Easy Way to Backup & Restore XIAOMI MIX 4 Contact, Chat, Data, Picture, SMS

Tips for backup all important data on XIAOMI MIX 4. When we have premium smartphone, we will use it for doing any activity. But we have to remember to backup all data before some troubles happen like phone lost or hardware can not work properly or damage. Please follow some steps bellow to do backup data or contact or some other data.

XIAOMI MIX 4 is flagship smartphone that work with Qualcomm SM8350 Snapdragon 888+ 5G processor. It has three internal storage options with 128 GB or 256 GB or 512 GB. We can not use MicroSD card for backup data, because the external memory is not available on XIAOMI MIX 4. The first operating system use Android 11 with MIUI 12.5 that already have several automatic backup procedure. However, we have to make sure all backup processes are working properly.

We can use rear camera of XIAOMI MIX 4 to capture all moment because it use great camera 108 MP for wide + 8 MP for 5 optical zoom + 13 MP for 123 ultrawide. We need to make sure all photos videos also backup at safe location. We will give simple solutions to backup all photos videos on XIAOMI MIX 4 to free cloud storage server, with Google Photos.

This page will give several information about how to backup important applications and data. 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.

 

BACKUP Procedure for XIAOMI MIX 4

Login With Google Account to Backup Contact or Phone Book on XIAOMI MIX 4

Almost all of us will have many contacts or phonebooks data at XIAOMI MIX 4 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 MIX 4 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 MIX 4 sync with Google cloud server:

1. Turn on XIAOMI MIX 4
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 MIX 4 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 MIX 4 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 MIX 4 using Export menu at Contacts menu.

1. Turn on XIAOMI MIX 4
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. Send new created backup files to email attachment or cloud storage server
7. Finish backup contact XIAOMI MIX 4 to memory card

 

How to Backup Picture/Photo XIAOMI MIX 4 ?

Photo also important to backup because with good camera quality on XIAOMI MIX 4, 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 MIX 4
2. Connect XIAOMI MIX 4 with computer using USB data cable
3. Make sure computer can connect to XIAOMI MIX 4 memory card (otherwise, try to slide down the notifications area from XIAOMI MIX 4, choose to connect USB as media)
4. If the computer already able to read XIAOMI MIX 4 phone data, then use computer File Explorer to open the DCIM folders on XIAOMI MIX 4, 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 MIX 4 to Google Photos:

1. Turn on XIAOMI MIX 4
2. Make sure we have installed Google Photos applications from Google Play Store
3. Open Google Photos applications from XIAOMI MIX 4
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 MIX 4 connected to Wifi

 

Follow Tips and Tricks to Fix & Hard Reset XIAOMI MIX 4

 

Restore Procedure for XIAOMI MIX 4

Restore Back Backup Contact From Google Account on XIAOMI MIX 4

If we reformat or hard reset XIAOMI MIX 4, all data will be removed or wiped, so we need to restore back all contact to XIAOMI MIX 4. This is how to restore:

1. Turn on XIAOMI MIX 4
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 MIX 4
5. Make sure Sync is on for keep synchronize our contact to Google cloud server

 

Restore Back Backup Contact From Email / Cloud Server / Internal Memory to XIAOMI MIX 4

1. Turn on XIAOMI MIX 4
2. Download previous backup files from email attachment or cloud storage server
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 MIX 4

1. Install Google Photos to our XIAOMI MIX 4
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 MIX 4 connected to Wifi, then our photos and videos will be restored to our phone.

 

 

How to Backup and Restore SMS / Text Message on XIAOMI MIX 4

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 MIX 4 :

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 MIX 4 ?

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 MIX 4.