Easy Way to Backup & Restore XIAOMI 11T Contact, Chat, Data, Picture, SMS

Tips for backup all important data on XIAOMI 11T. This phone comes with MediaTek MT6893 Dimensity 1200 5G with 28 GB or 256 GB internal memory options. We can not use MicroSD for backup destination because it does not have external memory slot. Some users does not understand about how important having backup data. We will give simple steps to backup data at safe locations.

XIAOMI 11T is powered with Android 11. This operating system optimized with MIUI 12.5 user interface. There are some important features to for backup data using this OS, but we have to make sure all backup data are working properly. There are several applications that we do not need to worry about data, because they are already saved at cloud like email or social media such as Facebook or Instagram and some other more.

All XIAOMI 11T users will have many photos and videos, because this phone have fantastic camera sensor with 108 MP for wide + 8 MP for 120 degree ultrawide + 5 MP for macro. We need to backup all historical photos videos to safe location. Please follow some steps to do automatic cloud backup for free using Google Photos.

 

BACKUP Procedure for XIAOMI 11T

Login With Google Account to Backup Contact or Phone Book on XIAOMI 11T

Almost all of us will have many contacts or phonebooks data at XIAOMI 11T which are very important for our activity. We have to backup all important data at safety location. One important thing when use Android, that we can synchronize our contact data to Google account, what we have to do is make sure our phone already sign in with our personal Google account.

After login or sign-in, Android phone by default will automatically synchronize or backup data to Google cloud server, so we will have 2 phonebook storage, one is at our XIAOMI 11T and the other one at https://contacts.google.com. Please check that address to make sure all data already backup at Google server.

This steps will show if our XIAOMI 11T sync with Google cloud server:

1. Turn on XIAOMI 11T
2. Open Menu Setting > Account > Google , 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, and make sure the Sync is ON

 

How to Backup Phone Book or Contact on XIAOMI 11T Manually to SDCard Memory?

We can keep contact to several locations, such as cloud storage like Dropbox or Google drive, or other location that we can use from XIAOMI 11T using Export menu at Contacts menu.

Beside having backup at Google cloud for our contact, we can also backup or export our contact or phonebook on XIAOMI 11T using Export menu at Contacts menu.

1. Turn on XIAOMI 11T
2. Open applications: Contacts
3. Choose all contact to backup: Contacts > Menu > Export / Backup contacts
4. Choose Export to storage
5. The filename of exported file will be show to tell us where the exported file is
6. We have to send new created backup files to our email as attachment or send to cloud storage server
7. Finish backup contact XIAOMI 11T to memory card

 

How to Backup Picture/Photo XIAOMI 11T ?

Photo also important to backup because with good camera quality on XIAOMI 11T, we will have many important pictures for special moment. There are several option to backup our media like Photo and Pictures to several location.

Backup or Copy at Computer:

1. Turn on XIAOMI 11T
2. Connect XIAOMI 11T with computer using USB data cable
3. Make sure computer can connect to XIAOMI 11T memory card (otherwise, try to slide down the notifications area from XIAOMI 11T, choose to connect USB as media)
4. If the computer already able to read XIAOMI 11T phone data, then use computer File Explorer to open the DCIM folders on XIAOMI 11T, 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 XIAOMI 11T to Google Photos:

1. Turn on XIAOMI 11T
2. Make sure we have installed Google Photos applications from Google Play Store
3. Open Google Photos applications from XIAOMI 11T
4. Choose Setting at Google Photos applications: Setting > Backup & sync (turn in on)
5. At Backup & sync menu, please choose our Google backup account
6. At Backup & sync menu, please choose Upload Size to High quality (make sure we still have enough capacity)
7. By default the photos and videos will backup to unlimited Google Photos backup when our XIAOMI 11T connected to Wifi

 

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Restore Procedure for XIAOMI 11T

Restore Back Backup Contact From Google Account on XIAOMI 11T

If we reformat or hard reset XIAOMI 11T, all data will be removed or wiped, so we need to restore back all contact to XIAOMI 11T. This is how to restore:

1. Turn on XIAOMI 11T
2. Go to Menu Setting > Account > Google
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 XIAOMI 11T
5. Make sure Sync is on for keep synchronize our contact to Google cloud server

 

Restore Back Backup Contact From Email / Cloud Storage / Internal Memory to XIAOMI 11T

1. Turn on XIAOMI 11T
2. Download previous backup files from our email or cloud storage servver
3. Choose Contacts
4. Choose Menu from Contacts > Import Contact
5. Choose Import from storage
6. Choose the folder that we have saved our contact
7. Choose Import vCard file

Restore Backup Photos and Videos from Google Photos on XIAOMI 11T

1. Install Google Photos to our XIAOMI 11T
2. Choose Setting at 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 XIAOMI 11T connected to Wifi, then our photos and videos will be restored to our phone.

 

 

How to Backup and Restore SMS / Text Message on XIAOMI 11T

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 XIAOMI 11T :

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 Whatsapp Chat History on XIAOMI 11T ?

Whatsapp is very famous at several country. We can communicate with any contact across devices. There are many important information that we keep from Whatsapp chatting communication, therefore we have to backup all Whatsapp chat history and restore at new or same phone when some troubles happen. Please follow this page to backup-restore Whatsapp Chat History or Media Photos Videos from our XIAOMI 11T.