Migrating to a Lumia 925 from a C6-01

Question

Hi all,
I currently have a Nokia C6-01 Belle phone and I've just bought myself a Lumia 925. As I expect the Lumia 925 to be delivered to my home in a couple of days, I have to make a plan on how to migrate my data from the C6-01 to the Lumia 925.
Contacts: I already synced the C6-01 to my Microsoft Live account. I managed to do that by setting up an EAS (Exchange Active Sync) email account on the C6-01. So, when I get my Lumia 925 and log into my Microsoft account, the contacts will be automatically synced.
Photos & Videos: no problem here, I'll just need to upload to my SkyDrive the media I want to see on the Lumia 925.
Nokia Maps favourite places, collections and routes are also covered: the Maps app on my C6-01 is always synced with HERE.com. All I'll have to do is sync the Lumia 925 Maps app.
Browser bookmarks: I use two browser on the C6-01: the native Belle Browser and Opera Mobile. On each of them I have a different set of bookmarks which I would like to transfer to Internet Explorer on the Lumia 925. I have no idea on how to do that.
Calendar entries and tasks (to-do): I don't know how to transfer them to the Lumia 925.
Notes: I have several notes I need to transfer to the Lumia 925.
SMS messages: I have a lot of them on my C6-01 I would like to transfer to the Lumia 925. I guess those messages are stored on the C6-01 internal memory, not on the SIM card.
I would appreciate any help you can give me on how to transfer my data from the C6-01 to the Lumia 925.
P.S.:
I'm now reading the Lumia 925 User Manual, which says on page 14 of the UK version:
"Copy contacts
Have your nearest and dearest instantly at your fingertips. Use the Transfer my Data app to easily copy your contacts and text messages from your old phone. Your old phone needs to support Bluetooth. The contacts on your old phone need to be stored in the
phone memory, not on the SIM."
If that's correct, it's possible to transfer SMS messages from the my old phone to the 925 via Bluetooth. What do you know about that?
Best regards,
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Answer 1

Nokia Suite (v3.6.x and later) allows for an easy transfer of contacts, calendar and photos to your Nokia Lumia Windows Phone via SkyDrive.
Here's how this feature works;
Connect your Nokia S40, S60 or Nokia Belle phone to your PC using the USB cable.
After Nokia Suite is started and your phone shows as connected select Tools>Upload to SkyDrive and follow the on screen instructions. If you do not have one yet you will have to create a Microsoft account which has a SkyDrive attached to it. You can create such account here.
You will now have to reset your Nokia Lumia Windows Phone. Doing so will erase all content from the phone and return it to it's 'out of the box' state. Make sure you have synced any media files to your PC (Zune for WP7.x devices / copy them through explorer on WP8.x devices) or Mac(Connector). You can sync these back after the reset. When finished reset your Nokia Lumia Windows Phone using Settings>about>reset your phone.
Go through the Device First Use sequence and when asked enter your Microsoft Account used to save the content from Nokia Suite. When the setup has finished your will find your contacts, calendar and photos have all transferred to your Lumia. These will also be available through your Microsoft account through the web interface. The list of installed (paid) apps is also restored and the phone will start downloading these once the restore is complete. You can switch to WiFi for this if you have access.
It is important to note this transfer will only work to the Nokia Lumia at the Device First Use sequence (after a reset). If you have your Lumia setup it will not look for or sync the information copied to SkyDrive through Nokia Suite.
SMS message can not be transferred directly, but you can export all messages in Nokia Suite (Messaging>File/Export all text messages) and open the resulting Comma Separated File (.csv) in Excel or OpenOffice Calc to create an Excel sheet (.xls file) this can then be copied to your SkyDrive and opened from the Office app. You could also use a tool to create separate files from the exported .CSV file and copy all of these to SkyDrive.
I would begin with using Nokia Suite to transfer the data you can transfer this way tou the SkyDrive registered to your Microsoft account as you can do this now. When you receive the 925 make sure cellular data is enabled during the Device first use sequence and once you enter the Microsoft account login and password the data will sync to the phone from there.
Anthing else after that you might want to let us know so we can see what best way to do this.
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