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
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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.
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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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Does anyone know of an easy way to copy ALL Contacts on the Wiz (8125 Moloski ROM) to my SIM? I've tried a bunch of different utils with no success, followed quite a few peoples previous posts with no luck either.
If anyone knows of a good program or utility that does this easily I would really appreciate. Preferably something free.
Thanks,
AnarchE
Contacts on Sim card
anarche said:
Does anyone know of an easy way to copy ALL Contacts on the Wiz (8125 Moloski ROM) to my SIM? I've tried a bunch of different utils with no success, followed quite a few peoples previous posts with no luck either.
If anyone knows of a good program or utility that does this easily I would really appreciate. Preferably something free.
Thanks,
AnarchE
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Hmmm, copy all contacts to sim card? Are you sure you want to? In the phone your contacts have all the information you can have in outlook. On the sim card you are limited to name and number. So for example if you have a contact with 3 phone numbers, birthday, and email address copied to the sim card you would lose everything but the phone numbers and have 3 entries for that contact, 1 for each number.
Oh I definitely want to. I will still have all my contacts saved in outlook (with all the extended info), but I do want a copy on the sim card to put in my CU500 for use on nights & weekends type of thing.
Anyone? This is really killing me here :-/
I like to have all my contacts saved onto my phone so I can add pictures and other info to the contact infromation that it doesnt allow you to do if it is just on the sim card... I also like to keep all my contacts on my sim card in case the phone crashes and I need to pull the sim and switch phones.. here is my problem. Since I have my contacts on both my phone and my sim, they show duplicates in the contacts list. Is there any way to filter out the sim card contacts so I dont have 2 of everyone(1 on phone, 1 on sim)??
fyi: Im using WM6
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I like to have all my contacts saved onto my phone so I can add pictures and other info to the contact infromation that it doesnt allow you to do if it is just on the sim card... I also like to keep all my contacts on my sim card in case the phone crashes and I need to pull the sim and switch phones.. here is my problem. Since I have my contacts on both my phone and my sim, they show duplicates in the contacts list. Is there any way to filter out the sim card contacts so I dont have 2 of everyone(1 on phone, 1 on sim)??
fyi: Im using WM6
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Please don't cross post. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=299848
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Hello reznor9,
by WM5 goes with follow:
in the contacts: menu => filter => no categories
may be, that WM6 hase the same options...
Greatings from Frank
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
Flashed Mircomod desire super hybrid last night... all seems good but every time I flash a new rom the phone wants to import contacts from both my sim card and my google account. I only want the ones from google as the ones that are stored on my sim card are out of order and pretty old.
Is there a way to prevent the importing of sim contacts?
Delete them from your SIM card...
Sent from my Nexus One using XDA App
Yeah, it's a pain but you have to delete your SIM card so the Contact app in the sense rom won't detect the redundant contacts. If you ever need to back up your contacts to SIM again... try Contact2SIM but the app doesn't work well on Froyo though there's a workaround to that.
Anyway you don't really need anything to be saved on your SIM card unless you use it with other phones.
Alight, thanks for the help, got them deleted from the sim.