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How to look up/dial entries from SIM or convert to Contacts?

I just received my shiny new XDA II and I was wondering is there an easy way to dial phonebook entries which are stored on my SIM card?
I notice when you press the Green button to start the phone application there is a button at the bottom to go to the Contacts list (sync'd from Outlook).
I have a hundred or more phone book entries on my SIM card but I notice that when I hit the call button it gives me the option of choosing people out of my synchronised Outlook Contacts list but to call people from the SIM card I have to bring up the SIM Manager and click and hold and select call from an entry which seems cumbersome. Is there a nice easy way to have a combined list of Outlook Contacts + SIM Phone Book entries with a simple click to call mechanism?
I also notice for received calls and SMS's the Caller ID thingy doesn't look at any of the phonebook entries on the SIM card to translate numbers into names - can this be fixed as well?
OR alternatively if the only solution is to have everything in Outlook Contacts then is there a nice easy tool (preferably freeware) which takes all my existing SIM phonebook entries and converts them into Outlook Contact entries?
Thanks,
Rodney...

Ok: when you are in "SIM Manager" select "Tools" and "Select all".
Tap and hold anywere in the window and select "Save to Conctacts" in the pop up that will appear.
I hope this can help you!

Yep - I found that a few hours after making this post - but thanks for that anyway...
So is the general consensus that we shouldn't use the SIM based phonebook at all but rather have all entries in the Outlook Contacts list?

Copying SIM entries to Outlook
I've use the SIM toolkit to 'add' my SIM contacts into my XDA contacts, but when sync'ing with my PC, the new contacts claim to xfer over, but don't appear in my PC's address book. ActiveSync is set to xfer contacts.
Any ideas what might be wrong, or are there tools that will upload the SIM data to Outlook in an easy manner. I appreciate that SIM contact info is limited by the SIM.
Thanks, Hamish.

how to hide sim contact data from contact

sorry guys i've just copied my sim contact to phone contact but when i open contact there's a sim contact data and phone contact data
ijust want to know how to hide the sim contact data cause it's very disturb me and make me confuse

displaying data
my solution for your problem is that i synced all my contacts to outlook then opened the editor in outlook and changed the catagory for all the on phone contacts to personal, then when displaying contacts on phone i just filtered it by catagory
hope this works for you

thx i've just want to try it

Check post no. 4
i have installed this on my HTC touch and i no longer see the sim contacts in the contacts list.

Manage Contacts

Hi,
I am a new to HTC and WM... I have some number into the SIM card and some number in the outlook contacts. I am using active sync with my corporate connection so all my contacts are in Exchange and syncronized with my PDA.
How I can visualize in the phone contacts only the outlook contant and hide the sim contacts without removing from the SIM.
Thank you and regards,
Alessio

PozzatoA said:
Hi,
I am a new to HTC and WM... I have some number into the SIM card and some number in the outlook contacts. I am using active sync with my corporate connection so all my contacts are in Exchange and syncronized with my PDA.
How I can visualize in the phone contacts only the outlook contant and hide the sim contacts without removing from the SIM.
Thank you and regards,
Alessio
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Search for Kaiser sim fix in xda-Portal
regards
cimber

[Q] - Can I copy all my sim based contacts into gmail contacts

Hi
Previously had all my contacts on the sim. Now that I have samsung galaxy s, and will probably stick with the same O.S. for the future, it would be nice to convert all my #s to google. Can't find any option on the phone to do this.
Thanks
Kiwi

Hi,
that is a good question..i searched for the same function but i did not find a proper option...i only managed to link my phone contacts with my facebook contacts, which is really cool

Thanks, if they are linked then where is the phone number stored, is it still only on the sim or does it go into the "facebook contact" which i imagine the facebook contact is stored on the phone.
I wish there was some sort of smart contacts manager application on the PC that you could merge sim <-> facebook <-> gmail contacts all into one set of gmail only contacts.

check this topic out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765081
it has several Contact managing tools i've been using to keep all my contacts in sync
I have yet to find an easier way

thanks to you.

[Q] how to add sim contacts to groups?

hi
i have all my contacts in my sim card. Now when i create a group in contacts and try to add a contact to the group, i am able to add only phone contacts and not sim contacts.
How can i add a contact to a group WITHOUT copying to phone?