It will not be few times that you change your smartphone. However, not everything will be as good as brand new a phone for the first time, since what this does is that we encounter some problems and situations. Among those that we can find is the need to change the Mi Band 5 or Mi Band 6 to the new mobile , a very simple and fast process where we should not find many complications.
Although it is something that does not have too much mystery, the truth is that the doubts about this process do not fall short. But, we already warned you that if we do it quickly and uncontrollably we can lose the Mi Fit data , sleep records or sports activities , that’s why we want to help you.
The smartband has many functionalities and, although you may already know many tricks for the Xiaomi Mi Band, you may have never considered this need. However, that does not mean that it is too late to know the steps you must follow. In this way, you will avoid making any other mistake.
Do we lose the information?
This is one of the big questions that all users with a Chinese smartband ask themselves when changing their mobile. However, it has an easy answer. The truth is that the data of the Chinese manufacturer’s bracelet could be deleted, but only in the event that we completely restore the Xiaomi activity bracelet. If not, all the steps we have taken, the activity log, the heart rate and other data that it offers us, will remain intact. Although, the negative side is that it will only keep track of the last few days.
However, we do not have to worry, since everything will be stored in the Xiaomi cloud through the Mi Fit application. Therefore, we will only need to re-link the Mi Band with the mobile so that all the elements reappear, just as if we are going to change the compatible bracelet or watch of the Chinese brand.
And if in your case, the records do not appear, don’t worry, because you can review them at any time from that same app. Basically, because all the information that the Xiaomi smartband has been collecting has been accumulating in the account that we have used in that same application. Therefore, when logging in from the new mobile, we will be able to see all the data again within this tool from the Asian manufacturer.
Connect your old mobile and the Mi Band one last time
To start the process to use the Xiaomi bracelet on another mobile, what we must do is focused, first of all, on the old mobile where we had it linked. In it we access the Mi Fit application and activate the Bluetooth of the mobile so that all the data is linked and synchronized for the last time. This is very important since if we don’t do it we will lose some data that has not been synchronized.
Although many of you will know that there is an option to unlink the bracelet, this is not related to the mobile, but to the account. For this reason we do not have to do anything other than the next step and under no circumstances should we unlink the Mi Band from the mobile.
Uninstall Mi Fit to avoid errors
Once all the data from the Mi Band 6 has been synchronized with the account on our old mobile, we will proceed to uninstall the Xiaomi app. We can do this in Settings> Applications> Mi Fit> Uninstall.
In addition, later we recommend you turn off the bluetooth of the old mobile or turn off the mobile completely if we do not need it anymore. In this way in the new mobile the connection will be faster and we will not have errors.
Is it necessary to unlink the smartband?
In these cases, it will not be necessary to unlink the Mi Band from the old mobile to use it on the new smartphone. But, if you are having problems when trying to synchronize the Xiaomi bracelet on the mobile that you just released, it never hurts to try to remove the pairing.
To do this, we already warned you that it can be done in two ways, by resetting the bracelet or from the Mi Fit application. The best option to change the Mi Band to a new mobile will be the second, since, if we do it with the first method, all the data on the smartband itself will be deleted. But you decide, so we will tell you the steps for the two alternatives:
- We enter the Mi Fit application.
- We go to the Profile tab.
- Then we select the Xiaomi Smart Band that we have.
- We go down to the bottom.
- We touch Unlink .
- To finally confirm the process.
But, if you prefer to reset the bracelet, follow these steps:
- We move through the menus until we see More.
- We go in and choose the Settings option.
- Then we slide until we reach the Factory Reset.
- After choosing the option, we confirm it.
Use the same account on the new mobile
Now we move on to the new mobile, where we will need the Mi Fit application that we can download from Google Play or the App Store if we have switched to an iPhone. Once inside the application we have to log in with the same account that we had on the previous mobile. In addition, we can try to do it with the email and password manually or with the help of Google or other tools where we may have linked the Chinese activity bracelet. Here we leave you the links so that you can download the Xiaomi app on your terminal:
Once we access, we go to the ‘Profile’ section where the Mi Band device must appear. If they do not appear, it is because our Mi Band is associated with another account and we have to close the session in the same app to find the same method that we used in the previous mobile.
When we get it, we just have to touch Profile > Mi Band 5 and access the application alert section to give the necessary permissions again so that the app alerts reach us on the bracelet, as well as in the calls or other data that we want to have configured. With all this we will have managed to synchronize the Mi Band to a new mobile without the data.