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Copy contacts from Outlook Express to TD2

I've exported contacts from my previous Nokia phone to my PC's Outlook Express Address Book (Not Microsoft Outlook but the one present with Windows XP). Now I want to transfer all those contacts on my new TD2. But when I'm connecting it via ActiveSync, it is giving message that contacts cannot be synchronized as Outlook is not installed on Windows PC.
I could not understand what does it actually means. Pls guide me exactly what I need to do to copy my contacts back to TD2.

You should have got outlook (full) on a cd with the phone, if you install it you can import all your contacts (usually does it automatically).
The just sync with windows mobile device centre.

I already have MS Outlook 2007 installed on my laptop, still its seems phone is not recognizing it. Do you mean to say that I need to install Outlook on my phone also...But CS contains only 60 days trial version of Outlook...don't know if it is for phone or laptop..

Searching particular contact
Thanks...problem solved..When I restarted my pc, phone detected the Outlook..
I've 2 more queries:
1) All the contacts are shown in lastname, firstname format. Can I change them to firstname, lastname format, so that when I'll select alphabet from right bar, it positions as firstname.
2) When I open contacts while dialing, they are positioned at very beginning. If I've to search for some particular name, I cannot type the contact name so that it appears. Instead I've to select alphabet from right bar which only positions at starting of that character. So is there any way that I can search contact by typing the name partially or fully...

1) search for contact changer.cab on main forum but if you are syncing with outlook, I always thought it picked it up from there, try changing the "display as" option in outlook then resync.
2) Try icontact (search on main forum for info) far better than main contact app IMO

1) Although I've set firstname, lastname in Outlook, but still it is not showing same in phone.
2) I've installed iContacts. It is working fine. Thanks!!

1) that applies to all new added contacts.

Contact Directory

Dear All,
Previously I am using n70. when I transfer my sim contacts to touch hd, it will show duplicate name for those with more than 1 contact number in it. Now even worse is when I login to MSN, i have all the contact in it as well.. This caused a mess in my directory.
I was told that outlook can help but I am too noob, I couldnt find the directory file from the hp to be import to outlook.
Any other suggestion or proper guide on this?
thanks in advance.

Euuuh... Outlook is part of M$ Office suite, and is NOT freeware!
AFAIK, SIM can hold only one number/info per entry, so no wonder you have multiple entries per contact.
Normally you would sync your n70 with Outlook, then sort/integrate info about contact in one entry, and then sync with HD.
On HD you will want to store data in phone memory, NOT in SIM...
You could try the same with Outlook Express (which IS freeware)

Any Easy Way to delete all my phone contacts?

I have been having some fun and games with phone contacts as some of you might have seen.
Another thing I did wrong was to import these sim contacts onto the phone [no need I am guessing] so I see them twice.
What I want to do i do a .pst export from my pc with the mobile numbers to my laptop whose outlook currently has no contacts and I can then import them all correctly orientated that way to my phone.
I would like to delete all the current phone contacts to be able to do this.
Anyway easy way please? (I did a quick seach with no joy!)
Thanks

if I understand you, you are trying to clear the phone completely of contacts, but can't be bothered to tick one at a time?
the key herr is that the sim contacts manager has a select all option, people tab menu doesn't.
try this
people all people menu sim manager menu select all menu delete.
that should be the sim empty(if it wasn't already)
now, if you go menu delete contacts, it will populate the empty screen with your phones contacts and let you then do menu select all delete.
phone should now be empty of contacts.

to be fair [bothered to tick one at a time] there are over 180!
Thanks, I will try that.
I can always copy the contacts back to the sim from my other phone.

sync with outlook delete them all from outlook sync again viola (u need to have set that PC is master for data)

Thanks for that.
I managed to solve a couple of problems in one go:
my contacts in outlook on the laptop is not populated so I imported the mobile numbers from desktop outlook to laptop contacts.
Then deleted sim and phone contacts then synched with laptop outlook and now Contacts are nicely arranged first name, last name.
Belts and braces - I copied all contacts to sim and then hid sim contacts
Thanks guys

just a thought but if you have them in the phone and outlook which I assume you are going to keep synced.. why copy to sim when that WON'T be synced and you run the risk of corrupting your good lis
t in the future?

the rationale when I did it was in case I need to send the phone back etc etc but I take your point that I would have the backup on the laptop.
Just another layer of backup which I hopefully will not have to use?

heh yea.just don't forget they're there and accidentally merge them go the future...back to square one. lol

There is an app around that will clear the contacts on a windows mobile device.
If you search 'clear contacts in windows mobile' in google you should find it. Not sure if it's Mobile 6.5 ready.

How to import contacts and/or messages from my N97 to my Nexus One??

Hi Guys,
I'm new to xda-dev and I'll get my nexus one tomorrow or on monday (DHL screwed up delivery yet again here in London).
The first most important thing for me is to import my 500+ contacts from my Nokia N97 to the nexus and I have no clue how to do this since it's a different OS.
Can someone please guide me in details asap??
I heard about the using mail for exchange sync (steps needed) and this thing called "sprite migrate" (google it as I'm barred from posting links for now) which has free apps for Nokia (symbian) n Nexus (android) to do it.
Has anyone ever used any of these?? Also I have my Nokia contacts etc. backed up on the latest version of Ovi suite if that can be used as well.
Thanks a lot and please reply.
PS: I did a search and did not find a relevant thread answering this so please make this exhaustive.

I'd focus on getting your n97 contacts into Outlook Express/Windows mail/Etc first. Most contact formats can be imported into Gmail (and thus automatically synced to your N1)
But the n97->something on windows step is pretty nokia specific so I can't help you there.

I did the same thing for my gf and her N85. First, go into your Nokia's settings and copy all contacts to your SIM card. Then when you put your SIM card into your N1, you can import all the contacts off the SIM. Voila.

Thanks guys, my phone just arrived n i'll try the simple sim copy first (how do we forget such basic things!)...if not then the sprite migrate app sounds totally brilliant after reading the manual...copies bookmarks, texts, music, pics etc too!!

i had over 600 contacts and couldnt copy it to SIM. Instead i installed mail exchange on my n97 and synced with google contacts. Then it automatically synced with my Nexus one. Good luck.

Download the nokia pc suite. Install. It will read your contacts when you connect the nokia to the pc. From the suite export as csv file.
Go to gmail, create a dummy entry with the fileds you will need. Export from gmail contacts as csv.
Then open nokia csv file in excel and also gmail csv in excel.
Copy paste nokia csv contacts to the right columns in the gmail csv file.
when done, save gmail csv file and import back to gmail. Then synch contacts form the nexus. They will magically appear on the phone.
My contacts where 548. Everything worked smooth.
If something appears wrong, then check again/correct gmailcsv file on the pc and to the same procedure again. delete contacts from gmail beforehand.

You could install MailForExchange and sync your contacts directly to Google, as per here: http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=147951
I used that to migrate from N95 to N1
Thing you're SOL with the messages though, I'm afraid.

htcmagic said:
Download the nokia pc suite. Install. It will read your contacts when you connect the nokia to the pc. From the suite export as csv file.
Go to gmail, create a dummy entry with the fileds you will need. Export from gmail contacts as csv.
Then open nokia csv file in excel and also gmail csv in excel.
Copy paste nokia csv contacts to the right columns in the gmail csv file.
when done, save gmail csv file and import back to gmail. Then synch contacts form the nexus. They will magically appear on the phone.
My contacts where 548. Everything worked smooth.
If something appears wrong, then check again/correct gmailcsv file on the pc and to the same procedure again. delete contacts from gmail beforehand.
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You shouldn't need to create a dummy entry. I managed to get contacts off a nokia 5800, by simply exporting the csv from pc suite and uploading it direct through gmail.

hey i am using ovi suite with my nokia phone and i have all my contacts synced there and i tried syncing them with outlook then exporting csv and importing it into gmail. but there are some faults with this. some fields are not created in outlook (like nickname) and when i have more than one number assigned to a contact sometimes the second number or the third is not added to outlook. how can i exactly export my contacts as they are on my ovi suite ?

Screw OVI. Like I said above, use MailForExchange.

Ok, a lot of people immediately advocate Google Sync. Here's the problem and it's a KNOWN ISSUE with S60. Google Sync using MfE will NOT copy the different phone #s of the same contact. This was a problem for me. Sure only like 10-20 contacts of mine had multiple #s listed under their name, but I didn't want to go through line by line and fix it.
So you can:
1) Use Outlook to deal with it which should do it flawlessly
2) Use SIM (but I highly recommend you to look elsewhere and not use this)
3) I settled and instead of bothering with Outlook and installing PC Suite and crap, I decided to use Mac OSX. I have heard friends telling me how they plug in random dumbphones into their Mac and it does it all. Yeah. It did. My N82 synced FLAWLESSLY with iSync which comes built in. This is the one time I'm going to act like a retarded Mac user and scream "OMG my mac does everything." Somehow it just handles pulling contacts off FLAWLESSLY. It got the multiple #s for my contacts. I synced it onto my Moto Milestone without any trouble. Yay!
As for your SMS and maybe other info, try this:
http://www.spritesoftware.com/ - Look for Sprite Migrate software. It's free.
I tried it on my N82 but it failed. I submitted an error log, and it seems someone else had some issues with FP1 devices, and the manufacturer is aware. However you're on S60v5 so you might have better luck. People don't care about FP1 devices anymore so I think I'm SOL. Give it a try. Trust me I've looked into this issue a lot and I've crossposted on 20 forums about this (ok more like 2-3).

GoogleSync via MfE does copy all numbers for each contact, lots of mine have multiple numbers and all made it to GoogleContacts.
Not only that, it also copied the contacts pictures, their birthdays, etc.

SPRITE MIGRATE sounds ace!
lambrospower said:
hey i am using ovi suite with my nokia phone and i have all my contacts synced there and i tried syncing them with outlook then exporting csv and importing it into gmail. but there are some faults with this. some fields are not created in outlook (like nickname) and when i have more than one number assigned to a contact sometimes the second number or the third is not added to outlook. how can i exactly export my contacts as they are on my ovi suite ?
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http://www.spritesoftware.com/products/migrate/how-does-it-work-
I just did the simple copy to sim and then to N1 method and then sorted duplicates out on google contacts site.
But I read about "sprite migrate" which is free and seems to transfer all messages/contacts nicely. Apps available on ovi store and android market to get u going as their instructions state. Let us know.

Easiest way ever
It's pretty simple:
1) get rid of Nokia Ovi Suite
2) Go to Nokia website and downloads Nokia Pc Suite ( i got version 7.1.51)
3) Follow on screen intructions for app install & phone connection
4) With the phone connected, click on the "contacts" icon (blue phone book). It will open Nokia Communicator, and a list with all your contacs
5) Select all of them( click on the first one, then go for CTRL + A)
6) Go to: File > Export
7) Choose a file name and location.
8) Go into: Gmail > Contacts > More actions > Import
9) Pick the csv file you just created, and have a nice and easy import

Congratulations on
Being well over a year too late
Coming up with a more long-winded solution than the one already posted

Lol @ above post.

[Q] Contacts from nokia

Hallo , Im new here and few days ago I bought Snap, i have problem with contacts, my old phone - nokia 6280 doesnt have option to put contacts from phone to sim, I exported contacts to file with nokia pc suite but I dont know where I have to put it in my HTC. I also have a problem with Tomtom, I saw in one thread someone said about virtual cursor application, I search it and I cant find it. The more I use my Snap the more I need your help, I also want an application that will block my snap within 20 seconds when I dont use it, will you help me ?

Hi, if you need help with contact from Nokia,, I have an experience. You have to send all of contact to outlook, rename Nokia standardd contact phone from OTHER to MOBILE. Windows mobile and outlook does not work with type of contact OTHER, only with MOBILE, WORK etc. The next way should be export to excel - rename - import back.
Bye Libor

Basically, I synced my Nokia E75 contacts to Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 via the Ovi Suite and then synced my HTC snap contacts to my Microsoft Office Outlook.
Any unrecognized contact numbers (e.g. "Others" category) will be very obvious when you view your contacts on your HTC Snap as there is no number assigned to that particular contact. If that's the case, just edit that contact on your Microsoft Office Outlook with the proper contact number category (e.g. Home, Work etc) and re-sync to your HTC Snap.

Hi, I had quite the same problem while I changed from E51 to Snap. On the E51 I saved all contacts to the storage card (*.vcf). When I put the card into the snap and klicked on an contact, it asked me if I want so save the contact in the phone. I did so for all my contacts and now it´s done