Easy Way to Backup & Restore XIAOMI POCO F4 GT Contact, Chat, Data, Picture, SMS

Tips for backup all important data on XIAOMI POCO F4 GT. This phone comes with 6.67 inches LCD screen with Android 12 as factory default operating system. It is available with 128 GB or 256 GB internal storage too keep all data. Some users does not understand about how important to have backup data. We will loose all important information if we do not have any backup when some troubles happen on our XIAOMI POCO F4 GT like phone lost or hardware broken.

There are some automatic backup process will work in the background, but please always login with Google account or Xiaomi account. However, we have to make sure the backup procedure are working properly. Some applications are already saved some data at cloud like email or social media such as Facebook or Instagram and some other more.

XIAOMI POCO F4 GT has triple rear cameras at back side body with 64 MP for wide + 8 MP for 120 degree ultrawide + 2 mp for macro. We also need to backup all media files to safe locations. Please follow some steps below to backup our photos videos automatically to cloud storage server for free using Google Photos.

 

BACKUP Procedure for XIAOMI POCO F4 GT

Login With Google Account to Backup Contact or Phone Book on XIAOMI POCO F4 GT

Almost all of us will have many contacts or phonebooks data at XIAOMI POCO F4 GT 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 POCO F4 GT 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 POCO F4 GT sync with Google cloud server:

1. Turn on XIAOMI POCO F4 GT
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 POCO F4 GT Manually to Email or Cloud Storage Server?

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 POCO F4 GT using Export menu at Contacts menu.

1. Turn on XIAOMI POCO F4 GT
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. Upload new created backup file to cloud storage server or send as attachment on our email
7. Finish backup contact XIAOMI POCO F4 GT to memory card

 

How to Backup Picture/Photo XIAOMI POCO F4 GT ?

Photo also important to backup because with good camera quality on XIAOMI POCO F4 GT, 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 POCO F4 GT
2. Connect XIAOMI POCO F4 GT with computer using USB data cable
3. Make sure computer can connect to XIAOMI POCO F4 GT memory card (otherwise, try to slide down the notifications area from XIAOMI POCO F4 GT, choose to connect USB as media)
4. If the computer already able to read XIAOMI POCO F4 GT phone data, then use computer File Explorer to open the DCIM folders on XIAOMI POCO F4 GT, 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 POCO F4 GT to Google Photos:

1. Turn on XIAOMI POCO F4 GT
2. Make sure we have installed Google Photos applications from Google Play Store
3. Open Google Photos applications from XIAOMI POCO F4 GT
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 POCO F4 GT connected to Wifi

 

Follow Tips and Tricks to Fix & Hard Reset XIAOMI POCO F4 GT

 

Restore Procedure for XIAOMI POCO F4 GT

Restore Back Backup Contact From Google Account on XIAOMI POCO F4 GT

If we reformat or hard reset XIAOMI POCO F4 GT, all data will be removed or wiped, so we need to restore back all contact to XIAOMI POCO F4 GT. This is how to restore:

1. Turn on XIAOMI POCO F4 GT
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 POCO F4 GT
5. Make sure Sync is on for keep synchronize our contact to Google cloud server

 

Restore Back Backup Contact From Internal Memory or Email or Cloud Server to XIAOMI POCO F4 GT

1. Turn on XIAOMI POCO F4 GT
2. Download previous backup file from cloud server or email
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 POCO F4 GT

1. Install Google Photos to our XIAOMI POCO F4 GT
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 POCO F4 GT connected to Wifi, then our photos and videos will be restored to our phone.

 

 

How to Backup and Restore SMS / Text Message on XIAOMI POCO F4 GT

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 POCO F4 GT :

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 POCO F4 GT ?

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 POCO F4 GT.