option, and follow any additional prompts.
Backup Contacts to Google Account
Our phone contacts are essential, and Android allows us to back them up to Google Cloud automatically.
Steps to Backup Contacts to Google Cloud:
- Turn on our Samsung Galaxy Xcover7.
- Open Menu Setting > Account & backup > Account > Google, and ensure our Gmail account is set up.
- If necessary, click Add account to add our Google/Gmail account.
- Ensure the Sync account option is ON.
Steps to Manually Backup Contacts to SD Card:
- Turn on our Samsung Galaxy Xcover7.
- Open the Contacts application.
- Choose Contacts > Menu > Manage contacts > Import or export contacts.
- Select Export to storage / SD card.
- Note the filename of the exported file to locate it easily.
Backup Photos and Videos
With the high-quality camera on the Samsung Galaxy Xcover7, it’s important to back up our photos and videos.
Backup or Copy Media Files to External Memory Card:
- Turn on our Samsung Galaxy Xcover7.
- Open Home Screen.
- Find and run File Manager / File Commander.
- Choose Internal storage, then select the folders we want to back up.
- Choose Select all and then Copy.
- Navigate to Menu > SD Card, choose the new folder, and Paste the files.
Backup or Copy Media Files to Computer:
- Turn on our Samsung Galaxy Xcover7.
- Connect the phone to our computer using a USB data cable.
- Ensure the computer can access the phone’s memory (slide down the notifications area on our phone and choose to connect USB as media if needed).
- Use the computer’s File Explorer to open the DCIM folders on our phone and copy the files to the computer.
Backup Photos/Videos to Google Photos:
- Turn on our Samsung Galaxy Xcover7.
- Install the Google Photos app from the Google Play Store, if not already installed.
- Open the Google Photos app.
- Go to Settings > Backup & sync and turn it on.
- Choose our Google backup account.
- Set Upload Size to High quality to ensure free storage usage.
- By default, photos and videos will back up when connected to Wi-Fi.
Restore Procedure
Restore Backup Contact from Google Account:
- Turn on our Samsung Galaxy Xcover7.
- Ensure our Google account is set up.
- Open Menu Setting > Account & backup > Account > Google.
- Ensure the Sync account option is ON, which will automatically restore our contacts.
By following these steps, we can ensure that all our important data is backed up and secure, reducing the risk of data loss in case of any unforeseen issues with our Samsung Galaxy Xcover7.
Restore Back Backup Contact From SD Card / MicroSD to SAMSUNG GALAXY XCOVER7
- Turn on SAMSUNG GALAXY XCOVER7
- Choose Contacts
- Choose Menu from Contacts > Import Contact
- Choose Import from storage / SD card
- Choose the place that we have saved our contact
- Choose Import vCard file
Restore Backup Photos and Videos from Google Photos on SAMSUNG GALAXY XCOVER7
- Install Google Photos to our SAMSUNG GALAXY XCOVER7
- ChooseSettingat Google Photos applications:Setting > Backup & sync(turn in on)
- Login previous Google account to our Google Photos applications.
- Wait for several moment when our SAMSUNG GALAXY XCOVER7 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 XCOVER7:
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 :
- Download SMS Backup & Restore from Google Play Store
- From menu inside this apps, please choose Back up now
- Choose what to backup at our text message
- 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.
- We can choose to backup only once or every specific time
Restore SMS / Text Message on SAMSUNG GALAXY XCOVER7 :
- 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.
- Open SMS Backup & Restore application and choose from menu Restore
- 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.
- Choose what we want to restore from that backup files (Message or Phone calls)
- Choose Restore button.
How To Backup And Restore Whatsapp Chat on SAMSUNG GALAXY XCOVER7 :
WhatsApp is a popular messaging application, and we will have a lot of chat history stored on our SAMSUNG GALAXY XCOVER7. Here are simple steps to back up and restore our WhatsApp chat history, including photos and videos. Follow this link for detailed instructions on how to back up and restore WhatsApp chat history.