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.
Hi guys,
I can not get my sim contacts to save on the Wizard.
i have use Sim Wizard and got all numbers from sim, then i select all and Save to Contact it save but Cant See or Use it.
My contacts are there but i can see the them..
can any one help?
I've started using Hero [T-Mobile G2 Touch] just today and I really liked it...apart from one thing. The contacts in Peoples app are a big mess. It has so many contacts from gmail, mail, facebook, and sim [basically everything it could get its hands on]. Same contact is appearing multiple times due to that. Though I didn't like it, and would only have preferred the contacts with phone nums to appear in it, but I guess that'll just be me. So for the first step I'd like to know if there's a way I'm able to hide the sim contacts from appearing in the list?
I wasn't able to find anything via google. I could only find ways to import contacts from sim, and copy a contact to sim, but not to hide it
I obviously won't like to delete all the contacts from my sim.
faisaliqbal said:
I've started using Hero [T-Mobile G2 Touch] just today and I really liked it...apart from one thing. The contacts in Peoples app are a big mess. It has so many contacts from gmail, mail, facebook, and sim [basically everything it could get its hands on]. Same contact is appearing multiple times due to that. Though I didn't like it, and would only have preferred the contacts with phone nums to appear in it, but I guess that'll just be me. So for the first step I'd like to know if there's a way I'm able to hide the sim contacts from appearing in the list?
I wasn't able to find anything via google. I could only find ways to import contacts from sim, and copy a contact to sim, but not to hide it
I obviously won't like to delete all the contacts from my sim.
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Hi faisaliqbal,
There is a way to filter the contacts so that you don't see all of the duplicates.
To do it, go to your contact list, select the 'Menu' button then choose the view option.
You'll see the list of contact sources i.e. google, exchange, phone, sim etc. Simply deselect the ones you don't want to see in your contacts list.
I use Exchange Activesync for my contacts so I've disabled google etc and no longer see any duplicates when viewing my contact list.
There is also an option to display contacts from say the phone, sim etc only if duplicates are found.
Hope this helps
In the People app, from the "All" screen, press "Menu" and select "View".
From there you can choose with sources you can see contacts from (Google, Phone, SIM), and you can even decide which source to use for duplicates.
In addition, if you don't want to see all the people you've ever had email correspondence with in Gmail, go to "Groups" and press "Menu" and select "Sync groups". You should deselect "Sync all contacts".
Regards,
Dave
EDIT: I'm not trying to duplicate what thecastleford kid said - when I started writing my response, he hadn't posted his!
thecastlefordkid said:
Hi faisaliqbal,
There is a way to filter the contacts so that you don't see all of the duplicates.
To do it, go to your contact list, select the 'Menu' button then choose the view option.
You'll see the list of contact sources i.e. google, exchange, phone, sim etc. Simply deselect the ones you don't want to see in your contacts list.
I use Exchange Activesync for my contacts so I've disabled google etc and no longer see any duplicates when viewing my contact list.
There is also an option to display contacts from say the phone, sim etc only if duplicates are found.
Hope this helps
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It works, thanks a lot
I notice that when typing a contact name for a SMS message, some of my old contacts no longer on my Gmail account show up. I think these contacts may still be on my SIM card. How do I edit my SIM card contacts from the phone?
In the contacts option you have to choose which ones to display: SIM card in your case.
Once you do that the SIM contacts will appear in the main list. You can then long press one of them and choose edit.
There is also an app on the market called contact2sim pro which will pretty much do the same thing but I find it completely unnecessary with the Vibrant.
Any idea on how to remove them from the X2?
I recently updated my contacts on to the sim card and now I have duplicate contacts under my contacts when I search for a phone number. Any idea on how to remove the duplicates?
Anyone have any ideas?
try OutlookCleaner in attach
Thank you soooooo much!!!!!!