Transfer Samsung Cloud Data to Google Drive and the Reverse

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If you’re a Samsung user, you’re likely already using Samsung Cloud. Samsung offers users free basic cloud storage service to protect their photos and files from accidental deletion, device malfunction, mobile theft, liquid damage and fire. Usually, when you unbox your device and boot it for the first time, Samsung asks you to register an account online. As a Samsung user, you get 5 GB of free storage quota. You can expand it further by purchasing premium plans as well.

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What kind of data can I back up on my Samsung Cloud account? You can backup almost everything on your device including contacts, calendar events, Samsung Internet bookmarks and history, Samsung Keyboard, Samsung Notes, gallery photos, reminders, and much more.

  • Calendar: It consists of calendar events you have stored in Samsung Calendar. If you’ve imported data from other calendar apps, it may also contain imported data from Google Calendar and Microsoft Exchange.
  • Contacts: It includes all contacts stored on your device including your family, friends, colleagues, non-assigned contacts and emergency contacts. In addition to individual contacts, your Samsung phone allows you to bring specific sets of contacts together and form groups. When you backup data to Samsung Cloud, it backups these group contacts as well.
  • Call History: It includes all incoming and outgoing calls to/ from your device.
  • Messages: It includes any text and multimedia message you’ve sent and received.
  • Apps: It includes all APK files of the installed apps. These APK files are required to re-install your apps after you reset your phone.
  • Device Settings: It includes all user preferences. such as saved Wifi connections, keyboard themes, ringtones, display settings, accessibility settings, battery optimization settings, lock screen patterns/ pin, general management settings, app-specific settings, and much more.
  • Documents: It includes any files that you’ve created with Office programs or downloaded from the Internet. It may include PDFs, DOCX, TXT and HTML files.
  • Music Files: It includes all MP3, WAV, OGG, M4A and 3GA music files you downloaded or synced with your smartphone.
  • Home Screen: It includes your wallpapers, layout and other home screen settings.
  • Voice Recordings: It includes any audio you’ve recorded with the Voice Recorder app.
  • Clock: It includes your clocks, world clocks, timers, clock styles, etc.

  Things to keep in mind before transferring content Before starting the file download/ upload, make sure to switch from the cellular data network to Wi-Fi to avoid network charges. While you’re downloading or uploading files, you can continue using your phone. There is no direct way to transfer files between Samsung Cloud and Google Drive. You’ll need to download files from Samsung Cloud and then re-upload them back to Google Drive, and vice versa. Until a few years ago, Samsung restricted access to Samsung Cloud to only mobile devices. There was no means to login to Samsung Cloud through a web browser on your PC/ laptop. Thankfully, things have changed now. Now you can login to your Samsung Cloud account on a computer/ laptop and view, delete and download files with ease.  

Transfer files from Samsung Cloud to Google Drive

If you have backed up your files to Samsung cloud and need to transfer them to Google Drive, follow the below procedure. We’ll first restore files to your device and then re-upload them back on Google Drive. Step 1 Restore data from Samsung Cloud

  1. Turn on your Wi-Fi.
  2. Swipe upwards on your Home Screen to open the Main Menu.
  3. Tap the Settings icon.
  4. Select Accounts and Backup.
  5. Tap Samsung Cloud.
  6. Tap Restore Data.
  7. Wait until all the files are successfully restored.

  Step 2: Upload files on Google Drive

  1. Open the Google Drive app.
  2. Click the Add icon (plus sign) on the lower right.
  3. Tap the Upload option.
  4. Select the file(s) you want to upload. To select multiple files, tap and hold a filename. Tap another file to add to the selection.
  5. Google Drive will begin uploading your files.

 

Transfer files from Google Drive to Samsung Cloud

Follow the procedure given below to download files from Google Drive and upload on Samsung Cloud: Step 1: Download files from Google Drive

  1. Make sure that you’re connected to the Internet.
  2. Download the Google Drive app from Google Play.
  3. Use your Google Drive credentials to sign in to your account.
  4. Tap the Files icon at the far right corner at the bottom of your screen to display the contents of your Google Drive account.
  5. Tap a file you want to Upload and hold it on for about 4-5 seconds.
  6. Select other files by simply tapping them once.
  7. Tap the Menu icon (3 dots) on the upper right corner of your screen.
  8. Select Download.
  9. The download may start now. Wait until all the files are downloaded.

  Step 2: Upload files to Samsung Cloud

  1. Swipe upwards on your Home Screen to open the Main Menu.
  2. Tap the Settings icon.
  3. Tap Accounts and Backup.
  4. Select Samsung Cloud.
  5. On the next page, you should find the Upload button.
  6. After tapping the Upload button, the My Files option will open up.
  7. Open a folder that contains files you want to upload.
  8. Select multiple files in a folder using the checkbox on the upper left corner.
  9. Once you’ve finished selecting your files, tap Done on the bottom.
  10. Samsung Cloud will start uploading your files.