Switch between Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo phones without losing your chat history
Switching to a brand new smartphone is both exciting and tedious, as users have to simultaneously transfer all their digital data and content from the old device to the new one. AirDrop lets you quickly share photos, documents, and videos between Apple devices, but it’s less convenient with Android devices. Today, Xiaomi, Vivo, and Oppo have joined forces to build a new solution that enables seamless data transfer between their devices. In addition to photo and contact sharing, the new pact allows users to transfer data from third-party apps between Xiaomi, Vivo, and Oppo smartphones. In 2020, brands BBK Electronics and Samsung collaborated to develop a new P2P file transfer protocol.
Xiaomi, Vivo and Oppo took to Weibo to to announce Their new partnership is aimed at providing an improved replacement experience for users. It allows users to transfer third-party app data between smartphones of the aforementioned brands. This will ensure that old chat records are retained when switching phones. BBK’s brands already support the migration of system data such as contacts and photos between their smartphones.
Users can migrate data from Oppo and Vivo smartphones to a Xiaomi device by launching the Mi Switch, Xiaomi says. After selecting the old mobile type as Android, users can scan the code with the corresponding device to install Mi Replacement on the new device to complete the data transfer.
Data migration from third-party apps can be performed on Xiaomi handsets running MIUI 4.0.0 and later, Oppo smartphones with ColorOS 13.3.7 and later, and Vivo phones with OriginOS 6.2. 5.1 and later. The enhanced data migration feature is currently only available in China.
In 2020, the three brands, along with Realme, OnePlus, Black Shark, Meizu and Samsung, formed an alliance to facilitate wireless file transfer systems between their devices. The alliance, known as “Peer-to-Peer Transmission Alliance”, worked much like Apple’s AirDrop feature and allowed users to transfer files, photos and videos without using third-party apps like ShareIt and Xender.
