Right now I have all my contacts on my Razr phone (not sim) and I bought a new 8125 to be here Wed. What is the best way to get the done? I need to move them over soon.
Do I copy all to sim then just move the sim over?
Thanks,
Well, you also could use bluetooth - sending one by one. If you have other contact information than phone numbers (as example email addresses) they won't save on SIM ...
All I have on the sim and or phone is the phone numbers. Nothing else.
I would just copy the contacts to your SIM from the Razr and then copy them from the SIM to the phone or even better just leave them on the SIM in the new device.
Dave
if you sync to your information to your computer, you may be able to transfer your contacts through outlook from your razr and then sync that info to your 8125. I use to have a razr in the past, but I don't remember if the syncing software was outlook if motorola had used their own pim manager...
the one qualm i have with transfering through the sim card is that all the extra information is usually not transfered (ie, e-mail addresses, addresses, birthdays, etc). The sim card tends to only hold names and phone numbers...or at least that was my experience.
You can also use a software called Motorola phone tools to get them to your computer which you can import into outlook
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So I just purchased an Imate Jam. On my old phone (Nokia) I copied all my current contacts to my SIM card. Put SIM into Jam and I can't see any of my contacts. Put SIM into Nokia it sees them fine. How can I copy my contacts from my SIM into my Jam?
Thanks.
saldous,
there is a program called Sim Manager in the Program Files Directory.
Once loaded, it will show the contacts available. click on Edit--> Select All
Hold the stylus on one of the contacts selected and click -> Save To Contacts.
Hope this will solve your problem
Regards,
Eman
Just out of interest, does the xda use the memory on the simm for contacts, i.e. does it save to simm so when you take your simm to another phone, you take all your contacts? (no I haven't searched this question, it's spur of the moment stuff)!
Thanks, worked great.
I don't think it saves new ones to the SIM.
No, the magician is only capable of importing SIM data to its internal contacts database. The memory on today's SIM cards wouldn't be enough to hold all this information on them. I think that modern phones also don't use the SIM card to store all the extended contact informations they provide, like email addresses etc. I guess they only store one main phone number into the SIM, the rest into the phone's memory. I would prefer this solution for the Magician though, because it would at least keep the most important numbers on the SIM. Maybe this is also a speed issue (the SIM manager is quite slow).
Does anyone know how to erase contacts from the sim card once the transfer to the PDA memory is done?
What about using the delete function in the Sim manager :idea:
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Waiting for my 8525 in the mail, but wondering what is the best way to get all my contacts from my Motorola E816 to my new 8525? I have way too many numbers to type them all in.
If you can synch your E816 to your PC (outlook contacts, or similar) then synch your new phone and you'll be set.
Otherwise you might have to send all your contacts one at a time via bluetooth or IRDA, or copy them across the SIM card, but that could lose a lot of info.
I'm sure there's other ways, but that's all I can come up with right now.
Cheers! Oggy.
Well the problem with my E816 is that it's a CDMA phone, not GSM. So that means no SIM card. and i'm pretty sure i'd be unable to sync it to Outlook.
CDMA, bugger. Are you in Australia by any chance? I've got a friend who's going to have to go through this also in a few months as they are shutting down the CDMA network.
If you find a good solution, please post it.
Good luck!
Oggy.
No, I live in California, USA. I'm just switching from amp'd mobile to Cingular.
AlexOnyx said:
Waiting for my 8525 in the mail, but wondering what is the best way to get all my contacts from my Motorola E816 to my new 8525? I have way too many numbers to type them all in.
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You can use Motorola Phone Tools to sync the phone with the software phonebook or Outlook.
Then you can just import into the 8525 once you set up an active sync connection (if you synced to Outlook)
is there an easy way to sync the contacts back to the SIM card? i often switch phones and when i get new numbers, they don't transfer to the sim card, instead they stay on the phone and get synced to my gmail account. is there something that is out there that can sync them neatly to the sim card? or can anyone develop an app that can do so?
a sim card reader will do the job
they run from $ 5 USD to 150
this is a nice one: http://cgi.ebay.com/USB-Card-Reader...5|66:2|65:12|39:1|240:1318|301:1|293:1|294:50
only 9 dlls
juangil...he's looking for a way to transfer FROM android TO SIM. not a way to read the SIM.
um.... bump?
post #15-17 of this thread to sync
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=438444
It would make more sense to have an app that would send your contacts to the sim, but there are parsing issues (I'm guessing. Google/Android has only one name field, most other formats, generally sim cards, Outlook WinMo, Symbian) have first and last names, and a bunch of other info Android is missing.)
Hope that helps.
I'm relatively new to mobile phones.
I was using a Samsung Blue Earth S7550 briefly and input a bunch of contacts into it; names, tel. numbers and photos etc.
I was under the assumption that when you take your SIM card out and put it into another phone all of your contacts remain intact on the new phone.
I made sure that the phone contacts were on both the phone and SIM card.
Now when I put the SIM into my Samsung i9000, none of the contacts are there.
Is there something I must do to get it to work?
The phone recognizes the SIM at startup.
I hope I won't have to input all that data again.
TIA
yes, they should be visible. there is an option to hide sim contacts, maybe you have inadvertently enabled that.
contacts->menu->display option->choose contacts to display "CHECK SIM"
there is a check mark in settings you can enable to read the contacts from the SIM card
or you can export it from Outlook (if you are using outlook)
then import it using one of these contact management tools
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765081
The screen on my Samsung Focus no longer works however the rest of the phone works as I am able to place calls using the bluetooth in my car. However I have since picked up an HTC One X but I am at a loss on how to get to my contacts. I do not see any of my contacts on the windows live ID I used to set up the phone nothing seems to have backed up anywhere but they are on my phone somewhere since I can place a call using name recognition in my car.
so I guess I have 2 questions.
Is there something i'm missing within the Zune software to backup the entire phone like Itunes has?
Is there a way I can access the internal storage via my computer to fish out the contacts in my phonebook?
If anyone is able to help you'd lower my blood pressure and prolong my life. Thank You.
do you have a "sim card" if so all your contacts are in it!
Had 2 different places read the sim card. They said there's nothing on it. It's the first thing I tried.
Contacts are on the phone, unless you've specified you want them back-up'd somewhere else, online. I usually use either Outlook account or Gmail to sync my contacts. The contacts on the SIM are retrieved TO the phone, not saved TO the SIM (Settings, People, Import SIM contacts).
One way I see you could backup your contacts this is to get these 2 files from the phone:
"store.vol" and "PimIndex.vol"
These contain the SMS and the contacts.
For that, mandatory reads: this thread and this thread
You could explore the phone with Touch Explorer, but depends on too many things if it will work...
Another idea is to do it "blindly" with 2 phones: yours and another Focus side-by-side and trying to copy exactly where to tap...
There might be an app on Marketplace that backups automatically on skydrive. But you'd have to search for such.
Good luck mate.