I've just bought myself a shiney new Xda2, but when I put in my SIM card, I cannot access my phonebook & sms messages stored on it. Strangely though, when a number in the phonebook calls me, the Xda2 manages to access my phonebook & tells me who is calling. Any clues on how I can recover my phonebook & text messages?
use the sim manger not sure if it works havent got any numbers on my sim card but its there
Yes, use sim manager, then click and hold stylus over required number and choose save to contacts, if you want them all saved to contacts then choose select all then save to contacts. I have no idea about the sms messages.
Thanks for the assistance. ^_^ I can get by without the text messages. I believe they were stored on my old phone itself, rather than the SIM card, so no transferring them. :/
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Is there any way of saving numbers stored in the phonebook to the sim on an XDA2?
Don't know if there is a way to copy your entire contacts in one move to the SIM. If possible most SIM can store a limited number of contacts.
But it is possible to copy contacts one by one to the SIM. Maybe you knew this allready. If not this is how:
Tap to a contact an hold until a menu appears. Choose Save To SIM an a copy of the contact is saved to the SIM.
Cheers,
Mark
You can also copy multiple contacts onto your SIM by selecting the desired (or all) contacts and then tapping Tools -> Save to SIM.
Hi, when you press phone to open your contacts, you get the Phone contacts AND the Sim contacts, how do you filter just one or the other.?
I like to keep a backup copy of my contacts on the sim, not just the phone, but i now get 2 enetries for each contact?
Go to People tab > All people > Menu > View and choose contacts or sim.
Yeah that i worked out, but when you press the phone button, it still shows phone contacts AND SIM untill you press the all people button????
why???
I don't know why. I never even noticed that.
Not only that it shows all the emails too, i also deleted them all, and 10 mins later they are back??
Weird phone man...
yes. same problem here.
I select to filter sim contacts. close it. even restart but it still shows both sim contacts and phone contacts.
thanks.
is only way keeping sim card empty?
any ideas?
Use a registry editor and do this tweak:
Code:
HKCU\ControlPanel\Phone\ShowSIM = 0 (DWORD; default is 1)
That hides the SIM contacts in the dialer only. They still show up in e-mail and sms screens, but at least it's not in the dialer any more!
that works.
thank you.
Does anyone else have the problem when you turn your phone off then turn it back on all your text are saved as sim text. So it doesnt show anyones pic or real contact info unless you recieve a text then it goes back to the correct contact. Is there any way to make this stop? I like to have contacts on my sim and phone just in case one something happens to one I have the other.
why dont you sync your contacts to my phone its a free microsoft service that will allow you to backup and restore your contacts through the web directly from your phone!
i download 3.14 orijinal "World Wide English (WWE) 3.14.405.2" from here and install. then i restore my contacts and sms with PPCPimBackup. After it i recognize that i have a sms problem. There is always 5 blank sms in my preview sms box (5/25) , and i can not delete them. so the new sms always come to 6/25. and everytime i have to pass 5 blank one to see the new one
at all messages part, in both mode( clsc or convrstn), everything seems ok, no blank ones.
i tried to delete all of the sms from device, but still the 5 blank ones remained.
Does anyone had the same prob? and does anyone knows the solution?
please help me. thanks.
The problem may be SMS stored on the SIM card. It has been reported that sometimes after flashing, with the SIM Card in, that soem blank SMS appear on the SIM Card.
To check, go to Messages - Conversation Mode (All Messages -> Menu -> Settings ->Conversation Mode.
These 5 SMS maybe grouped together, but the group(s) for these 5 should all have a SIM icon on the right-hand side.
If you touch and stay on the SIM icon you should get an option to copy to phone. Then go back to Traditional Mode and delete the 5 SMS. If it doesn't copy or delete, then take the SIM card out and put in an dumbphone and delete the SMSs.
Hello there,
I am facing a strange issue in my nexus 4. Its related to SMS that i receive. Issue is all the message i receive gets save in internal memory,but messages from one particular contact is getting saved in SIM MEMORY every time, which is eating up sim memory and once SIM memory is full i phone asks me to delete sim message to recieve another message. And ITS HAPPENING WITH ONLY ONE CONTACT NOT WITH ALL CONTACTS IN MY PHONEBOOK.
Kindly help. Waiting for suggestions.
Thanks
Have you looked in the settings of the messaging app? There's an option to Manage SIM card messages under Text (SMS) messages.
Yes that setting only shows the SMS present in SIM. So whenever i receive any SMS from that contact it goes to SIM and I go to MANAGE SIM CARD MESSAGE setting and delete all the SMS. And again if I receive SMS from contact it goes and stors again in SIM.
I even deleted all SMS and even that contact and its call history, but again its getting saved in SIM for that particular contact. For rest its storing in internal memory.